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HUMAN RESOURCES RESEARCH UNIT HRM in US Subsidiaries in Europe : centralization or autonomy ?

In this paper we explore determinants of subsidiary autonomy in setting HRM practices within US-parented MNEs by analyzing the 1999 Euronet-Cranfield data set on HRM practices in European companies and work organizations. On the one hand we examine the effect of strategic context: whether the subsidiary faces global or local markets. On the other hand we consider local institutional context: national business system and level of unionization. As hypothesised we find both kinds of effect are important. US MNEs show greater centralisation of control over HRM where the subsidiary faces global markets, in coordinated market economies versus liberal market economies and where union density is low.
Development and Evaluation of NL interfaces in a Small Shop

The standard development of a dialogue system today involves the following steps: corpus collection and analysis, system development guided by corpus analysis, and finally, rigorous evaluation. Often, evaluation may involve more than one version of the system, for example when it is desirable to show the effect of system parameters that differ from one version to another. In this paper, we discuss the difficulties that small research groups face in pursuing the development of dialogue systems. The primary difficulties are the lack of adequate resources and the excessive amount of time it takes to see the systems through to a meaningful evaluation. As a case in point, we discuss our development and evaluation of a natural language generation component to improve the feedback provided by an interactive tutoring system. Our goal has been to use relatively inexpensive text structuring techniques to make aggregate content more fluent and comprehensible.
Determination of Moment Invariants and Their Application to Visual Servoing

Moment invariants are important shape descriptors in computer vision. In this paper, we give a general and systematic method to derive moment invariants of any order and for k-dimensional space (invariants to scale, to orthogonal transformation and to translation). This result is applied to the selection of adequate features for visual servoing. To elaborate the control law, we also determine the analytical form of the interaction matrix of any image moment. This matrix relates the variation of the image moments to the 3D motions of the camera. We finally presents some visual servoing experimental results using very simple images. These results allow to validate the theoretical developments proposed in this paper.
Efficient and effective server-sided distributed clustering

Clustering has become an increasingly important task in modern application domains where the data are originally located at different sites. In order to create a central clustering, all clients have to transmit their data to a central server. Due to technical limitations and security aspects, at the central site often only vague object descriptions are available. The server then has to carry out the clustering based on vague and uncertain data. In a recent paper, an approach for clustering uncertain data was proposed based on the concept of medoid clusterings. The idea of this approach is to create first several sample clusterings. Then based on suitable distance functions between clusterings the most average clustering, i.e. the medoid clustering, was determined. In this paper, we extend this approach for partitioning clustering algorithms and propose to compute a centroid clustering based on these input sample clusterings. These centroid clusterings are new artificial clusterings which minimize the distance to all the sample clusterings.
KNDTE: A System for Textual Entailment and Fact Validation Tasks at the NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL

Using a decision tree as the predictive model, two algorithms are proposed in this paper: one for detecting textual entailment relationships, and the other for confirming textual fact. Features proposed by previous studies are improved upon, and new features are introduced. This enhances the effectiveness of the proposed method, which was tested using the RITE-VAL task of NTCIR 11. The proposed method predicts entailment relationships between Chinese textual pairs in the data set of the system validation (SV) subtask. The predictions are then verified for accuracy using sentences from the data set of the fact validation (FV) subtask. When applied to the binary-class (BC) and multi-class (MC) tasks of the SV subtasks, the average macro-F1 rates of the proposed method are 54.1% and 39.08%, respectively. For the FV subtask, the average macro-F1 rate of the proposed method is 33.97%.
Probabilistic wavelet synopses

Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition in reducing large amounts of data to compact sets of wavelet coefficients (termed "wavelet synopses") that can be used to provide fast and reasonably accurate approximate query answers. A major shortcoming of these existing wavelet techniques is that the quality of the approximate answers they provide varies widely, even for identical queries on nearly identical values in distinct parts of the data. As a result, users have no way of knowing whether a particular approximate answer is highly-accurate or off by many orders of magnitude. In this article, we introduce Probabilistic Wavelet Synopses, the first wavelet-based data reduction technique optimized for guaranteed accuracy of individual approximate answers. Whereas previous approaches rely on deterministic thresholding for selecting the wavelet coefficients to include in the synopsis, our technique is based on a novel, probabilistic thresholding scheme that assigns each coefficient a probability of being included based on its importance to the reconstruction of individual data values, and then flips coins to select the synopsis. We show how our scheme avoids the above pitfalls of deterministic thresholding, providing unbiased, highly accurate answers for individual data values in a data vector. We propose several novel optimization algorithms for tuning our probabilistic thresholding scheme to minimize desired error metrics. Experimental results on real-world and synthetic data sets evaluate these algorithms, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our probabilistic wavelet synopses in providing fast, highly accurate answers with improved quality guarantees.
Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Analyses of Mildly and Severely Salt-Stressed Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 Cells

ABSTRACT Bacteria are able to cope with the challenges of a sudden increase in salinity by activating adaptation mechanisms. In this study, exponentially growing cells of the pathogen Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 were exposed to both mild (2.5% [wt/vol] NaCl) and severe (5% [wt/vol] NaCl) salt stress conditions. B. cereus continued to grow at a slightly reduced growth rate when it was shifted to mild salt stress conditions. Exposure to severe salt stress resulted in a lag period, and after 60 min growth had resumed, with cells displaying a filamentous morphology. Whole-genome expression analyses of cells exposed to 2.5% salt stress revealed that the expression of these cells overlapped with the expression of cells exposed to 5% salt stress, suggesting that the corresponding genes were involved in a general salt stress response. Upregulation of osmoprotectant, Na+/H+, and di- and tripeptide transporters and activation of an oxidative stress response were noticeable aspects of the general salt stress transcriptome response. Activation of this response may confer cross-protection against other stresses, and indeed, increased resistance to heat and hydrogen peroxide could be demonstrated after preexposure to salt. A temporal shift between the transcriptome response and several phenotypic responses of severely salt-stressed cells was observed. After resumption of growth, these cells showed cellular filamentation, reduced chemotaxis, increased catalase activity, and optimal oxidative stress resistance, which corresponded to the transcriptome response displayed in the initial lag period. The linkage of transcriptomes and phenotypic characteristics can contribute to a better understanding of cellular stress adaptation strategies and possible cross-protection mechanisms.
Majority decision in complex arbitration cases: the role of issue-by-issue voting

A Tribunal or arbitration panel may occasionally be trapped by a decision paradox when taking a simple, dichotomous final decision (e.g. accept/reject; condemn/acquit.) on a complex case involving two or more independent issues: the way in which the voting is organized – i.e. either issue-by-issue or by final outcomemay change the collective decision. Furthermore, if a majority vote is taken on the final decision, it may be impossible to base the resulting ruling on a set of reasons supported by a majority of members; but if majority voting is applied on each independent issue, the final logical conclusion from these intermediate findings may be rejected by a majority of members. Lewis Kornhauser originally discovered this so-called “doctrinal paradox” in the US Supreme Court, without realizing that it was already known to political scientists as the “Ostrogorski ́s paradox”. The paradox may arise in arbitration panels, particularly in investment arbitration. In non-arbitration contexts, issue-by-issue voting is frequently deemed preferable over conclusion-based or global judgements. Similarly, a case is made here to supplement the standard majority rule enshrined in Rules of Arbitration with an ancillary “issue-by-issue” voting rule, which might read as follows: 1 The author gratefully acknowledges the extremely helpful comments made on a preliminary draft by Juan FernándezArmesto (discussant) and other participants in the seminar held in Madrid on March 10, 2010 by the “Fundación para la Investigación del Derecho de la Empresa” (FIDE). He is also thankful for the comments from other experienced arbitrators, including (in alphabetical order) José I. Astigarraga, Bernardo Cremades, Marco de Benito, Yves Derains, Ignacio Díez-Picazo, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Ballesteros, Rafael García-Valdecasas, Clifford J. Hendel, Rafael Hinojosa, Susanne Kratzsch, Barton Legum, Fernando Mantilla, Alexis Mourre, Ramón Mullerat, Jan Paulson, José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Andrés Rigo, Gil-Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Pablo Salvador, Eduardo Silva, Miguel Temboury and David Rivkin. All the mistakes remain the author ́s. 2 Of-Counsel in Bird & Bird (Spain) and Arbitrator. He is former Chairman of Spain ́s Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV). Manuel Conthe Majority decision in complex arbitration cases Revista del Club Español de Arbitraje 8/2010 Revista del Club Español de Arbitraje 8/2010 “When the decision on the award depends on the opinions held by arbitrators on two or more distinct issues, the president may split the deliberation into the relevant distinct propositions, take a vote on each one and base the award on the resulting outcomes”. The application of this democratic voting procedure may, paradoxically, occasionally require the final decision to be approved under the president ́s sole authority, as allowed, for instance, by article 25 of the ICC Rules of Arbitration and article 35.1 of Spain ́s Arbitration Law.
Examining factors affecting parental satisfaction with speech therapy in children with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome

