Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Employees’ Pay-performance Sensitivity on Future Firm Performance: Evidence from State-owned Listed Enterprises in China over 2007-2015

Taking a balanced panel data consisting of 4365 firm-year observations drawn from the listed state-owned enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange over 2007-2015 as the research sample, the paper examines the effect of the employees’ pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) on the future firm performance from the two competing perspectives of “incentive effect” and “risk-aversion effect”, adopting the method of multiple regression analysis based on OLS and applying the SPSS23 as the data processing tool. Theoretical analysis and empirical results demonstrate that there is a positive link between the employees’ PPS and the future firm performance. To improve the employees’ PPS can stimulate the engagement of the employees, improve their working quality, enrich their workplace innovative behavior, and further lead to higher future firm performance. Meanwhile, the positive effect of the employees’ PPS on the future firm performance is, on average, lower than that of the top executives’ PPS on the future firm performance. Implications of the findings are provided in the end.
A Framework for Left Atrium Segmentation on CT Images with Combined Detection Network and Level Set Model

In this paper, we proposed a framework for left atrium (LA) segmentation on CT with combined detection network and level set model. The proposed framework consists of two steps. Firstly, we trained a Faster RCNN to generate location boxes for LA. The obtained location box can remove unrelated regions to reduce the interference of background and similarity tissues. Secondly, we utilized a self-adapted threshold on the location box to get the initialization for the level set model, which is nearer the LA and more robust than the random and fixed initialization. Then we proposed a 3D level set model with a new edge indicator based on DRLSE for the final LA segmentation. This edge indicator incorporated both numerical and direction information of the data gradient. Hence, the proposed level set model can guide the contour to the correct boundary when there are many boundaries surrounded the object. The framework was trained and evaluated on MICCAI 2013 LA segmentation challenge. The proposed segmentation method achieved the Dice score of 86.46%. Comparing to the original DRLSE, it achieved a 2.72% improvement on the Dice score.
The Greatly Exaggerated Demise of Heroic Leadership: Gender, Power, and the Myth of the Female Advantage

New models of leadership recognize that workplace effectiveness depends less on individual, heroic action and more on collaborative practices distributed throughout an organization. The belief that “we don’t need another hero” has ushered in an era of what is often called “post-heroic” or shared leadership. This new, more relational approach is intended to transform stodgy, top-down organizational structures into flexible, knowledge-based entities able to meet the demands of the information age and global economy.1
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1837 Heterocystous cyanobacteria , Dps proteins and H 2 production

Howe, C. 2019. Heterocystous cyanobacteria, Dps proteins and H2 production. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1837. 89 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0716-9. To mitigate climate change, CO2-emitting technologies have to be exchanged by renewable alternatives such as H2. H2 can be produced by cyanobacteria, but major efforts to enhance H2 production yields by genetic modifications or optimised cultivation conditions resulted in energetic photo-to-H2 conversion efficiencies of 4.0 %, far from its theoretical maximum. New concepts to enhance photobiological H2 production are described in two separate thesis chapters. In photobioreactors, photosynthesis can lead to high O2 concentrations promoting oxidative stress that decreases the photosynthetic efficiency. Genetic modifications could potentially increase the cellular robustness facing oxidative stress e.g. by the introduction of Dps proteins. This protein class is known to mitigate oxidative stress, but cyanobacterial Dps proteins are fairly unexplored. In the 1 thesis chapter, I searched to identify the function of five Dps proteins from the filamentous and heterocystous cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme. Since the physiologically active Dps proteins are twelve subunit complexes, various methods were utilised to verify their multimeric state and stability. All five NpDps formed high multimeric complexes that allowed for further enzymatic characterisations. In spectroscopic analyses NpDps1-3 were found to utilise H2O2 for Fe oxidation, whereas NpDps4 only used O2. NpDps4 crystal structures revealed an uncommon ferroxidase center (FOC) with a His character. This His-type FOC was found across the cyanobacterial phylum. Based on their O2 and H2O2 consumption, all four NpDps display interesting candidates to enhance the cellular robustness in photobioreactors. To enhance H2 production yields, a reallocation of photosynthetic energy from cell growth to H2 production is required. In the 2 thesis chapter, Nostoc PCC 7120 ΔhupW was set under iron starvation to evaluate this cultivation strategy for the purpose of H2 production. The Fe-limited culture comprised a ~ 5.3 fold lower chlorophyll a and a ~ 4.5 fold higher specific carbohydrate concentration as compared to the control. The Fe-limited cells retained long filaments with high heterocyst frequency of ~ 6 %. The microoxic environment inside heterocysts enables efficient H2-production from O2-senstive photo fermentative pathways. Therefore, iron-starvation could display the basis of enhanced H2 production on the cost of growth. For this purpose a biofilmcontaining photobioreactor was designed.
The Efficacy and Side Effects of Therapy Peginterferon Alpha-2a (PEGASYS) Combined with Ribavirin in Chronic HepatitisC Patients: an open label Clinical Trial

