Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Graphic Statistics in Management

THE recording of business activity by graphical means is extending rapidly among the controllers of large businesses, and a book like the present volume, written primarily in the atmosphere of American big business, should be of especial interest in Great Britain. The whole subject is treated in picturesque graphical fashion; no mathematical symbol appears anywhere, and yet a considerable degree of analysis of financial and business activity, production, sales, markets, and costing is successfully effected. The chapter dealing with graphical statistics in advertising is capital, a large number of illustrations of varying character being shown, including one demonstrating the effect of advertisement on church attendance and Sunday morning offerings! Graphic Statistics in Management.W. H.SmithBy. Pp. vii + 360. (London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924.) 20s. net.
Does Stewardship Still Have A Role?

The paper analyzes the decision of the FASB and IASB not to treat the motivational and control aspects of stewardship as a separate and distinct reporting objective to that of facilitating investment decisions. It does so first by considering the demand for information to control agents, and second by assessing the capacity of decision-useful information to replicate stewardship effects. The paper finds an essence to accounting based on the legal protection of property rights, encompassing stewardship, which has remained constant since earliest times. The decision taken by the boards on stewardship also appears disconnected from changes in the capital markets, as well as the writings on reporting objectives that preceded it.
Cell type‐specific and activity‐dependent dynamics of action potential‐evoked Ca2+ signals in dendrites of hippocampal inhibitory interneurons

Non‐technical summary Action potentials generated at the level of the cell body can propagate back to neuronal dendrites, where they activate different types of voltage‐sensitive calcium channels and produce massive calcium influx. Although these calcium signals may control dendritic integration, their mechanisms, dynamic properties and role in different cell types remain largely unknown. We found that in dendrites of hippocampal interneurons, an inhibitory cell type involved in control of network excitability, specific types of calcium channels are present but are recruited in an activity‐dependent manner. Furthermore, their activation produces calcium rises spatially restricted to proximal dendritic sites, where they control the efficacy of transmission at inhibitory synapses. The pathway by which this happens appears to constitute a negative feedback loop – increased firing activity of interneurons potentiates the inhibitory drive that they receive, thus decreasing the activity of interneurons further. This may have a profound effect on the recruitment of interneurons and network activity.
Consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) and the role of social media communications: Qualitative findings from the Malaysian automotive industry

Abstract Previous studies on consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) have maintained that CBBE is a multidimensional construct which reflects both consumers’ perceptions and attitudes. However, only few of the extant CBBE models emanate from the context of automotive brands. As such, this present study employs a qualitative approach using a semi-structured face-to-face interview among 11 informants, to explore the concept of CBBE in the context of automotive brands. Also, this study explores the role of social media communications in developing CBBE for automotive brands. The findings of this research demonstrate that CBBE is a valid concept which reflects consumers’ perception and mindset towards their knowledge, which are reflected through brand awareness, hedonic brand image, functional brand image, and brand sustainability of automotive brands. Additionally, the marketing activities and communication contents on social media play an important role in improving the perception of automotive brands in consumers’ minds, hence the development of automotive CBBE. The theoretical implications of these research findings are that this study provides an insight into the feasibility of developing a specific CBBE model for automotive brands. Practically, this study presents insights for brand manager on the importance of developing CBBE through social media communications.
A potential processing enzyme in prokaryotes: Oligopeptidase B, a new type of serine peptidase

Basic amino acid pairs in polypeptides represent important markers for processing enzymes to produce biologically active products. Such enzymes related to the serine peptidase subtilisin have recently been identified in eukaryotes. Herein is described and kinetically characterized a new type of processing enzyme, oligopeptidase B, which is encountered in the prokaryote Escherichia coli, and belongs to the prolyl oligopeptidase family of serine peptidases. The enzyme hydrolyzes the peptides at the carboxy end of dibasic sites by two orders of magnitude faster with respect to monobasic substrates. The kcat/Km is extremely high, 63 μM−1 s−1, for the substrate benzyloxycarbonyl‐L‐arginyl‐L‐arginyl‐7‐(4‐ methylcoumaryl)amide. The bell‐shaped pH dependence of the rate constant is perturbed by some ionizing group(s). This effect is abolished at 1 M NaCl. In addition, high ionic strength inhibits the reaction considerably by increasing Km, which is indicative of an electrostatic interaction between the arginyl residues and the enzymatic carboxy groups. In distinction from that found with most serine endopeptidases, kinetic deuterium isotope measurements with oligopeptidase B indicate that the rate‐limiting step of the reaction is a physical step rather than a chemical one characterized by general acid/base catalysis. The present result will contribute to our understanding of the processing phenomena in prokaryotes, as well as in higher organisms. Proteins 28:375–379, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Mothers' responses to infants' object-related gestures: influences on lexical development