Objectives: This paper explores the relationship between speech therapy intensity and parent satisfaction with speech therapy (ST) in children with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome (P-MS), a rare genetic disorder. Methods: ST intensity (ST Dose [minutes per session]) × (ST Dose Frequency) × (ST Length [years]) and parent satisfaction (modified PSQ-18) with ST were measured by online questionnaire. Non-parametric correlation, partial correlation, and linear regression calculations were performed. Results: Significant correlations between ST Dose and parent satisfaction were observed in the subscales of Time Spent with ST (r = .36, p < .05) and Accessibility and Convenience (r = .40, p < .05) in children with P-MS controlling for child age. ST Dose was also a significant independent predictor of parent satisfaction with ST in specific subscales. Conclusion: Significant positive correlation and linear regression results indicate increases in ST Dose (minutes per session) represent a mechanism for increasing parent satisfaction with ST in children with P-MS.
Intravesical Botulinum Toxin A Injections for Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies

Background The role of intravesical botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) injections in bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) has not been clearly defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate high-level evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of BTX-A injections for BPS/IC. Material/Methods We conducted a comprehensive search of PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science, and conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of all available randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled studies assessing BTX-A injections for BPS/IC. Results Seven RCTs and 1 retrospective study were identified based on the selection criteria. Pooled analyses showed that although BTX-A was associated with a slightly larger volume of post-void residual urine (PVR) (weighted mean difference [WMD] 10.94 mL; 95% confidence intervals [CI] 3.32 to 18.56; p=0.005), patients in this group might benefit from greater reduction in pelvic pain (WMD −1.73; 95% CI −3.16 to −0.29; p=0.02), Interstitial Cystitis Problem Index (ICPI) scores (WMD −1.25; 95% CI −2.20 to −0.30; p=0.01), and Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index (ICSI) scores (WMD −1.16; 95% CI −2.22 to −0.11; p=0.03), and significant improvement in daytime frequency of urination (WMD −2.36; 95% CI −4.23 to −0.49; p=0.01) and maximum cystometric capacity (MCC) (WMD 50.49 mL; 95% CI 25.27 to 75.71; p<0.00001). Nocturia, maximal urinary flow rate, dysuria, and urinary tract infection did not differ significantly between the 2 groups. Conclusions Intravesical BTX-A injections might offer significant improvement in bladder pain symptoms, daytime urination frequency, and MCC for patients with refractory BPS/IC, with a slightly larger PVR. Further well-designed, large-scale RCTs are required to confirm the findings of this analysis.
Low-power high-speed interconnection networks in NOC using multi-valued current-mode techniques

