Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using decision support systems in Chinese enterprises: a study of managerial information behaviour

Decision making is a fundamental activity for managers; however, satisfying the information needs of Chinese managers for decision making remains a challenge. In recent years, academic research on the development and application of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in China has grown quickly, but relatively little is known about the adoption and use of DSS in Chinese enterprises. In this paper, we explore the information behaviour with respect to decision making, drawing on data obtained from qualitative interviews with 18 Chinese managers and a large scale survey of 296 managers. We find that DSS is not extensively used in Chinese enterprises. Most managers show little interest in or need for using formal DSS tools in their management decision making, instead choosing either to rely on existing Information Systems (IS) applications with similar functionality considered to be adequate for decision support or to eschew formal IS tools altogether, simply relying on their own mental faculties. We discuss the reasons for this non-extensive-use of DSS in the Chinese context and then make recommendations for how DSS could be effectively used by managers who are familiar with both principles of information management and the decision context so as to contribute to a firm’s long term success.
Chapter 1 From Isolated Actions to True Muscle Function

In order to function properly for force and power production in locomotion, the skeletal muscle possesses structural elements, which make it very responsive to commands from the nervous system, both centrally and peripherally. It is not intended to go into the details of the nervous control of the muscle contraction in this chapter. However, certain important aspects are needed to clarify the role the nervous system plays in muscle function and movement control. For more specifics, the reader is referred to general textbooks of neurophysiology and motor control. In the simplest form of force generation, the central nervous system (CNS) triggers the chain of activation along the direct pathway (pyramidal or corticospinal tract) as shown in Figure 1.1. The signal can also come from the different brainstem motor areas along the indirect pathways labeled as extrapyramidal tract. The activation signal from the motor areas passes then through several stages before reaching the muscle fibers to activate events which include Ca2 release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and subsequent contraction (excitation–contraction coupling). In addition, and very importantly in motor control, the signal can be initiated in the various muscle, joint, skin receptors, etc. The nervous system operates as a controller being able to initiate action potentials, receive and integrate feedbacks from the Chapter 1
Multivariate LQG Control under Rational Inattention in Continuous Time

I propose a multivariate linear-quadratic-Gaussian control framework with rational inattention in continuous time. I propose a three-step solution procedure and numerical methods. The critical step is to transform the problem into a rate distortion problem and derive a semidefinite programming representation. I provide generalized reverse water-filling solutions for some special cases and characterize the optimal signal dimension. I apply my approach to study a consumption/saving problem and illustrate two pitfalls in the literature.
Telework Strategies : The Diffusion of a Workplace Innovation

Telework can be seen as a strategic building block for overall organizational change initiatives. Organizational change processes, however, frequently seem to lack an integration with workplace innovation projects. Workplace innovations, like the implementation of telework, are often restricted to mere pilot projects without a clear strategy for the diffusion of the innovation throughout the organization as a whole. This paper presents a multi-level strategy model for the diffusion of telework as workplace innovation. This model builds on theoretical findings concerning the diffusion of innovations, on the one hand, and practical experiences from a broad range of telework pilots, on the other hand. Thus, it synthesizes the outcome of application research and economic evaluation studies of more than 25 telework pilot projects in German industry as well as public administration with international experience. The model offers guidance for the strategic diffusion of telecooperative work forms and shows the impact of strategic alternatives for organizational change processes.
Analgesic efficacy of intravenous morphine, tramadol and ketorolac on postoperative pain in patients undergoing modified radical mastectomy

Introduction Ronald Melzack said that “By any reasonable code, freedom from pain should be a basic human right, limited only by our knowledge to achieve it” [1]. It is the basic duty of all healthcare professionals to relieve pain, and the most important indication for treating pain after surgery is humanitarian [1]. Acute pain is an important fear for most patients and influences their recovery and overall experience. Poorly treated, it could lead to undesirable effects and patient dissatisfaction. Hence, it is important to understand, assess and treat acute pain effectively [2]. Morphine remains the most widely used opioid for the management of pain and the standard against which other opioids are compared [3]. Tramadol is commonly referred to as an atypical centrally acting analgesic because of its combined effects as an opioid agonist and a serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor [3]. Injectable NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) have potential advantages for postoperative pain management. NSAIDs attack pain by a different Abstract
BEYOND THE JUNGLE Strategic Information Systems Theory in ‘Low –Competitive’ Contexts

