Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Inter-Services Comparative Study on the Diversification of the Factors of Employee Retention in Bangladesh: Application of Structural Equation Modeling

Despite a significant number of researches for finding the factors of employee retention and its short- and long-run impact on the organizations, a comprehensive comparison of the factors of employee retention among different types of organizations is yet to be undertaken in Bangladesh. The findings of those researches on the factors of employee retention rarely explicate their specification on different types of organizations, which is assumed to be different. Thus, we argue that a comprehensive study to find the factors of employee retention of the employees in different types of organizations is relevant and necessary. Such a study would allow reaching more explicit and comprehensive understanding on the specification of the factors of employee retention among different types of organizations and will help to make efficacious policy for employee retention in the organizations. We would like to address the research by means of a systematic and conceptual analysis of the responses on employee retention from the employees working in different types of organization such as “Private Universities,” “Private Banks” “readymade garment sector,” and “information technology” sector. In that regards, data have been collected from 270 employees, at least 50 from each type of organization by stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation. This study has applied structural equation modeling to find the common and specific factors of employee retention among the studied organizations. We have found that the factors of employee retention are notably different in varying nature of organizations. Those identified factors of employee retention for each type of organization can be addressed to put into effect to reduce bad turnover (competent employees leaving) in the organizations. The contribution of this paper will also help the policy makers to devise an effective plan for the organizations to ensure retention of employees. Aus. Aca. Busi & Eco. Rev Vol 3(3), July 2017, P 166-176
2014-2015 tax changes in EU Member States vs the Commission’s tax policy recommendations

At first glance, it would seem that in recent years the tax changes adopted by EU Member States have diverged from the European Commission’s tax policy recommendations. Member States generally appear to go no further than making minor changes to existing tax rules. The Commission, on the other hand, recommends far broader reforms designed to help tax systems meet the challenges raised by the current economic crisis. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to monitor this situation, and to offer an overall picture of the 2014-2015 tax changes made by European Union Member States. Furthermore, we shall be discussing the EU’s 2015 tax policy recommendations to Member States. By doing so we are in a position to affirm that the said divergence appears to exist, and we offer a number of observations regarding this result.
Utilizing Tracking Data in RFID-Equipped Warehouses

The utilization of RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) related technologies became very common in the last few years. The effected main areas are highway surveillance systems, access cards, transport payments, RFID passports and product tracking systems. Tagged products can be tracked in an appropriately equipped warehouse with the help of the installed RFID readers. By deploying a grid of RFID readers the movement of the customers can be monitored because of a tag attached to the shopping cart or the products stored in it. In this paper, assuming such an environment, it has been examined how relevant information can be retrieved with the help of data mining methods from the collected, RFID-related tracking data. The frequent sequences have been extracted, revealing the most visited spots and walks across the warehouse and the typical products selected along the way. This warehouse technology is not widespread yet, hence the effeciency of the algorithm could only be examined by conducting measurements on synthetic tracking data generated by a simulation environment.
Temperature and Rainfall Index Insurance in India

Weather index insurance has been attracting much attention from academics and policy makers. This paper investigates the demand for temperature and rainfall index insurance in India using the data from randomized subsidy experiments. We find that price, income and asset levels influence the demand for both temperature and rainfall insurance. We also show that richer farmers are less price-sensitive and farmers' response to the discount becomes less price-sensitive as the amount of discount increases. Non-price factors such as age and education level of a respondent are important correlates. Purchase decisions are also influenced by individual prior experience and society experience of insurance.
Effect of Anti-Fungal Transgene(s) on Agronomic Traits of Transgenic Peanut Lines Grown under Field Conditions

Agronomic traits may become adversely affected when field crops are transformed with foreign genes which confer resistance to plant pathogens. Field testing of such transformed plant lines is necessary to determine if desirable yield components have been retained through the transformation and regeneration process. Thirty-four peanut lines, thirty-two of which are transgenic containing anti-fungal genes, were evaluated under field conditions for a 3-year period. Peanut lines were arranged in a complete randomized block design with three replications. Disease incidence was recorded throughout the growing season, the yield components of pod mass, shelling percentage, and seed weight were determined upon harvest, and the data were analyzed for statistical significance. Deterioration of yield components was observed for 5/32 transgenic lines and was not always consistent with increased disease incidence. Yield components measured for the majority of transgenic lines tested were comparable to the parental genotype Okrun, suggesting retention of desirable market traits by these plant lines. Of the plant lines retaining desirable quality traits, 10 demonstrated increased resistance to fungal infection compared to Okrun. These results have identified transgenic peanut lines with potential use in breeding programs for disease resistance coupled with desirable yield components.
Stakeholders and Power Relations in Regulation

