Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlation between multiple ionization and fragmentation of C{2}H{6} in charge-changing collisions with 580−keVC[+]

We investigate correlations between multiple ionization and fragmentation processes of the ethane molecule in collisions with 580-keV C + ions under single-electron capture and loss conditions. Employing an electron countingtechnique,wedirectlyobtainnumberdistributionsofionizedelectrons,whichcorrespondtodistributions of multiple ionization probabilities of ethane. In addition, fragmentation patterns as a function of the charge state r of intermediate parent ions C 2 H 6 r +∗ are obtained from coincidence measurements between the time of ﬂight of the product ions and the number of electrons emitted. Fragmentation patterns in the different charge-changing conditions reveal a crucial role of the internal excitation in the fragmentation processes. Also, we provide clear evidence of strong selectivity on the parent charge state for formation of the H 3 + ion, which is exclusively generated through doubly charged parent ions C 2 H 62 +∗ .
Stochastic Analysis of a Hassell-Varley Type Predation Model

We investigate a Hassell-Varley type predator-prey model with stochastic perturbations. By perturbing the growth rate of prey population and death rate of predator population with white noise terms, we construct a stochastic differential equation model to discuss the effects of the environmental noise on the dynamical behaviors. Applying the comparison theorem of stochastic equations and Ito’s formula, the unique positive global solution to the model for any positive initial value is obtained. We find out some sufficient conditions for stochastically asymptotically boundedness, permanence, persistence in mean and extinction of the solution. Furthermore, a series of numerical simulations to illustrate our mathematical findings are presented. The results indicate that the stochastic perturbations do not cause drastic changes of the dynamics in the deterministic model when the noise intensity is small under some conditions, but while the noise intensity is sufficiently large, the species may die out, which does not happen in the deterministic model.
Influence of transport duration and season on sensory meat quality in rabbits.

Little is known about the effect that journey duration and position on the vehicle have on the sensory aspects of meat quality in rabbits. In this study, 156 rabbits were transported by road in a commercial truck for 1 h or 7 h in one of three replicates in summer or winter. After slaughter, slices from the left side of the longissimus dorsi muscle were vacuum-packaged and chilled at 18 oC until the sensory analysis to assess odour, tenderness, juiciness, fi brousity, greasiness, and fl avour intensity. Overall, the journey duration had a signifi cant effect (P<0.05) on tenderness, fi brousity and overall liking of the meat, being better the results of the meat samples from the short transport treatment. Season had a signifi cant effect (P<0.05) on the intensity of off-odours, being obtained the highest scores in summer transports. There was a signifi cant interaction effect (P<0.05) of journey time and season on tenderness and meat odour. Therefore, meat from short journeys in summer was the most tender, and meat from long journeys in winter was the toughest. The position on the truck (in multi-layered cages) do not infl uence sensory meat quality. Therefore, rabbit sensory meat quality can be affected by transport time.
Developing and launching the INNOPENA Internet platform to unblock the flow of innovative solutions between R&D and industry in Poland / Opracowanie i uruchomienie platformy INNOPENA dla usprawnienia przepływu innowacji pomiędzy sektorem B&R a przemysłem w Polsce

Summary This paper presents actual, unsatisfactory innovative activity of processing industry in Poland and one of its regions named Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). The analysis uses data from international and internal sources, as well as results of special research programmes. Various barriers were identified and particularly very low level of cooperation between enterprises and R&D sector represented by universities, institutes of Polish Academy of Science and others. The aim of this paper is to present newly established Internet platform INNOPENA®, which was built relying on the ‘open innovation’ concept. There is a hope, that this new instrument will improve cooperation for better innovation activity, especially in favour of small and medium enterprises. Streszczenie W pracy przedstawiono niekorzystna i niską aktywność innowacyjną przemysłu przetwórczego w Polsce i Wielkopolsce, wykorzystując międzynarodowe i krajowe żródła wtórne oraz wyniki realizowanego programu badawczego. Zidentyfikowano w nim różne bariery i ich poziomy dla współpracy przedsiębiorstwami i sektorem B&R (uniwersytety, instytuty PAN i inne). Dla ich przełamania opracowano i zaprezentowano platformę INNOPENA®, którą zbudowano na paradygmacie innowacji otwartych. Jest prawdopodobne, że ten nowy instrument umożliwi lepsza współpracę zainteresowanych i wzmocni aktywność innowacyjną zwłaszcza w grupie małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw.
Repositioning Science Education in Nigerian Colleges of Education through Public-Private Partnership (PPP)

