Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The post-privacy doctrine and the asymmetric symbiosis of firms, consumers and the state

The omnipresence of web-mediated communication poses new challenges to a central concept of liberal societies: to the traditional understanding of privacy. The more personal matters like mails, pictures, social contacts, financial accounts, political attitudes etc. are channeled via the internet or social media, the more doors are opened to surveillance or intrusion into privacy from various sides. Reactions to this condition are diverse. The trailblazers of the internet age, on the one hand, propose a post-privacy doctrine according to which the unlimited possibilities of the web open unknown freedoms, which should not be hampered by old-fashioned privacy concerns. Critics like Evgeny Morozov, on the other hand, see a dark time coming in which a reckless consumerism paves the way to authoritarian tendencies, a loss not only of privacy but also of freedom. This paper will discuss the post-privacy doctrine with reference to Paul Bernal's concept of a symbiotic relation between internet firms and customers. It will be argued, that this relation is asymmetric and therefore requires political regulation.
Remission of Vulvar Pain Among Women With Primary Vulvodynia

Objective To determine whether rates of remission differed among women with primary versus secondary vulvodynia. Methods Using a community-based observational study based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, 138 clinically confirmed cases of vulvodynia between 18 and 40 years old were classified as primary (vulvar pain starting at the time of sexual debut or first tampon insertion) or secondary (vulvar pain starting after a period of pain-free intercourse) and queried regarding their pain history to determine whether they had ever experienced any vulvar pain-free time (remission) or pain-free time lasting 3 months or longer. Results Remission prevalence was 26% (9/34) for women in the shortest quartile of duration of vulvar pain (<3.8 y) and 38% (13/34) for the longest quartile of duration (≥13 y). After adjusting for vulvar pain duration, generalized vestibular pain, medical treatment, body mass index, and history of pregnancy, women who had primary vulvodynia were 43% less likely to report remission (95% CI = 0.33–0.99) than women with later onset (secondary cases). The association was strengthened when restricting to only remissions lasting 3 months or longer (adjusted risk ratio = 0.43, 95% CI = 0.22–0.84). Generalized vestibulodynia and obesity also reduced the likelihood of remission. Conclusions Our study underscores the heterogeneity of vulvodynia and provides evidence that primary vulvodynia may have a less wavering course and, as such, a potentially different underlying mechanism than that of secondary vulvodynia.
Identification of Gene encoding a Putative RNA‐Helicase, Homologous to SKI2, in Chromosome VII of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a segment of chromosome VII of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contained in the cosmid clone pEGH101 for a total of 7 kbp. This sequence contains a large open reading frame (ORF) called G9365, coding for a protein of 1967 amino acids that shows a significant homology with the product of the SKI2 gene of S. cerevisiae and contains domains characteristic of RNA‐helicases. The ORF is transcribed in vegetative cells but it is not essential for viability as demonstrated by gene disruption. The sequence has been deposited in the GenBank data library under Accession Number U35242. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Building a Sport Club Brand Following a Franchise Failure: Third and Long

It is well documented that corporate image has a significant impact on business success (e.g., Hatch & Schultz, 2001; Kowalczyk & Pawlish, 2002; Pope & Voges, 2000). Furthermore, it is established that brand equity is a key marketing concept towards building a successful business when understood and employed favorably (Aaker, 1991; Gladden, Milne & Sutton, 1998). Since corporate image and brand equity commence concurrent to the birth of an organization, launching a new business enterprise has immediate and potentially lasting influences on the target audience (Schultz & De Chernatony, 2002). Some contend that an organization’s image is one of the most valued and important assets it can build (MacIntosh & Doherty, 2007). For sport organizations, building brand and the emotional attachments of consumers are critical features towards establishing fan affinity in the marketplace (O’Reilly & Seguin, 2009). Although much has been written in the extant sport management literature detailing how to build a positive image and brand, there is a dearth of literature examining what happens when a professional sport franchise comes back to a city where it has had previous failures?
Outsourcing and the rise of innovative software services in Bangalore

Over the last three decades, outsourcing has had a big influence on the international division of labour. It is clear that it has been amajor reason for the enormous build-up of production capabilities in the developing world, in particular in the export platforms of Asia. However, we do not know whether the outsourcing of production and services from OECD to developing countries has triggered the transition fromproduction to innovation capability or not. This is the question addressed in this thesis. It examines this question by focusing on the global software-outsourcing industry and the supply platform in Bangalore (India), one of the most prominent cases of latecomer development in the global economy.
Leverage,Stock Returns,Taxes and Industry Concentration

