Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Laser steering using virtual trifocal visual servoing

This paper focuses on the development of a weakly calibrated three-view-based visual servoing control law applied to the laser steering process. It proposes to revisit the conventional trifocal constraints governing a three-view geometry for a more suitable use in the design of an efficient trifocal vision-based control. Thereby, an explicit control law is derived, without any matrix inversion, which allows to simply prove the global exponential stability of the control. Moreover, only ‘ twenty - five lines of code ’ are necessary to design a fast trifocal control system. Thanks to the simplicity of the implementation, our control law is fast, accurate, robust to errors on the weak calibration and it exhibits good behavior in terms of convergence and decoupling. This was demonstrated by different experimental validations performed on a test-bench for the steering of laser spot on a 2D and 3D surface using a two degrees-of-freedom commercial piezoelectric mirror, as well as in preliminary cadaver trials using an endoluminal micromirror prototype.
The Information Role of the Media in Earnings News

I reexamine whether media articles with substantive editorial content inform the market's reaction to firms' earnings news. Using variation in earnings announcement coverage due to restructuring at The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), my analyses suggest that WSJ earnings articles improve price discovery and increase trading volume at S&amp;P 500 earnings announcements. Additionally, textual analysis suggests media articles that differ more from the firm's earnings release increase trading volume, and that the differences speed up (slow down) price discovery when they corroborate (contradict) the tone of the firm's news. Such high difference articles are slightly longer, are more readable and specific, include more references to the industry and economy, repeat less "stale" news published in previous WSJ articles, and quote more investor and expert sources. Overall, my paper contributes to research on the role of the media in earnings news by providing evidence that journalists' editorial content helps investors understand firms' earnings, instead of simply entertaining or increasing awareness.
A Perception-Based Hybrid Model for Video Quality Assessment

It is known that the human visual system (HVS) employs independent processes (distortion detection and artifact perception-also often referred to as near-threshold and suprathreshold distortion perception) to assess video quality for various distortion levels. Visual masking effects also play an important role in video distortion perception, especially within spatial and temporal textures. In this paper, a novel perception-based hybrid model for video quality assessment is presented. This simulates the HVS perception process by adaptively combining noticeable distortion and blurring artifacts using an enhanced nonlinear model. Noticeable distortion is defined by thresholding absolute differences using spatial and temporal tolerance maps that characterize texture masking effects, and this makes a significant contribution to quality assessment when the quality of the distorted video is similar to that of the original video. Characterization of blurring artifacts, estimated by computing high frequency energy variations and weighted with motion speed, is found to further improve metric performance. This is especially true for low quality cases. All stages of our model exploit the orientation selectivity and shift invariance properties of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform. This not only helps to improve the performance but also offers the potential for new low complexity in-loop application. Our approach is evaluated on both the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) full reference television Phase I and the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) video databases. The resulting overall performance is superior to the existing metrics, exhibiting statistically better or equivalent performance with significantly lower complexity.
Pyruvate kinase: is the mechanism of phospho transfer associative or dissociative?

To test for the possibility that pyruvate kinase proceeds via a dissociative path, we have investigated whether the complex enzyme . ADP . metaphosphate is transiently formed from the complex enzyme . ATP. It is shown that when highly purified pyruvate kinase is used, the rate of positional oxygen isotope exchange in ATP (beta, gamma bridge and beta nonbridge) is about 10(4) times slower in the absence of the cosubstrate pyruvate than it is in the presence of pyruvate. Further, the rate of racemization of the gamma-phospho group of [gamma (S)-16O,17O,18O]-ATP is undetectable, being at least 30 times slower even than the rate of positional isotope exchange. These tests thus provide no evidence that pyruvate kinase follows a dissociative mechanism. Indeed, it is argued that the available data are more consistent with an associative path. Evidence is presented that the single, associative, transition state is symmetrical, in which bond making and bond breaking processes are rather precisely balanced.
ANALISIS PENGARUH UKURAN PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP KINERJA INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL DENGAN STRUKTUR KEPEMILIKAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERATING

This study aims to empirically examine the effect of firm size on the performance of the role of intellectual capital and ownership structure as a moderating variable in the relationship between firm size and performance of intellectual capital. Ownership structure used in this study is the family ownership structure and institutional ownership strukutur measured using the proportion of the number of shares owned by families and institutions . While firm size is measured by using the total number of company assets and intellectual capital performance is measured using VAIC ™ method developed by Pulic (1998 ) . This study used a sample of banking companies listed on the Stock Exchange periode 2007-2011 using purposive sampling method. The data used were obtained from the annual financial statements of banking companies listed on the Stock Exchange. There are 31 companies and 136 observations over the years 2007-2011. The method of analysis used in this study is multiple regression analysis . This method was chosen because all of the data is matrix variable. In the statistical results of the study found that company size does not significantly affect the performance of intellectual capital . However, in this study also found that both the family ownership structure and institutional ownership significantly moderate the relationship between firm size on the performance of intellectual capital.
Capturing dynamic conceptual frames