ABSTRACT This paper examines four mothers' responses to three object-related gestures (pointing, extending objects, and open-handed reaching) by their first-born infants from 0; 9 to 1; 6, and the impact of their responses on the children's transition from gestural to verbal communication. Analysis revealed that the mothers responded differentially to their children's pointing gestures, reciprocating to a greater degree with labels of the indicated objects. The children, in turn, produced more object-labelling words with pointing than with other gestures. In addition, the mothers' labelling responses to pointing significantly predicted the extent of their children's object-naming vocabularies.
Development of a Markerless Genetic Exchange System for Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Its Use in Generating a Strain with Increased Transformation Efficiency

ABSTRACT In recent years, the genetic manipulation of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough has seen enormous progress. In spite of this progress, the current marker exchange deletion method does not allow for easy selection of multiple sequential gene deletions in a single strain because of the limited number of selectable markers available in D. vulgaris. To broaden the repertoire of genetic tools for manipulation, an in-frame, markerless deletion system has been developed. The counterselectable marker that makes this deletion system possible is the pyrimidine salvage enzyme, uracil phosphoribosyltransferase, encoded by upp. In wild-type D. vulgaris, growth was shown to be inhibited by the toxic pyrimidine analog 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), whereas a mutant bearing a deletion of the upp gene was resistant to 5-FU. When a plasmid containing the wild-type upp gene expressed constitutively from the aph(3′)-II promoter (promoter for the kanamycin resistance gene in Tn5) was introduced into the upp deletion strain, sensitivity to 5-FU was restored. This observation allowed us to develop a two-step integration and excision strategy for the deletion of genes of interest. Since this in-frame deletion strategy does not retain an antibiotic cassette, multiple deletions can be generated in a single strain without the accumulation of genes conferring antibiotic resistances. We used this strategy to generate a deletion strain lacking the endonuclease (hsdR, DVU1703) of a type I restriction-modification system that we designated JW7035. The transformation efficiency of the JW7035 strain was found to be 100 to 1,000 times greater than that of the wild-type strain when stable plasmids were introduced via electroporation.
Géométrie de l'Interaction et Réseaux Différentiels

Dans cette these, nous nous interessons a l'etude d'une semantique non denotationelle des preuves, ou programmes grâce a la correspondance Curry-Howard, la Geometrie de l'Interaction. Celle-ci consiste en une caracterisation algebrique des chemins preserves par elimination des coupures. Elle repose ainsi sur une presentation des preuves comme des graphes auxquels est associee une notion de chemins. Dans cette these, nous nous somme focalises sur la presentation des donnees par les reseaux d'interaction. Dans un premier temps, nous presentons une definition completement explicite de ces reseaux. Dans un second temps, nous presentons les definitions et proprietes en ue de definir une Geometrie de l'Interaction. Nous analysons notamment celle-ci pour une famille infini de lambda-termes. Finalement, nous nous placons dans le cadre des reseaux differentiels, extension de la logique lineaire, et construisons une Geometrie de l'Interaction de ceux-ci.
Technical Note - Asymptotic Properties of Mean Length Estimators for Finite Markov Queues

The mean length of a queue is normally estimated by a suitable mean of observed values. In order to determine the minimum sample size consistent with some required precision, it is necessary to know the standard error of the sample mean used. Since the observations are dependent, this standard error is usually greater than the standard error for independent observations, so that a larger sample size is required. This paper derives expressions for the standard errors of some suitable estimators in the case of finite Markov queues, and examines the efficiencies of these estimators.
Randomized Controlled Trial of Mammography Intervention in Insured Very Low–Income Women

Background: The expectation that insurance coverage mitigates health disparities and equalizes use of healthcare assumes that services are equally accessed; however, the insured low-income target population in this research had a mammography rate of 23.4%, well below the general population. Our objective was to determine the most effective intervention to improve mammography use in low-income women insured by a managed care organization (MCO). Methods: The study was a randomized controlled trial. Participants were 2,357 women noncompliant with screening mammography randomly assigned to one of three groups: control (n = 786) received usual care; simple intervention (n = 785) received prompt letter from the MCO medical director; and stepwise intervention (n = 786) received the same prompt letter from the MCO; if noncompliant, a second prompt letter from their primary care physician and, if still noncompliant, counseling from lay health workers. Outcome was completion of screening mammography extracted from medical records. Results: Screening rates were 13.4% for the control, 16.1% for the simple intervention, and 27.1% for the stepwise intervention. Compared with the control, the primary care physician letter in the stepwise intervention increased the likelihood of screening by 80% [Relative Risk (RR) = 1.80; P < 0.001], and counseling tripled the likelihood of screening (RR = 3.11; P < 0.001). Conclusions: Compared with the control and simple intervention, a stepwise intervention to increase mammography is effective in a target population of hard-to-reach, low-income, insured women. Impact: The research provides evidence for the impact of stepwise interventions to improve cancer screening in low-income insured populations, although the screening rates remain well below those of the general population. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 19(7); 1790–8. ©2010 AACR.
Developing Marketing Strategy Of PT Angkasa Dwi Utama To America

