Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Receptivity to assessment‐based feedback for management development

Research on feedback acceptance typically has not focused on feedback given in developmental contexts nor has this research used sources other than self‐reports to measure feedback acceptance. This study examined recipient characteristics as influences on receptivity to management development feedback. Racial similarity of the feedback recipient and giver was the most consistent predictor of receptivity. Self‐report, feedback giver, and outsider ratings of receptivity evidenced little congruence. Implications for understanding receptivity in developmental contexts are discussed.
Structural Identification by Mass Spectrometry of Oxidized Phospholipids in Minimally Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein That Induce Monocyte/Endothelial Interactions and Evidence for Their Presence in Vivo *

Entry of monocytes into the vessel wall is an important event in atherogenesis. Previous studies from our laboratory suggest that oxidized arachidonic acid-containing phospholipids present in mildly oxidized low density lipoproteins (MM-LDL) can activate endothelial cells to bind monocytes. In this study, biologically active oxidized arachidonic acid-containing phospholipids were produced by autoxidation of 1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (Ox-PAPC) and analyzed by liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in conjuction with biochemical derivatization techniques. We have now determined the molecular structure of two of three molecules present in MM-LDL and Ox-PAPC that induce monocyte-endothelial interactions. These lipids were identified as 1-palmitoyl-2-(5-oxovaleryl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (m/z 594.3) and 1-palmitoyl-2-glutaryl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (m/z 610.2). These two molecules were produced by unambiguous total synthesis and found to be identical by analytical techniques and bioactivity assays to those present in MM-LDL and Ox-PAPC. Evidence for the importance of all three oxidized phospholipids in vivo was suggested by their presence in fatty streak lesions from cholesterol-fed rabbits and by their immunoreactivity with natural antibodies present in ApoE null mice. Overall, these studies suggest that specific oxidized derivatives of arachidonic acid-containing phospholipids may be important initiators of atherogenesis.
Acceptability of the controlled-drinking goal among alcohol treatment agencies in New South Wales, Australia.

OBJECTIVE A survey was conducted to estimate the acceptability of the controlled drinking goal among treatment services in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and to compare results with similar surveys carried out elsewhere. METHOD Of all identified alcohol treatment services (N = 295) in NSW, 179 (61%) responded to a mailed questionnaire with useable returns. RESULTS Nearly three-quarters of respondents endorsed controlled drinking but half of these reported allocating less than 25% of their clients to this goal. Community-based services and alcohol treatment units were significantly more likely to endorse controlled drinking than were residential or private facilities. Community-based services and alcohol treatment units were also more likely to base the appropriateness of controlled drinking on professional experience and research evidence, whereas residential and private facilities relied more on the disease model or agency policy in making this determination. Respondents with tertiary qualifications were more likely to endorse controlled drinking than those without such qualifications, and these respondents were more likely to be found in community-based services and alcohol treatment units. CONCLUSIONS The results show widespread support for the controlled drinking goal among NSW alcohol treatment services. This is similar to the reported status of controlled drinking in Britain and Norway and stands in marked contrast to the comparative reluctance of treatment services in North America to endorse the controlled drinking goal.
G-compass: a web-based comparative genome browser between human and other vertebrate genomes

Summary: G-compass is designed for efficient comparative genome analysis between human and other vertebrate genomes. The current version of G-compass allows us to browse two corresponding genomic regions between human and another species in parallel. One-to-one evolutionarily conserved regions (i.e. orthologous regions) between species are highlighted along the genomes. Information such as locations of duplicated regions, copy number variations and mammalian ultra-conserved elements is also provided. These features of G-compass enable us to easily determine patterns of genomic rearrangements and changes in gene orders through evolutionary time. Since G-compass is a satellite database of H-InvDB, which is a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts, users can easily refer to manually curated functional annotations and other abundant biological information for each human transcript. G-compass is expected to be a valuable tool for comparing human and model organisms and promoting the exchange of functional information. Availability: G-compass is freely available at http://www.h-invitational.jp/g-compass/. Contact: t.imanishi@aist.go. jp
Building the temples of postmodern India: economic constructions of national identity

