Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do hotel managers have sufficient financial skills to help them manage their areas

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate whether managers in hotels have sufficient financial skills to help them effectively manage their areas, within the context of a changing industry.Design/methodology/approach – Additional findings from a series of recent research projects amongst hospitality financial controllers have been utilised to give an alternative viewpoint to those found from literature.Findings – A review of literature identified a strong need for managers to have financial skills, but there is little recent evidence as to whether they actually hold these skills. Hotels are changing fast with pressure to maintain profits resulting in new approaches to management, but there is concern that the development of systems has meant an over‐reliance on these to control costs. Financial controllers consider that departmental and general managers do not have enough business skills – and finance skills in particular – to optimise costs and revenues and hence maintain profits.Research l.
A system for continuous organizational renewal

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to offer practitioners the outline of a unique system to facilitate organizational renewal.Design/methodology/approach – The authors are veteran practitioners who have observed and studied best practices in a variety of corporate and governmental settings to create a new renewal methodology. One of the authors is a former Shell Oil Company senior manager. These SAMI researchers offer a system to facilitate organizational renewal.Findings – While few organizations implement the described methodology, many implement parts: the full effect – a purposeful self‐renewing organization – is only achieved through the combination of the parts.Research limitations/implications – This article is based on research for the authors' new book, Beyond Crisis: Achieving Renewal in a Turbulent World (Wiley 2010), co‐authored with Patricia Lustig.Practical implications – This paper provides practitioners with the first blueprint for implementing and managing operations, innovation, and fore.
Individual-Level Factors and Organizational Performance in Government Organizations

In this journal, Rainey and Steinbauer proposed a theory of effective government organizations, and Brewer and Selden conducted an empirical study with data from the 1996 Merit Principles Survey that confirmed most hypothesized relationships in the theoretical model of organizational performance. Following these studies, this study focuses only on the individual-level factors, such as job satisfaction, affective commitment, public service motivation, and organizational citizenship behavior. It empirically tests the effects of these variables on organizational performance in the public sector of Korea. When the survey data of 1,739 public employees in government agencies were analyzed, the hypothesized relationships in the proposed model were confirmed. I discuss the survey results in light of previous studies, especially those of Brewer and Selden. In this journal, Rainey and Steinbauer (1999) proposed a theory of effective government organizations, urging that this theory be tested empirically; Brewer and Selden (2000) conducted an empirical study with data from the 1996 Merit Principles Survey and confirmed most hypothesized relationships in the theoretical model of organizational performance. In those studies, both individual-level and organization-level factors are involved in the theoretical models; thus each level was not fully examined, and some important factors remain to be considered. Brewer and Selden (2000) inspire me to pursue further evidence about whether the individual attitudes and behaviors of public employees may affect government performance. Popovich defined high-performance organizations as "groups of employees who produce desired goods or services at higher quality with the same or fewer resources" (1998, 11). Good public employees may be imagined to have such characteristics as high satisfaction with their jobs, high commitment to the organization, high motivation to serve the public, and strong intentions to work for the organization willingly and devotedly. I assume that public employees with these characteristics will contribute to organizational performance and thus that individual-level factors will positively affect organizational performance. I will discuss the individual-level factors and develop the model that relates I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for the useful suggestions and comments provided through the review process. Address correspondence to the author at smook@snut.ac. kr. doi:l 0.1 093/jopart/mui013 Advance Access publication on December 16, 2004 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 15, no. 2 ? 2005 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Inc.; all rights reserved. This content downloaded from 157.55. 39.186 on Sun, 09 Oct 2016 04:20:00 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor. org/terms 246 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Figure 1 Theoretical Model of Individual-Level Factors and Organizational Performance
Hybridized wavefront shaping for high-speed, high-efficiency focusing through dynamic diffusive media

Abstract. One of the prime limiting factors of optical imaging in biological applications is the diffusion of light by tissue, which prevents focusing at depths greater than the optical diffusion limit (typically ∼1 mm). To overcome this challenge, wavefront shaping techniques that use a spatial light modulator (SLM) to correct the phase of the incident wavefront have recently been developed. These techniques are able to focus light through scattering media beyond the optical diffusion limit. However, the low speeds of typically used liquid crystal SLMs limit the focusing speed. Here, we present a method using a digital micromirror device (DMD) and an electro-optic modulator (EOM) to measure the scattering-induced aberrations, and using a liquid crystal SLM to apply the correction to the illuminating wavefront. By combining phase modulation from an EOM with the DMD’s ability to provide selective illumination, we exploit the DMD’s higher refresh rate for phase measurement. We achieved focusing through scattering media in less than 8 ms, which is sufficiently short for certain in vivo applications, as it is comparable to the speckle correlation time of living tissue.
La dépendance : quelles différences entre les hommes et les femmes ?

