Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ensuring Competitive Advantage In Smes In The Construction Industry In Romania Through Technological Innovation

During the current construction firms operating in a competitive environment internally and externally powerful. Confrontation between markets is particularly harsh, and that competition should be seen in its actual size, since only in this way will be able to take all necessary measures to ensure security and development of firms. To remain competitive in a globalized economy, it is essential for firms to invest in research, development and innovation. This is the best strategy to overcome the crisis. This paper describes some important links between the competitive advantage and technological innovation. I will focus not on specific technologies or how to drive research and development, but the means to recognize and exploit the competitive significance that involves technological innovation.
Adaptive trans‐generational phenotypic plasticity and the lack of an experimental control in reciprocal match/mismatch experiments

Parental information about the prevailing environmental condition may enable offspring to adjust their phenotypes in accordance with future demands. The state‐of‐the‐art experimental test of the occurrence of such adaptive trans‐generational phenotypic plasticity is a ‘match/mismatch’ approach: a fully factorial reciprocal transplant experiment where offspring encounter environments either matching or mismatching parents’ experience. Here, we highlight that a hidden assumption of this approach is that the effect of early and late offspring environment acts completely additively on offspring fitness. Likely violations of this assumption, such that early ‘silver‐spoon’ effects are more valuable when later environmental conditions are relatively harsh, will bias the estimates of potential trans‐generational effects. We discuss the different implications of this on the interpretation of the outcome of match/mismatch experiments and suggest different complementary and alternative approaches.
Exploring Client-Centered Care Experiences in In-Patient Rehabilitation Settings

Patient or client-centered care has been widely accepted as an essential component of health care delivery in many countries. Few studies explore actual implementation of client-centered principles and clients’ and health care providers’ (HCPs) experiences with these approaches. Our objective was to explore current models of delivery of rehabilitation services from the perspectives of patients, families, and HCPs. We conducted semistructured interviews with patients, families, and HCPs of one of four rehabilitation facilities in South-Central Ontario, Canada. Being on common grounds/Working toward client set goals was the main category identified by both clients and HCPs. Although successful partnerships were created, the majority of clients assumed a passive position. Clients needed more information about the rehabilitation progression and alternative treatment options. The results of the study suggest that we need to encourage and educate clients to become motivated, well-informed, proactive participants in their care.
Changing the rules in use? An examination of social enterprise in local governance

As multi-stakeholder entities that explicitly inhabit both social and economic domains, social enterprises pose new challenges and possibilities for local governance. In this paper, we draw on new institutional theory to examine the ways in which locally-focused social enterprises disrupt path dependencies and rules in use within local government. Rather than examining the more commonly asked question of the influence of the state on social enterprise, our purpose here is to examine the impacts of social enterprise on governmental institutions at the local level. Our discussion is based on a mixed-methods study, including an online survey of 66 local government staff, document analysis, and in-depth interviews with 24 social enterprise practitioners and local government actors working to support social enterprise development in Victoria, Australia. We find that, in some instances, the hybrid nature of social enterprise facilitates ‘joining up’ between different functional areas of local government. Beyond organisational relationships, social enterprise also influences local governance through the reinterpretation and regeneration of institutionalised public spaces.
Spherical Camera Localization in Man-made Environment Using 3 D-2 D Matching of Line Information

In this paper, we propose a novel method for global six degree of freedoms (DoF) localization of a spherical camera in a man-made environment. Specifically, a 3D-2D matching method based on line information of a known 3D model of the environment is proposed. There are two challenging points. First is to design a unique representation of 2D line information from the image and 3D line information from the 3D environment model. Second is to evaluate similarity of the line information extracted from both a real spherical camera image taken in the environment and arbitrary 6 DoF poses in the 3D environment model in order to localize the camera. To deal with the former, a novel descriptor is designed based on a Hough space for the line information. Then, earth mover’s distance (EMD) is calculated to evaluate similarity between the descriptors. We evaluated the proposed method in a real environment with its 3D model. The results demonstrated that our proposed method can effectively estimate the 6 DoF pose of a spherical camera using a single image.
Asymptotically CFAR-Unsupervised Target Detection and Discrimination in Hyperspectral Images With Anomalous-Component Pursuit