: The dominant line of thought in strategic management was spawned by Michael Porter’s books on competitive advantage. Commencing in the mid-1980s, Porter’s thinking was applied to information technology. A theory of strategic information system (SIS) emerged and quickly gained popularity. This paper considers the applicability of SIS theory to circumstances in which competition does not exist, or is constrained. There different perspectives are adopted. One leads to questions as to whether “low –competitive contexts ‘really exist. The second results in the conclusion, that conventional SIS theory is inapplicable to at least those government agencies whose primary mission is policy formulation or implementation. The third doubts whether there is any instrumentalist ‘value in the models that conventional SIS theory provides.
Novel Method of Modelling For Wind and PV System

This paper presents a dynamic modelling and control strategy for a sustainable micro grid primarily powered by wind and solar energy. A current-source-interface multiple-input dc-dc converter is used to integrate the renewable energy sources to the main dc bus. Potential suitable applications range from a communication site or a residential area. A direct-driven permanent magnet synchronous wind generator is used with a variable speed control method whose strategy is to capture the maximum wind energy below the rated wind speed. This study considers both wind energy and solar irradiance changes in combination with load power variations. As a case study a 30-kW wind/solar hybrid power system dynamic model is explored. The examined dynamics shows that the proposed power system is a feasible option for a sustainable micro grid application.
Short Utterance Speaker Recognition

Short Utterance Speaker Recognition (SUSR) is an important area of speaker recognition when only small amount of speech data is available for testing and training. We list the most commonly used state-of-the-art methods of speaker recognition and the significance of prosodic speaker recognition. A short survey of SUSR is hereby conducted, highlighting various methodologies when using short utterances to recognize speakers. We also specify future research directions in the field SUSR which, together with modern technologies and the ongoing research in prosodic speaker recognition, can lead to better results in speaker recognition. Keywords; Short Utterance Speaker Recognition, Prosodic Speaker Recognition, Phoneme Categories
Integrating LibCal’s Room Bookings and LibGuides to Enhance Information Management and Services at HAAGA-HELIA Library

Päiväys 25 August 2015 Author Hanane Derbouz Rouibete Degree programme BBA in Business Information Technology Title of the thesis report Integrating LibCal’s Room Bookings and LibGuides to Enhance Information Management and Services at HAAGA-HELIA Library Number of report pages and appendices pages 61 + 38 Supervisor: Sauli Isonikkilä The library of HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences is one of the libraries that have put a strong emphasis on improving their services. Digitalizing services and enhancing information management have been the highest priority for the library management and staff. For this reason, the library has adopted new platforms, LibCal and LibGuides, provided by Springshare company that develops modern web applications for libraries to secure a high quality of online experience for their users and customers. Springshare products, and especially LibGuides platform, have been the topic of multiple recent articles, conferences and new books. However, this thesis report is the first report that discusses the integration of LibCal and LibGuides platforms at HAAGA-HELIA library, describing step by step the migration process to enhance the library information management and its services. LibCal platform, as a web calendaring solution, was used to build up an online room bookings’ system for the three study rooms at Pasila campus library. This new system will be a substitute for the old paper-based reservation system. Furthermore, LibGuides platform, as a Web 2.0 hosted content management system, was used to create two blueprint template guides that will be used by librarians to create new intuitive and consistent guides to replace the old ones. The aim of this thesis is to report on a successful implementation of the LibCal’s online room bookings’ system and LibGuides, where the usage of booking system and the template guides was explored. First time users’ experience, opinions and feedback, of both products, were collected and analysed. In addition, statistics generated by LibCal STAT on the usage of the room bookings’ system at Pasila campus were provided.
Automating the Detection of Complex Semantic Conflicts between Software Requirements with OntRep An empirical study on requirements conflict analysis with semantic technology

