Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of inward Greenfield Foreign Direct Investments in the German Federal States

The research focuses on the analysis of characteristics of the German federal states that are significant in attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Greenfield projects. Multinational enterprise’s goal is to achieve the highest gain when investing in certain regions and consequently certain attributes play a crucial role in encouraging or deterring investments in a certain location. Using the Conditional logit model I have tried to asses which state characteristics are more relevant for policymakers when trying to attract more foreign investors in one of the sixteen states part of the German Federal Republic.
Comparison of 6-Month Outcomes of Endovascular vs Surgical Revascularization for Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia

Key Points Question What is the difference between endovascular and surgical revascularization regarding in-hospital safety, 6-month major amputation, and mortality for patients with critical limb ischemia? Findings In this cohort study of 11 106 matched pairs, endovascular revascularization was associated with an 18% higher risk of major amputation at 6 months and a 17% lower risk of in-hospital safety outcomes compared with surgical revascularization, with no difference in mortality between the 2 groups at 6 months. The difference in major amputation outcome was not observed in high-volume centers. Meaning Findings suggest that endovascular revascularization has a better safety profile than surgical revascularization, without any difference in mortality; hence, procedure selection should be a shared and informed decision with the patient.
How Do Local Venture Capital Firms Benefit from Cross-Border Syndications with Foreign Partners?

This paper examines the benefits to local venture capital (VC) firms of syndicating with foreign partners. We find that post-syndication, local VC firms change their investment behavior from investing in low risky sectors to high risky sectors. Further, a larger number of their portfolio companies are successfully exited, suggesting improved performance. We conjecture that this outcome is due to learning effects between local and foreign VC firms. We find that the learning process for local VC firms is substantial when their foreign partner is either a North American or European VC firm. Our results show that the benefits of cross-border VC syndications between local and foreign VC firms are mutual.
Cells for tissue engineering of cardiac valves

Heart valve tissue engineering is a promising alternative to prostheses for the replacement of diseased or damaged heart valves, because tissue‐engineered valves have the ability to remodel, regenerate and grow. To engineer heart valves, cells are harvested, seeded onto or into a three‐dimensional (3D) matrix platform to generate a tissue‐engineered construct in vitro, and then implanted into a patient's body. Successful engineering of heart valves requires a thorough understanding of the different types of cells that can be used to obtain the essential phenotypes that are expressed in native heart valves. This article reviews different cell types that have been used in heart valve engineering, cell sources for harvesting, phenotypic expression in constructs and suitability in heart valve tissue engineering. Natural and synthetic biomaterials that have been applied as scaffold systems or cell‐delivery platforms are discussed with each cell type. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The epidemiology of drowning worldwide

The purpose of this analysis was to quantify the magnitude of death and disability from drowning and near-drowning worldwide and to provide epidemiological data on which to base prevention efforts. All data are from the Global Burden of Disease 2000 (Version 1) estimates in which deaths and disabilities are based on the WHO International Classification of Diseases. Extrapolations were made by age, sex, and WHO region. The six WHO regions of the world were further divided into high-income, and low- and middle-income based on the 1998 World Development indicators. According to the GBD 2000 data, an estimated 449,000 people drowned worldwide (7.4 per 100,000 population) and a further 1.3 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) were lost as a result of premature death or disability from drowning. 97% of drownings occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Although 38% of drownings occurred in the Western Pacific Region, Africa had the highest drowning mortality rate (13.1 per 100,000 population). Males had higher drowning mortality rates than females for all ages and in all regions. Children under the age of 5 years had the highest drowning mortality rate for both sexes in all of the WHO regions except for Africa, where children aged 5 to 14 years had the highest mortality rate. World-wide, for children under the age of 15 years, drowning accounted for a higher mortality rate than any other cause of injury. Drowning is a significant problem worldwide particularly for children under the age of 15 years. Low- and middle-income countries have the highest rates of drowning and account for more than 90% of such fatalities. Primary prevention efforts should thus be focused on these countries where many children who cannot swim drown in large bodies of water.
COMMENT ANALYSIS FOR PRODUCT AND SERVICE SATISFACTION FROM THAI CUSTOMERS' REVIEW IN SOCIAL NETWORK

In the last decade, the amount of social media usage has rapidly increased exponentially in Thailand.A huge amount of Thai online reviews and comments are available on social network every second.Because of this fact, comment analysis, also called sentiment analysis, has then become an essential task to analyze people’s emotions, opinion, attitudes and sentiments from the amount of these online posts. This paper proposed the technique for analyzing Thai customers’ comments or opinions about the products and services by counting the polarity words of the product and service domains.To demonstrate the proposed technique, experimental studies on analyzing Thai customers’ comments in the social media are presented in this paper. The comments are classified into neutral, positive or negative.The proposed technique benefits the business domain in guiding product improvement and quality of service.Hence, this paper also benefits the end-users in making a smart decision.
Pirates of the search results page