Stakeholders play at least two roles in utility regulation: Some receive benefits, such as customers protected from monopoly power. Stakeholders also influence regulation by, for instance, commenting in proceedings. Most studies on stakeholder relations focus on engagement, such as through advisory groups and public hearings. Largely missing are analyses of power relationships. Some stakeholders, such as lawmakers, have formal authority over regulatory bodies. Others have little formal authority. Stakeholders also vary in how and the degrees to which regulators affect them. This paper examines these relationships and illustrates them with a survey of regulatory agencies in the Caribbean.
The intrinsic cardiac nervous system and atrial fibrillation

Purpose of review Radiofrequency ablation techniques to cure cardiac arrhythmias have focused on destroying myocardial tissue involved in abnormal excitation or conduction. This review will address recent basic and clinical studies which suggest that targeting autonomic nerves and ganglia on the large vessels and the heart, within the pericardium, can result in cardiac arrhythmia suppression with little, if any, damage to healthy myocardium. Recent findings Basic reports have shown that electrical stimulation of autonomic nerves on the heart itself can facilitate the induction of atrial fibrillation. The initial investigations found that the lowest threshold for inducing atrial fibrillation was at the entrances of the pulmonary veins. Moreover, beta-blockade blunted this response whereas atropine abolished atrial fibrillation inducibility. Subsequent studies found that ganglionated plexi clustered at the pulmonary vein entrances (within fat pads) could be stimulated without atrial excitation. Now, premature beats induced in the pulmonary veins could be converted to atrial fibrillation with a significantly greater propensity than without ganglionated plexi stimulation. Furthermore, ablation of these ganglionated plexi abolished atrial fibrillation inducibility. Clinical studies have been forthcoming clearly implicating these intrinsic cardiac ganglia in clinical atrial fibrillation. Summary Previous ablation procedures have focused on destroying myocardial sites that participated in the initiation and perpetuation of various tachyarrhythmias. New basic and clinical findings may allow targeting autonomic elements at a few specific sites on the heart that are directly related to arrhythmia formation, thereby reducing extensive damage to healthy myocardium.
Pulpotomy medicaments for vital primary teeth. Surveys to determine use and attitudes in pediatric dental practice and in dental schools throughout the world.

Surveys were sent to all Canadian pediatric dental specialists and to Heads of Departments of Pediatric Dentistry of selected dental schools throughout the world, in order to determine the use of and attitudes toward pulpal techniques on vital primary teeth. The preferred pulpotomy medicament of Canadian pediatric dental specialists was the 1:5 formocresol dilution, which was used by 50 percent of the respondents. The second most prevalent medicament was full-strength formocresol, used by 42.2 percent of respondents. The most prevalent medicament utilized in pediatric dental departments of dental schools was full-strength formocresol (40.8 percent) followed in popularity by the 1:5 formocresol dilution (36 percent). Scandinavia was the only geographic region to deviate from formocresol as the preferred pulpotomy medicament. Seventy percent (70 percent) of the pediatric dental departments in Scandinavia preferred calcium hydroxide for pulpotomies. Although 50 percent of the pediatric dental specialists and 55.2 percent of pediatric dental departments expressed concern about harmful effects of the preferred pulpotomy medicament, only 21.2 percent of the dentists and 29.6 percent of the schools were contemplating a change to another material. Because of its long history and lasting popularity, formocresol has been the most widely studied of the many pulpotomy medicaments. Although other techniques have been proposed and studied, the vast majority of pediatric dental practitioners in Canada (92.4 percent) and dental schools worldwide (76.8 percent) utilize either the full-strength or the 1:5 dilution of formocresol as the preferred pulpotomy medicament for vital primary teeth. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Proxy assessment of quality of life in patients with prostate cancer: how accurate are partners and urologists?

