Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Career Capital Impact of International Assignments within Distinct Organizational Contexts

The existing expatriation literature concentrates on what individuals need to perform in an international assignment (IA) but neglects what they gain from their foreign work experience. Using a dual-dependency perspective this study presents results from 26 in-depth interviews with international secondees within two UK-based organizational contexts. The paper explores the perceived impact of an IA on the career capital of individuals, showing that the outcomes of IAs can be equivocal for expatriates. Each firm concentrated their human resource mechanisms on developing different types of career capital and this focused individual behaviour on diverse career capital activities. In one of the organizations there was an internal misalignment between organizational and individual assignee focus. Based on the research a number of propositions were developed. This study provided an exploratory insight into points of departure rather than complementarity in individuals' international careers in organizations, which has been at the core of much recent research and writing. A more complex, contextualized picture of the effects of IAs on the careers of individuals emerged.
Nonlinearity, complexity, and the sounds of musical instruments

Musical instruments can be treated to a first approximation as linear harmonic systems, but closer examination shows that they are, almost without exception, nonlinear and inharmonic. Sustained‐tone instruments such as violins and clarinets can be characterized as ‘‘essentially nonlinear’’ and owe their deceptively simple behavior to mode locking due to strong nonlinearity. When the nonlinearity is weakened, the behavior becomes complex, with inharmonic and multiphonic sounds that are sometimes exploited in modern music. In contrast, impulsively excited instruments, such as guitars, pianos, gongs, and cymbals, may be described as ‘‘incidentally nonlinear. ’’ They would function quite acceptably if the nonlinearity were to be eliminated but, when it becomes strong, they exhibit physically and aurally interesting behavior such as period doubling, frequency multiplication cascades, and chaotic oscillation. This paper will explore some of these phenomena and demonstrate both their physical origins and musical .
Service-Learning as a Means to Promote Development of Social Responsibility Competency in a Department of Economics and Business

The methodological approach of service-learning has been used since 2009 by the Department of Economics and Business at the University of Chile to promote, on the one hand, vocational training for students facing problematic and real environmental challenges, and, on the other hand, to develop students’ social responsibility competence. This article compares the results of an initial survey (pretest) and final survey (posttest) of students participating in courses containing service-learning regarding their perceptions of their expected and actual achievement of social responsibility-related competencies. Items associated with information collected from community partners, and the estimation of economic impacts, despite showing a slight decrease, showed no statistical significance. The remaining items of the instrument revealed a slight decrease. Service-learning practices aligned with those embedded in the department’s curricular vocational training plan, confirming the need to further strengthen the institutionalization of service-learning and to seek new methodological strategies to develop social responsibility competencies within programs focused on training professionals.
Vision and its Relationship to Novel Behaviour in St. Lawrence River Greenland Sharks, Somniosus microcephalus

Rarely observed Greenland Sharks, Somniosus microcephalus , were recorded at shallow depths by divers employing underwater video in the St. Lawrence River, in association with a seasonal concentration of Capelin ( Mallotus villosus ) in May-June 2003. We recorded unique proximity-induced display motor patterns in these sharks, which have not been recorded in underwater observations of Arctic Greenland Sharks. Arctic sharks have a high incidence of blindness due to an ocular copepod parasite, Ommatokoita elongata . The absence of parasite-induced blindness in St. Lawrence Greenland Sharks, in contrast to endemic blindness in the Arctic population, may allow sharks in this region to more readily visually recognize the presence of conspecifics and potential prey. Improved visual acuity may therefore allow St. Lawrence River sharks to express a different behavioural repertoire than Arctic sharks, with resulting changes in intra- and inter-specific aggression and predatory behaviour.
A Note on Roma Mental Health and the Statement by Géza Jeszenszky

In 2005 a course text book was published which was written by Géza Jeszenszky and used for courses taught by Jeszenszky at the Corvinus University. In the text book there is a sentence which generated a great deal of debate and controversy. "The reason why many Roma are mentally ill is because in Roma culture it is permitted for sisters and brothers or cousins to marry each other or just to have sexual intercourse with each other" (Jeszenszky, 2005, 273). In November 2012 the Corvinus Rector issued a statement which declared the Corvinus University did not agree with the sentence. Péter Csermely in a Magyar Nemzet (newspaper) editorial responded to criticism of Jeszenszky’s sentence and stated that the author had simply drawn some conclusions from “evident facts”, “supported by many researchers” (Magyar Nemzet, 2012). It was suggested in late 2012 that the Corvinus University establish a commission to provide an academic and scientific statement on the sentence with a view to seeking Jeszenszky’s endorsement of the note and clarifying the actual expert opinion on these matters in order to diminish the damage caused by confusion and or acceptance of unsubstantiated claims. In May 2013 at a conference on Roma issues hosted by the Corvinus University the Vice Rector Zoltán Szántó stated he now felt it was an appropriate time to initiate the commission. The scientific note summarises the findings of the commission which was established to investigate this issue.
Assessing the competence of evidence-informed decision-making amongst health service managers

