Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Employee voice: charting new terrain

Voice is a term that has been widely used in the practitioner and academic literature on human resource management (HRM) and industrial relations in recent years. Freeman and Medoff (1984) associated voice with union representation and in particular with the role of unions in articulating concerns on behalf of the collective. As union density has fallen in recent years, analysis of voice in workplaces has often focused on how workers communicate with managers and are able to express their concerns about their work situation without a union, and on the ways in which employees have a say over work tasks and organizational decision-making. But researchers from different disciplinary perspectives often use voice in different ways. Some refer to involvement, others to participation, while yet others refer to empowerment or engagement as if they are interchangeable. As Kaufman (Chapter 2) makes clear, few appreciate the historical pedigree of employee voice, for instance, where Karl Marx and Adam Smith expressed interest in the ways and means through which labour expressed its voice. The deeper antecedents to voice have often been forgotten or eclipsed in a rush towards newer managerial fads, such as engagement or other equally abstract notions of labour offering discretionary effort. This book presents analysis from various academic streams and disciplines that illuminate our understanding of employee voice from these different perspectives. The following chapters show that research on employee voice has gone beyond union voice and non-union voice to build a wider and deeper knowledge base. As the introduction to the book, this chapter provides a guide to the debates about the different dimensions of employee voice and to the research findings in different areas. We review the meanings and purposes surrounding the definitions of voice; consider the role of key actors in the workplace; and evaluate the different forms and processes of voice in different spheres, contexts and organizational settings. We hope that the book will help the reader understand the debates associated with employee voice and appreciate the contribution of the different approaches to our understanding of what goes on in the workplaces that are at the heart of modern economies.
Effect of Carob(Ceratonia Siliqua L.) growing in Libya on cisplatin-inducednephrotoxicity in mice

Reactive oxygen species and free radicals are involved in the nephrotoxicity induced by the synthetic anticancer drug cisplatin. The nephrotoxicity effects of carob pods and leaves (100 and 200 m/kg, p.o.) were investigated using cisplatin (10mg/kg body weight, i.p.) to induce oxidative renal damage in mice. The results showed that cisplatin administration caused abnormal renal functions in all studied mice. Serum urea and creatinine concentration were significantly higher (p
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C virus

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Enhancing NO3- supply confers NaCl tolerance by adjusting Cl- uptake and transport in G. max & G. soja

The objective of this work was to elucidate NO3 supply, Cltoxicity, and Cl/NO3 interaction in Glycine max and Glycine soja under salt stress. G. max cultivars (Lee68 and Jackson) and G. soja accessions (BB52 and N23227) with different salt tolerance were chosen as the experimental materials. Effects of low (0.75 mmol/L), normal (7.5 mmol/L), and high (15 mmol/L) NO3 supply on growth, relative electrolytic leakage, and contents of Cl-, NO3 -, Na+, K+ in roots and leaves of NaCl (50 and 100 mmol/L)-stressed plants were investigated. Results showed that, low NO3 supply led to serious salt damage on G. max and G. soja plants. While enhanced NO3 supply could significantly reduce relative electrolytic leakage and contents of Na+ and Clin roots and leaves accompanying with obvious NO3 increase and K+ maintenance. Thus, finally an improved growth and alleviated salt injury by reducing Cl/NO3 and Na+/K+ ratios, especially for the relatively salt-sensitive Jackson and N23227 were obtained. Moreover, Cl/NO3 and Na+/K+ ratios were significant or extreme significant positively correlated with relative electrolytic leakage, and significant or extreme significant negatively correlated with root vigor or plant fresh weight. It suggests that Cl/NO3 ratio can be used as vital reference indexes as Na+/K+ for evaluating soybean salt tolerance.
Complexity Machine 1: A 3D Modeling Application Implementing Behavioral Simulation

Complexity Machine 1 is a software application developed by the author as a Master of Architecture thesis project at the University of Minnesota. The software acts as a platform for exploring three dimensional form produced via behavioral simulation. Specifically, the behaviors are modeled on emergent group dynamics found commonly in nature such as flocking, chasing, and evading. Though various commercial softwares and numerous small-scale architectural projects exist in this area, Complexity Machine 1 is intended as a freely available and generic platform for exploring the formal implications of these emergent behaviors. The simulated behaviors are governed by a variety of parameters and a set of eight simple rules. Formal results are influenced by these parameters and rules; along with scale, color, and geometric settings. The flexibility of the software allows users to investigate a vast array of potential forms, adjust settings in real time, and export the results for further manipulation. Complexity Machine 1 continues to be refined and improved towards the goal of providing an easy to use platform to designers for exploring forms that emerge from complex group behavior.
A restriction map of naphthalene catabolic plasmid pWW60-1 and the location of some of its catabolic genes