L’avancee en âge s’accompagne d’une augmentation des risques de perte d’autonomie, avec pour corollaire l’accroissement des situations de dependance, necessitant une aide. Du fait de leur surnombre, parce qu’elles vivent plus longtemps que les hommes et sont plus souvent qu’eux en situation de dependance aux grands âges, les femmes sont aujourd’hui les principales beneficiaires de l’aide a domicile. Elles sont egalement les principales pourvoyeuses d’aide au sein de la famille. Dans les decennies a venir, la population âgee va s’accroitre et les hommes y seront plus nombreux parmi les dependants et les aidants potentiels. Observera-t-on alors un reequilibrage des roles familiaux, et de quel type ? Le developpement de l’aide professionnelle a domicile ? Une prise en charge individuelle ou collective de ces couts ?
Sensors Know Which Photos Are Memorable

The goal of this study is to determine if physiological signals are salient in the detection of memorable personal photos. We begin by collecting physiological sensor data as well as memorability and emotion ratings for photos. We then build a mixed model to evaluate the predictive power of physiological variables on memorability and emotion by examining whether or not the photographer's data is useful for predicting the ratings of the photographer or the ratings of the subjects in the photos. Our results suggest that heart rate and GSR (galvanic skin response) data are the major predictors of memorability for photographers, and that the sensor signals are not particularly useful for predicting memorability ratings of subjects in the photos.
Addition of pramlintide to insulin therapy lowers HbA1c in conjunction with weight loss in patients with type 2 diabetes approaching glycaemic targets

Aim: Two long‐term, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled clinical trials in insulin‐using patients with type 2 diabetes, spanning a wide range of baseline glycaemic control, have shown that the addition of pramlintide, an analogue of the β‐cell hormone amylin, to pre‐existing insulin regimens results in reductions in HbA1c that are accompanied by weight loss.
Rates and Determinants of Progression to Graft Failure in Kidney Allograft Recipients With De Novo Donor‐Specific Antibody

Understanding rates and determinants of clinical pathologic progression for recipients with de novo donor‐specific antibody (dnDSA), especially subclinical dnDSA, may identify surrogate endpoints and inform clinical trial design. A consecutive cohort of 508 renal transplant recipients (n = 64 with dnDSA) was studied. Recipients (n = 388) without dnDSA or dysfunction had an eGFR decline of −0.65 mL/min/1.73 m2/year. In recipients with dnDSA, the rate eGFR decline was significantly increased prior to dnDSA onset (−2.89 vs. −0.65 mL/min/1.73 m2/year, p < 0.0001) and accelerated post‐dnDSA (−3.63 vs. −2.89 mL/min/1.73 m2/year, p < 0.0001), suggesting that dnDSA is both a marker and contributor to ongoing alloimmunity. Time to 50% post‐dnDSA graft loss was longer in recipients with subclinical versus a clinical dnDSA phenotype (8.3 vs. 3.3 years, p < 0.0001). Analysis of 1091 allograft biopsies found that dnDSA and time independently predicted chronic glomerulopathy (cg), but not interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA). Early T cell–mediated rejection, nonadherence, and time were multivariate predictors of IFTA. Independent risk factors for post‐dnDSA graft survival available prior to, or at the time of, dnDSA detection were delayed graft function, nonadherence, dnDSA mean fluorescence intensity sum score, tubulitis, and cg. Ultimately, dnDSA is part of a continuum of mixed alloimmune‐mediated injury, which requires solutions targeting T and B cells.
CAP Forum on Enron: Professional Insecurity and the Erosion of Accountancy's Jurisdictional Boundaries*

This study examines attitudes about professionalism in accounting shortly before the debacles of Enron and Andersen. Interviews with experienced Canadian chartered accountants (CAs) conducted mostly in late 2000 and early 2001 indicate significant doubts about the notion of auditor independence and a relatively high degree of uncertainty about the future of the profession. Accountants also expressed significant difficulties in describing the basic features of what it means to be a professional accountant. On the basis of these observations, we introduce and detail the construct of “professional insecurity". Relying on Giddens's theoretical developments on the role of trust and systems of expertise in today's society, we reflect on the significance and implications of the professional insecurity of CAs, particularly its impact on accountancy's ability to hold on to its jurisdictional boundaries. Our thesis is that the difficulties that accountants experienced in their day-today lives in sustaining a coherent sense of self-identity were particularly stressful to them given people's fundamental need for coherence, and this significantly affected the capacity of their profession to hold jurisdiction.
Does non-linearity help us understand, model and forecast UK stock and bond returns: evidence from the BEYR

