Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chopper stabilized CMOS integrated front-end for magnetic field measurement

This paper presents an analogue front-end dedicated to magnetic field measurement that is intended to be used in a mixed signal submicron CMOS microsystem. The front-end features a Hall device and its biasing circuitry both associated to a nested chopper-like structure. This system efficiently removes 1/f noise and reduces offset. The biasing amplifier is chopped at a frequency fc in order to ensure steady ground referencing to the Hall device. This latter is operated using the spinning current technique at a frequency fs = fc/2. Sensitivities of 90 V/AT and resolutions of about 15 muT over a 1.6 kHz bandwidth extending from 5 to 1.6 kHz have been measured
Sensory experience and the formation of a computational map of auditory space in the brain.

The basic wiring of the brain is first established before birth by using a variety of molecular guidance cues. These connections are then refined by patterns of neural activity, which are initially generated spontaneously and subsequently driven by sensory experience. In the superior colliculus, a midbrain nucleus involved in the control of orienting behaviour, visual, auditory, and tactile inputs converge to form superimposed maps of sensory space. Maps of visual space and of the body surface arise from spatially ordered projections from the retina and skin, respectively. In contrast, the map of auditory space is computed within the brain by tuning the neurons to different localization cues that result from the acoustical properties of the head and ears. Establishing and maintaining the registration of the maps in the face of individual differences in the size and relative positions of different sense organs is an activity-dependent process in which the synaptic circuits underlying the auditory representation are modified and calibrated under the influence of both auditory and visual experience. BioEssays 1999;21:900-911.
Innovation processes in social enterprises: an IC perspective

– Social enterprises are not purely commercial and philanthropic. They represent a hybrid form of organizations that involve taking business‐like, innovative approaches to deliver public services. Very little research has investigated the role of intellectual capital (IC) in innovation processes in social enterprises. This paper aims to address this. , – This paper uses a critical analysis of current literature in relation to the IC concept within the social enterprise context. , – The paper argues that the IC concept can be utilized as a strategic management framework that assists social enterprises to harness knowledge for the pursuit of innovative social and commercial activities. , – The paper contributes to the literature by theoretically arguing that IC can be utilized in innovation processes in social enterprises. It also informs social entrepreneurs that the IC concept is a valid strategic management framework that assists facilitating innovation in social enterprises. An IC conceptual framework is proposed using theoretical arguments from the literature. The framework helps social entrepreneurs to visualize IC and its components in their organizations for the development of effective innovation‐based strategies in social enterprises. The increased awareness of the IC concept in social enterprises, as a result of this paper, is likely to generate further research from both non‐profit practitioners and scholars. , – The paper is considered as a starting‐point and serves as a milestone in examining the role of IC in innovation processes in social enterprises.
Drivers of and Barriers to Shifts in Governance: Analysing Noise Policy in the Netherlands

Shifts from government to governance in the environmental policy domain have been observed by many authors. However, the question arises as to whether these shifts are apparent in all environmental policy sub-domains. And which explanations are to be given for observed differences in specific sub-domains? In this article we introduce insights from policy science literature on drivers of and barriers to shifts towards governance, providing an analytical framework to illustrate and explain the changes in environmental policy in general, and in noise policy specifically. Dutch environmental policy in general has changed distinctly from previous decades: from high profile execution by public institutions and the use of coercive policy instruments into an increasing reliance on dialogue, networks and social inclusion. Dutch noise policy, however, is still state dominated and its legislative approach seems to better fit the dominant style of government. In this paper, we show that while shifts in governance and a changing role of the state are evident for environmental policy, as a whole, similar shifts are not seen in noise policy. The main barriers to such a shift are actors with a vested interest in maintaining the current policy arrangements and the institutional settings which are not considered problematic in achieving national and municipal goals. In addition, drivers for change such as severe incidents which have resulted in shifts in environmental governance, were largely absent from the noise policy domain.
Economic Models for Vendor Evaluation with Quality Cost Analysis

Successful vendor-vendee relationship is viewed as an important ingredient for maintaining competitiveness in the current marketplace. This calls for a careful and comprehensive approach in selecting vendors. The cost of quality or better phrased as the cost of "unquality" resulted from imperfections of a vendor's incoming input materials is one component of the total costs in the evaluation of vendors. The purpose of this paper is to show that looking at only one dimension of the quality cost is not sufficient and to highlight the importance of having a high quality internal process. We explore the relationship between the vendor's quality cost, the vendor's input quality, and the imperfections of the manufacturing process. We analyze the properties of the resulting quality cost model, and draw managerial implications in the selection of vendors.
Subtype analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum isolates from calves on farms around Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, using the 60 kDa glycoprotein gene sequences

