Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LE PILOTAGE DE LA PERFORMANCE : COMMENT LES MANAGERS MAROCAINS UTILISENT DES PRATIQUES DE CONTROLE INNOVANTES POUR CONDUIRE UN RENOUVELLEMENT STRATEGIQUE DANS LES ENTREPRISES ?

L ’ innovation manageriale est aujourd ’ hui percue comme un levier de performance et de competitivite, elle permet aux entreprises de s ’ adapter a leur environnement ce qui entrainerait un accroissement de l ’ efficacite et de l ’ efficience des processus internes. A cet effet, Il est important d ’ etudier le comportement des controleurs de gestion dans un environnement turbulent pour construire un modele qui nous permettra d ’ apprehender comment les managers marocains utilisent des pratiques de controle innovantes pour conduire un renouvellement strategique dans les entreprises.
A review of reindeer lichen (Cladonia subgenus Cladina) linear growth rates

Cladonia subgenus Cladina (the reindeer lichens) can be a dominant part of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. They are particularly abundant in arctic-alpine and boreal regions, where they are a primary food source for woodland caribou/reindeer in winter months. Determining the growth rates of reindeer lichen is important for understanding and managing lichen regeneration following disturbances such as timber harvesting, mining, grazing, and wildfire. Regeneration and rehabilitation rates can be calculated with greater accuracy when growth rates are well understood. We provide a summary of 17 studies from 6 countries that determined the linear growth rates of three reindeer lichen groups, Cladonia arbuscula/mitis (mean = 4.7 mm/yr.), C. rangiferina/ C. stygia (mean = 5.1 mm/yr.), and C. stellaris (mean = 4.8 mm/yr.). We use linear growth rates as a proxy for over-all growth and biomass. Variables found to influence lichen growth rates are also discussed, which include light, moisture, temperature, air pollution, acid rain, precipitation, snow accumulation, substrate, age of individuals, and type of disturbance. These results can assist land managers in developing more accurate strategies for restoring lichens in disturbed areas.
LOW-RANK MATRIX DECOMPOSITION WITH SUPERPIXEL-BASED STRUCTURED SPARSE REGULARIZATION FOR MOVING OBJECT DETECTION IN SATELLITE VIDEOS

Abstract. With new accessibility to satellite videos, retrieving the dynamic information of moving objects over a vast territory becomes possible with the development of advanced video processing and machine learning techniques. Detecting moving objects can be based on the structures of both background and foreground of a satellite video, and the background is assumed to lay in a low dimensional subspace. As the moving objects in satellite videos are groups of neighbouring pixels other than isolated pixels, Low-rank and Structured Sparse Decomposition (LSD) with structured sparsity regularization on the foreground can suppress the false alarms caused by isolated outliers. However, in LSD, the groups of neighbouring pixels are extracted by a fixed sliding window over each video frame, which ignores the coherence on the appearance of a moving object. For example, a moving object can be in an irregular shape and arbitrary orientation. In this paper, we argue that the spatial groups on the foreground can be defined using the concept of superpixels, where each superpixel is formed by a group of spatially connected similar pixels obtained from over-segmentation. We conduct low-rank matrix decomposition at superpixel level, which is named as Superpixel-based LSD (S-LSD). To handle the variation in moving objects, we combine the superpixels at a range of scales in the superpixel-based spatial regularization on the foreground. With the reduction in the number of spatial groups, S-LSD presents reduced computation complexity. The results on two satellite videos show a satisfactory performance with a significant saving in processing time when the proposed S-LSD approach is applied.
Indoor environmental quality factors that matter to workplace occupants: an 11-year-benchmark study

ABSTRACT Post-occupancy evaluations (POE) have been often used to study user satisfaction with office environments. More recently, POEs have been recognized for documenting occupant well-being and responses to 26 indoor environmental quality (IEQ) factors that incorporate sustainable design guidelines such as thermal, lighting, and acoustic conditions. The Sustainable Post-Occupancy Evaluation Surveys (SPOES) have measured occupants’ (n = 2836) satisfaction with IEQ factors for 11 years. This paper presents findings from this 11-year-benchmark study. It suggests a lower satisfaction rating for adjustability than other IEQ factors. Based on further logistic regression analyses of the IEQ factors, occupants tended to be dissatisfied with their primary workspace when they were dissatisfied with acoustic conditions, furnishings, and privacy. The results imply that improving acoustic and privacy conditions, especially, would bring the most significant impact on the positive experience in built environments, whereas improving thermal conditions would impact relatively less significant on the positive experience. Acknowledging how differently each IEQ factor can affect building occupants’ satisfaction and perception is important for determining benchmarks that support occupants’ health and well-being in the workplace environment, where they spend much of their time.
Matching Consignees/Shippers Recommendation System in Courier Service Using Data Analytics

