Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Research on Core Business Process-Based Knowledge Process Model

This paper defines the concepts and connotations of three core organizational processes, namely business process, information process and knowledge process, and describes the relations and distinctions of the above three, and then takes the core business process of Jiangsu Electric Power Design Institute as example to analyze and demonstrate. Based on that, this paper focuses on knowledge process to discuss knowledge management in the organization, and proposes a value-added business process-oriented spiral knowledge process model and process-oriented knowledge value-added framework for engineering design enterprises. The model can help people clearly analyze business process based on knowledge management to assist business management, analyze process-oriented information process to assist information management, and analyze process-oriented knowledge process to assist knowledge management.
A descriptive examination of the types of relationships formed between children with developmental disability and their closest peers in inclusive school settings

Abstract Background One of the most commonly cited rationales for inclusive education is to enable the development of quality relationships with typically developing peers. Relatively few researchers have examined the features of the range of relationships that children with developmental disability form in inclusive school settings. Method Interviews were conducted with 25 children with developmental disability, aged 5 and 12 years, their 3 closest peers, and parents and teachers to examine 6 types of relationships. Results Behaviours associated with general friendship and acquaintance were the most commonly reported. Few dyads reported high rates of behaviour associated with special treatment, helping, ignoring, or intimate best friend relationships. Conclusions The relationships of the majority of dyads were characterised by friendship or acceptance, but evidence of more intimate relationships was limited. An important direction for future research is the examination of ways to encourage more intimate relationships.
A silicon bipolar transmitter front-end for 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless LANs

A 5-GHz transmitter front-end for 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless local area networks was implemented in a low-cost 46-GHz-f/sub T/ silicon bipolar technology. The transmitter includes a digitally controlled linear-in-dB variable-gain up-converter and a three-stage linear power amplifier. At a 3-V supply voltage, the front-end exhibits a 23.5-dBm output 1-dB compression point, 35-dB maximum power gain, and 30-dB dynamic range. The dB-linear gain error is lower than /spl plusmn/0.8 dB. The transmitter is able to comply with the stringent error vector magnitude requirement of the standard up to a 19-dBm output power level.
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF TOOL WEAR

Tool wear measurement is of great concern in machining industry, as it affects the surface qualities, dimensional accuracy and production costs of the machined components. The orthodox methods of measuring tool wear are time consuming and limited in accuracy and application. In this study, machine vision system based on digital image processing was developed for measurement of tool wear. The basic components of the system are: a charge coupled device (CCD) camera, PC, Microsoft Windows Video Maker, frame grabber, Video to USB cable, digital image processing software (Photoshop and digital image processing toolbox for MATLAB), multi-directional insert fixture, and light source. Tool wear images were captured and ten different wear features: length, width, area, equivalent diameter, centroid, major axis length, minor axis length, solidity, eccentricity and orientation were extracted from the images. The pixels dimension of the system was found to be P B B x B B = 0.03306 and P B B y B B = 0.03333. The accuracy of the system compared to SANDVIK Coromant P P P P hand-held microscopic lens was found to have an absolute error less than 3.13%. The system has been applied in the analysis of tool wear of uncoated cemented carbide inserts used for turning of NST 37.2 steel. A tool wear index (TWI) was proposed as a potential indicator for tool wear monitoring. A graphical user interface (GUI) was designed for easy application of system.
Urban Renewal, Public Housing and the Racial Shaping of Atlanta

A number of American cities experienced urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Historians and others who have chronicled the urban changes of those decades have cited economic redevelopment as the motivating factor in the rebuilding of the downtown and the relocation of the black population from that area. For example, Carl Abbott in his analysis of Sunbelt cities noted that “the rebuilding of downtown districts was intended to secure two related economic goals. ” The first was to make the city more appealing as a center of investment and business activity as opposed to competing cities; the second was to enhance the downtown area in light of suburban development which might attract business away from the central city. Clarence Stone-in his study of Atlanta's renewal also indicates the primacy of economic factors as the motivation for rebuilding the city's downtown and uprooting the black population.
Burnout and Mindfulness Self-Compassion in Nurses of Intensive Care Units: Cross-Sectional Study

Nursing staff has been identified as one of the main risk groups for the development of burnout. The objective of this study is to analyze the ability of self-compassion mindfulness related to burnout in nurses of intensive care units. The results show that the level of burnout of nursing staff is inversely related to their level of self-compassion.
Rational Expectations and the Foreign Exchange Market