Cryptosporidium parvum is composed of multiple subtypes, which appear to be zoonotic or anthroponotic. Therefore, in order to understand the molecular epidemiology of this species and to control the zoonotic transmission, it is essential to identify the isolates at the subtype level. In the present study, 60·2% of 103 examined dairy calves from 10 farms in the Belgrade area were positive for Cryptosporidium infection by PCR, and all of them were identified as C. parvum by PCR-RFLP of SSUrRNA and COWP genes. Eighteen C. parvum isolates selected randomly from 9 positive farms were classified by molecular phylogenetic analysis of the 60 kDa glycoprotein gene sequences into 3 subtype allele families, IIa and IId, which are known to be zoonotic, and a new family IIj. Furthermore 10 isolates in IIa were classified into 3 subtypes IIaA16G1R1b, IIaA18G1R1, IIaA20G1R1, 2 in IId into IIdA18G1b, and 6 in IIj into IIjA16R2 and IIjA17R2. The last 2 subtypes in IIa and 2 subtypes in IIj were new subtypes. These results suggest that C. parvum isolates harboured in calves in the Belgrade area have zoonotic potential and C. parvum is genetically diverse only in a limited area. This is the first molecular epidemiological report about Cryptosporidium infection in Serbia and Montenegro.
Strengthening the weakest link of TQM – from customer focus to customer understanding

Contains a discussion of how the TQM concept can be further developed so as to give more room for innovations grounded in a profound understanding of the customers and their situation. A typology of different quality configurations, based on the three basic themes of customer understanding, aligning processes and supporting people, is presented. It is suggested that, although customer focus is revered, methods for developing a deeper understanding of the customers’ situation are not sufficiently integrated into TQM. Contributions from consumer behaviour theories, qualitative marketing research and inductive methods of analysis are proposed as amendments to this deficiency.
Simulation and analysis of an isolated full-bridge DC/DC boost converter operating with a modified perturb and observe maximum power point tracking algorithm

This paper aims to simulate and analyze an isolated full-bridge DC/DC boost converter, for photovoltaic panels, running a modified perturb and observe maximum power point tracking method. The zero voltage switching technique was used in order to minimize the losses of the converter for a wide range of solar operation. The efficiency of the power transfer is higher than 90% for a large solar operating points. The panel enhancement due to the maximum power point tracking algorithm is 5.06%.
From culture shock and culture arrogance to culture exchange: Ideas towards sustainable socio‐cultural tourism1

Ecologically sustainable development has captured the imagination and the serious attention of governments and world business. All too frequently the socio‐cultural component of ecologically sustainable development is given secondary and cursory attention in the planning of industry futures, including the future of tourism. This review paper will argue that empowering visitors, training tourism professionals and educating host communities in the nature of cultural interaction are all necessary activities in order to move from a paradigm of culture shock to one of cultural exchange, and hence ecologically sustainable socio‐cultural development. This paper presents two opposing future scenarios for tourism development, under which key socio‐cultural implications for four groups of participants are outlined. These groups, segmented for the purpose of analysis, are: tourism community professionals; the host community; visitors in general; and visitors who are committed culture seekers. Specific educational, r.
Auditing Bloom, editing Joyce: accounting and accountability in Ulysses

This paper reviews the content and significance of the ‘budget’ in James Joyce's Ulysses. The budget, in effect a summary of the cash transactions of the novel's central character appearing towards the end of the book, is audited by reference to the preceding text, comparing the description of each financial transaction as it occurs with its subsequent recording. Editorial controversies on the revision of the original 1922 text are assessed in the context of the discrepancies between the budget and the foregoing descriptions. Various interpretations of the role of the budget in the novel are considered, culminating in the observation that it foreshadows the later realisation of the socially constructed nature of accounting and its lack of a simple relationship with an independent financial reality.
Bearing fault diagnosis under varying working condition based on domain adaptation

