Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Art of Organizational Diagnosis: Pathogens and Remedies

Organizational diagnosis is the process of diagnosing an organizational health, finding pathogens if any and finally removing those pathogens through some corrective actions. In order to perform an effective diagnosis, the first step is to identify the organization’s health types. In this paper we propose three basic states of an organization with respect to the health of the organization. These three states in which an organization can be at any point of time are performing, stable and disarranged. Every state has its own characteristics, which can be measured through the extended diagnostic model. Based on those measurements diagnostician can classify an organization to be in one of the states. Finally the diagnostician suggests corrective actions for the stable or disarranged states to move the organization to the performing state.
Manipulating cow diets to reduce nutrient wastage to the environment

Increasing Nitrogen losses to the atmosphere (ammonia and nitrous oxide) and water (nitrate) will place a limit on intensification of New Zealand dairy systems. • Pasture breeding, improvements in pasture management and increased use of N fertiliser have all increased the protein (N) content of pasture. • Urinary N excretion per cow increases dramatically with high protein diets. • There are other reasons to be concerned about high protein dietsincluding milk taints and possible effects on cow fertility. • Increased stocking rates with improved pasture quality, increased N fertiliser use and increase use of purchased supplements further compound the problem with excess N (increased urinary N/hectare). • There is little evidence for beneficial reductions in urinary N excretion by changing the nature of protein within pasture species that grow well in New Zealand. • Major reductions in urinary N excretion can be achieved by reducing dietary N content. An important long-term breeding goal is to replace protein in grasses and clover with lipids or available carbohydrates. There is already evidence for high-sugar ryegrass cultivars reducing urinary N excretion whilst increasing milk protein yields. • Reducing fertiliser N applications will reduce urinary N, both per cow and particularly per hectare. • Supplementation of average to high-quality pasture with high protein supplements will exacerbate the problem, with a high proportion of the supplement N excreted in urine. • Low-protein supplements, such as maize silage, may reduce urinary N excretion per unit of milk protein produced, but are still likely to increase urinary N excretion per cow and per hectare.
Urban efflorescences of the global and the local: An analysis of the territory of Gipuzkoa (Spain)

This article addresses the changes produced in recent decades by increasing globalization, with the aim of discerning how far they have impacted the urban structure of Gipuzkoa, and tests an approach method meant to ascertain the spatial qualities distilled from their urban manifestation. While discussion of globalization phenomena is a subject that has been discussed at length from multiple standpoints, this reading’s objective is to study the centrality caused by that phenomenon by means of new urban events and to identify the characteristics specific to it in the particular situation of the territory of Gipuzkoa. Because if something does seem evident in the extensive literature around this question, it is the growing importance acquired by the differentiation of urban settings and territories in the context of increasing homogenization taking place on the world stage. The theoretical framework in which the research is situated draws from some of the globalization characteristics indicated owing to their effects on the spatial geography, resorting for that purpose to authors such as Sassen (1991), Castells & Hall (1994) or Hall (1997), who among other aspects discuss questions associated to the high urban concentration Abstract. The present study deals with the changes generated in the last decades by the increasing globalization in order to discern its influence on the urban structure of Gipuzkoa. The incidence of globalization in the processes of urban transformation is perceived, on the one hand, in the tendency towards the concentration of economic activities and, on the other, in the stimulus received by the local level and by the specialization, as generators of urban concentration. The urban forms that have arisen in this territory as a result of the global exposure present a varied typology as a consequence of the multiple scopes and scales in which they have been developed. Far from pretending to cover them all, the present study analyses a sample of urban processes and effects that have taken place in the territory of Gipuzkoa in the last decades, such as: science and technology parks, specialized networks around local products, processes of museification of industrial and rural environments, or expansion of the tourism services network. The study of these processes will attend both to their particular urban manifestation and to their territorial incidence, through the use of diverse sources and techniques to obtain a map in which they can be studied together. The resulting map of the sum of the different indicators will reveal characteristic spatial patterns of this centrality associated to the effect exercised by the sphere of the global over the local.
Selective Supramolecular Porphyrin / Fullerene Interactions 1

