Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gross Value Added in Services - a Case Study of the Sea Port in Szczecin

The aim of the paper is to determine the size and structure of the Gross Value Added (GVA) generated by the supply of services in Szczecin seaport. Correlations, multipliers, and elas­ticities between different port services are indicated in the paper. The GVA is an economic measure of the size of generated production. In seaports, it expresses the value of the generated and delivered flow of services of warehousing and cargo handling, securing the safe movement and mooring of ships in port and their technical and commercial support, of accessibility to port infrastructure for in port manufacturers and port users, of organization, planning and coordination of processes of cargo and transportation units handling inside the port and at other nodes of the transportation chain. The scope of the research at Szczecin seaport included four groups of activities, namely: - cargo handling companies; - sea transportation support companies, including the ones supplying port shipping services (navi- gation, pilotage, and towage), dredging and underwater works (carried within the inner port basins), sea rescue, and other maritime services; - sea transportation agencies supplying services of port and maritime forwarding, shipbuilding brokerage, ship agencies, customs, maritime consulting and expertize, cargo stowage and secur­ing aboard the ship, cargo expertise and inspection, and other services (logistics); and - sea port authorities. GVA has been calculated by subtracting the value of the intermediate consumption from the gross output of the port sector companies. The intermediate consumption consists of the value of con­sumed materials and energy, external services, and the rest of the by nature costs of business entities. The GVA calculation has been based on the statistical data obtained from the Centre of Maritime Statistics at the Statistical Office in Szczecin.
A Before-and-After Empirical Bayes Evaluation of Automated Mobile Speed 1 Enforcement on Urban Arterial Roads 2 3 4 5

1 This study evaluates the safety effects of automated mobile enforcement on urban arterial roads. 2 The before-and-after Empirical Bayes (EB) method was used to account for the regression-to3 the-mean effects and other confounding factors. Locally developed safety performance functions 4 and yearly calibration factors for different collision severities were obtained by using a reference 5 group of urban arterial roads. Eight years of data was collected to perform the evaluation, 6 including information on collision records, deployment information, traffic counts, and 7 geometric road data. The results showed consistent reductions in different collision severities, 8 ranging from 14% to 20%, with the highest reductions observed for severe collisions. The 9 enforced segments were further categorized according to site selection criteria and deployment 10 hours to examine their effects on collision reduction. The study also compared the safety effects 11 of continuous and discontinuous enforcement strategies on different arterials, and the analysis 12 revealed that continuous enforcement had a stronger influence on all severity/type of collisions. 13 Moreover, the study also investigated the spillover effects on adjacent approaches, and the 14 findings were discussed with regard to the general and specific deterrence of the enforcement. 15
Comparison Of Financial and Non Financial Environmental Reporting

The paper focuses on the comparison of financial and non financial aspect of reporting in a comparative study between Pakistan and UK firms. Previous studies have proven a mixed trend in reporting. However, the trend of reporting is growing in both developed and developing countries. This study examines a sample of listed Pakistani and UK companies, using content analysis model to identify the value relevance of financial and non financial reporting trends. Furthemore, the analysis is also extended to incorporate the two different types of environmental reporting: voluntary and compulsory. Results suggest a significant trend of reporting non financial corporate environmental issues in both the countries. An unappreciable trend of financial reporting is observed to be a part of the annual reports of either of the countries’s annual reports.
Enzyme‐Catalyzed Processes in Organic Solvents

Three different lipases (porcine pancreatic, yeast, and mold) can vigorously act as catalysts in a number of nearly anhydrous organic solvents. Various transesterification reactions catalyzed by porcine pancreatic lipase in hexane obey Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The dependence of the catalytic activity of the enzyme in organic media on the pH of the aqueous solution from which it was recovered is bell-shaped, with the maximum coinciding with the pH optimum of the enzymatic activity in water. The catalytic power exhibited by the lipases in organic solvents is comparable to that displayed in water. In addition to transesterification, lipases can catalyze several other processes in organic media including esterification, aminolysis, acyl exchange, thiotransesterification, and oximolysis; some of these reactions proceed to an appreciable extent only in nonaqueous solvents.
The Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis as Seen Through the Lens of the Dream

