Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Role of ERP Capabilities in Achieving Competitive Advantage: An Empirical Study on Dakahlia Governorate Companies, Egypt

Nowadays enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are crucial for each company to automate and manage its business seamlessly and possess a competitive advantage. This paper was conducted with the purpose of determining which ERP capabilities categorized in IT capabilities, including integration, information access, IT skills and agility, and organizational capabilities including qualified human resources, top management support can affect decision‐making efficiency and competitive advantage types (low cost advantage and/or differentiation advantage), it also examines the impact of decision‐making efficiency on competitive advantage types. The problem of this paper is summarized in the uncertainty of the relationship between ERP capabilities and competitive advantage, as well as the absence of studies in this field. So, a survey was applied on 162 companies in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt in order to investigates the impact of ERP capabilities on low‐cost advantage, differentiation advantage, and decision making efficiency, in order to determine whether each category of ERP capabilities can affect any competitive advantage type and decision‐making efficiency in itself or they must be combined with each other to occur impact, and finally examine the decision making efficiency impact on competitive advantage types.
Structural basis for Nup2p function in cargo release and karyopherin recycling in nuclear import

The yeast nucleoporin Nup2p is associated primarily with the nuclear basket of nuclear pore complexes and is required for efficient importin‐α:β‐mediated nuclear protein import as well as efficient nuclear export of Kap60p/importin‐α. Residues 1–51 of Nup2p bind tightly to Kap60p and are required for Nup2p function in vivo. We have determined the 2.6 Å resolution crystal structure of a complex between this region of Nup2p and the armadillo repeat domain of Kap60p. Nup2p binds along the inner concave groove of Kap60p, but its interaction interface is different from that employed for nuclear localization signal (NLS) recognition although there is some overlap between them. Nup2p binds Kap60p more strongly than NLSs and accelerates release of NLSs from Kap60p. Nup2p itself is released from Kap60p by Cse1p:RanGTP only in the presence of the importin‐β binding (IBB) domain of Kap60p. These data indicate that Nup2p increases the overall rate of nuclear trafficking by coordinating nuclear import termination and importin recycling as a concerted process.
Human immunodeficiency virus testing uptake and risk behaviours in Spain

Background: The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of human immunodeficiency (HIV) testing in the general population; to analyse factors related to voluntary testing; and to describe the main reasons for testing, the kinds of health services where testing takes place and the relations between self-risk perception and HIV testing. Methods: A probability sample survey of health and sexual behaviour in men and women aged 18–49 years and resident in Spain in 2003 (n = 10 980) was used. A combination of face-to-face and computer-assisted self-interview was used, and bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: Some 39.4% (40.2% in men and 38.5% in women) had ever been tested, blood donation being the main reason for men and pregnancy for women. In the multivariate analysis, HIV testing was associated with foreign nationality, high educational level, having injected drugs and having a large number of sexual partners. In men, it was also associated with age 30–39 years, having had sex with other men and having paid for sex. About 29.3% of men and 32.8% of women had their last voluntary HIV test in primary healthcare centres, whereas only 3.4% of men and 3.6% of women had last been tested in sexually transmitted infection/HIV diagnostic centres. About 20.2% of men and 5.5% of women with risk behaviours had never been tested. Conclusion: The proportion of men with risk behaviours who have never had an HIV test is unacceptably high in Spain. Scaling up access to HIV testing in this population group remains a challenge for health policies and research.
Reduction in fine particulate air pollution and mortality: Extended follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities study.

RATIONALE A large body of epidemiologic literature has found an association of increased fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) with acute and chronic mortality. The effect of improvements in particle exposure is less clear. OBJECTIVES Earlier analysis of the Harvard Six Cities adult cohort study showed an association between long-term ambient PM2.5 and mortality between enrollment in the mid-1970s and follow-up until 1990. We extended mortality follow-up for 8 yr in a period of reduced air pollution concentrations. METHODS Annual city-specific PM2.5 concentrations were measured between 1979 and 1988, and estimated for later years from publicly available data. Exposure was defined as (1) city-specific mean PM2.5 during the two follow-up periods, (2) mean PM2.5 in the first period and change between these periods, (3) overall mean PM2.5 across the entire follow-up, and (4) year-specific mean PM2.5. Mortality rate ratios were estimated with Cox proportional hazards regression controlling for individual risk factors. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS We found an increase in overall mortality associated with each 10 microg/m3 increase in PM2.5 modeled either as the overall mean (rate ratio [RR], 1.16; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.07-1.26) or as exposure in the year of death (RR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.06-1.22). PM2.5 exposure was associated with lung cancer (RR, 1.27; 95% CI, 0.96-1.69) and cardiovascular deaths (RR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.13-1.44). Improved overall mortality was associated with decreased mean PM2.5 (10 microg/m3) between periods (RR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.57-0.95). CONCLUSION Total, cardiovascular, and lung cancer mortality were each positively associated with ambient PM2.5 concentrations. Reduced PM2.5 concentrations were associated with reduced mortality risk.
The Impact of Organizational Identityon Resource Integration in B2B Service Ecosystems

