Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
How intellectual capital mediates the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance

The primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance, and to analyze the mediating effects of intellectual capital on the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance. The self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the owner or senior manager of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) multimedia super corridor (MSC) status organizations. A total of 289 useable questionnaires were collected from them. The results reveal that knowledge management processes were confirmed as the antecedents of intellectual capital; and intellectual capital was established as a mediator between knowledge management processes and organizational performance. Findings show that the combination of knowledge management processes as organizational capability with intellectual capital as organizational strategic assets facilitates improvements in organizational performance.
Data on Prior Pesticide Use Collected from Self‐and Proxy Respondents

Proxy respondents have often been used in case-control studies of cancer and pesticides. To evaluate the effect of exposure misclassification, we compared data collected during 1981–1983 from participants interviewed for a case- control study of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with data collected during 1990–1991 from proxy respondents for participants who died or became incompetent since the initial interview (328 self-proxy pairs). As questions increased in detail, agreement percentages decreased. Agreement percentages were highest for demographic and general farming information (averages = 88–90%) and lowest for specific pesticide use (averages = 68–74%). Generally, odds ratios calculated from proxy respondent data were less than those from self-respondent data; however, several exceptions occurred. The findings indicate that pesticide data provided by proxy respondents will not necessarily result in the same estimate of risk and/or lead to the same conclusions as data provided by self-respondents.
Investors in Housing Market Search

We add specialist investors–agents who attempt to pro ﬁ t from buying low and selling high–to a canonical housing market search model. These agents facilitate the turnover of mismatched houses on behalf of end-users and they may survive even if they face an arbitrarily large cost of ﬁ nancing vis-a-vis ordinary households. Multiple equilibrium may exist. In one equilibrium, the participation of investors is extensive, resulting in rapid turnover, a high vacancy rate, and high housing prices. In another equilibrium, few houses are bought and sold by investors. Turnover is sluggish, few houses are vacant, and prices are moderate. A decline in the rate at which investors ﬁ nance investment, can rather paradoxically, lower investors participation and housing prices in equilibrium.
MSH2 missense mutations and HNPCC syndrome: pathogenicity assessment in a human expression system

Hereditary Non‐Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC) is associated with germline mutations in one of several MisMatch Repair (MMR) genes. An increasing proportion (20–25%) of the reported MSH2 variants consists of single amino‐acid substitution with uncertain disease‐causing significance. The present study was undertaken to functionally characterize 3 MSH2 nontruncating variants: p.Gly162Arg (c.484G>C), p.Asp167His (c.499G>C) and p.Arg359Ser (c.1077A>T). Missense alterations, were assessed in a human system for expression/stability and for the ability to heterodimerize with MSH6 and correctly localize into the nucleus. Functional assays results were correlated with clinical and genetic features indicative of HNPCC as MicroSatellite‐Instability (MSI), abnormalities of MMR gene expression in tumour tissue (IHC) and familial history. p.Gly162Arg and p.Arg359Ser variants showed a clearly decreased expression level of the MutSá complex and were associated with an abnormal subcellular localization pattern, which can be suggestive of an incorrect MSH2/MSH6 heterodimerization. Functional analysis results were supported by MSI and IHC data and by familial cancer history. The subcellular localization assay, performed in a human expression system, classifies as pathogenetic two MSH2 nontruncating alterations providing a useful tool in genetic testing programs. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The Effects of Acute Exercise on Temporal Generalization

Sixteen healthy college students performed a multiple-trial referenced temporal generalization task and an episodic temporal generalization task before and during moderate-intensity aerobic exercise. The same tasks were performed in a resting control condition. Working memory tasks were also administered before, during, and after exercise to determine whether exercise affected working memory processes. Temporal generalization gradients demonstrated leftward shifts during exercise when compared to rest, indicating that the subject perceived intervals to elapse more slowly. This finding is consistent with an increased pacemaker speed. Subjective lengthening of stimuli as the task progressed did not occur during exercise or rest. No significant differences were observed on the episodic timing task, nor were any differences found on the working memory tasks. These findings provide support for the notion that exercise influences the internal clock in a manner similar to other arousal-inducing manipulations.
An ultra small passive balun for 60 GHz applications in CMOS 65nm technology

