Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Workplace Spirituality on Innovative Work Behavior

Workplace spirituality is a novel concept and it has been identified as a unique way to improve organizational performance. On the other hand, many organizations are experiencing undesirable consequences of lack of workplace spirituality, such as employee stress, turnover, absenteeism, and lack of employee creativity. Hence, organizations are now focusing on developing workplace spirituality in the workplaces as it offers many advantages to organizations. Despite the growing interest on workplace spirituality, there is still a dearth of research on the topic of workplace spirituality. Literature suggests that employee innovative work behavior directly leads to enhance organizational performance and workplace spirituality leads to increase innovativeness and creativity of employees. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in literature, to a certain extent by proposing a conceptual model to examine the effect of workplace spirituality on employee innovative work behavior. Thus, it proposed that there is a positive effect of workplace spirituality on employee innovative work behavior. Consequently, intrinsic motivation from componential theory of creativity was integrated to identify the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation on the effect of workplace spirituality on innovative work behavior.
Occupant Satisfaction at Workplaces - a Field Study in Office Buildings

By applying multivariate analysis to survey data of a field study in 17 buildings, several correlations between different parameters with regard to satisfaction at workplaces could be found and validated. A significant difference between winter and summer votes on the satisfaction with the indoor temperature could be shown; the dissatisfaction at neutral thermal sensation was considerably higher in summer. In total, only 30% of the occupants were very satisfied or satisfied with the temperature at their workplace in summer and winter. In most of the buildings momentary votes on thermal sensation appeared to be more positive than retrospective votes. The perceived effectiveness of attempted temperature changes proofed to be the dominant parameter for the satisfaction with the indoor temperature. By weighting single satisfaction parameters a matrix could be generated which provides a straight-forward assessment of building performance by showing the optimisation potential for each parameter and the necessity to act for the building manager.
Exploring Power Signatures for Location Forensics of Media Recordings

The estimation of location based on the time varying Electric Network Frequency (ENF) is a new emerging technology in Information Forensics. This requires the extraction of the ENF signal from multimedia recordings and a comparison with already known power grids from different locations. The decision making is possible using machine learning algorithms. In this report, we focus on ENF signal extraction and statistical modelling of ENF signals. We extract features and develop a classification system to accurately identify region-of-recording.
Perceived Barriers to Consumer Acceptance of Smart Homes in The Finnish Market

The objectives of this thesis are to discover the Finnish consumers’ perception of smart homes, the predictors of use intention of smart homes and the acceptance barriers of smart homes among all participants and different subgroups. Finland was discovered to be lagging behind in smart home adoption compared to other Nordic countries, and this thesis aimed to investigate which perceptions may be holding back Finnish consumers from adopting smart homes. The objectives are reached with a factor analysis, reliability and validity analysis and regression analyses. This study is conducted as a replication study of the research by Park et al. (2018) with the same hypotheses to be tested. There are three main findings in this thesis. First, smart homes are perceived as easy to use, enjoyable and useful, but expensive, insecure as well as moderately unreliable and incompatible with people’s lifestyles. Second, use intention is strongly impacted by attitude, perceived usefulness and compatibility, of which attitude is highly motivated by perceived usefulness and ease of use while perceived usefulness is motivated mainly by compatibility and perceived system reliability. Third, acceptance barriers for all participants comprise of perceived unreliability and insecurity, while the older, female, less knowledgeable and less experienced groups introduced more barriers (incompatibility, lack of enjoyment, perceived difficulty of use, perceived high cost and perceived uselessness). The acceptance barriers are suggested as points of improvement in order to accelerate smart home adoption in the Finnish market.
The Potential Impact on Trade of a Monetary Union in Southern Africa

Southern Africa has been exploring regional integration in the context of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This dissertation seeks to examine the potential bilateral trade volume within SADC, that can be generated as a result of a hypothetical SADC currency union and to analyse its importance for policy. It can serve as a basis for the promotion of regional integration as a means of increasing intraregional trade in the region, on the continent and, ultimately, international trade. Regional monetary unions are envisaged by the African Union (AU) as building blocks towards an eventual continent-wide monetary union. In this respect a gravity model was estimated with panel data using pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), random and fixed effect estimations covering the period 2000 to 2017. Because a SADC multilateral currency union does not exist yet, similar existing versions of monetary integration arrangements in the region were used in this study to draw inferences. The monetary integration arrangements in the region include the Common Monetary Area, a fixed exchange rate regime adopted by South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini, as well as Zimbabwe’s multicurrency regime that includes the South African Rand and the Botswana Pula. The results are largely in line with theoretical expectations except for the currency union dummy variable coefficient which was found to not be statistically significantly different from zero. This therefore means that in the case of SADC, a currency union might not have an effect on bilateral trade flows between member countries. One major limitation lies in the fact that my analysis relies on data based on currency union proxies since a SADC currency union does
The production of cheese-flavored extruded snack exploiting anti-microbial properties of natural food colors

