Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Data Visualisation to tell Stories about Cultural Collections

The work presented here is concerned with visualisation of digitised museum collections and archives, focusing on the relationship between data, visualisation and narrative. A contrast is presented between visualisations that show "just the data" and those that present the information in such a way as to tell a story using visual rhetorical devices such as trees and streams. The role of interaction in negotiating the tension between communicators'/researchers' desire to tell stories about their discoveries and the need for users to interact freely is explored. Novel visualisations of data from the Wellcome Library are used to outline key research questions.
Linking quality improvement with patient satisfaction: a study of a health service centre

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the impact of improvement in service‐delivery quality on customer satisfaction and repeat patronage, in the context of health services.Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal study of patients at a health care centre in Hong Kong assessed the effect of quality improvements made in response to the findings of its first phase, with respect to patient satisfaction and intention to revisit. Data were collected by questionnaire‐based interviews with more than 1,000 patients visiting the centre.Findings – Exploratory factor analysis, varimax rotation and t‐tests show that basing a service quality improvement programme on feedback from the patient survey did improve satisfaction and intention to revisit. Conclusions include the importance of management commitment to quality for effective outcomes.Research limitations/implications – The results are based on the responses of clients of a single health centre, during surveys conducted outside th.
The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives

Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its development, although an understanding of the latter is highly relevant to these other questions. One possible reason for this neglect is confusion about many of the concepts and terms that are necessary to study the development of animal personality. Here, we provide a framework for studying personality development that focuses on the properties of animal personality, and considers how and why these properties may change over time. We specifically focus on three dimensions of personality: (1) contextual generality at a given age or time, (2) temporal consistency in behavioural traits and in relationships between traits, and (3) the effects of genes and experience on the development of personality at a given age or life stage. We advocate using a new approach, contextual reaction norms, to study the contextual generality of personality traits at the level of groups, individuals and genotypes, show how concepts and terms borrowed from the literature on personality development in humans can be used to study temporal changes in personality at the level of groups and individuals, and demonstrate how classical developmental reaction norms can provide insights into the ways that genes and experiential factors interact across ontogeny to affect the expression of personality traits. In addition, we discuss how correlations between the effects of genes and experience on personality development can arise as a function of individuals' control over their own environment, via niche‐picking or niche‐construction. Using this framework, we discuss several widely held assumptions about animal personality development that still await validation, identify neglected methodological issues, and describe a number of promising new avenues for future research.
The role of government policy in entrepreneurship development

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework that examines the role government policy plays in the development of entrepreneurship and its impact on economic development. The study builds on existing literature on entrepreneurship, economic development and government policy as it relates to entrepreneurial practices. The outcomes of literature review propose two hypotheses. Integrating entrepreneurship practices with economic development, with government policy intervening, a framework is developed. For the reason that entrepreneurship is a part of economic development strategy employed by several countries globally to achieve macro-economic benefits. The framework provides a starting point for researchers and practitioners to further examine entrepreneurship policies and practices. For researchers, the framework clarifies the determining attributes of entrepreneurship, government policy and economic development dimensions and their proposed relationships. For practitioners, the framework can be used to gain an understanding of the role of government policy on entrepreneurship development as well as economic development.
THE ENZYMIC HYDROLYSIS OF PHOSPHATIDYL INOSITOL BY GUINEA PIG BRAIN:

Abstract— 1 Phosphatidylinositol hydrolase activity of homogenates of guinea pig brain was studied by using [2‐3H]inositol labelled substrate and measuring the release of radioactivity into the acid soluble fraction. 2 Inositol phosphate and diglyceride were found to be the main hydrolysis products. The principal enzyme involved, therefore, is a phosphatidylinositol inositolphosphohydrolase. 3 Most of the enzymic activity (61 per cent) was found in the soluble fraction. Osmotic shock of the high speed particulate fraction resulted in release of an additional 23 1 per cent into the soluble fraction. However, as contrasted to lactate dehydrogenase, significant activity remained particulate bound.
Risks of project financing of infrastructure projects in Serbia

In the last fifteen years, governments worldwide adopted project financing as a driving power for conducting and improving infrastructure financing. Project financing is generally used in new, autonomous, complex infrastructure projects accompanied by a huge level of risk and high asymmetry among available information. The primary advantage of the project financing concept lies in the manner in which the capital is raised. This is especially important for the countries that have so far failed to develop their own financial markets, Serbia among them, and their only solution is to import the capital for financing infrastructure projects. The aim of the paper is to point out those risks accompanying the project financing of infrastructure projects in Serbia that can be affected, for the purpose of improving infrastructure and create an environment for a more efficient implementation of this modality of infrastructure projects financing.
A new species of Schrankia Hübner, 1825 from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Hypenodinae)