Objective: Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) amongst health service managers has been positively linked to better decision outcome, hence more effective healthcare provision. Efforts to improve EIDM practice are required to meet the current challenging healthcare environment. One key step to improve such practices is skill enhancement. The purpose of the study is the measure the competence of mid-level managers in two Victorian hospitals in applying EIDM in their roles. Design: The competence of 25 mid-level managers in applying EIDM in their roles was assessed via a 360° process using an online management competency assessment tool (MCAP Tool) and case-study objective assessment tool. Setting: Mid-level managers working in Victorian hospitals were selected. Main outcome measures: The competence of mid-level managers in applying the competency of EIDM was assessed. This paper discusses the areas of improvement identified in enhancing the competence of EIDM amongst mid-level managers in the group, organisational and individual levels Results: EIDM is an important competency for health service managers. Managers who participated in the assessment are competent in applying EIDM in their roles, but require guidance and improvements. Strengths and weaknesses of managers in applying EIDM in their roles varied between organisations. Conclusion: This paper suggests that not only improvement of specific aspects of evidenceinformed decision-making amongst health service managers are required, additional more systematic changes at the organisational and individual management level are essential to achieve competent evidence-informed decision-making practices amongst health service managers. Abbreviations: CCA – Combined Colleagues; CEO – Chief Executive Officer; EIDM – Evidence Informed Decision Making; OA – Objective Assessment; SA – Self Assessment.
Prevalence of Anaemia in Pregnancy Among Women Visiting Antenatal Clinic in Bingham University Teaching Hospital Jos, Nigeria

In developing countries such as Nigeria, anaemia in pregnancy is thought to be one of the most common problem affecting pregnant women accounting for a significant level of maternal morbidity and mortality. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy among women visiting Antenatal Clinic (ANC) in Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH). This is a cross sectional descriptive study conducted from August to September, 2015 on two hundred and thirty seven (237) women. A semi–structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to obtain socio-demographic, obstetrics, and nutritional information from the respondent pregnant women who consented at each antenatal clinic days (Mondays and Thursdays). Packed cell volume was used to assess the level of anaemia in accordance to WHO guide lines. The prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy was found to be 43.5%, amongst all women who were anaemic, 83%, 8.7% and 2% were found to have mild, moderate and severe anaemia respectively. However, 0.9%, 35%, 52% of these women were found to be in their first, second and third trimesters respectively. 61% were multi-parous women (para 2-4); 24.3% women had only two antenatal clinic visits, 66.2% women were within the age group of 34–39 years; 89.3% women had been taking balanced diet, while 89.3% women were on their routine drugs; 66.0% women used insecticide treated mosquito net; 66.0% women had taken anti-malarial prophylaxis. Reduced ANC visits and increasing age where significant factors associated with anaemia in pregnancy. Prevalence of anaemia amongst pregnant women in BHUTH was 43.5%. The most common type of anaemia in this study is mild anaemia. However, the prevalence of anaemia was found to predominate amongst women in their third trimester. Increased maternal age and reduced number of antenatal care visits were statistically significant factors to be associated with anaemia in pregnancy.
The Green Algal Underground: Evolutionary Secrets of Desert Cells

ABSTRACT Microscopic, unicellular, free-living green algae are found in desert microbiotic crusts worldwide. Although morphologically simple, green algae in desert crusts have recently been found to be extraordinarily diverse, with membership spanning five green algal classes and encompassing many taxa new to science. This overview explores this remarkable diversity and its potential to lead to new perspectives on the diversity and evolution of green plants. Molecular systematic and physiological data gathered from desert taxa demonstrate that these algae are long-term members of desert communities, not transient visitors from aquatic habitats. Variations in desiccation tolerance and photophysiology among these algae include diverse evolutionary innovations that developed under selective pressures in the desert. Combined with the single embryophyte lineage to which more familiar terrestrial green plants belong, multiple desert green algal lineages provide independent evolutionary units that may enhance understanding of the evolution and ecology of eukaryotic photosynthetic life on land.
Braided-river and hyperconcentrated-flow deposits from the Carboniferous of the Lublin Basin (SE Poland) – a sedimentological study of core data

