Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Les entreprises de haute technologie et leurs pratiques de recrutement, de sélection, d'évaluation du rendement et de rémunération

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’analyser des cas types permettant de dresser un bilan des pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines dans les entreprises de haute technologie. Quatre themes sont couverts dans le present article : le recrutement, la selection, l’evaluation du rendement et la remuneration. La premiere partie de l’article examine les defis qui se presentent actuellement dans ces quatre domaines. La deuxieme partie expose la methodologie retenue pour realiser la recherche. Les quatre parties suivantes se penchent sur les methodes et les strategies de recrutement, de selection, d’evaluation du rendement et de remuneration qu’on observe dans les entreprises de haute technologie selon leur taille. Cette presentation est suivie d’une discussion et de recommandations.
EEG Correlates of Song Prosody: A New Look at the Relationship between Linguistic and Musical Rhythm

Song composers incorporate linguistic prosody into their music when setting words to melody, a process called “textsetting. ” Composers tend to align the expected stress of the lyrics with strong metrical positions in the music. The present study was designed to explore the idea that temporal alignment helps listeners to better understand song lyrics by directing listeners’ attention to instances where strong syllables occur on strong beats. Three types of textsettings were created by aligning metronome clicks with all, some or none of the strong syllables in sung sentences. Electroencephalographic recordings were taken while participants listened to the sung sentences (primes) and performed a lexical decision task on subsequent words and pseudowords (targets, presented visually). Comparison of misaligned and well-aligned sentences showed that temporal alignment between strong/weak syllables and strong/weak musical beats were associated with modulations of induced beta and evoked gamma power, which have been shown to fluctuate with rhythmic expectancies. Furthermore, targets that followed well-aligned primes elicited greater induced alpha and beta activity, and better lexical decision task performance, compared with targets that followed misaligned and varied sentences. Overall, these findings suggest that alignment of linguistic stress and musical meter in song enhances musical beat tracking and comprehension of lyrics by synchronizing neural activity with strong syllables. This approach may begin to explain the mechanisms underlying the relationship between linguistic and musical rhythm in songs, and how rhythmic attending facilitates learning and recall of song lyrics. Moreover, the observations reported here coincide with a growing number of studies reporting interactions between the linguistic and musical dimensions of song, which likely stem from shared neural resources for processing music and speech.
The State of the Innocenti Declaration Targets in Italy

If Italy is to meet the operational targets of the Innocenti Declaration, there will need to be changes in the way that breastfeeding is not only promoted but also protected and supported. During the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in October 2000, a resolution was passed in the parliamentary Commissione per l'infanzia (Commission on Childhood) that committed the government to promoting, protecting, and supporting breastfeeding in a more active manner; to including breastfeeding as a health indicator; and to establishing national and regional goals for breastfeeding prevalence and duration. A next step that must be taken by the government is that of creating a national committee to coordinate the work. Progress toward accrediting a baby-friendly hospital needs to continue and must use the international standards as criteria. Recent action taken by the Ministry of Health and the court system is promising; however, full compliance of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes should be a goal for Italy and the rest of the European Union. The one area in which Italy seems to have fulfilled all of its obligations is the one concerning "imaginative legislation"; however, this shows that although legislative protection is important, it is not enough to ensure breastfeeding success.
The curriculum? That’s just a unit outline, isn’t it?

The term curriculum is familiar in school education, but more ambiguous in its usage in a higher education context. Although it is frequently used in academic staff discussions, policy and planning documents, and to describe advisory bodies, its usage is inconsistent and multifarious. This article reports a phenomenographic study of the ways in which academics conceive of the curriculum in higher education. It examines the variation in perceptions of curriculum, which is critiqued through the work of school curriculum theorists, who utilise Habermas’s theory of knowledge‐constitutive interests. The intention of this article is to explore the epistemologies and assumptions that underpin these conceptions, in order to promote an inclusive and shared vocabulary as a basis for curriculum development.
Risk Terrain Modeling: Brokering Criminological Theory and GIS Methods for Crime Forecasting

The research presented here has two key objectives. The first is to apply risk terrain modeling (RTM) to forecast the crime of shootings. The risk terrain maps that were produced from RTM use a range of contextual information relevant to the opportunity structure of shootings to estimate risks of future shootings as they are distributed throughout a geography. The second objective was to test the predictive power of the risk terrain maps over two six‐month time periods, and to compare them against the predictive ability of retrospective hot spot maps. Results suggest that risk terrains provide a statistically significant forecast of future shootings across a range of cut points and are substantially more accurate than retrospective hot spot mapping. In addition, risk terrain maps produce information that can be operationalized by police administrators easily and efficiently, such as for directing police patrols to coalesced high‐risk areas.
HIV-1 Reservoirs and Latency: Critical Barriers and Clues for HIV / AIDS Cure