PT. Angkasa Dwi Utama, our company has two subsidiaries convinced backpackerjalanjalan.com and tour and travel of Putra Hadi. As we know traveling increasingly in demand by many people and society, but foreigners who are have travelling hobbies, our company can provide tours to several countries in Asia but our company is more concerned to travel in Indonesia. Indonesia has many beautiful spots around the country, but these spots are not published well to the other country. Because of that we use online media for promotion of our business and the hidden beautiful spots in Indonesia, we use website, facebook, twitter, etc. This company have good management systems and interesting tour and travel packages, but this company are not doing promotion well. This company is have great potential to be better, so our team try to help this company selling the product abroad specially USA. The recommended idea from our team is using promotion by social media. We use social media because that is the quickest way to promote it without going to the targeted country. Our team is try to cooperate with another travel agent abroad which is AmericaAsia.com Our team are very optimistic with this project to help the company being International travel agent. We are hoping that our recommended idea can help the company to get more and more travel agent partnership.
Design of a flux switching permanant magnet motor using ferrite magnets

This work presents a design of a flux switching permanent magnet (FSPM) motor using ferrite magnets. Achieving a relatively high power of 4 kW using a cheap magnet is the main purpose of this work. The design starts from the general specifications required for the motor requesting a rotor outer diameter of 300 mm and stack length of 100mm. the design is considered for the low voltage applications where a 48 V inverter is considered. The preliminary motor dimensions identified using previous design equations then the FE analysis used to validate the design and to optimize the output power for the given excitation currents. The motor output performance parameters including the output torque, terminal voltages and the probability of demagnetization have been introduced and discussed.
On the countably many misconceptions about #hashtables (abstract only)

From an ongoing research project on teaching hash tables using worked examples, we present four preliminary observations. First, that rather than there being a small set of common misconceptions, student misconceptions are diverse and often unique to the student. Second, that students' naive language about hash tables when given a pretest is influenced by words from the Internet (e.g. "hashtag"). Third, we observed that students' language on concept questions evolves with repeated testing, becoming more conceptually accurate but technically less precise. And finally, that students' code code correctness is not correlated to code style, but is correlated to how students performed on the concept questions.
THE DEARTH OF NEUTRAL HYDROGEN IN GALACTIC DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

We present new upper limits on the neutral hydrogen (H i) content within the stellar half-light ellipses of 15 Galactic dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs), derived from pointed observations with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) as well as Arecibo L-band Fast ALFA survey and Galactic All-Sky Survey data. All of the limits are more stringent than previously reported values, and those from the GBT improve upon constraints in the literature by a median factor of 23. Normalizing by V-band luminosity LV and dynamical mass Mdyn, we find and , irrespective of location in the Galactic halo. Comparing these relative H i contents to those of the Local Group and nearby neighbor dwarfs compiled by McConnachie, we find that the Galactic dSphs are extremely gas-poor. Our H i upper limits therefore provide the clearest picture yet of the environmental dependence of the H i content in Local Volume dwarfs. If ram pressure stripping explains the dearth of H i in these systems, then orbits in a relatively massive Milky Way are favored for the outer halo dSph Leo I, while Leo II and Canes Venatici I have had a pericentric passage in the past. For Draco and Ursa Minor, the interstellar medium mass that should accumulate through stellar mass loss in between pericentric passages exceeds by a factor of ∼30. In Ursa Minor, this implies that either this material is not in the atomic phase, or that another mechanism clears the recycled gas on shorter timescales.
Effect of Leadership Development on Employee Performance a Case of Selected Banking Sector in Pakistan

This research study is aimed at exploring, testing and establishing the relationship between leadership development and employee performance in the banking sector of Pakistan. Leadership is a well-recognized term and concept in Human resource in particular and business studies in general, however very less attention has been given to the idea and its possibilities in Pakistan. This research has been conducted to establish whether there is a relationship between leadership development and the performance of employees. Five factors of leadership development; coaching, training and development, empowerment, participation and authorization were considered. A sample size of 200 employees of the banks of Pakistan was taken. The results revealed that leadership development is positively and significantly correlated to employee performance.
Acoustic Hearing Implants for Mixed Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review