In this study, the effects of some edible pigments used in the food industry on pathogenic bacteria were investigated. For this purpose, five natural food colors were selected consisted of curcumin, β-carotene, paprika oleoresin, lycopene and turmeric oleoresin. The impacts of each color on bacterial species including Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, and Staphylococcus aureus were investigated by using disc diffusion method, individually and collectively. The results have shown that, by combining these colors provided some mixtures with reasonable preventative effects against those bacteria; moreover, mixtures which contained curcumin or turmeric oleoresin demonstrated a better inhibitory effect in compare to mixtures lack of those colors. Consequently, the best synergetic inhibitory effect was related to a mixture of curcumin–beta-carotene–paprika (CBP) on Bacillus cereus. Furthermore, based on results, a mixture containing curcumin-lycopene was selected and used in snack coating to investigate the antimicrobial properties of cheese-flavored extruded snacks. Therefore, adding these natural colors to food not only increase their acceptability but also enhance the antimicrobial properties.
Virulence and antibiotic resistance profile of avian Escherichia coli strains isolated from colibacillosis lesions in central of Algeria

Background and Aim: Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli cause extensive mortality in poultry flocks, leading to extensive economic losses. To date, in Algeria, little information has been available on virulence potential and antibiotics resistance of avian E. coli isolates. Therefore, the aim of this study was the characterization of virulence genes and antibiotic resistance profile of Algerian E. coli strains isolated from diseased broilers. Materials and Methods: In this study, 43 avian E. coli strains isolated from chicken colibacillosis lesions at different years were analyzed to determine their contents in 10 virulence factors by polymerase chain reaction, antimicrobial susceptibility to 22 antibiotics belonging to six different chemical classes and genomic diversity by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Results: Mainly E. coli isolates (58.1%) carried two at six virulence genes and the most frequent virulence gene association detected were ompT (protectin), hlyF (hemolysin) with 55.8% (p<0.001), and iroN, sitA (iron acquisition/uptake systems), and iss (protectin) with 41.8% (p<0.001). Some strains were diagnosed as virulent according to their virulence gene profile. Indeed, 23.25% of the isolates harbored iroN, ompT, hlyF, iss, and sitA combination, 14% ompT, hlyF, and frzorf4 (sugar metabolism), and 11,6% iroN, hlyF, ompT, iss, iutA (iron acquisition/uptake systems), and frzorf4. The chicken embryo lethality assay performed on five isolates confirmed the potential virulence of these strains. All isolates submitted to PFGE analysis yielded different genetic profiles, which revealed their diversity. Overall, 97.2% of the isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic and 53.5% demonstrated multi-antimicrobial resistance to three different antimicrobial classes. The highest resistance levels were against nalidixic acid (83.4%), amoxicillin and ampicillin (83.3%), ticarcillin (80.5%), pipemidic acid (75%), and triméthoprim-sulfamethoxazole (66.6%). For beta-lactam class, the main phenotype observed belonged to broad-spectrum beta-lactamases. However, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase associated with three at six virulence factors was also detected in 13 isolates. Two of them were attested virulent as demonstrated in the embryo lethality test which constitutes a real public threat. Conclusion: It would be imperative in avian production to discourage misuse while maintaining constant vigilance guidelines and regulations, to limit and rationalize antimicrobial use.
Another Way to Browse the Search Space For Some Transformations from CSP to SAT