Abstract Fining-upwards cyclothems found in five boreholes in the Carboniferous (Lower Bashkirian) of the Lublin Basin were analysed sedimentologically. It was established that the cyclothems represent fluvial deposits, and the lithofacies were grouped into lithofacies associations. Most lithofacies associations represent three types of sand-bed braided rivers: (1) high-energy, (2) deep and (3) distal sheetflood-affected. Other associations represent hyperconcentrated flows. Both coarse-grained (type I) and fine-grained (types IIa and IIb) occur among the fining-upward cyclothems. The formation of most thick cyclothems was related mainly to allocyclic factors, i.e. a decrease in the river’s gradient. The thickest fining-upward cyclothems are characteristic of hyperconcentrated flows and braided-river channels. The aggradation ratios were commonly high. During the early Namurian C and early Westphalian A (Early Bashkirian), the eastern part of the Lublin Basin was located close to the source area. The sedimentary succession developed due to a transition from high-energy braidedrivers and hyperconcentrated flows to lower-energy braided rivers, controlled by a rise of the regional base level.
Diversity and Distribution of the Banana Wilt Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum F. Sp. cubense in China

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) causes Fusarium wilt, a lethal disease that results in devastating economic losses to banana production worldwide. The pathogen originates from Asia where it evolved with its host, the wild banana plant Musa acuminata. Foc consists of three races, eight lineages and 24 Vegetative Compatibility Groups (VCGs). Most damage is caused by Foc tropical race 4 (TR4), which occurs exclusively in Asia. China is the biggest producer of Cavendish bananas (AAA) in the world, with plantations covering approximately 372.4677×103 hectares constituting up 90% of banana production, with the rest made up of Pisang Awak (ABB) and Dajiao or Plantain (AAB) bananas. In this study, 80 Foc isolates from six production areas were collected from diseased banana cultivars in China. These isolates were all single-spored and characterized to lineage level using five restriction enzymes while VCG identity was determined by generating nit-mutants, and pairing these mutants with a VCG tester set for Foc. To determine the occurrence of Foc TR4 in China, all isolates were screened with a newly developed Foc TR4-specific primer set. All the Foc isolates were also inoculated on Cavendish, Pisang Awak and Dajiao bananas for pathogenicity testing. Our results showed that Foc in China was highly diverse, as five of the eight lineages and 11 of the 24 known VCGs could be determined. The Foc TR4-specific primer set was highly specific for detecting VCG 01213/16, and could be used in diversity studies to rapidly identify this VCG complex. The majority of the isolates from China were identified as Foc TR4 (VCG 01213/16), and this VCG was found in four of the five production areas. Species of Fusarium other than F. oxysporum were non-pathogenic to banana. The selection of Foc-resistant banana clones, and the development of appropriate disease management strategies for Fusarium wilt of banana in China, is urgently required
Patient Privacy Preservation: P-RBAC vs OrBAC in Patient Controlled Records Type of Centralized Healthcare Information System. Case study of Walloon Healthcare Network, Belgium

This paper addresses the issue of access control to sensitive data in the health sector. Our work aims to identify a suitable access control model based on specific access requirements and constraints for Patient Controlled Records type of Centralized Healthcare Information System, particularly, Walloon Healthcare Network. Two prominent access control models are considered, Privacy-aware Role Based Access Control and Organization-based Access Control. In this paper, we outline the access control requirements and based on those requirements, we apply, compare, and point out the advantages and disadvantages of the two models. Keywords-Access Control; Privacy Preservation; e-health; P- RBAC; OrBAC; Patient controlled record.
Which patient is going to benefit from surgical cytoreduction with intraperitoneal chemotherapy (for manifest peritoneal metastases)?