This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in hyperspectral images. We propose and exploit a data model to establish the link between two main approaches in the area of anomaly detection, which are the hypothesis testing (HT) and projection pursuit. We show that combining these two approaches enables one to overcome some limitations of each method when taken separately. Indeed, the resulting detection algorithm, namely, anomalous component pursuit (ACP) has an asymptotically constant false-alarm rate, like HT-based detectors, and enables anomaly spectral discrimination, including the estimation of the number of classes. We assess the ACP algorithm on real-world data, in terms of detection and discrimination, and discuss some theoretical limitations.
Frequency of Dry Eye Diagnostic Test Procedures Used in Various Modes of Ophthalmic Practice

Purpose. There are many suggested dry eye diagnostic test batteries in the literature. However, clinicians use a wide variety of dry eye diagnostic tests in clinical practice due to a number of factors, including time constraints. In addition, there has been no systematic description of the standard of care in diagnosing dry eye in the literature. The purpose of this study is to determine the type and frequency of dry eye diagnostic tests used in various modes of ophthalmic practice across a spectrum of dry eye severity. Methods. A total of 467 patient charts (patients with a previous dry eye diagnosis) were reviewed retrospectively to determine diagnostic test frequency. In reviewing patient charts, the following tests were identified as performed or not performed: symptom assessment, fluorescein staining, tear break-up time (TBUT), Schirmer test, rose bengal staining, and “tear assessment” (including quantity and quality of the tear meniscus). Results. Dry eye diagnostic tests were used in the following frequencies across all modes of practice: symptom assessment (82.8%), fluorescein staining (55.5%), TBUT (40.7%), tear assessment (22.2%), Schirmer test (8.5%), and rose bengal staining (4.9%). When the clinics are pooled, two test procedures were used with the highest frequency (38.9%). The most commonly performed two-test procedure combination was a symptom assessment combined with fluorescein staining of the cornea (43.7%). Conclusions. Symptom assessment plays a large role in the diagnosis of dry eye. The current clinical standard of care for dry eye diagnosis includes the performance of at least one test procedure in addition to a symptom assessment.
Corporate Intangibles, Value Relevance and Disclosure Content

This study examines how companies create value in the new knowledge-intensive economy of the twenty-first century. During the last few years there have been significant changes in the structure of the market for information and in the stock market. These supply-side and demand-side changes have combined to create problems and opportunities for companies in their disclosure activities, and these changes are investigated in this study.
Symmetry Breaking and the Evolution of Development

Because of its simplicity, the binary-switch nature of left-right asymmetry permits meaningful comparisons among many different organisms. Phylogenetic analyses of asymmetry variation, inheritance, and molecular mechanisms reveal unexpected insights into how development evolves. First, directional asymmetry, an evolutionary novelty, arose from nonheritable origins almost as often as from mutations, implying that genetic assimilation (“phenotype precedes genotype”) is a common mode of evolution. Second, the molecular pathway directing hearts leftward—the nodal cascade—varies considerably among vertebrates (homology of form does not require homology of development) and was possibly co-opted from a preexisting asymmetrical chordate organ system. Finally, declining frequencies of spontaneous asymmetry reversal throughout vertebrate evolution suggest that heart development has become more canalized.
Governing Australia’s Dairy Farm Workforce: A New Terrain for Negotiating Rural Community Sustainability

Amidst heightened policy interest in the future of agriculture, there is an emerging new focus on the topic of the farm workforce in Australia. Will agricultural industries have the people – both farm business owners and employees – that they need? While government and industry are focused on the sustainability of production, farm workforce dynamics also intersect with wider economic and social processes in rural communities, an issue of ongoing concern for rural studies scholars. Here we examine currently emerging policy and action on farm workforce issues from a governance perspective, using the dairy industry in the Australian state of Victoria as a case study. Drawing on both governmentality and political science approaches, we explore workforce governance through three overlapping studies: policy-making, farmers’ lived experiences and industry-led collective action. Across the three studies we ask, first, what is revealed about neo-liberal agricultural industry governance and, second, what possibilities the new focus on workforce creates for rural communities concerned about social and economic sustainability. We argue that the farm workforce as a policy object crystallizes the tension between the strongly individualizing discourse of neo-liberalism and the pursuit of public policy objectives framed at the collective scale. If the neo-liberalizing project is understood as a work in progress, then the issue of the farm workforce can be seen as another dilemma to be worked through. In this the roles of collective agents and spaces in both agricultural industries and in communities are critical, making the farm workforce a terrain for innovation in which rural communities can negotiate their interests afresh.
Interplay between Efflux Pumps May Provide Either Additive or Multiplicative Effects on Drug Resistance