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Peginterferon alpha-2a is a known standard therapy for patients with chronic HCV infection. However efficacy and safety of this treatment is still unclear in regional settings. This study was designed to clarify efficacy and safety of peg-interferon based therapy in Iranian patients. METHODS: 23 patients were treated with Peginterferon alpha-2a in combination with ribavirin for 48 weeks. The patients were observed for adverse effects and response to therapy during treatment and 24 weeks after the end of therapy. RESULTS: Early virologic response, end of treatment response, and sustained virologic response rates were 86.9 % (20/23), 82.6 % (19/23), and 78.3 % (18/23) respectively. The most common adverse effects in descending order were flue-like symptoms (74%), mood changes (48%), and weight loss (43%). CONCLUSION: Combination therapy with Peginterferon alpha-2a and ribavirin for 48 weeks is an effective treatment with minimal adverse effects.
Devices in micro uidics

Miniaturization has been very popular for the last fty years. Besides electronic devices, which are getting smaller each day, micro uidic devices are being widely developed. These devices operate with very small amounts of liquids, which have a lot of advantages, like low cost of reagents, portability, safety, but they also have some disadvantages that complicate the construction. This seminar will present the issues that are related to scaling, the construction method of micro uidic devices like channels, pumps, mixers, lters, sensors and research done in our Laser tweezers research group.
Chapter 14 : Repeated-measures designs

The use of repeated measures, where the same subjects are tested under a number of conditions, has numerous practical and statistical benefits. For one thing, it reduces the error variance caused by between-group individual differences; however, this reduction of error comes at a price because repeated-measures designs potentially introduce covariation between experimental conditions (this is because the same people are used in each condition and so there is likely to be some consistency in their behaviour across conditions). In betweengroup ANOVA we have to assume that the groups we test are independent for the test to be accurate (Scariano & Davenport, 1987, have documented some of the consequences of violating this assumption). As such, the relationship between treatments in a repeatedmeasures design creates problems with the accuracy of the test statistic. The purpose of this article is to explain, as simply as possible, the issues that arise in analysing repeated-measures data with ANOVA: specifically, what is sphericity and why is it important?
CHERIvoke: Characterising Pointer Revocation using CHERI Capabilities for Temporal Memory Safety

A lack of temporal safety in low-level languages has led to an epidemic of use-after-free exploits. These have surpassed in number and severity even the infamous buffer-overflow exploits violating spatial safety. Capability addressing can directly enforce spatial safety for the C language by enforcing bounds on pointers and by rendering pointers unforgeable. Nevertheless, an efficient solution for strong temporal memory safety remains elusive. CHERI is an architectural extension to provide hardware capability addressing that is seeing significant commercial and open-source interest. We show that CHERI capabilities can be used as a foundation to enable low-cost heap temporal safety by facilitating out-of-date pointer revocation, as capabilities enable precise and efficient identification and invalidation of pointers, even when using unsafe languages such as C. We develop CHERIvoke, a technique for deterministic and fast sweeping revocation to enforce temporal safety on CHERI systems. CHERIvoke quarantines freed data before periodically using a small shadow map to revoke all dangling pointers in a single sweep of memory, and provides a tunable trade-off between performance and heap growth. We evaluate the performance of such a system using high-performance x86 processors, and further analytically examine its primary overheads. When configured with a heap-size overhead of 25%, we find that CHERIvoke achieves an average execution-time overhead of under 5%, far below the overheads associated with traditional garbage collection, revocation, or page-table systems.
The Quality Oncology Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research

Research during the past decade suggests that successful care coordination programs usually have several features. These include effective patient identification, highly qualified staff, physician buy-in, and financial incentives aligned with program goals. Successful programs also offer a well-designed, structured intervention. The purpose of this report series is to assess the extent to which demonstration programs have these features, as well as to describe early enrollees in the program and their Medicare service use and costs during the first few months after enrollment.
ASYMMETRICAL ACCOMMODATION IN CROSS-DIALECTAL CONVERSATION AND THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGICAL CONTRAST *