Abstract The gastric cancer with peritoneal metastases still represents a serious problem in the oncological surgery, whereas the peritoneal metastases arising from colorectal cancer can be successfully treated using a multimodal therapy concept consisting of systemic chemotherapy, cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. The best survival rates in patients suffering from peritoneal metastases of gastric cancer have been reported by the ToGa trial, in patients with HER-2 positive expression who received standard chemotherapy and trastuzumab. Cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC are increasingly wining a place in the multimodal therapy of gastric cancer with peritoneal metastases, the criteria for such an aggressive therapy are strict and the operability needs to be previously assessed by laparoscopic exploration. Interesting new data are awaited from the German GASTRIPEC study and from the French GASTRICHIP study.
About scaling behavior of random balls models

We propose a first step to a unified frame including and extending both the situations of [4] and [2]. We start with a family of grains Xj + B(0, Rj) in R d built up from a Poisson point process (Xj, Rj)j in R d × R. Equivalently one can start with a Poisson random measure N on R×R and associate with each random point (x, r) ∈ R×R the random ball of center x and radius r. We assume that the intensity measure of N is given by dxF (dr) where F is a σ-finite non-negative measure on R such that ∫
Structural and Surface Morphology Analysis of Copper Phthalocyanine Thin Film Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition and Thermal Evaporation Techniques

In the present paper, Copper Phthalocyanine (CuPc) thin films were deposited on glass and silicon substrate by thermal evaporation and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) methods. CuPc thin films prepared at different annealing temperatures (298, 323, 348, 373, 423 K) respectively. The structure and surface morphology of CuPc in powder and thin films forms prepared by two methods were studied using Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), X-ray florescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Atomic force microscope (AFM), and Scanning electron microscope (SEM). It showed that there was a change and enhancement in the crystallinity and surface morphology due to change in the annealing temperature (Ta). The purpose of our work is to find the optimal temperature for which the film produces best structural properties for CuPc thin film to produce organic field effect transistor. Analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns of CuPc in powder form showed that it had an α-poly-crystalline phase with monoclinic structure, with preferentially oriented (100) plane transform to β-single crystalline morestable structure at different annealing temperatures.
Factors Influencing Strategy Implementation in the Tourism Industry: A Study of Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya

Many organizational failures occur due to inadequate implementation of strategy; that 66% of corporate strategy is never implemented creating strategy-to-performance gap than the gap in the formulation-to-implementation‎ process. The ability to implement a strategy lies on firm’s ability to overcome obstacles through formula-to-process implementation. The purpose of this study was to o evaluate the factors influencing strategy implementation in the tourism sector in Kenya particularly Maasai Mara national park. The objectives of the study were to examine the influence of change management on strategy implementation, to determine the influence of organizational culture on strategy implementation, to establish the influence of leadership on strategy implementation and to assess the influence of performance contracting on strategy implementation in the tourism industry in Kenya. This study adopted a case study design. The study target population was 132 respondents selected by census sampling technique. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics involved working out the percentages and frequencies and preparation of frequency tables. The findings of this study showed that constructs observed during change management activities to establish their influence on strategy implementation in the tourism sector found that organization pre-positioning as construct of change management influenced strategy implementation to a moderate extent, planning of implementation focus and support and consolidation were more influential on strategy implementation; values held by top management; strength of organizational culture relating to the degree of consistency of beliefs, values assumptions and practices in the sector was the most influential to strategy implementation; provision of leadership direction to implement strategies, persuading to seek goal setting for strategy implementation as elements of leadership were more influential on strategy implementation; clear planning and implementation correlation as a determinant for performance contracting was more influential to strategy implementation; finally the results leadership and change management factors were key factors influencing strategy implementation in the tourism sector particularly in national parks in Kenya. The study recommends that management and Kenya tourism board should use leadership and change management approaches to improve on strategy implementation in the sector. Keywords: Strategy Implementation, National Parks, Tourism Industry, Maasai Mara, Kenya
Ontology Based Teaching Domain Knowledge Management for E-Learning by Doing Systems

This paper is about an ontological representation of a teaching domain (a discipline) in the case of an e-learning by doing purpose. Going from our precedent works about using ontologies for modeling specific domains such as algorithmic and relational databases, we show in this paper that it is possible to generalize our approach to any domain based on e-learning by doing mode. The model introduced here shows a domain through two points of views: the specification view given by the ontology and the resources view generally known in e-learning as learning objects. The specification ontology is a granular model where the knowledge of a considered domain is stored, making the use of the ontology for resources retrieval (web semantic use) or for any other learning or teaching activity guided by the domain semantic. This model has been successfully implemented in different learning by doing systems for computer science domains in particular for linear programming in addition to algorithmic and relational databases learning. Among the novelties of this model, we have the possible propagation of the learner's evaluation results to each defined components of the expert domain allowing adaptive content generation. The second novelty is related to the integration of pedagogical resources descriptors described using some data elements from the LOM standard metadata scheme. This will give connection between the ontology concepts (considered at the instance level as semantic annotations) to the domain pedagogical resources, what makes the model significantly more powerful.