Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cultura Gerencial Chinesa Versus Cultura Ocidental

Para as empresas, entrar na China, o Mercado do seculo 21, nao e mais uma opcao e sim uma estrategia necessaria, contudo os gerentes ocidentais conhecem pouco sobre os gerentes chineses. Esse artigo propoe explorar as divergencias gerenciais atraves de um estudo cross-seccional que combina os diversos conceitos que identificam com mais clareza as caracteristicas de cada cultura dos negocios: a logica dialetica chinesa versus a logica formal ocidental, a cultura chinesa particularista versus a cultura ocidental universalista. Em seguida, o estudo investiga a socializacao chinesa versus a pericia tecnica ocidental e acaba por comparar o modelo de desenvolvimento dos gerentes chineses com o modelo norte-americano, tambem atraves das diferencas qualitativas dos MBAs de cada um.
Present recharge and groundwater circulation in Ilha do Sal (Cape Verde Islands)

The integrated use of geological, climatological, hydrogeological, hydrochemical and isotopic data allows the definition of the different factors influencing groundwater chemistry (host rock weathering, évapotranspiration through the unsaturated zone, evaporitic deposits leaching during infiltration, marine water contamination). Limits and risks related to groundwater use are stressed, together with possible interventions to modify groundwater quality and quantity.
D 0 resolution of singularity D ( 9 . 1 ) : curve D 0-brane realizations of the resolution of a reduced singular curve

Based on examples from superstring/D-brane theory since the work of Douglas and Moore on resolution of singularities of a superstring target-space Y via a D-brane probe, the richness and the complexity of the stack of punctual D0-branes on a variety, and as a guiding question, we lay down a conjecture that any resolution Y ′ → Y of a variety Y over C can be factored through an embedding of Y ′ into the stack M 0 Azf p r (Y ) of punctual D0-branes of rank r on Y for r ≥ r0 in N, where r0 depends on the germ of singularities of Y . We prove that this conjecture holds for the resolution ρ : C → C of a reduced singular curve C over C. In string-theoretical language, this says that the resolution C of a singular curve C always arises from an appropriate D0-brane aggregation on C and that the rank of the Chan-Paton module of the D0-branes involved can be chosen to be arbitrarily large.
Cognitive de ﬁ cits in childhood, adolescence and adulthood in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and association with psychopathology

22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) is associated with high risk of psychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment. It remains unclear to what extent key cognitive skills are associated with psychopathology, and whether cognition is stable over time in 22q11.2DS. 236 children, adolescents and adults with 22q11.2DS and 106 typically developing controls were recruited from three sites across Europe. Measures of IQ, processing speed, sustained attention, spatial working memory and psychiatric assessments were completed. Cognitive performance in individuals was calculated relative to controls in different age groups (children (6 – 9 years), adolescents (10 – 17 years), adults (18 + years)). Individuals with 22q11.2DS exhibited cognitive impairment and higher rates of psychiatric disorders compared to typically developing controls. Presence of Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms was associated with greater de ﬁ cits in processing speed, sustained attention and working memory in adolescents but not children. Attention de ﬁ cit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents and psychotic disorder in adulthood was associated with sustained attention impairment. Processing speed and working memory were more impaired in children and adults with 22q11.2DS respectively, whereas the de ﬁ cit in sustained attention was present from childhood and remained static over developmental stages. Psychopathology was associated with cognitive pro ﬁ le of individuals with 22q11.2DS in an age-speci ﬁ c and domain-speci ﬁ c manner. Furthermore, magnitude of cognitive impairment differed by developmental stage in 22q11
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in "food deserts" where fast food is more common than fresh food. Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement. These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture.
Gypsies and the problem of identities : contextual, constructed and contested : papers presented a the First International Romani Studies Conference in Istanbul, at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, April 10-12, 2003