During a conversation, talkers can affect the speech of their interlocutors in measurable and perceptible ways in various domains of speech, a phenomenon called accommodation. Phonetic accommodation (also known as convergence, alignment or imitation) is the adjustment of the acoustic-phonetic properties of speech in response to exposure to another speaker. Under Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT: Giles 1973), speakers make adjustments to their speech in order to manage relationships with their interlocutors online, either converging (becoming more similar to the interlocutor) or diverging (becoming less similar). CAT predicts that such changes are socially-motivated with speakers converging in order to minimize social distance between themselves and their conversation partners and diverging in order to accentuate distinctiveness or show disdain. Previous studies have found that phonetic accommodation is affected by many different social factors such as a speaker’s attitude towards a model speaker (Abrego-Collier et al. 2011), attractiveness (Black 2012) and prototypicality of a model speaker’s voice (Babel et al. 2012), implicit racial bias (Babel 2012), regional dialect bias (Babel 2010), and closeness between speakers (Pardo et al. 2012). In addition, various linguistic factors have been shown to affect phonetic accommodation, although we know somewhat less about these factors than we do the social factors. Examples of these linguistic factors are the variability of the sounds involved (Babel 2009), language “distance” between the speakers involved in conversation (Kim, Horton & Bradlow 2011), and the perceptual salience of differences between the dialects of two speakers in conversation (MacLeod 2012). In addition, Nielsen (2011) suggested that the need to maintain a phonological contrast might limit the degree to which speakers will imitate a model speaker. The current study attempts to contribute to our understanding of how linguistic factors affect phonetic accommodation by considering the role that maintenance of a phonological contrast plays in accommodation, focusing on how accommodation takes place in cross-dialectal conversation in Spanish.
Preparation of Aspirin Loaded Ethyl Cellulose Nanoparticles by Nano Precipitation Technique

The aim of the present investigation is to prepare aspirin loaded ethyl cellulose nanoparticles by Nano precipitation technique. The obtained nanoparticles were evaluated for product yield, drug content, and entrapment efficiency and loading capacity. The drug content was found to be 90%. The entrapment efficiency and loading capacity were observed as 77.82% and 78.9% respectively. The SEM image clearly indicates the formation of nanoparticles.
PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF THE CAGE AND CAGELESS SELF-EXCITED TWO-PHASE RELUCTANCE GENERATOR

This study theoretically compared the performance of a self-excited two-phase reluctance generator (SETPRG) with cage and without cage. The modeling of the two machines was detailed to accommodate conditions of unbalanced stator winding, excitation capacitor, or/and load. It was observed that machines without cage build-up voltage, and recovers from short-circuit at the terminals faster than machines with cage. However, they have much reduced power capacity than machines with cage.
A Functional Analysis Of The Mechanically And Metabolically Sensitive Components Of The Skeletal Muscle Exercise Pressor Reflex In Hypertension

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Scott A. Smith for being my mentor and teaching me everything I should have already known about physiology. I am grateful for the opportunity to work under him and do research that excites me. I also express my gratitude to Dr. sitting on my committee and for sharing their knowledge. always, always helping in all ways possible.
Parallel Dependency Treebank Annotated with Interlinked Verbal Synonym Classes and Roles

We present an ongoing project of enriching an annotation of a parallel dependency treebank, namely the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank, with verb-centered semantic annotation using a bilingual synonym verb class lexicon, CzEngClass. This lexicon, in turn, links the predicate occurrences in the corpus to various external lexicons, such as FrameNet, VerbNet, PropBank frame files, OntoNotes, and WordNet. We briefly describe the content of the CzEngClass synonym class lexicon and then we focus on its use for an enrichment of corpus annotation, which proceeds in two steps - automatic preprocessing and manual correction. This paper describes a first milestone of a long-term project; so far, approx. 100 CzEngClass classes, containing about 1800 different verbs each for both Czech and English, are available for such annotation. The corpus coverage at the moment is about 50%, allowing us to extract some basic statistics and discover a set of issues that appeared during the annotation process. The ultimate goal is to have a high-coverage, multilingual verbal synonym lexicon and corpora with all events annotated by such lexicon, to serve both theoretical studies in lexical semantic, translatology, corpus annotation studies etc. as well as a usable resource for training automatic semantic text processing systems for event/participant detection and linking and for general information extraction.
Can We Still Talk About ‘Asian’ HRM Practices? An Exploratory Analysis of HRM Practices in Different Asian Countries