Search malware redirects nearly 100% of infected users' clicks on web search results to unintended websites. Most published research details how web-based malware works and technological interventions to stop it before users ever see it; however, the constant evolution of obfuscation techniques makes it difficult to prevent infection altogether. User interventions in the form of toolbars, dialogs, and user education have seen limited success. Previous research has focused on a prototypical type of malware; a sophisticated program that conceals itself (e.g., surreptitious download onto a host computer) or tries to fool the user by mimicking known, trusted websites (e.g., phishing attacks). The goal of our research is to understand users' experience, understanding of and response to search malware. The present research shows that even when confronted with blatantly unusual search behavior, people are unlikely to attribute blame to malware or to engage in behavior that may remedy the situation.
Toward a better fitness club: Evidence from exerciser online rating and review using latent Dirichlet allocation and support vector machine

Fitness clubs have never ceased searching for quality improvement opportunities to better serve their exercisers, whereas exercisers have been posting online ratings and reviews regarding fitness clubs. Studied together, the quantitative rating and qualitative review can provide a comprehensive depiction of exercisers’ perception of fitness clubs. However, the typological and dimensional discrepancies of online rating and review have hindered the joint study of the two data sets to fully exploit their business value. To this end, this study bridges the gap by examined 53,979 pairs of exerciser online rating and review from 100 fitness clubs in Shanghai, China. Using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) based text mining, we identified the 17 major topics on which the exercisers were writing. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was then employed to establish the rating-review relations, with an accuracy rate of up to 86%. Finally, the relative impact of each topic on exerciser satisfaction was computed and compared by introducing virtual reviews. The significance of this study is that it systematically creates a standardized protocol of mining and correlating the massive structured/quantitative and unstructured/qualitative data available online, which is readily transferable to the other service and product sectors.
Social Voting & Election Coordination in Rural Hondurans

Models of voter choice frequently assume voters behave as independent actors who make decisions in a social vacuum. Recent work has demonstrated that social connections play a formative role in the decision to turnout to vote, to take expressive political action, and in the formation of political identity. Yet, no work has examined how social connections influence voters’ choices in an election. Here, I argue that political actors use social information to solve many types of coordination problems, including coordinating to vote for winning candidates. I present a novel data set where I measured the real-world social connections of more than 4,000 political actors and then randomly assigned 113 individuals to serve as a candidate for one of thirty political offices. I find that that better socially-connected candidates fare better in this election, and that voters use social information to coordinate their votes for winning candidates. These results suggest that social networks play a fundamental role in coordinating human actions that extend from our daily lives into explicitly political activities.
A Fuzzy Tuner for Fuzzy Logic Controllers

A two-level fuzzy tuning scheme is presented in this paper. The fuzzy tuner in the upper level is used to design the membership functions of the fuzzy logic controller in the lower level. The scheme provides an effective means for obtaining a good performance of the controller in a short time with a low computational burden. The upper and lower levels have a similar structure for the fuzzy inference, and thus the implementation of the scheme becomes easy. It can also be used in real time when the system parameters are time varying. A series of simulations are presented to illustrate the proposed scheme.
Introducing Hysteresis in Snow Depletion Curves to Improve the Water Budget of a Land Surface Model in an Alpine Catchment

AbstractThe Durance watershed (14 000 km2), located in the French Alps, generates 10% of French hydropower and provides drinking water to 3 million people. The Catchment land surface model (CLSM), a distributed land surface model (LSM) with a multilayer, physically based snow model, has been applied in the upstream part of this watershed, where snowfall accounts for 50% of the precipitation. The CLSM subdivides the upper Durance watershed, where elevations range from 800 to 4000 m within 3580 km2, into elementary catchments with an average area of 500 km2. The authors first show the difference between the dynamics of the accumulation and ablation of the snow cover using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images and snow-depth measurements. The extent of snow cover increases faster during accumulation than during ablation because melting occurs at preferential locations. This difference corresponds to the presence of a hysteresis in the snow-cover depletion curve of these catchments, and.
Predictors of differences in symptom perception of older patients and their doctors.