Abstract This article surveys the place of the economy in constructions of Indian national identity. The theme of physical construction in the literal and metaphorical building of the Indian national economy is explored. New iterations of this longstanding theme are located in an account of a new narrative of India's ‘imagined economy’. The ‘India Shining’ political advertising campaign of 2004 is understood as an encapsulation of the new economic imaginary. The ongoing relevance of the substance of the India Shining campaign is demonstrated and linked to concerns to establish an India as an international brand. Changes in the Indian economy are linked to an account of the postmodern condition.
Heuristic Algorithm using Internet of Things and Mobility for solving demographic issues in Financial Inclusion projects

All over the world, the population in rural and semi-urban areas is a major concern for policy makers as they require technology enablement most to get elevated from their living conditions. Financial Inclusion projects are meant to work in this area as well. However the reach of financial institutions in those areas is much lesser than in urban areas in general. New policies and strategies are being made towards making banking services more accessible to the people in rural and semi-urban area. Technology, in particular Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobility can play a major role in this context as an enabler and multiplier. This paper discusses about an IoT and Mobility driven approach, which the Financial Institutions may consider while trying to work on financial inclusion projects.
Meeting stroke survivors’ perceived needs: a qualitative study of a community-based exercise and education scheme

Objective: A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach, to explore stroke survivors’ needs and their perceptions of whether a community stroke scheme met these needs. Methods: Semi-structured in-depth interviews of 12 stroke survivors, purposively selected from participants attending a new community stroke scheme. Interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews by two researchers independently. Results: Participants attending the community stroke scheme sought to reconstruct their lives in the aftermath of their stroke. To enable this they needed internal resources of confidence and sense of purpose to ‘create their social self’, and external resources of ‘responsive services’ and an ‘informal support network’, to provide direction and encouragement. Participants felt the community stroke scheme met some of these needs through exercise, goal setting and peer group interaction, which included social support and knowledge acquisition. Conclusion: Stroke survivors need a variety of internal and external resources so that they can rebuild their lives positively post stroke. A stroke-specific community scheme, based on exercise, life-centred goal setting, peer support and knowledge acquisition, is an external resource that can help with meeting some of the stroke survivor’s needs.
Diagnosis of the Warm Rain Process in Cloud-Resolving Models Using JointCloudSatand MODIS Observations

AbstractThis study examines the warm rain formation process in global and regional cloud-resolving models. Methodologies developed to analyze CloudSat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite observations are employed to investigate the cloud-to-precipitation processes and are applied to model results for comparisons with corresponding statistics from the observations. Three precipitation categories of no precipitation, drizzle, and rain are defined according to nonattenuated near-surface radar reflectivity, and their fractional occurrences and the probability of precipitation are investigated as a function of cloud properties such as droplet size, optical thickness, droplet number concentration, and liquid water path. The comparisons reveal how the models are qualitatively similar to, but quantitatively different from, observations in terms of cloud-to-rainwater conversion processes. Statistics from one model reveal a much faster formation of rain than observed, with drizzle oc.
Common Law in England and Sri Lanka

