Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pengaruh Budgeting Participation Terhadap Employee Perfomance Pada Sektor Manufaktur di Surabaya

Banyak perusahaan melakukan bisnis hanya sekedar untuk mencari profit semata, artinya bahwa mereka hanya fokus pada hasil dan keuntungan yang diperoleh tanpa menyadari bahwa sebenarnya ada aspek-aspek penting yang sangat berpengaruh terhadap pencapaian profit tersebut, salah satunya aspek internal berupa sumber daya manusia. Sebagai bagian yang penting yang dimiliki perusahaan, karyawan telah membantu perusahaan dalam mengelola, mengatur, dan menjalankan proses bisnis. Untuk melakukan itu, diperlukan perencanaan yang matang salah satunya perencanaan anggaran atau yang disebut dengan budgeting. Keterlibatan karyawan dalam penyusunan anggaran, akan menyebabkan perkembangan terhadap mental dan emosional yang positif serta membangun sebuah komitmen terhadap tujuan anggaran. Komitmen ini penting karena produktivitas atau hasil yang dihasilkan dari komitmen karyawan akan menetukan apakah perusahaan mampu mencapai tujuannya atau tidak. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh budget participation terhadap employee performance dan goal commitment, pengaruh goal commitment terhadap employee performance, dan pengaruh budgeting paticipation terhadap employee perfomance melalui goal commitment sebagai variabel intevening. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian adalah karyawan perusahaan manufaktur di Surabaya yang berjumlah 100 orang. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik analisis Partial Least Square (PLS). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa budget participation berpengaruh positif dan signifikan masing-masing terhadap employee performance dan goal commitment, lalu goal commitment juga berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap employee performance, serta budgeting paticipation berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap employee perfomance melalui goal commitment, atau dapat dikatakan goal commitment sebagai variabel intervening.
An Improved Genetic Algorithm for the Optimization of Composite Structures

This paper describes a new approach for reducing the number of the fitness and constraint function evaluations required by a genetic algorithm (GA) for optimization problems with mixed continuous and discrete design variables. The proposed modification improves the efficiency of the memory constructed in terms of the continuous variables. The work presents the algorithmic implementation of the proposed memory scheme and demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed multivariate approximation procedure for the weight optimization of a segmented open cross section composite beam subjected to axial tension load. Results are generated to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed improvements to a standard genetic algorithm.Copyright © 2006 by ASME
El impacto de la acción parlamentaria en una política gubernamental: el caso de la política turística española

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and a key sector in Spain. Tourism has become part of governmental programmes since its development in the country, and the Spanish Government has developed a specific tourism public policy since 1978. Nevertheless, tourism is a controversial issue that involves different types of positive and negative impacts. The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between the Legislature and governmental tourism policy by exploring the extent to which the parliamentary groups –and, especially, the opposition– have had an impact in the policy design process. Even if it is commonly assumed that legislatures play a relatively residual role in the process of policy formulation, our aim is to empirically assess the degree to which this is really the case for tourism policies in Spain. The most significant conclusions of our study are that in Spain we find a high consistency and similarity of the contents of legislative proposals by the parliamentary groups during the last thirty years, and that Parliament has played mostly a reactive (rather than active) role in this field.
Content-based retrieval for lung nodule diagnosis using learned distance metric

Similarity metric of the lung nodules can be useful in differentiating between benign and malignant lung nodule lesions on computed tomography (CT). Unlike previous computerized schemes, which focus on the features extracting, we concentrate on similarity metric of the lung nodules. In this study, we first assemble a lung nodule dataset which is from LIDC-IDRI lung CT images. This dataset includes 746 lung nodules in which 375 domain radiologists identified malignant nodules and 371 domain radiologists-identified benign nodules. Each nodule is represented by a vector of 26 texture features. We then propose a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) scheme to classify between benign and malignant lung nodules with a learned Mahalanobis distance metric. The Mahalanobis distance metric as a similarity metric can preserve semantic relevance and visual similarity of lung nodules. The CBIR approach uses this Mahalanobis distance to search for most similar reference nodules for each queried nodule. The majority of votes are then computed to predict the likelihood of the queried nodule depicting a malignant lesion. For the classification accuracy, the area under the ROC curve (AUC) can achieve as 0.942±0.008. The recall and precision of benign nodules are 0.860 and 0.889, respectively. The recall and precision of malignant nodules are 0.893 and 0.866, respectively.
Optimization of autonomous hybrid energy storage system for photovoltaic applications