This is a review paper on using Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to reposition science education in Nigerian colleges of education. The paper looked at science education as the study of biology, chemistry or physics along with principle and method of education. Public-private partnership was viewed as voluntary arrangement between non-governmental organization and government to execute or jointly carry out a project with the aim of sharing the profits and bear any involving risk together. Highlight of poor situation of science education in Nigerian colleges of education due to corruption and other factors were discussed in this paper. Practices of PPP in some countries and the benefits in PPP including what science education may gain from PPP were highlighted in the paper. Recommendations were suggested at the end based on the conclusion of the paper.
Insight Into Parkinson's Disease Using Yeast as a Model to Evaluate the Role of Autophagy Genes in alpha-Synuclein Toxicity

The misfolding and aggregation of the protein αsynuclein is the likely cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD), a common incurable human neurodegenerative illness. A popular hypothesis is that increasing the degradation of α-synuclein may protect cells from its aggregation and toxicity. While the cellular organelle, lysosome, is pharmacologically implicated in degrading α-synuclein, no genetic evidence currently exists. We hypothesized that α-synuclein uses autophagy, an ancient route by which damaged proteins enter the lysosome. This hypothesis was tested in a budding yeast model wherein autophagy was compromised with individual autophagy gene knockouts required for the nucleation and expansion steps of autophagy. Three αsynuclein properties were assessed for potential increases: aggregation, accumulation, and toxicity. Surprisingly, with six genes examined thus far, we only observed subtle autophagic regulation of α-synuclein, unlike our prediction. To more completely understand autophagy-mediated α-synuclein degradation, the remaining proteins that comprise the nucleation, expansion, and fusion steps need similar examination.
A Recommendation System with Personalizable Distributed Collaborative Filtering

—Collaborative Filtering technique is a state-of-the-art method in recommender systems. This technique has proved to be successful both in research and industry. However, it is challenging to find an adequate algorithm for calculating user similarity, which enables the recommender system to generate the best recommendation for given domain and data set. In this paper, we proposed an architecture which allows users to additionally personalize the recommendation by letting them choose algorithm for calculating user similarities, or to implement their own algorithm on a distributed service. Online tests on implemented application for movie recommendation show that architecture proposed in this paper gives users the ability to personalize recommendation for more efficient results.
The lower limits of disc fragmentation and the prospects for observing fragmenting discs

A large fraction of brown dwarfs and low-mass hydrogen-burning stars may form by gravitational fragmentation of protostellar discs. We explore the conditions for disc fragmentation and find that they are satisfied when a disc is large enough (≳100 au) so that its outer regions can cool efficiently, and it has enough mass to be gravitationally unstable, at such radii. We perform radiative hydrodynamic simulations and show that even a disc with mass 0.25 M⊙ and size 100 au fragments. The disc mass, radius and the ratio of disc to star mass (MD/M★≈ 0.36) are smaller than in previous studies. We find that fragmenting discs drastically decrease in mass and size within a few 104 yr of their formation, since a fraction of their mass, especially outside ∼100 au is consumed by the new stars and brown dwarfs that form. Fragmenting discs end up with masses ∼0.001–0.1 M⊙ and sizes ∼20–100 au. On the other hand, discs that are marginally stable evolve on a viscous time-scale, thus living longer (∼1–10 Myr). We produce simulated images of fragmenting discs and find that observing discs that are undergoing fragmentation is possible using current (e.g. IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer) and future (e.g. ALMA) interferometers, but highly improbable due to the short duration of this process. Comparison with observations shows that many observed discs may be remnants of discs that have fragmented at an earlier stage. However, there are only a few candidates that are possibly massive and large enough to currently be gravitationally unstable. The rarity of massive (≳0.2 M⊙), extended (≳100 au) discs indicates that either such discs are highly transient (i.e. form, increase in mass becoming gravitationally unstable due to infall of material from the surrounding envelope and quickly fragment) or their formation is suppressed (e.g. by magnetic fields). We conclude that current observations of early-stage discs cannot exclude the mechanism of disc fragmentation.
A Semantic Web based approach to expertise finding at KPMG