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is still a formidable threat to public health in spite of remarkable therapeutic advances (Adoga et al., 2009; Goselle, 2011). Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is effective against HIV/AIDS but it is not curative, and hence does not lead to the eradication of HIV-1 infection. Patients on HAART usually have their HIV RNA levels suppressed below the lower detection limit of 50 copies / ml. However, interruption of treatment leads to viral rebound and HIV can be detected again usually within two weeks (Davey et al.,1999; Dahl et al., 2010). This observation led to the initial questions that spurred investigations into the discovery of the critical roles of reservoirs and latency in HIV-1 persistence.
Fold and unfold for program semantics

In this paper we explain how recursion operators can be used to structure and reason about program semantics within a functional language. In particular, we show how the recursion operator fold can be used to structure denotational semantics, how the dual recursion operator unfold can be used to structure operational semantics, and how algebraic properties of these operators can be used to reason about program semantics. The techniques are explained with the aid of two main examples, the first concerning arithmetic expressions, and the second concerning Milner's concurrent language CCS. The aim of the paper is to give functional programmers new insights into recursion operators, program semantics, and the relationships between them.
Lipids in Health and Disease

Pgp (P-glycoprotein, MDR1, ABCB1) is an energy-dependent drug efflux pump that is a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family of proteins. Preliminary studies have reported that nonspecific inhibitors of Pgp affect synthesis and esterification of cholesterol, putatively by blocking trafficking of cholesterol from the plasma membrane to the endoplasmic reticulum, and that relative increases in Pgp within a given cell type are associated with increased accumulation of cholesterol. Several key efflux proteins involved in the cholesterol metabolic pathway are transcriptionally regulated by the nuclear hormone liver X receptor (LXR). Therefore, to examine the interplay between P-glycoprotein and the cholesterol metabolic pathway, we utilized a high fat, normal cholesterol diet to upregulate LXRα without affecting dietary cholesterol. Our research has demonstrated that mice lacking in P-glycoprotein do not exhibit alterations in hepatic total cholesterol storage, circulating plasma total cholesterol levels, or total cholesterol concentration in the bile when compared to control animals on either a normal (25% calories from dietary fat) or high fat (45% calories from dietary fat) diet. However, p-glycoprotein deficient mice (Mdr1a-/-/1b-/) exhibit increased hepatic LXRα protein expression and an elevation in fecal cholesterol concentration when compared to controls. Background Cholesterol homeostasis of an organism involves the interplay of two main input mechanisms (hepatic and extra-hepatic synthesis of cholesterol, and the intestinal absorption of dietary and biliary cholesterol), balanced with a single elimination pathway via the bile (either through direct excretion into the bile or by conversion to bile acids). Other pathways such as steroidogenesis, myelination and anabolic growth play a minor role in the daily cholesterol balance. Physiologically, an organism has a large but not unlimited capacity to accommodate increases in dietary uptake. When dietary cholesterol levels exceed the capacity of efflux mechanisms and override compensatory decreases in biosynthesis, an imbalance in cholesterol occurs and excessive accumulation ensues. Several key efflux proteins involved in the cholesterol metabolic pathway are transcriptionally regulated by the nuclear hormone liver X receptor (LXR). When stimulated by oxysterols, LXR forms an obligate heterodimer with retinoid X receptor (RXR) and binds to specific DNA response elements, inducing the expression of genes Published: 11 June 2008 Lipids in Health and Disease 2008, 7:21 doi:10.1186/1476-511X-7-21 Received: 3 March 2008 Accepted: 11 June 2008 This article is available from: http://www.lipidworld. com/content/7/1/21 © 2008 Thornton et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Radial Glia Cells in the Developing Human Brain