BACKGROUND Doctors and their older patients do not necessarily agree on what health problem ought to be treated. Discordance influences diagnostic procedures, patient satisfaction and treatment outcome negatively. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to determine the psychosocial factors influencing differences in symptom reports of patients and physicians. METHODS A cohort study was carried out in a medical out-patient clinic. A total 141 women and 213 men agreed to give symptom reports while waiting for their doctor's appointment and allowed their treating physician to evaluate symptoms afterwards. RESULTS Disagreement between patients and physicians on which symptoms triggered the visit appeared in one-third of the cases. This was more likely the longer symptoms existed, the less intensely patients experienced their symptom and the more restricted they felt because of the symptom. Psychosocial factors did not have a significant influence. CONCLUSIONS Independently of psychosocial variables, the different illness concepts of patients and their treating physician influence the subject of the consultation. Doctors and patients were most likely to agree when patients reported their symptoms as being of recent onset and being intense. Symptom intensity and the associated degree of restriction seem to reflect two different conceptual dimensions of symptom evaluation.
Accretion-ejection connection in the young brown dwarf candidate ISO-ChaI 217

As the number of observed brown dwarf outflows is growing it is important to investigate how these outflows compare to the wellstudied jets from young stellar objects. A key point of comparison is the relationship between outflow and accretion activity and in particular the ratio between the mass outflow and accretion rates ( ˙ Mout/ ˙ Macc). The brown dwarf candidate ISO-ChaI 217 was discovered by our group, as part of a spectro-astrometric study of brown dwarfs, to be driving an asymmetric outflow with the blueshifted lobe having a position angle of 20 . The aim here is to further investigate the properties of ISO-ChaI 217, the morphology and kinematics of its outflow, and to better constrain ˙ Mout/ ˙
La noción de stakeholder en la Ingeniería de Requerimientos

El concepto de stakeholder se utiliza ampliamente en la Ingenieria de Software. En la comunidad cientifica de Ingenieria de Requerimientos se le asigna una relevancia muy grande en la medida que el fin de un sistema software consiste en satisfacer las necesidades y objetivos de los stakeholders o al menos a un subconjunto de ellos. Sin embargo el examen de la literatura abunda en ejemplos de que se lo utiliza en forma no consistente. Los stakeholders se relacionan con las entidades clave de los proyectos de desarrollo: requerimientos, actividades y resultados. De una u otra forma se reconocen estas relaciones pero las definiciones no son consistentes en cuanto a establecer la entidad con la que los stakeholders se relacionan, ni en cuanto a caracterizar dichas relaciones. Se propone un proyecto para investigar la nocion de stakeholder en la comunidad de Ingenieria de Requerimientos y establecer una teoria que soporte este concepto.
A mutational hot‐spot within an intron of the mouse beta 2‐microglobulin gene.

beta 2‐Microglobulin is the smaller, relatively non‐polymorphic chain of class I major histocompatibility complex proteins. We have previously described a mutant mouse cell line which had been selected for loss of the class I thymus leukemia (TL) antigen and had concomitantly lost surface expression of H‐2k antigens. Expression of class I antigens on the cell surface was restored by fusion to an antigenically distinct mouse lymphoma line, and the defect in the mutant was shown to be the loss of a functional beta 2‐microglobulin gene. We now describe three additional mutants with the same phenotype, all selected for loss of TL but after different types of mutagenesis. All of these mutants have genomic rearrangements resulting in the absence of a functional beta 2‐microglobulin gene. These data provide strong evidence for the requirement of beta 2‐microglobulin for cell surface expression of the heavy chain of class I major histocompatibility complex proteins. We further show that the defects in at least one beta 2‐microglobulin gene in each mutant cell line map to the same small DNA segment within the first intron. The breakpoints of these mutations define a hypermutable site within the mouse beta 2‐microglobulin gene.
Conversation Analysis on Social Networking Sites

With the explosion of Web 2.0, people are becoming more communicative through expansion of services and multi-platform applications such as micro blogs, forums and social networks which establishes social and collaborative backgrounds. These services can be seen as very large information repository containing millions of text messages usually organized into complex networks involving users interacting with each other at specific times. Several works focused only to retrieve separate tweets or those sharing same hash tags, but, it is not powerful enough if the goal of the search is to retrieve relevant tweets based on content. In addition, finding good results concerning the given subjects needs to consider the entire context. However, context can be derived from user interactions. In this work, we propose a new method to retrieval conversation on micro blogging sites. It's based on content analysis and content enrichment. The goal of our method is to present a more informative result compared to conventional search engine. To valid our method, we developed the TCOND system (Twitter Conversation Detector) which offers an alternative, results to keyword search on twitter and Google. We have evaluated our method on collected social network corpus related to specific subjects, and we obtained good results.
Optimization of Perturb and Observe control of grid connected PEM Fuel Cells

In this paper the use of the Perturb and Observe (P&O) control strategy aimed at extracting the maximum allowable power from a Fuel Cell (FC) in a grid connected application is proposed. The values of the P&O operating parameters, namely the amplitude and frequency of the perturbations, are optimized by keeping into account their impact on the FC safety operation.
Mampukah Good Corporate Governance dan Risiko Kredit Sebagai Prediktor Financial Distress?