Many models of exchange rate determination imply that movements in money supplies and demands should result in movements in exchange rates. Hence, if rational agents are attempting to forecast exchange rate movements, they should in the first instance forecast movements in the supplies of and demands for money balances. Furthermore, if these underlying variables follow some stable autoregressive processes agents should use those processes to make their forecasts. If we identify the forward rate with the market's expectation for the future spot rate, rationality of expectations will imply testable cross-equation restrictions in a joint model of the autoregressions and exchange rate forecasting equation. This strategy is implemented in the paper using data on the L UK/$US and DM/$US exchange rates from the recent floating rate period.
Education Expenditure Responses to Crop Loss in Indonesia: A Gender Bias

This paper studies the impact of crop loss on the level of educational expenditure of Indonesian households using data from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey. The data are unique in that they contain self-reported information on crop loss and on household responses to crop loss. Thirty-four percent of households that experience a crop loss report that they responded by cutting household expenditure.
FOXM1, a typical proliferation-associated transcription factor

Abstract FOXM1 is a typical proliferation-associated transcription factor: it stimulates proliferation by promoting S-phase entry as well as M-phase entry and is involved in proper execution of mitosis. Accordingly, FOXM1 regulates genes that control G1/S-transition, S-phase progression, G2/M-transition and M-phase progression. Consistently, its expression and its activity are antagonistically regulated by many important proliferation and anti-proliferation signals. Furthermore, FOXM1 is implicated in tumorigenesis and contributes to both tumor initiation and progression. In addition to its function as a conventional transcription factor, FOXM1 transactivates the human c-myc P1 and P2 promoters directly via their TATA-boxes by a new transactivation mechanism, which it also employs for transactivation of the human c-fos, hsp70 and histone H2B/a promoters. This review summarizes the current knowledge on FOXM1, in particular its two different transactivation mechanisms, the regulation of its transcriptional activity by proliferation versus anti-proliferation signals and its function in normal cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis.
Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure

Part I 1: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure 2: An Agenda for Macroeconomics Part II 3: Capital-based Macroeconomics 4: Sustainable and Unsustainable Growth 5: Fiscal and Regulatory Issues 6: Risk, Debt and Bubbles: Variation on a Theme Part III 7: Labour-based Macroeconomics 8: Cyclical Unemployment and Policy Prescription 9: Secular Unemployment and Social Reform Part IV 10: Boom and Bust in the Monetarists' Vision 11: Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Part V 12: Macroeconomics: Taxonomy and Perspective
Maternal anthropometric characteristics as determinants of birth weight in north-west Nigeria: prospective study

Abstract Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the sensitivity and specificity of anthropometric measurements in predicting birth weight. Methods: This was a prospective study. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used. Two hundred were used. The weight, height and BMI of the women were measured. Unclothed newborns were weighed immediately after delivery. The data obtained were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 statistical software. The accuracy of maternal weight, height and body mass index in predicting birth weight was compared using chi-squared test and p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Result: The mean maternal age was 28.2 ± 5.7 years. The mean parity was 3 ± 2. The mean gestational age at delivery was 38.5 ± 2 years. The mean actual birth weight was 3.27 ± 0.53 kg. The mean maternal weight was 72.03 ± 11 kg. Maternal weight showed a strong positive correlation with birth weight (r = 0.48) and this was statistically significant (p < 0.001). The mean maternal height was 1.64 ± 0.55 m. The mean maternal BMI was 27.9 ± 4.33. Maternal weight, height and BMI had sensitivities of 50%, 40% and 50% and specificities of 48%, 57.9% and 67.3%, respectively. Conclusion: Maternal weight, height and BMI are not good predictors of birth weight and cannot be recommended for use as screening test in poor resource setting where ultrasound available.
The Role of Employers in Phased Retirement: Opportunities for Phased Retirement Among White-Collar Workers

Excerpt] While the labor market for older workers has many unusual features, the small number of phased retirements is certainly one of the more curious. The basic idea of phased retirement is that an older worker remains with his or her employer while gradually shifting from full-time work to full-time retirement. For decades experts have proclaimed the advantages of this type of retirement. Moreover, employees often express an interest in taking a phased retirement. In a recent national survey of the older population, more than half of the respondents age 55 to 65 said they would prefer to gradually reduce their hours of work as they age. Yet, all indications are that phased retirements are rather rare. Past studies indicate that within a cohort of older workers, less than ten percent took phased retirement; most people simply moved from full-time work to fulltime retirement. Nothing in the more recent data indicates that this has changed greatly.
Beating the Spread: Testing the Efficiency of the Gambling Market for National Football League Games

In this paper we test the efficiency of the gambling market for National Football League games. Two efficiency tests are conducted. The first test is derived from the finance literature on market efficiency, while the second test is based on a market's being efficient when the rate of return on any gambling strategy based on publicly available information approximates the bookmaker's commission. While the first test is found to be too weak to establish conclusions about the efficiency of the NFL gambling market, the second test results, showing the existence of profitable betting opportunities, indicate that speculative inefficiencies exist in this market.
The EU as a Global Actor and the Dynamics of Interregionalism: a Comparative Analysis

