Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Financial Performance of Star-Rated Hotels in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Despite the hotel industry playing a vital role in supporting the economy, it has like other business enterprises faced internal and external forces that threatened its competitiveness and sustainability. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of corporate social responsibility on the financial performance of star-rated hotels in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The primary research question that guided the study was: What impact does corporate social responsibility have on the financial performance of star-rated hotels in Uasin Gishu County? The Freeman Stakeholder Theory served as the study’s main framework. The study applied a descriptive survey design. The study’s population of interest comprised 116 respondents who work for star-rated hotels in Uasin Gishu County. The sample size formula for this study was based on Yamane’s formula, where a sample size of 89 respondents was selected by use of stratified random sampling techniques. The primary techniques for gathering data for the study were a questionnaire and document analysis. To determine the reliability of each questionnaire segment, the researcher employed Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and expert judgment to test the content validity of each section. The data gathered was analysed using descriptive methods. The study findings indicated that corporate social responsibility had a strong influence on the financial performance of star-rated hotels in Uasin Gishu County, as the respondents agreed that CSR impacted hotel financial performance. Environmental improvement had the highest score of influence. As a result, the study recommends that hotels engage in more corporate social responsibility activities than they currently do, as this has been determined to result in a positive strategic positioning that is long-lasting. This study brings to the awareness that strategic reconfiguration and alignment of corporate social responsibility practices to organisation policies are key and thus are recommended in enhancing brand awareness
Coefficient-of-Parentage and Genetic-Similarity Estimates for 258 North American Soybean Cultivars Released by Public Agencies During 1945-88

This report is a catalog of genetic. re1:eases. among 258 soybean cultivars released by public agencies during 1945-88. Its purpose is to provide soybean breeders with a practical guide for the selection of good parental material and for the preservation of genetic diversity in their breeding programs. To develop this guide, we used pedigree analysis, a common technique in plant breeding. Based on the concept of allelic identity by descent, this approach uses the familial relationships among cultivars to quantify the probability of two cultivars having identical genes at a random locus.
Experimental analysis of damage of ice-rich frozen silt under uniaxial compression

The CT real-time tests were carried out to investigate the macro-mechanic properties and meso-damage mechanism of frozen silt at temperatures of -1℃,-2℃ and -4℃ under uniaxial compression.The compressive strength,stress-strain relationship,and the damage evolution characteristics of frozen silt were obtained.The test results show that the stress-strain curves of frozen silt mainly includes three parts:the linear elastic deformation part,the damage evolution part,and the post-peak strain softening part;the compressive strength of ice-rich frozen silt is sensitive to temperature;but the initial elastic moduli of frozen silt have little difference at different temperatures;with the temperature decreasing from -1℃ to -2℃,the strength could be enhanced about 63%,however,with the temperature further decreasing from -2℃ to -4℃,the strength could only be enhanced about 36%;the initial density damages at different slice of samples are different.The density in whole zone and medium ring zone of samples decreases with the increase of axial strain;but increases with increasing in axial strain in exterior zone.
Provided for Non-commercial Research and Educational Use Only. Not for Reproduction, Distribution or Commercial Use. Protein Engineering with the Traceless Staudinger Ligation Author's Personal Copy Author's Personal Copy

benefit and for the benefit of the author's institution, for non-commercial research and educational use including without limitation use in instruction at your institution, sending it to specific colleagues who know you, and providing a copy to your institution's administrator. All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, selling or licensing copies or access, or posting on open internet sites, your personal or institution's website or repository, are prohibited. For exceptions, permission may be sought for such use through Elsevier's permissions site at: Abstract The engineering of proteins can illuminate their biological function and improve their performance in a variety of applications. Within the past decade, methods have been developed that facilitate the ability of chemists to manipulate proteins in a controlled manner. Here, we present the traceless Staudinger ligation as a strategy for the convergent chemical synthesis of proteins. This reaction unites a phosphinothioester and an azide to form an amide bond with no residual atoms. An important feature of this reaction is its ability to ligate peptides at noncysteine residues, thereby overcoming a limitation of alternative strategies. Attributes of the traceless Staudinger ligation are discussed, and an overall comparison of known reagents for effecting the reaction is presented. General methods are elaborated for the synthesis of the most efficacious phosphinothiol for mediating the traceless Staudinger ligation, as well as for the preparation of phosphinothioester and azide fragments and the ligation of peptides immobilized on a solid support. Together, this information facilitates the use of this emerging method to engineer proteins.
Provided for Non-commercial Research and Educational Use Only. Not for Reproduction, Distribution or Commercial Use. Analysis of Rna–protein Interactions Using a Yeast Three-hybrid System Author's Personal Copy Author's Personal Copy

