Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Physician-hospital alignment: economic, administrative and professional aspects

Hospitals face challenging times. Currently many Western countries are seeking ways to increase the efficiency of care delivery and improve the quality care. Physicians have a major impact on hospital performance. This doctoral dissertation focuses on alignment of self-employed physicians. Economic, administrative and professional aspects are considered. The first chapter discusses the context and main characteristics of hospital-physician relationships in Belgium. The following chapters present five academic studies. We conclude with the general discussion of our findings. In a first study we developed an integrative conceptual framework of physician-hospital alignment including economic and noneconomic exchange. Building on the available literature and the theoretical insights of agency theory and social exchange theory, risk and trust were identified as two key antecedents. Since the payment framework cannot be neglected when studying physician-hospital alignment we continued with a second study focusing on the relationship between provider financial risk bearing and physician-hospital integration. These first two studies were followed by three empirical studies. In the third study two comparative case-studies were performed to investigate the contractual mechanisms in physician-hospital exchanges. Besides the contract, the relationship established on the basis of the transactions taking place was studied. The fourth study comprises a qualitative study of administrative and professional aspects of the noneconomic relationship between physician and hospital. Drawing on the concepts of the psychological contract we developed a rich understanding how mutual obligations and areas of ambiguity are perceived. In the fifth study we quantitatively investigated the impact of noneconomic exchange (administrative and professional psychological contract breach) and economic exchange (distributive and procedural organizational justice) on physicians’ organizational attitudes and organizational citizenship behaviours. In addition we focus on the moderating role of the Chief Medical Officer and organizational trust in these relationships. The final chapter summarises the theoretical, methodological and practical implications of this dissertation.
Interregional transfers and economic convergence of regions

Large disparities exist among European regions. Not only do they exist across national borders, but also within many states. Countries redistribute a substantial amount of wealth through taxation and social security systems in order to promote equity among individuals. Such inter-personal redistribution has an impact at regional level, even in the absence of explicit regional policy at national level. Economic theory can help explain different levels of economic development as well as convergence and divergence dynamics among economies. Economic theory also suggests that taxes and redistribution of income are generally distorting economic activity. This paper empirically investigates convergence among European regions and the impact of inter- personal transfers on regional growth. Standard beta-convergence regressions are done in a cross section as well as in a panel data setting. Results suggest that convergence is taking place among the 229 European regions in the dataset, since a negative relationship between the initial level of income and the subsequent growth rates exist. Convergence within countries happens much slower, which indicates that the observed convergence is due to a convergence across countries. In order to estimate the impact of transfers, a transfer index allowing for a separate analysis of contributing and receiving regions is computed. Once controlling for regional fixed heterogeneity, no significant effect of transfers on income growth is found, neither on the contributing nor on the benefiting regions.
Poor responders in in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy: the challenge continues

Poor responders represent more than a third of women undergoing assisted reproduction. Typically they are patients with advanced maternal age and low ovarian reserve. However, there is a younger group that unexpectedly demonstrates impaired response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. The etiologies in many of these cases are still unclear. In our program, the determination of basal cycle day 3 serum FSH, LH and E2 levels, measurement of AMH, and the estimation of the basal antral follicular count by transvaginal ultrasonography, are the preferred screening tests for ovarian reserve in all IVF patients, and together with the woman’s age, determine the ovarian stimulation regimen to be chosen for the cycle treatment. In spite of a variety of protocols and adjuvant therapies of unproven benefit, these patients have compromised outcomes and continue to represent a challenge to reproductive endocrinologists.
Transcript-Selective Translational Silencing by Gamma Interferon Is Directed by a Novel Structural Element in the Ceruloplasmin mRNA 3′ Untranslated Region

ABSTRACT Transcript-selective translational control of eukaryotic gene expression is often directed by a structural element in the 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) of the mRNA. In the case of ceruloplasmin (Cp), induced synthesis of the protein by gamma interferon (IFN-γ) in U937 monocytic cells is halted by a delayed translational silencing mechanism requiring the binding of a cytosolic inhibitor to the Cp 3′-UTR. Silencing requires the essential elements of mRNA circularization, i.e., eukaryotic initiation factor 4G, poly(A)-binding protein, and poly(A) tail. We here determined the minimal silencing element in the Cp 3′-UTR by progressive deletions from both termini. A minimal, 29-nucleotide (nt) element was determined by gel shift assay to be sufficient for maximal binding of the IFN-γ-activated inhibitor of translation (GAIT), an as-yet-unidentified protein or complex. The interaction was shown to be functional by an in vitro translation assay in which the GAIT element was used as a decoy to overcome translational silencing. Mutation analysis showed that the GAIT element contained a 5-nt terminal loop, a weak 3-bp helix, an asymmetric internal bulge, and a proximal 6-bp helical stem. Two invariant loop residues essential for binding activity were identified. Ligation of the GAIT element immediately downstream of a luciferase reporter conferred the translational silencing response to the heterologous transcript in vitro and in vivo; a construct containing a nonbinding, mutated GAIT element was ineffective. Translational silencing of Cp, and possibly other transcripts, mediated by the GAIT element may contribute to the resolution of the local inflammatory response following cytokine activation of macrophages.
A Study on Privacy Preservation for Multi-user and Multi-granularity