With the fast developments and growth of electronic applications and a great demand for increasing the speed of processors, VLSI circuits and on-chip interconnections the ”Networks-On-Chip” (NOC) is the best solution for ”System-On-Chip” (SOC). The most fundamental part of networks On-Chip is the On-Chip interconnection. The model presented in this article describes the method of sending data on On-Chip interconnection by using a current-mode multi-valued logic instead of voltage-mode in order to increase speed and reduce the number of interconnection wires.
HUBUNGAN KECANDUAN INTERNET DENGAN DEPRESI PADA PELAJAR KELAS XI DI SMA NEGERI 9 BINSUS MANADO TAHUN AJARAN 2018/2019

Abstract: Internet addiction is defined as an excessive use of the internet that can interfere individual's health and cause psychological, social and school problems. One of the psychological impact of internet addiction is the decreased of quality time with friends and family that can cause social isolation. This condition can lead to depression. Aim: This research aims to determine the relationship between internet addiction and depression in 11 th grade high school students at SMA Negeri 9 Binsus Manado School Year 2018/2019. Method : This research is an analytical observational research with cross-sectional approach. Internet addiction was assessed using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), whilst depression by using Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) in Indonesian version. The participants of this research are 11 th grade students in SMA Negeri 9 Binsus Manado that fulfilled the inclusion criterias. Results : There were 171 participants which are 14-17 years old and most of the participants are woman (63,2%). The result using IAT and CDI showed that 120 students (70,2%) have moderate internet addiction and 55 students (32,2%) have depression. Statistical analysis using Chi-Square showed p =0,0002. Conclusion: There is a relationship between internet addiction and depression on 11 th grade high school students at SMA Negeri 9 Binsus Manado School Year 2018/2019. Keywords: depression, internet addiction, students Abstrak: Kecanduan internet didefinisikan sebagai penggunaan internet yang menganggu kesehatan individu dan menyebabkan masalah psikologis, sosial dan sekolah. Salah satu masalah psikologis yang dapat disebabkan adalah berkurangnya waktu bersama teman dan keluarga yang menyebabkan isolasi sosial. Kondisi inilah yang dapat mengarah pada depresi. Tujuan : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kecanduan internet dengan depresi pada pelajar kelas XI di SMA Negeri 9 Binsus Manado Tahun Ajaran 2018/2019. Metode : Penelitian ini bersifat analitik-observasional dengan pendekatan potong lintang. Kecanduan internet dinilai menggunakan Internet Addiction Test (IAT) dan depresi menggunakan Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) adaptasi bahasa Indonesia. Subjek penelitian adalah seluruh pelajar kelas XI di SMA Negeri 9 Binsus yang memenuhi kriteria inklusi. Hasil : Responden yang mengikuti penelitian berjumlah 171 orang dengan rentang umur 14-17 tahun dan sebagian besar responden adalah perempuan (63,2%). Hasil penelitian dengan menggunakan IAT dan CDI didapatkan bahwa 120 pelajar (70,2%) mengalami kecanduan internet sedang dan 55 pelajar (32,2%) mengalami depresi. Uji statistik dengan Chi-Square didapatkan nilai p =0,0002. Kesimpulan: Terdapat hubungan antara kecanduan internet dengan depresi pada pelajar kelas XI di SMA Negeri 9 Binsus Manado Tahun Ajaran 2018/2019. Kata Kunci : depresi, kecanduan internet, pelajar
To ‘errrr’ is human: ecology and acoustics of speech disfluencies