ABSTRACT The effects of simultaneous expression of several efflux pumps on antibiotic resistance were investigated in Escherichia coliand Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Several combinations of efflux pumps have been studied: (i) simultaneous expression of a single-component efflux pump, which exports antibiotics into the periplasm, in combination with a multicomponent efflux pump that accomplishes efflux directly into the external medium; (ii) simultaneous expression of two single-component pumps; and (iii) simultaneous expression of two multicomponent pumps. It was found that when efflux pumps of different structural types were combined in the same cell (the first case), the observed antibiotic resistance was much higher than that conferred by each of the pumps expressed singly. Simultaneous expression of pairs of single-component or multicomponent efflux pumps (the second and third cases) did not produce strong increases in antibiotic resistance.
MMSE iterative soft interference cancellation algorithm using transmit power allocation scheme in V-BLAST system

In the V-BLAST system, the minimum mean square error (MMSE) iterative soft interference canceller is a popular soft-input/soft-output (SISO) detector for the turbo receiver. Link adaptation is a good scheme to improve performance in a wireless system. In the paper, we propose a modified algorithm of MMSE iterative soft interference cancellation detector with variable transmission power in each antenna, and propose an effective transmit power scheme to improve bit error rate (BER) performance. This scheme requires small feedback overhead. By uncoded system simulation, it is found that the modified V-BLAST system with transmit power allocation outperforms the conventional V-BLAST system greatly.
Can Niche Players Benefit from Social Media Strategy

Social Media enables companies to easier reach their customers and to address a large audience. But what if a niche player, with limited resources and serving a small market, enters the world of Social Media, does it has any benefits for such companies? The research will be conducted within a small construction company, based in the Netherlands. The company is specialised in the construction of large detached houses and villas. In terms of the benefits Social Media offers for niche players, the following can be conclude. Social Media certainly has benefits for niche players, but only when it is organised well and when pages have a certain amount of followers. Advantage of Facebook, for example, is a niche player can alert their small target audience following the company’s profile if there is interesting news, or to alert people there is on open house next month. In other words, a website is only a mean to present you as a business, while Social Media gives companies the opportunities to reach the people when they want. Besides, posting messages creates brand awareness, since messages are shared and further distributed on the Internet. In addition, and this is the most important benefit for niche players which are operating on Social Media; it provides opportunities to get into interaction with customers, which provides valuable information to the company and above all, message can be placed at very low cost, or even no cost, making Social Media one of the cheapest forms of marketing.
Psychological well-being of Australian veterinarians.

OBJECTIVE To use established psychological scales to measure levels of distress, anxiety and depression in veterinarians, and compare these levels between different veterinary subgroups and other professional groups. METHODS A cohort of veterinarians was identified through contact with veterinary schools in Australia. Participants completed a self-reporting questionnaire that included queries about general health and demographics, psychological well-being, job-specific perceptions of health, dispositional characteristics and social support. RESULTS Of the 2125 respondents who completed the psychological questionnaire, approximately one-third reported poor psychological health. Increasing age, increasing time in current job, increasing years since graduation and male gender was associated with fewer signs of distress, anxiety and depression. Compared with the general population, veterinarians experienced more negative emotions at work, but were similar to other professional groups. CONCLUSIONS Poor psychological health is common in the profession and professional veterinary bodies may wish to consider providing training in dealing with work-related distress, anxiety and depression.
Spherical unitary dual of general linear group over non-Archimidean local field

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Influence of Service Quality Determinants on Customer Satisfaction: A Domicile Comparison

Service Quality is a buzz word to the corporate banks to sustain in the competitive environment. Numerous studies were conducted to examine the service quality determinants and customer satisfaction using SERVQUAL and modified SERVQUAL instrument. Few studies were conducted to understand the difference between the service quality perceptions based on demographic characteristics. The present study is an attempt to know the significant differences in the perceptions of customers from different locations of Andhra Pradesh towards the service quality determinants using service Quality instrument defined by Suresh Chander et al (2002). The study was conducted based on the primary data collected through 903 customers of select public and private sector banks. The results from the study support the hypothesis that domicile differences influence the service quality perceptions. Finally the study observed that the urban customers preferred the quality in core services whereas the semi urban and rural customers' opined human element is the most determining element on the satisfaction levels.
Trypanosome RNA Editing: Simple Guide RNA Features Enhance U Deletion 100-Fold