Keeping requirements consistent is a main success factor for software development projects. However, manual requirements conflict analysis takes significant effort and is error-prone. Project participants use different terminologies (due to different domain backgrounds) which makes automation of conflict analysis difficult. In this paper we propose semantic technology as foundation for automating requirements conflict analysis and introduce the automated ontology-based reporting approach OntRep. We evaluated the effectiveness of the OntRep conflict analysis approach referring to (a) different types of conflicts and (b) different levels of conflict complexity in a real-world industrial case study at Siemens Austria. Major results were that OntRep had considerably higher recall and precision of conflict detection for all given conflict types than a manual approach. Regarding complexity levels, the comparison with manual results shows that recall and precision of OntRep is slightly better for simple conflicts, but considerably higher for complex conflicts.
Une relation Paneth entre cellules souches et niche intestinale

> L’epithelium intestinal fascine les chercheurs par sa capacite incessante a se renouveler tout au long de la vie grâce a l’existence de cellules souches. Audela de leur implication dans l’homeostasie de ce tissu, ces cellules souches jouent un role fondamental dans la regeneration et la reparation tissulaires, mais egalement dans la genese des cancers intestinaux. Ainsi, il apparait fondamental de mieux les caracteriser ce qui requiert une connaissance precise non seulement des cellules elles-memes, mais aussi de leur environnement.
A new approach in the transient analysis of ATM multiplexers with bursty sources

This paper focuses on the discrete time transient analysis of an ATM multiplexer, where the arrival process consists of the superposition of the traffic generated by independent binary Markov sources. In particular we propose a new approach in the derivation of the transient marginal probability generating function of the buffer content. From this, time-dependent performance measures such as mean, variance and distribution of the queue length can be derived. Further, the transient analysis allows us to derive closed form expressions for the steady-state probability generating function of the queue length and its corresponding first moments.
Explorando os efeitos da sincronização do segundo estro e flushing alimentar sobre a incidência de cistos ovarianos em marrãs utilizando gonadotrofinas exógenas

A estimulacao do estro por gonadotrofinas exogenas (GE) associada ao flushing alimentar e uma ferramenta importante na melhoria do desempenho reprodutivo de marras. Contudo, ha evidencia da associacao do flushing com GE levando ao desequilibrio no sistema endocrino que poderia levar ao aumento de cistos ovarianos. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar se o flushing ou GE pode afetar a taxa de ovulacao e a incidencia de cistos ovarianos. Setenta e uma marras foram distribuidas aleatoriamente em arranjo fatorial 2x2 com quatro tratamentos: flushing e hormonio (cFcH); sem flushing e com hormonio (sFcH); com flushing e sem hormonio (cFsH) e sem flushing e hormonio (sFsH). Marras foram abatidas para exame macroscopico e histopatologico dos ovarios, aproximadamente cinco dias apos IA. A caracterizacao desses cistos foi realizada por microscopia optica: cistos foliculares (CF), cistos luteinizados (CL) ou corpos luteos cisticos (CCL). O numero de ovulacoes nao diferiu entre os tratamentos. Nao houve interacao entre os fatores em qualquer variavel analisada. A frequencia de leitoas com CCL e CL nao foi afetada pelo flushing e GE. Nao houve diferenca na incidencia de CF, com 12,5% e 5,88 % em leitoas dos tratamentos cFcH e sFcH, respectivamente. Nao foram obtidas diferencas na proporcao de CCL entre CF e CL (9,85 vs. 4,22 e 4,22%, respectivamente). Em conclusao, a utilizacao de gonadotrofinas exogenas para sincronizacao do segundo estro de marras, isoladamente ou em associacao com o flushing, nao aumenta a incidencia de cistos ovarianos e nao diminui a taxa de ovulacao.
Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Conservation and Evolution of Functions