Naturally assembling cocrystallates of C 60 and C70 fullerenes with tetraphenylporphyrins (H 2TPP‚C60‚3 toluene,1; H2T3,5-dibutylPP‚C60, 2; H2T3,5-dimethyl PP‚1.5C60‚2 toluene,3; H2TpivPP‚C60, 4; H2T3,5-dimethyl PP‚C70‚4 toluene,5; ZnTPP‚C70, 6; NiT4-methyl PP‚2C70‚2 toluene,7) show unusually short porphyrin/fullerene contacts (2.7-3.0 Å) compared with typical π-π interactions (3.0 -3.5 Å). In the C60 structures, an electron-rich, 6:6 ring juncture, C-C bond lies over the center of the porphyrin ring. In the C 70 structures, the ellipsoidal fullerene makes porphyrin contact at its equator rather than its poles; a carbon atom from three fused six-membered rings lies closest to the center of the porphyrin. These structures provide an explanation for the manner in which tetraphenylporphyrin-appended silica stationary phases effect the chromatographic separation of fullerenes. The interaction of the curved π surface of a fullerene with the planar π surface of a porphyrin, without the need for matching convex with concave surfaces, represents a new recognition element in supramolecular chemistry. NMR measurements show that this interaction persists in toluene solution, suggesting a simple way to assemble van der Waals complexes of donor -acceptor chromophores.
SPLAT II: An Aircraft Compatible, Ultra-Sensitive, High Precision Instrument for In-Situ Characterization of the Size and Composition of Fine and Ultrafine Particles

This article describes SPLAT II, a new aircraft compatible single particle mass spectrometer that provides significantly improved performance when compared with SPLAT, or any other existing single particle mass spectrometer. SPLAT II detects and characterizes 100% of spherical particles and ∼30% of aspherical particles with diameters between 125 nm and 600 nm. It also brings significant increase in temporal resolution, sizing over 500 particles per second, while characterizing the composition of up to 100 of them. The increase in sensitivity to small particles makes it possible, under most conditions, to use a differential mobility analyzer upfront SPLAT II in order to simultaneously measure in addition to individual particle size and composition, a number of other particle attributes, such as density or effective density, dynamic shape factor, fractal dimension, and even hygroscopicity. SPLAT II provides sizing precision on the order of a monolayer, and makes it possible to distinguish between spherical and aspherical particles. SPLAT II uses a two-step, two-laser process to generate ions. The mass spectra of the semivolatile fraction are generated by ionization in the gas phase, reducing fragmentation and yielding highly reproducible mass spectra, while the mass spectra of the refractory fraction are simultaneously generated by ablation. The instrument control board generates size-dependent delays for laser triggers to eliminate a size-dependent hit-rate and mass spectra are recorded with 14-bit resolution. Data analysis is facilitated by SpectraMiner and ClusterSculptor; two visually driven software packages specifically designed to analyze the large datasets that this instrument produces.
Radical Listening and Dialogue in Educational Research

We seek to trouble the construct of radical listening through an interpretive analysis of our work in a collaborative research project with primary school teachers. At the heart of this project is a focus on researching together with the study participants. During two years, we worked with a group of teachers in a "teacher inquiry group", which sought to shed light on the possibilities of using narrative assessment approaches as an inclusive tool for teaching and learning science. The original goal of the study was to empower teachers to utilize a variety of dialogic assessment tools as tools for learning with their students. Through a guiding focus on radical listening and dialogue, the design of this overall study shifted and changed over time to fit the needs of the different stakeholders, and our focus on narrative assessment approaches also evolved over time. We will use different examples to illustrate the interactions of the teacher inquiry group, and also draw on our own work within our research group to complexify what it means to "listen", learn from, and "dialogue" with the Other.
Aplicació multidispositiu per a la gestió de les Pràctiques Externes

En tots els estudis de grau s'han incoroporat com a materia les practiques externes. En aquest activitat hi intervenen molts actors diferents: empreses, tutors d'empresa, tutors academics, estudiants, gestio academica. i es fa indispensable disposar d'eines per a la seva gestio. Amb aquest projecte es vol facilitar la tasca del coordinador en aquesta gestio. En tots els estudis de grau s'han incoroporat com a materia les practiques externes. En aquest activitat hi intervenen molts actors diferents: empreses, tutors d'empresa, tutors academics, estudiants, gestio academica. i es fa indispensable disposar d'eines per a la seva gestio. Amb aquest projecte es vol facilitar la tasca del coordinador en aquesta gestio.
Design for Co-creation with Interactive Montage

