Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Institutional Heterogeneity and Change: The University as Fool

While institutional theory has focused on the effect of institutions on individual organizations, this article addresses the relationships between institutions. Using a case history approach, it examines the relationship of one institution, the University, within an institutional complex. The study suggests that the University acts and has a role akin to the Fool in the medieval royal court. The Fool is embedded in a multiplicity of loyal yet agonistic relationships with a collection of `Sovereign' institutions, such as the Church, the State, the Nation, the Corporation and the Professions. Akin to the Fool, the University's skills at normative narrating, sorting and playing are central to the creation and maintenance of a semiotic nexus and the process of institutionalization and de-institutionalization. In turn, these semiotic resources are utilized in the practice of educating. The article concludes by examining how the metaphor of the Fool provides a way of re-thinking these practices.
Clinical Implications of Glucose Variability: Chronic Complications of Diabetes

Glucose variability has been identified as a potential risk factor for diabetic complications; oxidative stress is widely regarded as the mechanism by which glycemic variability induces diabetic complications. However, there remains no generally accepted gold standard for assessing glucose variability. Representative indices for measuring intraday variability include calculation of the standard deviation along with the mean amplitude of glycemic excursions (MAGE). MAGE is used to measure major intraday excursions and is easily measured using continuous glucose monitoring systems. Despite a lack of randomized controlled trials, recent clinical data suggest that long-term glycemic variability, as determined by variability in hemoglobin A1c, may contribute to the development of microvascular complications. Intraday glycemic variability is also suggested to accelerate coronary artery disease in high-risk patients.
Researching Distressing Topics

Qualitative researchers who explore sensitive topics may expose themselves to emotional distress. Consequently, researchers are often faced with the challenge of maintaining emotional equilibrium during the research process. However, discussion on the management of difficult emotions has occupied a peripheral place within accounts of research practice. With rare exceptions, the focus of published accounts is concentrated on the analysis of the emotional phenomena that emerge during the collection of primary research data. Hence, there is a comparative absence of a dialogue around the emotional dimensions of working with secondary data sources. This article highlights some of the complex ways in which emotions enter the research process during secondary analysis, and the ways in which we engaged with and managed emotional states such as anger, sadness, and horror. The concepts of emotional labor and emotional reflexivity are used to consider the ways in which we “worked with” and “worked on” emotion. In doing so, we draw on our collective experiences of working on two collaborative projects with ChildLine Scotland in which a secondary analysis was conducted on children’s narratives of distress, worry, abuse, and neglect.
CMOS wafer bonding for back-side illuminated image sensors fabrication

Backside illuminated CMOS image sensors were developed in order to encompass the pixel area limitation due to metal interconnects. In this technology the fully processed CMOS wafer is bonded to a blank carrier wafer and then back-thinned in order to open the photosensitive sensor area. The process flows of the two main competing wafer bonding technologies used for this manufacturing process (adhesive bonding and low temperature plasma activated direct wafer bonding with polymer layers) will be reviewed.
Integration of Data Warehouse and Unstructured Business Documents

The profusion of unstructured data forced organizations to manage and take advantage of such data especially in the decision making process. The feasibility of integrating or mapping unstructured data to a data warehouse is becoming significant to bridge this gap and take the full potential of these data. In this paper, we propose a multi-layer schema for mapping structured data stored in a data warehouse and unstructured data in business-related documents. The multi-layer schema facilitates the mapping between the two different data. Linguistically correlated data is identified using Word Net to enable the integration between both data sources. We also propose a generic XML schema for business-related unstructured documents to assist the mapping. The use Word Net to identify the matching result is promising in the absence of schema-instance and without the need to domain specific knowledge.
The New Heretics

Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a concept that supports the dominant beliefs of strategic management rather than challenging them to shift business beyond the unsustainable status quo. Against this backdrop, we consider how hybrid organizations (organizations at the interface between for-profit and nonprofit sectors that address social and ecological issues) are operating at odds with beliefs embedded in strategic management and corporate sustainability literatures. We offer six propositions that define hybrid organizations based on challenges they present to the beliefs embedded in these literatures and position them as new heretics of strategic management and corporate sustainability orthodoxy. We conclude with the implications of this heretical force for theory and suggest directions for future research.
Publication bias in meta-analysis: A Bayesian data-augmentation approach to account for issues exemplified in the passive smoking debate - Comments and rejoinders

