Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship between Employee Equity and Employee Retention among Employees in the Private Industrial Sector in Syria

In recent years, hiring qualified employees, developing, and retaining them has been one of the most important issues for human resource management departments in business organizations. But due to the poor economic and financial situation, some organizations are no longer putting any effort into retaining employees, a decision which will undoubtedly cause a lot of problems for those organizations in future.The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between employee equity and employee retention, and to determine the usefulness of employee equity framework in explaining work-related outcomes, such as retention. The study was conducted in the private industrial sector in Syria. The respondents were comprised of employees of many private industrial companies in Aleppo, located in the north of Syria. Data collection was held in the spring of 2012. The employee equity survey which is including a total of fifty items distributed over three factors of employee equity: value equity, brand equity, and retention equity was used to measure employee equity. The employee retention survey which is including a total of eight items distributed over two factors of employee retention: intention to stay, and dependable continuance was used to measure the employee attitudes for staying or leaving the organization. Survey data were analyzed using Pearson correlation analyses. The findings showed that there was a significant relationship between employee equity and employee retention, which means that employee equity can be employed as predictor for employee retention.
The Legal Environment as a Nonissue for TQM Organizational Transformations

The article presents a response to an earlier article published in a 1995 issue of “Academy of Management Review” by Yitzak Fried. The author takes issue with Fried's claim that the legal environment is not conducive to total quality management (TQM), and feels that Fried does not make a convincing argument. Rather than lay the resistance to TQM adoption at the door of the legal environment, the author argues that TQM or systems-based approaches are usually rejected because organizations are resistant to change.
Dataset and Ground Truth for Handwritten Text in Four Different Scripts

In document image analysis (DIA) especially in handwritten document recognition, standard databases play significant roles for evaluating performances of algorithms and comparing results obtained by different groups of researchers. The field of DIA regard to Indo-Persian documents is still at its infancy compared to Latin script-based documents; as such standard datasets are not still available in literature. This paper is an effort towards alleviating this gap. In this paper, an unconstrained handwritten dataset containing documents of Persian, Bangla, Oriya and Kannada (PBOK) is introduced. The PBOK contains 707 text-pages written in four different languages (Persian, Bangla, Oriya and Kannada) by 436 individuals. Total number of text-lines, words/subwords and characters are 12,565, 104,541 and 423,980, respectively. In most documents of PBOK dataset contain either an overlapping or a touching text-lines. The average number of text-lines in text-pages of the PBOK dataset is 18. Two types of ground truths, based on pixels information and content information, are generated for the dataset. Because of such ground truths, the PBOK dataset can be utilized in many areas of document image processing e.g. text-line segmentation, word segmentation and word recognition. To provide an insight for other researches, recent text-line segmentation results on this dataset are also reported.
Impact of Rewards and Leadership on the Employee Engagement: A Case Study from Banking Sector of Pakistan

Employee engagement has arisen as the prevalent executive conception in the current centuries. That is the level of commitment and involvement of a worker to the association and its principles. An engaged employee is conscious of occupational perspective, and workings with co-workers to increase performance inside the employment for the profit of the association. Employee engagement improves optimistic assertiveness between the workers to the association. That paper emphases on several aspects which lead toward employee engagement and whatever would corporation ensure to create the employees engaged. Appropriate consideration on engagement policies will raise the organizational efficiency in relations of sophisticated production, revenues, excellence, buyer gratification, employee preservation and improved adaptableness. Two hypothesis and also there are two objectives of our study and by using the statistical population of Banking Sector which cover the 150 employees of 12 banks and facts was collected by the standard questionnaire. Correlation coefficient was used through “ANOVA and IBM SPSS” for the data analysis. There are the two independent variables of our study which are rewards and leadership and one dependent variable which is employee engagement. Results presented the Positive relationship between Rewards and Employee engagement and also there is the Positive relationship between Leadership and Employee engagement.
Mobile IP security and scalable support for transparent host mobility on the internet

This paper presents a survey of common security threats which mobile IP networks are exposed to as well as some proposed solutions to deal with such threats. How mobile IP works when the mobile host is away from home its home agent picks up its IP packets, encapsulates them in a new IP packet and forwards them to the foreign agent and intermediate routers are unaware of the inner IP header.
Priority encoder using reversible logic gates in QCA

