Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FACTORS AFFECTING CLOUD COMPUTING ADOPTION AMONG UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Many colleges and universities around the world are adopting cloud computing resources and services. The benefits of cloud computing for institutions and students include factors such as mobility, scalability, security, availability, interoperability, and end user satisfaction in the use of software applications and other computing resources. However, some institutions are not taking advantage of the services offered by the cloud computing paradigm. Using the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, the authors have proposed a research model to investigate the factors that determine the adoption of cloud computing by colleges and universities. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted in 2013 of 119 CIOs and IT managers in colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada that have implemented, or were planning to implement, cloud computing environments. An online survey was used to gather data to test the relationship between the criterion variable (cloud computing adoption) and the predictor variables (relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, institutional size, technology readiness, perceived barriers, regulatory policy, and service provider support). The results of the logistic regression analysis indicated that complexity, institutional size, and technology readiness were statistically significant in determining cloud computing adoption. The predictor variables relative advantage, regulatory policy, and service provider support were not statistically significant.
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Expectation Matters: The Effect of Cognitive Dissonance on Self-Esteem, Academic Disengagement, Achievement and Associated Emotions

Objective: This study examined the effect of achievement dissonance on academic disengagement, academic achievement, self-esteem and associated emotions. The main objective of this study was to investigate if a discrepancy between desired achievement and actual achievement would affect the motivation to study. Methods: Participants were 124 undergraduate students. They were categorized into three groups, the neutral, negative and positive dissonance group. Students who got a lower mark than expected were classified into the negative group and those who got a higher mark than expected were labeled the positive group. Neutral group indicated that there was no difference between the actual and expected marks. They had to fill in 3 sets of questionnaire in 3 intervals. Results: Results showed that the negative dissonance group had significant differences in academic disengagement, associated emotions and self-esteem as compared with the other two groups. Both positive and negative groups disengaged significantly than the neutral group. Conclusion: Academic dissonance did have effects on the motivation of studying. The role of self-esteem had important influences on the dissonance process.
TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHỆ THÔNG TIN

1 11520028 Trần Hoàng Cảnh KTPM2011 Cha (mẹ) bị nhiễm CĐHH 3,960,000 100% 3,960,000 2 11520049 Nguyễn Hữu Đạt MMTT2011 Con thương binh 0 100% 0 3 11520060 Nguyễn Xuân Điệp KTPM2011 Con thương binh 2,880,000 100% 2,880,000 4 11520066 Đào Đức Đồng MMTT2011 Con thương binh 2,880,000 100% 2,880,000 5 11520201 Trương Hoàng Lân KHMT2011 Con thương binh 2,160,000 100% 2,160,000 6 11520241 Nguyễn Viết Nam KTMT2011 Con thương binh 2,700,000 100% 2,700,000 7 11520249 Nguyễn Minh Nghĩa MMTT2011 Con thương binh 3,240,000 100% 3,240,000 8 11520365 Huỳnh Lưu Đại Thắng KTPM2011 Con bệnh binh 1,890,000 100% 1,890,000 9 11520373 Nguyễn Phước Thành KHMT2011 Con thương binh 2,880,000 100% 2,880,000 1
Mulch requirement of ginger ( Zingiber officinale Rosc.) under shade

Field experiments conducted at Vellayani (Kerala, India) to study the mulch requirement of ginger (Zingiber officinale) under various shade levels indicated that under 25 per cent shade, one-fourth quantity (7.5 t/ha) of green leaf mulch could be saved.
Nested Iteration and First-Order System Least Squares for Incompressible, Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics

This paper develops a nested iteration algorithm to solve time-dependent nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. For each time step, Newton's method is used to form approximate solutions from a sequence of nested spaces, where the resolution of the approximations increases as the algorithm progresses. Nested iteration results in most of the iterations being performed on coarser grids, where minimal work is needed to reduce error to the level of discretization error. The approximate solution on a given coarse grid is interpolated to a refined grid and is used as an initial guess for the problem posed there. The approximation is then already close enough to the solution on the current grid that a minimal amount of work is needed to solve the refined problem due to the rapid convergence of Newton's method near a solution. The paper develops an algorithm that attempts to optimize accuracy-per-computational-cost on each grid, so that essentially no unnecessary work is done on any grid. The nested iteration algorithm is then applied to a reduced two-dimensional model of the incompressible, resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. Using this algorithm on the MHD equations in the context of a first-order system least squares finite element discretization and algebraic multigrid to solve the linearized systems, instabilities in a model tokamak fusion reactor are simulated. Numerical results show that this highly complex nonlinear problem is solved in an equivalent of 30-80 fine-grid relaxation sweeps per time step.
Are Knowledge Bases Enough? A Comparative Study of the Geography of Knowledge Sources in China (Great Beijing) and India (Pune)

