Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Accounting for Defined Benefit Plans: An International Comparison of Exchange-Listed Companies

Defined benefit pension plans can entail one of the biggest liabilities that an exchange-listed company has on its balance-sheet. There exist comprehensive requirements for the reporting of such liabilities. This paper examines the impact that defined benefit pension plans had on the financial results of exchange-listed companies in 2007. This impact has been compared and analysed at the aggregated country level, as well as in more detail for some specific companies that sponsor large defined benefit pension plans. Comptabilite des regimes de retraite a prestations definies : Une comparaison internationale de societes cotees Les plans de retraite a prestations definies peuvent entrainer une des dettes les plus importantes qu'une societe cotee puisse inscrire a son bilan. Il existe des conditions requises detaillees afin de comptabiliser de tels engagements. Ce document examine l'impact de ces plans de retraite a prestations definies sur les resultats financiers des societes cotee en 2007. Cet impact est compare et analyse au niveau agrege du pays ainsi qu’a un niveau plus detaille pour quelques societe qui commanditent des plans de retraite a prestations definies de grande taille.
Local chromatin environment of a Polycomb target gene instructs its own epigenetic inheritance

Inheritance of gene expression states is fundamental for cells to ‘remember’ past events, such as environmental or developmental cues. The conserved Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) maintains epigenetic repression of many genes in animals and plants and modifies chromatin at its targets. Histones modified by PRC2 can be inherited through cell division. However, it remains unclear whether this inheritance can direct long-term memory of individual gene expression states (cis memory) or instead if local chromatin states are dictated by the concentrations of diffusible factors (trans memory). By monitoring the expression of two copies of the Arabidopsis Polycomb target gene FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) in the same plants, we show that one copy can be repressed while the other is active. Furthermore, this ‘mixed’ expression state is inherited through many cell divisions as plants develop. These data demonstrate that epigenetic memory of FLC expression is stored not in trans but in cis. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.07205. 001
Etude expérimentale de la diffusion thermique dans les monocristaux d'olivine et dans les roches du manteau supérieur

La connaissance de la structure thermique interne de la Terre est essentielle pour mieux apprehender les phenomenes geologiques observables a la surface du globe. Cette structure thermique est determinee par les echanges thermiques conductifs et convectifs au sein du manteau. Ces derniers sont essentiellement controles par les proprietes de transport thermique des roches du manteau. Le travail de these propose une etude de ces proprietes par la determination experimentale de la diffusivite thermique a haute temperature et haute pression. Pour cela, des mesures de diffusivite thermique sur monocristaux et agregats naturels d'olivine (roches) ont ete conduites a l'aide de trois methodes de mesures, dont l'une a ete elaboree a Montpellier. Les mesures sur monocristaux montrent une forte anisotropie de la diffusivite thermique et une contribution significative du rayonnement au transport thermique a haute temperature. Les mesures sur des peridotites deformees naturellement montrent que l'orientation preferentielle des cristaux d'olivine conduit a une anisotropie significative (25%) de la diffusivite thermique, qui se conserve a haute temperature. La comparaison entre le comportement des monocristaux et des agregats d'olivine suggere que la contribution des phonons a la diffusivite thermique n'est pas affectee par les joints de grain ou les imperfections de la roche et que bien que diminuee par l'effet des joints de grains, la contribution radiative demeure significative a l'echelle de la roche. La diffusivite thermique resultante dans les conditions du manteau est proche de 1.5 mm2.s-1, et elle est 50% plus elevee que celle deduite des etudes anterieures. La modelisation des geothermes dans divers contextes geodynamiques montre que des valeurs realistes de la contribution des phonons, ajoutees a une contribution radiative significative et une anisotropie de la diffusivite thermique peuvent avoir un effet majeur sur la dynamique de la lithosphere et du manteau convectif.
Invasive Plant Ecology and Management: Linking Processes to Practice (CABI Invasives Series)

