Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relation between Managers' Emotional Intelligence and the Organizational Climate They Create

The morale and emotional behavior of a manager has an important effect on organizational climate. Research shows that more than 70% of employees' perceptions of organizational climate result directly from a manager's morale and behavior, which stimulates employees' morale, emotions, and behaviors. The aim of this research is to study the relation between the emotional intelligence of managers and the organizational climate they create. Thirty managers were randomly selected as a sample, and the emotional intelligence of each manager and their organizational climates were measured by questionnaires using a 360-degree feedback approach. The managers' results were compared with those from another 140 supervisors, peers, and Regression analyses showed that there is a positive correlation between the emotional intelligence of managers and organizational climate. The results of the analyses also show that among emotional intelligence's factors, social awareness and self awareness have more influence on organizational climate, while among organizational climate factors, credibility is most influenced by managers' emotional intelligence.
The Maximal Variation of a Bounded Martingale

Let Xg = {X,}~ be a martingale such that 0 _-< X, _-< 1; i = 0 , ' -. , n. For 0 = p _-< 1 denote by ~,~, the set of all such martingales satisfying also E(Xo)= p. The variation of a martingale X~ is denoted by V(X~) and defined by V(Xg)= E(ET=~ IX,.1X, I). It is proved that lim{ Sup [-~ V(xg) ]} = ~b(P), where ~b(p) is the well known normal density evaluated at its p-quantile, i.e. t h ( p ) = ~ J ~ e x p ( ~ x ~ ) where ff:-~exp(89 A sequence of martingales X~, n = 1 , 2 , . . . is constructed so as to satisfy l i m . ~ ( 1 / X / n ) V(X~,) = 4~(P).
Absence of demonstrable phospholipid turnover in B cells stimulated by low mitogenic concentrations of dextran‐anti‐immunoglobulin conjugates

Previously we have demonstrated that when anti‐immunoglobulin (Ig) is conjugated to high molecular weight dextran (Dex) it stimulates B cell activation at pg/ml concentrations in the absence of detectable phosphoinositide hydrolysis or increases in intracellular ionized calcium. To study carefully whether anti‐Ig‐Dex recruited a phosphoinositide‐dependent pathway of activation, we stimulated B cells that were labeled with 32P and [3H]glycerol with anti‐Ig‐Dex conjugates at concentrations ranging from 1—1 × 10−4 μg/ml. Thirty seconds to thirty minutes after stimulation lipids were extracted and analyzed by thin layer chromatography and spots correlating with known lipid standards were isolated and counted. There was a four‐ and tenfold increase in the ratio of 32P/3H incorporated into phosphatidic acid (a metabolite of diacylglycerol) and phosphatidylinositol, respectively, when cells were stimulated with 0.1–1.0 μg/ml of anti‐Ig‐Dex for 30 min. Below 1 ng/ml there was no detectable increase in the turnover of these metabolites despite the fact that in parallel cultures B cells were stimulated to proliferate by this concentration of anti‐Ig‐Dex. To determine whether a cAMP‐dependent pathway was recruited by low concentrations of conjugates, we evaluated cAMP levels from B cells that were stimulated with anti‐Ig‐Dex for 5–60 min using a radioimmunoassay. While cholera toxin stimulated a 50–100‐fold increase in the levels of cAMP, we observed no alteration in cAMP in anti‐Ig‐stimulated cells. These results support and extend our previous findings by demonstrating that B cell activation that is induced by cross‐linking of surface Ig may not stimulate phosphoinositide‐dependent or cAMP‐dependent pathways of activation. Possible alternative mechanisms of activation will be discussed.
Comparison and Characterization of Android-Based Fall Detection Systems