Reversible logic gate has gained importance in recent times due to its low power dissipation and less information loss. QCA on the other hand has low power consumption and has applications in reversible logic. In this paper, a 4×2 priority encoder is proposed which is based on reversible logic implemented in QCA. Firstly, this paper discusses about QCA layout design of Fredkin gate and Universal Reversible Logic Gate (URLG). Secondly, this paper uses reversible logic gate (both Fredkin and URLG) to design a 4×2 priority encoder in QCA.
The Multiple Convergent Processing Model of New Product Development

A recent focus of attention in the new product development literature has been the need to quicken the process of development in order to decrease “time‐to‐market”. Various amendments to the traditional activity‐stage models have been proposed, but few deal directly with the key aspect of speedier time to market, namely cross‐functional information management and horizontal management of the new product development process. Expands this argument and proposes “multiple convergent processing” as an appropriate conceptual framework in which to view new product development tasks. The anatomy of multiple convergent processing is examined in greater detail, showing how its focus on interaction among several parties and information exchange is an appropriate manner in which to encourage both the necessary technical and marketing inputs to the NPD process and the speed necessary for successful competitive new products. Finally, key elements of network analysis are proposed as an effective conceptual framework in .
Using an FPGA to Accelerate Iris Recognition

:Iris recognition becomes one of the most accurate and secures biometric method used today. The execution time of the iris recognition algorithm on general purpose sequential system as central processing unit is too high, so it cannot work in the real time applications. In this paper, an enhancement for the iris recognition system was applied for each processing part to speed up the execution time and make the opportunity to work in real time applications. Two enhancements were made in this paper, the first one by using hardware implementation for all the iris recognition process which are: Segmentation, Normalization, Feature extraction, and Hamming distance using the FPGA. The second enhancement is by choosing a small part (quarter) from the iris region which contains sufficient features to make the recognition, hence reducing the processing time.
Simultaneous transmission of 4G LTE-A and wideband MMW OFDM signals over fiber links

We present efficient mobile fronthaul systems for simultaneous transmission of radio signals in the microwave and millimeter-wave bands over fiber links. We compare the performance for signal transmission over intermediate frequency over fiber systems using an electrical and optical up-conversion to the MMW band at remote sites. We experimentally confirm the successful transmission of an LTE-A signal at 2.6 GHz and a wideband OFDM signal at 35.4 GHz over the systems.
Eco1-Dependent Cohesin Acetylation During Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion

Replicated chromosomes are held together by the chromosomal cohesin complex from the time of their synthesis in S phase onward. This requires the replication fork–associated acetyl transferase Eco1, but Eco1's mechanism of action is not known. We identified spontaneous suppressors of the thermosensitive eco1-1 allele in budding yeast. An acetylation-mimicking mutation of a conserved lysine in cohesin's Smc3 subunit makes Eco1 dispensable for cell growth, and we show that Smc3 is acetylated in an Eco1-dependent manner during DNA replication to promote sister chromatid cohesion. A second set of eco1-1 suppressors inactivate the budding yeast ortholog of the cohesin destabilizer Wapl. Our results indicate that Eco1 modifies cohesin to stabilize sister chromatid cohesion in parallel with a cohesion establishment reaction that is in principle Eco1-independent.
What should a corporate website look like? The influence of Gestalt principles and visualisation in website design on the degree of acceptance and recommendation

Internet users decide within seconds, whether to elaborate on a website, or to go on to a new page. This calls for investigation of the factors influencing this decision. In two studies, we presented websites for 3 s and analysed the effect implementation of Gestalt principles (GPs) and visualisation of an interaction partner has on acceptance, recommendation of the site by the user, and social presence. Study 1 implemented a 3 (Gestalt principle of proximity: no, medium and strong implementation) × 3 (Gestalt principle of a common region: no, medium and strong implementation) – design and found more acceptance and recommendation with more GPs used. Study 2, using a 2 (GPs: implemented and not implemented) × 3 (visualisation: no, drawing and photograph) – design, showed more social presence with more realistic visualisation and more recommendation with higher social presence. Thus, GPs and realistic visualisation should be implemented in web design to intensify interaction with the user.
Integrated content-based information security for future military systems

Future military operations require versatile and integrated mechanisms for enforcement of the security policies in all three domains of information protection: confidentiality, integrity and availability. We discuss challenges and use cases related to enforcement of integrity and availability policies in federated mission environments and we demonstrate how the concept of Content-based Protection and Release (CPR) can be extended to support such policies. Furthermore, we present an approach to cross-layer enforcement of the CPR policies and introduce a proof-of-concept implementation of the CPR enforcement mechanisms in a software-defined networking environment.
Truthful mechanism design for multi-dimensional scheduling via cycle monotonicity