An important requirement for realizing high organizational effectiveness within large organizations is the existence of an expertise finding application which enables rapid discovery of expertise inside the organization. The main goal of this research was to investigate how Semantic Web techniques could be used to increase the findability and accessibility of the employee expertise information inside organizations. Techniques from the Semantic Web were chosen because they are particularly suitable for integrating different data sets and allow the application to be easily extended in the future. A skills ontology has been created which defines skills from the IT Advisory domain and relates them to each other. The skills ontology is used in a proof of concept expertise finding application to illustrate that this background knowledge can be used to increase the findability and accessibility of the employee information. The employee information is expressed with RDF and the skills ontology is constructed with OWL 2 DL and contains SWRL rules which are used to infer relations between employees and skills. To demonstrate how the constructed application can be extended with external knowledge sources, a second skills ontology has been constructed and linked to the first ontology. The two ontologies can now be used jointly to enhance the discovery of expertise in the organization
KIKEN YOCHI TRAINING (KYT) IN REDUCING ACCIDENTS AT WORKPLACES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Objective: The aim of this paper is to systematically review the literature in order to explore the usage and efficiency of Kiken Yochi training (KYT) in reducing workplace accidents. Materials and Methods: Literature was sought from online database. These database included PubMed, Science Direct, JICOSH, and Google Scholar. Only English full text articles published from 2000 to 2015 were selected. The main keywords used for the search were (Kiken Yochi) OR (hazard prediction) AND (work injury) OR (accident) AND (working site accident). In total, six studies met the inclusion criteria for this review. Result: Four studies were from Japan, one study was from Thailand, and one study was from the United States of America (USA). These selected studies used different study designs; cross-sectional, cohort, experimental, quasi-experimental and case study. Respondents involved were factory workers, laboratory workers, students and contractor workers. Implementation of KYT was found to be consistently effective in increasing workers’ awareness on occupational hazards, promoting health and safety practice and reducing occupational accident rate. Involvement of all top managements and employees in decisionmaking process is the key factor for the success of KYT implementation. Conclusion: In summary, KYT is indeed a promising tool to be implemented in various industries to reduce hazard and accidents at the workplace.
Legados, política y consenso desarrollista

Cuales son las condiciones para la adopcion de estrategias de desarrollo en America Latina en tiempos posneoliberales? Luego de una breve discusion sobre desarrollo y crecimiento economico, el articulo examina el rol de las instituciones y las elites politicas en la capacidad de generar proyectos nacionales sustentables, y analiza el rol de los actores empresariales y sociales. No existe la posibilidad de un retorno del Estado omnipresente del pasado, pero tampoco es posible seguir negando el rol del sector publico como ocurrio durante los 90. En definitiva, una propuesta de desarrollo nacional requiere el concurso de todos los sectores relevantes como requisito ineludible para revertir la desigualdad y la marginalidad de America Latina
The endophyte Neotyphodium coenophialum affects root morphology of tall fescue grown under phosphorus deficiency

Mechanisms involved in mineral stress tolerance of cool-season grasses infected by Neotyphodium spp. endophytes are not known. In a controlled-environment experiment, two genotypes (DN2 and DN4) of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) infected (E +) with their naturally occurring strains of N. coenophialum (Morgan-Jones and Gams) Glenn, Bacon and Hanlin, and their non-infected (E -) isolines were cultivated in nutrient solution at two phosphorus (P) levels of 31 mg P dm -3 (P+) and 0.31 mg P dm -3 (P -) for 3 weeks. Diameters of lateral roots, root bair length, and distance between root hairs were recorded using a digital image analysis system (Dage 72S CCD camera controlled by a Power MacIntosh 7200/120PC compatible computer equipped with an AG-5 frame grabber board and NIH-Image). Irrespective of tall fescue genotype and P level in nutrient solution, E -plants had roots with a smaller diameter (16%) than E -plants. In response to P deficiency, root diameter of E + plants declined by 11 % and root hair length increased by 17% when compared to E - plants. Altered root diameter and root hair length might be one of the mineral stress tolerance mechanisms in endophyte-infected tall fescue.
Assessing the Drivers of Virtual Knowledge Management Impact in European Firm's Performance: an Exploratory Analysis

e-Business is a phenomenon that has progressed over the past decades at record speed, with considerable promise and hype. It has been embraced with varying degrees of enthusiasm and impact by both large and SME firms. Parallel with its development, E-Business has attracted research interests, seen in a plethora of new modules, programmes, models and tools. Knowledge Management (KM) is one tool that has seemed to gain a more relevant role, especially as managing knowledge becomes increasingly important to all companies. Appropriate KM practices within organisations can be seen as one of the prerequisites of enhancement of continuous performance improvement in the interne-based context. Thus, our aim is to develop a conceptual framework related to KM practices in a virtual context and to identify the nature of the relationship existing in those knowledge-driven elements and performance achievements. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the KM and e-business performance-related literatures from the viewpoint of European firms by establishing a model tested in European companies. For this purpose, we used a structural equation modelling analysis. The results show that KM has a positive impact on the maximization of e-business performance and that some elements individually have a positive influence on e-business performance. As limitations of the study, we consider the need for more research into this field and the inclusion of news elements such as technological readiness and management support to KM initiatives. The present study advances knowledge on the nature of the relative importance of different components of Internet-based KM as drivers of e-business performance and reinforce its importance as an integrated e-business tool.
Effect of microscale thermal conduction on the packing limit of silicon-on-insulator electronics