PART 1 - Assessing ecosystem processes and invasive plant impacts 1. Managing invasive species in heterogeneous ecosystems 2. Linking disturbance regimes, vegetation dynamics, and plant strategies across complex landscapes to mitigate and manage plant invasions 3. Land-use legacy effects of cultivation on ecological processes 4. Resource pool dynamics: conditions that regulate species interactions and dominance 5. Invasive plant impacts on soil properties, nutrient cycling, and microbial communities PART 2 - Principles and practices to influence ecosystem change 6. Weather variability, ecological processes, and optimization of soil micro-environment for rangeland restoration 7. The effects of plant-soil feedbacks on invasive plants: mechanisms and potential management options 8. Species performance: the relationship between nutrient availability, life history traits, and stress 9. Reducing invasive plant performance: a precursor to restoration 10. Revegetation: using current technologies and ecological knowledge to manage site availability, species availability, and species performance.
COBIB.SI: prirast bibliografskih zapisov v letu 2020

The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2020 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 185,518 bibliographic records created by 545 cataloguers from 247 libraries. The data on records downloaded from other databases and the data on the annual increment of authority records for personal names and for corporate body names in the CONOR.SI database are included. In addition to seasonal trends, the impact of implementing the preventative measures for covid-19 can be observed.
‘Jinsumi’: A High Grain Quality Rice Cultivar with Mid-Late Maturity

: Recently, concerns have been voiced about the high eating quality rice in the market. To cope the high quality demands in rice market, a rice cultivar ‘Jinsumi’ which is showing high grain quality and multi-resistant to diseases was developed by the National Institute of Crop Science, RDA, Miryang, Korea. ‘Jinsumi’ was derived from a three-way cross of ‘Milyang165’ and F 1 plant of YR16195-B-B-B-21-1/Milyang169. The pedigree of ‘Jinsumi’ was YR21999-B-B-B-17-3-1 and designated as ‘Milyang 218’ in 2005. Heading date of ‘Jinsumi’ was August 15 as mid-late maturing ecotype. ‘Jinsumi’ showed multi resistant to rice stripe virus (RSV), bacterial blight races of K 1 , K 2 , K 3 and moderately resistant to leaf blast disease. The grain appearance of ‘Jinsumi’ was translucent and showed 96.6% of head rice ratio. The milled rice yield of ‘Jinsumi’ was 5.74 MT/ha at ordinary transplanting of local adaptability test. ‘Jinsumi’ would be adaptable to the plain area of Yeongnam province in Korea.
Big data in Financial Management a structured literature review and Opportunities for IS research

Information Systems to support Finance and Accounting functions within organisations form the backbone of modern commerce. Big data has brought a transformational change to this research space the effects of which are starting to be felt in industry and academia. This paper examines the potential research opportunities for the use of “Big data” in the cross disciplinary space of Information Systems, Accounting and Finance. We examine literature at the confluence of these three disciplines to identify current research approaches. An analysis is presented of 47 accounting and finance and information systems (IS) journals from 2007-2016 to identify key themes emerging. These are presented as a conceptual matrix and explored by means of this matrix and a theoretical framework that situates the emerging themes across the three cogent disciplines. The concept matrix reveals potential areas for further research.
Segmentation based Multi-View Stereo

This paper presents a segmentation based multi- view stereo reconstruction method. We address (i) dealing with uninformative texture in very homogeneous image ar- eas and (ii) processing of large images in affordable time. To avoid searching for optimal surface position and orien- tation based on uninformative texture, we (over)segment im- ages into segments of low variation of color and intensity and use each segment to generate a candidate 3D planar patch explaining the underlying 3D surface. Every point of the surface is explained by multiple candidate patches gen- erated from image segments from different images. Observ- ing that the correctly reconstructed surface is consistently generated from different images, the candidates that do not have consistent support by other candidates from other im- ages are rejected. This approach leads to stable and good results since (i) we use larger 3D patches in homogeneous image areas where small patches covered by uninformative texture would lead to ambiguous results, and (ii) we accept only candidates that are consistent across several images. Since the image segmentation used is very fast and it consid- erably reduces the number of candidates per image on typ- ical scenes, we typically generate and test relatively small number of 3D hypotheses per image and thus can process large images in affordable time. We demonstrate the per- formance of our algorithm on large images from Strecha's dataset.
Atmospheric HULIS : how humic-like are they ? A comprehensive and critical review