Falls are a foremost source of injuries and hospitalization for seniors. The adoption of automatic fall detection mechanisms can noticeably reduce the response time of the medical staff or caregivers when a fall takes place. Smartphones are being increasingly proposed as wearable, cost-effective and not-intrusive systems for fall detection. The exploitation of smartphones' potential (and in particular, the Android Operating System) can benefit from the wide implantation, the growing computational capabilities and the diversity of communication interfaces and embedded sensors of these personal devices. After revising the state-of-the-art on this matter, this study develops an experimental testbed to assess the performance of different fall detection algorithms that ground their decisions on the analysis of the inertial data registered by the accelerometer of the smartphone. Results obtained in a real testbed with diverse individuals indicate that the accuracy of the accelerometry-based techniques to identify the falls depends strongly on the fall pattern. The performed tests also show the difficulty to set detection acceleration thresholds that allow achieving a good trade-off between false negatives (falls that remain unnoticed) and false positives (conventional movements that are erroneously classified as falls). In any case, the study of the evolution of the battery drain reveals that the extra power consumption introduced by the Android monitoring applications cannot be neglected when evaluating the autonomy and even the viability of fall detection systems.
Role of the acrAB locus in organic solvent tolerance mediated by expression of marA, soxS, or robA in Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli K-12 strains are normally tolerant to n-hexane and susceptible to cyclohexane. Constitutive expression of marA of the multiple antibiotic resistance (mar) locus or of the soxS or robA gene product produced tolerance to cyclohexane. Inactivation of the mar locus or the robA locus, but not the soxRS locus, increased organic solvent susceptibility in the wild type and Mar mutants (to both n-hexane and cyclohexane). The organic solvent hypersusceptibility is a newly described phenotype for a robA-inactivated strain. Multicopy expression of mar, soxS, or robA induced cyclohexane tolerance in strains with a deleted or inactivated chromosomal mar, soxRS, or robA locus; thus, each transcriptional activator acts independently of the others. However, in a strain with 39 kb of chromosomal DNA, including the mar locus, deleted, only the multicopy complete mar locus, consisting of its two operons, produced cyclohexane tolerance. Deletion of acrAB from either wild-type E. coli K-12 or a Mar mutant resulted in loss of tolerance to both n-hexane and cyclohexane. Organic solvent tolerance mediated by mar, soxS, or robA was not restored in strains with acrAB deleted. These findings strongly suggest that active efflux specified by the acrAB locus is linked to intrinsic organic solvent tolerance and to tolerance mediated by the marA, soxS, or robA gene product in E. coli.
Content versus source cue information as a basis for credibility judgments: The impact of task involvement.

Basic assumptions of dual-process theories are used to explain the process of credibility attribution. Three experiments test the assumption that high task involvement leads to intensive processing of content information, whereas low task involvement leads to the use of noncontent information like source cues when people make credibility judgments. In Experiment 1, as predicted, when task involvement is low, only source attractiveness influences credibility attributions; when task involvement is high, content information also influences credibility attributions. Experiments 2 and 3 replicate these results with different source cue and message content manipulations. These findings demonstrate the fruitfulness of applying basic assumptions of dual-process theories to the field of deceptive communication research. Practical implications for forensic credibility assessment are outlined.
On Robustness and Domain Adaptation using SVD for Word Sense Disambiguation

In this paper we explore robustness and domain adaptation issues for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and unlabeled data. We focus on the semi-supervised domain adaptation scenario, where we train on the source corpus and test on the target corpus, and try to improve results using unlabeled data. Our method yields up to 16.3% error reduction compared to state-of-the-art systems, being the first to report successful semi-supervised domain adaptation. Surprisingly the improvement comes from the use of unlabeled data from the source corpus, and not from the target corpora, meaning that we get robustness rather than domain adaptation. In addition, we study the behavior of our system on the target domain.
Organizational Commitment among Public Service Employees