We consider the problem of makespan minimization on m unrelated machines in the context of algorithmic mechanism design, where the machines are the strategic players. This is a multidimensional scheduling domain, and the only known positive results for makespan minimization in such a domain are O(m)-approximation truthful mechanisms [22, 20]. We study a well-motivated special case of this problem, where the processing time of a job on each machine may either be "low" or "high", and the low and high values are public and job-dependent. This preserves the multidimensionality of the domain, and generalizes the restricted-machines (i.e., {pj,∞}) setting in scheduling. We give a general technique to convert any c-approximation algorithm to a 3c-approximation truthful-in-expectation mechanism. This is one of the few known results that shows how to export approximation algorithms for a multidimensional problem into truthful mechanisms in a black-box fashion. When the low and high values are the same for all jobs, we devise a deterministic 2-approximation truthful mechanism. These are the first truthful mechanisms with non-trivial performance guarantees for a multidimensional scheduling domain. Our constructions are novel in two respects. First, we do not utilize or rely on explicit price definitions to prove truthfulness; instead we design algorithms that satisfy cycle monotonicity. Cycle monotonicity [23] is a necessary and sufficient condition for truthfulness, is a generalization of value monotonicity for multidimensional domains. However, whereas value monotonicity has been used extensively and successfully to design truthful mechanisms in single-dimensional domains, ours is the first work that leverages cycle monotonicity in the multidimensional setting. Second, our randomized mechanisms are obtained by first constructing a fractional truthful mechanism for a fractional relaxation of the problem, and then converting it into a truthful-in-expectation mechanism. This builds upon a technique of [16], and shows the usefulness of fractional mechanisms in truthful mechanism design.
Frequency-selective massive MIMO channel estimation and feedback in angle-time domain

Exploiting the full benefits of massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology can be directly affected by the efficiency of the channel state information (CSI) estimation. This paper focuses on frequency division duplexing (FDD) channel estimation and feedback. To the sparsity of the frequency selective massive MIMO channels, a two-step multiple approximate message passing algorithm is developed in the angle-time domain. The angle-time domain can efficiently capture the essential degrees of freedom. Consequently, it is capable of representing the channel with the minimum number of coefficients. The proposed technique for the channel estimation and feedback is divided into two main stages. The first stage is concerned with retrieving the positions of the nonzero time domain dominant taps, while the second stage focuses on estimating the channel coefficients at these taps through exploiting the common and individual sparsity pattern that appears in the angle-time domain using the proposed M-AMP algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate the improved performance of the proposed framework.
Human CD4+ T Cells Are Predominantly Distributed among Six Phenotypically and Functionally Distinct Subsets1

Human T cells are heterogeneous, varying in terms of their phenotype, functional capabilities, and history of Ag encounter. The derivation of a functionally relevant model for classifying CD4+ T cells has been hampered by limitations on the numbers of parameters that may be measured using classical four-color flow cytometry. In this study we have taken advantage of the introduction of reagents for five-color flow cytometry to develop a detailed, functionally meaningful scheme for classifying human CD4+ T cells. We show that CD4+ T cells are predominantly distributed among six of eight possible compartments, identified by the expression of CCR7, CD45RA, and CD28. We demonstrate novel phenotypic and functional correlates that justify the choice of these three molecules to define CD4+ T cell compartments. We note that CD4+ T cells with different Ag specificities are distributed differently among the six described subsets. On the basis of these results, we propose a cross-sectional model for classification of peripheral CD4+ T cells. Knowledge of where T cells lie on this model informs about their functional capacity and can reflect their history of Ag exposure.
Improving protection mechanisms by understanding online risk

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine privacy risks for two groups of individuals for whom privacy is an important issue. Understanding the risks to vulnerable groups leads to the development of a prototype tool used to inform users about areas of potential harm in their online behaviour.Design/methodology/approach – Data collection employed a number of qualitative approaches in order to best understand both the risks and the social context surrounding them. Semi‐structured interviews, focus groups and questionnaires were all utilised where appropriate. Subjects were selected from two groups of individuals for whom the abuse of personal information could lead to serious harm – teenagers and domestic abuse survivors.Findings – The findings provide specific examples of risks posed to the two groups of individuals involved in the study and demonstrate the need for protection mechanisms that promote the awareness of potential risk among vulnerable internet users. These formed the basis of the r.
The rubbish of marketing

