Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nature beyond Linearity: Meteorological Variability and Jensen's Inequality Can Explain Mast Seeding Behavior

Mast seeding, the extremely variable and synchronised production of fruit, is a common reproductive behaviour in plants. Weather is centrally involved in driving masting. Yet, it is often claimed that it cannot be the sole proximate cause of masting because weather is less variable than fruit production and because the shape of their distributions differ. We used computer simulations to demonstrate that the assumption that weather cannot be the main driver of masting was only valid for linear relationships between weather and fruit production. Non-linear relationships between interannual variability in weather and crop size, however, can account for the differences in their variability and the shape of their distributions because of Jensen’s inequality. Log-linear relationships with weather can increase the variability of fruit production, and sigmoidal relationships can produce bimodal distributions. These results challenge the idea that meteorological variability cannot be the main proximate driver of mast seeding, returning meteorological variability to the forefront of masting research.
Factors Associated With Cervical Cancer Screening in Puerto Rico

Introduction Racial/ethnic disparities in cervical cancer screening exist in the United States; rates are lowest among women who live in Puerto Rico. We identified factors associated with cervical cancer screening among women aged 18 years or older living in Puerto Rico. Methods We included women who participated in the Puerto Rico Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 2006 who had not had a hysterectomy (n = 2,206). We calculated the weighted population prevalence estimates of Papanicolaou (Pap) test screening in the past 3 years and used logistic regression models to assess factors associated with screening. Results Most participants (71.9% [95% confidence interval (CI)Most participants (71.9% [95% confidence interval (CI) = 69.4%-74.4%]) reported having had a Pap test in the preceding 3 years. Factors associated with screening in multivariate analysis included routine checkup in the past year and leisure-time physical activity. Compared with women with a household income less than $15,000, those with higher incomes were more likely to have had a Pap test. Similarly, divorced or separated women were more likely to have been screened (odds ratio [OR] = 1.13; 95% CI = 1.12-1.15) than those who were married/living together. We did not find associations between screening behavior and education, health care coverage, body mass index, or smoking status. Conclusion The prevalence of cervical cancer screening in Puerto Rico is below the 90% recommendation established by Healthy People 2010. Our findings regarding factors associated with Pap screening behavior identified population subgroups who are underscreened and who may benefit from targeted interventions and screening programs.
Emotional arts marketing — creating tourist value

The marketing strategies adopted with regard to cultural products can increase the chances of success for both cultural or tourism organisations and for visitors. However, a high level of tourists' satisfaction can be achieved if the marketing of culture base on a new philosophy which recognises people's emotions as fundamental in the process of creating the new value within the framework of the visitor's past, current and future experience. Managers have to learn how to provide a positive experience of cultural participation by promoting cultural attractions and arts in relation to people's emotions. Managers must be concerned with the question of whether or not the customers are satisfied with the cultural products. The main purpose of this article is to identify factors influencing the consumption of cultural products in Pomerania Voivodship in Poland and a role of experiences expected by tourists and visitors for marketing strategy; the study has examined people's motivations to visit a cultural attractions and their opinion about a level of satisfaction and image of the Region. Implications of the findings for destinations managers and researchers are: the marketing of culture must be based on a new philosophy which recognises a fundamental role of people's experiences and emotions in the process of visitors' decision making. The model for innovative change in marketing management has been suggested to show how to minimalize a gap between cultural offerings and satisfaction of tourists visiting cultural attractions.
Joint Management and Employee Participation: Labor and Management at the Crossroads

Introduction: participation, joint management and integrative bargaining. Part 1 A proposal for jointly managed organizations: the roots of joint management principles for designing and operating the parallel organization the structure of the parallel organization the process of integrative bargaining jointly managed workplaces - four examples. Part 2 The dynamics of jointly managed organizations: redesigning processes for planning and controlling gaining power by giving up control dealing with conflict and competition. Part 3 Individuals in jointly managed organizations: individual needs, attitudes and behaviours motivating managers and workers leaders who empower people. Part 4 Groups in jointly managed organizations: how groups become teams action teams - linking planning and implementation planning teams - reconciling workplace interest groups autonomous work teams - merging the parallel and the primary organizations. Part 5 Special skills for implementing joint management: interpersonal and communication skills problem-solving skills proposal writing skills. Part 6 Creating equity and incentives: job and performance evaluation systems productivity gain sharing employee ownership. Part 7 Applying joint management thinking: extending the bargaining structure - roles for management and unions how management must change to make joint management work how labour must change to make joint mangement work. Part 8 The social impact of jointly managed, participative organizations: people and productivity joint management and social policy.
Use of the Hardman index in predicting mortality in endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