Unlike read or laboratory speech, spontaneous speech contains high rates of disfluencies (e.g. repetitions, repairs, filled pauses, false starts). This paper aims to promote ‘disfluency awareness’ especially in the field of phonetics –which has much to offer in the way of increasing our understanding of these phenomena. Two broad claims are made, based on analyses of disfluencies in different corpora of spontaneous American English speech. First, an Ecology Claim suggests that disfluencies are related to aspects of the speaking environments in which they arise. The claim is supported by evidence from task effects, location analyses, speaker effects and sociolinguistic effects. Second, an Acoustics Claim argues that disfluency has consequences for phonetic and prosodic aspects of speech that are not represented in the speech patterns of laboratory speech. Such effects include modifications in segment durations, intonation, voice quality, vowel quality and coarticulation patterns. The ecological and acoustic evidence provide insights about human language production in real-world contexts. Such evidence can also guide methods for the processing of spontaneous speech in automatic speech recognition applications.
Outcomes and Resource Use of Sepsis-associated Stays by Presence on Admission, Severity, and Hospital Type

Objective:To establish a baseline for the incidence of sepsis by severity and presence on admission in acute care hospital settings before implementation of a broad sepsis screening and response initiative. Methods:A retrospective cohort study using hospital discharge abstracts of 5672 patients, aged 18 years and above, with sepsis-associated stays between February 2012 and January 2013 at an academic medical center and 5 community hospitals in Texas. Results:Sepsis was present on admission in almost 85% of cases and acquired in-hospital in the remainder. The overall inpatient death rate was 17.2%, but was higher in hospital-acquired sepsis (38.6%, medical; 29.2%, surgical) and Stages 2 (17.6%) and 3 (36.4%) compared with Stage 1 (5.9%). Patients treated at the academic medical center had a higher death rate (22.5% vs. 15.1%, P<0.001) and were more costly ($68,050±184,541 vs. $19,498±31,506, P<0.001) versus community hospitals. Conclusions:Greater emphasis is needed on public awareness of sepsis and the detection of sepsis in the prehospitalization and early hospitalization period. Hospital characteristics and case mix should be accounted for in cross-hospital comparisons of sepsis outcomes and costs.
Should health professionals screen women for domestic violence? Systematic review

abstract Objective: To assess the evidence for the acceptability and effectiveness of screening women for domestic violence in healthcare settings. Design: Systematic review of published quantitative studies. Search strategy: Three electronic databases (Medline, Embase, and CINAHL) were searched for articles published in the English language up to February 2001. Included studies: Surveys that elicited the attitudes of women and health professionals on the screening of women in health settings; comparative studies conducted in healthcare settings that measured rates of identification of domestic violence in the presence and absence of screening; studies measuring outcomes of interventions for women identified in health settings who experience abuse from a male partner or ex-partner compared with abused women not receiving an intervention. Results: 20 papers met the inclusion criteria. In four surveys, 43-85% of women respondents found screening in healthcare settings acceptable. Two surveys of health professionals' views found that two thirds of physicians and almost half of emergency department nurses were not in favour of screening. In nine studies of screening compared with no screening, most detected a greater proportion of abused women identified by healthcare professionals. Six studies of interventions used weak study designs and gave inconsistent results. Other than increased referral to outside agencies, little evidence exists for changes in important outcomes such as decreased exposure to violence. No studies measured quality of life, mental health outcomes, or potential harm to women from screening programmes. Conclusion: Although domestic violence is a common problem with major health consequences for women, implementation of screening programmes in healthcare settings cannot be justified. Evidence of the benefit of specific interventions and lack of harm from screening is needed.
A comparison of schema matching threshold function and ANFIS generated membership function

Schema matching has the task of identifying semantically related entities in schemas. In the classic approach, a semantic distance is established among schema entities of the input schemas, based on which values the entity pairs are classified as match or non-match by means of a threshold value. This approach is, however, cumbersome in some schema matching related problem, like the accuracy measure maximization and the cutting threshold problem. In our earlier works, we proposed the concept of the schema matching threshold function for such cases. We assumed that the schema matching threshold function is, however, highly related to the concept of fuzzy membership functions. This assumed relation has encouraged us to perform a comparison between the schema matching threshold function and the fuzzy membership function which comparison is the topic of this paper. We used ANFIS for obtaining membership functions which were mapped to adequate threshold functions in order to be able to compare them. The outcome of our comparative analysis was that these mapped function pairs significantly resemble to each other.