WORDS are perhaps more important in law than in any other discipline. The same word may have different meanings depending on the context. There is always the possibility that one person may use one word, and another may in listening to the user give to the word a completely different meaning and thereby misunderstand the idea that is being sought to be conveyed. This article focuses attention on and analyses certain words and phrases which are in common use in.legal terminology in Sri Lanka but which are at times imperfectly comprehended and not always accurately used. The words and phrases selected for analysis are " common law " and " customary law " and " equity. " The concept of equity in general, its particular manifestations in Roman and English law and the extent of its operation in Sri Lanka are discussed. Many different systems of law have affected the development of the law of Sri Lanka. They are Sinhalese Taw (today more commonly referred t6 as Kandyan law),. Buddhist law, Hindu law, Thesawalamai law, Islamic law, Mukkuwa law, Roman-Dutch law and English law. The mixed legal system of Sri Lanka is a consequence of the divergent linguistic, communal and religious traditions indigenous to the country and the fact that the country was for a long period under the influence of foreign rulers. Ceylon was ruled successively by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British between 1505 and 1948. Portuguese rule which lasted for more than 150 years had no lasting effect' on the laws arid legal institutions of Sri Lanka. But the Dutch and the British who followed the Portuguese were destined to exercise a profound influence on the legal development of the country. During the period of Dutch and British.rule the extentof the influence of the communal and religious laws was restricted, certain sections being entirely repealed and the application of others restricted with modifications to the area of family law and the law of property. • .
Contrasting roles of rivers and wells as sources of drinking water on attack and fatality rates in a hepatitis E epidemic in Somalia.

In early 1988, an increased incidence of acute hepatitis was observed in villages along the Shebeli River in the Lower Shebeli region of Somalia. This was followed by a large epidemic that lasted until late 1989. In a survey of 142 villages with a population of 245,312 individuals, 11,413 icteric cases were recorded, of which 346 died, corresponding to an attack rate and a case fatality rate of 4.6% and 3.0%, respectively. The etiologic role of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in this epidemic was proven by demonstrating anti-HEV in 128 of 145 sampled cases as a sign of recent infection with HEV. In three villages, where a special study protocol was implemented, the attack rate was found to increase significantly with age from 5% in the group 1-4 years of age to 13% in the group 5-15 years of age and to 20% for persons older than 15 years of age. Among cases 20-39 years of age, the female-to-male ratio was 1.5:1, which was a significant predominance of females. As in other hepatitis E outbreaks, there was a high fatality rate in pregnant females, estimated to be 13.8%. The epidemic peaked with the rise in the level of the river during rainfall, suggesting that the disease was waterborne. The attack rate was higher (6.0%) in villages supplied with river water, while fewer cases were recorded in those relying on wells or ponds for their water supply, 1.7% and 1.2%, respectively. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Digital Sealing Based on Double Watermarks

By integrating adaptive robust watermark and simplified fragile watermark, a digital sealing scheme is proposed. The digital seal, which resembles conventional one, shows robustness against attacks like Gaussian noise, median filtering, JPEG compression and cropping. Furthermore, any modification of the seal can be detected. Consequently, the digital sealing technique fulfills the purposes of confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation.
A model of stateful firewalls and its properties

We propose the first model of stateful firewalls. In this model, each stateful firewall has a variable set called the state of the firewall, which is used to store some packets that the firewall has accepted previously and needs to remember in the near future. Each stateful firewall consists of two sections: a stateful section and a stateless section. Upon receiving a packet, the firewall processes it in two steps. In the first step, the firewall augments the packet with an additional field called the tag, and uses the stateful section to compute the value of this field according to the current state of the firewall. In the second step, the firewall compares the packet together with its tag value against a sequence of rules in the stateless section to identify the first rule that the packet matches: the decision of this rule determines the fate of the packet. Our model of stateful firewalls has several favorable properties. First, despite its simplicity, it can express a variety of state tracking functionalities. Second, it allows us to inherit the rich results in stateless firewall design and analysis. Third, it provides backward compatibility such that a stateless firewall can also be specified using our model. This paper goes beyond proposing this stateful firewall model itself. A significant portion of this paper is devoted to analyzing the properties of stateful firewalls that are specified using our model. We outline a method for verifying whether a firewall is truly stateful. The method is based on the three properties of firewalls: conforming, grounded, and proper. We show that if a firewall satisfies these three properties, then the firewall is truly stateful.
Spatiotemporal analysis of traffic emissions in over 5000 municipal districts in Brazil