Abstract A new species of the genus Schrankia Hübner, 1825, S. pelicano sp. n. is described from Sichuan, China. A diagnostic comparison is made with Schrankia taenialis (Hübner, [1809]) and Schrankia separatalis (Herz, 1904); illustrations of the male holotype and its genitalia are provided. A checklist of the genus with synonyms is given.
Two-way Communication Channels

input at terminal 2 and Y2 the corresponding output. Once each second, say, new inputs xi and x2 may be chosen from corresponding input alphabets and put into the channel; outputs yi and Y2 may then be observed. These outputs will be related statistically to the inputs and perhaps historically to previous inputs and outputs if the channel has memory. The problem is to communicate in both directions through the channel as effectively as possible. Particularly, we wish to determine what pairs of signalling rates R1 and R2 for the two directions can be approached with arbitrarily small error probabilities.
Exploring demutualisation of stock markets: A case study of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

Since the start of the demutualization wave in early 1990s, debate ensued about the impact of this program and while many researchers and policy makers have praised the demutualization of stock exchanges, others have been more sceptical and tended to be reluctant in undertaking the demutualization decision. Zimbabwe has not been left out. For the past 3 years, the debate about the demutualisation of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has been gaining momentum over time about the likely impact on the performance of the demutualization program. While assessing the performance of demutualized stock exchanges provides useful insights for policy makers on the usefulness and value of this program, it remains important for policy makers to link the implementation of this program to the nature of the stock exchange, including its existence, behaviour and its relationship with the market and the external factors. It is on this background that a mixed study utilising qualitative and quantitative research methods will be carried out. A sample of 19 stockbrokers, 10 Individual and 29 Institutional investors were used to assess the debated impact of demutualisation program in the Zimbabwean economy. Keywords: Self-Listing: This occurs when a stock exchange entity, gets listed on its own stock market. Bullish, bearish: Words used to describe investor attitudes. Bullish refers to an optimistic outlook while bearish means a pessimistic outlook. Business failure: A business that has terminated with a loss to creditors. Churning: Excessive trading of a client's account in order to increase the broker's commissions. Comprehensive due diligence investigation: The investigation of a firm's business in conjunction with securities offering to determine whether the firm's business and financial situation and its prospects are adequately disclosed in the prospectus for the offering. Exchange: The market place in which shares, options and futures on stocks, bonds, commodities and indices are traded.
Robust stabilisation of 2D state-delayed stochastic systems with randomly occurring uncertainties and nonlinearities

This paper is concerned with the state feedback control problem for a class of two-dimensional (2D) discrete-time stochastic systems with time-delays, randomly occurring uncertainties and nonlinearities. Both the sector-like nonlinearities and the norm-bounded uncertainties enter into the system in random ways, and such randomly occurring uncertainties and nonlinearities obey certain mutually uncorrelated Bernoulli random binary distribution laws. Sufficient computationally tractable linear matrix inequality–based conditions are established for the 2D nonlinear stochastic time-delay systems to be asymptotically stable in the mean-square sense, and then the explicit expression of the desired controller gains is derived. An illustrative example is provided to show the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Overnight and Daytime Stock Return Dynamics on the London Stock Exchange

We explore the time series properties of overnight and daytime returns on the London Stock Exchange's primary stock market index, the FTSE-100 on the over the 1984-1991 period. We use a modified GARCH model to specify daytime and overnight return dynamics where (a) intra-day returns can have different impacts and persistence on stock return volatility, (b) return effects on volatility can be asymmetric and (c) intra-day returns can follow conditional distributions with different fourth moments. We uncover important changes in return dynamics and conditional fourth moments following the stock exchange's major restructuring called "Big Bang", which merged broker and dealer functions and after the1987 stock market crash.
Lipopolysaccharide Induces Actin Reorganization and Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Pyk2 and Paxillin in Monocytes and Macrophages1