SUMMARY: A restriction map for the 87 kbp IncP9 naphthalene catabolic plasmid pWW60-1 is presented. Transposon mutants were obtained using direct Tn5 insertion or using an indirect method involving the intermediate formation of unstable cointegrates between RP4 and pWW60-1. Insertions which affected expression of the early enzymes of the pathway (naphthalene to salicylate) were separated from inserts which affected expression of salicylate hydroxylase (nahG) or catechol 2,3-oxygenase (nahH). nahABC were cloned on a contiguous region of the plasmid on either a 6.9 kbp HindIII fragment (HE) or a 5.7 kbp XhoI fragment (XD). nahGH were cloned on a region situated about 30 kbp from nahABC on an XhoI fragment (XC), but nahH was only expressed on the corresponding but smaller XhoI fragments from two derivative plasmids of pWW60-1 with a deletion in that region. The detailed restriction map of nahH shows no similarities with the restriction maps of the genes for catechol 2,3-oxygenases from TOL plasmids, although the cloned gene did hybridize with genes for catechol 2,3-oxygenase from two different TOL plasmids. The organization of the catabolic genes on pWW60-1 suggests a separation into two operons as also described for the naphthalene catabolic plasmid NAH7 (alternatively called pIG7), but the relative directions of their transcription differs from that in NAH7.
Organix – Collect Implicit Organisational Knowledge Through a Gaming Platform

The practice of Business Process Management includes assessments to current business processes of a company ( as-is ), in order to delineate strategies to optimise processes and improve their eﬃciency ( to-be ). One phase of this cycle consists in the elicitation of business processes, which can be achieved by using diﬀerent techniques, directed by business analysts. However, many of these approaches bring out complications that may invalidate the results of the elicitation. The current solution to this scenario consists in the combination of techniques to gather as much business knowledge as possible, despite not always achieving accurate outputs. This dissertation demonstrates the possibility of creating a solution designed as a serious game platform that engages players, who happen to be business participants in the processes to be elicited, to contribute with business knowledge regarding the business processes they are involved in their professional activities. The platform intends to gather implicit business knowledge from participants, in a systematic and automated way, so the outcome of the game consists in business process models obtained from the elicitation accomplished in the game. Posteriorly, these models can be used for decision making on what should be modiﬁed in processes to expand the business value of the organisation.
Assess Income Contribution of Adopter and Non- adopter of Crossbred Dairy Cows Managed under Smallholder Farmer in Endamehoni District, Southern Zone, Tigray, Ethiopia

The study was carried out in Endamehoni District Sothern zone of Tigray region, Ethiopia. Objective of this study was to assess income contribution of adopter and non- adopter of crossbred Dairy cow Managed under smallholder farmers in Endamohoni District. The total sampled numbers of household’s was 180 dairy cow owners, 90 each from adoptor and non- adopter of crossbred Dairy cow owners respectively. The primary data was collected using semi-structured questionnaire and interview. Before conducting formal survey, pre-test was carried out on the sample of respondents undertaken by using interview with households and key informants. Propensity score matching was also employed to show if non-adopters and adopters of crossbred dairy cow have significantly different income. The result shows that the ATT income earned from adopter of crossbred Dairy cow for nearest neighbor, radius and kernel matching method was significant. The result indicated that adopters crossbred dairy cow have earned more income than non-adopters. The average treatment of the treated (ATT) on per capita income for crossbred cow adopters were 12459.98 birr/annum from nearest-neighborhood, 16702.375 birr/annum radius matching method and 10596.369 birr/annum for kernel matching method was earned more income than non-adopters of cross bred dairy cows respectively. What’s more, stratified matching method indicates that the average income earned from crossbred adopters was 668 birr/annum. In general, these results had shown significant effect on adopting of crossbred dairy cows on smallholder farmers’ income. Keywords: psm, Logit, adopter, non-adopter, income ,ATT
Interactive comment on “ Diagnostic calibration of a hydrological model in an alpine area ” by Z

This paper presents a step-wise calibration approach for a precipitation-runoff model (THREW) applied to a case study in the Tianshan Mountains (China). The paper is well written and structured. The identification of the different dominant runoff processes for the step-wise calibration is very simple (a separation by date to distinguish snowinfluenced periods from others, two separations based on air temperature) but sound and certainly transferable to other case studies. The literature review of the paper should however be strengthen to support the viewpoint of the authors that “the signatures in common use today insufficiently exploit the hydrograph information in the time
Mangrove ecosystem collapse during predicted sea-level rise: Holocene analogues and implications

