Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Velocity‐conductivity relations for cratonic lithosphere and their application: Example of Southern Africa

Seismic velocity is a function of bulk vibrational properties of the media, whereas electrical resistivity is most often a function of transport properties of an interconnected minor phase. In the absence of a minor conducting phase then the two should be inter‐relatable primarily due to their sensitivity to temperature variation. We develop expressions between shear wave velocity and resistivity for varying temperature, composition, and water content based on knowledge from two kimberlite fields: Jagersfontein (Kaapvaal Craton) and Gibeon (Rehoboth Terrane). We test the expressions through comparison between a new high‐resolution regional seismic model, derived from surface wave inversion of earthquake data from Africa and the surrounding regions, and a new electrical image from magnetotelluric (MT) data recorded in SAMTEX (Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment). The data‐defined robust linear regression between the two is found to be statistically identical to the laboratory‐defined expression for 40 wt ppm water in olivine. Cluster analysis defines five clusters that are all geographically distinct and tectonically relate to (i) fast, cold, and variably wet Kaapvaal Craton, (ii) fast and wet central Botswana, (iii) slow, warm, and wet Rehoboth Terrane, (iv) moderately fast, cold, and very dry southernmost Angola Craton, and (v) slow, warm, and somewhat dry Damara Belt. From the linear regression expression and the MT image we obtain predicted seismic velocity at 100 km and compare it with that from seismic observations. The differences between the two demonstrate that the linear relationship between Vs and resistivity is appropriate for over 80% of Southern Africa. Finally, using the regressions for varying water content, we infer water content in olivine across Southern Africa.
Effect of corporate social responsibility on financial performance of banks in Sri Lanka

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not a new concept in the banking sector, but nowadays, it becomes highly typical since the crisis has significantly highlighted the need for integration of moral principles in the banking business. CSR describes as “Doing all those activities which are not forced by law of those countries in which they are running their business and which are not for the primary benefits of the business but for the benefits of the society. ” This study examined the effect of corporate social responsibility for the financial performance of selected Licensed Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial performance for the period of 2010 to 2014 in selected Commercial Banks of Sri Lanka. They are Amana Bank PLC, People‟s Bank, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, Hatton National Bank, Nations trust Bank, Bank of Ceylon, DFCC Bank PLC, National Development Bank PLC, Pan Asia Banking Corporation and Sampath Bank PLC. This study utilizes the secondary data. The data were collected from annual reports of the selected banks and Directors‟ reports. Other sources such as newsletters, news articles, journals and websites were also used. The data were analyzed using correlation, regression analysis and hypothesis testing by SPSS 20.0 software. In addition, the regression model shows that there is a positive impact between CSR and the dimensions of financial performance (ROA, ROE, EPS and Net Profit). The finding of this study shows that there is a positive and significant relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance, which demonstrates that there is positive impact of corporate social responsibility for the financial performance of selected Licensed Commercial Banks of Sri Lanka. This study concludes that CSR for the success of Commercial Bank since it helps to improve financial performance. The study recommends that banks may portray themselves as socially responsible firms it will lead to improve the overall financial performance of the Banks. Government should play its role to motivate the banks to spend for the welfare of the societies, nations and environment where banks operate their businesses and earn profits.
Christopher Dyer Saudek, MD: Diabetes Expert and Implantable Insulin Pump Pioneer

Christopher Dyer Saudek, MD Christopher Dyer Saudek, MD, was a pioneer in the development of implantable insulin pumps, which brought freedom and flexibility to the field of diabetes. Saudek was born to Robert and Elizabeth Saudek in 1942. (Robert Saudek was the creator of the 1950s critically acclaimed television series Omnibus .) The young Saudek grew up in Bronxville, New York, and, along with his siblings, would often accompany his father on Sunday mornings to New York City. Standing just off camera, the youngsters would watch dress rehearsals of performances for Omnibus , which in turn kindled Christopher’s lifelong interest in theater and music. (It is a surprising twist that he chose medicine as his career, but it is no surprise that he was highly successful in his choice.) Throughout his public school years, Saudek excelled in academics, sports, orchestra, and student government. After graduating from Bronxville High School in 1959, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1963 and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School in 1966. He subsequently trained in internal medicine at Chicago’s Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital and in endocrinology and metabolism at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital. Dr. Saudek was a fellow at the National Institutes of Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow (1979–1980). He taught at Cornell Medical School for 8 years before arriving at Johns Hopkins University in 1980. He was part of a group of researchers that described the early use of hemoglobin A1c as a measure of glycemia in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1976 (1). The academic experiences from his early years as a young faculty member provided the physiological, health policy, and teaching expertise that would be the foundation for a stellar career as a diabetes …
Improving Service Processes and the Library Quality Service With Data Mining Methods