Purpose – Project business represents a large part of the business-to-business sector. The qualitative and quantitative scope of many project networks requires that several supplier firms participate in their development and delivery. Consequently, such project networks are characterized by a great heterogeneity with respect to the participating firms building a service ecosystem. This raises the question of how resource integration for value co-creation can be shaped successfully for all partners, not least because many projects are characterized by sometimes dramatic failures with respect to costs, duration, and scope. Specifically, the different organizational identities provide institutional frames of reference to the resource-integrating actors. As the organizational identities are typically not harmonious with each other, at least partial misalignments of the institutional arrangements that shape the resource integration processes may emerge, leading to imperfect value co-creation or even value co-destruction. The purpose of this thesis is to conceptualize and to empirically investigate the impact of organizational identity as an institutional context on resource integration in B2B service ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach – The thesis makes use of interpretive phenomenology in conjunction with a qualitative case study approach to access the lived experience of actors of different professional service firms who have experienced changes in resource integration into a single B2B service ecosystem. Findings – A conceptualization of organizational identity as institutional context for resource integration is developed and empirically investigated. The findings show a strong impact on the firms’ organizational identities and the actors’ resource integration experience and evaluation. Moreover, it is also very likely that if unmanaged, an at least partial misalignment of the institutional arrangements of multi-organizational B2B service ecosystems would represent a normal and also stable condition
The pH dependence of NADPH oxidase in human eosinophils

NADPH oxidase generates reactive oxygen species that are essential to innate immunity against microbes. Like most enzymes, it is sensitive to pH, although the relative importance of pHo and pHi has not been clearly distinguished. We have taken advantage of the electrogenic nature of NADPH oxidase to determine its pH dependence in patch‐clamped individual human eosinophils using the electron current to indicate enzyme activity. Electron current stimulated by PMA (phorbol myristate acetate) was recorded in both perforated‐patch configuration, using an NH4+ gradient to control pHi, and in excised, inside‐out patches of membrane. No electron current was detected in cells or excised patches from eosinophils from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease. When the pH was varied symmetrically (pHo= pHi) in cells in perforated‐patch configuration, NADPH oxidase‐generated electron current was maximal at pH 7.5, decreasing drastically at higher or lower values. Varying pHo and pHi independently revealed that this pH dependence was entirely due to effects of pHi and that the oxidase is insensitive to pHo. Surprisingly, the electron current in inside‐out patches of membrane was only weakly sensitive to pHi, indicating that the enzyme turnover rate per se is not strongly pH dependent. The most likely interpretation is that assembly or deactivation of the NADPH oxidase complex has one or more pH‐sensitive steps, and that pH‐dependent changes in electron current in intact cells mainly reflect different numbers of active complexes at different pH.
Dérive dans les modulateurs électro-optiques Mach-Zehnder : analyse physique et résolution

Les modulateurs developpes actuellement pour les telecommunications optiques a haut debit souffrent generalement, dans leur partie DC, d’un phenomene de derive, dont les causes ne sont pas totalement elucidees. Afin de trouver des origines de cette derive nous avons commence par caracteriser un modulateur Mach-Zehnder commercial. Ceci nous a permis d’identifier l’existence de trois phenomenes : un premier phenomene a temps de reponse rapide lie a la couche de silice, un deuxieme lie a l’anisotropie du substrat et un troisieme phenomene correle aux heterogeneites de surface induites lors de la fabrication du composant. Cette analyse nous a conduit a envisager une solution aux problemes des derives liees a la relaxation des charges dans la structure du composant. Cette solution consiste a compenser les derives liees a l’anisotropie du substrat de LiNbO3 par celles dues aux heterogeneites electriques de surface. Afin de mettre en oeuvre cette solution nous avons developpe un modele physique base sur les equations de Maxwell qui permet de calculer la carte de conductivite ideale permettant de supprimer la derive a long terme. Ce calcul necessite la connaissance des temps de reponse caracteristiques du substrat de LiNbO3. C’est pourquoi nous avons mis en place deux bancs de mesures, un montage de Senarmont et un interferometre de Mach-Zehnder. Ces montages nous ont permis de mesurer l’evolution temporelle du champ electrique induit dans le substrat lors de l’application d’un echelon de tension et d’en deduire ces temps de reponses.
Off-the-Shelf Fenestrated Endografts: A Realistic Option for More Than 70% of Patients With Juxtarenal Aneurysms