ABSTRACT Exposure to traffic emission is harmful to human health. Emission inventories are essential to public health policies aiming at protecting human health, especially in areas with incomplete or nonexistent air pollution monitoring networks. In Brazil, for example, only 1.7% of municipal districts have a monitoring network, and only a few studies have reported data on vehicle emission inventories. No studies have presented emission inventories by municipality. In this study, we predicted vehicular emissions for 5570 municipal districts in Brazil during the period 2001–2012. We used a top-down method to estimate emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the pollutant with the highest emissions, with approximately 190 million tons per year during the period 2001–2012). For the other traffic-related pollutants, we predicted annual emissions of 1.5 million tons for carbon monoxide (CO), 1.2 million tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 209,000 tons of nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), 58,000 tons of particulate matter (PM), and 42,000 tons for methane (CH4). From 2001 to 2012, CO, NMHC, and PM emissions decreased by 41, 33, and 47%, respectively, whereas those CH4, NOx, and CO2 increased by 2, 4, and 84%, respectively. We estimated uncertainties in our study and found that NOx was the pollutant with the lowest percentage difference, 8%, and NMHC with the highest one, 30%. For CO, CH4, CO2, and PM, the values were 22, 14, 21, and 20%, respectively. Finally, we found that during 2001 and 2012 emissions increased in the Northwest and Northeast. In contrast, pollutant emissions, except for CO2, decreased in the Southeast, South, and part of Midwest. Our predictions can be critical to efforts developing cost-effective public policies tailored to individual municipal districts in Brazil. Implications: Emission inventories may be an alternative approach to provide data for air quality forecasting in areas where air quality data are not available. This approach can be an effective tool in developing spatially resolved emission inventories.
Mobilizando estratégias emergentes

This paper reviews the idea of emergent strategy in organizations - as presented in the literature on corporate strategy - and offers a conceptual framework to use this notion in actual practice. Under the pressure of brutally intensified competition, present-day organizations throughout the world have been increasingly seeking flexibility and unremitting innovation. The traditional way of strategy making through a cyclical, formal strategic planning process is no longer sufficient to deal with this new situation. Under these conditions, strategy making must be a continuous process, in which emergent strategies (along with deliberate ones) can play a crucial role. But to exploit them, management must master the structures, processes, and techniques by which emergent strategies can be turned into effective strategic behavior.
FEATURE BIG DATA

Today’s applications often contain datasets that are too big to fit in a single computer’s main memory. Analyzing these massive datasets will require scalable and sophisticated machine-learning methods. Two commonly used approaches are stochastic optimization and inference algorithms,1 which process one data point at a time; and distributed computing based on the MapReduce framework,2 where the computation proceeds in iterations, with a master processor distributing the computation to slaves at each iteration. Although stochastic optimization and inference algorithms are effective for largescale machine learning, they are inherently sequential. On the other hand, MapReduce-based algorithms suffer from the curse of the last reducer, in that the slaves must wait for the slowest processor to finish before moving on to the next computational iteration. In this article, we describe NOMAD, a novel nomadic framework that combines stochastic optimization’s and distributed computing’s advantages without incurring their drawbacks. NOMAD is an acronym for Nonlocking, stOchastic Multimachine framework for Asynchronous and Decentralized computation. We show that many modern machine-learning problems have a double separability property, meaning the objective function decomposes into a sum over two different variables. We use two concrete problems to illustrate our framework: matrix completion for recommender systems and latent Dirichlet allocation for topic modeling.
Identiﬁcation and Characterization of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum NADPH Oxidases (cid:1) †