The bacterial endotoxin LPS is a potent stimulator of monocyte and macrophage activation and induces adhesion of monocytes. Morphological changes in response to LPS have not been characterized in detail, however, nor have the signaling pathways mediating LPS-induced adhesion been elucidated. We have found that LPS rapidly induced adhesion and spreading of peripheral blood monocytes, and that this was inhibited by the Src family kinase inhibitor PP1 and the phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase inhibitor LY294002. LPS also stimulated actin reorganization, leading to the formation of filopodia, lamellipodia, and membrane ruffles in Bac1 mouse macrophages. Proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 (Pyk2), a tyrosine kinase related to focal adhesion kinase, and paxillin, a cytoskeletal protein that interacts with Pyk2, were both tyrosine phosphorylated in response to LPS in monocytes and macrophages. Both tyrosine phosphorylation events were inhibited by PP1 and LY294002. Adhesion also stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of Pyk2 and paxillin in monocytes, and this was further enhanced by LPS. Finally, Pyk2 and paxillin colocalized within membrane ruffles in LPS-stimulated cells. These results indicate that LPS stimulation of monocytes and macrophages results in rapid morphological changes and suggest that Pyk2 and/or paxillin play a role in this response.
Longitudinal analysis of mutual fund performance

Many different motivations for investing in mutual funds have been provided in the literature, including the claim that managers of mutual funds have special abilities that can be used to outperform the market. Testing of the validity of these claims is complicated by two facts. First, the expected returns on mutual funds show cross-sectional as well as time series variation. Second, mutual funds that did not do very well in the past tend to stop trading more often than other funds. The latter implies that an analysis of returns on mutual funds that are currently traded is possibly affected by so-called survivorship bias. The aim of this thesis is to use longitudinal econometric techniques to test the validity of some of the motivations for investing in mutual funds that have been given in the literature.
Can Package Size Accelerate Usage Volume?

Packaging influences usage behavior long after it has influenced purchase. Managers of consumer packaged goods and public policy officials have, therefore, questioned whether a package's size influences usage volume. Although often assumed, it has never been supported. Four laboratory studies and a final study in a Laundromat identify circumstances in which larger package sizes encourage greater use than do smaller package sizes. Unit cost is a key factor mediating this relationship. After noting useful implications for decisions regarding package size portfolios, sales promotions, and public policy, the author concludes by identifying other important but overlooked factors that increase usage volume and provide research opportunities.
K-Ka band schottky diode limiter

A k-ka band passive limiter with schottky diode is presented. Test results show that this limiter can works in 18-40 GHz, and have characters of being low insertion loss, low SWR, good at amplitude limiting. It can keep the output power below 18 dBm with a maximal power input of 24 dBm CW.
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Study of Extracellular Polymer Substances Produced on Secondary Sludge Fortified with Crude Glycerol

This study was conducted to characterize the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by growing Cloacibacterium normanense in wastewater sludge alone and fortified crude glycerol. The EPS highest concentration of 17.5 g/L was produced using 25 g/L sludge suspended solids supplemented with 25 g/L of crude glycerol. Galactose and Glucose was the main compound of EPS produced with or without crude glycerol, respectively. EPS FTIR spectra revealed a variation in the different functional groups such as amines, carboxyl, and hydroxyl groups for EPS produced. Different functional groups were observed in the EPS produced with or without glycerol. The EPS exhibited kaolin flocculation activity up to 95% and was stable at high temperature. The high viscosity bioflocculant properties of EPS make it suitable for potential industrial applications
Internet Banking Customer Satisfaction and Online Service Attributes

The purpose of the study was to (a) identify which customer service and online attributes predict overall satisfaction, (b) to determine if satisfied customers use more online banking features than less satisfied customers and (c) to identify characteristics of less satisfied customers. The sample was drawn from one of the main banks in Kuwait, the Middle East. Multiple regression and discriminant analyses were used to analyze the data. The findings suggest that satisfaction can be generated through improving courtesy, content, timeliness and product and services offered. The latter being the most important factor in driving internet banking satisfaction. The findings suggest that the majority of the customers in the sample are satisfied or very satisfied with the service and online systems attributes. The investigation does not support previous findings that more satisfied customers tend to use more product and services or that using internet banking for a longer period is associated with higher levels of satisfaction. It appears that companies that offer a wide product portfolio and relevant website content accompanied by prompt and courteous response create satisfaction online.
The Native-Immigrant Wage Gap in the United States

