Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Surviving Radical Technological Change through Dynamic Capability : Evidence from the Typesetter Industry

Recent work in the field of management has focused on 'dynamic capability', the ability of a firm to develop new capabilities in response to shifts in its external environment, as a significant source of competitive advantage. "This paper enhances our understanding of dynamic technical capability. While most established firms have difficulty adapting when confronted with radical, competence-destroying technological change, Mergentbaler Linotype, a firm founded in 1886, has survived three such revolutions and ltd the market in 1990. An examination of the history of this firm in contrast to other incumbents from the same era highlights two key contributors to dynamic technical capability: external integrative capability and geographically distributed research sites. External integrative capability comprises two elements: internal investments that develop absorptive capacity and an external communication infrastructure to facilitate the transmission of external knowledge. In combination, these elements enable the firm K successfully to identify and integrate knowledge outside its boundaries. Geographically distributed research sites facilitate the development of new technical capability in three j : ways. First, competition among research sites spurs innovation. Second, multiple I locations help to overcome organizational inertia by allowing for the development of ^ different generations of technology in different locations. Finally, multiple locations | provide a source of variation, enabling the firm to leverage differences in local & environments.
Vision-based Control of a Home Companion Robot

To reduce the cost of health care and improve the quality of life of elderly people, more and more robots are being designed to interact with a human being to provide the kind of care that traditionally can only be offered by a health care professional. The goal of this research is to design and test a home companion robot that can interact with people in a natural way around the house to provide elderly companionship and help with daily activities. The first prototype was designed based on a DFRobot 4WD Arduino Mobile Platform. A Pixy vision sensor (CMUcam5) is used to provide fast vision feedback to the Arduino microcontroller so that the robot can interact with its user. Finally, the concept was proven to be effective through trials. It would have great potential to be used as an intelligent, low cost home companion robot to provide some of the elderly care that traditionally can only be provided by a home care provider. Ultimately, the home companion robot would be able to navigate autonomously in typical home environments to perform tasks such as smart medicine reminder, daytime activities manager, autonomous docking and recharging etc.
Artiodactyl ‘success’ over perissodactyls in the late Palaeogene unlikely to be related to the carotid rete: a commentary on Mitchell & Lust (2008)

[Mitchell & Lust (2008)][1] present evidence that the carotid rete of artiodactyls allows for a dissociation between brain and carotid artery temperatures, muting whole body thermoregulatory responses, and thus allowing for energy and water conservation. They argue that this morphological feature
Global epidemiology and control of Trichomonas vaginalis

Purpose of review Trichomonas vaginalis is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection. Despite a number of serious health consequences including facilitation of HIV transmission, pelvic inflammatory disease and adverse outcomes of pregnancy it remains an under-recognized condition. This review aims to update the reader on the global epidemiology and control of T. vaginalis. Recent findings The burden of T. vaginalis infection is found in resource-limited settings and high-risk groups in industrialized settings. Utilization of polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostics has enhanced our understanding of the epidemiology of T. vaginalis both at the population level and in sexual partners. High rates of asymptomatic infection in male partners of infected females and subsequent re-infection have significant implications for control programmes. Further studies investigating the role of T. vaginalis in facilitating HIV transmission has highlighted its significance and the need to develop and implement control interventions. Summary Future research to develop cheap, point-of-care diagnostic tests will allow a greater understanding of T. vaginalis epidemiology. In addition, the effect of treatment on outcome of pregnancy and HIV acquisition requires further study. This will in turn facilitate operational studies evaluating optimal control strategies and their impact on the complications of T. vaginalis.
EdgeAnalyzer: Exploratory Analysis through Advanced Edge Interaction

Overdraw and edge crossings are common problems during the exploration of large graphs. Layout methods, such as edge bundling, have been applied to diminish this problem. They often come at the cost of introducing local ambiguities and losing connectivity detail, thus making edge interaction difficult. In this paper we propose EdgeAnalyzer, a focus+context technique for direct interaction with edges and edge bundles, keeping the original graph layout unaltered. Edges can be focused, grouped, filtered, and selected employing user-chosen criteria allowing for the analysis of the underlying data. EdgeAnalyzer can be applied to different kinds of node-link diagrams, but is particularly useful when similarities of edges can be exploited. We demonstrate EdgeAnalyzer with different example scenarios, and show the feasibility of the approach in more detail for co-classification analysis in the intellectual property domain.
TÉCNICA DE NECROPSIA , INTERPRETACIÓN DE HALLAZGOS MACROSCÓPICOS Y TOMA DE MUESTRAS EN MAMÍFEROS SILVESTRES