In this digital age, businesses that collect consumer information; provide better service to its customers or new market areas in the name of consumer information from the open mining, artificial intelligence techniques, methods and algorithms in conjunction with data mining are used in order to be able to get the results of these operations.Data mining methods in an intensive competition environment in the service-producing process, are being used effectively. For customer relations in the context of these techniques in improving library processes and in improving the quality of service data mining method is utilized.The data aim-based of this study was to set a specific time range of the data that is received from a public University. Study
Fluorescence analysis of a standard fulvic acid and tertiary treated wastewater.

Fluorescence measurements (emission scan, synchronous scan, and excitation-emission matrix [EEM] scan) were used to compare characteristics of two sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from distinctly different origins: (i) a standard fulvic acid from the Suwannee River (SRF sample) and (ii) an unfractionated DOC sample from a tertiary wastewater treatment plant (MWW sample). Two methods were demonstrated that quantitatively differentiated allochthonous DOC (e.g., SRF) from autochthonous DOC (e.g., MWW). The MWW sample exhibited fluorescence peaks undetected in the SRF sample, at shorter wavelength pairs (e.g., 220 nm:300 to 350 nm) than the dominant peaks in the SRF sample (e.g., 220 nm:450 nm). These peaks may be associated with base or neutral fractions, potentially enriched in organic nitrogen. Effects of DOC concentration and solution pH were discussed. A simple procedure was recommended (pH = 3; DOC = 1 mg/L; dilution with 0.01 M KCl) that minimizes the need to correct spectra for inner-filter absorbance effects. A method, using synchronous fluorescence, to estimate the percentage of DOC from different sources when mixed together was also presented. Further work to understand the structural properties of DOC that fluoresce in wastewater samples, especially at shorter EEM wavelength pairs, will enable water managers to better understand the influence of wastewater on DOC in receiving waters (e.g., rivers, lakes).
Auditors' perceptions of financial controller behaviours: the existence of positivity and negativity biases

Client management forms part of a company's internal control environment. If management's hpnesty and competency are questionable, the audit evidence derived from its control system may also be questionable. The first study in this thesis consists of a survey that was administered to identify which factors auditors associate with the honesty and competency of client management. Factors associated with the honesty of client management are more likely to be associated with fraud risk, whereas factors associated with the competency of client management are more likely to be associated with error risk. In most cases, the auditors correctly identified the factors as being related to honesty vs competency. However, some of the fraud risk factors were classified as error risk factors. This will have impact on the scope of work of an audit. The second study is a behavioural experiment to examine the impact of client management behaviour on auditor's judgment. This is a 2 (initial honesty) x 2 (initial competency) x 2 (consistency of honesty) x 2 (consistency of competency) between-subjects design experiment. The survey in the first study serves as a means to determine what behaviours can best represent the operationalisations of honesty and competency in the experiment. The theories on impression formation particularly the category-diagnosticity theory underlie the manipulations of variables in the experiment. Both honesty and competency are tested simultaneously in the experiment. Previous studies have only examined honesty and competency in separate experiments. The findings for the experiment are not consistent for all audit assertions, and thus, there is not sufficient evidence to support the propositions in the category-diagnosticity theory. Thus, when both honesty and competency are being evaluated at the same time by auditors, their evaluation of one could have an impact on the other. SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two Literature Review on Auditors' Perceptions of Client Behaviour Chapter Three Study 1: A Survey to Identify Client Behaviours Indicative of Honesty and Competency and Their Impact on Fraud and Error Risk Chapter Four Positivity and Negativity Biases in Auditors' Assessments of Audit Risk: Theory and Hypotheses Chapter Five Case Study Development Chapter Six Results for the Experiment Chapter Seven Discussion and Conclusions Appendices Bibliography DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Summary Table of
Functional analyses yield detailed insight into the mechanism of thrombin inhibition by the antihemostatic salivary protein cE5 from Anopheles gambiae