This present study examined the factors associated with organizational commitment among blue-collar workers. Previous work in this area suggests that, among blue-collar employees, commitment should be more closely related to extrinsic rewards (e.g., pay satisfaction) than to intrinsic factors. In order to test this hypothesis, sixty-four public service employees in a waste, water, and sanitation department completed a questionnaire designed to measure organizational commitment and perceptions of extrinsic and intrinsic factors related to their jobs. The results indicated that the following were positively and significantly related to commitment: promotion satisfaction, job characteristics, communication, leadership satisfaction, job satisfaction, extrinsic exchange, intrinsic exchange, extrinsic rewards, and intrinsic rewards. Contrary to expectations, pay satisfaction did not correlate significantly with commitment. Both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards were equally predictive of commitment; this contradicts the contention that extrinsic rewards are more important determinants of blue-collar commitment. These findings are noteworthy because they suggest that intrinsic rewards are important for public service employees, members of a relatively understudied population.
What’s Class Got to Do with It? Community Development and Racial Identity

ABSTRACT: This research documents the importance of class and racial identities to urban community development activities. It explores the symbolic meanings of class and the nature of inter-class relations within the black community. The research is based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Philadelphia neighborhood with an active grassroots community development agenda. The author concludes that the residents most active in the neighborhood’s redevelopment activities display a particular middle-class identity (“multi-class”) that links them to lower-class blacks and structures their vision of the neighborhood as a micro-level racial justice project. The community development activities in this neighborhood are a product of the multi-class residents’ attempt to articulate and affirm their racial identity and ideology. However, the unacknowledged class bias of these residents prevents them from creating the type of inclusive Black community that they envision.
A compact internal antenna on organic magnetic material for DVB-H application

This paper reports a compact internal monopole antenna on the novel organic magnetic material (OMM) for DVB-H applications (470–750 MHz) in a typical mobile handset with PWB dimension of 104mm × 60mm. With the usage of organic magnetic material, the total size of antenna is as small as 60mm (L) × 5.5mm (W) × 6mm (H), resulting in 17% size reduction. Compared with antenna on conventional PC/ABS carrier, wider bandwidth and better efficiency can be achieved, which meet the requirement of DVB-H standard with enough margins. These properties make the design as a good candidate for mobile TV applications.
Large-Scale Planning Under Uncertainty : A

Our research area is planning under uncertainty, that is, making sequences of decisions in the face of imperfect information. We are particularly concerned with developing planning algorithms that perform well in large, real-world domains. This paper is a brief introduction to this area of research, which draws upon results from operations research (Markov decision processes), machine learning (reinforcement learning), and artiicial intelligence (planning). Although techniques for planning under uncertainty are extremely promising for tackling real-world problems, there is a real need at this stage to look at large-scale applications to provide direction to future development and analysis.
The Education of English Language Learners in Arizona: A History of Underachievement

Background The state of Arizona has recently mandated the Structured English Immersion Model (SEI) in the state's public schools, and as a result the local flexibility that existed regarding the choice of program models for ELLs has ended. In the school year 2008-09, these regulations were made even more restrictive after the implementation of what is now called the 4-hour ELD block model. Focus of Study This report reviews achievement gaps in both reading and math between ELL and non-ELL students in Arizona over the period 2005-2009 and during the first year of implementation of the 4 hour ELD block, 2008-09. It also compares the progress of Arizona's ELL population towards academic proficiency relative to ELL students in two cities and states that do not place as restrictive legislation on ELL instruction: Utah and Washington, DC, two educational entities with vastly different spending policies. Research Design Achievement was measured using the Reading and Math subtests of the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS), with data from the 2005-2009 administrations. To interpret gaps in performance, differences in AIMS mean scaled scores were analyzed. Two types of comparisons were made: 1) within-grade, across-year, and 2) across-grade, within-year. This allowed a more comprehensive understanding of trends in terms of achievement gaps. The comparison amongst different states was done separately. Data were collected from two sources: Applications for Race to the Top, and incentive program offered as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, were used for Utah and Washington, DC. Data from Arizona were gathered using publicly available state report cards released annually by the Arizona Department of Education. Findings The study finds that Arizona has made little to no progress in closing the achievement gap between ELL and non-ELL students during this period. Here, the study argues that, notwithstanding changes in tests and proficiency thresholds in the states over this period of time, the relative position of Arizona vis-à-vis these comparison entities remains very similar, with Arizona continuing to lag behind both in percent of ELL students achieving proficiency in reading and math. Conclusion The study presents recent evidence that suggests that Arizona is on the wrong path for closing achievement gaps for its ELL students and that this is due, at least in part, to its highly restrictive language instruction policies.
Long-Term and Short-Term Evolutionary Impacts of Transposable Elements on Drosophila