One of the “by-products” of successful marketing, in the single-use packaged fmcg sector is litter. For example, in a recent Australian survey, empty coke cans were found in 91 per cent of the 983 towns and cities researched. In this paper, we begin to use marketing literature and practice to tackle what we see as a marketing problem – persuading consumers to change their behaviour and not drop litter. Firstly, we demonstrate that existing ways of capturing data about consumers' littering behaviour and attitudes towards litter are flawed. Secondly, we propose and test a new, more realistic, “proxy” for littering behaviour and attitudes towards litter, “litter recall”. Finally, we investigate whether there are differences in values between those that are more likely to drop litter and those that are not. These findings are of use to researchers and practitioners interested in using marketing practice to develop, for example, more effective anti-littering campaigns.
PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP LOYALITAS NASABAH DEPOSITO DENGAN KEPUASAN NASABAH DAN SWITCHING COSTS SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING (Studi: Bank BNI Cabang Sungai Penuh)

The purpose of this study is to examine the intervening effect of customer satisfaction and switching costs on the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty. The research population is all deposit customers in the period of year 2013 that accounted for 301 customers and the numbers of usable samples were 172 customers. In order to test hypotheses, this study performs simple and hierarchical regression analyses. The results of analysis displayed that a) Service quality positively and significantly influences customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, and switching Cost. b) Customer satisfaction and switching Cost positively and significantly influence customer loyalty. c) Customer satisfaction and switching Cost were found to interven the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty. d) The invening effect of switching Cost were stronger than customer staisfaction on the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty. The research findings provide some practical contributions that in order to enhancing customer loyalty future, it is suggested to increase customer satisfaction as well switching Cost through creating the best service quality. Keywords: Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Switcing Cost, and CustomerLoyalty.
Examining the Relationship between the Benefits of using ITIL in E-Banking and its Role in Creating Value for Customers

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of best guidelines for the definition, design and implementation of IT service management processes and is currently the most widely accepted standard in IT service management. In this paper, it is tried to examine the impact of ITIL based E-banking and the creation of customer value. For this research, 100 employees and managers of Iranian state banks that have used the standard ITIL were selected as sample. The regression and Spss software is used to investigate the test hypothesis. The results show that the use of regression analysis to analyze the relationships between independent variables and the dependent variable is possible in E-bookings. It is demonstrated that there was a significant relationship between the benefits of implementing ITIL and ease of use, being beneficial and reducing the costs; however there was no relationship between the advantages of implementing ITIL and automating the processes. Further the results indicate that there is a significant relationship between the E-banking and the creation of customer value. Finally, the effectiveness of the using ITIL in E-banking and improving costumer’s satisfaction are presented.
A Korean Smart Grid architecture design for a field test based on power IT

Smart Grid is expected to take different forms rather than a single, unique one depending on the environment to which it is applied. Korea has been building Smart Grid infrastructure in the form of Distribution Automation or Power IT in each area. Taking such characteristics into account, this paper explores the issues associated with K-Grid — the Korean version of Smart Grid — and suggests a system applicable to a field test based on the results of Power IT program.
Relationships in online communities: the potential for marketers

Purpose – The potential influence of consumer generated communication in the form of online discussion fora has been overlooked by marketers. The purpose of this paper to explore the content of discussion and the relationships between posters on social networks using the wine sector as the research basis.Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the current usage of discussion fora by wine enthusiasts through a netnographic approach. A non‐probability purposive sample of wine discussion fora in three countries is employed to determine the content and style of the contributions posted.Findings – The paper indicates that individuals within fora develop relationships with each other, the network itself and brands. Such relationships are predicated on trust between members, shared interests and experiences and relationships with the brands that they discuss. These relationships can develop into strong bonds and even evolve into offline activities.Research limitations/implications – The paper is an expl.
Supply Chain Strategy: Its Impact on Shareholder Value

In the last few years there has emerged a strongly held view that the ultimate purpose of the firm is to maximize shareholder value, that is the long run worth of the business to its owners. Many influences clearly impact upon shareholder value, but there is a growing recognition that the supply chain strategy employed by the firm can have a significant effect. This paper examines the concept of shareholder value and the related organizational framework of Value Based Management (VBM) and explores the connections with supply chain strategy.
Revenue Sharing in a Sports League with an Open Market in Playing Talent

In this paper we develop an economic model of a professional sports league, in which the teams acquire playing talent in an external market. There have been several earlier formulations of this open model and all rely upon an inappropriately specified revenue function. Team revenues should depend upon the absolute quality of the teams, as well as their relative quality measured by win-percent. An inference that has been cited widely in this literature is that revenue sharing increases competitive inequality. We show that this analysis is flawed. If the revenue function is specified appropriately, gate revenue sharing always reduces competitive inequality.