Saliva of blood-feeding arthropods carries several antihemostatic compounds whose physiological role is to facilitate successful acquisition of blood. The identification of novel natural anticoagulants and the understanding of their mechanism of action may offer opportunities for designing new antithrombotics disrupting blood clotting. We report here an in-depth structural and functional analysis of the anophelin family member cE5, a salivary protein from the major African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae that specifically, tightly, and quickly binds and inhibits thrombin. Using calorimetry, functional assays, and complementary structural techniques, we show that the central region of the protein, encompassing amino acids Asp-31–Arg-62, is the region mainly responsible for α-thrombin binding and inhibition. As previously reported for the Anopheles albimanus orthologue anophelin, cE5 binds both thrombin exosite I with segment Glu-35–Asp-47 and the catalytic site with the region Pro-49–Arg-56, which includes the highly conserved DPGR tetrapeptide. Moreover, the N-terminal Ala-1–Ser-30 region of cE5 (which includes an RGD tripeptide) and the additional C-terminal serine-rich Asn-63–Glu-82 region (absent in orthologues from anophelines of the New World species A. albimanus and Anopheles darlingi) also played some functionally relevant role. Indeed, we observed decreased thrombin binding and inhibitory properties even when using the central cE5 fragment (Asp-31–Arg-62) alone. In summary, these results shed additional light on the mechanism of thrombin binding and inhibition by this family of salivary anticoagulants from anopheline mosquitoes.
Dynamic generation of organizational BPELAWS workflows

Abstracl Web services are becoming a widely accepted technology for designing and building business collaboration in both intraand inter-organizational processes. However, business collaboration involves long-running interactions conducted by a process model that requires coordination of Web services. BPEIAWS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) is a process modeling language for the representation of compositional workflow structures to coordinate elementary Web service invocations. Nonetheless, a major probIem in BPEIAWS modeling is that the language does not support generic definition of worktlows. The importance of generic BPEIAWS workflow definitions rdies on describing increasingly complex forms of recurring situations abstracted from the various stages of business collaboration. Among the salient contributions of this work, the brokering architecture developed so far comprises a repository of worktlow patterns of interaction that describe common business practices that can be instantiated with appropriate business partners. By using the brokering architecture, small organizations can automate many of their business processes without making large investments in software development and deployment.
PEGARUH GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (GCG) TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA PADA SAAT TERJADINYA FINANCIAL CRISIS DENGAN RETURN ON ASSET (ROA) SEBAGAI VARIABEL KONTROL (STUDI PADA PERUSAHAAN MANUFAKTUR YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI PERIODE 2008-2011)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis apakah terdapat perbedaan praktik manajemen laba pada saat dan setelah terjadinya financial crisis yang terjadi di Indonesia pada tahun 2008. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menguji pengaruh Good Corporate Governance (GCG) yang di proxikan dengan Komposisi Dewan Komisaris Independen terhadap praktik manajemen laba pada saat dan setelah terjadinya financial crisis dengan Return On Asset (ROA) sebagai variabel kontrolnya. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada perusahaan sektor manufaktur yang terdaftar pada BEI periode 2008-2011 dengan total sampel sebanyak 45 perusahaan dalam setiap tahunnya. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pada saat terjadinya financial crisis maupun setelah financial crisis, rata-rata perusahaan melakukan praktik manajemen laba. Akan tetapi, praktik manajemen laba pada saat terjadinya financial crisis lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan setelah financial crisis. Selain itu, GCG yang di proxikan dengan Komposisi Dewan Komisaris Independen berpengaruh positif terhadap praktik manajemen laba pada saat itu.
The last Book

In this paper we describe our efforts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory toward realizing an electronic book comprised of hundreds of electronically addressable display pages printed on real paper substrates. Such pages may be typeset in situ, thus giving such a book the capability to be any book. We outline the technology we are developing to bring this about and describe a number of applications that such a device enables.
The protofilament substructure of amyloid fibrils.

Tissue deposition of normally soluble proteins, or their fragments, as insoluble amyloid fibrils causes the usually fatal, acquired and hereditary systemic amyloidoses and is associated with the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes and the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Although each type of amyloidosis is characterised by a specific amyloid fibril protein, the deposits share pathognomonic histochemical properties and the structural morphology of all amyloid fibrils is very similar. We have previously demonstrated that transthyretin amyloid fibrils contain four constituent protofilaments packed in a square array. Here, we have used cross-correlation techniques to average electron microscopy images of multiple cross-sections in order to reconstruct the sub-structure of ex vivo amyloid fibrils composed of amyloid A protein, monoclonal immunoglobulin lambda light chain, Leu60Arg variant apolipoprotein AI, and Asp67His variant lysozyme, as well as synthetic fibrils derived from a ten-residue peptide corresponding to the A-strand of transthyretin. All the fibrils had an electron-lucent core but the packing arrangement comprised five or six protofilaments rather than four. The structural similarity that defines amyloid fibres thus exists principally at the level of beta-sheet folding of the polypeptides within the protofilament, while the different types vary in the supramolecular assembly of their protofilaments.
Surgical treatment of Type I spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas.