ABSTRACT Trypanosome RNA editing is a massive processing of mRNA by U deletion and U insertion, directed by trans-acting guide RNAs (gRNAs). A U deletion cycle and a U insertion cycle have been reproduced in vitro using synthetic ATPase (A6) pre-mRNA and gRNA. Here we examine which gRNA features are important for this U deletion. We find that, foremost, this editing depends critically on the single-stranded character of a few gRNA and a few mRNA residues abutting the anchor duplex, a feature not previously appreciated. That plus any base-pairing sequence to tether the upstream mRNA are all the gRNA needs to direct unexpectedly efficient in vitro U deletion, using either the purified editing complex or whole extract. In fact, our optimized gRNA constructs support faithful U deletion up to 100 times more efficiently than the natural gRNA, and they can edit the majority of mRNA molecules. This is a marked improvement of in vitro U deletion, in which previous artificial gRNAs were no more active than natural gRNA and the editing efficiencies were at most a few percent. Furthermore, this editing is not stimulated by most other previously noted gRNA features, including its potential ligation bridge, 3′ OH moiety, any U residues in the tether, the conserved structure of the central region, or proteins that normally bind these regions. Our data also have implications about evolutionary forces active in RNA editing.
Measured Impedance by Distance Relay in Presence of Resistive Fault Current Limiter

Distance relays are widely in use as main and back-up protective devices for transmission lines. Their operation is based on impedance measurement at the relaying point, which can be affected by several factors. Continued demand for electricity energy leads to increase in the short circuit levels along the network, which itself causes new problems. One of the proposed solutions for this problem is the utilization of fault current limiter (FCL), which imposes further changes on the measured impedance at the relaying point. This paper presents the effects of resistive superconductor FCL, on the measured impedance at the relaying point. In addition to its limitation degree, its installation point also affects the measured impedance. The variation of the ideal tripping characteristic due to presence of FCL for different installation points would be investigated.
Insurability of export credit risks

This report presents an analysis of the market for export credit insurance. Governments of all developed countries oer exporting companies export credit (re)insurance, either directly or indirectly. This raises the questions 1. What are the key determinants of export credit risk insurability by the private market? 2. Which export credit risks can be covered by the private market? We provide an answer to these questions by means of a literature review and an extensive field study, with special emphasis of the role of the Dutch government as a reinsurer of certain export credit risks.
Effect of framework design on fracture resistance of zirconium oxide posterior fixed partial dentures

Introduction: The effect of framework design modifications in all-ceramic systems is not fully understood. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of different framework designs on fracture resistance of zirconium oxide posterior fixed partial dentures (FPD). Materials and Methods: Thirty two posterior zirconia FPD cores were manufactured to replace a second premolar. The specimens were divided into four groups; I: 3 × 3 connector and standard design, II: 3 × 3 connector and modified design, III: 4 × 4 connector dimension, and standard design and IV: 4 × 4 connector dimension and modified design. After storing for one week in artificial saliva and thermocycling (2000 cycles, 5-55°C), the specimens were loaded in a universal testing machine at a constant cross-head speed of 0.5 mm/min until failure occurred. The Weibull, Kruskal-Wallis, and Mann-Whitney tests were used for statistical analysis (α = 0.05). Results: The mean fracture resistance of groups with 4 × 4 mm connector was significantly higher than groups with 3 × 3 mm connector (P < 0.001). Although, the fracture resistance of the modified frameworks was increased in the present study (1.1 times), they were not significantly different from anatomic specimens (P = 0.327). Conclusions: The fracture resistance of the zirconia posterior-fixed partial dentures was significantly affected by the connector size; it was not affected by the framework modification.
Quantitative relationship between oral temperature and severity of illness following inoculation with candidate attenuated dengue virus vaccines.

The relationship between oral temperature and other parameters of illness was examined in 51 adult volunteers who were inoculated experimentally with partially attenuated candidate dengue virus vaccines. In subjects who developed clinical illness, the peak illness temperature, mean illness temperature, and peak 6:00 A.M. illness temperature all correlated positively with the total number of signs and symptoms other than fever and with a fall in the white blood cell count (the latter was the only laboratory abnormality significantly associated with clinical illness [P = .02]). Of these factors, the peak 6:00 A.M. oral temperature exhibited the strongest correlations with the two parameters used to estimate severity of illness (rxy = .58 and P < .01 for signs and symptoms; rxy = .37 and P = .01 for fall in white blood cell count).