Objective A systematic review of literature to determine the clinical outcome and safety of the range of acoustic hearing implants (AHIs) in adults with mixed hearing loss (MHL). Data Sources Databases MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane were searched with no language restrictions between 1950, or the start date of each database, up to March 1, 2013. Study Selection Initial search found 1,794 studies, of which, 19 met the inclusion criteria of AHI for adults with MHL where safety, coupling strategies to the inner ear, hearing outcome, and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) were analyzed, preferably compared with a conventional hearing aid or a bone-conduction implant. Data Extraction A study quality assessment based on different parameters was included: specification of eligibility criteria, prospective study, ethical approval gained, appropriate controls, power calculation, outcome measures, and analysis performed. Data Synthesis Comparisons between studies were made based on structured review as meta-analysis was not feasible because of the heterogeneity of outcome measures and reports. Conclusion The current systematic review shows that AHI and their different coupling strategies in the treatment of MHL were beneficial in terms of speech in quiet, PROM, and safety regarding residual hearing. Overall, the level of evidence and the quality of the included studies were judged to be moderate to low. More comprehensive data on coupling to the inner ear and the comparison with conventional hearing aids or alternatives for speech in noise is mandatory. Long-term follow-up data are also needed. Level of Evidence 3a.
Treg Cell Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Compromised by CTLA‐4 Promoter Methylation Resulting in a Failure to Activate the Indoleamine 2,3‐Dioxygenase Pathway

Functionally impaired Treg cells expressing abnormally low levels of CTLA‐4 have been well documented in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the molecular defect underlying this reduced expression is unknown. The aims of this study were to assess the role of DNA methylation in regulating CTLA‐4 expression in Treg cells isolated from RA patients and to elucidate the mechanism of their reduced suppressor function.
NONLINEAR ESTIMATION AND STATISTICAL TESTING OF PERIODS IN NONSINUSOIDAL LONGITUDINAL TIME SERIES WITH UNEQUIDISTANT OBSERVATIONS

The analysis of multiple components is often used to modelbiological variables that show nonsinusoidal predictable changes of knownperiods. In general, to anticipate the periods is not easy, and even in caseswhen we have some a priori information, it is advisable to have a statisticaltool to test the chosen periods. In this work, we introduce a statisticalprocedure to estimate periods of longitudinal series by applying nonlinearregression techniques to the multiple sinusoidal model, as well as to thegeneral linear model. Approximate inferences about the parameters of the modelare carried out under the usual hypothesis of normality, independence, andconstant variance of the errors. Confidence intervals (CIs) for each individualparameter, as well as for the amplitude-acrophase pair or for any other subgroupof parameters of interest, can be computed. As in the linear analysis of multiplecomponents, it is possible to check the existence of rhythm by means of azero-amplitude test. The method also allows statistical testing of severalhypotheses related to the periods. For example, it is possible to test ifthe periods are equal to certain values of chronobiologic interest and tocheck if some components included in the model are harmonically related. Onthe other hand, when the fitted components have proximal periods, the methodallows one to verify if they are modeling the same or different spectral peaks.The method, which was validated by a simulation study for a model of two componentsand is illustrated by an example of modeling the diastolic blood pressureof two subjects, represents a new step in the development of statistical proceduresin chronobiology. (Chronobiology International, 18(2),285–308, 2001)
Some eco-physiological responses of Chlorella vulgaris culture in different environmental conditions

Growth responses of Chlorella vulgaris cultured at different environment such at laboratory, semi massal scale and massal scale seem dissimilar. This research evaluated C. vulgaris’s growth in respond to light intensity, temperature, ammonia, nitrate, orthophosphate, total bacteria and Vibrio bacteria at different culture environment. This result indicated that C. vulgaris grew higher at temperature and irradiation were about 280.7C and 247-205 E.ms respectively and preferring to use ammonia more than at temperature and irradiation were approximately 251.5C and 88-3 E.ms respectively and supplied by nitrate. Moreover as nitrogen source, ammonia is taken less in amount than nitrate by Chlorella to grow. Additionally at high growth of C. vulgaris, the number of total bacteria and Vibrio bacteria in culture environment were more stable. However as orthophosphate linearly declined at culture environment, C. vulgaris and total bacteria decreased whereas Vibrio bacteria increased.
Theory of mind and emotion-recognition functioning in autistic spectrum disorders and in psychiatric control and normal children

The hypothesis was tested that weak theory of mind (ToM) and/or emotion recognition (ER) abilities are specific to subjects with autism. Differences in ToM and ER performance were examined between autistic (n = 20), pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) (n = 20), psychiatric control (n = 20), and normal children (n = 20). The clinical groups were matched person-to-person on age and verbal IQ. We used tasks for the matching and the context recognition of emotional expressions, and a set of first- and second-order ToM tasks. Autistic and PDD-NOS children could not be significantly differentiated from each other, nor could they be differentiated from the psychiatric controls with a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 9). The psychiatric controls with conduct disorder or dysthymia performed about as well as normal children. The variance in second-order ToM performance contributed most to differences between diagnostic groups.