Using firm-level data collected through a survey in 2008 followed by semi-structured interviews with firms in 2009–2010, this article systematically compares the geography of linkages of the software industry between two regions, one in India (Pune) and one in China (Great Beijing). In contrast to what the literature on knowledge bases and regional innovation systems argues the paper points out to marked differences both in the organization as well as in the geographical spread of the knowledge sources in the software industry between Pune and Greater Beijing. The paper suggests that the literature of knowledge bases could benefit from incorporating the insights from strategy studies as well as innovation systems studies.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WINE ECONOMISTS

We explore whether the global . nancial crisis has had heterogeneous e¤ects on traded goods di¤erentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean . rm-level destination-speci.c wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the e¤ect is large: up to nine percentage points di¤erence in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports. This ‡ight from quality was triggered by a fall in aggregate demand, was more acute when households could substitute imports by domestic alternatives, and was stronger for smaller . rms’ exports. JEL Classi.cation: F10, F14, F41
PPAR gamma Pro ( 12 ) Ala polymorphism and risk of acute coronary syndrome in a prospective study of

Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) plays a key role in the regulation of the energy balance, adipocyte differentiation and lipid biosynthesis. The aim was to investigate if the polymorphism PPARγ2 Pro12Ala, which encodes a less efficient transcription factor, was associated with risk of acute coronary disease and if there were interactions between this polymorphism and factors that modify PPARγ activity, such as alcohol intake, smoking, and use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine. Methods: A case-cohort study including 1031 ACS cases and a sub-cohort of 1703 persons was nested within the population-based prospective study Diet, Cancer and Health of 57,053 individuals. Results: Homozygous male variant allele carriers of PPARγ2 Pro12Ala were at higher risk of ACS (HR = 2.12, 95% CI: 1.00–4.48) than homozygous carriers of the Pro-allele. Among men, there was a statistically significant interaction between genotypes and alcohol intake such that homozygous variant allele carriers with a low alcohol intake were at higher risk of ACS (HR = 25.3, CI: 16.5–38.7) compared to homozygous common allele carriers (p for interaction < 0.0001). Overall, the association was only observed among homozygous variant allele carriers. Thus, all the observed associations were obtained in subgroups including small numbers of cases. It is therefore possible that the observed associations were due to chance. Conclusion: In the present study, there were no consistent associations between PPARγ Pro12Ala and risk of ACS, and no consistent interaction with alcohol, BMI, NSAID or smoking in relation to ACS. Published: 7 June 2009 BMC Medical Genetics 2009, 10:52 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-10-52 Received: 29 October 2008 Accepted: 7 June 2009 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral. com/1471-2350/10/52 © 2009 Vogel 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.
Form factors in the massless coset models su ( 2 ) k + 1 ? su ( 2 ) k / su ( 2 ) 2 k + 1 : Part II

Massless ﬂows from the coset model su (2) k +1 ⊗ su (2) k /su (2) 2 k +1 to the minimal model M k +2 are studied from the viewpoint of form factors. These ﬂows include in particular the ﬂow from the Tricritical Ising model to the Ising model. By analogy with the magnetization operator in the ﬂow TIM → IM, we construct all form factors of an operator that ﬂows to Φ 1 , 2 in the IR. We make a numerical estimation of the diﬀerence of conformal weights between the UV and the IR thanks to the ∆-sum rule; the results are consistent with the conformal weight of the operator Φ 2 , 2 in the UV. By analogy with the energy operator in the ﬂow TIM → IM, we construct all form factors of an operator that ﬂows to Φ 2 , 1 . We propose to identify the operator in the UV with σ 1 Φ 1 , 2 .
Psychosocial aspects of PKU: Hidden disabilities-A review

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In Silico Recombination Analysis of DNA-A sequence from Begomovirus reported in India: This identified recombinant is the evolution from other viruses prevailing at different geographical region of Pakistan and China.

Recombination has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role in geminiviral evolution and may be contributing to the emergence of new forms of geminiviruses because the high frequency of mixed infections of begomoviruses provides an opportunity for the emergence of new viruses arising from recombination among strains and / or species (Harrison and Robinson, 1999). In some cases, the recombinants exhibited a new pathogenic phenotype which is often more virulent than the parents (Zhou et al., 1997).
LIMITS OF RADAR RAINFALL FORECASTING FOR SEWAGE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT : RESULTS AND APPLICATION IN NANCY.