What is the role and responsibility of Romani Studies scholars, and how can those engaged in this field change the situation of Gypsies in the world? In what ways are Gypsy identities contextual, constructed and contested? What are the historical and contemporary challenges that influence the trans-national aspirations of the Gypsy emancipation movement? How do we understand and explain social and cultural boundaries, as they relate to self-consciousness and non-Romani societies? How much do we know about the origins of the Gypsies, and what are the epistemological problems involved in the writing, and re-writing of Romani history? In "Gypsies and the Problem of Identities", these and many other topics and themes are explored by a collection of distinguished international scholars. Amongst these contributors are both well-known names such as Thomas Acton, Ian Hancock, Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov as well as researchers and activists from a newer generation in the field of Romani Studies. This publication is the first in English to highlight the situation of the Gypsies in Turkey and the Middle East.
Compact and Broadband Printed Monopole Antenna for Circular Polarization

: In this paper, a compact and broadband printed monopole antenna for circular polarization is proposed. The miniaturization is achieved by inserting a triangle notch to the rectangular patch. Moreover, the broadband circular polarization is achieved by designing the antenna asymmetrically to the microstrip line. The simulated and measured bandwidth of the 10 dB-return loss with a 3 dB-axial ratio is 33.3% (2.50 GHz – 3.50 GHz) and 37.8% (2.55 GHz – 3.74 GHz). The size of the antenna is 0 : 147 (cid:2) 2 c ( λ c is a wavelength in free space at the center frequency).
Agrominerais como fontes de fósforo e potássio para a cultura do milheto.

A elevada demanda pelas plantas e consequente consumo de fertilizantes fosfatados e potassicos ocasionam a dependencia brasileira sempre crescente da importacao de fertilizantes, e alertam para a necessidade do uso de fontes alternativas de nutrientes. Objetivando avaliar o efeito de cinco rochas potassicas e uma rocha fosfatica na producao de materia seca do milheto foi conduzido um experimento em casa de vegetacao no Departamento de Ciencia do Solo da Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA). Foram utilizados dois solos (textura argilosa e textura arenosa) e os tratamentos consistiram de: tratamento completo, com (T1) e sem calagem (T2), completo sem calcio (Ca) e magnesio (Mg) (T3), testemunha absoluta (T4), tratamentos com cinco rochas potassicas (com e sem calagem) e tratamento com rocha fosfatica com e sem calagem (T5 a T16). Nos tratamentos com calagem, utilizou-se calcario dolomitico, visando elevar a saturacao por bases para 55%. As doses de rochas foram ecomendadas baseadas na aplicacao de 10 ton ha-1. A semeadura do milheto foi realizada apos o periodo de incubacao da mistura solo + calcario + rochas (20 dias) mantendo-se 15 plantas por vaso. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, com 4 repeticoes. Para os dois solos, os tratamentos T1, T2 e T3 apresentaram maior producao de materia seca da parte aerea, sendo que no solo argiloso, o tratamento com rocha fosfatica com e sem calagem foi superior aos demais tratamentos com rochas.
1 Hydrodynamics and geomorphology of groundwater environments

Hydrodynamics and geomorphology of groundwater environments Luc Aquilina, Christine Stumpp, Daniele Tonina and John M. Buffington Université Rennes 1CNRS, UMR 6118 Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management, Vienna, Austria; Center for Ecohydraulics Research, University of Idaho, Boise, ID, United States; Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States
Echinoderms from the Gulf of Suez and theNorthern Red sea

The Gulf of Suez is the northwesternmost area of the vast Indo-west Pacific region. Because of its northerly position and shallow depth, the Gulf of Suez is relatively temperate in character and large seasonal changes occur. The surface sea temperatures at the shore in the northwestern Gulf of Suez range from means of about 18°C. in the winter to about 28°C. in the summer (Pearse, 1969a). Accordingly, the Gulf of Suez region may be of special interest to zoogeographers and physiologists, and the presence and especially the absence of Indo-Pacific species may provide indications about some of their limiting tolerances. Moreover, because the Gulf of Suez links the Suez Canal and the eastern Mediterranean to the Red Sea, its fauna is of special importance in any consideration of migration of species through the canal.
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR): A PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BEST PRACTICE THAT HAS GLOBAL APPLICATION