Human radial glia (RG) share many of the features described in rodents, but also have a number of characteristics unique to the human brain. Results obtained from different mammalian species including human and non-human primates reveal differences in the involvement of RG in neurogenesis and oligodendrogenesis and in the timing of the initial expression of typical RG immunomarkers. A common problem in studying the human brain is that experimental procedures using modern molecular and genetic methods, such as in vivo transduction with retroviruses or creation of knockout or transgenic mutants, are not possible. Nevertheless, abundant and valuable information about the development of the human brain has been revealed using postmortem human material. Additionally, a combination and spectrum of in vitro techniques are used to gain knowledge about normal developmental processes in the human brain, including better understanding of RG as progenitor cells. Molecular and functional characterization of multipotent progenitors, such as RG, is important for future cell replacement therapies in neurological and psychiatric disorders, which are often resistant to conventional treatments. The protracted time of development and larger size of the human brain could provide insight into processes that may go unnoticed in the much smaller rodent cortex, which develops over a much shorter period. With that in mind, we summarize results on the role of RG in the human fetal brain. NEUROSCIENTIST 14(5):459—473, 2008. DOI: 10.1177/1073858407313512
Nipple discharge: current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Nipple discharge is a complex diagnostic challenge for the clinician. A variety of diseases (such as intraductal papillomas, mammary duct ectasia, breast cancer, pituitary adenomas, breast abscesses/infections, etc.) can manifest as nipple discharge. The importance of nipple discharge for both the patient and the physician is the possible association of this condition with an underlying carcinoma. With heightened public awareness of breast cancer, an increasing number of women are asking their health care providers about nipple discharge. A detailed clinical evaluation is invaluable to determine the pathophysiology, assess the risk of malignancy, and plan treatment of the patient with nipple discharge. A combination of diagnostic tests, including mammography, breast ultrasonography, and possibly galactography can help the clinician to establish the diagnosis and plan proper management. Depending on the underlying breast pathology, a central or single lactiferous duct excision is the procedure of choice. Breast carcinoma associated with nipple discharge should be treated by either a modified radical mastectomy of breast-conservation therapy (i.e. duct-lobular segmentectomy with adequate, free margins [ideally>1cm], levels I and II axillary lymph node dissection, followed by breast irradiation).
Seasonal effects on the aerobic bacterial and fungal conjunctival flora of normal thoroughbred brood mares in Florida.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate seasonal effects on the presence or absence of fungal and aerobic bacterial flora of the conjunctival fornix of normal Florida Thoroughbred horses. SAMPLE POPULATION Both eyes of 100 horses. PROCEDURE Horses with normal anterior segment ophthalmic examinations from three farms in north central Florida were included. Each animal had the ventral conjunctival fornix of each eye swabbed with sterile culturettes. Samples were taken in October, January, April, and July (1999-2000). Aerobic and fungal cultures were plated. Bacterial cultures were reviewed at 24 and 48 h. Fungal cultures were reviewed weekly for 4 weeks. Logistic regression analysis with season as a factor and age of the horse as a covariate was performed. Statistical significance was set at P < 0.01. RESULTS Horses ranged from 3 to 24 years of age, with a median age of 9 years. Twenty-four genera of bacteria and 35 genera of fungi were recovered. Corynebacterium sp. , Staphylococcus sp. , Bacillus sp. and Moraxella sp. were the bacteria most frequently isolated. Mold species, dematiaceous mold species, Chrysosporium sp. , Cladosporium sp. , and Aspergillus sp. were the most frequently recovered fungi. Season did not have a significant effect on the presence of microorganisms isolated for individual horses adjusted for age. Younger horses had an increased incidence of gram-negative rods and fungal isolates. The number of bacteria and fungi isolated are not uniform across seasons. CONCLUSION There were no significant differences between the number or type of organisms cultured during the sampling seasons in normal Florida horses. A large range of normal bacterial and fungal flora were isolated from these horses. The number of bacteria and fungi isolated are not uniform across seasons. The likelihood of detecting an organism depends on the horses' age.
Refractory immune thrombocytopenia. Successful treatment with repeated cyclosporine A: two case reports

Treatment of chronic, severe refractory immune thrombocytopenia after splenectomy is difficult. Only less data exist on clinical use of cyclosporine A (CyA) in the management of refractory ITP. In this report, we describe two cases in which standard immunosuppressive therapy, other immunosuppression including cyclosporine A or splenectomy had no therapeutic effect. Even after splenectomy, recommended procedures were inefficient and critical thrombocytes count persisted. After repeated administration of cyclosporine A which had been ineffective prior to splenectomy; however, both patients achieved long‐term complete remission of the ITP. Side effects of CyA were moderate. The presented cases have confirmed the potential therapeutic effect of CyA in refractory post‐SE ITP.
Interdependence of Right and Left Hands in Sight‐Read, Written, and Rehearsed Fingerings of Parallel Melodic Piano Music