ABSTRACT Guided by the European Legislation regarding the Protection of Environment, and facing difficulties linked to rainy weather, managers must adapt the management of the urban sewage system to every rain event. In these circumstances, weather radar seems a precious tool in evaluating the spatial structure of the rain areas and in anticipating the very short-term evolution of precipitation over the urban centre. But the rainfall variability in space and time restricts the forecasting period, this period varying from a few minutes to a few hours. The word "nowcasting" is used but the forecasting range limit is uncertain.This paper concerns the forecasting range limits for catchment areas in accordance with urban requirements (1 to 180 km²) and for two different types of rain. Specific validation criteria have been defined in accordance with the requirements of the operational department in charge of sewage system management in Nancy. The results show that the limits of forecasting in Nancy vary greatly according to the conditions. These limitations have led to consider an adapted sewage system management strategy using radar data. This strategy is based on predefined management scenarios and real time identification of the type of rain event.
Automated detection of responses from porphyry‐style mineralisation within magnetic data

GEM Beijing 2011: International Workshop on Gravity, Electrical & Magnetic Methods and Their Applications Beijing, China. October 10-13, 2011. Automated detection of responses from porphyry-style mineralisation within magnetic data Eun-Jung Holden, Shih-Ching Fu, Peter Kovesi, Mike Dentith, Matthew Hope, Barry Bourne Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth & Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia ** Barrick Gold of Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia *** Barrick Gold Exploration Inc., Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Organizing Growth

We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation (learning how to use the current technology). Exploitation requires the development of organizations to coordinate the work of experts, which takes time. The costs and bene ts of such organizations depend on the cost of communicating and acquiring information. We nd that while advances in information technology that lower information acquisition costs always increase growth, improvements in communication technology may lead to lower growth and even to stagnation, as the payo¤ to exploiting innovations through organizations increases relative to the payo¤ of new radical innovations. A rst draft of this paper was prepared for the Conference in honor of Robert E. Lucas Jr. at Clemson University, September 2007. We thank Lorenzo Caliendo for excellent research assistance and Philip Aghion, Tim Besley, Per Krusell, Bob Lucas, Torsten Persson, Andrea Prat, Nancy Stokey and seminar participants at Chicago GSB, Clemson, ECARES, Erasmus School of Economics, LSE, Northwestern and Princeton for useful comments. Garicano acknowledges the nancial support of the Toulouse Network on Information Technology. Rossi-Hansberg acknowledges the generous support of the Sloan Foundation.
Criteria to determine disability related to multiple sclerosis.

and Full-text Screening Criteria For each question, we developed fairly detailed instructions and decision rules for the screeners’ reference. There were very broad inclusion requirements for abstracts: MS study subjects and potential relevance to any of the five questions. For the full-text screening, screeners were asked to record their include/exclude decision, research question assignment, and, if appropriate, exclusion criteria that detailed insufficiencies in study design and clinical substance requirements. The titles and abstracts of the 1,487 articles were reviewed against the inclusion/exclusion criteria by at least two of five clinical investigators. The full text of each article passing the title-and-abstract screening was retrieved from the library for further review. At the full-text review stage, each article was independently evaluated by two investigators, who forwarded their decisions to the task order manager for recording and comparison. If indicated, reviewers were asked to reconcile differences of opinion and return a reconciled final decision. If reviewers had difficulty reaching agreement, or submitted indecisive codes, the principal investigator was the arbiter. Approximately 50 percent of the articles were included after the abstract screening and full-text article review stages. Data Abstraction and Development of
Reduction in muscle fibre number during the adaptive radiation of notothenioid fishes : a phylogenetic perspective