La correcta realizacion de necropsias y toma de muestras en los animales silvestres de los diferentes sistemas de conservacion del pais es una herramienta de alta importancia en el manejo epidemiologico de muchas enfermedades. La falta de entrenamiento en las tecnicas de necropsia de estos animales dificulta la elaboracion de propuestas diagnosticas y de control que repercutan en los problemas sanitarios; por lo cual, se presenta una guia de tecnica de necropsia general para mamiferos silvestres con algunas lesiones comunes y la adecuada recoleccion de muestras para diferentes laboratorios de diagnostico.
Relationship between resilience, mindfulness, and pyschological well-being in University students

The aim of this study was to explore the role of resilience and mindfulness in predicting psychological wellbeing in university students. A sample of 141 university students completed questionnaires that measured individual differences in mindfulness, resilience, and psychological well-being. Findings revealed significant positive relationships between mindfulness and resilience. Regression analyses revealed that mindfulness and resilience predicted 51% of the variance of psychological well-being scores, with resilience accounting for the greatest amount of variance 47%. Results indicate that, when used as a dichotomous variable in the regression model, the presence of mindfulness meditation makes a significant contribution to an individual’s level of mindfulness as shown by the standardized coefficient of . 23. Findings from this study show support for developing programs for university students that target cultivating resilience and mindfulness to increase their ability to effectively manage the complex challenges and competing demands of university life. Resilience is the capacity to adapt well over time to life-changing or stressful situations. It is the successful adaptation to adverse circumstances (Ahern, Kiehl, Sole, & Byers, 2006). For university students, resilience is particularly important, as life at a university can be complex and demanding, requiring the capacity to cope with the academic/coursework demands, study/life balance, finances and money problems. As a result, university students experience increased levels of mental ill health compared with their non‐university peers (Stallman, 2010). Research on the neurobiology of stress and resilience shows that increasing the experience of positive affect is an effective means of enhancing resilience (Hamilton-West, 2010). Mindfulness is positively associated with positive affect and shows promise for enhancing resilience (Davidson et al. 2003; Ryan & Deci, 2001). Mindfulness, which is the ability to focus one’s attention on International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science ISSN: 2307-924X www.ijlass. org
MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION IN CASES WITH CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

Degenerative or destructive processes result in the loss of whole motor neurons or in the peripheral axon portion. Loss of motor axons or neurons, and conduction blocks, are the basis of the weakness seen in most patients with neurogenic disease. The severity of the clinical deficit is directly associated with the number of the motor neurons or/and axons lost or blocked. So, it is important to find out the number of the functional motor units while evaluating neuromuscular disease. In neurological practice, motor unit number estimation studies are made in many diseases, especially in anterior horn disease. Entrapment neuropathies are one of these diseases. This study utilized motor unit number estimate testing in 50 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and 34 controls without any systemic disease. The authors compared the results of these two groups and found statistical significance ( p < .0001).
Toward Wearable Energy Storage Devices: Paper‐Based Biofuel Cells based on a Screen‐Printing Array Structure

Abstract A novel paper‐based biofuel cell with a series/parallel array structure has been fabricated, in which the cell voltage and output power can easily be adjusted as required by printing. The output of the fabricated 4‐series/4‐parallel biofuel cell reached 0.97±0.02 mW at 1.4 V, which is the highest output power reported to date for a paper‐based biofuel cell. This work contributes to the development of flexible, wearable energy storage device.
Seasonal trends and possible sources of brown carbon based on 2-year aerosol measurements at six sites in Europe

Brown carbon is a ubiquitous and unidentified component of organic aerosol which has recently come into the forefront of atmospheric research. This component is strongly linked to the class of humic-like substances (HULIS) in aerosol whose ultimate origin is still being debated. Using a simplified spectroscopic method the concentrations of brown carbon have been determined in aqueous extracts of fine aerosol collected during the CARBOSOL project. On the basis of the results of 2-year measurements of several aerosol constituents at six European sites, possible sources of brown carbon are inferred. Biomass burning ( possibly domestic wood burning) is shown to be a major source of brown carbon in winter. At elevated sites in spring, smoke from agricultural fires may be an additional source. Direct comparison of measured brown carbon concentrations with HULIS determined by an independent method reveals that the two quantities correlate well at low-elevation sites throughout the year. At high-elevation sites the correlation is still high for winter but becomes markedly lower in summer, implying different sources and/or atmospheric sinks of brown carbon and HULIS. The results shed some light on the relationships between atmospheric brown carbon and HULIS, two ill-defined and overlapping components of organic aerosol.
Effect of strong optical feedback on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