Autonomous photovoltaic systems require an energy buffer to match the generation with the time distribution of demand, as photovoltaic is time and weather dependent. The Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) battery is commonly used for photovoltaic storage because of its low cost, low maintenance, and wide availability. A Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) integrates the VRLA battery and ultracapacitor, drawing on their respective advantages at appropriate times. By combining an ultracapacitor with a VRLA battery, the power density of the overall system is increased. The ultracapacitor operates under high power conditions reducing the strain of large current draw from the VRLA battery. This paper outlines a methodology to optimize the combination of VRLA batteries and ultracapacitors in the photovoltaic system taking the load demand, solar irradiation, and ambient temperature into account. A photovoltaic system is simulated in Matlab Simulink to analyze the results of the optimization.
The level of intracellular glutathione is a key regulator for the induction of stress-activated signal transduction pathways including Jun N-terminal protein kinases and p38 kinase by alkylating agents

Monofunctional alkylating agents like methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) are potent inducers of cellular stress leading to chromosomal aberrations, point mutations, and cell killing. We show that these agents induce a specific cellular stress response program which includes the activation of Jun N-terminal kinases/stress-activated protein kinases (JNK/SAPKs), p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, and the upstream kinase SEK1/MKK4 and which depends on the reaction mechanism of the alkylating agent in question. Similar to another inducer of cellular stress, UV irradiation, damage of nuclear DNA by alkylation is not involved in the MMS-induced response. However, in contrast to UV and other inducers of the JNK/SAPKs and p38 pathways, activation of growth factor and G-protein-coupled receptors does not play a role in the MMS response. We identified the intracellular glutathione (GSH) level as critical for JNK/SAPK activation by MMS: enhancing the GSH level by pretreatment of the cells with GSH or N-acetylcysteine inhibits, whereas depletion of the cellular GSH pool causes hyperinduction of JNK/SAPK activity by MMS. In light of the JNK/SAPK-dependent induction of c-jun and c-fos transcription, and the Jun/Fos-induced transcription of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes, these data provide a potential critical role of JNK/SAPK and p38 in the induction of a cellular defense program against cytotoxic xenobiotics such as MMS.
Human error and patient-controlled analgesia pumps.

Contrary to the prevailing attitude that error is a source of blame and punishment, errors can be an opportunity to discover a problem and institute activities to correct the problem to reduce the likelihood of recurrence. Often the source of error may be the system in which it occurred, not the person associated with it. Error in any domain, including healthcare, is difficult to identify and address because persons are reluctant to report errors for fear of self-incrimination. The discipline of human factors addresses issues related to human performance including use error. Human factors analysis provides insight into the etiology of use errors and how they can be reduced. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps were developed to allow the patient or care-giver more control over pain relief. The PCA pumps can be programmed to deliver pain medication on a continuous basis, intermittently, or as a bolus. Selected adverse incidents involving PCA pumps that were due to use error and reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are described. Finally, implications of those findings and the potential for reducing use error by applying considerations of the discipline of human factors are discussed.
Directed Forgetting of Negative Self-Referential Information Is Difficult: An fMRI Study

A large body of evidence suggested that both emotion and self-referential processing can enhance memory. However, it remains unclear how these two factors influence directed forgetting. This study speculates that directed forgetting of negative self-referential memory is more difficult than forgetting of other-referential memory. To verify this speculation, we combined the directed forgetting paradigm with the self-reference task. The behavioral result suggested that although both self-referential and other-referential information can be directly forgotten, less self-referential information can be forgotten than other-referential information. At the neural level, the forget instruction strongly activated the frontal cortex, suggesting that directed forgetting is not memory decay but an active process. In addition, compared with the negative other-referential information, forgetting of the negative self-referential information were associated with a more widespread activation, including the orbital frontal gyrus (BA47), the inferior frontal gyrus (BA45, BA44), and the middle frontal gyrus. Our results suggest that forgetting of the self-referential information seems to be a more demanding and difficult process.
Pilot symbol assisted high speed packet transmission system based on adaptive OFDM in broadband mobile channel