This study aims to predict financial distress at Bank foreign exchange (BUSN) by using GCG analysis, credit risk, profitability, capital adequacy ratio and bank size. GCG, credit risk, and profitability. The population in this research is 35 BUSN of foreign exchange registered in Bank Indonesia. Sampling technique used purposive sampling. The sample size is 17 banks. Data analysis technique using linear regression. This research performs 4 regression test that is in BUSN of foreign exchange for all condition, financial distress condition, grey area condition, and condition of non-financial distress. The results of this study indicate that GCG and credit risk have no effect on financial pressure for all conditions, financial distress condition, grey area condition, and non-financial distress condition. Profitability affects financial difficulties for all conditions, grey area conditions and non-financial distress conditions. CAR affects financial difficulties for all conditions, grey area conditions and non-financial pressure conditions. Profitability and CAR have no effect on financial difficulties for grey area conditions. The size of the bank affects financial difficulties in all conditions and greys, whereas in the financial distress position the size of the bank does not affect financial distress. DOI : https://doi.org/10.26905/afr.v1i1. 2291
The Existence of human resources employability to energize the power of competitive advantage of aqiqah Nurul Hayat Surabaya

This paper examines the importance of HR employability and their relationship with employment within the food industry in Indonesia, specifically in Aqiqah business services. This is a review of the literature related to the provision of HR empowerment program to sustain business competitiveness and economic growth in Aqiqah business services. The effects of organizational culture are examined to address the employees' behaviors concerning the fairness of treatment, trust, and delivery of promises. This review was undertaken to explore the significance of skill shortages and skill mismatches. The paper suggested that the role of HR Empowerment program schemes to ensure for employees' employability as dynamic capabilities action deeply, along with positive employment relationships, are the key to support Aqiqah business services in dealing with a competitive advantage Keywords: employability, competitive advantages, dynamic capabilities
Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and anti-tumor T cells: a complex relationship

Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSC) are immature myeloid cells that are potent inhibitors of immune cell function and which accumulate under conditions of inflammation, especially cancer. MDSC are suggested to promote the growth of cancer by both enhancement of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis and also inhibition of antitumor immune responses. The presence of deficient and/or defective antitumor adaptive and innate immune responses, coincident with accumulation of MDSC in lymphoid organs and tumor parenchyma, supports the notion of a causal relationship. The potent ability of MDSC to inhibit several components and phases of immune response highlights the likelihood that targeting the inhibitory functions of MDSC may maximize the therapeutic potential of antitumor immunotherapy. In order to guide the rational development of immunotherapeutic strategies that incorporate inhibition of MDSC activity and enzymatic functions, thorough understanding of the role of MDSC in antitumor immune responses is required. In this manuscript we review the multifaceted inhibitory functions of MDSC and consider the role of MDSC-induced inhibition of antitumor T cell effector phase. Support for this research is from NIH R01 CA108573.
Approche méthodologique pour l'intégration des systèmes contrôlés par le produit dans un environnement de juste-à-temps : Application à l'entreprise Trane

Cette these a ete realisee dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre le CRAN et l'entreprise TRANE. Elle propose une methodologie pour l'integration et le developpement de Systemes Controles par le Produit(SCP). Celle-ci a vocation de permettre d'implementer une architecture de controle par kanbans et/ou produits « actifs », adaptable aux systemes de production d'une entreprise. Le premier chapitre de la these decrit le contexte industriel. A l'issue de ce chapitre emerge les problemes de synchronisation de flux de l'entreprise. Le second chapitre presente une etude bibliographique des strategies existantes de pilotage de flux et apportant donc des elements de reponse a ces problematiques. Apres avoir montre l'apport des systemes controles par le produit dans la resolution de ceux-ci, ce chapitre montre le besoin de methodes d'ingenierie pour concevoir un SCP adapte « au plus juste » au systeme industriel etudie. Le troisieme chapitre est consacre a la definition de la problematique scientifique. En reponse a celle-ci, la proposition d'une methodologie de conception et d'integration des systemes controles par le produit est presentee dans le quatrieme chapitre. Cette methodologie s'appuie sur l'approche d'ingenierie systeme « six-sigmas » pour piloter le projet de conception du SCP par des indicateurs issus des besoins des utilisateurs. L'utilisation de la simulation evenementielle permet de concevoir l'architecture la plus pertinente au regard des indicateurs de performance retenus et de valider a priori l'integration du SCP ainsi concu dans son environnement. Le dernier chapitre a pour objectif d'illustrer l'approche sur des cas reels d'application.