We investigate the effect of firm’s leverage on stock returns. We start with the explicit valuation model of Modigliani and Miller (1958) and expand the model by including other variables and undertaking a firm and portfolio level analysis. We show that stock returns decline in leverage and that the relation is linear. The Utilities sector is the exception. In this sector, returns increase in leverage. We show that the negative relation between leverage and stock returns holds for tax-paying firms and firms in competitive low-concentration industries.
Characterizing Non-Defeated Repairs in Inconsistent Lightweight Ontologies

In many applications, such as video processing, data are often provided by several and potentially conflicting sources having different reliability levels. This paper deals with the problem of handling inconsistency in lightweight ontologies when the set of assertions (facts) is prioritized. We propose a safe and efficient way to restore consistency using the concept of free assertions, assertions that are not involved in conflicts. Our approach allows the selection of one consistent assertional base, called a preferred repair. The last part of the paper contains an illustrative example using video data.
Proteoglycan Synthesis by Skeletal Muscle Undergoing Bone Matrix-directed Transformation into Cartilage in Vitro *

Myoblasts and fibroblasts of embryonic skeletal muscle reproducibly form chondrocytes when cultured on demineralized bone in uitro. The transformation occurs in 3 morphologically defined phases, with disappearance of the myoblast phenotype preceding the appearance of fibroblast-like cells and finally chondrocytes. Proteoglycan synthesis in these cultures was investigated by labeling at prechondrogenic (5 days) and postchondrogenic (6-12 days) tages with (“S)sulfate and [6-3H]glucosamine. Labeled material elutes from associative Sepharose CL-PB columns as two major included peaks, which correspond to proteoglycan monomer and a material of lower molecular size. Control cultures, cultured upon gels of type I collagen, fail to synthesize monomer-like material and contain solely a material of lower molecular size. Demineralized bone-derived monomer was rechromatographed under dissociative conditions in an attempt to detect the presence of small aggregates. Again, only a single peak of sulfate and glucosaminelabeled material appears. The data further show that the monomer resembles that of embryonic cartilage in glycosaminoglycan chain size (Mr = 8.6-12.2 X lo3) and composition (mainly chondroitin 4-sulfate). Aggregated monomer forms a shoulder of the monomeric peak and comprises only 5% of the sulfated material. Fifteen to thirty-four per cent of the monomer elutes as aggregate after addition of rooster comb hyaluronic acid (HA). Failure to aggregate appears to be related to endogenous synthesis of short chain HA. Synthesis of long chain HA may constitute a rate-limiting step in chondrogenesis. Material of lower molecular size, from cultures grown on demineralized bone, bind to exogenous HA, whereas the elution pattern of sulfated material from control cultures remains essentially unchanged. These latter data suggest that proteoglycans of low hydrodynamic size may participate in the early formation f proteoglycan aggregate.
Strategic marketing planning: a grounded investigation

Using grounded theory, the authors present an inductive model of strategic marketing planning (SMP) which extends the domain of the marketing planning literature. Based on a field investigation of four large organisations drawn from a single industry using a multiple‐case design, the authors present findings using the views and perspectives of those involved in SMP development and implementation, and identify and group relevant variables into seven major themes or “core categories” that characterise the SMP process. The authors integrate a broad literature search, both within and without of marketing, with the exploratory research results, to develop a grounded theoretical description of multiple layered factors that characterise a SMP process. This grounded “picture” supports the innovative work of Piercy and Morgan, and Greenley and Oktemgil who advocate a broader domain of SMP. We suggest that extending practitioners’ understanding of the nature of these inter‐related factors may lead to better insights of how a SMP process can be managed more effectively.
OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR INTEGRATED PRODUCTION, CAPACITY AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR INTEGRATED PRODUCTION, CAPACITY AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT By Yasemin Merzifonluoglu August 2006 Chair: Joseph Geunes Major Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering This thesis provides new planning models for making synchronized decisions on capacity, demand management and production/inventory planning in supply chains. These models focus on the tradeoffs between capacity costs, production costs, costs for assigning customer demands to different supply resources and revenues associated with satisfying customer demands. Within this class of models, we study various degrees of flexibility on the part of a supplier of goods, including flexibility in demand and capacity management. We consider integrated production, capacity, and pricing planning problems, where a good’s price may change throughout a planning horizon, as well as contexts in which a constant price is required for the entire horizon. We also consider production planning models in which a supplier may not have a great deal of price setting flexibility, but may wish to be selective in its choice of markets (or customers) and the timing of demand fulfillment, as a result of the unique fulfillment costs associated with different markets (or customers). We also investigate the role of capacity planning in
Modeling the Transition to a New Economy: Lessons from Two Technological Revolutions