The main focus of this paper is to develop an adaptive formal apparatus capable of capturing (certain types of) reasoning conducted within the framework of the so-called dynamic conceptual frames. I first explain one of the most recent theories of concepts developed by cognitivists, in which a crucial part is played by the notion of a dynamic frame. Next, I describe how a dynamic frame may be captured by a finite set of first-order formulas and how a formalized adaptive framework for reasoning within a dynamic frame can be developed.
Trust and perception related to information about biofuels in Belgium

Public knowledge regarding green energy is limited and there is a perceived lack of information, particularly in the case of biofuels. This study investigates the information seeking behaviour of fuel consumers with regard to biofuels, their preferences for particular elements and channels of information and their trust in information sources. The majority of respondents were interested in many elements of information, and particularly in the tax (dis)advantages associated with biofuels. They prefer to obtain information via newspapers and brochures. Scientists, environmental and consumer organizations and the government are perceived as the most trustworthy sources of information whilst word of mouth sources, journalists and the fuel sector are less well trusted. Four consumer clusters could be distinguished, on the basis of the perceived relative trustworthiness of information sources, and these clusters have significantly different socio-demographic characteristics and preferences for elements and channels of information.
Reconciliation of discrepancies in medication histories and admission orders of newly hospitalized patients.

A 1999 Institute of Medicine report received national attention by highlighting system vulnerabilities within health care and indicating that medication errors are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. One area of concern was the increased number of errors occurring in the prescribing phase of the medication-use process due to prescribers’ lack of essential drug knowledge and patient information at the time of ordering. Pharmacists’ participation in medical rounds has demonstrated a reduction in medication errors in the ordering stage. However, at most hospitals, pharmacists are not directly involved in obtaining medication histories, despite the findings of one study showing that over 70% of drug-related problems were recognized only through a patient interview and another study reporting a 51% reduction in medication errors when pharmacists were involved in obtaining medication histories. Medication errors and patient harm can result from inaccurate or incomplete histories that are subsequently used to generate medication KRISTINE M. GLEASON, B.S.PHARM. , is Research Pharmacist Coordinator; JENNIFER M. GROSZEK, R.N. , B.S.N. , M.J., and CAROL SULLIVAN, R.N. , M.B.A., are Research Nurse Coordinators, Patient Safety Team; DENISE ROONEY, R.N. , B.S.N. , O.C. N. , is Manager, Patient Safety Team; and CYNTHIA BARNARD, M.B.A., M.S.J.S. , C.P.H.Q. , is Director, Quality Strategies and Patient Safety Team, Division of Quality and Operations, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), Chicago, IL. GARY A. NOSKIN, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Medical Director, Healthcare Epidemiology and Quality, NMH. Address correspondence to Ms. Gleason at the Division of Quality and Operations, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 676 North St. Clair Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60611 (kmgleaso@nmh.org). The Patient Safety Team and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis team members at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are acknowledged for their active participation and support. Karen Nordstrom, B.S.Pharm. , Michael Fotis, B.S.Pharm. , and Desi Kotis, Pharm.D. , provided invaluable assistance and insight into this project. The dedicated clinical staff pharmacists are acknowledged for enhancing patient safety by obtaining medication and allergy histories, reconciling discrepancies in medication histories and orders, and collecting data. Supported in part by an Excellence in Academic Medicine Grant from the State of Illinois Department of Public Aid and U.S. Public Health Service grant UR8/515081. Presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, Atlanta, GA, December 11, 2002; the 5th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress, Washington, DC, March 12–14, 2003; and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 15th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, New Orleans, LA, December 4, 2003.
How shareholder reforms can pay foreign policy dividends

Corporate governance must be a top US foreign policy priority, according to the authors of this analysis. Not only can good governance practices facilitate free trade by taking many disputes off the trade agenda, they can also stabilize the financial system by avoiding expensive and unpopular bailouts. To achieve these goals, however, US leaders must engage other countries in serious reform of governance systems around the world. This paper argues that US foreign policy makers must accelerate the pace of corporate governance reform. The United States should require fuller disclosure of institutional investors' corporate governance policies, encourage the convergence of differing accounting standards, expand official support for an international corporate governance standard, endorse regulatory changes that promote contests for control of publicly traded firms, and place responsibility for corporate governance policy at a senior level in Washington.
Information retrieval and the structure of the biomedical lexicon