In this paper a novel method to design a miniaturized Marchand Balun is proposed. The main issue in the balun design is to limit its physical dimensions. This work shows a device that achieves good performance, in terms of phase and amplitude balance, and at the same time reduced size. To allow such a result, an accurate analysis of the coupling phenomena was done. The principal equations that characterize the structure are summarized in the paper. The device is fabricated in 65 nm CMOS technology. The balun has been designed for application in a wide band low power 60 GHz transceiver.
Metabolic Consequence of Two-Week Fructose Feeding in Diabetic Subjects

We studied the metabolic effects of 2-wk fructose feeding as the sweetener in the diet of seven noninsulin- dependent diabetic individuals. The data demonstrated reduced postprandial hyperglycemia to an oral glucose challenge after 14 days without a significant difference in insulin response. There was no change in the markedly blunted glucose response to a fructose challenge but a significantly lower insulin response (area under the 3-h curve) was observed after 14 days of fructose feeding. There was reduced postprandial hyperglycemia after 14 days of fructose feeding with test meals as compared with baseline, without significant differences in insulin response. We also found no significant difference in free fatty acids, cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, pyruvate, lactate, or uric acid after fructose feedings. There was a 13% increase in triglyceride levels after 14 days in 5 subjects with initial fasting hypertriglyceridemia (>150 mg/dl). Insulin receptor binding to isolated adipocytes did not change after 14 days of fructose feeding.
FALLS IN COMMUNITY‐DWELLING OLDER PERSONS

To the Editor: Medication use is potentially the most modifiable risk factor for falls in older persons, and it is of particular interest clinically, as stated in the excellent review by Drs. King and Tinetti. 1 Surprisingly, among the eight FICSIT Trialsr' the optimizing of medication use was a component of the interventions in one trial only. :' Critical medication reviews were performed focussing on three important issues, (1) postural hypotension, (2) the use of sedative hypnotics benzodiazepines and sleeping medications, and (3) multimedication (;=:4 medications). Medications of special interest, targeted medications, were diuretics, antihypertensives, nitrates, anti~epressa? ts, H 2 blockers, and NSAIDS, apart from hypnotics/sedatives. " A recent report indicated that either the use of ~ntide~ressants, any psychotropic medication, centrally act109 antihypertensives, narcotic analgesics, insulin, or the total number of prescribed medications was associated with falls in persons aged 72 years and older living in the comrnuniry.f Postural blood pressure changes (postural hypotension? ) were not associated with falling. The data from the intervention trial showed there were no differences in the prevalence of postural hypotension, and of the use of sedative-hypnotic agents, at the time of reassessment. However, as part of the intervention, 55 of 70 persons with postural hypotension, and 19 of 29 persons who used sedative-hypnotic agents, had received medication adjustments. There was a remarkable difference in the prevalence of using four or more medications. :~ The results of this trial, as well as recent data,S,6 bring us to the following questions. For which types of medications were dosages adapted, and which drugs were most often d! scontinued or substituted? Although it is impossible to disentangle the contributions of single components of that multifactorial intervention, information about the kind of medication adjustments would provide at least some hints for further research. With regard to risk constellations, it may be worthwhile to evaluate whether there are associations between falls and combinations of certain, rather than single targeted medicarions.I-" and whether there is also a possible relationship to postural hypotension/postural blood pressure changes.Y'"
A primitive study of voxel feature generation by multiple stacked denoising autoencoders for detecting cerebral aneurysms on MRA

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a novel feature generation, which is based on multiple deep neural networks (DNNs) with boosting, for computer-assisted detection (CADe). It is hard and time-consuming to optimize the hyperparameters for DNNs such as stacked denoising autoencoder (SdA). The proposed method allows using SdA based features without the burden of the hyperparameter setting. The proposed method was evaluated by an application for detecting cerebral aneurysms on magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA). A baseline CADe process included four components; scaling, candidate area limitation, candidate detection, and candidate classification. Proposed feature generation method was applied to extract the optimal features for candidate classification. Proposed method only required setting range of the hyperparameters for SdA. The optimal feature set was selected from a large quantity of SdA based features by multiple SdAs, each of which was trained using different hyperparameter set. The feature selection was operated through ada-boost ensemble learning method. Training of the baseline CADe process and proposed feature generation were operated with 200 MRA cases, and the evaluation was performed with 100 MRA cases. Proposed method successfully provided SdA based features just setting the range of some hyperparameters for SdA. The CADe process by using both previous voxel features and SdA based features had the best performance with 0.838 of an area under ROC curve and 0.312 of ANODE score. The results showed that proposed method was effective in the application for detecting cerebral aneurysms on MRA.
Integrating Marketing Courses to Enhance Team-Based Experiential Learning