The field studying unusual mitochondria in microbial eukaryotes has come full circle. Some 10-15 years ago it had the evangelical task of informing the wider scientific community that not all eukaryotes had mitochondria. Advances in the field indicated that although some protists might not have mitochondria, the presence of genes of mitochondrial ancestry suggested their lineage once had. The subsequent discovery of mitochondrial compartments in all supposedly amitochondriate protists studied so far indicates that all eukaryotes do have mitochondria indeed. This assertion has fuelled novel eukaryotic origin theories and weakened others. But what do we know about these unusual mitochondria from anaerobic protists? Have they all converged onto similar roles? Iron-sulphur cluster as- sembly is often hailed as the unifying feature of these organelles. However, the iron-sulphur protein that is so important that a complete organelle is being maintained has not been identified. Is it to be expected that all unusual mitochondria perform the same physiological role? These organelles have been found in numerous protists occupying different ecological niches. Different selection pressures operate on different organisms so there is no reason to suspect that their mitochondria should all be the same.
Multigenic control of lupus‐associated antiphospholipid syndrome in a model of (NZW × BXSB) F1 mice

In a subset of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, antiphospholipid syndrome, characterized by occurrence of anti‐cardiolipin (CL) antibodies, thrombocytopenia, thrombosis and recurrent intrauterine fetal death occurs. Male (NZW × BXSB) F1 mice, carrying the BXSB Y aa gene, serve as a model for SLE‐associated antiphospholipid syndrome. Using microsatellite markers in the NZW × (NZW × BXSB) F1 backcross male progeny, we mapped BXSB alleles contributing to the generation of anti‐CL antibodies, platelet‐binding antibodies, thrombocytopenia and myocardial infarction. Generation of each disease character was controlled by two major independently segregating dominant alleles, i.e. those on chromosomes (Chr.) 4 and 17 for anti‐CL antibodies, Chr. 8 and 17 for both anti‐platelet antibodies and thrombocytopenia and, to our surprise, Chr. 7 and 14 for myocardial infarction, and that a combination of the two alleles appeared to produce full expression of each character, as a complementary gene action. The alleles on Chr. 17 linked to the above three characters were all mapped in close proximity to the H‐2 complex. Therefore, no single factor such as anti‐CL antibodies can explain the pathogenesis of SLE‐associated antiphospholipid syndrome. Rather, a combination of susceptibility alleles such as described here, along with additional modifying loci, i.e. BXSB Y aa and some from NZW, characterizes unique SLE features in male (NZW × BXSB) F1 mice. There are potentially important candidate genes which may be linked to the syndrome.
[More controversies about direct-to-consumer genetic profiles].

> L’entreprise 23andMe, dont je decrivais recemment le succes commercial [1], est actuellement au centre de controverses qui soulevent d’importantes questions. Rappelons qu’il s’agit de la principale firme fournissant a ses clients, sans l’intervention d’un medecin, des indications sur leur susceptibilite a plus de deux cents affections ; son tarif imbattable de 99 dollars US inclut egalement une etude d’ascendance detaillee. Elle est actuellement la cible d’une injonction de la Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lui interdisant de donner des indications de nature medicale, d’un proces intente par une cliente mecontente, et aussi de l’accusation de vouloir privatiser, pour les monnayer ensuite, la definition de locus de susceptibilite aux maladies. Cela fait beaucoup pour une seule entreprise. 23andMe etablit, grâce a des puces a ADN fournies par Illumina, le profil d’environ 700 000 snip sur l’ADN de ses clients, et leur fournissait jusqu’a recemment des valeurs de risque relatif pour 243 affections. La premiere interrogation porte sur la validite predictive de ces indications pour l’individu (le client) : celle-ci est tres limitee, compte tenu des faibles risques relatifs detectes et du probleme persistant de l’heredite manquante [1, 2]. Et de fait, si on prend la peine de bien lire les indications en petits caracteres, l’entreprise est assez prudente (« Ces informations sont a usage de recherche et d’education, pas de diagnostic1 »). Neanmoins, l’impression generale laissee par sa publicite est toute autre. Cela, joint a la tendance generale a croire que l’ADN renferme notre destin, fait qu’en effet les analyses qu’achete le client lui semblent avoir une finalite medicale, meme si celle-ci n’est actuellement pas averee. C’est sur ce point que porte la plainte recemment deposee par une cliente en Californie : il s’agit d’une action de groupe (Class action), ce qui signifie que la plaignante devrait etre rejointe par de nombreux autres clients. Elle affirme que 23andMe se rend coupable de publicite mensongere (falsely and misleadingly advertises its services as providing health reports), alors que son service n’a pas ete valide du point
Identifying Single and Stacked News Triangles in Online News Articles - an Analysis of 31 Danish Online News Articles Annotated by 68 Journalists