It is pointed out that silicon-on-insulator (SOI) electronics have a buried silicon dioxide layer which inhibits device cooling and reduces the thermal packing limit, the largest number of devices per unit substrate area for which the device operating temperature is acceptably low. Thermal analysis yields the packing limit of SOI MOSFET devices in terms of the device power and the limit on the channel temperature. Thermal conduction is microscale if it is significantly reduced by the boundary scattering of heat carriers, electrons in aluminum, and phonons in silicon. If microscale effects are not considered, the packing limit is overpredicted by 22% for a substrate temperature of 300 K and 100% for substrate temperature of 77 K. <<ETX>>
Endoscopic Detection and Eradication of Dysplastic Barrett's Oesophagus

Over the past four decades the incidence of oesophageal cancer has increased more rapidly than that of any other solid tumour in the Western World. This rise reflects the emergence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma as the most common pathological type. Despite this growing incidence, progress towards early detection and treatment has been slow and mortality figures have remained dismal – Cancer Research UK quotes overall one and five year survival rates of just 28% and 8% respectively. (CrUK, 2010) As a result, oesophageal cancer repreasents a real and growing public health problem and urgent action is required to improve detection and facilitate early intervention, ideally at a pre-malignant stage. Most oesophageal adenocarcinoma develops following a well recognised series of cellular changes secondary to a multifactorial aetiology. In the classically described pathway there is initially a metaplastic change in the epithelial lining of the oesophagus (Barrett’s oesophagus) which then progresses to ‘low-grade‘ and then ‘high-grade‘ dysplasia. As many as 30% of patients newly diagnosed with high-grade dysplasia may already have a coexistent invasive cancer, and between 5-60% of patients will develop cancer during surveillance over 1-7 years. To date there is no early diagnostic test which can enable instantaneous accurate diagnosis of dysplasia. Clinicians are advised to take random biopsies from areas of Barrett’s oesophagus in order to identify dysplasia, but even histological assessment of dysplasia is subjective and can be unreliable. As a result, significant dysplastic change (or even intramucosal cancer) may be missed. In addition, as dysplasia (the premalignant lesion) is difficult to identify, screening for early oesophageal cancer / high-grade dysplasia cannot currently be recommended, and as a consequence, oesophageal tumours present late and so have a poor prognosis. The early recognition of high-grade dysplasia is paramount to enabling a successful treatment strategy. Surgery is one option for patients with confimred HGD, however the emergence of multiple endotherapies over the past 20 years have demonstrated the ability to cure focal high-grade dysplasia, thus preventing progression to invasive malignancy. In this chapter we will discuss the accuracy of endoscopic and histological diagnosis of dysplasia and will consider novel endoscopic adjuncts which may improve endoscopic sensitivity. We will then discuss the endoscopic therapeutic options that are available for management of dysplastic Barrett’s oesophagus and will propose a endotherapy algorithm for use in specialist Barrett’s surveillance centres.
Wavelet coefficients of a gaussian process and applications

- The wavelet transform of Gaussian stationary continuous-time processes is studied. At each resolution, two Gaussian discrete stationary processes are obtained: the sequence of the approximations and the sequence of the details. Using the sequence of approximations of a continuous-time process, an approximation of the original one is reconstructed. We give the link between these sequences and the original process. Then we obtain the exact error between the approximation and the process, and the rate of convergence of this error. The weak convergence of the approximated process to the original process is proved. The asymptotic behaviour of the variance of the details and of the covariance between the details and the approximations are explained. This induced a choice of a best wavelet basis for data compression.
A Metonymical Approach to Anaphora in English Texts

Due to the fast development of cognitive linguistics, which makes the perspective of anaphoric studies become more abundant, we may propose a cognitive framework for metonymy in order to make analysis of anaphora in English texts. In this paper, the author is going to apply the theory of metonymy to the explanation of anaphora in English texts. First the author proposes the metonymic mechanism of NP anaphora, pronominal anaphora and zero anaphora in English texts. Then the author makes metonymical interpretation of these three kinds of anaphora by means of analyzing some typical examples. And the author reckons that the metonymic approach to anaphora could be regarded as a complement of the cognitive angle of view of anaphora.
Malaysia’s “Corporate Directors Training Programme”as an example of senior executive training:suggestions for specific and general improvements with insights from knowledge management

Malaysia’s Corporate Directors Training Programme (CDTP) aims to increase the awareness of company directors towards good corporate governance.In this paper, observations will be shared and suggestions for improvement (partly based on insights from knowledge management) made on both the overall structure of CDTP and specifically its corporate governance component, so that the participating directors may more readily immerse in the subjects.The paper’s discussion also shed lights on the lack of proper corporate information and knowledge management in Malaysia.It is proposed that the corporate-governance module be redesigned into three smaller units emphasizing both principles and practices.Moreover, the CDTP course materials should be shortened and include exercises and evaluation.It is envisioned that the revamped CDTP will more effectively achieve the goal of fostering a more healthy business environment in Malaysia.