Many recent studies suggest that undergraduate education needs to be more effective. Accordingly, individuals involved in higher education continue to search for ways to improve student learning. This article describes a team-based experiential learning project that integrates three marketing courses: principles of marketing, principles of selling, and sales management. Working in teams, students in the principles of marketing course develop new product concepts and create corresponding marketing promotional materials for use in a mock trade show. Students from the personal selling and sales management courses, also working in teams, attend the trade show to identify and select products they wish to use to complete a sales call exercise. This project provides students an opportunity to work in teams and combine their efforts with teams from other courses to successfully complete their respective experiential exercises. The article includes students’ reactions to the project and steps for implementation.
Automata and minimization

Already in the seventies, strong results illustrating the intimate relationship between category theory and automata theory have been described and are still investigated. In this column, we provide a uniform presentation of the basic concepts that underlie minimization results in automata theory. We then use this knowledge for introducing a new model of automata that is an hybrid of deterministic finite automata and automata weighted over a field. These automata are very natural, and enjoy minimization result by design. The presentation of this paper is indeed categorical in essence, but it assumes no prior knowledge from the reader. It is also non-conventional in that it is neither algebraic, nor co-algebraic oriented.
Security technologies in home and wireless networking environments

The purpose of this document is to describe selected security technologies and applications related especially to home networking environments. The focus is on Wireless Local Area Network technologies. The document defines the home environment and addresses related architectural issues. The security technologies are depicted from the viewpoint of different communication layers. Finally, aspects on authentication, wireless roaming, and remote access to home network are covered. An architecture enabling home access to a roaming user, as well as WLAN market possibilities, is also discussed.
What's Hot in the Answer Set Programming Competition

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm with roots in logic programming, knowledge representation, and non-monotonic reasoning. The ASP competition series aims at assessing and promoting the evolution of ASP systems and applications. Its growing range of challenging application-oriented benchmarks inspires and showcases continuous advancements of the state of the art in ASP.
Materials Management in Capital‐intensive Industries

In capital‐intensive industries, the management of the prime revenue‐earning capital assets is of critical importance. While much has been done to improve some key functions, such as maintenance of the asset, the area of materials management – a critical support service – is frequently ignored. Defines the scope and impact of materials management and sets out the key aspects involved in optimizing performance. Places emphasis on aligning the objectives of “materials” with overall corporate goals, and examines a number of internal and external influences (such as people factors, customer and supplier relationships, systems and technology, market trends and industry developments) to enable definition of the right “materials” strategy.
Real-Time Lane Detection for Driver Assistance System

Traffic problem is more serious, as the number of vehicles is growing. Most of the road accidents were caused by carelessness of drivers. To reduce the number of traffic accidents and improve the safety and efficiency of traffic for many years around the world and company studies have been conducted on intelligent transport systems (ITS). Intelligent vehicle, (IV) the system is part of a system which is designed to assist drivers in the perception of any dangerous situations before, to avoid accidents after sensing and understanding the environment around itself. In this paper, proposes architecture for driver assistance system based on image processing technology. To predict possible Lane departure, camera is mounted on the windshield of the car to determine the layout of roads and determines the position of the vehicle on line Lane. The resulting sequence of images is analyzed and processed by the proposed system, which automatically detects the Lane lines. The results showed of the proposed system to work well in a variety of settings, In addition computer response system is inexpensive and almost real time.
Leveraging Inexpensive Supervision Signals for Visual Learning