The purpose of this research was to create a Matching Consignees/Shippers Recommendation System (MCSRS). We used the association rule to identify product associations, the clustering technique to group shippers and consignees according to behaviors when receiving goods from similar shipper groups, and the decision tree to identify possible matches between shippers and consignees. Finally, Monte Carlo simulation was used to estimate potential revenue. The case study is a courier company in Thailand. The results showed that garment products and clothes were the products with the highest association. Shippers and consignees of these products were segmented according to recency, frequency, monetary factors, number of customers, number of product items, weight, and day. Three rules are proposed that enabled the assignment of 8 consignees to 56 shippers with an estimated increase in revenue by 36%. This approach helps decision-makers to develop an effective cost-saving new marketing, inclusive strategy quickly.
Creditor’s Legal Remedy Against The Ruling Of Cancellation Of Credit Agreements

The present study departs from the Decision of the Supreme Court No. 3784 K/PDT/2016 stating that the credit agreement is canceled considering that the creditor did not apply the prudential principle, making it being declared as committed an act against the law. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to analyze the appropriateness of the ruling of the judges who decided the cancellation of the credit agreement and the creditors’ legal remedies against the ruling. The present study is a normative legal one using the case-study and statutory approaches. The legal materials used consist of primary and secondary legal materials. The legal materials are analyzed using the prescriptive analysis. Results show that the dictum of the Supreme Court’s ruling No. 3784 K/PDT/2016 stating the cancellation of the credit agreement are not appropriate since the lender has implemented the prudential principle and the credit agreement was lawfully made. The creditor’s legal remedy against the cancellation of the credit agreement is to sue the debtor using the legal basis of Article 1359 paragraph (1) of the Civil Code concerning undue payments.
Quasi self-dual codes over non-unital rings of order six

There exist two semi-local rings of order 6 without identity for the multiplication. We classify up to coordinate permutation self-orthogonal codes of length n and size 6n/2 over these rings (called here quasi self-dual codes or QSD) till the length n = 8. To any such code is attached canonically a ? 6-code, which, when self-dual, produces an unimodular lattice by Construction A.
Social recommendation algorithms with user feedback information

Social media information can effectively improve the performance of personalized recommendation model. However, the feedback information in the social media which can accurately reflect users' implicit preferences is often ignored by most existing methods. To improve the users' experience and reduce the push of unwelcome information, in this article, we propose a new social recommendation algorithm with user feedback information. Different from the existing recommendation methods based on probability matrix decomposition, we incorporate the user implicit feedback information into the user rating prediction function. To reduce the data sparsity of implicit feedback information, we also adopt social network trust calculation in our algorithm. As a result, we can not only optimize the recommendation list but also filter out most of disgusting content. Compared with PMF, UserCF, CUNE, and TrustSVD, but slightly lower than RSTE, the experimental results of our model on real‐world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, and further verify that the user experience is significantly improved without obviously reducing the accuracy of the recommendation.
Effects of Substituting Manure for Fertilizer on Aggregation and Aggregate Associated Carbon and Nitrogen in a Vertisol

Fertilizer management influences the accumulation of soil organic C and N in agricultural soils. The combined use of chemical and organic fertilizers is considered a good method to enhance soil fertility, but it is still unclear about the effects of substituting manure for fertilizer on aggregation and aggregate associated organic C and N. We selected a 4-yr-old soil fertility experiment to examine the aggregation and aggregate associated organic C and N in response to substituting manure for fertilizer. In comparison to control, no fertilizer added (CK); substituting manure for fertilizer significantly increased organic C and N by 11.61 to 47.97% and 21.05 to 32.63% in 0- to 20-cm bulk soil, respectively. It promoted organic C in the silt + clay fraction, microaggregates, small macroaggregates, and large macroaggregates by 3.17 to 17.15%, 12.94 to 34.09%, 10.99 to 50.20%, and 25.32 to 52.09%, respectively. Aggregate associated N also presented significant increases under substituting manure for fertilizer compared to CK. The mass distribution of small and large macroaggregates were 8.16 to 15.54% and 8.89 to 49.51% higher in the manure-substituted plots than CK, respectively. Organic C and labile C were generally greater in macro- than microaggregates in the manure-substituted plots; redundancy analysis confirmed that macroaggregates had positive effects on organic C and N sequestration in bulk soil and aggregates. Based on these results we suggested that substituting manure increases macroaggregate associated organic C and N, and the formation of small and large macroaggregates is accelerated by organic amendment in the test soil compared to CK.
USO DA CITOMETRIA DE FLUXO COMO UMA METODOLOGIA EMERGENTE PARA AVALIAR A VIABILIDADE CELULAR PROBIÓTICA

