Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Importance of the Entrepreneur’s Perception of “Success”

Purpose - In spite of the fact that the success of new ventures has been a widely studied topic in the field of entrepreneurship, no consensus on what is understood by the success of a firm can be found in the literature. Thus, the objective of this work is to discover what the entrepreneur really understands by the success of his/her business in its early years. To that end, this study clarifies the principal indicators used by entrepreneurs and analyses the relationship between how entrepreneurs understand the success of their business and the performance of that business. Design/methodology/approach – In a logit regression model, the research data are analyzed, using a sample of 98 entrepreneurs who are the heads of new firms in various sectors of activity. Findings - The study shows that there is a relationship between the way in which the entrepreneur measures how the business is doing and the performance of that business. More specifically, this research reveals that it is not the use of a greater number of indicators to measure the success that identifies the successful newly-created business from the unsuccessful, but the fact that those indicators are from different perspectives. Moreover, the results show that customer-related indicators are more effective than financial indicators to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful organizations. Research limitations/implications – Future research including qualitative interviews will help to further investigate the relationship between the entrepreneur’s perception of success and company performance. Practical implications – As a result of this research, the entrepreneurs can be conscience about how important it is the way they understand “the success” before they constitute their business. The results of this study mean a valuable knowledge to the academics that research in the entrepreneurship field, specifically to those that are focused on the success factors study. Originality/value – This research is pioneering in relating the way that the entrepreneur measures his company’s success and demonstrating its importance.
Use of teflubenzuron alone and combined with Metarhizium anisopliae and Phenylacetonitrile as control agent against the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Orthoptera: acrididae)

The efficacy of the Insect growth regulator (IG R) teflubenzuron (Nomolt 50 ULV) was evaluated against desert locust (DL) nymphs (3rd and 4th instars) during two seasons (2008 and 2009). All experiments were carried out under semi-field conditions, on irrigated plots planted with millet, and large cages (2x2x1m) and bomas (2x6x1m) were erected to enclose the test insects. The IGR was applied by means of a battery driven hand held (Micro ULVA) sprayer either as direct spray on the nymphs or as a simulated barrier treatment. The impact of the IGR on the feeding rate of the nymphs was investigated as well. The IGR was tested at the recommended dose (450ml/ha), and at fractional doses (225, 112.5 and 56.25ml/ha) in combination with Metarhizium anisopliae (Green Muscle®) at 50g/ha and the pheromone Phenyl Aceto Nitrile (PAN) 98% at 10ml/ha. Diesel was used as a dilutant in all formulations. Nomolt 450 m/ha resulted in 100% nymphal mortality in 20 days after treatment. The fractional doses of the IGR combined with the pheromone PAN, proved to be effective in the manipulation of nymphs, 100% mortality was obtained in 21, 20 and 21 days after treatment, in both seasons of the study. The fractional doses of the IGR combined with Metarhizium GM resulted in 100% mortality within 14 days of the treatment. Tests in bomas using barrier treatment in the 1 st season of the study revealed that the recommended dose of Nomolt applied on the nymphs resulted in 72.5, 88.5, 89 and 53% mortality after the 1 st , 6 th , 12 th and 24 th day after treatment respectively. Percentage mortality of 78.5, 68.5, 74 and 61.5 were achieved in the 2 nd season. The Nomolt either alone or in combined with PAN and GM revealed a clear negative impact on the feeding rate of nymphs.
Cressey hypothesis ( 1953 ) and an investigation into the occurrence of corporate fraud : an empirical analysis conducted in Brazilian banking institutions

is article lls a technical-scienti c gap that currently exists in the Brazilian literature on corporative fraud, by combining the theoretical framework of agency theory, of criminology, and of the economics of crime. In addition, it focuses on a sector that is usually excluded from analyses due to its speci c characteristics and shows the application of multinomial logit panel data regression with random e ects, which is rarely used in studies in the area of accounting. e aim of this study is to investigate the occurrence of corporative fraud, as well as cases of fraud in Brazilian banking institutions, by using detection variables related to the Cressey fraud triangle. Research into fraud and methods of detecting fraud has grown in management literature, especially a er the occurrence of various corporative scandals in the 1990s. Although regulatory agencies have increased their investments in monitoring and control, fraud investigations and convictions are still common in the day-to-day administration of banks, as can be seen in the Brazilian Central Bank and the National Financial System Resource Council’s databases of punitive proceedings. We believe that this article will have a positive impact in the area of accounting sciences, since it involves corporative fraud in a multidisciplinary form and because it provides the incentive to use a quantitative tool that can help increase the development of similar studies in the area. is study tested the theory that the dimensions of the fraud triangle condition the occurrence of corporative fraud in Brazilian banking institutions. irtytwo representative variables of corporative fraud were identi ed in the theoretical-empirical review, which were reduced to seven latent variables by the principal component analysis. Finally, the seven factors formed the independent variables in the multinomial logit models used in the hypothesis tests, which presented promising results.
Taina Bucher Facebook The Friendship Assemblage : Investigating Programmed Sociality on