Montage in cinema means to mount images and sounds from different sources, that are interpreted together and whose oppositions drive the story further. In this article we develop the montage concept further for co-creation in interactive, tactile, spatial cross-media. As case we use the design of the interactive, tangible, cross-media installation ORFI. ORFI is developed to facilitate collaboration and co-creation between children with severe disabilities and their care persons. In this article we focus on how we have designed for interactive montage. We present two main types of interactive montage, close and shifted in three dimensions (spatial, temporal and actorial). With the first we mean spatial and temporal closeness, depending on the roles users take and the interpretations they make. With shifted we mean how to use spatial and temporal shifting and distance between the media elements in space and over time, depending on the users’ roles and interpretations. All this to encourage co-creation over time, between a variety of users in different situations.
ZFIRE: GALAXY CLUSTER KINEMATICS, Hα STAR FORMATION RATES, AND GAS PHASE METALLICITIES OF XMM-LSS J02182-05102 AT z cl = 1.6233 ?>

We spectroscopically survey the galaxy cluster XMM-LSS J02182-05102 (hereafter IRC 0218) using LRIS (optical) and MOSFIRE (near-infrared) on Keck I as part of the ZFIRE survey. IRC 0218 has a narrow redshift range of 1.612 < ? > z spec ? > < 1.635 ? > defined by 33 members of which 20 are at R proj ? > < 1 ? > Mpc. The cluster redshift and velocity dispersion are z cl = 1.6233 ± 0.0003 ? > and &sgr; cl = 254 ± 50 ? > km s−1. We reach NIR line sensitivities of ∼0.3 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−2 that, combined with multi-wavelength photometry, provide extinction-corrected Hα star formation rates (SFR), gas phase metallicities from [N ii]/Hα, and stellar masses. We measure an integrated Hα SFR of ∼325 M ⊙ yr − 1 ? > (26 members; R proj ? > < 2 ? > Mpc) and show that the elevated star formation in the cluster core (R proj ? > < 0.25 ? > Mpc) is driven by the concentration of star-forming members, but the average SFR per Hα-detected galaxy is half that of members at R proj ? > ∼ 1 Mpc. However, we do not detect any environmental imprint when comparing attenuation and gas phase metallicities: the cluster galaxies show similar trends with M ⋆ ? > as to the field, e.g., more massive galaxies have larger stellar attenuation. IRC 0218’s gas phase metallicity– M ⋆ ? > relation (MZR) is offset to lower metallicities relative to z ∼ 0 ? > and has a slope of 0.13 ± 0.10. Comparing the MZR in IRC 0218 to the COSMOS cluster at z = 2.1 shows no evolution ( Δ t ∼ 1 ? > Gyr): the MZR for both galaxy clusters are remarkably consistent with each other and virtually identical to several field surveys at z ∼ 2 ? > .
Meiotic Stability, Chloroplast DNA Polymorphisms, and Morphological Traits of Upland × Lowland Switchgrass Reciprocal Hybrids

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) has two cytotypes or cytoplasm types, L and U, that are associated with the lowland and upland ecotypes, respectively. The L cytotypes are tetraploids while the U cytotypes can be either tetraploids or octaploids. The objective of this research was to characterize meiotic stability of reciprocal crosses of U and L plants as indicated by chromosome pairing at meiosis and to determine the mode of inheritance of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) in the hybrids of these cytotypes. Morphological markers that characterize the parents and hybrids also were investigated to confirm that progeny were true hybrids. Reciprocal crosses were made between Kanlow (L tetraploid) and Summer (U tetraploid) plants. Pubescence on the upper surface of the leaf blade, foliage color, and seed size were evaluated as markers to verify hybridization. Meiotic pairing of some of the hybrids was analyzed at the diakinesis stage of meiosis by means of immature anthers. The clone pRR12 from a spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) cpDNA library was used as a chloroplast hybridization probe to determine chloroplast inheritance. For all the morphological traits evaluated, the hybrids were intermediate in comparison to the parents except for seed width. Chromosome pairing was primarily bivalent in all hybrids. The viability of the hybrid seed and the normal meiotic chromosome pairing of the hybrids indicate a high degree of similarity between upland and lowland genomes. In the cpDNA analysis, all verified hybrids examined carried a fragment identical in size to the fragment of the female parent, indicating predominance of maternal inheritance of the cpDNA in switchgrass.
International Conference on Hydroinformatics 8-1-2014 Evaluation Of Decision Making Methods For Integrated Water Resource Management Under Uncertainty

