Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A critical analysis of supply chain management content in empirical research

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out a critical assessment of empirical research content in supply chain management (SCM). The assessment involved 569 empirical research articles published in 21 selected journals between 1994 and 2008.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of critical assessment involved selection and classification of 569 empirical research articles in SCM. A systematic classification and a critical analysis is carried out so as to identify research gaps in content of SCM in empirical research, as well as to recommend directions for future research.Findings – Critical analysis of selected articles led to conclusion that SCM content in empirical research is very much based on analysis of focal firms and most of the authors prefer to perform empirical studies for combination of various entities of analysis considering possible elements of exchange. Performance measurement is on the rise and will continue to be but should be used at higher levels of analysis as well. T.
Longitudinal evaluation of externalizing and internalizing behavior problems following iron deficiency in infancy.

OBJECTIVE This study examined externalizing and internalizing behavior problem trajectories as a function of both iron status in infancy and infant characteristics. METHODS A sample of 185 healthy Costa Rican children who either had chronic, severe iron deficiency or good iron status in infancy were followed for 19 years. RESULTS Mother ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems from age 5 to 11-14 years were higher for the chronic iron deficiency group compared with those with the good iron status. Iron deficiency in infancy predicted persisting externalizing problems over this time period, especially for those with low physical activity in infancy. Beyond adolescence, youth in the chronic iron deficiency group did not report more problems than those in the good iron group. CONCLUSIONS These findings underscore the importance of considering infant iron status along with early behavioral characteristics to better identify those children at greatest risk for persisting long-term behavior problems.
Analysis of GLUT4 Distribution in Whole Skeletal Muscle Fibers: Identification of Distinct Storage Compartments That Are Recruited by Insulin and Muscle Contractions

The effects of insulin stimulation and muscle contractions on the subcellular distribution of GLUT4 in skeletal muscle have been studied on a preparation of single whole fibers from the rat soleus. The fibers were labeled for GLUT4 by a preembedding technique and observed as whole mounts by immunofluorescence microscopy, or after sectioning, by immunogold electron microscopy. The advantage of this preparation for cells of the size of muscle fibers is that it provides global views of the staining from one end of a fiber to the other and from one side to the other through the core of the fiber. In addition, the labeling efficiency is much higher than can be obtained with ultracryosections. In nonstimulated fibers, GLUT4 is excluded from the plasma membrane and T tubules. It is distributed throughout the muscle fibers with ∼23% associated with large structures including multivesicular endosomes located in the TGN region, and 77% with small tubulovesicular structures. The two stimuli cause translocation of GLUT4 to both plasma membrane and T tubules. Quantitation of the immunogold electron microscopy shows that the effects of insulin and contraction are additive and that each stimulus recruits GLUT4 from both large and small depots. Immunofluorescence double labeling for GLUT4 and transferrin receptor (TfR) shows that the small depots can be further subdivided into TfR-positive and TfR-negative elements. Interestingly, we observe that colocalization of TfR and GLUT4 is increased by insulin and decreased by contractions. These results, supported by subcellular fractionation experiments, suggest that TfR-positive depots are only recruited by contractions. We do not find evidence for stimulation-induced unmasking of resident surface membrane GLUT4 transporters or for dilation of the T tubule system (Wang, W., P.A. Hansen, B.A. Marshall, J.O. Holloszy, and M. Mueckler. 1996. J. Cell Biol. 135:415–430).
Consumption Inequality in Norway in the 80s and 90s

This article describes the consumption model and inequality study of Chapter 2 in the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation submitted at the Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The Norwegian Research Council and Statistics Norway financed the project; project no. 120636/730. The following lent encouragement and expertise: Rolf Aaberge, Jorgen Aasness, George Akerlof, Erik Biorn, Clair Brown, Brad DeLong, Michael Hanemann, Christina Romer, David Romer, Kenneth Train, Thor Olav Thoresen, and Knut Reidar Wangen in addition to seminar participants at Statistics Norway and University of California, Berkeley. Thanks belong to all, shortcomings only to the author.
Preventing seizures from “Pocket Monsters”