Bu calisma Asya ulkelerinin insan kaynaklari uygulamalari hakkindadir. Arastirmacilar uzun yillar Asya ulkelerinin insan kaynaginin yonetilme surecinde uyguladigi farkli yaklasimlar uzerinde calismistir. Bu calismalari gozden gecirirken vurgulanmasi gereken onemli bir nokta, Asya bolgesinin, ayni veya benzer ozellikleri paylasan ulkelerin toplami olarak kabul edilmemesi gerektigidir. Her ulkenin kendi tarihsel arka plani ve baglamsal farkliliklari bulunmaktadir. Dolayisiyla, ulkelerin IK uygulamalarini sekillendirirken benzer yaklasimlar gelistirdiklerini varsaymak dogru olmaz. Baglamsal farkliliklarin ulkelerin IK uygulamalarinda farkli yaklasimlar takip etmelerine sebep olabilecegi goz onunde bulundurulmalidir. Bu makale, Cin, Japonya, Tayvan, Tayland ve Kore'nin IK uygulamalarindaki geleneksel IK yaklasimlarini ve degisen IK egilimlerini ele almaktadir. Degisen kosullarin (teknoloji, ekonomik reformlar, Asya finansal krizi, ulusal devletin sosyal ve kulturel unsurlari gibi) Asya ulkelerinin IK uygulamalari uzerinde onemli bir etkisi oldugu ve bu uygulamalarin zaman icinde degismesine neden oldugu gorulmektedir. Yine de, her ulkenin makro duzeydeki degisikliklere yaniti farkli olmustur. Bu calismada, ulkelerin ayni makro degisim sureclerinden gecmelerine ragmen, IK uygulamalarinda bir yakinlasma modeli yerine, ulusal baglamdaki farkliliklarinin etkisiyle farkli yaklasimlar gelistirdikleri one surulmektedir.
Towards a unified theory of morphological productivity in the Bantu languages: A corpus analysis of nominalization patterns in Swahili

Models arguing for a connection between morphological productivity and relative morpheme frequency have focused on languages with relatively low average morpheme to word ratios. Typologically synthetic languages like Swahili which have relatively high average morpheme to word ratios present a challenge for such models. This study investigates the process of agentive nominalization from the perspective of the Dual Route Model. The findings suggest that all agentive nominal forms should decompose when accessed and thus that speakers of Swahili should include these morphemes in their lexical inventory apart from root morphemes. This process appears to not be influence by noun classification, or verbal derivation.
Realized power variation and stochastic volatility models

Limit distribution results on realized power variation, that is, sums of absolute powers of increments of a process, are derived for certain types of semimartingale with continuous local martingale component, in particular for a class of flexible stochastic volatility models. The theory covers, for example, the cases of realized volatility and realized absolute variation. Such results should be helpful in, for example, the analysis of volatility models using high-frequency information.
Control and Plant Modeling for Manufacturing Systems using Basic Statecharts

Based on the IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology (IEEE Std 610.12-1990, 1990), “a system can be regarded as a collection of components organized to accomplish a specific function or set of functions”. The key point in this definition is the interaction among system components. Cassandras & Lafortune (2008) discuss systems classification, especially for Discrete Event Systems (DES). In their definition, DES are systems that have discrete state space and an event-driven dynamic, i.e., the state can only change as a result of instantaneous events occurring asynchronously over time. In this context, state-based methods such as Finite State Machines (FSM) and Petri Nets have been traditionally used to describe these systems. The automation area uses concepts of the theory of systems to control machines and industrial processes. Considering an industrial automation process based on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the sensors are installed in the plant and generate events that represent input variables to the PLC. The actuators are associated with the actions produced by the PLC program and represent output variables. Industrial controller programming is currently performed by qualified technicians using one of the five languages defined by IEC-61131-3 (1993) standard and who seldom have knowledge of modern software technologies. Furthermore, controllers are often reprogrammed during plant operation lifecycle to adapt them to new requirements. As a result, “for practically no implemented controller does a formal description exist” (Bani Younis & Frey, 2006). In general, PLC are still programmed by conventional “trial-and-error” methods and there is no written documentation on these systems. On the other hand, software reusability and composability have been discussed since the 80’s, with the use of object-oriented methods (Boehm, 2006). In the Industrial area, the IEC61499 (2005) standard allows reuse of application parts (function block, sub-application) in different applications. Software reuse is a complicated problem and depends not only on the means provided by the modeling language, but also on the overall application structure. In the Computer Science area, several models guide the software development process such as the Waterfall Model (Royce, 1970), a sequential software development model in which development is seen as sequence of phases; the Spiral model (Boehm, 1988), an iterative software development model which combines elements of software design and prototype stages; and agile methods, which emerged in the 1990. Examples of the latter are: Adaptive
Physiological responses to ocean acidification and warming synergistically 1 reduce condition of the common cockle

14 The combined effect of ocean acidification and warming on the common cockle Cerastoderma 15 edule was investigated in a fully crossed laboratory experiment. Survival of the examined adult 16 organisms remained high and was not affected by elevated temperature (+3C) or lowered pH 17 (-0.3 units). However, the morphometric condition index of the cockles incubated under high 18 pCO2 conditions (i.e. combined warming and acidification) was significantly reduced after six 19 weeks of incubation. Respiration rates increased significantly under low pH, with highest rates 20 measured under combined warm and low pH conditions. Calcification decreased significantly 21 under low pH while clearance rates increased significantly under warm conditions and were 22 generally lower in low pH treatments. The observed physiological responses suggest that the 23 reduced food intake under hypercapnia is insufficient to support the higher energy requirements 24 to compensate for the higher costs for basal maintenance and growth in future high pCO2 waters. 25