The decision about when to terminate analysis has long been underpinned by a theory-driven criterion model, which may steer the analytic dialogue away from its customary activities of free association, empathic listening, and interpretation. As a remedy to this situation, the author proposes that by paying careful attention to less consciously crafted patient communications such as dreams, the analytic dyad can consider readiness to set a termination date from a perspective that is context-sensitive and less encumbered by preordained criteria. Tracing the dreams of one analysand from the vantage point of contemporary dream theory, the author demonstrates how careful attention to the dream elucidated the patient's readiness to terminate and her complex feelings about the termination process. Finally, the author challenges the notion that the termination phase is of greater evaluative than therapeutic importance, and provides clinical material as evidence that this is not the case.
Hypervisors Performance Evaluation with Help of HPC Challenge Benchmarks

Nowadays, more organizations are getting used to private and public clouds. So clouds must be robust enough to handle computing sensitive requests of users in a cost effective manner. Furthermore, it is intellectual to improve the cloud infrastructure performance by appropriate choices. In this paper we are going to evaluate various hypervisors performance, including VMware ESXi and Workstation, KVM, Xen, and Oracle VirtualBox using HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite and OpenMPI to find solutions for virtualization layer of cloud computing architecture.
Oncogenic Activating Mutations in the neu/erbB‐2 Oncogene Are Involved in the Induction of Mammary Tumors

ABSTRACT Amplification and overexpression of erbB‐2/neu is an important determinant in the initiation and progression of human breast cancer. Indeed, transgenic mice that overexpress the neu proto‐oncogene heritably develop mammary adenocarcinomas. Tumorigenesis in these transgenic strains is associated with activation of the intrinsic catalytic activity of Neu. In many of these tumors, activation of Neu occurs as a result of somatic mutations located within the transgene itself. Examination of the altered neu transcripts revealed the presence of in‐frame deletions that encode aberrant Neu receptors lacking 5 to 12 amino acids within the extracellular domain proximal to the transmembrane region of Neu. In addition to these deletion mutants we have also detected single point mutations within this juxtatransmembrane region. The majority of the mutations analyzed affect the one of several conserved cysteine residues present within this region. Introduction of these activating mutations into the wild‐type neu cDNA results in its oncogenic conversion. Taken together, these observations suggest that this cysteine‐rich region plays an important role in regulating the catalytic activity of Neu.
MAP decoding with random interleaver for MPEG-4 image indoor wireless transmission system

Here, the investigation of the performance of MAP decoding with random interleaver for MPEG-4 image transmission system is described and analyzed. The performance evaluation is shown by setting MAP decoder to match the priori statistic of zerotree symbol sequence of the ldquoLenardquo image. In this work, we successfully reduce the computation of the random interleaver process by omitting the calculation of the interleaving matrix P. In some cases, despite the computational reduction, the slight improvement of about 0.5-1 dB in PSNR can still be obtained.
The complexities of predictive genetic testing

Predictive genetic testing is the use of a genetic test in an asymptomatic person to predict future risk of disease. These tests represent a new and growing class of medical tests, differing in fundamental ways from conventional medical diagnostic tests. The hope underlying such testing is that early identification of individuals at risk of a specific condition will lead to reduced morbidity and mortality through targeted screening, surveillance, and prevention. Yet the clinical utility of predictive genetic testing for different diseases varies considerably. We explore here the factors that contribute to this variation and which will dictate the utility of any of these new tests now or in the future. #### Summary points Predictive genetic testing has considerable potential for accurate risk assessment and appropriate targeting of screening and preventive strategies Most predictive tests carry a degree of uncertainty about whether a condition will develop, when it will develop, and how severe it will be The value of a predictive test depends on the nature of the disease for which testing is being carried out, how effective treatment is, and the cost and efficacy of screening and surveillance measures Predictive testing must be tailored to individuals' preferences and the needs and experience of families The observations in this paper derive from our experience in clinical medicine, medical genetics, genetic counselling, and molecular biology and from participation in educational programmes for generalists on medical genetics. The definition of utility used here encompasses all aspects of a test (individual and societal) that render it more or less useful in the clinical arena. ### Current and future use A conventional medical diagnostic test, such as a blood count or an imaging study, defines something about the patient's current condition. Although such information may have implications for the future, its overwhelming utility lies in the information it provides about the patient's current …
[Interrater reliability of the Spanish version of Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children--Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL)].