A quantificacao bacteriana em uma formulacao probiotica de forma precisa e imprescindivel para garantir que o produto atingiu a dose minima de celulas recomendada, cumprindo assim, os padroes regulamentares e a citacao no rotulo. Metodos tradicionais de contagem em placas nao enumeram com exatidao todos os probioticos disponiveis, apenas a populacao bacteriana capaz de se replicar sob em meios de cultura em circunstâncias especificas. Portanto, nao contabilizam as bacterias que sob condicoes ambientais estressantes tornam-se nao cultivaveis, embora se mantenham metabolicamente ativas e possam retornar a capacidade de se replicar quando as condicoes se tornarem favoraveis novamente. Por outro lado, metodologias independentes de cultura, como a citometria de fluxo, possui uma definicao mais abrangente e confiavel da viabilidade bacteriana por incluir as bacterias viaveis mas nao cultivaveis (VNC), discriminando subpolulacoes celulares vivas, danificadas e mortas com precisao e rapidez, facilitando assim, a rotina de laboratorios. Nesta revisao sao abordados aspectos gerais da citometria de fluxo, bem como as principais vantagens da utilizacao para avaliacao detalhada da viabilidade e funcoes fisiologicas celulares quando comparado as tecnicas tradicionais de cultura.
Analysis of Security Threats Analysis under LEACH Routing Protocol for WSN and DTN

-The routing protocol is a process to select suitable path for the data to travel from source to destination. The process encounters several difficulties while selecting the route, which depends upon, type of network, channel characteristics and the performance metrics. The data sensed by the sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is typically forwarded to the base station that connects the sensor network with the other networks (may be internet) where the data is collected, analyzed and some action is taken accordingly. In very small sensor networks where the base station and motes (sensor nodes) so close that they can communicate directly with each other than this is single-hop communication but in most WSN application the coverage area is so large that requires thousands of nodes to be placed and this scenario requires multi-hop communication because most of the sensor nodes are so far from the sink node (gateway) so that they cannot communicate directly with the base station. The single-hop communication is also called direct communication and multi-hop communication is called indirect communication. In multi-hop communication the sensor nodes not only produce and deliver their material but also serve as a path for other sensor nodes towards the base station. The process of finding suitable path from source node to destination node is called routing and this is the primary responsibility of the network layer.
Synthesis and Cross-Linking of a Benzoxazine-Containing Anthracene Moiety: Thermally Stable Photoluminescent Benzoxazine Resin

A novel benzoxazine derivative, 9,10-bis­(6-ethynyl-3-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-1,3-benzoxazine)­anthracene (1a), was synthesized by the Sonogashira–Hagihara coupling reaction of 9,10-dibromoanthracene and 6-ethynyl-3-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-1,3-benzoxazine. A CH2Cl2 solution of 1a luminesced with a high quantum yield (Φ = 81%). Compound 1a afforded solvent-insoluble cross-linked polybenzoxazine 1b by the bulk polymerization at 250 °C. Solution polymerization of a dilute solution of 1a at 200 °C afforded solvent-soluble samples, accompanied by a decrease of photoluminescence intensity. The weight loss values of 1a and 1b were 81 and 87%, respectively, under nitrogen at 500 °C. We believe that the present study will lead to thermally stable curing resins whose degree of curing can be estimated with the naked eye by observing the decrease of photoluminescence.
Intestinal Immune Homeostasis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Perspective on Intracellular Response Mechanisms

The pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) involves perturbation of intestinal immune homeostasis in genetically susceptible individuals. A mutual interplay between intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and gut resident microbes maintains a homeostatic environment across the gut. An idiopathic gastrointestinal (GI) complication triggers aberrant physiological stress in the epithelium and peripheral myeloid cells, leading to a chronic inflammatory condition. Indeed, events in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria contribute to orchestrating intracellular mechanisms such as the unfolded protein response (UPR) and oxidative stress, respectively, to resolve aberrant cellular stress. This review highlights the signaling cascades encrypted within ER and mitochondria in IECs and/or myeloid cells to dissipate chronic stress in maintaining intestinal homeostasis.
Mobile Applications for Assessing Human Posture: A Systematic Literature Review