In an age in which social networking sites have become the preferred way of socializing online, the question of how to think about the contours of friendship in and through these mediated spaces becomes all the more important. In contrast to much existing research on online friendship, this article takes on a software-sensitive approach. Through a close reading of various sociotechnical processes in which friendship is activated on Facebook (i.e., registering, making a profile, finding friends, communicating, etc.), this article suggests that friendships online need to be understood as a gathering of heterogeneous elements that include both humans and nonhumans. Moreover, this article attempts to show how the traditional notion of friendship as something created between equals and free of structural constraints does not apply to the realm of social networking sites, where software increasingly assists users in making certain choices about who will and who will not be their friends.
Principals on L-Plates: Rear View Mirror Reflections.

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the literature on beginning the principalship by identifying and illustrating key challenges that novice principals encounter in their first year for which they would benefit from improved preparation.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a synthesis of a decade of research focusing on the principal with the general aim of analysing ways in which principals can work more effectively within the realities of schools as highly complex organizations. Throughout this work, the narrative account has been used as the main approach for depicting principals' understandings of the contexts in which they find themselves and their interpretations of the experiences that confront them in their roles.Findings – A range of findings generated from the research as a whole has been refined into the conceptualisation of four distinct but interrelated challenges facing novice principals in exercising their roles.Originality/value – The paper proposes a conceptual framework that.
Controlled Helicity of the Dumbbell-shaped Supramolecular Assembly Triggered by Temperature

We have demonstrated that self-assembled nanofibers can convert into a chiral state influnenced by external stimuli. This helicity convertion of the nonchiral assembly realizes in a reversible way on heating. Notably, this reversible nonchiral-chiral switching is accompanied by a transition between extended and contracted states in the elongated nanofibers.
Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Inference for the Defective Gompertz Cure Rate Model With Covariates: An Appliction to the Cervical Carcinoma Study

Survival analysis is a class of statistical methods to study the time until the occurrence of a specified event. The usual methods assume that all individuals under study are subjects to the event the interest. However, there are situations where this case is unrealistic. For example, in a clinical research, a proportion of patients could respond favourably to the treatment under investigation and consequently they would not die from the disease. Models based on defective distributions are a suitable way to analyse data with these characteristics. In this paper, we present Bayesian and maximum likelihood inference for the defective Gompertz cure rate model in presence of covariates. An example with application to disease-free survival of women treated for cervical carcinoma is used to illustrate the proposed methodology. In the Bayesian analysis, posterior distributions of parameters are estimated using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. R, SAS and OpenBUGS codes are provided in the appendix at the end of the paper so that reader can carry out their own analysis.
Morphological and maturational predictors of technical performance in young soccer players

The purpose of the present study is to describe the association between chronological age, morphology, biological maturation and sport experience in relation to technical performance in young Brazilian soccer players. Technical, maturation and anthropometric variables were assessed in 119 soccer players, 74 and 45 in the under-15 and under-17 categories, respectively. Data were analyzed using a multiple linear regression model. Adiposity was negatively associated with technical performance regardless the age-category. Weight was negatively associated with technical performance in under-15 and positively with the under-17 category, respectively. In under-17 biological maturation was negatively related to the dribbling test and positively associated with the ball control test. Years of experience proved to be positively associated with technique taught to soccer player in the under-17 category. The explained variance was different between categories. The technical performance of Bra- zilian soccer players aged 14-to-17 seems to be related to biological maturation, adiposity, weight and years of experience.
Fisheries and Biodiversity in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico

Gerardo Rodriguez-Quiroz1, Eugenio Alberto Aragon-Noriega2, Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata3 and Alfredo Ortega Rubio4 1Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Sinaloa, 2Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, Unidad Sonora, 3Instituto Nacional de Pesca, SAGARPA, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Pesqueras de Guaymas, 4Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, Unidad La Paz, Mexico
To AI or not to AI – when will the medical e-revolution come around?