"Publication bias" is a relatively new statistical phenomenon that only arises when one attempts through a meta-analysis to review all studies, significant or insignificant, in order to provide a total perspective on a particular issue. This has recently received some notoriety as an issue in the evaluation of the relative risk of lung cancer associated with passive smoking, following legal challenges to a 1992 Environmental Protection Agency analysis which concluded that such exposure is associated with significant excess risk of lung cancer. We introduce a Bayesian approach which estimates and adjusts for publication bias. Estimation is based on a data-augmentation principle within a hierarchical model, and the number and outcomes of unobserved studies are simulated using Gibbs sampling methods. This technique yields a quantitative adjustment for the passive smoking meta-analysis. We estimate that there may be both negative and positive but insignificant studies omitted, and that failing to allow for these would mean that the estimated excess risk may be overstated by around 30%, both in U.S. studies and in the global collection of studies.
Teacher preparation for inclusive education: increasing knowledge but raising concerns

The role of the generalist teacher is now affirmed as being an important component in the success or otherwise of inclusive education practice. Issues about the effectiveness of teacher preparation for working in inclusive classes have arisen. An evaluation of pre-service teachers' perceptions regarding their preparedness for inclusion had some interesting findings. The study found that increasing knowledge about legislation and policy related to inclusion, and improving levels of confidence in becoming inclusive teachers, did not likewise address their concerns, or perceived stress, about having students with disabilities in their classes. As universities re-evaluate their teacher preparation courses, a range of pertinent issues are identified that require consideration.
Efficient Compression of 3D Dynamic Mesh Sequences

This paper presents a new compression algorithm for 3D dynamic mesh sequences based on the local principal component analysis (LPCA). The algorithm clusters the vertices into a number of clusters using the local similarity between the trajectories in a coordinate system that is defined in each cluster, and thus transforms the original vertex coordinates into the local coordinate frame of their cluster. This operation leads to a strong clustering behavior of vertices and makes each region invariant to any deformation over time. Then, each cluster is efficiently encoded with the principal component analysis. The appropriate numbers of basis vectors to approximate the clusters are optimally chosen using the bit allocation process. For further compression, quantization and entropy encoding are used. According to the experimental results, the proposed coding scheme provides a significantly improvement in compression ratio over existing coders.
Phylogenetic Relationships among Ehrlichia ruminantium Isolates

Abstract: Ehrlichia ruminantium, the causative agent of heartwater, is a tick‐borne pathogen infecting ruminants throughout sub‐Saharan Africa and on some Caribbean islands. The most reliable test for E. ruminantium is PCR‐based, but this gives positive results in some areas free of clinical heartwater and of the known Amblyomma spp. tick vectors. To investigate the molecular basis for this finding we have sequenced and carried out phylogenetic analysis of a range of genes from a number of E. ruminantium isolates. The genes include ribonuclease III and cytochrome c oxidase assembly protein genes (the pCS20 region), groESL, citrate synthase (gltA), and 16S ribosomal RNA. Relationships among major antigenic protein (map1) genes have been exhaustively investigated in a previous study that showed that the genes are variable in length, have non‐synonymous mutations, and show no geographical specificity among isolates. The 16S sequences are highly conserved, except in the V1 loop region. The pCS20, groESL, and gltA genes show only single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) dispersed throughout the sequenced regions. Phylogenetic analysis using pCS20 data differentiates the western African isolates into a single clade, which also includes a southern African isolate. All other southern African isolates and a Caribbean isolate fall into a further clade, which is subdivided into two groups. Sequence variation within this clade is greater than that within the western African clade, suggesting that E. ruminantium originated in southern Africa.
The Evolution of the Field of Human Resource Information Systems: Co-Evolution of Technology and HR Processes

In this paper, we review the professional and academic development of the human resource information systems (HRIS) field to assess its progress and suggest ways for moving research forward. To do so, we examine the interplay between the evolution of technology and the HR field through four key eras of technology: 1) mainframe, 2) client server, 3) ERP and Web-based systems, and 4) cloud-based systems. In each era, we discuss how HR practices and requirements drove the need for the use of these systems and how these systems allowed the HR field to evolve. In addition, we trace the HRIS subfield and its relation to the technological evolutions occurring in the HR field. Somewhat surprisingly, we found that much of the research on the use of technology to support HR has occurred only in the last 15-20 years as a response to the use of the Web as a medium for delivering HRIS. We conclude by discussing how scholars from the information systems and human resources fields can come together to help advance HRIS.
Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele and the incidence of shunt-dependent hydrocephalus.