Review of the stratigraphic record of mangrove ecosystems during sea-level changes of the Holocene shows that low islands will be particularly vulnerable to the 1088 of mangrove ecosystems during the rises of relative sea-level projected for the next 50 years. Mangrove ecosystems in these locations could keep up with a sea-level rise of up to 8-9 cm/100 years, but at rates of over 12 cm/100 years could not persist. This is due to low rates of sediment accumulation with limited sources from outside the mangrove zone such as from rivers or soil erosion sources. Other factors contributing to mangrove persistence are the primary production rate of forests, shoreline erosion due to deeper and more turbulent water and the frequency and intensity of tropical storms.
A hydrophobic proclivity index for protein alignments

Sequence alignment algorithms are fundamental to modern bioinformatics. Sequence alignments are widely used in diverse applications such as phylogenetic analysis, database searches for related sequences to aid identification of unknown protein domain structures and classification of proteins and protein domains. Additionally, alignment algorithms are integral to the location of related proteins to secure understanding of unknown protein functions, to suggest the folded structure of proteins of unknown structure from location of homologous proteins and/or by locating homologous domains of known 3D structure. For proteins, alignment algorithms depend on information about amino acid substitutions that allows for matching sequences that are similar, but not exact. When primary sequence percent identity falls below about 25%, algorithms often fail to identify proteins that may have similar 3D structure. We have created a hydrophobicity scale and a matching dynamic programming algorithm called TMATCH (preprint report) that is able to match proteins with remote homologs with similar secondary/tertiary structure, even with very low primary sequence matches. In this paper, we describe how we arrived at the hydrophobic scale, how it provides much more information than percent identity matches and some of the implications for better alignments and understanding protein structure.
Hardware Implementation of a Time Management Unit (TMU)

This thesis describes the implementation of a Time Management Unit (TMU) in hardware as specified by Gregertsen and Skavhaug, the specification and implementation of several improvements to the proposed specification, and the creation of a software framework to enable use of the module in a convenient way. A set of thorough automatic functional tests are also described and provided. The performance of the module is assessed and discussed. A user description similar to the AVR32 UC3 datasheets is also created. The TMU has been implemented as a hardware module on the peripheral bus (APB) on the AVR32 UC3 microcontroller, which makes it easy to develop and test stand-alone, and simple to integrate into future UC3 microcontrollers. Also, as the APB interface of the AMBA standard is an open standard used by several System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, the module can be implemented on other microcontrollers with very low effort. The final product makes it possible to measure and control the execution time of tasks with high precision and low overhead. It supports atomic swapping of registers in a manner closely related to a context switch. Gregertsen and Skavhaugss research in implementing support for the Ada language and run-time environment on the UC3 microcontroller will benefit directly from this project, as the system relies on the hardware support provided by the TMU. Also, as the project can be used in proving that hardware support of execution time monitoring may allow for new ways of ensuring schedulability in real-time systems, it can possibly be a part of a new direction in real-time research.
The shadow economy in Norway: Demand for currency approach

The main purpose of this study is to measure the level of the shadow economy in Norway following the demand for currency approach. The question analysed is how well does this approach capture the level of shadow economy in front of a decreasing level of currency in circulation and an increasing use of electronic payment system. In this study is found a decreasing level of the shadow economy in Norway since mid 1990s starting with 8,8 percent of the shadow economy relative to GDP in 1991, up to 10.2 percent in 1995 and there after declining to a level of 5.6 percent of GDP in 2002. The explanation for the decline of the level of shadow economy relative to GDP could be the fact of a decreasing demand for currency for transaction going along with an increase of electronic payments instruments. Also, in Norway, a broad tax reform was implemented in 1992 with the purpose of reducing tax-induced distortions by lowering the tax rates and broadening the tax base. One of the main causes of the shadow economy, is considered to be the burden of direct and indirect tax to the individuals, but the complexity of the tax system is also an important factor that may have an impact on the level of shadow economy.
End-to-end QoS management for multimedia over IP