Traditional intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings work well only under a common assumption that the labeled training data (source domain) and unlabeled testing data (target domain) are drawn from the same distribution. When the distribution changes, most fault diagnosis models need to be rebuilt from scratch using newly recollected labeled training data. However, it is expensive or impossible to annotate huge amount of training data to rebuild such new model. Meanwhile, large amounts of labeled training data have not been fully utilized yet, which is apparently a waste of resources. As one of the important research directions of transfer learning, domain adaptation (DA) typically aims at minimizing the differences between distributions of different domains in order to minimize the cross-domain prediction error by taking full advantage of information coming from both source and target domains. In this paper, we present one of the first studies on unsupervised DA in the field of fault diagnosis of rolling bearings under varying working conditions and a novel diagnosis strategy based on unsupervised DA using subspace alignment (SA) is proposed. After processed by unsupervised DA with SA, the distributions of training data and testing data become close and the classifier trained on training data can be used to classify the testing data. Experimental results on the 60 domain adaptation diagnosis problems under varying working condition in Case Western Reserve benchmark data and 12 domain adaptation diagnosis problems under varying working conditions in our new data are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed methods can effectively distinguish not only bearing faults categories but also fault severities.
British trade unions and the learning and skills agenda: an assessment

British trade unions have been afforded a new position of 'stakeholder' within the vocational education and training system and are seen by government as being a key advocate in supporting workplace learning. This issues paper assesses how far unions can use this agenda to promote workers' interests, aid union renewal and further the development of a 'high skills society' in the UK.
Immunoprofiling of pectic polysaccharides.

An assay is described for the rapid identification of unbranched homogalacturonan and branched components occurring in samples of pectic polysaccharides using anti-pectin monoclonal antibodies. The assay involves the immunodetection of pectic polysaccharides after separation into two components during the application in small volumes to nitrocellulose. In this system, homoglacturonan-rich components migrate further on the nitrocellulose in contrast to pectic components with abundant side chains, resulting in a clear separation and discrete rings of distinct polysaccharides that can be identified using specific antibodies. This procedure is also directly applicable to preparations of plant material without the need for isolation of pectic polysaccharides.
Viruses and dendritic cells: enemy mine

Dendritic cells (DCs) act not only as sentinels for detection of, but also as target cells for viruses, and this can be important for viral transport and spread. All subsets of DCs are equipped with a battery of receptors recognizing virus‐associated molecular signatures, and recognition of those launches a maturation programme that results in substantial alterations of morphology, motility and the DCs' interactive properties with the extracellular matrix and scanning T cells. In addition to being sensed, viruses are internalized into DCs and, for the major proportion, processed into peptides that are subsequently presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. Transmission of virus to T cells can occur after completion of their replication cycle if the intracellular milieu of the DC permits that. Alternatively, viruses can remain protected from degradation following entrapment by pattern recognition receptors in intracellular compartments, also referred to as virosomes, which translocate towards the DC/T cell interface. Most likely, transfer of virus to T cells occurs in these junctions, referred to as infectious synapses. In addition to promoting DC maturation, many viruses are able to downmodulate DC development and functions in order to evade immune recognition or to induce a generalized immunosuppression.
Predicting Eye Fixations on Webpage With an Ensemble of Early Features and High-Level Representations from Deep Network

In recent decades, webpages are becoming an increasingly important visual information source. Compared with natural images, webpages are different in many ways. For example, webpages are usually rich in semantically meaningful visual media (text, pictures, logos, and animations), which make the direct application of some traditional low-level saliency models ineffective. Besides, distinct web-viewing patterns such as top-left bias and banner blindness suggest different ways for predicting attention deployment on a webpage. In this study, we utilize a new scheme of low-level feature extraction pipeline and combine it with high-level representations from deep neural networks. The proposed model is evaluated on a newly published webpage saliency dataset with three popular evaluation metrics. Results show that our model outperforms other existing saliency models by a large margin and both low- and high-level features play an important role in predicting fixations on webpage.
Impacto de la innovación sobre el rendimiento de las empresas constructoras: un estudio empírico en España

The objective of this article is to verify empirically the relationship between the degree of innovation of the construction companies and its performance. The research was conducted through a study with 94 firms of the Spanish Construction Sector. The findings show that innovation in products, processes and management has a positive influence on the performance of the company. In this sense, it is confirmed innovation as a means to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. This study may be of interest to entrepreneurs because in this sector in particular there is a need to innovate in order to promote their survival and improve their competitiveness, and for public administration in its role as promoter of economic activity, growth and competitiveness of the Spanish economy through programs promoting innovation.
Curriculum Decision Making for National Interest in the Tertiary Sector: An Evaluation of a Curriculum Project