Smartphones are increasingly incorporated with features such as sensors and high resolution cameras that empower their capabilities, enabling their use for varied activities including human posture assessments. Previous reviews have discussed methods used in postural assessment but none of them focused exclusively on mobile applications. This paper systematically reviews mobile applications proposed for analyzing human posture based on alignment of the body in the sagittal and coronal plane. The main digital libraries were searched, 26 articles published between 2010 and 2020 were selected, and 13 mobile applications were identified, classified and discussed. Results showed that the use of mobile applications to assist with posture assessment have been demonstrated to be reliable, and this can contribute to clinical practice of health professionals, especially the assessment and reassessment phases of treatments, despite some variations when compared to traditional methods. Moreover, in the case of image-based applications, we highlight the advantage that measurements can be taken with the assessor at a certain distance with respect to the patient’s position, which is an important function for assessments performed in pandemic times such as the outbreak of COVID-19.
Functionalized Inorganic Nanoparticles for the Detection of Food and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens

Infections acquired from ingesting contaminated food and water poses an adverse effect on public health and safety, thus affecting nations’ economy. Technical approaches developed over years have contributed adequately to microbial detection in food and water, yet, unveiling spaces for more improvement on early and rapid detection of pathogens. This review highlights different strategy assessing bio-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles towards the detection of pathogens in food and water samples. Conjugates of several bio-receptors and inorganic nanoparticles showed rapid, real-time, repeatability, and appreciable limit of detection in targeted pathogens. A patent referenced in this study established the biocompatibility of bio-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles mechanism. Unique attributes exhibited by bio-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles showed potential and improvement of the existing bio-sensing pathogen detection methods. Each of the identified strategies described showed a promising pathway accommodating the development of simple, and even the fabrication of low-cost materials for easy detection of bacterial pathogens in food and water products.
The sociocultural dimension of the Software Process Improvement Manifesto: Pilot validation by experts

The Software Process Improvement (SPI) Manifesto is based on three basic values: people, business focus and organisational change underpinning the philosophy of SPI. In turn, these values bring up to date certain SPI principles serving as a foundation for action in software development. The authors of this paper carried out a pilot expert validation of the sociocultural dimension of the sociocultural, technical, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical and demographic analysis of the SPI Manifesto. Further, the authors report on the rationale and results of the pilot validation of both the survey instrument and the qualitative responses generated by the field experts, targeting to enlighten and reinforce the importance of the sociocultural dimension of the SPI Manifesto in research and development. The related literature review findings and the pilot research study strengthen this target. The pilot study with experts in particular provided stronger indications that the sociocultural dimension is considered of high importance by between 62% and 88% of the respondents, who were IT and computing professionals and software practitioners from academia and industry.
Contouring Sustainability: Cultural Configurations of Nordic Firms

* Corresponding author: Olga Stangej, email: olga.stangej@gmail.com Research Question: This article outlines and explains a unique cultural configuration of organizations in the Nordics – the region that embodies linkages between sustainability, societal, cultural context, and organizational culture. Motivation: Our goal was to offer a holistic approach that incorporates national and organizational perspectives as they apply to Nordic organizations’ culture, as culture is typically examined either through a) the lens of its national culture, or, b) through specific assumptions, beliefs and values, and artifacts that exist in the institution itself. Idea: Building on theoretical underpinnings from models of national culture and a separate framework for examining organizational culture, we examine how the links among cultural artifacts, espoused values and beliefs, and basic underlying assumptions are established in Nordic organizations and how they complement previous findings about the Nordic cultural cluster in general. Findings: This integrative analysis suggests that the highly prominent central tendencies of the Nordics across core cultural dimensions are deeply rooted as basic underlying assumptions within the Nordic culture that are ultimately translated into a set of observable artifacts. Likewise, the moderately expressed tendencies have not yet been transformed into underlying assumptions and are accompanied with mixed artifacts. Contribution: This paper expands our existing understanding regarding the interplay of national and organizational culture in specific cultural cluster – Nordic cluster, which is characterized by high achievements in sustainability-orientated societal-level outcomes.
The Influence of Competence and Locus of Control Towards Government Internal Auditors Performance Mediated by Job Satisfaction at Inspectorate Office of Endez Regency

The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the influence of competence and locus of control on the performance of government internal auditors with job satisfaction as an intervening variable. This research is an explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The sample in this study were all internal auditors at the Ende Regency Inspectorate Office. The collection of data and information needed in this study was carried out by field research. The data used are primary data, obtained directly from research subjects in the form of respondents' perceptions in the form of questionnaires to respondents. The data normality test refers to the Shapiro-Wilk sig value. The analytical tool used is the path analysis and mediation test with Sobel tests. Results of data testing showed that the competency variable had a significant positive influence on job satisfaction and internal auditor performance. The locus of control has a positive and significant influence on job satisfaction and internal auditor performance. Job satisfaction has a positive and significant influence on the performance of internal auditors and is not able to mediate the relationship between competence and internal auditor performance; as well as being not able to mediate the relationship between the locus of control and the performance of internal auditors. Keywords— competence, locus of control, job satisfaction, government internal auditor’s performance (keywords)