Many view the period after the Second Industrial Revolution as a paradigmatic example of a transition to a new economy following a technological revolution and conjecture that this historical experience is useful for understanding other transitions, including that after the Information Technology Revolution. We build a model of diffusion and growth to study transitions. We quantify the learning process in our model using data on the life cycle of U.S. manufacturing plants. This model accounts quantitatively for the productivity paradox, the slow diffusion of new technologies, and the ongoing investment in old technologies after the Second Industrial Revolution. The main lesson from our model for the Information Technology Revolution is that the nature of transition following a technological revolution depends on the historical context: transition and diffusion are slow only if agents have built up through learning a large amount of knowledge about old technologies before the transition begins.
Inhibiting DPP4 in a mouse model of HHT1 results in a shift towards regenerative macrophages and reduces fibrosis after myocardial infarction

Aims Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia type-1 (HHT1) is a genetic vascular disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of the TGFβ co-receptor endoglin. Dysfunctional homing of HHT1 mononuclear cells (MNCs) towards the infarcted myocardium hampers cardiac recovery. HHT1-MNCs have elevated expression of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4/CD26), which inhibits recruitment of CXCR4-expressing MNCs by inactivation of stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1). We hypothesize that inhibiting DPP4 will restore homing of HHT1-MNCs to the infarcted heart and improve cardiac recovery. Methods and results After inducing myocardial infarction (MI), wild type (WT) and endoglin heterozygous (Eng+/-) mice were treated for 5 days with the DPP4 inhibitor Diprotin A (DipA). DipA increased the number of CXCR4+ MNCs residing in the infarcted Eng+/- hearts (Eng+/- 73.17±12.67 vs. Eng+/- treated 157.00±11.61, P = 0.0003) and significantly reduced infarct size (Eng+/- 46.60±9.33% vs. Eng+/- treated 27.02±3.04%, P = 0.03). Echocardiography demonstrated that DipA treatment slightly deteriorated heart function in Eng+/- mice. An increased number of capillaries (Eng+/- 61.63±1.43 vs. Eng+/- treated 74.30±1.74, P = 0.001) were detected in the infarct border zone whereas the number of arteries was reduced (Eng+/- 11.88±0.63 vs. Eng+/- treated 6.38±0.97, P = 0.003). Interestingly, while less M2 regenerative macrophages were present in Eng+/- hearts prior to DipA treatment, (WT 29.88±1.52% vs. Eng+/- 12.34±1.64%, P<0.0001), DPP4 inhibition restored the number of M2 macrophages to wild type levels. Conclusions In this study, we demonstrate that systemic DPP4 inhibition restores the impaired MNC homing in Eng+/- animals post-MI, and enhances cardiac repair, which might be explained by restoring the balance between the inflammatory and regenerative macrophages present in the heart.
No Logo? No Way. Branding in the Non-Profit Sector.

Ten thousand new organisations are joining the charity sector each year (Hankinson 2000). One of the ways in which charities are responding to this increased competition is to adopt commercial branding techniques (Tapp 1996; Ritchie, Swami et al. 1998). It has been suggested that brand orientation can help to raise awareness amongst target audiences (Hankinson 2000), build loyalty within donor and supporter groups (Ritchie, Swami et al. 1998) and facilitate donor choice (Hankinson 2000). This paper investigates what is understood by the term brand, what constitutes a brand in the charity environment and what organisational objectives a brand strategy seeks to achieve. It also explores the role played by values in developing charity brands. The research is primarily exploratory in nature, drawing on existing branding theory. The findings of the research are reviewed within the context of for-profit and not-for-profit branding literature. Recommendations for further research are also made.
A Bibd-Based Channal Assignment Algorithm for Multi-Radio Wireless MESH Networks

Wireless mesh network (WMN), as one of the various wireless bandwidth access networks which evolve into the next generation to provide better service, has emerged recently. With the advantages of both wireless LAN and ad hoc, WMN has its characteristic performance in the following aspects: capacity, speed and coverability. In order to solve channel assignment problems in WMN, connectivity of the communication network and the interferences between the links of the network are two most important points to be considered carefully. This paper presents a new method based on the idea of balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) for assigning the channels and routing in WMN. With this method, the communication network of WMN is at least 2-connected and the total interference in the system is as small as possible
“Culture shocks” in inter‐cultural service encounters?