In this paper, we study a new way of browsing the search space when solving CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problem) encoded in SAT (Satisﬁability problem), using direct and support encodings. We exploit a different splitting rule during the exploration of the search tree from that used in classical solvers. Usually, for solving SAT problem, the Conﬂict Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) algorithms are based on the Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland (DPLL) procedure. It consists in choosing the next variable to instantiate thanks to a heuristic, then to assign it to true (or false) and check if, after some simpliﬁcations via unit propagation, there exists a model or not under this hypothesis. If a conﬂict arises, a clause is learned and a backtrack (usually non-chronological, i.e. a backjump) is operated in order to check the other branch of the search tree. This splitting rule (one literal and its opposite) can be generalized to any formula between some variables, with some restrictions: ﬁrstly, its negation is easily calculated (with respect to the CNF formalism), secondly the formula must simplify the instance, and thirdly, the complexity must not be higher than the SAT problem complexity. Using, for the beginning, the direct encoding of a CSP in SAT instance, we propose an algorithm for the resulting SAT formula with a better theoretical complexity. This allows us to reach a better complexity for solving CSP too. Furthermore, this paper explains how we have adapted the existing CDCL mechanisms (clause learning, implication graph) to our algo-rithm.
M J B Study of Some Reproductive and Hormonal Risk Factors in Patients with Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the commonest malignancy in females and it has become a major health problem affecting women, worldwide. Cancer cells are abnormal cells, grow and divide more quickly than healthy cells. Some cancer cells form growths called tumors. All tumors increase in size, but some tumors grow quickly, others slowly. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems, This is called metastasis. The aim of the study is to find the percentage of multiparous patients and the so the effect of parity state on the incidence of breast cancer, then their ages at first pregnancy and number of their children This study lasted from November/2010 to May / 2011.There were 100 patients. These patients were ranged from 26 to 75 years. Full detailed information were taken from the patients in regarding the state of parity ,age of patient at first pregnancy and the number of children . Seventy five percent of our one hundred patients were multiparous and twenty five percent were nulliparous ,age of patients at first pregnancy were as 34.7% at age ≤ 20 year, 37.3% at the age group 2125 years, 16% at the age group 26-30 years, 5.3% at age group 31-35 years and 6.7% at age group 36-40 years ,Those parous patients show 20% of them had 1-2 children , 44% had 3-4 children, 17.3% had 5-6 children, 13.3% had 7-8 children and 5.3% had > 8 children . Breast cancer is a multifactorial disease with different parameters affecting its occurrence and then metastasis ,75% of patients were multiparous and high percentage of them were less than thirty years indicating poor out come ,while in regarding to the number of children in parous women , high percentage of patients were having higher parity rate . ةيباجنلإا لماوعلا ضعب ةسا رد ةينومرهلاو يدثلا ناطرسب تاباصملا تاضيرملل ةصلاخلا و ثانلإا يف اعويش رثكلأا وى يدثلا ناطرس دق ءاحنأ عيمج يف ،ءاسنلا ىمع رثؤت ةريبك ةيحص ةمكشم تحبصأ ملاعلا . دعت ايلاخلا ةيناطرسلا ايلاخ ريغ ةيعيبط ومنت مسقنتو عرسأ نم ايلاخلا لا يمس و ةم لكشتُ ضعب ايلاخلا ةيناطرسلا اوًمن ىمسي مرولا . عيمج ما رولأا دادزي ،ايمجح نكل ضعب ما رولأا دادزت لكشب ،عيرس ضعبلاو رخلآا دادزي لكشب ءيطب . نكمي نأ رشتنت ايلاخلا ةيناطرسلا ىلإ ءا زجأ ىرخأ نم مسجلا ربع مدلا مظنلاو ةيوافميملا ، اذىو قمطي ويمع ةميقنلا . فديلا ددعتملا لمحلا تاوذ تاضيرممل ةيوئملا ةبسنلا ديدحت وى ةسا ردلا هذى نم يدثلا ناطرس يف اىرودو يف ملأا رمع رود كلذ دعبو لمح لوأ . يدثلا ناطرسب ةباصم ةيقا رع ةضيرم ةئامل دلاولأا ددع و سا ةسا ردلا هذى م ترمت / يناثلا نيرشت ريش ن 0202 /رايأ ريش ىلإ 0200 يدل تناك دقو نم نىرامعأ حوا رتت ةضيرم ةئم ان 02 ىلإ 57 ددعو لمح لوأ يف نىرامعأو ةيباجنلإا ةلاحلا صخي امب تاضيرملا نم ةمماك تامومعم ذخا مت . ةنس دلاولأا . M J B Study of Some Reproductive and Hormonal Risk Factors in Patients with Breast Cancer
The role of leadership in business model innovation: a case of an entrepreneurial firm from India

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leadership and business model innovation (BMI) in an entrepreneurial firm. From the literature, it was found that the role of a leader in BMI was unexplored. A research framework was created which was the replication of the model created showing the relationship between leadership and innovation. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative single in-depth case study was used to understand the effects of leadership in BMI. The case of an entrepreneurial firm in the graphic and animation education sector from India was chosen to test the research framework. The leader of Xplora Design Skools was observed closely, and he was interviewed multiple times. Findings From the analysis, it was clear that, in this organization, the leader was a trigger for BMI through creating and influencing creativity and innovation in the organization. This case also shows that he was making tangible contribution to the work being done and motivating his employees. These initiatives show his influence on the process or execution of BMI. Originality/value This is the first study explores the role of a leader in BMI in an entrepreneurial firm in emerging economy contexts like India.
Investigation into Methane Production : An Oxic Story ?