Public procurement managers throughout the United States and their legal counterparts are implementing alternative dispute resolution as the preferred method of resolving contractual disputes. ADR seeks to resolve contractual disputes equitably and expeditiously by keeping the process in the hands of public procurement managers and out of the grasp of attorneys and the courts. ADR is a global concept. In 2004 a conference was held in Brussels to discuss self-regulatory initiatives for mediation and to launch the European Code of Conduct for Mediators. ADR is being adopted by public procurement practitioners globally. This paper provides an empirical assessment of its adoption, effectiveness and global application among public sector procurement managers in the United States, Canada and the European community.
Regional Variation in Written American English: Corpus

The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English takes a corpus-based approach to map over a hundred grammatical alternation variables across the United States. A multivariate spatial analysis of these maps shows that grammatical alternation variables follow a relatively small number of common regional patterns in American English, which can be explained based on both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Based on this rigorous analysis of extensive data, Grieve identifies five primary modern American dialect regions, demonstrating that regional variation is far more pervasive and complex in natural language than is generally assumed. The wealth of maps and data and the groundbreaking implications of this volume make it essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics, English language, geography, computer science, sociology and communication studies.
Gender, remittances and development : the case of women migrants from Vicente Noble, Dominican Republic

The migratory experience is laden with contradictions and ambiguities. On the one hand it offers migrants the opportunity to improve their living conditions and those of their families which benefit from the arrival of remittances from abroad; and to expand their knowledge and broaden their horizons by discovering new cultural realities. On the other hand however migrants and their loved ones may face human costs that include family separation harsh living conditions in the destination country - which are often exacerbated by racism and xenophobia - exploitation and low wages and the perennial nostalgia felt for their own culture. Nevertheless international migration has become a permanent facet of the global landscape and an essential poverty-reduction strategy for many families in the developing world. Over the last years we have witnessed a growing interest in remittances and their potential for development. However the majority of the studies conducted do not take gender perspectives into account. The sending and utilization of remittances are conditioned by economic social and cultural elements in both the countries or origin and destination. The processes are inevitably cross-cut by gender. Not only is the migratory experience different for men and women but the impact of migration on the household varies depending on whether a man or a woman migrates. Gender differences are thus observed in the way that households are restructured the decisions that are made with respect to the utilization of remittances and by whom the type of investments that are prioritized ect. (excerpt)
Latent Semantic Analysis

A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval is described. The approach is to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents ("semantic structure") in order to improve the detection of relevant documents on the basis of terms found in queries. The particular technique used is singular-value decomposition, in which a large term by document matrix is decomposed into a set of ca 100 orthogonal factors from which the original matrix can be approximated by linear combination. Documents are represented by ca 100 item vectors of factor weights. Queries are represented as pseudo-document vectors formed from weighted combinations of terms, and documents with supra-threshold cosine values are returned. Initial tests find this completely automatic method for retrieval to be promising.
Distributed controller synthesis and decision making

Distributed controller design and distributed decision making have been hot topics of investigation in the last few years. New technologies have led to systems where it is critical to identify architectures that distribute the controller effort over sub-controllers to respect the information flow and/or resource constraints. The communication uncertainty between sub-controllers partly governs the optimality of the architecture of the controller. The related synthesis methodology for optimal distributed controller has to address internal stability concerns and has to incorporate the effect of communication uncertainty into the performance metric. In the first part of this thesis, a methodology is developed to address the concerns of sub-controller communication uncertainty. It is demonstrated that different canonical architectures of a centralized design result in appreciably different performance. Methods to identify architectures of information flow where the optimal performance problem is convex are developed. In addition, synthesis methods to incorporate robustness measures with respect to model uncertainty of the communication channel are obtained for the associated distributed architectures. These methods are further refined for specific structures of information flow in the system. In the second part of this thesis, issues in distributed decision making in a large network of nodes are discussed, in particular a distributed averaging consensus protocol is considered which converges asymptotically. However, each node individually never comes to know of the occurrence of convergence, and thus it keeps running required computation and communication throughout its life. This is not desired, as in most of the networks the power of each node is a very limited resource. This thesis provides a distributed algorithm through which each node can distributively detect when the convergence has occurred within a given error margin. This distributed detection takes finite time and happens simultaneously.
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal simulator : an analysis of the effects of the local environment and atmosphere on receiver positioning