PURPOSE The Hardman index is a predictor of 30-day mortality after open ruptured abdominal aneurysm repair through the use of preoperative patient factors. The aim of this study was to assess the Hardman index in patients undergoing endovascular repair of ruptured aortic aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 95 patients undergoing emergency endovascular repairs of computed tomography-confirmed ruptured aneurysms from 1994 to 2008 in a university hospital was performed. All relevant patient variables, calculations of the Hardman index, and the incidence of 30-day mortality were collected in these patients. Correlation of the relationship between each variable and the overall score with the incidence of 30-day mortality was undertaken. RESULTS The 24-hour mortality was 16% and 30-day mortality 36%. Increasing scores on the Hardman index showed an increasing mortality rate. Thirty-day mortality in patients with a score of 0 to 2 was 30.5%, and in those with a score of ≥3 was 69.2% (P = .01, risk ratio = 2.26, 95% confidence interval = 0.98 to 5.17). This is lower than predicted in both patient groups based on Hardman index score. Loss of consciousness was the only statistically significant independent predictor of 30-day mortality with a risk ratio of 3.16 (95% confidence interval = 2.00-4.97, P < .001). CONCLUSION These data suggest that the Hardman index can predict an increased risk of 30-day mortality from endovascular repairs of ruptured aortic aneurysms. However, mortality from endovascular repair is much lower than would be predicted in open repair and it therefore cannot be used clinically as a tool for exclusion from intervention.
Storage‐dependent remodeling of the red blood cell membrane is associated with increased immunoglobulin G binding, lipid raft rearrangement, and caspase activation

BACKGROUND: The elucidation of the storage lesion is important for the improvement of red blood cell (RBC) storage. Ex vivo storage is also a model system for studying cell‐signaling events in the senescence and programmed cell death of RBCs. The membrane hosts critical steps in these mechanisms and undergoes widespread remodeling over the storage period.
Glutathione Synthesis in Normal Liver and in Yoshida AH-130 Hepatoma

The amount of reduced glutathione in transplantable hepatomas and in a primary DEN-induced hepatoma is lower than in normal liver. In all tumors examined, the glutathione decrease is not due to an increase of oxidized glutathione. In this paper the in vitro activities of two enzymes involved in glutathione synthesis, γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and glutathione synthetase, are studied in normal adult rat liver, in regenerating rat liver and in highly anaplastic Yoshida AH-130 hepatoma cells. The activity of these enzymes was determined in the postmicrosomal supernatant fraction as nmoles of [U-14C]-glutamate incorporated into product per mg of soluble protein. In Yoshida AH-130 hepatoma, the γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and glutathione synthetase activities are lower in respect to normal liver. This is in agreement with the low glutathione content observed in the hepatoma cells. On the other hand, in regenerating liver, there are minimal differences in comparison with normal liver.
Greening the supply chain: a new initiative in South East Asia

As has been widely observed nowadays, a major part of the world’s manufacturing will be taking place in South East Asia in the coming decade. This would create many opportunities in this part of the world, but would also bring about substantial environmental burden. To address this problem, many large corporations have started encouraging, guiding and even funding their suppliers to be green. To determine to what extent this greening of the supply chain is taking place in South East Asia research has been undertaken encompassing The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore with a survey questionnaire as the research instrument. The objective of this paper is to present the findings of this survey research, expecting to bring out insights in this greening process and inspire business, government and communities in this region to create an atmosphere conducive to the process.
ZAP‐70 is required for calcium mobilization but is dispensable for mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) superfamily activation induced via CD2 in human T cells

Stimulation with specific pairs of anti‐CD2 antibodies can induce T cell activation and proliferation. In this study, we investigate the significance of ZAP‐70 in CD2 signaling using ZAP‐70‐deficient T cells derived from a CD8‐deficient patient and show that ZAP‐70 is necessary for cellular proliferation and cytokine production in T cells stimulated via CD2. Biochemical analyses show that CD2 stimulation induces activation of mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) superfamily in ZAP‐70‐deficient T cells, indicating that a ZAP‐70‐independent pathway(s) exists for MAPK superfamily activation via CD2. In contrast, intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and activation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) upon CD2 triggering were impaired in T cells lacking ZAP‐70. Furthermore, we found that pharmacological Ca2+ elevation combined with CD2 stimulation restored NFAT activation and subsequent cytokine production in ZAP‐70‐deficient T cells. These results indicate that in CD2 signaling, ZAP‐70 plays an essential role in Ca2+ mobilization and NFAT activation.
Who uses RESPs and Why