This paper evaluates two established decision making methods and analyses their performance and suitability within an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) problem. The methods under assessment are Info-Gap decision theory (IG) and Robust Optimisation (RO). These methods have been designed to aid decision making under severe uncertainty but differences exist in their approach and attitude to robustness and risk. For example, the InfoGap methodology offers solutions that provide a localised robustness of sufficing over a wide range of uncertainty, but is highly dependent on the selection of the starting point. Robust Optimisation concentrates on optimising for a global robustness and cost, independent of likelihood assumptions. These methods were applied to a case study resembling the Sussex North region in England, assessing their applicability at improving the IWRM problem and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each method at selecting suitable adaptation strategies under climate change and future population uncertainties. Both methods show potential in water resource adaptation planning, but present conflicts in their global vs local definitions of robustness. Pareto sets of robustness to cost were produced for both methods and highlight RO as producing the lower costing strategies for the vast majority of varying target robustness levels. However, IG generally produces strategies that provide greater maximum and average risk reduction across the range of potential scenarios, indicating a trade-off of higher costing solutions for greater risk aversion.
OBESITY PANDEMIC: AN IRANIAN PERSPECTIVE

The prevalence of overweight and obesity in most developed and developing countries have been increasing markedly over the past two decades. This increase includes all ages, genders, racial and ethnic groups, income, and educational levels. A variety of genetic, environmental, physiological, psychological and sociocultural factors influence the development of obesity. Iran like many other developing countries is now experiencing the global epidemic of obesity and its consequences. Recent epidemiological studies have revealed that the prevalence of obesity, overweight, and metabolic syndrome in Iran is equal to or higher than Europe and the United States and it is the primary cause of the rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes and the important comorbid states such as hypertension, cardiovascular, renal, and gastrointestinal diseases along with increasing the burden of cancers. This is also in line with the present etiologies of death in Iran with cardiovascular disease and cancer accounting for nearly 60% of causes of nontraumatic death. The prevalence of obesity in Iran has reached epidemic proportions and is specifically affecting women and younger age groups also. The increased consumption of calorie-dense regular and fast foods and sucrose-enriched drinks, together with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, appear to be major factors contributing to this epidemic. The per capita consumption of carbonated beverages in Iran is 42 liters per year and 40% of Iranians consume more food than they need, and the average Iranian consumes 40% more carbohydrate and 30% more fat than needed. To deal with this epidemic, prevention should receive high priority and social measures such as taxing fast foods, subsidizing fresh food and vegetables, and spending more public money on projects to promote physical activity are necessary. There is also emerging evidence that treating obese subjects, particularly those with metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes, has short-term effects on the prevention of diabetes; improves glucose, lipid, and blood pressure parameters; and is likely to have beneficial effects on long-term health outcomes.
Seed loss as a result of pod shatter in spring rape and spring turnip rape in Finland

The aims of this study were to evaluate seed shedding in spring turnip rape ( Brassica rapa L.) and spring rape (B. napus L.) and to assess the effect of delayed harvesting on seed yield loss. Experiments on spring turnip rape (cv. Emma) were conducted in 1988–1990 and on spring rape (cv. Topas) in 1989–1990 in Jokioinen (60°49'N, 23°28'E). Rimmed tin boxes were used to collect seed from shattered pods. They were placed between the continuous rows before pods started to shatter. The shed seeds were collected two to three times a week. Susceptibility and timing of pod shattering varies between spring turnip rape and rape. However, before optimal harvest date spring rape does not shatter significantly more than spring turnip rape. Spring rape starts to shatter more compared with spring turnip rape after its optimal harvest date. It is also more sensitive to weather conditions than spring turnip rape. Furthermore, pod shattering after optimal harvest time differs among years. Weather conditions are discussed as one possible cause of pod shattering.
Are poor countries above their steady-state income levels? – A time-series analysis

This paper criticizes Cho and Graham's argument that poor countries converge from above their steady-state income levels, based on their misspecification of formulating the steady-state income by omitting the variation in the base period technology across countries when estimating steady-state income. This paper also questions the cross-country regression methodology, which generally ignores the changes in variables over time. A time-series approach is employed to analyse the long-run behaviour of actual and steady-state income levels for a group of seven developing countries, which are observed to be above their steady-states in Cho and Graham (1996). An error-correction-based-test is used to examine the existence of cointegration. The results suggest that these countries' actual and steady-state income per capita tend to move together over time, which is consistent with the Solow model's prediction.
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly segmented by skill. The government only observes negotiated wages. More progressive taxation leads to wage moderation that boosts labor demand. We design the optimal nonlinear redistributive tax schedule in the absence of welfare benefits and extensive labor supply margin. Compared to their efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The robustness of these properties is also discussed.