CONTEXT Intrauterine closure of exposed spinal cord tissue prevents secondary neurologic injury in animals with a surgically created spinal defect; however, whether in utero repair of myelomeningocele improves neurologic outcome in infants with spina bifida is not known. OBJECTIVE To determine whether intrauterine repair of myelomeningocele improves patient outcomes compared with standard care. DESIGN Single-institution, nonrandomized observational study conducted between January 1990 and February 1999. SETTING Tertiary care medical center. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 29 study patients with isolated fetal myelomeningocele referred for intrauterine repair that was performed between 24 and 30 gestational weeks and 23 controls matched to cases for diagnosis, level of lesion, practice parameters, and calendar time. All infants were followed up for a minimum of 6 months after delivery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Requirement for ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement, obstetrical complications, gestational age at delivery, and birth weight for study vs control subjects. RESULTS The requirement for ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement for decompression of hydrocephalus was significantly decreased among study infants (59% vs 91%; P = .01). The median age at shunt placement was also older among study infants (50 vs 5 days; P = .006). This may be explained by the reduced incidence of hindbrain herniation among study infants (38% vs 95%; P<.001). Following hysterotomy, study patients had an increased risk of oligohydramnios (48% vs 4%; P = .001) and admission to the hospital for preterm uterine contractions (50% vs 9%; P = .002). The estimated gestational age at delivery was earlier for study patients (33.2 vs 37.0 weeks; P<.001), and the birth weight of study neonates was less (2171 vs 3075 g; P<.001). CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that intrauterine repair of myelomeningocele decreases the incidence of hindbrain herniation and shunt-dependent hydrocephalus in infants with spina bifida, but increases the incidence of premature delivery.
Psychological Momentum and Skill Performance: A Laboratory Study

This study used a laboratory setting and a novel motor skill to investigate psychological momentum and its relationship to performance. Subjects were paired» placed in competition in a novel motor task, and given false feedback concerning the outcome of games. Positive or negative momentum conditions were imposed by manipulating their experiences of victory or defeat as the match progressed. The actual performance and error scores for each subject were recorded after each game. The results indicated that subjects in positive conditions felt they had a high frequency of positive psychological momentum and that subjects in negative conditions felt they had a high frequency of negative psychological momentum. However» comparing mean performance and error scores of subjects in the two momentum conditions over the entire contest; comparing them in the last two games of a set, winners versus losers; and examining the predictive power of set outcome on performance and error scores in the next two games of the fo.
The Functional Forms of the Regulations System of the Production Process and Their Socio-Economic Determinations

to concrete. That process in turn, opens possibilities for developing the concrete modes of appearance of the functional forms and the socio-economic determinations and thus presents the complex interactions of both sides. For these reasons, this category has a special significance for the sociology of work organizations and industrial relations. The rise from abstract to concrete requires again the solution of the problem of historicity. In relation to the category of subordination of labour to capital the problem of historicity has special interest, because
Convergence under Subdivision and Complexity of Polynomial Minimization in the Simplicial Bernstein Basis

In this article, we address the question of minimizing a real polynomial over the standard simplex. This problem can be solved with a branch-andbound method, using the Bernstein form of the polynomial. Such methods have been widely studied from a numerical point of view, and re nements have been proposed to speed up the computational time. We are here interested in the basic branch-and-bound algorithm (and its complexity), which has the advantage to lead to certi ed proofs.
Barrier Factors Identifying of Tacit Knowledge Converting in Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements

The conversion of tacit knowledge is the key of Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements (TSTA), whether realizing TSTA effectively or not is up to the internalization ability of tacit knowledge in the process of digestion, absorption and innovation etc. From the transferor of TSTA, the transferee of TSTA, the difference of both sides, the inherent characteristics of tacit knowledge, this article puts forward the formation of barrier factors of tacit knowledge converting in TSTA. In this foundation, the barrier factors of tacit knowledge converting in TSTA will be identified and appraised with the method of rough sets in order to provide some reference for enhancing the efficiency and the effect of TSTA.
Discontinuity and After: the Social Dynamics of Technology Evolution and Dominance

While there has been much discussion of the social dynamics of technology evolution within the technology management literature, this has made relatively little use of work done by sociologists on similar issues. In this article, the potential of sociological research to inform our understanding of technology evolution and dominance is explored, focusing in particular on the contribution of actor network theory. The bringing together of questions posed by technology management theorists and insights offered by social theorists provides new insights on technology evolution, and generates several important implications for both research and practice.
Doppler Keystone Transform for SAR Imaging of Moving Targets