INTRODUCTION The K-SADS-PL diagnostic interview is useful for the cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of psychopathology in children and adolescents. The objective of this article was to describe the interrater reliability of the Spanish version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children--Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL). METHOD The interview was translated, back-translated and adapted to Spanish. Forty psychiatric outpatients (aged 6 to 17 years) were evaluated. The interviews were videotaped and scored by three independent raters. All of them included both the child's and parent's interview. Interrater reliability was obtained for affective, anxiety and conduct disorders using the Cohen's kappa coefficient. RESULTS Kappa coefficients were between the good and excellent range for present and lifetime disorders (major depressive disorder kappa = 0.76, any anxiety disorder kappa = 0.84, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder kappa = 0.91 and conduct disorder, kappa = 1). CONCLUSION The Spanish version of the K-SADS-PL is a reliable instrument for the assessment of psychopathology in children and adolescents.
Foetal and neonatal stress

The first aspect to be analysed in this report is the more or less unequivocal concept of stress; the literature provides various meanings of this term, which is now part of everyday vocabulary. In particular, the term “stress” can be identified as an intense emotional reaction to a series of external stimuli that generate physiological and psychological adaptive responses. This term was introduced in biology by W. B. Cannon, but it acquired an unequivocal definition thanks to H. Selye, according to which “stress is a non-specific response of our organism to a request” (1971). The request includes a wide range of stimuli, also called stressful agents, whereas the biological, adaptive and defensive response of our organism is called general syndrome of adaptation. This is characterized by a phase of alarm with hormonal biochemical changes, by a phase of resistance in which the body is organized functionally, and by a depletion in which we see the collapse of the defences and the inability to adapt further. The ability to direct adaptive actions implies both the possibility of actions that modify the environment according to the needs of the subject, and the possibility of making a modification to subjective characteristics to ensure better adaptation to the surrounding environment. Taking this further, it is clear that the condition of a foetus in the womb or that of a newborn at the beginning of his life should be considered very stressful. As regards fatal stress, this is obviously correlated with the wellbeing or uneasiness of the mother; in fact, in the literature, there
Identification of specificity‐determining residues in antibodies

The successful identification of the residues that contact ligand has important implications, especially in view of the increasing use of antibodies in various medical and industrial applications. Analysis of the crystallographically derived, three‐dimensional structures of five antibody‐antigen complexes and of the available amino acid sequence data on antibody variable regions reveals that the residues that contact antigen are in the main also the most variable. It is proposed that a good first guess of the identity of the specificity‐determining residues can be made from an examination of the variability values at sequence positions. New boundaries for the complementarity‐determining regions are proposed. —Padlan, E. A. , Abergel, C. , Tipper, J. P. Identification of specificity‐determining residues in antibodies. FASEB J. 9, 133‐139 (1995)
A First Glimpse into the Short Side of Hedge Funds

We provide direct evidence about the profitability of hedge fund short trades in equities. We identify the opening and closing of equity short sales (and long side trades) by hedge funds and other institutional investors by combining data on the detailed transactions and holdings of the investors. Hedge fund short sales covered within five trading days are highly profitable, earning an average abnormal return of 14 bps per day, but short positions kept open longer than five days are not profitable. In contrast, non-hedge fund institutional investors suffer losses on short sales that are covered within five trading days but earn average abnormal returns of 2.6 bps per day on short trades covered between 21 and 63 days after being opened. Additional evidence suggests that some of the profitability of short trades is due to information and some stems from liquidity provision, and that short selling profitability is persistent.
Evaluating the services and facilities of European cities using crowdsourced place data

Statistics about citizen satisfaction regarding urban facilities and services are required for governing urban areas. Such statistics are often unavailable or outdated. At times, existing statistics are irrelevant to the major problems of most citizens. In this article, we propose a cost-effective method for estimating citizen satisfaction regarding urban facilities and services using crowdsourced place data. Two indicators are proposed based on place data derived from the Foursquare social media application. Both indicators are based on the hypothesis that the higher the number of places is that belong to a facility or service type on social media, then the higher the satisfaction of citizens regarding this facility or service type will be. This hypothesis was tested by using the Eurobarometer survey data as reference. The accuracy assessment revealed strong and statistically significant linear relationships ( R 2 > 0 . 6 ) between the reference percentage of very satisfied citizens and some categories (i.e. “Sport facilities”, “Cultural Categories,” and “Streets & buildings”). Other categories showed moderate and statistically significant linear relationships (i.e. “Public spaces” and “Green spaces”). Therefore, the proposed indicators provide estimates about citizen satisfaction with regard to these five categories. The new indicators can be used to better design public opinion surveys by making them more relevant to the public in terms of topics, space, and time.
X-Ray Diffraction by NaCl