Currently, all the existing studies with good privacy guarantees focus on a single privacy level. Namely, a certain degree of privacy protection is implemented on all anonymized data released. However, this is not consistent with the actual scene that the different roles have different levels of privacy. From this point of view, this paper proposed a scenario with multi-user and multi-granularity privacy protection, and proposed the l-increment privacy protection model. On this basis, we put forward a generalization algorithm, which can meet the requirement for multi-user and multi-granularity, and reduce greatly the amount of information loss resulting from data generalization for implementing data anonymization in the meanwhile. Our findings are verified by experiments.
Progress Report: Multi-aperture Sar Target Detection Using Hidden Markov Models

This report highlights our current work and accomplishments on the project to exploit angular diversity for improved target detection in multi-aperture SAR images. This report also contains a brief introduction to hidden Markov models, and identiies issues which we will resolve as work continues. We have analyzed multi-aperture SAR images and demonstrated that anisotropic behavior is present in our multi-aperture SAR image set. We performed baselining studies using the common method of CFAR LTT detection and formulated an HMM detection method using Baum-Welch reestimation to train HMMs to represent target, tree clutter, and ground clutter pixels. Our results show that HMM detection produced signiicantly better results than CFAR LTT detection (with a 29-by-29 reference window) for the y
Structure Based Clustering of NCI ' s Anti-HIV Library

Nearest neighbor searching in finds molecules that are similar to the query object. The Tanimoto (or Jaccard) coefficient is calculated by the following formula in the case of input: (A,B) = /( + ) where are are the number of 1 bits in the fingerprint of A and B, respectively, is the number of common 1 digits in the two fingerprints. The dissimilarity measure used for the Jarvis-Patrickmethod was1(A,B). JKlustor
Selling project management to senior executives: framing the moves that matter

Despite tremendous growth in the project management profession and substantial proof that the profession has helped increase productivity and bottom line earnings, some senior-level executives are still fighting progress. Why is it so difficult to sell project management to senior executives? and How do you get them on board? are the main questions being answered in this pertinent book by Thomas, et al. After years of research, the authors report their findings in Phases I and II of this insightful book.
Design requirements to counter parallel session attacks in security protocols

This work is concerned with the possible exploitation of weaknesses in security protocols by attackers using parallel session attacks and discovering ways of eliminating these weaknesses. A new analysis is presented on the reasons why security protocols, with certain weaknesses in their design, are vulnerable to parallel session attacks. Building on this analysis a new set of design requirements is proposed, whose aim is to eliminate these vulnerabilities. The proposed set of design requirements is evaluated by applying them to a range of security protocols with known weaknesses as well as protocols known to be free of these weaknesses. The results of the evaluation indicate that the set of design requirements are effective as: protocols with known weaknesses violate some of the rules, while protocols without weaknesses do not violate any of the rules.
The Hedging Costs of Discrete Monitoring of FX Barrier Options

The effects of the discrete monitoring of barrier options is analysed. We determine the costs that a market-maker should charge when making prices for such a kind of exotic options. The costs are related to the Delta-hedging activity around the barrier level between two subsequent monitoring dates, by assuming a reasonable hedging rule followed by the trader. We explain how our result is related to an apparently similar result by Becker and Wystup (2005) and finally we present a practical application showing that the inclusion of the Delta-hedging costs has a relevant impact on the discretely monitored barrier options prices.
Trends in the Development of Machinery and Associated Technology ” TMT 2009 , Hammamet , Tunisia , 16-21 October 2009 DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF TORSIONAL TORQUE DURING THE START OF LARGE SQUIRREL CAGE INDUCTION MOTORS

In the paper is presented a study of the starting process of a large squirrel cage induction motor driving an inertia load through an elastic shaft. The analysis of the electromagnetic torque of the motor has revealed that there are variable frequency components which interact with the torsional mode of the chanical system and produce hazardous shaft torque. The nature of the problem is explained trough mathematical modeling of large induction motors drives the pump in power plant. The Matlab was used for simulation.
Measures Of Novelty And Growth For Bibliometrics

Acknowledgements Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Institute on Aging of the NIH (Award Number P01AG039347) and the Directorate for Education & Human Resources of the NSF (Award Number 1348742). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the NSF. MEASURES OF NOVELTY AND GROWTH FOR BIBLIOMETRICS
A pedestrian classification method based on transfer learning