The need for automated bibliographic and text retrieval systems is widely recognized. The National Library of Medicine has been a pioneer in this field, with M]ED-LINE as its largest and most frequently used on-line database. The Mt~DLINI~ database is built around a key'word system, the Medical Subject Headings (MESH)classification structure, where biomedical terms are nodes in a tree of "is-a ~ relationships (e.g., juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is-a rheumatoid arthritis is-a rheumatism, etc.). Documents are added to the database by hand-encoding into MESH, while queries should be hand-encoded into MeSH by an experienced librarian for optimum retrieval. Recent work by Rada's group at NLM [1] focuses on the augmentation of MESH by merging it with other classification structures or with structured medical text such as that of Currrent Medical Information and Terminology (CMIT) [2]. Rada and his colleagues have performed experiments indicating that such classification structures can be used effectively in the algorithmic indexing and retrieval of documents, but they believe that MESH should be enriched by the addition of other important, non-"is-a ~ links among nodes. They point out the importance of building mlanguages ~ or thesauri for information retrieval. We have approched medical information retrieval from another viewpoint, namely as a field in which to conduct experiments aimed at revealing the structure hypothesized to be inherent in the biomedical lexicon. Blois et al. [3] investigated one aspect of this structure by using the terms in the disease descriptions of cMrr to build algorithmically vocabularies which were specific to various medical specialties, such as dermatology and cardiology. Such specialty vocabularies were then used to classify a selection of medical journal abstracts relevant to diseases, with a moderate success rate. as measured by comparison with human indexers. Our present work is concerned with testing a hierarchical model proposed by Blois [4] for the organization of the descriptions of natural objects. In the model, there exists for each hierarchical level in nature a set of nominal and attribute terms specific to that level. Mixing terms from different levels would result in nonsensical statements, such as "The sodium ion is hungry". In a medical or scientific context. "hungry" is an attribute properly applied to organisms, not ions, though, of course, certain literary devices, such as metaphor , may depend on just such a mixing of levels for their impact. (It should be noted, in passing, that Blois is not addressing the question of …
Domestic Violence during Pregnancy : The role of Midwifery and Screening in the North of Italy

Domestic Violence during Pregnancy: The role of Midwifery and Screening in the North of Italy L.Driul1*, M. Lot l, S. Ciardi1, A.P.Londero1, A.Fruscalzol, C.Caissutti1, D.Zavarise1 1Department of Gynecology, University of Udine, Udine, Italy *Corresponding author: L. Driul, Department of Gynecology, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Email: lorenza.driul@uniud.it Received: 12-12-2015 Accepted: 02-22-2016 Published: 03-31-2016 Copyright: © 2016 L.Driul Review article
Development of Saddle-Shaped Coils for Accelerator Magnets Wound With YBCO-Coated Conductors

With the advances made in accelerator technologies, particle accelerators are being employed in a wide range of fields such as physics, biology, and medical treatment. However, the diameters of the main rings in most accelerators are large; for example, even the smallest carbon cancer therapy accelerator has a main ring diameter of approximately 20 m. Since a rotating gantry for a carbon-ion beam is also very large compared with the gantry for a proton beam, widespread adoption of this therapy system has been restricted. In order to promote widespread adoption of carbon cancer therapy accelerators, it is necessary to reduce the bending radius of the carbon-ion beam. One way to achieve this is to use superconducting magnets with higher magnetic fields. High-Tc superconducting (HTS) magnets have higher thermal stability and need lower power consumption for cooling than low-Tc superconducting (LTS) magnets. Although saddle-shaped coils are suitable for accelerator magnets, an HTS conductor has anisotropic bending flexibility because of its tape shape. To evaluate winding technologies for HTS saddle-shaped coils, a number of coils were fabricated and tested. The test coils were about 400 mm long and 160 mm wide. Each test coil was wound using an approximately 45-m-long 4-mm-wide YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO)-coated conductor. Some of the coils were excited to measure their voltage-current characteristics in liquid nitrogen. An index value over 20 was obtained throughout an electric field range down to 10-7 V/m, which indicated that the superconducting properties would not be degraded. To evaluate the quality of the magnetic field distribution and the thermal stability of a conduction-cooled HTS magnet, we fabricated and tested an HTS magnet consisting of eight saddle-shaped coils.
FACTORS FOR THE STUDY OF LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF TELECOMMUTING AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ON RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS LOCATION CHOICE