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) and the jungle of methods they entail. Reading articles in different media even the highest ranking medical journals it is easy to get the impression that this is powerful stuff; the future is promising and the real challenge is if computers (and robots) will turn out morally sound or not, or even turn against their human creators. In the field of medicine, some understand this as a saviour and that computer algorithms, such as those represented by Google’s AlphaGo Zero and IBM’s Watson, are the future diagnosticians and maybe even clinicians. However, there is a huge catch to this optimistic (or frightening) worldview. The catch is usually omitted, or barely touched upon in these articles. These systems are dependent on information and often lots of information (e.g., Big Data). Nevertheless, the systems outcomes will, still, never be better than their inputs. If their inputs are flooded with noise and unstructured and unspecified variables, it will be increasingly difficult for the systems to disentangle the true underlying patterns. In clinical medicine, structured and standardized data are rare. Having an entire electronic medical record (EMR) in this structured and standardized way is even rarer. Thus, developing diagnostic or treatment algorithms based on these records might seem futile, especially for those colleagues who believe that natural language processing (NLP) will solve this problem. Here, it should be remembered that EMR is a cornucopia of noisy text and language specific challenges for most countries in the world. Nevertheless, we should of course acknowledge those diagnostic tools that have already been developed, based largely on “visual” pattern recognition in, for instance, pathology [1]. Precision medicine, algorithms and complex dynamic and adaptive systems
Homeostasis properties of dynamic systems as evaluation method for the functional state of children

The model, criteria and the trajectory of the equilibrium balanced functioning of dynamic biological systems аre described in the paper. The concepts of system kinetic and potential energy for the description of the metabolic processes in biological systems are included. Metabolic processes in the biosystem are associated with the consumption of kinetic energy to perform work (property of reactivity) and recover of potential energy (reserve capacity of the organism). System model, which reflects the energy- exchange processes in the organism and allows obtaining an adequate assessment of the state of biological systems, is shown in the work. The magistral method for the analysis of biological systems in their balanced equilibrium motion is presented. Macroparameters which evaluate not only rate of state variables, but also the nature of the system stress state have been developed. Estimates characterizing the elastic properties of the organism were obtained. Comprehensive approach of functional assessment is proposed. It provides an opportunity to detect and prevent not only diseases, but also the state on the verge of norm and pathology, which is especially important for young children. An illustrative example is presented and the results are analyzed. The deterioration of the organism's homeostatic properties indicates the appearance of defects in the internal structure of the biosystem. Therefore, a signal about violation of homeostatic properties can be used for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. are provided, and the normal functioning of systems in a changing environment and random perturbations is observed. Homeostasis can be compared metaphorically with the property of elastic bodies restore their geometric shapes under the influence of mechanical forces. The appearance of residual effects (not saving geometric shapes) in responses to mechanical stress is a violation of the internal structure of bodies and their elastic properties. It is worth mentioning that the homeostatic properties of the system are caused by individual characteristics, but basically have a single structural form. If m vitally important variables xi are within acceptable limits ximin≤xi ≤ximax (i = 1, ., m), then we have homeostasis. The intensity of life processes decreases beyond these limits, and if there are significant violations, the process is stopped. Energy-exchanged processes are characterized by constancy in the homeostasis area.
Intra- and Intergeneric Similarities of Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistrons of Free-Living, Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

14C-labeled ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) was prepared from Azotobacter chroococcum NCIB 8002, Azotobacter paspali 8A, Azomonas agilis NCIB 8636, Azomonas insignis WR 30, Beijerinckia indica NCIB 8712, and Azospirillum brasilense ATCC 29145. These rRNA's were hybridized under stringent conditions with filter-fixed deoxyribonucleic acid from a great variety of gram-negative bacteria. Each hybrid was described by: (i) the temperature at which 50% of the hybrid was denatured, and (ii) the percent rRNA binding (amount in micrograms of rRNA duplexed to 100 μg of deoxyribonucleic acid). These data were used to construct rRNA similarity maps. The following conclusions could be drawn concerning rRNA cistron similarities. (i) Bacterial genera with free-living, aerobic, nitrogen-fixing members are very diverse and belong to different rRNA superfamilies. The present family Azotobacteriaceae is not a biological unit, and its status as a family is highly questionable. (ii) Azotobacter chroococcum, Azotobacter vinelandii, Azotobacter beijerinckii, Azotobacter paspali, Azotobacter miscellum, Azotobacter armeniae, and Azotobacter nigricans belong in the genus Azotobacter. Any synonymy of these names remains to be determined. Azomonas agilis, Azomonas insignis, and Azomonas macrocytogenes constitute independent branches, which are about equidistant from Azotobacter and section I of Pseudomonas as presented in Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed. Xanthomonas, Alteromonas vaga, and Alteromonas communis are located in the same rRNA superfamily. (iii) The genus Beijerinckia appears to be rather heterogeneous. Its closest relatives appear to be Xanthobacter autotrophics, “Mycobacterium” flavum, “Pseudomonas” azotocolligans, “Pseudomonas” diminuta, the authentic rhodopseudomonads, and some other organisms. These organisms belong in the same rRNA superfamily as Azospirillum, Agrobacterium, Rhizobium, Acetobacter, Gluconobacter, and Zymomonas. (iv) Derxia belongs in still another rRNA superfamily, together with Chromobacterium, Janthinobacterium, the Pseudomonas acidovorans and Pseudomonas solanacearum groups, Alcaligenes, and a few other taxa. (v) The following organisms were generically misnamed: “Azomonas insignis” ATCC 12523, “Mycobacterium” flavum 301, “Pseudomonas” azotocolligans ATCC 12417, “Pseudomonas” diminuta CCEB 513, and “Rhodopseudomonas” gelatinosa (all strains examined).
Title Behavioral Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Software System with Rejuvenation (Mathematical Theory and Applications of Uncertainty Sciences and Decision Making)