Atmospheric HULIS: how humic-like are they? A comprehensive and critical review E. R. Graber and Y. Rudich Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel Received: 22 August 2005 – Accepted: 12 September 2005 – Published: 11 October 2005 Correspondence to: E. R. Graber (ergraber@volcani.agri.gov.il) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Logics and properties of a genetic regulatory program that drives embryonic muscle development in an echinoderm

Evolutionary origin of muscle is a central question when discussing mesoderm evolution. Developmental mechanisms underlying somatic muscle development have mostly been studied in vertebrates and fly where multiple signals and hierarchic genetic regulatory cascades selectively specify myoblasts from a pool of naive mesodermal progenitors. However, due to the increased organismic complexity and distant phylogenetic position of the two systems, a general mechanistic understanding of myogenesis is still lacking. In this study, we propose a gene regulatory network (GRN) model that promotes myogenesis in the sea urchin embryo, an early branching deuterostome. A fibroblast growth factor signaling and four Forkhead transcription factors consist the central part of our model and appear to orchestrate the myogenic process. The topological properties of the network reveal dense gene interwiring and a multilevel transcriptional regulation of conserved and novel myogenic genes. Finally, the comparison of the myogenic network architecture among different animal groups highlights the evolutionary plasticity of developmental GRNs. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.07343. 001
Integrating Ocean Color Observations and Nowcast/Forecast of Bio-Optical Properties into the Naval Research Laboratory Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM)

Abstract : The long-term goal of this effort is to provide a framework for assimilating satellite ocean color observations into coupled bio-optical/hydrodynamic ocean models that may provide a forecast of the fully three-dimensional field properties that define the marine environment over a range of spatial/temporal scales and are of pertinent tactical interest to the U.S. Navy. The immediate scientific objectives of this long-term effort are to: (1) use satellite ocean color algorithms that quantify and partition near-surface inherent optical properties (IOP's) to establish a regional IOP climatology, with particular emphasis upon the partition of the multi-spectral absorption coefficient between colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) and living phytoplankton biomass, (2) examine the relationship between IOP variance and three-dimensional thermal field variability as determined by existing data assimilative and interpolative systems (i.e., the Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System - MODAS), (3) use a combination of statistical inference and numerical modeling techniques to provide a three-dimensional optical property estimate (nowcast) that is informed by and integrated with systems that estimate the thermal and velocity fields, and (4) use results from and knowledge gained in objectives 1-3 to refine existing coupled real-time modeling efforts towards an efficient, accurate, and portable prognostic tool for the optical battle space environment.
El gasto en educación de las cajas de ahorros

espanolLas cajas de ahorros son instituciones financieras sin animo de lucro y de amplia aceptacion popular debidoa su labor social o benefica, siendo la inversion en educacion una de esas tareas. Entendida como inversionen capital humano, es decir, en la mejora de la capacitacion de la poblacion, la educacion debia haber sidouna inversion prioritaria de las cajas de ahorros, locuan no parece haber sido el caso. Asi, por ejemplo, el gasto -o consumo- en cultura ha desplazado en los ultimos anos el gasto -o inversion- en educacion. Ademas, y pese a la existencia de una normativa de ambito nacional, cada federacion ha respondidode distinta manera a las carencias educativas regionales. En terminos generales podria afirmarse que las federaciones con menores recursos han sido tambien las menos eficientes ala hora de invertir en educacion. EnglishSaving and loan institutions have always being popular in Spain due to their charitable investments, among others those in education. As an investment in human capital, education should have been a priority for saving and loan institutions, yet it appears not to have been so. Thus, in recent years expenditures in cultural activities have increased to the detriment of expenditures in education.In spite of national laws, each regional institution has faced differently the local educational wants. Generally speaking, worse endowed institutions have been less efficient in their educational investments.
Hypertension as a Biomarker of Efficacy in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated With Sunitinib