Abstract This article presents a comparative analysis of the role of interregionalism in the European Union’s foreign policies and external relations, with a particular focus on some of the most important regions around the world: Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Central and Eastern Europe. After a brief comparative assessment of the EU’s interregional relationships, the article provides three partly overlapping and intersecting accounts of the variation in the policy of interregionalism across regions: (i) promoting a liberal internationalist agenda; (ii) building the EU’s identity as a global actor; and (iii) promoting the EU’s power and competitiveness. The analysis concludes by sketching some ingredients of an emerging research agenda on the study of the EU’s foreign policy and interregionalism.
Dealing with diversity : Adolescents' support for civil liberties and immigrant rights

The main aim of this project was to increase our understanding of adolescents’ support for civil liberties and minority rights. Within democratic societies, this topic is of great importance. To ensure that all citizens can participate and to sustain democratic involvement, modern, liberal democracies guarantee all their citizens’ specific rights, such as freedom of speech and association. As a consequence, individuals have to be able to deal with diversity of beliefs, opinions and lifestyles, and to some extent with conflict, disagreement, and difference (Helwig & Yuang, forthcoming). In the Netherlands, but also in other European countries, social and political debates center on Muslim immigrant groups. Muslims in Europe are often perceived as a group whose religious practices are incompatible with Western liberal values. In addition, research findings indicate that among adolescents high levels of prejudice and explicit negative opinions toward Muslims exist (e.g., Velasco Gonzalez, et al., 2008). Tolerance is a minimal necessity for harmonious intergroup relations and the functioning of a civil society. The findings of this dissertation indicate that acceptance of minority group practices and the endorsement of civil liberties depends on what adolescents are actually asked to accept. In addition, the findings of this study underline the need to take the intergroup situation into account. Adolescents’ attachment to their national group affects not only the extent to which they accept cultural diversity – both in general and in specific situations – but also the way in which they evaluate situations. Furthermore, general beliefs about the degree to which diversity in society should be accommodated play an important role in the acceptance of minority group practices.
Bupropion: efficacy and safety in the treatment of depression.

1Head of Psychiatry Service Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Madrid, Spain Catedrático de Psiquiatría Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Spain 2Head Professor of Pharmacology Neurosciences Department Universidad de Cádiz, Spain 3Head of Psychiatry Service Hospital Santiago Vitoria, Spain Head Professor of Psychiatry Universidad del País Vasco 4Head Professor of Psychiatry Universidad de Oviedo, Spain 5Head Professor of Psychiatry Ciudad Universitaria de Bellvitge Barcelona, Spain Head Professor of Psychiatry Universidad de Barcelona 6Scientifi c Director Salutis Research, S.L. 7Medical Advisor GlaxoSmithKline Madrid Spain Bupropion: Effi cacy and safety in the treatment of depression
The Future of Central Banking Under Post-Crisis Mandates

On 24-25 June 2010, the BIS held its Ninth Annual Conference, on "The future of central banking under post-crisis mandates" in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks and academic institutions who exchanged views on this topic. This volume contains the opening address by Stephen Cecchetti (Economic Adviser, BIS), a keynote address by Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy, and the contributions of the policy panel on "Do central bank governance arrangements need to be altered? ". The participants in the policy panel discussion, chaired by Jaime Caruana (General Manager, BIS), were Mark Carney (Bank of Canada), Andrew Crockett (JPMorgan Chase International), Stefan Ingves (Sveriges Riksbank), Lucas Papademos (former Vice-President, ECB) and Duvvuri Subbarao (Reserve Bank of India). The papers presented at the conference and the discussants' comments were released as BIS Working Papers 326 to 331.
The Positioning Statement for Hotels

service is reassured. It differentiates from the competition; the customer knows why he is choosing one hotel over another. It promises benefits; the customer is promised that his needs and wants will be fulfilled. Finally, positioning supports these elements with clues of tangible offerings that the consumer can observe with his five senses, indicating to him there is substance behind the promises. The advertisements that accompany this article all incorporate positioning statements-some good, some less good. The positioning statement in the advertisement that appears above is very specific: &dquo;America’s Business Address. &dquo; This statement clearly identifies the target market as business travelers, but it fails to provide an image, to indicate benefits, and to differentiate the properties advertised from the Communications used in the marketing effort should be both consistent and customized to fit the needs of individual target markets.
Noise Characterization of a Waveguide-Coupled MSM Photodetector Exceeding Unity Quantum Efficiency