Reflex epilepsy has been the subject of fascinating case reports, emphasizing the variety and peculiarity of its phenomenology. Reflex seizures are a unique phenomenon by which a sensory input is required to trigger the epileptic response. Unlike the generic factors that predispose to seizures (i.e., fatigue, sleep deprivation), the trigger is highly specific and strictly limited to one sensory modality (visual, auditory, somatosensory) or to one function (reading, eating, walking). Even within one specific modality, the reflex response may depend exclusively on selective parameters, such as a defined frequency range of intermittent photic stimulation (IPS) in photosensitive epilepsy or tapping a specific part of the body in sensory reflex seizures. Though these patients are affected by heterogeneous disorders, the basic mechanism is presumably a similar genetic or acquired defect in the inhibitory pathways. However, there is still no common thread that unites the polymorphic manifestations of reflex epilepsy into one syndrome. Thus, the term ‘reflex epilepsy‘ is used as an umbrella under which all types of seizures induced by a specific input are classified. Because the response to conventional antiepileptic drugs is often poor, stimulus avoidance may be …
Expression of type‐X collagen in osteoarthritis

The present study was undertaken to examine how osteoarthritis affects the expression of type‐X collagen, a hypertrophic chondrocyte‐specific collagen in articular cartilage. A well characterized sheep polyclonal antiserum, as well as three mouse monoclonal antibodies against canine type‐X collagen, was used to immunolocalize type‐X collagen in human and canine joints. Its expression in osteoarthritic cartilage was altered in several locations. In the canine osteoarthritic joints, type‐X collagen increased in and just above the zone of calcified cartilage and was present diffusely throughout the calcified matrix. In both the human and canine cartilage, type‐X collagen was localized around cell clones in the transitional zone of cartilage. This is surprising, since that region of the cartilage does not calcify and one of the proposed roles of type‐X collagen is in mineralization. Thus, the osteoarthritic process may damage the matrix in the superficial layer and induce changes leading to the expression of the hypertrophic chondrocyte phenotype.
Novos desafios e orientações das políticas culturais: tendências nas democracias desenvolvidas e especifidades do caso português

NEW CHALLENGES AND TENDENCIES IN CULTURAL POLICIES: TRENDS INDEVELOPED DEMOCRACIES AND PORTUGUESE SPECIFICITIES – In the last twenty years of the 20th century, a vast range of interrelated changes took place in the most developed democratic societies, and their effects were felt in the economic as well as in the societal and political areas. One of the most successful theoretical frameworks used since then to interpret and explain all these changes has been the French regulationist school theory. This paper addresses a neglected issue in recent political, sociologicaland geographical studies on the post-Fordist transition in the more developed democratic societies: changes in cultural policies. After identifying the main changes in this area, this paper examines whether the changes that have occurred in cultural policies since mid-80s agree with what could be the cultural logic of a supposedly post-Fordist state, as the French regulationist theory sustains. Lastly, Portuguese specificities in this domain are explored and interpreted in the light of the semi-peripheral condition of the country.
Concept invention and music: Creating novel harmonies via conceptual blending

Conceptual blending is a cognitive theory whereby elements from diverse, but structurally-related, mental spaces are “blended” giving rise to new conceptual spaces that often possess new powerful interpretative properties, allowing better understanding of known concepts or the emergence of novel concepts altogether. This paper provides an overview of the wide computational methodological spectrum that is being developed towards building an automatic melodic harmonization system that employs conceptual blending, yielding harmonizations that inherit characteristics from multiple idioms. Examples of conceptual blending in harmony are presented that exhibit the effectiveness of the developed model in inventing novel harmonic concepts. These examples discuss the invention of well-known jazz cadences through blending the underlying concepts of classical music cadences, as well as the construction of larger chord sequences. Furthermore, examples of a conceptual blending interpretation in human compositions that motivated the goals of the system’s design are given. Finally, conceptual blending between harmonic and non-harmonic domains is discussed, offering tools that allow for intuitive human intervention in the harmonization process.
Cardiac progenitor cells: the revolution continues.

See related article, pages 1090–1092 In the last few years we have witnessed one of most extraordinary revolutions in cardiovascular medicine, namely, an explosion of basic and clinical studies that support the notion that the diseased heart can be repaired by administration of stem cells, resulting in formation of functional new myocytes and vessels. Although the mechanism by which cell therapy improves cardiac function and anatomy remains uncertain, translation of basic findings to the clinical setting is proceeding at a feverish pace.1 A multitude of small, mostly nonrandomized clinical studies have reported improvement in cardiac perfusion and function after therapy with various cell types in patients with acute myocardial infarction or chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy.1 Larger, randomized, double-blinded studies will be reported soon; if they confirm the salubrious effects of cell-based therapies observed in the initial trials, our management of acute myocardial infarction and heart failure will change dramatically. One of the most important and unresolved issues in this scenario is the identity of the ideal cell for myocardial reconstitution. Although most of the clinical studies reported to date have used bone marrow– or skeletal muscle–derived cells, a host of other cells are being investigated in the experimental laboratory. Among these, resident cardiac stem cells (CSCs), discovered by Anversa’s group in 2003,2 hold great promise. In their initial report,2 Beltrami et al identified a lin−/c-kit+ population of primitive cells that can be clonally expanded, differentiates into cardiac myocytes, smooth muscle cells, and endothelial cells in vitro, and is able to reconstitute infarcted myocardium in vivo. It is of translational interest that these cells can effect cardiac repair when delivered via the intravascular route.3 CSCs have also been shown to be present in the human heart, where they give rise to new myocytes in patients with …
THE PREPARATION, IDENTIFICATION AND ASSAY OF PROLACTIN—A HORMONE OF THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY

That one or another principle contained in the anterior lobe of the hypophysis is the specific stimulus of the developed mammary gland (rabbit, bitch, hog, cow) to active milk secretion was demonstrated by Stricker and Griiter, and Frei (1928, 1929a, 1929b, 1929c). This result has been confirmed or extended to other species (rat, guinea pig, goat) by Corner (1930), Nelson and Pfiffner (1931), Turner and Gardner (1931) and Turner and Frank (1932) ; also, as is now evident by Parkes (1929) ; and-since the castrate or non-castrate condition has proved unessential-by observations of Evans and Simpson (1929, 1931), Putnam, Benedict and Tee1 (1929), Grater (1930-31) and Asdell (1931, 1932). Though lactation in certain species has sometimes been observed t’o follow other procedures (e.g., castration of women, estrus hormone injections, etc.) these cases are probably of importance only to a further elucidation of a, species variability; b, a final preparatory stage of mammary tissue development; c, and of the mechanism by which the anterior pituitary is induced to release the principle which actually excites milk secretion. Thus Steinach et al. (1928) and Laqueur et al. (1928) noted lactation in guinea pigs (and this species only) following high doses of the estrus-producing hormone; but later DeJongh and Laqueur (1930) reported that here tlhe milk secretion began only after (2 to 3 days; found by us up to 6 days) discontinuance or diminution of the dosage. Further, Parkes (1930) and Turner and Frank (1930) have shown that the administration of large amounts of the estrus-producing hormone alone will not induce lactation in rabbits. Griiter and Stricker suggest that the active principle of their extracts is probably not the gonad-stimulating hormone of the pituitary; but in no case hitherto observed has it been possible to know which pituitary principle induced the lactation response. That one or another principle contained in the anterior lobe of the hypophysis is the specific stimulus for the enlargement and functioning (formation of “crop-milk,” near end of incubation cycle) of the crop-glands
Characteristics and risk of chronic graft-versus-host disease of liver in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

Chronic graft-versus-host-disease (cGvHD) is a serious complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Among various organ-specific cGvHD, the cGvHD of liver is less well-characterized. In this study, we applied the National Institutes of Health 2014 scoring criteria of cGvHD to analyze a retrospective cohort of 362 allo-HSCT recipients focusing on cGvHD of liver. The overall incidence of liver cGvHD with a score of 3 by 1.5 years post-transplant was 5.8% (21/362). Poor outcome, in terms of overall survival (OS), were observed in patients with scores of 3 liver cGvHD, comparing to those with scores less than 3 (hazard ratio [HR] 2.037, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.123–3.696, P = 0.019). In multivariate analysis, male gender (HR 4.004, P = 0.042) and chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection status (HR 19.087, P < 0.001) were statistically significant risk factors for scores of 3 liver cGvHD. Our results indicate that liver cGvHD with scores of 3 has a grave prognosis following allo-HSCT, and that HCV carrier status and male are risk factors. Early recognition of this devastating complication might help in prompt immunosuppressive therapy and reducing late poor outcome.
Inconsistency-Tolerant First-Order Rewritability of DL-Lite with Identification and Denial Assertions

This paper is motivated by two requirements arising in practical applications of ontology-based data access (OBDA): the need of inconsistencytolerant semantics, which allow for dealing with classically inconsistent specifications; and the need of expressing assertions which go beyond the expressive abilities of traditional Description Logics, namely identification and denial assertions. We consider an extension of DL-Lite (the most used DL in OBDA) which allows for the presence of both the aforementioned kinds of assertions in the TBox. We adopt an inconsistency-tolerant semantics for such a DL, specifically the so-called Intersection ABox Repair (IAR) semantics, and we study query answering in this setting. Our main contribution is a query rewriting technique which is able to take into account both identification and denial assertions. By virtue of this technique, we prove that conjunctive query answering under such semantics is first-order rewritable in the considered extension of DL-Lite.
Expressive Multimedia: Bringing Action to Physical World by Dancing-Tablet