An analysis is performed of the effects of strong optical feedback on the characteristics of single-transverse mode VCSEL's. Consideration is given to the cases of short (1.5 cm) and long (15 cm) external cavities. When the laser is operated well above threshold in a short external cavity with high reflectivity, a strong dependence on the accumulated external cavity phase is observed. Stable operation is found for an optimum phase while for other values of the phase, chaotic dynamics is observed. Such behavior is not seen near threshold where the laser output is stable for any accumulated phase. For the longer external cavity the influence of the phase term is found to be insignificant: chaotic behavior is seen in the output over a wide range of operating currents.
Mobile banking: concept and potential

The internet and the mobile phone - two technological advancements that have profoundly affected human behaviour in the last decade - have started to converge. The products of this association are mobile data services. Using a variety of platforms, services are being created to enable mobile devices to perform many activities of the traditional internet, albeit in a reduced format for mobile devices. One area of activity is mobile (m-) banking (one of the first areas of commercial transaction on the wireless internet). Banking is an area that has extended in many different ways in recent years, including telephone and online banking. M-banking provides yet another channel for banking services, and in emerging markets, provides some possibility for becoming a primary channel. This paper examines the strategic implications of m-banking and the strategic positioning of m-banking services in different markets. The paper concludes with a discussion of the future for m-banking services.
A New Method for Layout-Dependent Parasitic Capacitance Analysis and Effective Mobility Extraction in Nanoscale Multifinger MOSFETs

The impact of layout-dependent parasitic capacitances on extraction of inversion carrier density <i>Q</i><sub>inv</sub> and effective mobility μ<sub>eff</sub> has been investigated on multifinger MOSFETs. An improved open deembedding method can eliminate the extrinsic parasitic capacitance, and 3-D interconnect simulation is necessary for extraction of intrinsic parasitic capacitances such as gate finger sidewall and finger-end fringing capacitances, i.e., <i>C</i><sub>of</sub> and <i>Cf</i>(poly-end), respectively. Both categories of parasitic capacitance lead to overestimated <i>Q</i><sub>inv</sub> and underestimated μ<sub>eff</sub>. The increase in effective channel width <i>W</i><sub>eff</sub> due to Δ<i>W</i> from shallow trench isolation (STI) top-corner rounding may compensate μ<sub>eff</sub> degradation due to STI stress. The tradeoff between μ<sub>eff</sub> and <i>W</i><sub>eff</sub> determines the impact of width scaling on <i>I</i><sub>DS</sub> and <i>Gm</i> . A new method based on the measured S-parameters, open-M1 deembedding, and Raphael simulation can precisely determine the mentioned parameters associated with the intrinsic channel and realize accurate extraction of μ<sub>eff</sub> in multifinger MOSFETs with various layouts and narrow widths down to 0.125 μm.
EXPRESSION OF CATHEPSIN L IN HUMAN TESTIS UNDER DIVERSE INFERTILITY CONDITIONS

The cathepsin family of proteolytic enzymes play an important role in the remodeling seminiferous epithelia in rodent testis. In an effort to uncover the cathepsin L expression in diverse pathological conditions in human testis, the immunohistochemical localization of cathepsin L was conducted in human testis under diverse male infertility condition including spermatogenic hypoplasia and testis cancer. In seminiferous tubule of normal, non-obstructive azoospermic, decreased spermatogenesis, and maturation arrest conditions, cathepsin L was found in both germ cells and Sertoli cells. In contrast, there was no visible expression of cathepsin L in seminiferous tubule tissues from Sertoli cell-only syndrome, spermatogenic hypoplasia, and testicular cancer. Our result suggests that the cross-talk between germ cells and Sertoli cells is crucial for the control of cathepsin L expression in human testis. The absence of expression of cathepsin L in germ cell cancer emphasizes that cathepsin L expression in Sertoli cells is regulated by functional germ cells in human testis.
Consumer Reactions to Electronic Shopping on the World Wide Web

Much fascination and speculation surrounds the impact of the World Wide Web on consumer shopping behavior. At the same time, there is little empirical evidence underlying all this speculation. This article provides one such data set. It reports on factors that consumers found salient as they browsed through selected electronic malls on the World Wide Web. We gathered consumers' reactions via an open-ended survey using a sample of 220 shoppers. We related the reactions to the factors of product perceptions, shopping experience, customer service, and perceived consumer risk, which we had identified from the existing literature on retail patronage behavior. This study translated these factors to the World Wide Web context and explored their relative salience.With respect to product perceptions, consumers were impressed by the breadth of stores on the World Wide Web but disappointed with the depth of a merchant's offerings. The shopping experience was reported to be generally enjoyable, but at the same time frustrating. Consumers also reported that they could perceive the potential for time savings and reduced effort compared with traditional forms of shopping, but that, at present, goal-directed shopping was difficult. Nearly everyone in the sample had something negative to say about customer service on the World Wide Web, judging that the sites were not designed to be responsive to their needs and that the presentation of goods and services seemed intangible. Risk was cited as a barrier to shopping on the World Wide Web, but was not as salient to our sample as product perceptions, shopping experience, and customer service. Overall, the results suggest that World Wide Web merchants need to think more about how they perform on the factors known to affect consumer behavior; namely, product perceptions, shopping experience, and customer service. We offer advice for enhancing the design of World Wide Web retail sites.
An unexpected wide population variation of the G1733A polymorphism of the androgen receptor gene: Data on the Mediterranean region