Purpose To evaluate the suitability of a standardized fenestrated endograft in patients with juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms. Methods High resolution computed tomographic angiograms from 100 consecutive patients (96 men; mean age 72 years) with juxta- (n=78) and pararenal (n=22) aneurysms treated electively between 2005 and 2010 with custom-made fenestrated endografts were reviewed. A centerline of flow reconstruction was carried out in a 3D imaging workstation to precisely define the aortic morphology, including aortic diameters and distances between visceral and renal arteries. The applicability of 2 different “off-the-shelf” standardized fenestrated endografts designed by the manufacturer was evaluated in this cohort. Both designs included 2 fenestrations for the renal arteries, 1 for the superior mesenteric artery (SMA), and a scallop for the celiac trunk. The designs differed in the lengths of the SMA to renal fenestration and renal to renal fenestration. Results Endovascular treatment with one or both “off-the-shelf” endografts was deemed possible in 72 patients (56 with design 1, 52 with design 2, and 36 with both endografts). Of the 28 patients who were not candidates for a standardized fenestrated stent-graft of either design, the primary cause was a right renal artery that did not match the position of its corresponding fenestration. Conclusion Standardized fenestrated designs suitable for endovascular treatment of >70% of patients with juxta- and pararenal aneurysms currently treated with custom-made fenestrated endografts will soon be available. This new generation of endografts will permit rapid treatment of a large majority of patients requiring fenestrated endograft repair.
Correspondence of the MMPI and MMPI-168 among incarcerated female felons.

This study was designed to assess the correspondence between the MMPI and MMPI-168 for a sample of adult incarcerated female felons. The results indicated a high degree of agreement, median correlation of . 79, between corresponding validity and clinical scales of the MMPI-168 and the full MMPI. The MMPI-168 significantly overestimated scales L, F, and D, while it underestimated scales K, Hy, Pd, and Mf. Configural correspondence between the two instruments in terms of profile high points was somewhat less than has been reported for psychiatric populations. However, the MMPI-168 appeared to be a useful short screening instrument for incarcerated female felons with respect to accurate assessment of profile validity, configural correspondence to the full MMPI, and correlations between corresponding scales. Its utility in these respects far exceeds prior attempts to employ the Mini-Mult with a similar sample of incarcerated females.
Approaching the Interstellar Grain Organic Refractory Component

Infrared spectra have been obtained for laboratory residues of photoprocessed low-temperature ices which have been exposed to long-term solar ultraviolet radiation on the EURECA satellite. This is an analog to the ultraviolet processing of interstellar dust mantles in diffuse clouds after leaving molecular clouds. The 3.4 μm absorption features of these organic materials match those of the diffuse cloud interstellar dust better than any other previously suggested analog to the interstellar organics.
Mutagenesis of the three bases preceding the start codon of the beta‐galactosidase mRNA and its effect on translation in Escherichia coli.

The effect on the translation efficiency of various mutations in the three bases (the ‐1 triplet) that precede the AUG start codon of the beta‐galactosidase mRNA in Escherichia coli was studied. Of the 39 mutants examined, the level of expression varies over a 20‐fold range. The most favorable combinations of bases in the ‐1 triplet are UAU and CUU. The expression levels in the mutants with UUC, UCA or AGG as the ‐1 triplet are 20‐fold lower than those with UAU or CUU. In general, a U residue immediately preceding the start codon is more favorable for expression than any other base; furthermore, an A residue at the ‐2 position enhances the translation efficiency in most instances. In both cases, however, the degree of enhancement depends on its context, i.e. the neighboring bases. Although the rules derived from this study are complex, the results show that mutations in any of the three bases preceding the start codon can strongly affect the translational efficiency of the beta‐galactosidase mRNA.
Development of need for recovery from work over one year: a person-centered approach