The usefulness of non-linear models to provide accurate estimates and forecasts remains an open empirical debate. This paper examines the nature of the estimated relationships and forecasting power of smooth-transition models for UK stock and bond returns using a range of financial and macroeconomic variables as predictors. Notably, evidence of non-linearity is stronger when the bond-equity yield ratio is used as the transition variable. This ratio measures whether stocks are over (under)-valued relative to bonds and can act as a signal for portfolio managers. In-sample results reveal noticeable differences regarding the nature of relationships between the linear and non-linear setting, while results of a recursive forecasting exercise reveal both statistical and economic improvement over a linear model. Overall, these results support the view that non-linear estimates and forecasts can provide useful information for stock market traders, portfolio managers and policy-makers.
Putting Indigenous water rights to work: the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework as a lens for remote development

Sustainable development programs can lead to tension and conflict in human communities when natural capital is used as the foundation for livelihood programs. Building on the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF), this study demonstrates that including community perceptions in the creation of sustainable livelihoods programs is important in designing programs that are legitimate to community members, and this is especially important in the context of natural capital. Using the SLF, the allocation of water rights to Indigenous groups in remote northern Australia is examined to determine the acceptability of this form of natural capital to support sustainable livelihoods. The findings indicate that there are competing values of water within communities, and that balancing the preferences for spirituality and conservation with economic development and self-sufficiency is critical to the success of sustainable livelihoods programs across the region.
Financial management practices in China: a case study approach to companies in the Shanghai region

The objective of this study is to describe financial management practices in China by means of a qualitative, case study approach. A total of 16 firms in the Shanghai region were interviewed. The research results refer to: investment in fixed assets; financing methods and sources; dividend policy; working capital management; internationalization; and financial organization and financial departments.
Bioenergetic, functional and morphological consequences of postinfarct cardiac remodeling in the rat.

Despite recent advances in the treatment, severe chronic heart failure (CHF) remains a syndrome associated with high mortality. Therefore, the search for new agents to improve both patient symptoms and survival, as well as the pursuit for detailed knowledge about pathophysiology of the failing heart, will continue to depend on relevant animal models. Large acute myocardial infarction (MI) initiates complex changes in the geometrical, structural, and biochemical architecture of both infarcted and non-infarcted regions of ventricular myocardium, which can profoundly affect left ventricular function and prognosis. In this paper we present a new model for non-invasive cardiac (31)P MRS in the rat. Volume-selective (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy and echocardiography were used for evaluation of myocardial energy metabolism, cardiac morphology and function in rats 3 days and 3 weeks after induction of large MI. The phosphocreatine:adenosine triphosphate (PCr:ATP) ratio was decreased in rats with MI comparing with controls both at 3 days (1.6+/-0.06 vs 2.7+/-0.04; mean+/-s.e.m. P<0.0001) and 3 weeks (1.6+/-0.07 v 2.7+/-0.02 P<0.0001) postinfarct. The results from the study demonstrate that postinfarct cardiac remodeling is a rapid process of changes not only in cardiac geometry, structure and function but also in myocardial energy metabolism after large transmural MI in the rat.
Heterogeneous nuclear RNA promotes synthesis of (2',5')oligoadenylate and is cleaved by the (2',5')oligoadenylate-activated endoribonuclease

Heterogeneous nuclear RNA contains double-stranded regions that are not found in mRNA and that may serve as recognition elements for processing enzymes. The double-stranded regions of heterogeneous nuclear RNA prepared from HeLa cells promoted the synthesis of (2',5')oligoadenylate [(2',5')oligo(A) or (2'5')An] when incubated with (2',5')An polymerase. This enzyme is present in elevated levels in interferon-treated cells, and labeled heterogeneous nuclear RNA incubated with extracts of these cells is preferentially cleaved, since mRNA included in the same incubations is not appreciably degraded. The cleavage of heterogenous nuclear RNA is caused by the synthesis of (2'5')An and by a "localized" activation of the (2',5')An-dependent endonuclease, since it was enhanced by ATP, the substrate of the (2',5')An polymerase, and inhibited by 2'-dATP and ethidium bromide. Both of these compounds suppress the synthesis of (2',5')An, the first by competitive inhibition and the latter by intercalating into double-stranded RNA. The possible role of double-stranded regions and of the (2',5')An polymerase-endonuclease system in the processing of heterogeneous nuclear RNA is discussed.
Theoretical deduction on influence factors of opportunity recognition in social entrepreneurship

Since 1980s, with the intensity of “government failure”, “market failure”, “voluntary failure”, and the growing social needs, social entrepreneurship as a new type of social activity has been on the rise gradually in the European countries and America, then forming a wave of social entrepreneurship all over the world. Generally speaking, social entrepreneurship is an activity of opportunity recognition, evaluation and development with the purpose of satisfying social needs and creating social values. Thus, as business entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition is the key step of entrepreneurial behavior in social entrepreneurship. So, this paper makes an analysis on opportunity recognition in the context of social entrepreneurship. First. , the definition of opportunity recognition in social entrepreneurship has been elaborated. Then, based on existing research, four propositions are proposed on the relationships between entrepreneurial alertness, prior knowledge, previous experience, social networks and opportunity recognition.
Chaos in a memcapacitor based circuit