benefit and for the benefit of the author's institution, for non-commercial research and educational use including without limitation use in instruction at your institution, sending it to specific colleagues who know you, and providing a copy to your institution's administrator. All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, selling or licensing copies or access, or posting on open internet sites, your personal or institution's website or repository, are prohibited. For exceptions, permission may be sought for such use through Elsevier's permissions site at: Abstract RNA–protein interactions play an essential role in the maturation and regulation of RNAs within eukaryotic organisms. The three-hybrid system provides a simple, yet powerful means to study RNA–protein interactions within the eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This chapter describes the basis of the system and applications in both examining specific RNA–protein interactions and screening libraries for novel interactions. We provide a detailed discussion on affinity versus reporter output, variations on library screening (e.g., randomization studies), some adaptations of the system, and updated reagents and protocols.
Relationship between Cost Leadership Strategy and Organizational Performance of Kilimanjaro International Leather Industries Company Limited, Tanzania

Due to increased competition which is brought about by liberalization and deregulation, organizations are faced with greater demands to be flexible, responsive and efficient in order to be more competitive. As a result of this, organizations are faced with a lot of challenges in their effort to remain competitive in the market. This study intended to probe the relationship between cost leadership strategy and organizational performance at Kilimanjaro International Leather Industries Company Limited in Moshi Municipal, Tanzania as the case study. In doing this, the study adopted quantitative research design. The sample size for this study was 353 out of 3000 total employees, managers and corporate clients at Kilimanjaro International Leather Industries Company Limited. Simple random sampling technique was custom made within the choice of key informants. The coded data was examined by using descriptive statistics and regression analysis where an alternative hypothesis was accepted. This was completed with the aid of statistical package for social sciences version 20. Therefore, findings vindicated that cost leadership strategy plays significant role in deciding organizational performance. The study concludes that cost leadership strategy has direct relationship to organizational performances. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the manufacturing firms adopt cost leadership strategy as it had been found to have a positive significant effect on performance.
Alpine oxidation of lithium micas in Permian S-type granites (Gemeric unit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Abstract Lithium micas of the zinnwaldite and phengite-Li-phengite series occur as characteristic minerals in Permian Li-F-(P) granites of the western Gemeric unit (Western Carpathians) accompanied by topaz, tourmaline, Nb, Ta, Ti, Sn oxides and aluminophosphates. The calculated Li2O contents of all the mica analysed, together with Rb2O and Cs2O were confirmed by LA-ICP-MS analyses for all the identified micas. Samples from three localities were investigated: two surficial (Surovec, Vrchsúl’ová); and one drill hole (Dlhá dolina). Zinnwaldite (polylithionite) occurs in the upper level of the Dlhá dolina granitic intrusion and in the nearby shallow satellite body of Surovec. The lower level porphyritic granites contain only siderophyllite. The Vrchsú l’ová micas are closer in composition to Li-annite and siderophyllite. Dioctahedral micas are mostly phengites, although zinnwaldite-bearing granites are rich in late-crystallizing Li-phengite, which extensively replaces earlier zinnwaldite. The secondary Liphengite and phengite are interpreted as products of Alpine metamorphism during Cretaceous burial and subsequent exhumation of the Gemeric unit. Reactions are suggested explaining the formation of Li-phengite by reaction of zinnwaldite with phengite or with muscovite. All mica types were investigated by Mössbauer spectroscopy, which showed high degrees of oxidation (25-50% Fe3+ of total Fe) with the exception of zinnwaldite from Vrchsú l’ová, which may have preserved an original, reduced value of 10%. The metamorphic assemblage present permitted calculation of P-T-X conditions: T = 184°C, P = 320 MPa, with oxidation of siderophyllite to phengite + goethite and fO2 at DNN = 4.7, confirming the low-grade conditions of the Alpine metamorphism in agreement with previous estimates.
The acceptability of TV-based game platforms as an instrument to support cognitive evaluation of senior adults at home