The design practice based on embodied interaction concept focuses on developing new user interfaces for computer devices that merge the digital content with the physical world. In this work we have proposed a novel embodied interaction based design in which the 'action' information of the digital content is presented in the physical world. More specifically, we have mapped the 'action' information of the video content from the digital world into the physical world. The motivating example presented in this paper is our novel dancing-tablet, in which a tablet-PC dances on the rhythm of the song, hence the 'action' information is not just confined into a 2D flat display but also expressed by it. This paper presents i) hardware design of our mechatronic dancing-tablet platform, ii) software algorithm for musical feature extraction and iii) embodied computational model for mapping 'action' information of the musical expression to the mechatronic platform. Our user study shows that the overall perception of audio-video music is enhanced by our dancing-tablet setup.
Politically Charged Records: A Case Study with Recommendations for Providing Access to a Challenging Collection

In the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election, a collection of organizational records held by the Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago became a politically charged source of public scrutiny, and the department's role in providing access to the collection became one of the top library stories of the year. This case study relates how the department implemented new collections management policies and procedures and developed an attuned sensitivity to balancing donor obligations with researcher needs in the wake of a public relations crisis.
Attitudes toward and perceptions of free-roaming cats among individuals living in Ohio.

OBJECTIVE To characterize attitudes toward and perceptions of free-roaming cats among individuals living in Ohio. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SAMPLE POPULATION Households in Ohio. PROCEDURES A random-digit-dial telephone survey was performed, and 1,250 households were contacted. RESULTS 703 of the 1,250 (56.2%) households completed interviews. Five hundred fifty-three (78.7%) participants reported seeing free-roaming cats at least occasionally, and 184 (26.2%) reported having fed free-roaming cats during the previous year. However, only 42 (22.8%) participants who fed free-roaming cats had ever taken one to a veterinarian, and 43 (23.4%) participants who fed free-roaming cats reported that at least one of the free-roaming cats had produced a litter in the preceding year. Differences existed between cat owners and other participants and among urban, suburban, and rural residents in regard to their attitudes toward free-roaming cats and the need for government regulations. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results suggested that free-roaming cats were common in Ohio, but that attitudes toward and perceptions of free-roaming cats differed between cat owners and other participants and among participants grouped on the basis of residential area. Thus, developing statewide approaches for regulating free-roaming cats may be challenging or unrealistic.
Can Basic ML Techniques Illuminate Rateless Erasure Codes

The recently developed rateless erasure codes are a near-optimal channel coding technique that guarantees low overhead and fast decoding. The underlying theory, and current implementations, of these codes assume that a network transmitter encodes according to a pre-specified probability distribution. In this report, we use basic Machine Learning techniques to try to understand what happens when this assumption is false. We train several classes of models using certain features that describe the empirical distribution realized at a network receiver, and we investigate whether these models can “learn” to predict whether a given encoding will require extra overhead. Our results are mixed.
Regularized Computation of Approximate Pseudoinverse of Large Matrices Using Low-Rank Tensor Train Decompositions

We propose a new method for low-rank approximation of Moore--Penrose pseudoinverses of large-scale matrices using tensor networks. The computed pseudoinverses can be useful for solving or preconditioning of large-scale overdetermined or underdetermined systems of linear equations. The computation is performed efficiently and stably based on the modified alternating least squares scheme using low-rank tensor train (TT) decompositions and tensor network contractions. The formulated large-scale optimization problem is reduced to sequential smaller-scale problems for which any standard and stable algorithms can be applied. A regularization technique is incorporated in order to alleviate ill-posedness and obtain robust low-rank approximations. Numerical simulation results illustrate that the regularized pseudoinverses of a wide class of nonsquare or nonsymmetric matrices admit good approximate low-rank TT representations. Moreover, we demonstrated that the computational cost of the proposed method is only loga.
A novel method for traffic sign recognition based on extreme learning machine

As an important component of the driver assistance system or autonomous vehicle, traffic-sign recognition can provide drivers or vehicles with safety and alert information about the road. This paper proposes a new method for the task of traffic-sign recognition by employing extreme learning machine (ELM) whose infrastructure is a single-hidden-layer feed-forward network. This method includes two stages: One is the training stage which estimates the parameters of ELM based on training images of traffic signs; the other is the recognition stage which identifies each test image by using the trained ELM. Histogram-of-gradient descriptors are used as features in this proposed method. The German traffic sign recognition benchmark data set [1] with more than 50000 images of German road signs over 43 classes is used. Experimental results have shown that this proposed method achieves not only high recognition precision but also extremely low computational cost in terms of both training and recognition stages. An outstanding balance between recognition ratio and computational speed is obtained.