Summary Objectives To assess the ability of partners and clinicians to make proxy judgements on behalf of patients with prostate cancer relating to selection of life priorities and quality of life (QoL). Design 47 consecutive patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma, and their partners, were recruited. The partners were asked to assess, by proxy, the QoL of the patient by completion of a series of interview-led questionnaires assessing global QoL (SEIQoL-DW), health-related QoL (FACT-P) and overall QoL (visual analogue score [VAS]). The patients' clinicians were asked to complete the SEIQoL-DW and VAS by proxy as soon as possible after a consultation with the patient. Setting Patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma, their partners and their clinicians. Main outcome measures Proxy scores for SEIQoL-DW, FACT-P and VAS, as provided by partners and clinicians. Results 25 partners made a proxy assessment of the patients. The results showed that partners were able to select similar QoL cues to those of the patients (Spearman-Rank correlation 0.89). Comparison of the QoL scores obtained from patients and partners in proxy using the questionnaires showed no statistically significant difference (paired t-test). Urologists were poor predictors of areas of life (cues) that were important to their patients. The doctors overemphasized the importance of survival, postoperative complications, urinary symptoms, sexual ability, activities of daily living and finance, but underestimated the importance of wife, family, home and religion. Comparison of the QoL scores obtained from patients and urologists by proxy showed a significantly lower score when assessed by urologists using the SEIQoL-DW questionnaire. Conclusions Partners are able to accurately assess, by proxy, the areas of life that are of importance to patients. Clinicians, however, who are charged with making decisions on behalf of patients, are very poor judges of their patients' life priorities and QoL. This illustrates that conventional views held by most doctors regarding the priorities patients set themselves when planning treatment should be called into question and consequently suggests that the way in which doctors and patients arrive at treatment decisions must be reviewed.
Fast and slow responses of Southern Ocean sea surface 1 temperature to SAM in coupled climate models 2

We investigate how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) around Antarctica 8 respond to the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) on multiple timescales. To that end 9 we examine the relationship between SAM and SST within unperturbed preindus10 trial control simulations of coupled general circulation models (GCMs) included 11 in the Climate Modeling Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5). We develop 12 Y. Kostov Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA E-mail: yavor@mit.edu Present address: Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK. E-mail: yavor.kostov@physics.ox. ac.uk J. Marshall Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA U. Hausmann Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA K. C. Armour School of Oceanography and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA D. Ferreira Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, P.O. Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, UK M. M. Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 3090, USA 2 Yavor Kostov et al. a technique to extract the response of the Southern Ocean SST (55◦S−70◦S) to a 13 hypothetical step increase in the SAM index. We demonstrate that in many GCMs, 14 the expected SST step response function is nonmonotonic in time. Following a shift 15 to a positive SAM anomaly, an initial cooling regime can transition into surface 16 warming around Antarctica. However, there are large differences across the CMIP5 17 ensemble. In some models the step response function never changes sign and cool18 ing persists, while in other GCMs the SST anomaly crosses over from negative to 19 positive values only three years after a step increase in the SAM. This intermodel 20 diversity can be related to differences in the models’ climatological thermal ocean 21 stratification in the region of seasonal sea ice around Antarctica. Exploiting this 22 relationship, we use observational data for the time-mean meridional and vertical 23 temperature gradients to constrain the real Southern Ocean response to SAM on 24 fast and slow timescales. 25
Redox-triggered mitoxantrone prodrug micelles for overcoming multidrug-resistant breast cancer

Abstract Multidrug resistance (MDR) severely hinders the efficient chemotherapeutic treatments of cancer. d-α-Tocopherol polyethylene 1000 succinate (TPGS) based drug delivery system holds the potential of re-sensitizing resistant cancer cells. In this study, a TPGS prodrug containing both TPGS and mitoxantrone (MTO) via a disulphide bond was synthesised and assembled into micelle (TSMm) with a monodispersed diameter of 46.50 ± 1.12 nm. The disulphide bonds within the micelles could be cleaved in response to a high concentration of intracellular glutathione (GSH) after entering the tumour cells, leading a rapid release of MTO. In vitro cytotoxicity study showed TSMm significantly inhibited the growth of resistant breast tumour cells MDA-MB-231/MDR comparing to either free MTO or disulphide-free prodrug micelle (TCMm). In addition, TSMm could sustain favourable intracellular retention and cause the depletion of ATP activity, leading to the preferential transportation of MTO into the nucleus and the reversal of MDR. In vivo imaging also verified that TSMm was specifically targeted to the tumour regions at 24 h post injection. Finally, TSMm has significantly stronger antitumor activity in xenograft nude mice with negligible side effects. Hence, TSMm can serve as promising prodrug candidates to strengthen the reversal of MDR in tumours with less side effects.
Divison Polynomials for Alternate Models of Elliptic Curves