The acceptance and adoption of telecommuting is increasing rapidly and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are gradually finding their way into the market. One major question is whether in the long run these technological innovations would influence urban development pattern in the same way as previous technologies like the railroad and automobile did; that is, a trend toward more suburbanization and second- and third-tier satellite nodes. Considering the relationship between land use and transportation, the question is: What will be the effects of new technologies of ITS and telecommuting on urban development pattern, which in turn has effects on travel demand pattern? These two technological innovations will have some short- and long-term implications for travel behavior and land use. The long-term effects of ITS and telecommuting are subject to uncertainty. Different studies have advanced different hypotheses about their impacts on the resulting land use patterns and in particular on both residential and business location decisions. It is the purpose of this paper to provide an insight into the effects of ITS and telecommuting on residential as well as business location behavior. Specifically, this paper has two objectives. First, is to describe the state of knowledge on the relationship between technologies of ITS and telecommuting and urban development patterns. Second, to advance models of residential and business location in the light of ITS and telecommuting.
Motivations behind Corporate Social Responsibility : A case study of Arla Foods

Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gaining more attention by society in recent years. The authors chose Arla Foods in the dairy industry, which is one of the leading dairy companies in the world and headquarter in Viby, Denmark, as a case study. Problem discussion Many researchers have been engaged in researching CSR activities; a modern corporation can gain numerous benefits. To investigate motivations behind CSR is to know why a company chooses to commit to CSR while there is the growing attention among stakeholder groups towards a company’s behaviors. In this study, the authors chose Arla Foods as a case company for their high interest in CSR activities and accessibility. Purpose To investigate motivations behind a company’s practiced CSR activities. Methodology In this study, the authors took interpretivism and practiced in a deductive way. By examining existing theories and collecting data, qualitative research has been chosen in order to investigate motivations behind Arla Foods’s CSR. Primary and secondary data are collected to ensure the quality of the study. Empirical The empirical materials collected from the code of conduct and annual report of Arla as well as information from interviewee are reliable, exact, and consistent with theory. Analysis Exploring the connection between theories and empirical which have been divided into definition of CSR, stakeholder and three motivations of Arla. Conclusion What CSR Arla is doing is consistent with definition which examined the categories of Arla’s CSR activities, however those activities are tools or implements to help reach the company’s financial goals.
Higgs-mediated B0 --> &mgr;(+)&mgr;(-) in minimal supersymmetry

We demonstrate a new source for flavor-changing neutral currents within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. At moderate to large tanbeta, it is no longer possible to diagonalize the masses of the quarks in the same basis as their Yukawa couplings. This generates flavor-violating couplings of the form &bmacr;(R)d(L)straight phi and &bmacr;(R)s(L)straight phi where straight phi is any of the three neutral, physical Higgs bosons. These new couplings lead to rare processes in the B system such as B0-->&mgr;(+)&mgr;(-) and B0-&Bmacr;(0) mixing. We show that the latter are anomalously suppressed, while the former is in the experimentally interesting range, with an observable signal possible at Run II of the Tevatron if m(A) less, similar400-700 GeV.
HER‐2/neu status and tumor morphology of invasive breast carcinomas in Ashkenazi women with known BRCA1 mutation status in the Ontario Familial Breast Cancer Registry

The prevalence of BRCA1 germline mutations is greater in the Ashkenazi Jewish population than in the general North American population. The Ontario Familial Breast Cancer Registry collects clinical and family history data in familial breast carcinoma cases, and unselected Ashkenazi breast carcinomas, and acts as a tumor tissue repository.
Evaluation of symptoms of anxiety and depression in women with breast cancer after breast amputation or conservation treated with adjuvant chemotherapy.

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the presence of symptoms of anxiety and depression in women treated for breast cancer who underwent surgical procedure using one of two alternative methods, either radical mastectomy or breast conserving treatment (BCT). METHODS A questionnaire survey involved 85 patients treated in a conservative way and 94 patients after breast amputation. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and depression degree evaluation questionnaire were used in the study. The patients' esponses were statistically analyzed. RESULTS Based on the HADS questionnaire, the total anxiety level in the group of women treated with BCT was 6.96 points, while in the group of patients who had undergone mastectomy the value was 7.8 points. The observed results were statistically significant. In the case of depression, the following values were found: patients after amputation had 8.04 scale value points, and those after BCT had 6.8 scale value points. The observed differences were statistically significant. Negative correlation was found between the level of anxiety and depression. The total level of depression evaluated using the Beck scale was 16.3 points in the BCT group, which means that they suffered from mild depression, while in the mastectomy group the level was 19.6 points, which corresponds to moderate depression. CONCLUSIONS The level of anxiety and depression among women with breast cancer was influenced by the type of the applied surgical procedure and adjuvant chemotherapy. Demographic variables did not influence the level of anxiety and depression.