4G mobile communication system requires the throughput of 10–100Mbps. Adaptive modulated OFDM system is promising technique for increasing the throughput. In the pilot symbol assisted high-speed packet transmission system, the data symbol duration is generally considered to be small compared to the coherence time. However, OFDM symbol duration is longer than the symbol duration of a single carrier system, so that the packet duration of the pilot symbol assisted high speed packet transmission system is long. In this case, the change of channel conditions is too fast to be accurately estimated by channel estimator at the receiver in high Doppler frequency, so that many errors occur during demodulation, especially with the data symbols at the end of each packet. In this paper, we consider the BER at various instantaneous Eb/N0 that includes the demodulation errors in high Doppler frequency. When the coherence time is ten times longer than the duration of a single packet, the channel can be closely approximated as an AWGN channel. Otherwise, the approximation breaks down and the above-mentioned errors that occur during demodulation must be taken into consideration. In this paper, we propose the pilot symbol assisted high speed packet transmission system based on adaptive OFDM using a novel lookup table to consider the demodulated errors and evaluate the throughput performance.
IN VITRO INTERACTION OF MOUSE HEPATITIS VIRUS AND MACROPHAGES FROM GENETICALLY RESISTANT MICE

Peritoneal macrophages from genetically resistant C3H mice and genetically susceptible Princeton (PRI) mice adsorbed the MHV (PRI) strain of mouse hepatitis virus equally well. The difference between the permissive cells and the nonpermissive ones seems to reside in the ability of the former to "eclipse" the virus and, subsequently, support virus replication. C3H cells exposed to low multiplicities of the virus remained intact with no demonstrable viral replication. Virus, taken up by the resistant cells, was protected from heat and underwent slow inactivation while few or no virus particles were released into the medium.
Racjonalność wyborcy a paradoks partycypacji. Znaczenie instrumentalnej motywacji dla wyjaśniania absencji wyborczej w 2005 r.

Streszczenie: Artykuł przedstawia teorię partycypacji wyborczej wyrastającą z założeń o racjonalnym działaniu. Zapoczątkowany przez Anthony’ego Downsa nurt rozważań o zachowaniach wyborczych na pierwszy plan wysuwa instrumentalną motywację decyzji dotyczących udziału w głosowaniu. Analiza kosztów i korzyści przeprowadzana przez każdego wyborcę, biorąca pod uwagę jedynie korzyść płynącą z objęcia władzy przez preferowanego kandydata oraz szansę wpłynięcia na wynik wyborów, skłonić powinna wszystkich obywateli do absencji, co jednakże w rzeczywistości nie ma miejsca. Artykuł prezentuje kilka rozwiązań tego paradoksu partycypacji, ukazując na tle rozważań teoretycznych wyniki badań empirycznych nad absencją wyborczą.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FEMALE TRANSSEXUALS

This report presents data on components of gender identity in six female transsexuals. They scored very low on femininity and fairly high on masculinity of the Guilford-Zimmerman M-F scale. In childhood they had no girlish interests. They were tomboys and prone to fight, usually with boys. Sensory and perceptual erotic arousal thresholds in adulthood conformed more to those of the female than the male, but the imagery of arousal and erotic performance was masculine. There was no fetishistic dependence on clothing for erotic arousal. The six patients were at various stages of hormonal and surgical reassignment treatment. Five were living as males. A universal presenting symptom was hatred of the breasts. There was no evidence suggestive of phantom breast or womb in those who had received mastectomy and/or hysterectomy. Parental feeling toward infants and children, insofar as it could be estimated, was fatherly rather than motherly. None of the patients wanted anything to do with pregnancy and motherhood.
Alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders among older adults in India: a literature review

Objectives: With changing attitudes to alcohol and an increasing life span in India, the prevalence of alcohol use and misuse in successive cohorts of older people is likely to increase. In this paper, we attempt to review the most recent evidence covering alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders in the Indian elderly. Methods: PubMed, PsycINFO and Indmed databases were searched using relevant keywords. Papers meeting eligibility criteria were selected through a sequential process of screening title, abstract and full text. Data were extracted into Excel sheets. Results: There was a dearth of pan-national studies. There were several methodological issues with many studies especially related to measurement. A substantial proportion of individuals above the age of 50 years are current consumers of alcohol and the prevalence is generally higher in urban compared to rural areas. Older women are generally likely to be alcohol abstainers. The general trend appears to be a reduction in current drinking among successive age cohorts over the age of 50. Alcohol consumption in the older adults is associated with educational status, health status, chronic morbidity, employment status, socioeconomic status, auditory/locomotor impairment and asthma. Conclusion: Alcohol use and misuse is a problem among the Indian older adults. With socio-demographic changes that will further increase longevity, this problem is likely to increase and policy-makers need to plan for it. Future research needs to improve validity and reliability in study methodology, as well as add to the current evidence base.
Employee Driven Innovation in Team (EDIT) – Innovative Potential, Dialogue, and Dissensus