In this paper we find division polynomials for Huff curves, Jacobi quartics, and Jacobi intersections. These curves are alternate models for elliptic curves to the more common Weierstrass curve. Division polynomials for Weierstrass curves are well known, and the division polynomials we find are analogues for these alternate models. Using the division polynomials, we show recursive formulas for the n-th multiple of a point on each curve. As an application, we prove a type of mean-value theorem for Huff curves, Jacobi quartics and Jacobi intersections.
Implementation Science and Child Maltreatment

This issue’s articles persuasively make the case for evidence-based practices in the child welfare system. The quality of care across the social services is substandard, and perilously so in publicly funded settings, such as those that serve child maltreatment. As few as 10% of all publicly funded child-serving agencies offer evidence-based care (Hoagwood & Olin, 2002). In the words of the Institute of Medicine, the care that could be is rarely the care that is (Institute of Medicine, 2001). The reasons are myriad and complex. The child welfare field confronts some of society’s most serious family and socioeconomic problems but is perpetually and seriously underfunded. Providers are overworked, unsupported, and beleaguered. The status quo is often accepted with ‘‘resigned frustration and a sense that change is too hard strategically, too sensitive culturally, and too intransigent on an individual level’’ (Bammer, 2003, p. 30). When offering any care is a stretch, high-quality care may seem an unattainable goal. Yet, the child welfare system is arguably well positioned to deliver evidence-based care. Thanks to two decades of research, the supply of evidence-based programs is substantial, and several protocolized practices are endorsed by clearing houses, policy and advocacy groups, and various levels of government. Moreover, from a public health perspective, this system has massive ‘‘reach,’’ serving about 700,000 children annually (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 2011). It is universally available in some form, although what is meant by the system varies widely between and often within states. This special issue of Child Maltreatment directly confronts one of the most important challenges of our time: How can we insure that vulnerable children and their families receive effective care? Each article reports new research, and collectively they delve into the very questions confronting administrators, payers, advocates, and frontline providers: What treatments work? How much will implementing new treatments help? How will providers react to manualized treatments and monitoring of their care? And how can we implement and sustain empirically supported services at sufficient scale sufficient to improve the safety and wellbeing of our nation’s children and families? From a research perspective, these articles reflect significant strides in the implementation science within child welfare by (1) emphasizing external validity, (2) informing the role of context on implementation success, (3) advancing knowledge about implementation strategies, especially strategies involving provider education, (4) addressing implementation outcomes, notably fidelity, adoption, and sustainability, and (5) demonstrating methodological innovations.
Phalangeal Fracture During Attempted Dupuytrens Release Following Clostridial Collagenase Injection: Case Report

Introduction: Dupuytren’s disease can be a challenging condition for both patients and surgeons. Injectable collagen clostridium histolyticum was approved for clinical use by the Food and Drug Administration in 2010. A number of side effects have been described. In this case report, we present a complication of a proximal phalanx fracture which occurred during attempted release post injection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of this particular complication. Case Report: The patient is an 80-year-old right-hand dominant retired male with bilateral hand contractures and palmar fibromatosis. His medical history is notable for Type II diabetes mellitus and metastatic thyroid cancer. The patient underwent Xiaflex injection of the left small finger and returned 4 days later for planned release. An appreciable release of the contracture was noted; however, there was a concern for plastic deformation of the proximal phalanx as a result of the manipulation. X-rays confirmed the fracture and apex volar angulation at the base of the proximal phalanx. The fracture appeared amenable to non-operative treatment. The patient has been followed closely and has had no pain or tenderness at the fracture site and minimal swelling. X-rays at 1 week and 1 month showed maintained alignment and signs of consolidation at the fracture site. The patient is currently 4-month post-fracture, and no further intervention has been pursued. Conclusions: This report represents an additional potential complication associated with the use of Xiaflex. We recommend judicious use in elderly patients with severe contractures and/or multiple comorbidities. It is important to appreciate the possibility of this complication at the time of release.