In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to continuously running software systems whose performance characteristics are smoothly degrading in time Software aging often affects the performance of a software system and eventually causes it to fail. A novel approach to handle transient software failures due to software aging is called software rejuvenation, which can be regarded as a preventive and proactive solution that is particularly useful for counteracting the aging phenomenon. In this paper, we focus on a high assurance software system with fault-tolerance and preventive rejuvenation, and analyze the stochastic behavior of such a highly critical software system. More precisely, we consider a fault-tolerant software system with two version redundant structure and random rejuvenation schedule, and evaluate quantitatively a dependability measure like the steady-state system availability based on the familiar Markovian analysis. In numerical examples, we examine the dependence of two system diversity techniques; design and environment diversity techniques, on the system dependability measures.
De deur klemt : Nederland op slot door Natura 2000: de discussie ontrafeld

Het is overdreven om te zeggen dat Nederland op slot zit door Natura 2000-regels. Wel zit er een kern van waarheid in de bewering: bij de uitvoering van het Natura 2000-beleid is een aantal problemen opgetreden waardoor verschillende activiteiten (nog) niet mogelijk zijn. In WOt-paper 7 wordt hierop ingegaan. De problemen komen volgens betrokken organisaties vooral voort uit de manier waarop Nederland Natura 2000 heeft geinterpreteerd en vervolgens heeft uitgewerkt in de nationale wetgeving. Het grootste knelpunt is dat dit niet toegesneden lijkt op de praktijk. Daarnaast veroorzaakt de voortdurende belangenstrijd tussen voor- en tegenstanders van Natura 2000 problemen.
Fast Foot Measurement System Based on 3D Measurement Network

A multi-node 3D foot measurement network system is proposed based on digital speckle correlation method. For each node, two cameras build a binocular system, the corresponding points between the left and right cameras are established through the spatial correlation method. In order to improve the search speed of corresponding points, the epipolar and parallax constraints are adopted. The sub-pixel corresponding point location is achieved by Newton-Raphson iterative optimization method to improve the reconstruction accuracy, and the single-node depth data is finally reconstructed based on the stereo vision principle. Multi-view depth data is matched by means of the measurement network calibration technology. The whole foot data acquisition takes less than one second, which has a great commercial application prospect.
Cytological Studies on Porphyra yezoensis UEDA

In recent years, morphological details of the life-cycle of Porphyra had been presented by many investigators. However, the cytological evidence of Porphyra at various stages of the life-cycle had not been cleary established, especially that of Conchocelis-thalli is entirely obscure. In this paper, the author deals with the cytology of P. yezoensis UEDA by means of Godward's1) iron-alum acetocarmine squash technique. The results obtained are summarized as follows: At the nuclear division of vegetative and spermatangial cells in leafy thalli of P. yezoensis, three chromosomes were counted. Monospores from young leafy thalli and conehospores from Conchocelis-aal3i also have three chromosomes each at their germination. On the other hand, in fertilized caipcgonla and Conchocelis filaments, the nuclei have six chromosomes as diploid. The meiosis of this alga seems to take place at the time of conchospore-formation in the mature conchosporangium.
Predator recognition and social facilitation of predator avoidance in coral reef fish Dascyllus marginatus juveniles

Predator recognition was studied in Dascyllus marginatus, a small Red Sea pomacentrid that forms mixed-size schools associated with branching corals of the genera Acropora and Stylo- phora. The reactions of variously sized D. marginatus to sudden exposure to a live predatory fish (Epi- nephelus fasciatus), a non-predatory fish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus), and an empty cell were moni- tored in the laboratory. Adult fish (49 to 60 mm) discriminated between predatory and non-predatory fish, whereas juveniles (13 to 17 mm) could not. The responses of single juveniles, pairs of juveniles, and juvenile/adult pairs to sudden exposure to a predator were compared. Juveniles paired with adults avoided the predator more than single or paired juveniles. A mechanism in the reef habitat of social facilitation of predator recognition and avoidance among mixed-sized school pomacentrids is suggested. The relevance of the findings of this study to the low survival of reef fishes shortly after settlement and their preference for coral heads inhabited by conspecifics is discussed.