Abstract In an exploratory study of interactions between left hand (LH) and right hand (RH) fingerings, 6 professional pianists performed two Czemy studies in which LH and RH negotiate identical isochronous melodic material separated by one octave. Participants performed at sight and following rehearsal, with RH alone and hands together. Performances were recorded as MIDI data and as birds-eye video of the hands. Fingerings were transcribed from (slow motion) video recordings. Pianists wrote (optimal or intended) fingerings on scores during rehearsal. Intended LH fingerings were disrupted by hands-together performance more than intended RH fingerings, and RH fingerings involved more or bigger stretches between fingers than LH fingerings. Both findings are consistent with the intuition that pianists focus more attention on RH than LH fingerings in parallel melodic passages. Possible reasons include the difficulty of dividing attention between the hands, differences between the technical skill of the hands .
In Vitro Self-Renewal Division of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Little is known about how hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) self-renew. We studied the regeneration of HSCs in culture. Effects of various cytokines on cell division of CD34−/low c-Kit+Sca-1+ lineage marker–negative (CD34−KSL) bone marrow cells of the mouse were first evaluated in serum-free single cell culture. We then performed a competitive repopulation assay on divided cells to ask if such cell division involved self-renewal of HSCs. In the presence of stem cell factor (SCF), thrombopoietin (TPO) induced a first cell division of CD34−KSL cells more efficiently than did interleukin (IL)-3 or IL-6. Multilineage repopulating cells were detected in a significant proportion of cells derived from single cells in culture with TPO and SCF, although this culture condition led to a substantial decrease in HSC number. These regenerated repopulating cells could be further transplanted into secondary recipients. When paired daughter cells were separately studied, one of a pair gave rise to repopulating cells with self-renewal potential, suggesting asymmetric self-renewal division. This study provides evidence that one HSC regenerates at least one HSC in culture.
On the smoothness of the multi-BMPV black hole spacetime

We demonstrate that, in a multi-BMPV black hole spacetime, the event horizon is not smooth. We explicitly show that for a simpler configuration comprising a line of static extremal black holes and a single-BMPV black hole, the metric at the horizon of the BMPV black hole is once, but not twice, continuously differentiable. We argue that this result is also valid when all the black holes are rotating. The Maxwell field strength is shown to be continuous, but not differentiable at the horizon.
Career management strategies among IT professionals in offshore outsourced IT firms in Sri Lanka

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is explore career management strategies used by information technology (IT) professionals full‐time employed in offshore outsourced IT firms in Sri Lanka; and to evaluate those against hierarchical plateau, job content plateau, firm size, and individual demographic characteristics that may predict the use.Design/methodology/approach – Survey methodology was used and a random sample of 119 IT professionals responded. Multiple regression was used for the data analysis.Findings – Career management strategies used by IT professionals could be broadly categorised into four areas. Hierarchical career plateau and age significantly predict the use of career strategies.Originality/value – The study provides useful information for both practitioners and academics to better understand career strategies used by IT professionals in managing their own careers and factors that predict the use of career strategies.
The effect of different room acoustic elements on spatial decay of speech – a laboratory experiment

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Who is missing from higher education in New Zealand

There is disagreement in the literature regarding the influence of social and cultural factors on the propensity for young people to undertake higher education. This study draws upon a national data set of over 45,000 young people to assesses their propensity to progress to bachelor level study, while controlling for their ethnic backgrounds, their socio-economic status (as measured by the decile of the last secondary school they attended), their gender, and their school achievement. The results are discussed in light of recent policy developments designed to ensure that access to bachelor-level study is not closed to under-represented groups.
Aspect Weaving with C# and .NET

Aniline derivatives of the general formula: (I) wherein X represents a halogen atom or a lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkenyl, lower alkenyloxy, lower alkyl substituted by one or more halogen atoms, nitro or cyano group or an amino group unsubstituted or substituted by one or two lower alkyl groups, which may be the same or different, or by a group -CO-R1 (wherein R1 represents a lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, mono (lower) alkylamino group or di (lower) alkylamino group wherein the lower alkyl groups may be the same or different), n represents 0 or an integer from 1 to 5 inclusive, it being understood that when n represents an integer from 2 to 5 inclusive, atoms or groups represented by X may be the same or different, and Q represents a group of the general formula: wherein R2 and R3 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and R4 represents a cyano group or a group -COR5, wherein R5 represents a hydroxy or OR6 group, wherein R6 represents a lower alkyl group and, when R5 represents a hydroxy group, agriculturally-acceptable inorganic and organic salt thereof, and, when Q represents a group of general formula IIB, wherein R2, R3 and R4 are as hereinbefore defined, agriculturally acceptable acid addition salts thereof possess useful herbicidal properties.