Background Hypertension (HTN) is an on-target effect of the vascular endothelial growth factor pathway inhibitor, sunitinib. We evaluated the association of sunitinib-induced HTN with antitumor efficacy and HTN-associated adverse events in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Methods This retrospective analysis included pooled efficacy (n = 544) and safety (n = 4917) data from four studies of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who were treated with sunitinib 50 mg/d administered on a 4-week-on 2-week-off schedule (schedule 4/2). Blood pressure (BP) was measured in the clinic on days 1 and 28 of each 6-week cycle. Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated using Kaplan–Meier methods; hazard ratios (HRs) for survival were also estimated by a Cox proportional hazards models using HTN as a time-dependent covariate. Efficacy outcomes were compared between patients with and without HTN (maximum systolic BP [SBP] ≥140 mm Hg or diastolic BP [DBP] ≥90 mm Hg). Adverse events were also compared between patients with and without HTN (mean SBP ≥140 mm Hg or mean DBP ≥90 mm Hg). All P values were two-sided. Results Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and sunitinib-induced HTN defined by maximum SBP had better outcomes than those without treatment-induced HTN (objective response rate: 54.8% vs 8.7%; median PFS: 12.5 months, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 10.9 to 13.7 vs 2.5 months, 95% CI = 2.3 to 3.8 months; and OS: 30.9 months, 95% CI = 27.9 to 33.7 vs 7.2 months, 95% CI = 5.6 to 10.7 months; P < .001 for all). Similar results were obtained when comparing patients with vs without sunitinib-induced HTN defined by maximum DBP. In a Cox proportional hazards model using HTN as a time-dependent covariate, PFS (HR of disease progression or death = .603, 95% CI = .451 to .805; P < .001) and OS (HR of death = .332, 95% CI = .252 to .436; P < .001) were improved in patients with treatment-induced HTN defined by maximum SBP; OS (HR of death = .585, 95% CI = .463 to .740; P < .001) was improved in patients with treatment-induced HTN defined by maximum DBP, but PFS was not. Few any-cause cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, ocular, and renal adverse events were observed. Rates of adverse events were similar between patients with and without HTN defined by mean SBP; however, hypertensive patients had somewhat more renal adverse events (5% vs 3%; P = .013). Conclusions In patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, sunitinib-associated HTN is associated with improved clinical outcomes without clinically significant increases in HTN-associated adverse events, supporting its viability as an efficacy biomarker.
Influence of environmental factors on production and dispersal of Tolyposporium penicillariae sporidia

The influence of environmental factors on production and dispersal of airborne sporidia of Tolyposporium penicillariae, the causal agent of smut of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), was studied for 4 years (1984-1987) at the ICRISAT Centre farm. Sporidia were monitored once every 2 weeks, using rotorod spore samplers in two fields each cropped with pearl millet (June-October) and groundnut (November-April), located 500 m apart; one was a pearl millet smut nursery and the other was not. Most sporidia were trapped during the latter half of the pearl millet growing season, the time when the crop is at flowering and susceptible to infection. Maximum numbers of sporidia were recorded when the maximum temperature was 31-32° C and the minimum temperature was 20-21°C, and maximum relative humidity (RH) was more than 80% and minimum RH was 41-50%, with some rainfall (11-30 mm) and low wind speed (4-6 km/h), calculated on biweekly basis. Temperature, RH and wind speed were the principal environmental factors influencing production and dispersal of T. penicillariae sporidia.
Macro- and micronutrients in patients with congestive heart failure, particularly African-Americans