Oxic methane production was investigated in seawater samples from MBL dock. Samples were amended with varying concentrations of NH4 under different light conditions to select for ammonia-oxidizing archaea and phototrophs. Methane was produced aerobically in several mesocosms, however there was no apparent pattern between treatments. Crenarchaeal abundances seemed to increase in the mesocosms that were producing methane, however this could not be linked to productivity by ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaea. An analysis of the metagenome from the microbial mat at Sippewisset Marsh revealed a number of copies of the phnJ gene, which encodes for methyl-phosphonate degradation. Therefore, this pathway may be an alternate pathway for methane production in the mat, particularly in the oxic layers.
A power and area efficient approximate carry skip adder for error resilient applications

: The compute-intensive multimedia applications on portable devices require power and area efficient arithmetic units. The adder is a prime building block of these arithmetic units and limits the overall performance. Therefore, this paper analyzes the logic operations of the state-of-the-art adders and presents a novel low complexity adder segment with new carry prediction logic by removing the redundant logic and sharing the common operations. Further, a new power and area efficient approximate carry skip (PAEA-CSK) adder is proposed using the novel adder segment. The effectiveness of the proposed PAEA-CSK adder is evaluated and compared over the existing adders by implementing them in VHDL and synthesizing using the Synopsys Design Compiler with the 65nm TSMC CMOS Library. The synthesis result shows that the proposed PAEA-CSK adder requires 27 . 28% and 18 . 03% less area and power, respectively, over the existing carry skip-based approximate adder with the same accuracy. Further, the Sobel edge detector (SED) embedded with the proposed adder improves PSNR by a minimum of 16.94 dB over the SED embedded with a nonzeroing bit-truncation adder.
Infrared Thermography to Estimate Vine Water Status: Optimizing Canopy Measurements and Thermal Indices for the Varieties Merlot and Moscato in Northern Italy

This study investigated the effectiveness of infrared thermography to estimate water status in Merlot and Moscato grown in northeast Italy by comparing the crop water stress index (CWSI) and the stomatal conductance index (IG). The influence of the portion of the canopy in which the thermal images were captured (sunlit or shaded) was also investigated. During the 2018 growing season, potted vines were subjected to three irrigation treatments: T0 = 100% of daily water usage restored; T1 = 50% of daily water usage restored; and T2 = 30% of daily water usage restored. Measurements included stomatal conductance (gs), stem water potential (SWP), and thermal imagery. Results showed that both the CWSI and IG indices were effective in discriminating the irrigation treatments in Moscato and Merlot. CWSI showed higher correlations with gs and SWP compared to IG, especially in Moscato. CWSI was less influenced by the portion of the canopy the image was taken on. In general, Moscato showed greater differences in gs, SWP, and the thermal indices between the three irrigation treatments. This study suggests that the efficacy of thermography in estimating vine water status depends on the variety and its stomatal control physiology.
WST 50.9 037 corr

The water treatment sludge including coagulants cannot be easily removed by conventional dewatering methods. The possibility of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) oxidation as a pretreatment to enhance the dewaterability of polyaluminum chloride (PACl) sludge from water works was investigated. H2O2 treatment alone was not effective but H2O2 treatment under acidic condition significantly reduced both the cake water content and specific resistance to filtration (SRF), indicating the enhancement of dewaterability and filterability. The filterability after acid/H2O2 treatment was comparable to polymer conditioning and even more dewatered cake than polymer conditioning was produced. By H2O2 combined with sulfuric acid (H2SO4), leached iron caused Fenton’s reaction, which showed a potential to significantly reduce the amount of solids mass and to produce more compact cake with higher filterability.
Tools of state borrowings at the regional level in the digitalization of the economy

The subject of this research is the economic relations arising in the process of using bonds by regional Russian authorities. The objectives of the bond issue by the subjects of the Federation of the Russian Federation are the following: financing the budget deficit, cash ruptures of budget implementation, and financing public debt. The bond method of attracting funds in some cases may be the most effective from the point of view of attracted amounts of money and “accumulating” of a credit rating. Subjects of the Federation can use several types of bond loans to raise funds. Taking into consideration that most regions have serious problems in attracting funds, and the restrictions imposed on the volume of emissions and the size of a public debt suggests investment bonds as the most attractive mechanism for raising funds.
Degree project Data dissemination in large-cardinality social gra s

Near real-time event streams are a key feature in many popular social media applications. These types of applications allow users to selectively follow event streams to receive a curated list of real-time events from various sources. Due to the emphasis on recency, relevance, personalization of content, and the highly variable cardinality of social subgraphs, it is extremely difficult to implement feed following at the scale of major social media applications. This leads to multiple architectural approaches, but no consensus has been reached as to what is considered to be an idiomatic solution. As of today, there are various theoretical approaches exploiting the dynamic nature of social graphs, but not all of them have been applied in practice. In this paper, large-cardinality graphs are placed in the context of existing research to highlight the exceptional data management challenges that are posed for large-scale real-time social media applications. This work outlines the key characteristics of data dissemination in large-cardinality social graphs, and overviews existing research and state-of-the-art approaches in industry, with the goal of stimulating further research in this direction.