This longitudinal questionnaire study conducted among 274 Finnish employees (57% women, average age 45.9 years) in a variety of jobs aimed at identifying groups of employees who share similar mean levels and changes in need for recovery and finding out whether factors regarded as antecedents of need for recovery distinguish between the different groups of need for recovery across one year. Using mixture modeling eight groups of need for recovery were identified. The individuals identified as closely resembling each other with respect to need for recovery and its change across one year were considered to belong to the same need for recovery group. Five of these groups indicated stable (low, moderately low, average, moderately high, and high) need for recovery and three showed change (mostly decreasing) in the level of need for recovery across one year. Employees in the favorable (low and moderately low) need for recovery groups (38%) reported to have more favorable work characteristics and better functioning recovery experiences and they spent more time on physical and social off-job activities than those in the unfavorable (high and moderately high) groups (23%). Thus, the antecedents examined play a significant role in maintaining need for recovery over time.
Examining the Moderating Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Relationship Between Socially Responsible Consumption and Quality of Work Life (QWL) of the Staff in Social Security Organization

The main objective of this study was to examine the moderating role of corporate social responsibility in the relationship between socially responsible consumption and quality of work life (QWL) of the staff in Social Security Organization. The research model has been formed using variables such as socially responsible consumption, corporate social responsibility, QWL, and organizational commitment of the staff. Research methodology was a correlation type. The population of this research was the staff of Yazd Social Security Organization. Sampling method was stratified random, where the samples were selected from each class through simple random sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect data through which 290 valid samples were collected. In this study, data were analyzed using SPSS18 software. The relationships between variables and factors were examined by confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling technique using PLS2 Smart software. Moreover, using Sobel test, we have examined the assumption of the mediator role of QWF. The results showed that corporate social responsibility and socially responsible consumption had an impact on the QWL. There was a significant relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and QWL. The results also showed that CSR and socially responsible consumption (SRCO) affected organizational commitment through QWL.
Clinical Pathologic Correlations

Summary: Little morphologic information is available on o p eratively excised pulmonic valves. The causes of pulmonic sten-ofi\ are limited to a few conditions: (1) rhewnatic and (2) non-rheiiinulic (congenital, carcinoid, infective endocarditis). Congenital causes of pulmonic stenosis constitute well over 95% of the\e conditions. Congenital types of pulmonic stenosis include acommissural dome-shaped, dysplastic, and bicuspid. Rare acquired causes of pulmonic stenosis include carcinoid, rheumatic, and infective endocarditis. Of the acquired causes of pulmonic stenosis, carcinoid is the most common condition. In contrast. causes of pure pulmonic regurgitation are multiple. Two mqjor categories of pure pulmonic regurgitation include ( 1 ) conditions associated with anatomically abnoml valve cusps (congenital, rheumatic, carcinoid, trauma, and infective endocarditis) and (2) conditions associated with anatomically nonnal cusps (elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressures, idiopathic dilated pulmonary trunk, and Marfan's syndrome).
La création de valeur par l'université : une perspective partenariale

L'objectif de cet article est de montrer que la notion de valeur partenariale peut permettre de renouveler l'analyse de la creation et de la repartition de la valeur pour l'universite. Une telle analyse peut etre a la base de la construction de nouveaux criteres d'efficience et de pilotage pour ce type d'organisation.
Anharmonic polaronic model and high-Tc superconductivity.

An anharmonic polaronic model is considered. The model consists of the electronic subsystem, described within the extended Hubbard model, coupled to anharmonic local phonons. The canonical-variable-displacement Holstein-Lang-Firsov transformation is used for shifting the phononic coordinate system in order to minimize the energy of the phonons. Then, the effective electronic Hamiltonian is obtained by averaging over the ground state of the phononic subsystem. It is shown that anharmonicity introduces two main additional factors as compared with the harmonic case. First, the band-narrowing factor is a less rapidly decaying function of the electron-phonon interaction strength. Second, anharmonicity introduces further renormalization of the on-site and intersite interaction between fermions. Implications for the application of the polaronic model to the high-${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ systems are twofold. Due to the first factor, higher values of the electron-phonon coupling are allowed without making polarons too heavy as compared with the experimental value of the effective mass in these materials. Second, small anharmonically induced renormalizations may or may not favor superconductivity. Combination of these two effects leads generally to the effective electronic Hamiltonian that yields more favorable conditions for superconductivity to occur than in the harmonic case.