The memcapacitor has the potential to be the most useful new component of recent years due to its functional and dynamic similarities to the memristor but with much lower power requirements. Although research interest is growing, there are very few memcapacitor based circuits. Here a memcapacitor based chaotic circuit is described with a novel method to emulate a charge controlled memcapacitor.
Visualization of growth factor receptor sites in rat forebrain

It is now known that various growth factors may also act in the central nervous system. Among them, it has recently been shown that epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin‐like growth factor I (IGF‐I) may possess trophic effects in the mammalian brain. We report here on the respective autoradiographic distribution of [125I]EGF and [125I]IGF‐I receptor binding sites in the rat brain, both during ontogeny and in adulthood. It appears that [125I]IGF‐I sites are more widely distributed both during ontogeny and in adulthood. These results reveal the plasticity of the expression of EGF and IGF‐I receptor sites in the mammalian brain. This could be relevant for the respective role of these two growth factors in the development and maintenance of neuronal function.
Stability Analysis and Dynamic Performance Evaluation of a Power Electronics-Based DC Distribution System With Active Stabilizer

The stability of dc microgrids is influenced by the nonlinear behavior of the converter-controlled loads with constant power characteristics. This nonlinear dynamic, in line with reduced size input filters used in the embedded power distribution of transportation systems, has a degrading effect on the dynamic performance and stability of the system. This paper presents the complete stability analysis of a dc distribution system composed of power electronics-based source and load. For this objective, a discrete-time dynamic model is developed and is applied to the studied system. Here, for the first time, the dynamic effect of the load controller is taken into the system model. In the studied system, the load converter is connected in cascade with the rest of the system, and is equipped with an input LC filter, representing a common distributed architecture for the transportation applications. The controller of the source converter employs an active stabilizer to extend the stability margin of the system. This stabilizer uses high-pass-filtered voltage of the dc bus following with a proportional compensator. The dynamic behavior of the controller and the stabilizer is experimented through a series of laboratory tests. Different load dynamics are implemented to demonstrate the impact of slow and fast load dynamics on the stability of the system.
A Formal Evaluation of the Chairman of the Board

This paper describes a process for the evaluation of the Chairperson by his or her fellow board members. It has been developed in close co-operation between academics and practitioners and has been successfully tested in different companies. Frequently, there is a fairly high threshold to be overcome before companies agree to such a step. They fear a dismantling of the authority of the Chairman or a “Gotterdammerung” in the board room. These fears are unfounded if the process is handled with care and embedded in a culture of learning; learning even at the level of the board. In such cases, all parties involved (and, in particular, the Chairman) found the process very helpful, and satisfaction was widespread despite considerable initial hesitation and uneasiness.
A Comparison of the Healthcare Indicators of Turkey and The European Union Members Countries Using Multidimensional Scaling Analysis and Cluster Analysis

This study investigates the position of Turkey compared to the member countries of the European Union in terms of healthcare indicators and aims to determine its similarities and/or differences from them. Multidimensional Scaling Analysis (MDSA) and NonHierarchical Cluster Analysis (NHCA) have been applied to the data obtained from the 2010 World Health Report for Turkey and the 27 European member countries for seven healthcare indicators. Based on the results of the MDSA, the countries were classified into three different groups in two-dimensional space according to the analyzed health variables. For healthcare indicators, Turkey was placed in the same group as Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Turkey was dissimilar to Luxembourg, France, Sweden, Austria and Germany and was most similar to Romania and Bulgaria with respect to the analyzed health parameters. As to the results of the NHCA, the countries were divided into four clusters according to their healthcare indicators. Turkey was placed in the same cluster as Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland and Romania. Countries in the same clusters /groups were similar to one another for both techniques.
Impact of Stakeholder Characteristics on Voluntary Dissemination of Interim Information and Communication of its Level of Assurance

Equity of access to information for listed entities is a key principle in an efficient and effective market. Direct mailing is a mechanism for achieving this. This study examines equity of access by identifying the half-yearly financial information, if any, voluntarily mailed out by Australian listed entities and associated stakeholder characteristics. We find that certain stakeholder characteristics (presence of audit committee and shareholder dispersion) are associated with voluntary mail-out of half-yearly financial information, along with certain control variables (size of entity, industry and audit opinion). This study further identifies that there are very few instances of the higher level of assurance (audit) being chosen, and where half-year information is disseminated there are very few instances of the level of assurance on this information being communicated to shareholders.