The androgen receptor (AR) has been proposed as a candidate gene for several cancers (breast, prostate, uterine endometrium, colon, and esophagus). Ethnicity is considered an associated risk factor for some of these cancers. Several case‐control genetic studies have been focused in samples of the main ethnic groups, but little is known about the distribution of risk polymorphisms in current populations with accurate ethnic and/or geographic origins. The A allele of the G1733A polymorphism of the AR gene has been associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. We provide data from this marker in 12 samples from 7 Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy (Sardinia), Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt. A sample from Ivory Coast has also been analyzed. The A allele distribution shows a frequency in the Ivory Coast population (65.17%) that contrasts with the low values found in Northern Mediterraneans (mean average value of 13.98%). North African populations present two‐times higher frequencies (average value of 27.19%) than Europeans. The wide population variation range found for the A allele strengthens the potential interest of further screening as a baseline to the design of future preventive and population health programs. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 17:690–695, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models. JISC e-learning models study report

This review is designed to inform practitioners, policy developers and other stakeholders who want to reflect more deeply upon their practice or gain a greater understanding about how theory and practice can be mapped together. It is argued that reforming practice requires transformations of understanding of principles that are assumed – sometimes implicitly – in the practices. This review offers a framework for understanding where a particular implementation of e-learning is positioned in the complex current landscape of technology-enhanced teaching in UK HE/FE. It does so by attempting to offer a set of questions to be posed of an e-learning development – the answers to which reveal the underlying pedagogic and pragmatic assumptions.
Improving Symbol Salience in Augmented Reality

In augmented reality applications, users may experience difficulty in finding virtual symbols placed over images of the real world whenever the colour of the surrounding background becomes similar to the symbols’ colour. We investigated a set of adaptations to make virtual symbols more salient from the background, while maintaining the original semantics, and conducted a study to evaluate user preferences about the adaptations, which revealed that adding a border to the symbols was favoured by the majority of the participants. Next came colour luminosity adjustment and changing the colour of the letters inside the symbol; however the latter was only preferred against symbols with no adaptation, that is, it was never chosen when competing with the other adaptations. Enlarging the symbol was the least selected adaptation, followed by having no adaptation at all. These results suggest using adaptations based on border addition and colour luminosity adjustments in the representation of virtual symbols for augmented reality.
Relationship of visually assessed apical rocking and septal flash to response and long-term survival following cardiac resynchronization therapy (PREDICT-CRT).

AIMS Apical rocking (ApRock) and septal flash (SF) are often observed phenomena in asynchronously contracting ventricles. We investigated the relationship of visually assessed ApRock and SF, reverse remodelling, and long-term survival in cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) candidates. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 1060 patients eligible for CRT underwent echocardiographic examinations before and 12 ± 6 months after device implantation. Three blinded physicians were asked to visually assess the presence of ApRock and SF before device implantation and also their correction by CRT 12 ± 6 months post-implantation. Patients with a left ventricular (LV) end-systolic volume decrease of ≥15% during the first year of follow-up were regarded as responders. Patients were followed for a median period of 46 months (interquartile range: 27-65 months) for the occurrence of death of any cause. If corrected by CRT, visually assessed ApRock and SF were associated with reverse remodelling with a sensitivity of 84 and 79%, specificity of 79 and 74%, and accuracy of 82 and 77%, respectively. ApRock (hazard ratio [HR] 0.40, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.30-0.53, P < 0.0001) and SF (HR 0.45 [CI 0.34-0.61], P < 0.001) were independently associated with lower all-cause mortality after CRT and had an incremental value over clinical variables and QRS width for identifying CRT responders. Both the absence of ApRock/SF and unsuccessful correction of ApRock/SF despite CRT were associated with a high risk for non-response and an unfavourable long-term survival. CONCLUSION A specific LV mechanical dyssynchrony pattern, characterized by ApRock and SF, is associated with a more favourable long-term survival after CRT. Both parameters are also indicators of an effective therapy.