9 10 Introduction : The recent advances in consumer electronics paved the way for new approaches 11 to neurophysiological evaluation at home. More specifically, the computing capabilities of state- 12 of-the-art television sets and media centres may facilitate the introduction of computer-assisted 13 evaluation at home. This approach would help to overcome the drawbacks of traditional pen-and- 14 paper evaluations administered in clinical facilities, as they could be performed in a more 15 comfortable environment, the subject’s home, and they would be more flexible to design 16 complex environments for the evaluation of neuropsychological constructs that are difficult to 17 evaluate through traditional testing. The objective of this work was to obtain some initial 18 evidence about the technical acceptance by senior adults of serious games played at home on the 19 TV set for their cognitive evaluation, and therefore about the convenience of further 20 investigating such approach to cognitive evaluation. 21 Materials and methods : We developed a collection of games to be deployed on a smart TV 22 environment. These games were tried by a group of senior adults at their homes. Surveys were 23 performed to study the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of such technical setting 24 as an instrument for their cognitive evaluation, that is, its technical acceptance. An additional 25 survey was performed 36 months after pilot testing to have an indication about the long-term 26 perceptions about perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. 27 Results : More than 90% of participating subjects perceive cognitive games on TV as useful or 28 very useful, and this result correlates with the number of participants perceiving them as easily 29 usable or very easy to use. Besides, these perceptions are fairly stable in time. 30 Limitations : Although participating users were carefully selected to obtain a representative 31 sample of the Galician population, which in turn is comparable to the population of most rural 32 areas in Europe, a larger and more diverse user sample may be needed to obtain significant 33 results for a wider population profile. 34 Conclusion : The study confirmed the technical acceptance, that is, the perceived usefulness and 35 perceived ease of use, of the home technical setting introduced as a means of cognitive 36 evaluation. Nevertheless, more research reasoning
Pattern recognition applied to airflow recordings to help in sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome diagnosis

The sleep apnea-hyponea syndrome (SAHS) is a disease characterized by episodes of complete absence (apneas) or signi cant reduction (hypopneas) of breathing during sleep. The apneic events recurrence leads to inadequate gas exchange which causes hypoxia and hypercapnia, resulting in oxygen saturation drops, periodic arousals, as well as sleep fragmentation. As a consequence, SAHS patients are not able to get restful sleep, which a ects their quality of life. Hypersomnolence, decrease in the short-memory function, and depression are some of the daytime symptoms reported by a ected people. Additionally, SAHS has been associated with major cardiovascular and metabolic illnesses such as heart failure, stroke, sudden death, and diabetes. Recently, it has been also associated with an increase in cancer incidence. These SAHS consequences make a fast diagnosis the key action to improve health and quality of life of patients. SAHS is a very prevalent illness, a ecting from 2% to 7% of adult population and up to 6% of children. It is also considered as an underdiagnosed disease, with a growing incidence due to the obesity epidemic present in developed countries. Overnight polysomnography (PSG), conducted in a specialized sleep unit, is the gold standard to diagnose SAHS. However, it is technically complex due to the high number of physiological signals to be recorded, costly due to the need for patient's hospitalization, as well as time-consuming due to the o ine inspection of the recordings, which is required to reach diagnosis. This is obtained by computing the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) after carefully reviewing of the recorded signals. Moreover, PSG test deprives patients of their natural sleep environment. These drawbacks, the high prevalence of SAHS, as well as the limited availability of specialized facilities, have led to the search for new ways to simplify the diagnostic process. One common approach is the analysis of a reduced set of signals among those involved in full PSG. In this Doctoral Thesis it is posed the automatic analysis of single-channel air ow (AF) as a simple and reliable alternative to PSG. In addition, pattern recognition is proposed as the main approach to conduct an automatic SAHS diagnosis, including binary classi cation (presence or absence of SAHS) as well as determination of SAHS severity degree (multiclass classi cation and AHI estimation by means of regression). We hypothesize that it is possible to reduce the complexity of the SAHS diagnostic process by means of an automatic pattern recognition analysis of AF. Consequently, the general goal of this work is the comprehensive study and assessment of the diagnostic potential of the AF signal as a surrogate for full PSG in SAHS detection. Our methodology is based on three main steps. First, a feature extraction stage is implemented to obtain information of SAHS from single-channel
Historically unprecedented erosion from Tropical Storm Irene due to high antecedent precipitation

Lacustrine sediment archives indicate that flooding during Tropical Storm Irene (2011) in the north‐eastern United States caused the most severe erosion of any flood in the historic record, surpassing that of events with greater precipitation and peak discharges. Compared to deposition from historic floods, Irene's event layer was more massive and more enriched in unweathered upland sediments, indicating an anomalously high incidence of mass wasting and sediment entrainment. Precipitation records indicate that neither precipitation intensity nor total accumulation distinguished Irene from less erosive historic floods. However, cumulative precipitation prior to Irene exceeded the 95th percentile of all days in the record. When allowing for non‐stationarity in the twentieth century background precipitation, we find a four‐fold increase in the probability of Irene‐like conditions, where impacts of extreme rainfall are enhanced by high antecedent precipitation. We conclude that irrespective of increases in extreme precipitation, the risk of highly erosive flooding in the region is increasing due to the influence of wetter baseline conditions associated with a changing climate. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reading Music Systems

The International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS) is a workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop systems for reading music, such as in the field of Optical Music Recognition, with other researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists. The relevant topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Music reading systems; Optical music recognition; Datasets and performance evaluation; Image processing on music scores; Writer identification; Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores; Multi-modal systems; Novel input-methods for music to produce written music; Web-based Music Information Retrieval services; Applications and projects; Use-cases related to written music. These are the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reading Music Systems, held in Milan, Italy on Nov. 4th 2023.
The spider Periegops suteri (Araneae: Periegopidae): description, ecology, localities and management recommendations