While news articles for print use one News Triangle, where important information is at the top of the article, online news articles are supposed to use a series of Stacked News Triangles, due to online readers textskimming habits[1]. To identify Stacked News Triangles presence, we analyse how 68 Danish journalists annotate 31 articles. We use keyword frequency as the measure of popularity. To explore if Named Entities influence News Triangle presence, we analyse Named Entities found in the articles and keywords. We find the presence of an overall News Triangle in 30 of 31 articles, while, for the presence of Stacked News Triangles, 14 of the 31 articles have Stacked News Triangles. For Named Entities in News Triangles we cannot see what their influences is. Nonetheless, we find difference in Named Entity Types in each category (Culture, Domestic, Economy, Sports).
Nedd4/PTEN : un couple très branché !

703 NO UV EL LE S M AG AZ IN E mais aussi et surtout que les marqueurs moleculaires temoignent de cette selection et sont de fait des outils puissants pour identifier des individus elites. Afin de creer de nouvelles varietes, un plan de croisements entre les individus a haut rendement en artemisinine precedemment identifies a d’ores et deja ete mis en œuvre. Parmi les descendances issues de ces croisements, certaines presentent des rendements en artemisinine 30 a 60 % plus eleves que celui d’Artemis. D’autres croisements en cours d’etablissement pourront aussi beneficier des outils moleculaires developpes dans cette etude pour l’identification de descendances encore plus performantes. Les descendances ainsi selectionnees feront ensuite l’objet d’evaluations dans les futures zones de production (Afrique et Asie) afin de confirmer leur haut rendement dans ces conditions climatiques particulieres et ainsi de fournir de nouvelles varietes a l’horizon 2011. Celles-ci seront exploitees directement dans les zones touchees par le paludisme ou elles permettront une production accrue d’artemisinine. ‡ Genetic and breeding of Artemisia annua L. for a sustainable production of the antimalarial drug artemisinin
Raocyclamides A and B, Novel Cyclic Hexapeptides Isolated from the Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria raoi

Raocyclamides A and B, two novel oxazole- and thiazole-containing cyclic hexapeptides, were isolated from the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria raoi (TAU strain IL-76−1−2). The gross structures of raocyclamides A (1) and B (2) were elucidated by homonuclear and inverse-heteronuclear 2D-NMR techniques and HREIMS. The absolute stereochemistry of compounds 1 and 2 was determined by Marfey's HPLC Method. Raocyclamide A (1) was established as cyclo-thiazole-d-Ile-oxazole-l-Ala-d-oxazoline-d-Phe and raocyclamide B (2) as cyclo-thiazole-d-Ile-oxazole-l-Ala-d-Ser-d-Phe. Raocyclamide A (1) exhibits a moderate cytotoxicity against sea urchin embryos.
Brief Introduction to Pharmaceutical Microbiologist

The aim of this article is that everyone either is the scientific field or not in it, to be familiar with the microbiology generally and specially with role of QC Pharmaceutical Microbiologist, for that the article is divided into five parts: the first is a brief introduction about Microbiology, second is a brief introduction about who is the Microbiologist and what he do, third is an introduction to Microbiology laboratory and what it contains of equipments and instruments, the fourth about Pharmaceutical plant and their classifications, and the fifth is about the role of QC Pharmaceutical Microbiologist.