Pedestrian detection is a challenging research task of computer vision, which can be seen as a classification problem in the sliding window framework. Many supervised learning based methods require a large number of labeled data for training. However, training and testing data are not independent identically distributed in most cases, due to the complex background, and it is expensive to re-collect and label the data. This paper proposes a semi-supervised method for pedestrian classification, which is based on transfer learning and sparse coding and just requires a small quantity of labeled data. Firstly, we use sparse coding to learn a slightly higher-level, more succinct feature representation from the unlabeled data that randomly downloaded from the Internet. Then we apply this representation to the target classification problem by transfer learning. The quantitative experiment results demonstrate that this method can improve the performance of pedestrian classification and just needs only a few labeled data.
Practical Guide for Active National Policy Makers - what Science and Technology Policy Can and Cannot Do?

The aim of this report is to look at the role of science, technology and innovation policies from the perspective of the national policy process and to offer certain conclusions for the tasks related to the progress toward a knowledge-based society and economy in the European union. Three different national innovation systems (NIS) are presented on the basis of KNOGG country experiences: a country trying mainly to promote technology diffusion, a country intentionally developing national capacities to create, and a country relying on market forces without policy interventions. The most important difference between the NIS of the larger and smaller countries is the greater dependence on the external sources of knowledge and innovations in smaller countries. The realisation of the goals related to the establishment of the European Research Area (ERA) will open new opportunities but also create new challenges for the small countries.
Evaluating the Potential of Future On-Chip Clock Distribution using Optical Interconnects

Designing clock distribution networks is a big challenge for future microprocessors due to increasing frequency, power, transistor counts and process variations. As technology scales, implementing conventional clock distribution networks that meet low power and skew requirements is becoming more difficult. On the other hand, optical interconnects are being proposed as an alternative to electrical interconnects due to their speed-of-light transmission, high bandwidth and low power dissipation. We look at the clock distribution trends in major microprocessor families, possible techniques for optical clocking, and the potential of moving from electrical to optical clock distribution. We found that clock distribution is largely a power amplification problem, and since electrical power amplification is more efficient that optical power amplification, wholly electrical clock distribution technologies would be preferred.
Multicultural law enforcement : strategies for peacekeeping in a diverse society

Foreword, Chief Willie L. Williams. I. IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY ON LAW ENFORCEMENT. 1. Multicultural Communities: Challenges for Law Enforcement. 2. The Changing Law Enforcement Agency: A Microcosm of Society. 3. Multicultural Representation in Law Enforcement: Recruitment, Retention and Promotion. II. TRAINING IN CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. 4. Preparation and Implementation of Cultural Awareness Training. 5. Cross-Cultural Communication for Law Enforcement. III. CULTURAL SPECIFICS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. 6. Law Enforcement Contact with Asian/Pacific Americans. 7. Law Enforcement Contact with African Americans 8. Law Enforcement Contact with Latino/Hispanic Americans. 9. Law Enforcement Contact with Arab Americans and Other Middle Eastern Groups. 10. Law Enforcement Contact with American Indians. IV. RESPONSE STRATEGIES TO CRIMES MOTIVATED BY HATE. 11. Hate/Bias Crimes: Insights and Response Strategies. 12. Hate/Bias Crimes: Reporting and Tracking. 13. Hate/Bias Crimes: Investigations, Control, and Victimology. V. CULTURAL EFFECTIVENESS FOR PEACE OFFICES. 14. Peace Officer Image and Cultural Sensitivity. 15. Police Officer Professionalism and Peacekeeping Strategies in a Diverse Society. Bibliography. APPENDICES. A. Multicultural Community and Workforce: Attitude Assessment Survey. B. Cultural Diversity Survey Needs Assessment. C. Recruitment Action Plan. D. Techniques and Methods of Recruitment: Expanded Course Outline. E. Sample Agency Courses. F. Guidelines for Design of Cultural Awareness Programs. G. Cultural Holidays and Religious Celebrations. H. Models for Management. I. Directory of Organizations: Anti-Bias Education. J. Hate Violence Tracking Forms. K. Listing of Consultants and Resources.
802.11a Compliant Spatial Diversity Receiver IC in ${\hbox{0.25-}}\mu{\hbox {m}}$ BiCMOS

This paper presents an integrated 802.11a compliant receiver integrated circuit (IC), which is capable of processing four antenna signals using RF multiple-input multiple-output (RF-MIMO) schemes. Following four low-noise amplifiers, the weighting is performed using Cartesian vector modulators, whose output signals are combined and down-converted. The baseband filters, variable gain amplifiers (VGAs), a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, and digital interfaces are integrated. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the individual components, as well as the RF-MIMO capabilities of the whole chip. The IC achieves a receiver noise figure of 3.6 dB, a phase noise of -113 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset, and an equivalent Cartesian weighting precision of 6&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;6 bit. An RF input signal of up to -35.3 dBm (1-dB compression) can be processed, while the maximum RF path gain amounts to 28.6 dB. The baseband VGA provides further 9-61-dB gain in 64 steps.
Multisensory Cues and Multimodal Communication in Spiders: Insights from Video/Audio Playback Studies