teleost fish, postembryonic growth of the myotomal muscle involves the recruitment and expansion of muscle fibres, a process that continues during juvenile and adult stages (Rowlerson and Veggetti, 2001; Johnston, 2001). Initially, muscle fibres are produced from discrete germinal zones by stratified hyperplasia (Rowlerson and Veggetti, 2001). The major mechanism for expanding fibre number in most species is mosaic hyperplasia, which involves the activation and proliferation of myogenic precursor cells that are widely scattered throughout the myotome (Rowlerson et al., 1995; Johnston et al., 1999). Myogenic cells withdraw from the cell cycle and fuse to form myotubes on the surface of existing muscle fibres (Koumans and Akster, 1995). In each of 10 species of freshwater fish that have been studied, mosaic hyperplasia was shown to cease at around 44% of the maximum body length, and the final stages of growth were 2595 The fish fauna of the continental shelf of the Southern Ocean is dominated by a single sub-order of Perciformes, the Notothenioidei, which have unusually large diameter skeletal muscle fibres. We tested the hypothesis that in fast myotomal muscle a high maximum fibre diameter (FDmax) was related to a reduction in the number of muscle fibres present at the end of the recruitment phase of growth. We also hypothesized that the maximum fibre number (FNmax) would be negatively related to body size, and that both body size and size-corrected FNmax would show phylogenetic signal (tendency for related species to resemble each other). Finally, we estimated ancestral values for body size and FNmax. nodes of the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree were consistent with a progressive reduction in fibre number during part of the notothenioid radiation, perhaps serving to reduce basal energy requirements to compensate for the additional energetic costs of antifreeze production. For example, FN max in Chaenocephalus aceratus (12·700±300, mean ± S.E.M., N=18) was only 7.7% of the value found in Eleginops maclovinus (164·000±4100, N=17), which reaches a similar maximum length (85·cm). Postembryonic muscle fibre recruitment in teleost fish normally involves stratified followed by mosaic hyperplasia. No evidence for this final phase of growth was found in two of the most derived families (Channichthyidae and Harpagiferidae). The divergence of the notothenioids in Antarctica after the formation of the Antarctic Polar Front and more recent dispersal north would explain the high maximum diameter and low fibre number in the derived sub-Antarctic notothenioids. These characteristics of notothenioids may well restrict their …
Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung Center for European Integration Studies

A consumer-choice model developed by Enders, Sandler and Parise (1992) is utilized to study the regional effects of terrorism on competitors’ market shares in tourism sector where involved countries enjoy significant tourism activities but are subject to high frequency of terrorist attacks. The theoretical model is tested for three Mediterranean countries, namely Greece, Israel, and Turkey, for the period from January 1996 to December 1999, using the seemingly unrelated regression model. Italy is used as a control variable in estimations, acting as a proxy for tourist activities in the rest of the Mediterranean region and providing an additional destination for tourists to visit. Evidence indicates that the tourism industry in Israel and Turkey are more sensitive to terrorism incidents than in Greece. There are also significant regional contagion effects of terrorism. We find that a higher level of terrorist incidents in Greece is associated with an increase in the relative market share of Israel in the region, while terrorism in Israel benefits Turkey’s market share. We also document evidence that the location (urban versus rural) and the intensity of terrorist incidents play an important role in the decision-making process of tourists for choice of destinations. Policy implications of our findings are also discussed.
Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung Center for European Integration Studies

This paper, using 40 years of monthly industrial production data, examines the relationship between the business cycles of the 12 Eurozone countries. Since estimates of the business cycle have been found to be sensitive to how the cycle is measured, a range of alternative measures are considered. We focus on both parametric and nonparametric univariate measures of the ‘classical’ and ‘growth’ cycles. We then investigate whether Eurozone business cycles have converged. This is based on an analysis of the distribution of bivariate correlation coefficients between the 12 countries’ business cycles. This extends previous work that has tested for convergence, in a similar manner by focusing on correlation, but has not considered the entire distribution, instead focusing on the mean correlation coefficient or particular bivariate correlation coefficients. Although empirical inference about individual Eurozone business cycles is found to be sensitive to the measure of the business cycle considered, our measure of convergence between the Eurozone business cycles exhibits common features across the alternative measures of the business cycle. Interestingly, we find that there have been periods of convergence, identified by the distribution tending to unity, and periods of divergence. Although further data are required to corroborate the story, there is evidence to suggest that the Euro-zone has entered a period of convergence after the clear period of divergence in the early 1990s in the aftermath of German unification and at the time of the currency crises in Europe. This is encouraging for the successful operation of a common monetary policy in the Eurozone. ∗We wish to thank Martin Weale for helpful comments. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research gratefully acknowledges financial support from EUROSTAT. †University of Bonn and Lincoln College, University of Oxford; email: michael.massmann@uni-bonn.de; postal address: Institute of Econometrics and Operations Research, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24-42, 53113 Bonn, Germany. ‡National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London; email: j.mitchell@niesr.ac. uk; postal address: NIESR, 2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HE, UK.
Moral Distress: Using mindfulness‐based stress reduction interventions to decrease nurse perceptions of distress

BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that the moral distress experienced by nurses affects patient outcomes and staff engagement. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this quality improvement initiative was to implement a process for staff to cope with moral distress. METHODS: The 21‐item Moral Distress Scale‐Revised (MDS‐R) was administered pre‐ and postintervention to a sample of 56 oncology nurses to assess moral distress and whether it was alleviated with the use of mindfulness interventions. Chi‐square analysis compared the frequency of morally distressing situations. FINDINGS: Moral distress was identified, with the finding that mindfulness interventions decreased nurse perceptions of distress. Healthcare providers offering a false sense of hope was the most frequently reported situation. Postintervention MDS‐R survey results reflected a decrease in frequency of distress.