Due to the rapidly growing demands of multimedia communications with guaranteed quality of service (QoS), traditional Internet communications based on best-effort are not suitable any more, and the topic of end-to-end QoS management for multimedia communications over IP has received great attention in the past few years. It is a very challenging task to study end-to-end QoS management because of the unexpected packet loss, the bandwidth and delay fluctuation, and the heterogeneous property of networks. The objective of this research is to study, design and implement end-to-end QoS management schemes, particularly on congestion control and error control in the transportation layer, for multimedia communications over IP. In my two-year study, we focus on two theoretical problems, i.e., wireless link modeling and optimal retransmission timeout (RTO) selection, we also develop a practical RTP-based transportation system for multimedia streaming over IP with end-to-end QoS management. In particular, we propose to model the wireless link layer by converting the widely used Gilbert-Elliott channel (GEC) at different levels. We develop an analytical procedure to derive the parameters of a desired symbol-level GEC model, from the parameters of a given bit-level GEC. It can be applied to any problem of converting GEC from a level of shorter data segment to a level of longer data segment as long as the longer data segment is a multiple of the shorter data segment. We also study the problem of optimal retransmission timeout (RTO) selection for end-to-end delay-constrained multimedia communications. Based on a statistical delay model of IP network, we propose a novel algorithm for optimal RTO selection in delayconstrained multimedia communications. By appropriately choosing the RTO, we are able to adjust packet delay and transmission rate, and then achieve the optimal tradeoff between the error probability and the rate cost. iii ATTENTION: The Singapore Copyright Act applies to the use of this document. Nanyang Technological University Library
Generalizability and Transferability of Incident Detection Algorithm Using Dynamic Time Warping

This paper proposes an enhanced freeway incident detection algorithm that is transferable to different freeway segments. The algorithm is a modified form of previously proposed dynamic time warping-based algorithm that utilizes the concept of pattern similarity amongst microscopic traffic variables time series while using only minimum prior knowledge. Unlike previous approaches where empirical incident precursor patterns are directly used for calibration, the proposed method uses artificial incident precursor patterns associated with probabilistic models derived from hierarchy clustering of incident precursor patterns database. Performance evaluation is conducted using real-world data independently collected from separate sites. Comparisons with a benchmark method that uses empirical values for calibration show that the proposed algorithm perform remarkably well; it achieves a high detection rate over 90% while the false alarm rate is as low as the benchmark method.
Exploring Trends in the Multimodal Management of Overweight / Obesity

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Describe the benefits of weight loss in overweight and obese persons • Describe recent actions taken by regulatory agencies, professional associations, and others regarding obesity • Identify persons for whom weight loss is indicated • Compare the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of medications approved for long-term use for weight loss • Describe the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of medications that may be approved for weight loss in the near future • Describe the benefits of bariatric surgery
Effects of Minute Contextual Experience on Realistic Assessment of Proportional Reasoning

Abstract This mixed methods study describes the effects of a minute contextual experience on students’ ability to solve a realistic assessment problem involving scale drawings and proportional reasoning. Minute contextual experience (MCE) is defined to be a brief encounter with a context in which aspects of the context are explored openly. The study looked closely at what happened during an instructional unit examining proportional reasoning. Students completed a pretest and posttest involving items characterizing a novel context, and data were analyzed to determine the effects of the MCE. Students were interviewed to gather their perspectives on the problem and their own solutions. Pretest results indicated that instruction in which students demonstrated growth in understanding had little effect on students’ ability to solve a novel problem in which they had difficulty associating their everyday mundane knowledge with the realistic context. The students demonstrated a significant increase in ability to solve the novel problem after a MCE. Furthermore, students explicated that the MCE aided their ability to visualize the context, and this helped them apply instructional learning to solve the problem. A discussion of the complexities involving the assumptions of students’ familiarity with contexts and their abilities to draw upon their mundane everyday experiences to solve proportional reasoning problems is shared.
Does Economic Growth Matter? Technology-Push, Demand-Pull and Endogenous Drivers of Innovation in the Renewable Energy Industry

The paper aims to contribute to the longstanding technology-push vs. demand-pull debate and to the literature on renewable energy diffusion and renewable energy policy assessment. We argue that in addition to the traditional push-pull dichotomy, the drivers of technological change must be differentiated by whether they are exogenous or endogenous to the economic system. We maintain that a specific type of endogenous demand-pull mechanism (i.e. economic growth) is a major catalyst of environmental innovation. We apply this perspective to study the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies in 15 European Union countries from 1990 to 2012. Applying different panel data estimators, we find that public R&D investments, policies supporting RE and per capita income all have a positive impact on RE diffusion, whereas the variability of policy support has a negative impact. However, we also find that economic growth is a stronger driver than either public R&D investments or policies supporting RE, and that models that do not take it explicitly into account tend to overestimate the importance of exogenous drivers. Most importantly, we note that the effect of economic growth on RE diffusion exhibits a nonlinear, U-shaped pattern that resonates with the well-known Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. RE penetration remains negligible at low levels of growth whereas it increases sharply only after income per capita has reached a given threshold and the demand for environmental quality rises. Our findings have implications for policy making. They suggest that for RE diffusion to increase, government action should be directed not only at shielding renewables from competition with fossil fuel technologies but also at stimulating aggregated demand and economic growth.