Stephen Duggan and Lyndall Boyle Footscray Institute of Technology This paper is concerned witha study of comparative curriculum practicevvithin the tertiary sector. Within Australia, curriculum practice, innovation, plaruring and evaluation has occurred mainly within the primary and secondary school system. However, since the mid-1980s, educational strategies for national interest have seen the evolution of informed curriculum research and development within the tertiary sector, as universities and colleges endeavour to meet nationally determined educational goals and objectives. This study relates the research process involved when tertiary educators (and researchers) are faced with the task of reconciling local, regional and national objectives. In particular, it considers the dynamics of planning for nationally determined priorities as a basis for implementing sustainable and informed curriculum innovati0n and evaluation.
COMPETING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: THE VALUE OF INTERNATIONAL QUALIFICATION OF POTENTIAL MANAGERS ACROSS OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE

Regardless of how we view globalization, its consequence is the meeting of cultures and the desire to share not only the experience but the goods and services as well. Presumably in this environment there will be greater motivation for local businesses to invest in managers who already have the international exposure to shorten the learning curve. This investment is reflected in a compensation premium. Consequently, if businesses in the Philippines are willing to pay a compensation premium for international exposure, then the marketability of an individual naturally increases. This study compares the perception about international qualification across differing ownership structures paying particular attention to the local family business.
ISAR Imaging of Maneuvering Target Based on the Local Polynomial Wigner Distribution and Integrated High-Order Ambiguity Function for Cubic Phase Signal Model

This paper focuses on the novel approaches for inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging of maneuvering target. It is based on the assumption that the azimuth echoes in a range bin are modeled as multi-component cubic phase signal (CPS) after the translational motion compensation, and the ISAR image quality will be deteriorated by the conventional Fourier transform in the azimuth focusing. In this paper, two novel algorithms for parameters estimation of multi-component CPS based on the local polynomial Wigner distribution (LPWD) and integrated high-order ambiguity function (IHAF) are proposed, and the high-quality instantaneous ISAR image can be obtained by the estimated CPS parameters. The results of simulated and real aircraft data are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
The Evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback

Introduction to the evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback. 1: Systematics and morphology of the Gasterosteiformes. 2: Allozyme variation of the Gasterosteus aculeatus complex. 3: Physiological ecology and evolution. 4: Energy allocation. 5: Life history variation in females. 6: Ecology on the breeding grounds. 7: Evolution of foraging behaviour. 8: Predators and morphological evolution. 9: Adaptive variation in antipredator behaviour. 10: Proximate determinants of stickleback behaviour. 11: Evolution of aggresive behaviour. 12: Evolution of reproductive behaviour. 13: Speciation and the evolution of reproductive isolation in the sticklebacks of south-western British Columbia. 14: Palaeobiology and evolution. 15: Evolutionary inference: the value of viewing evolution through stickleback-tinted glasses. References. Author index. Subject index
Development of operational models of receptor activation including constitutive receptor activity and their use to determine the efficacy of the chemokine CCL17 at the CC chemokine receptor CCR4

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The operational model provides a key conceptual framework for the analysis of pharmacological data. However, this model does not include constitutive receptor activity, a frequent phenomenon in modern pharmacology, particularly in recombinant systems. Here, we developed extensions of the operational model which include constitutive activity and applied them to effects of agonists at the chemokine receptor CCR4.
Rhodopsin kinetics in the human eye

1. Rhodopsin has been measured by Rushton's method of reflexion densitometry in a retinal region 18° temporal to the fovea, using a wavelength of measuring light (555 nm) so far into the long wave part of the spectrum that possible blue absorbing intermediates (e.g. transient orange) do not interfere.
To Be, Or Not to Be: Enhanced Cooperation in International Divorce Law Within the European Union

Professor Tony Angelo has throughout his career devoted much of his energy to the conflict of laws and in particular to problems created by different substantive rules relating to family law. It is therefore appropriate in this article that Professor Boele-Woelki reviews the recent European attempts to integrate the European Union's approach to international divorce. Professor BoeleWoelki reviews the process that led to the formulation of the proposals known as 'Rome III' and why those proposals ultimately failed. She argues, in part, that the failure of the international divorce process, at least at the moment, reflects significant disagreement amongst members as to the substantive content of their own laws. She expresses some concern that the ultimate solution to that substantive disagreement may be the further employment of the concept "enhanced cooperation" amongst those members who can reach agreement on substantive content of divorce law, but which leaves others behind. The professor's concern is that while that such an enhanced cooperation regime may enable an agreement to be concluded, it has significant impact on the universality that the European Community and the European Union have previously sought to impose upon members, and creates further risk of a "two-speed" European Union.