In the field of silicon photonics, it has only recently become possible to build complex systems. As system power constraints and complexity increase, design margins will decrease - making understanding device noise performance and device-specific noise origins increasingly necessary. We demonstrate a waveguide-coupled germanium metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector exhibiting photoconductive gain with a responsivity of 1.76 A/W at 5 V bias and 10.6±0.96 fF capacitance. Our measurements indicate that a significant portion of the dark current is not associated with the generation of shot noise. The noise elbow at 5 V bias is measured to be approximately 150 MHz and the high-frequency detector noise reaches the Johnson noise floor.
Are Future Taxes Discounted

IN THIS PAPER, I examine empirically the question of whether or not the public recognizes the future taxes implied by current deficitfinanced expenditures, as discussed by Barro [1]. It seems that such recognition does not occur but that, by a new hypothesis presented here, the aggregate economy behaves much as if it did. This alternative hypothesis relies on the widely accepted efficient markets and permanent income hypotheses, and it requires considerably less sophistication and information on the part of the average economic agent than does Barro's hypothesis.
Sustainable Tourism: An Overview of the Concept and its Position in Relation to Conceptualisations of Tourism

Reference to sustainable tourism is now made in most strategic tourism planning documents. Yet, despite its common use, definitional arguments exist over its meaning and subsequent operationalisation. In addition to this, literature on sustainable tourism rarely discusses its development prior to the publication of Our Common Future (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987) and its relevance to current conceptualisations of tourism. This paper analyses the context within which sustainable tourism was developed and has recently been conceptualised. It does this by assessing the development of sustainable tourism (with an Australian focus) and proposing a model which incorporates the development of sustainable tourism into tourism. The paper argues that sustainable tourism has traditionally given more focus to aspects related to the environment and economic development and that more focus should be given to community involvement.
Generating addressable protein microarrays with PROfusion™ covalent mRNA‐protein fusion technology

An mRNA‐protein fusion consists of a polypeptide covalently linked to its corresponding mRNA. These species, prepared individually or en masse by in vitro translation with a modified mRNA conjugate (the PROfusion™ process), link phenotype to genotype and enable powerful directed evolution schemes. We have exploited the informational content of the nucleic acid component of the mRNA‐protein fusion to create an addressable protein microarray that self‐assembles via hybridization to surface‐bound DNA capture probes. The nucleic acid component not only directs the mRNA‐protein fusion to the proper coordinate of the microarray, but also positions the protein in a uniform orientation. We demonstrate the feasibility of this protein chip concept with several mRNA‐protein fusions, each possessing a unique peptide epitope sequence. These addressable proteins could be visualized on the microarray both by autoradiography and highly specific monoclonal antibody binding. The anchoring of the protein to the chip surface is surprisingly robust, and the system is sensitive enough to detect sub‐attomole quantities of displayed protein without signal amplification. Such protein arrays should be useful for functional screening in massively parallel formats, as well as other applications involving immobilized peptides and proteins.
Formalin fixation alters water diffusion coefficient magnitude but not anisotropy in infarcted brain

This study was designed to determine whether formalin fixation alters diffusion parameters in the infarcted brain. Diffusion tensor images were obtained from anesthetized mice 1 hr after middle cerebral artery occlusion and repeated after formalin fixation of brains. In live animals, there was a significant decrease in the trace of the diffusion tensor (Tr(D)) in infarcted cortex and external capsule compared with contralateral brain areas, with no change in relative anisotropy (RA). After formalin fixation, Tr(D) was reduced 30–80%. However, the Tr(D) differential present in vivo between injured and healthy tissues was lost, with Tr(D) reduced to similar values in all tissues except for the edge of the cortical infarction, where it was lower than in surrounding tissues. RA values were unchanged after fixation. This study supports the preservation of diffusion anisotropy for both healthy and injured white matter in fixed mouse brain. However, the sensitivity of water diffusion in detecting tissue injury in vivo is not preserved in fixed tissues. Magn Reson Med 53:1447–1451, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Anticipated changes in sexual risk behaviour following vaccination with a low-efficacy HIV vaccine: survey results from a South African township

We assessed the potential for anticipated changes in sexual risk-taking behaviour following hypothetical administration of a low-efficacy preventive HIV vaccine. We developed a survey and collected self-reported data from 158 HIV-negative volunteers in a cohort undergoing prescreening for Phase I/II HIV vaccine trials in Soweto. Overall, 22% reported they might use condoms less frequently; 9% reported that they might increase their frequency of sex with casual/anonymous partners; and 55% reported their sexual partners might want to use condoms less frequently knowing they were vaccinated. Multivariate analyses revealed that anticipated decrease in condom use was predicted by poor comprehension and by young age. Individuals may increase their risk-taking behaviour knowing that a vaccine would provide only incomplete protection against HIV transmission. In HIV vaccine trials and future vaccination programmes, education and risk-reduction counselling will be needed for vaccinated individuals and their partners, and mass media education campaigns may be necessary.