Spiders perceive the world using multiple sensory modes, including vibration, vision, and chemical senses, for prey detection and communication. These sensory modes are used in many communication contexts, either individually or in multimodal signaling. Selection for effective signaler-receiver communication and species discrimination is especially strong for these predatory and potentially cannibalistic arthropods, resulting in the evolution of considerable diversity in signaling behaviors. In this paper, we review sensory mechanisms involved in spider signaling and present an overview of recent work done on wolf spiders (Lycosidae) that use multimodal communication (simultaneous visual and vibratory signals) in sexual signals during courtship. The relative importance of visual and vibratory signaling modes, and the use of multiple modes varies among closely related species in the genus Schizocosa, providing a model system for investigating multisensory guidance of complex behavior. Here we examine previous and current research on responses of female spiders to components of male courtship behavior, using several experimental techniques including cue isolation (single sensory modes), video/audio digitization and playback, and cue-conflict (mixed conspecific/heterospecific components) to tease apart elements of multimodal signaling.
Do divorcing couples become happier by breaking up?

Summary. Divorce is a leap in the dark. The paper investigates whether people who split up actually become happier. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we can observe an individual's level of psychological well‐being in the years before and after divorce. Our results show that divorcing couples reap psychological gains from the dissolution of their marriages. Men and women benefit equally. The paper also studies the effects of bereavement, of having dependant children and of remarriage. We measure well‐being by using general health questionnaire and life satisfaction scores.
The Psychology of Citizenship and Civic Engagement

Chapter 1: Citizenship and Civic Engagement: An Introduction Chapter 2: The Influence of Parents, Families, and Peers on Civic Engagement Chapter 3: The Influence of Schools and Neighborhoods on Civic Engagement Chapter 4: The Influence of Places of Work and Worship on Civic Engagement Chapter 5: Societal Influences on Civic Engagement Chapter 6: Impacts of Civic Engagement on Youth Chapter 7: Impacts of Civic Engagement on Adults Chapter 8: Impacts of Civic Engagement on Programs, Organizations, Neighborhoods, and Society Chapter 9: The Why's and Wherefore's of Civic Engagement Chapter 10: Building Citizenship through Research, Programs, and Policy References About the Author Index
On XML Objects

In todays web applications we face the problem that there is the world of HTML and XML on one side and the world of objects (primarily Java objects) on the other side. Programs generating XML and HTML, for example Java Servlets, either have to generate and analyze XML on a string-basis which is rather tedious or have to generate object structures in the document object model or in JAXB. This requires to switch between XML strings and corresponding objects manually by programming. Moreover, the object structure is not guaranteed to conform to an underlying document type definition DTD or XML schema. Although the goal of JAXB is to guarantee this validity, it is only achieved up to a certain extent. In many cases, expensive runtime testing of validity is necessary by using a validation method provided by JAXB. Moreover, in JAXB XML strings and XML objects are two different things requiring to switch between these two notions by methods called marshalling and unmarshalling. In this paper we propose that in object oriented programming with XML there should be no distinction between XML documents and XML objects. In other words, XML in an object oriented program always denotes XML objects, i.e. generating and analyzing XML is done conceptually only on the basis of objects. We propose, similarly to JAXB, to have a class for every element type of a DTD or an XML schema. In contrast to JAXB, these classes are defined such that the generation of XML objects is done in a syntax oriented manner allowing to check the validity of all generated XML structures, i.e. XML objects, statically by the compiler. We believe that by eliminating the difference between XML objects and XML documents and by introducing absolutely type safe tools for generating XML objects, programming of web applications, i.e. Java Servlets, is much easier, much safer and much less error-prone.
A communication-ordered task graph allocation algorithm

The inherently asynchronous nature of the data ow computation model allows the exploitation of maximum parallelism in program execution While this computational model holds great promise several problems must be solved in order to achieve a high degree of program performance The allocation and scheduling of programs on MIMD distributed memory parallel hardware is necessary for the implementation of e cient parallel systems Finding optimal solutions requires that maxi mum parallelism be achieved consistent with resource limits and minimizing communication costs and has been proven to be in the class of NP complete problems This paper addresses the problem of static allocation of tasks to distributed memory MIMD systems where simultaneous computation and communication is a factor This paper discusses similarities and di erences between several recent heuristic allocation approaches and identi es common problems inherent in these approaches This paper presents a new algorithm scheme and heuristics that resolves the identi ed problems and shows signi cant performance bene ts