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data reformatting approach named Doppler Keystone transform (DKT) is proposed to correct the range migration of the moving target. By combining the DKT and the Doppler phase compensation methods, the moving target can be well imaged in high signal-clutter-ratio (SCR) case. Moreover, the DKT-based algorithm is suitable for parallel implementation.
On the production of morphologically complex words with special attention to effects of frequency

Four experiments investigated the role of frequency information in compound production by independently varying the frequencies of the first and second constituent as well as the frequency of the compound itself. Pairs of Dutch nounnoun compounds were selected, such that there was a maximal contrast for one frequency, while matching for the other two frequencies. In a position-response association task, participants first learned to associate a compound with a visually marked position on a computer screen. In the test phase, participants had to produce the associated compound in response to the appearance of the position mark and we measured speech onset latencies. The compound production onset latencies varied significantly according to factorial contrasts in the frequencies of both constituting morphemes, but not according to a factorial contrast in compound frequency, providing further evidence for decompositional models of speech production. In a stepwise regression analysis of the joint data of all four Experiments, however, compound frequency was a significant non-linear predictor, with facilitation in the low-frequency range and a trend towards inhibition in the high-frequency range. Furthermore, a combination of structural measures of constituent frequencies and entropies explained significantly more variance than a strict decompositional model including cumulative stem 1 This chapter (section 2.1-5) originally appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2005), 102, 17876-17881. In section 2.6, I present an additional analysis of the compound naming latencies with crossed random effects for subject and item.
Análise discriminante das relações entre fatores estratégicos, indústria e desempenho em organizações brasileiras atuantes na indústria manufatureira

This paper approaches the question: what are the factors that discriminate between positive and negative companies' performance, when in turbulent environment? Aimed in achieving this goal a study was conducted involving Brazilian companies in manufacturing industry that were active in the period comprised between 1996 to 2001, characterized by intense turbulence in national and worldwide macroeconomic scenes. A discriminant function was proposed to measure and analyze the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables, comprised by information about competitive environment, strategic orientation and economic context. As results variables risk exposition, long term debt and market share were identified as the factors that discriminate between positive and negative financial performance.
Prevalence of cataract surgery and post-surgical visual outcomes in an urban Asian population: the Singapore Malay Eye Study

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the prevalence and visual outcomes of cataract surgery in an urban Asian population. Methods: This was a population-based study of 3280 Singapore Malays aged 40–80 years (response rate 78.7%). Participants had a standardised interview and comprehensive ocular examination. Poor post-operative visual outcome was defined as visual acuity ⩽20/60 in operated eyes of unilateral cataract extractions or in the better-seeing eye of bilateral cataract extractions. Factors associated with poor visual outcome were assessed. Results: Of 3280 participants, 284 (men 52.3%) had unilateral cataract extractions (age-standardised prevalence 4.7%, 95% CI 4.2% to 5.4%) and 154 persons (54%) had bilateral extractions. Older age, male sex and the presence of diabetes were significant factors associated with having had cataract surgery. Poor visual outcomes were present in 10.8% of the operated eyes using best-corrected visual acuity. Diabetic retinopathy (25.5%), glaucoma (17%), age-related macular degeneration (14.9%) and posterior capsular opacification (14.9%) were the main causes of poor visual outcome after surgery. Under-corrected refractive error accounted for 60% of patients with post-operative presenting visual acuity of ⩽20/60. Conclusions: Five per cent of the sample of the Malay population aged 40–80 years in Singapore had cataract surgery. One in ten had post-operative best-corrected visual acuity of 20/60 or worse, largely related to concomitant retinal diseases.
Crossing the sea from They to We? The unfolding of knowing and practising in collaborative research

This article addresses how knowing and practising unfolds in collaborative research amongst practitioners from a large consulting and business services group and academics from a UK School of Management. Dialogue enabled actors to cross between theory and practice by providing a ‘space’ for support, challenge, exchange and experimentation. However, this ‘space’ was fragile and the insensitive actions of one individual, driven by institutional pressure to exploit the project for competitive advantage, resulted in withdrawal and the re-establishment of traditional divisions. Our view is that collaborative research is not necessarily an exercise in producing, transferring and implementing research findings but is better thought of as knowledge integration through a dialogue of theory and practice. The article contributes to the ongoing debate about the relevance of management research and the theoretical development of knowledge co-production.