This paper presents evidence on participation in tax-preferr ed Registered Education Savings Plans, finding that participation is concen trated in highincome, high-wealth, and high-education families. This runs contrary to the programme’s stated redistributionary goal. I explo re several possible explanations for the finding, uncovering evidence that paren tal expectations of their children’s education attainment and the fixed costs of learning about and setting up an account are important factors in understanding the low participation of low-income familie s. Finally, I propose that instituting a one-time ‘bonus’ for opening an account and simplifying the tax structure of the RESP would make the acc ounts more effective.
DS-MMAC: A delay-sensitive multi-channel MAC protocol for Ambient Assistant Living systems

In Ambient Assistant Living (AAL) systems, it is a fundamental problem to ensure prompt delivery of detected events, such as irregular heart rate or fall of elderly, to a central processing device (e.g. gateway node). Most of recently proposed MAC protocols for low-power embedded sensing systems (e.g. wireless sensor networks) are designed with energy efficiency as the first goal, so they are not suitable for AAL systems. Although some multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed to address the problem, most of those protocols ignore the cost of channel switching, which can have reverse effect on network performance, especially latency of data delivery. In this paper, we propose a Delay-Sensitive Multi-channel MAC protocol (DS-MMAC) for AAL systems, which can provide high packet delivery ratio and bound low latency for data delivered to the gateway node. The novelty of the protocol is that an efficient distributed time slot scheduling and channel assignment algorithm is combined with the process of route establishment, which takes the channel switching cost into account and reduces end-to-end delay to meet the required delay bound of each data flow. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated through extensive simulations. Results show that DS-MMAC can bound low latency for delivering detected events in AAL system to the gateway, while providing high delivery reliability and low energy consumption.
THE COMPLEX BURGERS EQUATION, THE HCIZ INTEGRAL AND THE CALOGERO-MOSER SYSTEM

This article is the text of a talk at the meeting on Random Matrix Theory at CMSA (Harvard) in Jan 2017. The goal of this talk is to present a new approach to the limit PDE obtained by Matytsin [13] in his analysis of the asymptotics of the HCIZ integral. The main new idea is to treat this PDE as a zero dispersion continuum limit of the Calogero-Moser system.
Forensics Tools for Social Network Security

Social networking has exploded in terms of popularity for a variety of reasons that include personal connections, instant messaging, photo sharing, selling of merchandise, sharing of ideas and philosophical viewpoints. Where there is money to be made or the opportunity for one to take advantage of another there will always be a criminal element. How does one know that the friend they’ve just accepted an invitation from is really who they say they are? How does one know that the posting to their Facebook wall came from their friend or from someone who hacked into their friends account? Often times they do know but not always, and it is those times we strive to empower users to know the difference.
Small firms and health and safety harmonisation: Potential regulatory effects of a dominant narrative

Small firms are popularly viewed as resistant to complying with regulation. Harmonisation of Australia’s state-based work health and safety regimes is a significant regulatory change. In this article, we consider the likely responses of small firms to work health and safety harmonisation and argue that a range of choices are open to small firm owner-managers. These choices are shaped by individuals’ world views and are influenced by elements in the firms’ context. A significant element is the public narrative of work health and safety harmonisation, which can be understood by using discourse and sense-making concepts. Our analysis of small firm owner-manager choices takes into account small firms’ embeddedness in their regulatory context and the influence on organisational decision-making of the narrative of work health and safety harmonisation. The dominant narrative is arguably silent on the benefits of the work health and safety regulatory change and therefore the response of small firms is likely to be avoidance or minimalism. Non-compliance could be the result due to poor awareness of opportunities arising from this regulatory change.
The study of HRM in Spain: the Americanization of Spanish research and the politics of denial?