The article deals with employee driven innovation in regular teams from a critical, pragmatic action research perspective, referring to theories on innovation, dialogue, workplace learning, and organizational communication. It is based on an action research project “Innovation and involvement through strengthening dialogue in team based organizations” funded by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. 18 teams from one public and two private organizations participated in the project. The article defines the concept of employee driven innovation (EDI) in relation to theories on innovation, workplace learning and action research, and presents EDI as a fairly new field of research. EDI is conceptualized as a participatory endeavour differing from a mainstream understanding of innovation as surplus value for the organization. The article focuses on incremental, organizational process innovations co-created across conflicting workplace interests in and between teams. The article argues that it is meaningful to assert that every employee has an innovative potential, no matter of what educational background or sector and that sometimes, this innovative potential might be facilitated through Dialogic Helicopter Team Meetings (DHTM) with a dissensus approach. During the action research process, it became important to organize a special kind of DHTMs as a supplement to ordinary team action meetings close to day-to-day operations, but separated in time and space. They focus on how to improve existing organizational routines and work practice in order to produce value for the organization, better work flow, and improved work life quality. These meetings are discussed in relation to similar organizational constructs within Scandinavian action research. The action research process made it clear that it is not enough to set up DHTMs if they are going to facilitate EDIT. They must be characterized by a dissensus approach, combining dissensus organizing and dissensus sensibility. Dissensus organizing means that team conversations must be organized in ways where silent or unspoken, critical voices speak up. This can be done by using, e.g., pro and con groups or a bystander. This demands, too, that team members, managers, and action researchers develop dissensus sensibility to open up for more voices, for indirect criticism, and for more democracy in the decision process trying to balance dialogues in multidimensional tensions between consensus and dissensus. The article grounds the complexities of this process in thick presentations of DHTMs in Team Product Support, Danfoss Solar Inverters and Team Children, Citizen Service, the Municipality of Silkeborg, Denmark. It demonstrates how these meetings created different organizational process innovations, and how theoretical concepts like DHTM, dissensus organizing and dissensus sensibility were developed from practice.
ADAPTATION TO DESICCATION FAILS TO GENERATE PRE‐ AND POSTMATING ISOLATION IN REPLICATE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER LABORATORY POPULATIONS

Many laboratory speciation experiments have raised allopatric populations in different environments to determine whether reproductive isolation evolves as a byproduct of adaptation (a form of ecological speciation). Few, however, have addressed the evolution of both pre‐ and postmating isolation or investigated the conditions affecting the process. We present results of an evolution experiment in which 12 lines of Drosophila melanogaster were derived from a common population and then independently evolved for more than 57 generations under alternative selection treatments. Six “desiccation” populations had access to food and water removed during a period of their adult lives generating strong desiccation selection, and six “starvation” populations had access to food but not water removed for the same period, generating a mild starvation stress. Substantial divergence of cuticular hydrocarbons occurred between the desiccation and starvation populations, key traits that have been implicated in sexual isolation in Drosophila. Despite this divergence, there was no detectable premating isolation between desiccation and starvation populations and postmating isolation was asymmetrical: the fitness of F1 hybrids was reduced in the desiccation but not the starvation environment. This asymmetry was likely caused by the absence of divergent selection: adaptation to desiccation appears to have come at no cost to performance in the starvation environment. Novel environments are thought to promote the evolution of reproductive isolation. Understanding the conditions that favor or hamper this remains a key challenge for speciation research.
Interpersonal and Hyperpersonal Dimensions of Computer‐Mediated Communication

The social information processing theory of computer-mediated communication (CMC) was the first of several theoretical models of interpersonal interaction online to explain how individuals and groups formed impressions and developed relational communication via text-based electronic communication. Prior to its introduction, the predominant theoretical approaches to CMC predicted that the relative lack of nonverbal cues in CMC compared with face-to-face (FtF) communication would reduce the socioemotional quality of communication online. The social information processing (SIP) theory, in particular, articulated assumptions about the CMC medium, the relationships between nonverbal and verbal cue systems, and users’ adaptation to media that represented a significant departure from other prevalent models at the time it was introduced. Premises of the social information processing theory became the basis for several models to follow, including the hyperpersonal model of CMC. Both approaches to CMC focus on message qualities and how the characteristics of the CMC channel (such as the lack of most nonverbal cues, and, at times, the asynchronous nature of messaging systems) interact with interpersonal goals and strategies, resulting in systematic patterns of interaction via mediated channels. They each involve a high degree of human agency and depict how users appropriate the channel and its technological characteristics to suit their communicative purposes. They depict CMC users as more or less creative and opportunistic rather than as passive adopters of a relatively restricted medium. This chapter reviews the development, status, and