Transposable elements (TEs) are considered to be genomic parasites and their interactions with their hosts have been likened to the coevolution between host and other nongenomic, horizontally transferred pathogens. TE families, however, are vertically inherited as integral segments of the nuclear genome. This transmission strategy has been suggested to weaken the selective benefits of host alleles repressing the transposition of specific TE variants. On the other hand, the elevated rates of TE transposition and high incidences of deleterious mutations observed during the rare cases of horizontal transfers of TE families between species could create at least a transient process analogous to the influence of horizontally transmitted pathogens. Here, we formally address this analogy, using empirical and theoretical analysis to specify the mechanism of how host–TE interactions may drive the evolution of host genes. We found that host TE-interacting genes actually have more pervasive evidence of adaptive evolution than immunity genes that interact with nongenomic pathogens in Drosophila. Yet, both our theoretical modeling and empirical observations comparing Drosophila melanogaster populations before and after the horizontal transfer of P elements, which invaded D. melanogaster early last century, demonstrated that horizontally transferred TEs have only a limited influence on host TE-interacting genes. We propose that the more prevalent and constant interaction with multiple vertically transmitted TE families may instead be the main force driving the fast evolution of TE-interacting genes, which is fundamentally different from the gene-for-gene interaction of host–pathogen coevolution.
Covering the tsunami disaster : subsequent post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and associated social factors

Journalists frequently report on disasters. There is a growing evidence that they are subsequently at higher risk of post-traumatic and depressive symptoms. We conducted an internet-based study with 61 journalists who had covered the tsunami disaster in December 2004 from the affected region. The extent of trauma exposure, symptoms and social variables were assessed. About 8 months after the event, indications of post-traumatic stress disorder were found in 6.6 per cent of the sample. Post-traumatic and depressive symptoms were related to the extent of traumatic exposure and to several social variables, most importantly, a low degree of social acknowledgment by supervisor and colleagues. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Staphylococcus lugdunensis infective endocarditis: description of 10 cases and analysis of native valve, prosthetic valve, and pacemaker lead endocarditis clinical profiles

Objective: To evaluate the incidence and the clinical and echocardiographic features of infective endocarditis (IE) caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis and to identify the prognostic factors of surgery and mortality in this disease. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Study at two centres (a tertiary care centre and a community hospital). Patients: 10 patients with IE caused by S lugdunensis in 912 consecutive patients with IE between 1990 and 2003. Methods: Prospective study of consecutive patients carried out by the multidisciplinary team for diagnosis and treatment of IE from the study institutions. English, French, and Spanish literature was searched by computer under the terms “endocarditis” and “Staphylococcus lugdunensis” published between 1989 and December 2003. Main outcome measures: Patient characteristics, echocardiographic findings, required surgery, and prognostic factors of mortality in left sided cases of IE. Results: 10 cases of IE caused by S lugdunensis were identified at our institutions, representing 0.8% (four of 467), 1.5% (two of 135), and 7.8% (four of 51) of cases of native valve, prosthetic valve, and pacemaker lead endocarditis in the non-drug misusers. Native valve IE was present in four patients (two aortic, one mitral, and one pulmonary), prosthetic valve aortic IE in two patients, and pacemaker lead IE in the other four patients. All patients with left sided IE had serious complications (heart failure, periannular abscess formation, or shock) requiring surgery in 60% (three of five patients) of cases with an overall mortality rate of 80% (four of five patients). All patients with pacemaker IE underwent combined medical treatment and surgery, and mortality was 25% (one patient). In total 59 cases of IE caused by S lugdunensis were identified in a review of the literature. The combined analysis of these 69 cases showed that native valve IE (53 patients, 77%) is characterised by mitral valve involvement and frequent complications such as heart failure, abscess formation, and embolism. Surgery was needed in 51% of cases and mortality was 42%. Prosthetic valve endocarditis (nine of 60, 13%) predominated in the aortic position and was associated with abscess formation, required surgery, and high mortality (78%). Pacemaker lead IE (seven of 69, 10%) is associated with a better prognosis when antibiotic treatment is combined with surgery. Conclusions:S lugdunensis IE is an uncommon cause of IE, involving mainly native left sided valves, and it is characterised by an aggressive clinical course. Mortality in left sided native valve IE is high but the prognosis has improved in recent years. Surgery has improved survival in left sided IE and, therefore, early surgery should always be considered. Prosthetic valve S lugdunensis IE carries an ominous prognosis.
Occurrence and exposure to lead and cadmium and their environmental influence on eyesight