Immigrant workers in the US earn less than similar native workers. The economics literature has focused on documenting this gap, but usually not on finding the underlying causes. Without understanding the determinants of the wage path of immigrants, it is difficult to know what classes of policies would be the most effective to close the gap. This paper aims to quantitatively attribute the wage paths of immigrants into two underlying economics forces. First, labor market experience in the US may be more valuable for jobs in the US than labor market experience in other countries. Second, it can take time for new immigrants to be matched with their optimal occupation after moving to the US. Our empirical strategy consists of two parts. In the first, we identify patterns of wage growth and occupational change of immigrants from the New Immigrant Survey, particularly focused on difference between occupations in home countries and the United States. Usually data on home country jobs is not available so these comparisons are not possible. The descriptive statistics show that wage growth for immigrants is explained both by legal and illegal time in the US labor force as well as upwards occupational mobility. Then to quantitatively estimate the importance of the returns to experience versus job search, we develop a simple model of on-the-job human capital accumulation and job search that can replicate the observed patterns. We then use the estimated model to simulate counterfactuals to understand the importance of each factor.
Corticofugal feedback for auditory midbrain plasticity elicited by tones and electrical stimulation of basal forebrain in mice

The auditory cortex (AC) is the major origin of descending auditory projections and is one of the targets of the cholinergic basal forebrain, nucleus basalis (NB). In the big brown bat, cortical activation evokes frequency‐specific plasticity in the inferior colliculus and the NB augments this collicular plasticity. To examine whether cortical descending function and NB contributions to collicular plasticity are different between the bat and mouse and to extend the findings in the bat, we induced plasticity in the central nucleus of the mouse inferior colliculus by a tone paired with electrical stimulation of the NB (hereafter referred to as tone‐ESNB). We show here that tone‐ESNB shifted collicular best frequencies (BFs) towards the frequency of the tone paired with ESNB when collicular BFs were different from tone frequency. The shift in collicular BF was linearly correlated to the difference between collicular BFs and tone frequencies. The changes in collicular BFs after tone‐ESNB were similar to those found in the big brown bat. Compared with cortical plasticity evoked by tone‐ESNB, the pattern of collicular BF shifts was identical but the shifting range of collicular BFs was narrower. A GABAA agonist (muscimol) or a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist (atropine) applied to the AC completely abolished the collicular plasticity evoked by tone‐ESNB. Therefore, our findings strongly suggest that the AC plays a critical role in experience‐dependent auditory plasticity through descending projections.
Responses of Entrepreneurial and Non-Entrepreneurial Firms to Growth Path Crisis Points: A Pricing Strategy Application Exercise of UK Timber/Joinery Firms in Periods of Econocmic Slowdown

This paper argues that in some situations small firms will adopt ‘crisis pricing’ – that is setting a price so low that at best it will make a zero net margin, and at worst, a negative net margin. Since pricing is one of the most difficult decisions to make within the marketing mix, we propose that their competence at setting price could be considered as a measure for entrepreneurial capability. Furthermore, we set our study in the context of a stages growth model that addresses both ‘crisis points’ and provides a guide to typical managerial problems that need to be addressed at various stages of development. Our proposals are made in the context of a study into several sectors of the UK timber and joinery industry. Analysis of primary data covering 67 sectors and secondary data covering over 400 firms suggests that both in general marketing behaviour and, in particular, their response to crisis pricing, that there are discernible differences between entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial firms.
The vaccinia virus B1R gene product is a serine/threonine protein kinase

The nucleotide sequence of the vaccinia virus open reading frame B1 predicts a polypeptide with significant sequence similarity to the catalytic domain of known protein kinases. To determine whether the B1R polypeptide is a protein kinase, we have expressed it in bacteria as a fusion with glutathione S-transferase. Affinity-purified preparations of the fusion protein were found to undergo autophosphorylation and also phosphorylated the exogenous substrates casein and histone H1. Mutation of lysine 41 to glutamine within the conserved kinase catalytic domain II abrogated protein kinase activity on all three protein substrates, supporting the notion that the protein kinase activity is inherent to the B1R polypeptide. Casein and histone H1 were phosphorylated on serine and threonine residues. The B1R fusion protein was phosphorylated on a threonine residue(s) by an apparently intramolecular mechanism. The autophosphorylation reaction resulted in phosphorylation of the glutathione S-transferase portion of the fusion and not the protein kinase domain. The protein kinase activity of B1R was specific for ATP as the phosphate donor; GTP was not utilized to a detectable extent. Immunoblotting experiments with anti-B1R antiserum showed that the protein kinase is located in the virion particle. Chromatography of virion extracts resulted in separation of the B1R protein kinase from the bulk of the total protein kinase activity, indicating that multiple protein kinases are present in the virion particle and that B1R is distinct from the previously described vaccinia virus-associated protein kinase.