Introduction Periegops suteri (Urquhart, 1892) is restricted to Banks Peninsula and Riccarton Bush Reserve in Christchurch City and is one of only two described species in the distinctive Australasian monogeneric family Periegopidae. The other described species, P. australia, is restricted to a small area of southeastern Queensland (Forster 1995). The family Periegopidae is part of the Haplogynae (spiders with simple, ancestral genitalia) within the Araneomorphae (“true” spiders) and periegopids are considered to be the sister-group to the spitting spiders, Scytodidae (Coddington 2005). Female specimens of Periegops sp. have been found in the East Cape region of the North Island (Forster 1995) and the Alderman Islands, off the coast from the Coromandel Peninsula (Forster & Forster 1999, B.M. Fitzgerald, personal communication). It is likely that these North Island specimens represent a new species of Periegops, however this cannot be confirmed until male specimens are examined (Forster & Forster 1999).
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

1: The Breadth and Depth of DSP 2: Statistics, Probability and Noise 3: ADC and DAC 4: DSP Software 5: Linear Systems 6: Convolution 7: Properties of Convolution 8: The Discrete Fourier Transform 9: Applications of the DFT 10: Fourier Transform Properties 11: Fourier Transform Pairs 12: The Fast Fourier Transform 13: Continuous Signal Processing 14: Introduction to Digital Filters 15: Moving Average Filters 16: Windowed-Sinc Filters 17: Custom Filters 18: FFT Convolution 19: Recursive Filters 20: Chebyshev Filters 21: Filter Comparison 22: Audio Processing 23: Image Formation & Display 24: Linear Image Processing 25: Special Imaging Techniques 26: Neural Networks (and more! ) 27: Data Compression Data Compression Strategies Run-Length Encoding Huffman Encoding Delta Encoding LZW Compression JPEG (Transform Compression) MPEG 28: Digital Signal Processors 29: Getting Started with DSPs 30: Complex Numbers 31: The Complex Fourier Transform 32: The Laplace Transform 33: The z-Transform Chapter 27 Data Compression / JPEG (Transform Compression)
Formal Specification and Verification of Smart Contracts in Azure Blockchain

Ensuring correctness of smart contracts is paramount to ensuring trust in blockchain-based systems. This paper studies the safety and security of smart contracts in the Azure Blockchain Workbench, an enterprise Blockchain-asa-Service offering from Microsoft. As part of this study, we formalize semantic conformance of smart contracts against a state machine model with access-control policy and develop a highly-automated formal verifier for Solidity that can produce proofs as well as counterexamples. We have applied our verifier VERISOL to analyze all contracts shipped with the Azure Blockchain Workbench, which includes application samples as well as a governance contract for Proof of Authority (PoA). We have found previously unknown bugs in these published smart contracts. After fixing these bugs, VERISOL was able to successfully perform full verification for all of these contracts.
Adaptive-regulation of pancreatic acinar mitochondrial thiamin pyrophosphate uptake 1 process : Possible involvement of epigenetic mechanism ( s ) 2

Adaptive-regulation of pancreatic acinar mitochondrial thiamin pyrophosphate uptake 1 process: Possible involvement of epigenetic mechanism(s) 2 Subrata Sabui, Veedamali S. Subramanian, Rubina Kapadia and Hamid M. Said 3 4 Department of Medical Research, VA Medical Center, Long Beach, CA 90822; Departments of 5 Medicine and Physiology/Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 6 7 8 Running title: Thiamin level affects mitochondrial TPP uptake 9 10 11 Address all correspondence to H. M. Said, VA Medical Center-151, Long Beach, CA 90822. 12 Tel: (562) 826-5811 13 Fax: (562) 826-5675 14 Email: hmsaid@uci.edu 15 16 17 18 19 20 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol (July 20, 2017). doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00192. 2017
Residentiële segregatie in vroeg-moderne steden: Amsterdam in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw

Residential segregation in an early modern metropolis: Amsterdam circa 1830 Using data from the first land register (1832) of Amsterdam and modern gistechniques this study demonstrates that large early modern cities had more complex residential structures than small and medium sized ones. Early modern Amsterdam consisted of a mosaic of districts, each housing only part of the social pyramid (macro-segregation). Within those districts 'around the corner' segregation (meso-segregation) was typical. A central location, the quality of the environment and accessibility go a long way in explaining the observed patterns and they demonstrate that uni-dimensional models like the one proposed by Sjoberg in his influential study on the preindustrial city are unsatisfactory.