Nowadays heavy metals in the environment and everyday life are very common. Their usage and influence in industry is essential. Quite often not only the environment but also general human health might be impacted by their use and presence. Metal poisoning and its effect on living structures and tissues impacts their condition. The environment and every living species in it are heavily vulnerable to any heavy metal exposure and might lead to catastrophic natural disasters. In humans skin irritations and general diseases are not so common, but they do appear, and everyone should be aware of this. In this paper we focus on a very special topic related to heavy metal exposure to eyesight and their influence on this important organ. Lead and cadmium are the most common heavy metals used almost everywhere.
Progression to end-stage kidney disease in Japanese children with chronic kidney disease: results of a nationwide prospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND The risk of progressing to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and factors associated with progression in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are unclear, especially in Asian children. METHODS We started a nationwide, prospective cohort study of 447 Japanese children with pre-dialysis CKD in 2010, with follow-up in 2011. Progression to ESKD was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier analysis according to CKD stage. Cox regression analysis was used to identify risk factors for progression. RESULTS Data were analyzed for 429/447 children. Five patients died, of which four died before progression to ESKD. Fifty-two patients progressed to ESKD (median follow-up 1.49 years), including 9/315 patients with stage 3 CKD, 29/107 with Stage 4 CKD and 14/25 with Stage 5 CKD. One-year renal survival rates were 98.3, 80.0 and 40.9%, for Stages 3, 4 and 5 CKD, respectively. Risk factors for progression to ESKD included CKD stage [versus Stage 3; Stage 4: hazard ratio (HR) 11.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 4.22-29.28, P < 0.001; Stage 5: HR 26.95, 95% CI 7.71-94.17, P < 0.001], heavy proteinuria (>2.0 g/g urine creatinine; HR 7.56, 95% CI 3.22-17.77, P < 0.001) and age ( < 2 years: HR 9.06; 95% CI 2.29-35.84, P = 0.002; after starting puberty: HR 4.88; 95% CI 1.85-12.85, P = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS In this cohort, 12.5% of children with pre-dialysis CKD progressed to ESKD with a median-follow-up of 1.49 years. Children with advanced (Stage 4/5) CKD were particularly likely to progress. To our knowledge, this is the first, nationwide, prospective cohort study of children with pre-dialysis CKD in Asia.
A Cross-Comparison of Two Clustering Methods

Many Natural Language Processing applications require semantic knowledge about topics in order to be possible or to be efficient. So we developed a system, SEGAPSITH, that acquires it automatically from text segments by using an unsupervised and incremental clustering method. In such an approach, an important problem consists of the validation of the learned classes. To do that, we applied another clustering method, that only needs to know the number of classes to build, on the same subset of text segments and we reformulate our evaluation problem in comparing the two classifications. So, we established different criteria to compare them, based either on the words as class descriptors or on the thematic units. Our first results lead to show a great correlation between the two classifications.