Numerous studies have shown both the detrimental and beneﬁcial effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in animals, plants, and fungi. These organisms utilize controlled generation of ROS for signaling, pathogenicity, and development. Here, we show that ROS are essential for the pathogenic development of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum , an economically important fungal pathogen with a broad host range. Based on the organism’s completed genome sequence, we identiﬁed two S. sclerotiorum NADPH oxidases (SsNox1 and SsNox2), which presumably are involved in ROS generation. RNA interference (RNAi) was used to examine the function of SsNox1 and SsNox2. Silencing of SsNox1 expression indicated a central role for this enzyme in both virulence and pathogenic (sclerotial) development, while inactivation of the SsNox2 gene resulted in limited sclerotial development, but the organism remained fully pathogenic. (cid:1) Ssnox1 strains had reduced ROS levels, were unable to develop sclerotia, and unexpectedly correlated with signiﬁcantly reduced oxalate production. These results are in accordance with previous observations indicating that fungal NADPH oxidases are required for pathogenic development and are consistent with the importance of ROS regulation in the successful patho- genesis of S. sclerotiorum ground in liquid nitrogen. The reduced NBT was solubilized with the same volume of 2 M KOH and a 1.3 (cid:3) volume of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for 30 min.ROSstaining was conducted on agar plugs of the wild-type isolate 1980 shortly after sclerotial initials were observed. Aliquots of protoplasts generated from sclerotial initials were then stained with 2 (cid:4) ,7 (cid:4) -dichlorodihydroﬂuorescein diacetate (DCHF-DA) to visualize H 2 O 2 . Microscopy. Microscopic observations were made using an Olympus IX-81 microscope with differential interference contrast optics (10 (cid:3) UPlanFL N ob- jective, 0.30 numerical aperture [NA]). Digital images were captured with an Olympus DP70 camera. All images were collected using Olympus DP controller and manager software under the same conditions (image size, 1,360 by 1,024; exposure time, 60.0 s; ISO sensitivity, ISO200; exposure mode, auto) and were saved as TIF ﬁles.
Asymmetry in the Lipid Affinity of Bihelical Amphipathic Peptides

ApoA-I contains a tandem array of amphipathic helices with varying lipid affinity, which are critical in its ability to bind and remove lipids from cells by the ABCA1 transporter. In this study, the effect of asymmetry in the lipid affinity of amphipathic helices in a bihelical apoA-I mimetic peptide, 37pA, on lipid efflux by the ABCA1 transporter was examined. Seven peptide variants of 37pA were produced by substituting a varying number of hydrophobic amino acids for alanine on either one or both helices. The 5A peptide with five alanine substitutions in the second helix had decreased helical content compared with 37pA (5A, 12 ± 1% helicity; 37pA, 28 ± 2% helicity) and showed less self-association but, similar to the parent peptide, was able to readily solubilize phospholipid vesicles. Furthermore, 5A, unlike the parent peptide 37pA, was not hemolytic (37pA, 27 ± 2% RBC lysis, 2 h, 18 μm). Finally, the 5A peptide stimulated cholesterol and phospholipid efflux by the ABCA1 transporter with higher specificity (ABCA1-transfected versus untransfected cells) than 37pA (5A, 9.7 ± 0.77%, 18 h, 18 μm versus 1.5 ± 0.27%, 18 h, 18 μm (p < 0.0001); 37pA, 7.4 ± 0.85%, 18 h, 18μm versus 5.8 ± 0.20%, 18 h, 18μm (p = 0.03)). In summary, we describe a novel bihelical peptide with asymmetry in the lipid affinity of its helices and properties similar to apoA-I in terms of specificity for cholesterol efflux by the ABCA1 transporter and low cytotoxicity.
Conservation Laws for Large Perturbations on Curved Backgrounds

Backgrounds are pervasive in almost every application of general relativity. Here we consider the Lagrangian formulation of general relativity for large perturbations with respect to a curved background spacetime. We show that Noether's theorem combined with Belinfante's "symmetrization" method applied to the group of displacements provide a conserved vector, a "superpotential" and a energy-momentum that are independent of any divergence added to the Hilbert Lagrangian of the perturbations. The energy-momentum is symmetrical and divergenceless only on backgrounds that are Einstein spaces in the sense of A.Z. Petrov.