The study of HRM in Spain is flourishing. We have seen the major international journals begin to reflect the work of Spanish academics in this area. The standard is high and the international network of Spanish scholars is increasingly developed. This paper attempts to review the work that is published in English and to see how Spanish HRM systems are represented externally. It tries to locate the discussion of the HRM research in Spain within its academic and social context. The authors argue that there are some characteristics marking this debate and development, which suggest that the study of HRM in Spain is hugely Americanized in terms of methods and content. The lack of synergies with sociology and political economy are evident. Moreover, the shortage of rigorous qualitative research, apart from that on employment relations and the sociology of work, raise some serious issues. The manner in which a discourse of HRM in Spain has evolved leaves many questions and issues unaddressed. While evaluating w.
Portfolio Management and the Shrinking Knapsack Algorithm

Since the formulation of the portfolio selection problem by Markowitz [12] as a parametric quadratic programming problem, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining operational portfolio management models. Research has involved: (1) characterizing the return generating process in terms of index models; (2) specifying special-purpose algorithms such as the critical-line method of Markowitz [13] or the solution procedure of Jucker and de Faro [11]; (3) using linear programming formulations to approximate solutions to the nonlinear programming problems such as Sharpe [20, 22] and Stone [25]; and (4) converting portfolio selection models into portfolio management models designed to revise an existing protfolio subject to transaction costs using heuristics such as Smith [24] or revision formulations such as Pogue [16, 17] and Stone and Reback [27].
Perfect path double covers of graphs

A perfect path double cover (PPDC) of a graph G on n vertices is a family of n paths of G such that each edge of G belongs to exactly two members of and each vertex of G occurs exactly twice as an end of a path of . We propose and study the conjecture that every simple graph admits a PPDC. Among other things, we prove that every simple 3-regular graph admits a PPDC consisting of paths of length three.
Characterizing Burden, Caregiving Benefits, and Psychological Distress of Husbands of Breast Cancer Patients During Treatment and Beyond

Background: Husbands, as the primary providers of support for women with breast cancer, can experience significant burden and role strain, but also perceive positive aspects to the caregiving. Little is known about the specific caregiving tasks husbands perform, for how long, or how burden and positive aspects relate to later psychological distress. Objective: Our primary aim was to better characterize the caregiving responsibilities and role strains of husbands during active cancer treatment and 1 year later. We also evaluated positive aspects during active treatment. Our second aim was to determine which of these predicted psychological distress 1 year later. Methods: Husbands of women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer completed a battery of surveys during the time of wives' treatment and again 1 year later. Results: Husbands performed a variety of caregiving tasks for wives during and after breast cancer treatment and also reported benefits associated with caregiving. Breast cancer-related worries were high at both time points. At 1 year after treatment, role strains improved in the social domain but worsened in the domestic domain. Domestic strains during active treatment were the strongest predictor of 1-year distress. Conclusions: Husbands who report persistent domestic role strain are at high risk for continued psychological distress following their wives' breast cancer treatment. Implications for Practice: Health care providers should monitor husbands' caregiver burden regularly. Providing couples with resources to reduce domestic role strain (such as social support and communication training) may prevent or alleviate psychological distress in these husbands.
Modelling Asian incoming tourism: A shift‐share approach

This paper provides insights into the relative competitive advantage of Asian regions in tourism. The study employs the shift‐share technique which decomposes the growth in tourist arrivals to selected receiving regions from different generating regions of the world over a prescribed time period. Each receiving region's performance will be compared to the overall performance of the area (i.e., aggregated benchmark). As a result of this comparing decomposition, the relative competitive advantage of each receiving region in attracting tourists can be determined. The results could be helpful to Asian decision makers trusted with the development and implementation of tourism strategies.
A Prospective Study of Injuries Sustained During Competitive Muay Thai Kickboxing

Objective: To investigate prospectively the type and rate of injuries sustained during amateur Muay Thai competition. Design: Prospective cohort study collection of data following clinical examination. Setting: Amateur Muay Thai competitions in the United Kingdom organized by the International Amateur Muay Thai Federation. Participants: Amateur Muay Thai boxers. Both sexes. Lightweight to super heavyweight. Results: There were 92 participants, 12 females and 82 males. The average age was 17.3 years, and the average previous number of bouts was 3.9. A total of 588.5 minutes of competition time was assessed during a total of 10 events. Injury rates were 1.3 injuries per 100 minutes of competition in the lightweight category, 2.25 per 100 minutes of competition in the middleweight category, 30 per 100 minutes of competition in the heavyweight category, and 2.54 per 100 minutes of competition in the super heavyweight category. Conclusions: Compared with other reported martial arts, the injury rates are higher in Muay Thai. The head was shown to be the most common site of injury in amateur fighters, but there was an almost complete absence of lower limb injuries, which again is at variance with reported figures for other martial arts.