Not all patients with heart failure, defined as a reduced ejection fraction, will have an activation of the RAAS, salt and water retention, or the congestive heart failure (CHF) syndrome. Beyond this cardiorenal perspective, CHF is accompanied by a systemic illness that includes oxidative stress, a proinflammatory phenotype, and a wasting of soft tissues and bone. A dyshomeostasis of calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, and vitamin D contribute to the appearance of oxidative stress and to compromised endogenous defenses that combat it. A propensity for hypovitaminosis D, given that melanin is a natural sunscreen, and for secondary hyperparathyroidism in African-Americans make them more susceptible to these systemic manifestations of CHF—a situation which is further threatened by the calcium and magnesium wasting that accompanies the secondary aldosteronism of CHF and the use of loop diuretics.
The Contribution of Extreme Precipitation to the Total Precipitation in China

Abstract Using daily precipitation data from weather stations in China, the variations in the contribution of extreme precipitation to the total precipitation are analyzed. It is found that extreme precipitation accounts for approximately one third of the total precipitation based on the overall mean for China. Over the past half century, extreme precipitation has played a dominant role in the year-to-year variability of the total precipitation. On the decadal time scale, the extreme precipitation makes different contributions to the wetting and drying regions of China. The wetting trends of particular regions are mainly attributed to increases in extreme precipitation; in contrast, the drying trends of other regions are mainly due to de-creases in non-extreme precipitation.
Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action

Part 1 Linking structure and action: problems of explanation in economic sociology the social structure of competition agency as control in formal networks Nadel's paradox revisited - relational and cultural aspects of organizational structure doing your job and helping your friends - universalistic norms about obligations to particular others in networks structural alignments, individual strategies and managerial action - elements towards a network theory of getting things done. Part 2 Different network ties and their implications: centrality and power in organizations the strength of strong ties - the importance of philos in organizations information and search in the creation of new business ventures - the case of the 128 Venture Group complementary communication media - a comparison of electronic mail and face-to-face communication in a programming team face-to-face - making network organizations work. Part 3 Organizational environmental relations as inter-organizational networks: strategic alliances in commercial biotechnology the make-or-cooperate decision in the context of an industry network competitive co-operation in biotechnology - learning through networks? Part 4 Network forms of organizations: the network organization in theory and practice fragments of a cognitive theory of technological change and organizational structure small-firm networks on the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks - the Western bias of neoclassical economics the organization of business networks in the United States and Japan. Conclusion: making network research relevant to practice.
Survey Record of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Chamba Forest Division, Himachal Pradesh

(i) The survey report brings on record 155 medicinal and aromatic plant species, of which only 40 are known to possess constant market demand and thus exploited regularly. (ii) Areas reputed to be rich in drug resources have not been found to be so rich after this survey. This is because of constant exploitation of drugs from these areas without providing protection for regeneration, etc. Steps should now be taken to bring extraction of drug and aromatic plants on systematic and scientific lines before these areas are completely exhausted. (iii) Cultivation of drug and aromatic plants of category "A" described above (leaving a few exceptions) be taken up at suitable areas wherever economically feasible. Exotic plant species such as Atropa belladonna, Digitalis purpurea, D. lanata, Hyoscyamus niger, Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium and such other drugs be introduced and cultivated on large scale to developing indigenous resources for the Pharmaceutical industry. (iv) The Chamba Minor Forest Produce Exploitation and Export Act 2003 (S) be revised and made applicable throughout the Himachal Pradesh.
Welche Rolle spielen Strungen fr Tagfalter und Widderchen

2-Amino-4-hydroxy-6-[2-(4-carboxyphenyl)alk-1-en-1-yl]pyrido[2,3,-d]py rimidines and 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-[2-(4-carboxyphenyl)alk-1-yn-1-yl]pyrido[2,3-d]pyr imidines are prepared through the reaction of a halo-aromatic compound and an unsaturated compound in the prosence of a palladium catalyst. The products are chemical intermediates for the preparation of antineo-plastic agents. A typical embodiment is the reaction of a protected 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-ethynylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine and an ester of 4-iodobenzoic acid.