Global Navigation Satellite Systems can provide position, velocity and time information to users using receiver hardware. The United States developed Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only current fully operational system; however further systems are in development. The GPS has shown considerable success for navigation, but it still has a number of problems that limit its accuracy. The two main problems are the ionosphere and local environment of the receiver. The ionosphere causes a delay and random rapid shifts in phase and amplitude (scintillation) to the signal. The local environment can provide the signal with multiple routes (multi-path) to the receiver. In this project a GPS signal simulator is developed, which models the effects of the ionosphere and multi-path on the modulated signals. The focus is made on the GPS system as the simulator measurements can be compared to the real measurements; however other systems will be considered in the future. A number of experiments investigating multi-path and ionospheric effects on a receiver’s ability to track the signals have been completed. The simulator has been used to replicate a real local multi-path environment and the results have been compared. Further investigations of the multi-path have shown a unique multi-path signature in the receiver power output. The later part of the thesis describes a case study investigating a short but rapid period of scintillation observed on three receivers based in Norway. An analysis of the multi-path environment was completed, but was found not to be the cause. The ionosphere was investigated using equipment based across Scandinavia. The equipment showed that geomagnetic conditions were disturbed at the time of the event. The GPS measurements were compared with all-sky camera data to show that the scintillation can be attributed to the GPS signal path crossing electron density structures associated with the aurora.
Examination of a GIS-based water quality model using USGS gaged watersheds in Maryland

Title of Document: EXAMINATION OF A GIS-BASED WATER QUALITY MODEL USING USGS GAGED WATERSHEDS IN MARYLAND Dorianne E. Shivers, Master of Science, 2007 Directed By: Professor Glenn E. Moglen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Water quality models are important tools used by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) in developing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), which serve as water quality standards. The MDE tool, which spatially interpolates output from the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model (WSM), is often used because it requires little time, data, or training. In contrast, the WSM requires extensive time, data, and training to run. This study examines if the MDE tool provides accurate estimates of pollutant loads and whether the mid-level complexity model AVGWLF provides comparatively more accurate estimates. The accuracy of the models was assessed based on qualitative comparisons, t-tests, and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients. The MDE tool was found to more accurately predict total nitrogen and total sediment loads and the AVGWLF model was found to more accurately predict total phosphorus loads. The study also found that a consistent method for calculating observed loads needs to be developed. EXAMINATION OF A GIS-BASED WATER QUALITY MODEL USING USGS GAGED WATERSHEDS IN MARYLAND.
3D scanning modeling method application in ancient city reconstruction

With the development of optical engineering technology, the precision of 3D scanning equipment becomes higher, and its role in 3D modeling is getting more distinctive. This paper proposed a 3D scanning modeling method that has been successfully applied in Chinese ancient city reconstruction. On one hand, for the existing architectures, an improved algorithm based on multiple scanning is adopted. Firstly, two pieces of scanning data were rough rigid registered using spherical displacers and vertex clustering method. Secondly, a global weighted ICP (iterative closest points) method is used to achieve a fine rigid registration. On the other hand, for the buildings which have already disappeared, an exemplar-driven algorithm for rapid modeling was proposed. Based on the 3D scanning technology and the historical data, a system approach was proposed for 3D modeling and virtual display of ancient city.
La participación público privada en el nuevo Proyecto de Ley de Contratos del Sector Público

This paper clarifies the meaning of the term PPP and explains why its definition has been so controversial to date. The paper assesses how, as opposed to that held by many, Spain has a strong tradition in the implementation of PPPs. In particular, we underline the role the concession contract has played to encourage public-private-partnerships. In addition, we analyse how concession contracts are not opposed to PPPs but are, instead, a means of conducting the same. The paper ends with a critical analysis of the new PPP contract defined by the last draft of the Public Sector Contract Act, recently approved by the government in Spain.