OBJECT Type I spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (SDAVFs) are low-flow vascular shunts fed by radicular arteries in patients who most often present with myelopathy. Although some fistulas are amenable to endovascular embolization, nearly all can be treated with direct microsurgical obliteration. METHODS The authors reviewed their experience in treating 214 craniospinal arteriovenous malformations and/or fistulas over the last 8 years. Of these, 19 were spinal (9%), of which 15 (79%) were Type I SDAVFs. The authors reviewed the patients' epidemiological characteristics, presenting symptoms, and SDAVF angioarchitecture in all cases. They subsequently analyzed surgical obliteration rates and outcomes of all 11 patients who underwent fistula microsurgical obliteration. RESULTS In all patients who underwent microsurgical treatment, complete angiographic obliteration of the fistula was achieved. At follow-up, 10 (91%) of 11 patients exhibited improvement, 1 patient (9%) was the same, and no patients were worse. Specifically, 8 (73%) of 11 patients had improvement in strength and sensation, 5 (71%) of 7 had improvement of bowel/bladder function, and 3 (60%) of 5 had improvement of preoperative paresthesias. There were no wound infections, CSF leaks, or permanent neurological deficits. CONCLUSIONS Microsurgical treatment of SDAVF provides direct access to the fistula point, allowing for high obliteration rates with excellent long-term improvement of preoperative deficits and limited periprocedural complications.
Characterization of a cellulose-binding, cellulase-containing complex in Clostridium thermocellum

The isolation and biochemical characterization of the extracellular form of a cellulose-binding factor (CBF) from Clostridium thermocellum is described. The CBF was isolated from the culture supernatant by a two-step procedure which included affinity chromatography on cellulose and gel filtration on Sepharose 4B. The isolated CBF was homogeneous as determined by immunoelectrophoresis, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, gel filtration, and analytical ultracentrifugation analysis. The CBF was found to form a complex which exhibited a molecular weight estimated at 2.1 million. Electron microscopic analysis of negatively stained preparations of the isolated CBF revealed a particulate, multisubunit entity of complicated quaternary structure. The molecule appeared to be about 18 nm in size. Although urea failed to break the complex into its component parts, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate resolved the CBF complex into 14 polypeptide bands. Immunoprecipitation experiments confirmed that these polypeptides indeed formed part of the same complex. Interestingly, by using the whole-cell immunization procedure described in the accompanying article (Bayer et al., J. Bacteriol., 156:818-827, 1983) only one CBF subunit (Mr = 210,000) was found to be antigenically active. By using a gel-overlay assay technique, at least eight of the remaining CBF-associated polypeptide components were shown to exhibit cellulolytic activity. The results are consistent with the contention that the CBF comprises a discrete, multisubunit complex or group of closely related complexes which exhibit separate antigenic and multiple cellulase activities in addition to the property of cellulose binding. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Exploring novel many-core architectures for scientific computing

The rapid revolution in microprocessor chip architecture due to the many-core technology is presenting unprecedented challenges to the application developers as well as system software designers: how to best exploit the computation potential provided by such many-core architectures? The scope of this dissertation is to study programming issues for many-core architectures, and the contributions of this dissertation are in two main areas. Optimizing the Fast Fourier Transform for IBM Cyclops-64 To understand issues in designing and developing high-performance algorithms for many-core architectures, we use the fast Fourier transform (FFT) as a case study to investigate the above issues on the IBM Cyclops-64 many-core chip architecture. We analyze the optimization challenges and opportunities for FFT problems, and identify domain-specific features of the target problems and match them well with some key many-core architecture features. We quantitatively address the impacts of various optimization techniques and effectiveness of the target architecture. The resulting FFT implementations achieve excellent performance results in terms of both speedup and absolute performance. To assist the algorithm design and performance analysis, we present a model that estimates the performance of parallel FFT algorithms for an abstract many-core architecture. This abstract architecture captures generic features and parameters of several real many-core architectures; therefore the performance model is applicable for any architecture with similar features. We derive the performance model based on cost functions for three main components of an execution: the memory accesses, the computation, and the synchronization. The