Previous studies have shown that X-rays are produced by electrically accelerating electrons produced by thermionic emission from a hot filament. The emitted electrons are then directed toward a crystal via collimator to study crystal properties. When the target material of the X-ray tube is bombarded with electrons accelerated from the cathode filament, two types of X-ray spectra are produced the continuous spectra and the characteristic spectra of the target material or the crystal. In this study, we confirm the characteristic spectra of NaCl crystal and compare it with the published values. The experimental value of spacing d, between the planes of atoms is 0 . 281 nm which is consistent with the current national institute of science and technology (NIST) value of 0.282 nm. Moreover, this study confirms that X-rays from the crystal are emitted only in directions θ that obey the Bragg equation. Electrical current is run through the tungsten filament, causing it to glow and emit electrons. A large voltage difference (we use 35 kV accelerating potential) is placed between the cathode and the anode, causing the electrons to move at high velocity from the filament to the anode target (crystal). When the target material of the X-ray tube is bombarded with electrons accelerated from the cathode filament, two types of X-ray spectra are produced the continuous spectra and the characteristic spectra of the target material Fig. 2 (2).
A case of sudden and unexpected death due to idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the elderly

A case of sudden and unexpected death due to idiopathic cardiomyopathy of hypertrophic type in a 50-year-old man is reported. The heart showed on gross observation a very marked hypertrophy (1100 g); microscopically, muscle fibers were different in size and shape, with hypertrophy of nuclei, associated with a moderate increase of connective tissue.
Pantalar Dislocation without Extrusion

Open hindfoot injuries result from high-energy trauma and include soft tissue disruption, joint dislocations, with possible chondral and osseous injuries. The term “total talus dislocation”, is an uncommon open hindfoot injury associated with talar extrusion. However, a total talus dislocation without extrusion has not been reported. This case presents an open hindfoot injury with dislocations of the tibiotalar, subtalar, and talonavicular joints without total extrusion of the talus. In our opinion, such injuries should be termed “pantalar dislocation without extrusion. ” With this injury subtype, the talus should be preserved, if possible, despite its extensive soft tissue disruptions. Our approach contradicts previous total talar treatment recommendations for talar excision. Continued longterm follow-up is necessary to ensure that post-traumatic problems involving the talar dome do not arise.
The Influence of Company Resources and Absorptive Capability on Value Creation and the Implication on Business Performance in the Courier Services Industry in Indonesia

The growth of business performance of courier service industry in Indonesia in the last five years are stagnant. Sales performance target is still difficult to achieve and profit growth is relatively small. This study aims to explore the data and information regarding the effect Company Resources and Absorptive Capability on Value Creation and the implication to Business Performance of courier service industry in Indonesia. The nature of this research is descriptive and verificative. The unit of analysis is the courier service industry, with a sample of 50 courier companies from various regions in Indonesia. Time horizon is cross-sectional, where the research is done at a certain time. Primary data were collected by questionnaires and interviews with customers and stakeholders. The analysis is done by using the model verification Partial Least Square (PLS). The findings reveal that Absorptive Capability (ACAP) and Company Resources) simultaneously influence Value Creation and Business Performance. Meanwhile partially, Absorptive Capability (ACAP) has a greater influence than Company Resources on Value Creation. Absorptive Capability (ACAP) has a significant influence on Business Performance, while Company Resources do not have significant influence on Business Performance. Value Creation on the other hand, has greater influence on Business Performance.
The ecology of the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus L. Distribution of the tick on hill pasture

Further details of tick distribution (Ixodes ricinus L.) on the pastures of a typical hill farm are given. Sheep paths (tracks) and their borders have tick populations similar in density to that of the general pasture. Sheep lairs (night resting places) have significantly lower nymphal densities than the general pasture. With males and females, though the difference is in the same direction, it is less well marked. On the typical hill, the vegetation layer generally becomes thinner, and nymphal density decreases, with altitude. The case is not so clear with males and females. Provided vegetation conditions are suitable (i.e. sufficiently thick), altitude has no limiting effect on nymphal density distribution within the levels studied. Tick density distribution is therefore a function of vegetation conditions, the latter usually being affected by altitude. Distribution of ticks on apparently uniform areas of vegetation is studied. Sampling methods are discussed. Probably no more than twelve nymphs per square yard of ground are present on the average in heavily infested pasture. The numbers of nymphs per 100 sq. yd. differed significantly. The number per acre (approx.) also differed significantly in rather more than half the cases observed. Larger areaunits within uniform stretches of pasture probably carry similar numbers of ticks. Practical applications of the findings to the study of tick control are indicated. Thanks are due to Dr V. B. Wigglesworth, F.R. S. , Director, Agricultural Research Council Unit of Insect Physiology; Dr A. E. Cameron, Edinburgh University; and Captain the Hon. Claud Lambton, on whose farm the work was carried out.