Service customers perceive quality in the moment of interaction with the service provider. In times of globalization, it is important for a growing number of service companies to ask if the perceived service encounter quality differs among customers from different cultures. Particularly needed is information about whether problematic “culture shocks” occur in service encounters due to culture‐bound expectations and perceptions. To answer this question, a model of inter‐cultural service encounter quality is presented. In order to test the assumption of “culture shocks” in inter‐cultural service encounters, an empirical study applying the critical incident technique (CIT) was conducted. The unexpected results of this study lead to a further development of the model presented. This gives insights into why, and under which circumstances, inter‐cultural encounters are perceived as less problematic than intra‐cultural encounters. Finally, managerial implications and open research questions are discussed.
An Intelligent Strategy for Tactical Movements of UAVs in Disaster Scenarios

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned as flexible and fast-deploying communication network for disaster scenarios, where the typical communication infrastructure is likely to be malfunctioning. A few works propose UAVs for building communication links autonomously between rescue team's members in disaster scenarios. The techniques used are usually based on navigation, positioning, and signal strength processing. However, these techniques may not be enough if the objective is to provide communication services to the maximum number of victims and rescuers and not only to a few rescuers. In this situation, dissimilarity metrics, like the Jaccard distance, can provide information about whether the communication service provided to victims is efficient or not (e.g., providing a better distribution of the victims assigned to each UAV acting as service provider). We propose an intelligent strategy that allows UAVs to perform tactical movements in a disaster scenario, combining the Jaccard distance and artificial intelligence algorithms like hill climbing and simulated annealing. Our strategy maximizes the number of victims that are serviced by the UAVs while avoiding network disconnections. Also, a mobility model specifically developed for modelling the victims' movements within the incident site of a disaster scenario is proposed.
The Role of Sensory Neurons in Cervical Ripening: Effects of Estrogen and Neuropeptides

Central nervous system nuclei and circuits, such as the medial preoptic, ventromedial and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus, play important roles in reproduction and parturition, and are influenced by estrogen. Peripheral autonomic and sensory neurons also play important roles in pregnancy and parturition. Moreover, the steroid hormone estrogen acts directly, not only on the reproductive tract organs (uterus and cervix), but also on the central and peripheral nerves by regulating expression of various neuronal genes. The peripheral primary afferent neurons innervating the uterine cervix relay mechanical and biochemical sensory information induced by local cervical events and by passage of fetuses, to the spinal cord and supraspinal centers. Consequently, the birth process in mammals is influenced by the combined action of neurons and hormones. Peripheral sensory stimuli, induced physiologically by fetal expulsion or mechanically by vaginocervical stimulation, alter behavior, as well as autonomic and neuroendocrine systems. Recent evidence indicates that primary afferent neurons innervating the cervix, in addition to their sensory effects, likely exert local “efferent” actions on the ripening cervix near term. These efferent effects may involve estrogen-regulated production of such neuropeptides as substance P and calcitonin gene-related peptide in lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia, and their release in the cervix. Collectively, these findings suggest an interrelationship among estrogen, cervix-related sensory neurons, and local cervical events near term.
Enhanced response to music in pregnancy.

Given a possible effect of estrogen on the pleasure-mediating dopaminergic system, musical appreciation in participants whose estrogen levels are naturally elevated during the oral contraceptive cycle and pregnancy has been investigated (n = 32, 15 pregnant, 17 nonpregnant; mean age 27.2). Results show more pronounced blood pressure responses to music in pregnant women. However, estrogen level differences during different phases of oral contraceptive intake did not have any effect, indicating that the observed changes were not related to estrogen. Effects of music on blood pressure were independent of valence, and dissonance elicited the greatest drop in blood pressure. Thus, the enhanced physiological response in pregnant women probably does not reflect a protective mechanism to avoid unpleasantness. Instead, this enhanced response is discussed in terms of a facilitation of prenatal conditioning to acoustical (musical) stimuli.
A DATA MINING APPROACH TO CLIENT RISK TOLERANCE

Proper asset allocation advice given by money managers is dependent upon two inputs: (1) expected capital market returns and (2) the individual client's desire and ability to tolerate risk. Though much has been done to explain capital market returns, little has been added to our understanding of the factors which influence client risk tolerance.