The success of deep learning based methods for computer vision comes at a cost. Most deep neural network models require a large corpus of annotated data for supervision. The process of obtaining such data is often time consuming and expensive. For example, the process of collecting bounding box annotations takes 26-42 seconds per box. This requirement poses a hindrance for extending these methods to novel domains. In this thesis, we explore techniques for leveraging inexpensive forms of supervision for visual learning. More specifically, we first propose an approach to learn a pose-encoding visual representation from videos of human actions without any human supervision. We show that the learned representation improves performance for pose estimation and action recognition tasks compared to randomly initialized models. Next, we propose an approach to use freely available web data and inexpensive image-level labels to learn object detectors. We show that web data, while highly noisy and biased, can be effectively used to improve localization of objects in the weak-supervision setting.
Score Region Algebra: A Framework for Structured IR

We address the problem of developing a flexible framework for information retrieval (IR) in structured documents, such as XML. The framework is able to support a wide range of structured IR queries, transparent instantiations of different retrieval models, and different physical implementations. It is based on so-called score region algebra (SRA) that can express the following four essential ranked retrieval aspects for structured IR: term and element selection, element relevance score computation, element score propagation, and element score combination. Our preliminary research shows that different instantiations of each aspect, as well as different combinations of these instantiations, yield significantly different results. Our goal is to better understand structured IR by studying these aspects alone and their combination in the framework of SRA, and to use this knowledge to improve our structured IR system.
7 An Empirical Approach to Estimating GIS Benefits

Data on the benefits of using geographic information system (GIS) technology are rare. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a model to predict the benefits of using GIS technology. The USGS model focuses on the complexity of a GIS application as the key factor influencing the level of benefits. Three different aspects of complexity are input to a model consisting of a pair of multiple regression equations. The equations explain from one-half to three-fourths of the measured variation in GIS benefits and present a powerful tool for improving the quality of GIS costs/benefits studies. Stephen R. Gillespie is an economist in the Office of Strategic Planning & Analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He came to the Geological Survey in 1989 following 17 years of work at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dr. Gillespie’s primary research interest is the economic value of geographically referenced data. justify its implementation or expansion. Too conservative an estimate of net benefits can cause the delay or cancellation of investment in a technology that might be seen as highly cost effective if benefits were measured more thoroughly. The problem is not fundamentally a theoretical one; the issues involved in accurate benefits measurement are well known (Obermeyer 1999). Theoretically, benefits estimates should be based on the societal marginal willingness to pay for GIS-provided improvements over the present system (Peterson & Sorg 1987). In the absence of externalities and monopoly, societal willingness to pay is measured by market prices. However, it is in the nature of government involvement in GIS operation that markets cannot set meaningful prices for many of the changes. There is extensive literature on the theoretical valuation of nonpriced and nonpriceable goods. Contingent valuation studies rely on surveys to determine how much respondents would be willing to pay (Cummings et al. 1986). Travel costs have been used to estimate the value of recreational resources (Clawson & Knetsch 1966). Hedonic models infer values not directly observable from related markets where values are directly observable (Brookshire et al. 1982). Methods include the use of property values and wage differentials in labor markets (Viscusi 1993). USGS research published in the Fall 1994 URISA Journal (Gillespie 1994) demonstrates that there are practical techniques for measuring benefits that might initially appear to be nonquantifiable. The real difficulty in applying such techniques is that they can be time consuming and expensive. Converting from qualitative to quantitative benefits measurement can easily double or triple the cost of a costs/ benefits study. It would be very useful to have a relatively quick and inexpensive method for making ballpark estimates
Three of the Key Variables That Help Explain How Consumers Develop Their Perception of the Quality of Organizations Marketing Services

ABSTRACT Although many service firms engage in organizational marketing, there are virtually no models in the literature of the cognitive process that consumers use to develop their perception of the quality of an organization marketing services. Many organizations engage in organizational marketing because consumers sometimes find it necessary to purchase services before they have sufficient information to judge the quality of the services offered by the organization. The results of a study suggest that the quality of the organization's advertising and the perception of boundary spanning personnel affect the perception of the quality of an organization marketing services. Additionally, the study found that physical contextual cues affected consumers' perception of boundary spanning personnel. Furthermore, the results of the study suggest that consumers' perception of boundary spanning personnel is likely to play a particularly important role when consumers develop their perception of the quality of an organization marketing services.