nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Learning from exporting revisited in a less developed setting

This study asks if firms become more productive by learning through exporting. We do so by estimating production functions using a panel dataset of Indonesian manufacturing establishments from 1990 to 1996. In contrast to previous studies of more developed countries, we find strong evidence that firms experience a jump in productivity of about 2% to 5% following the initiation of exporting. The timing of the performance improvement suggests learning from exporting rather than just self-selection of better firms into export markets.
Trading in Strategic Resources: Necessary Conditions, Transaction Cost Problems, and Choice of Exchange Structure

The paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the exchange structure in the trading of imperfectly imitable and imperfectly mobile firm resources. It first explores the conditions for such resources to be gainfully traded between firms and then investigates the interconnections between barriers to imitation and impediments to trading. A major part of the paper is devoted to developing an integrative and yet parsimonious model for assessing the exchange structure between firms that are involved in the trading of strategic resources in the face of signifcant transaction cost problems. The model is applied in the last part of the paper to the analysis of the choice between acquisitions and collaborative ventures.
Self-service accounting: Mass retailing recipes for chartered accountants [Le libre-service de l’expertise comptable : Recettes de la grande distribution pour experts comptables]

Due to the growing importance of services in Western economies, profitability in this sector is a crucial issue. Yet productivity gains can be difficult to obtain, especially for activities in which intensive labor such as accountancy. Can the solutions developed by large retailers be transposed to accounting? Through a qualitative research conducted in an on line accounting firm, two levers are identified. The first one is to industrialize the service coproduction by combining methods for industrial production and mass consumption. The second one concerns the design client work, considered an intermittent employee by the company. To be effective and generate productivity gains, the company must set up a system to control its work which profitability is obtained over the long term.
All-cause and disease-related health care costs associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism.

It was the objective of this study to quantify the risk of complications and the incremental health care costs associated with recurrent VTE events. Health care insurance claims from the Ingenix IMPACT database from 01/2004-09/2008 were analysed. Subjects aged ≥18 years on the date of first recurrent VTE diagnosis with ≥12 months of baseline observation prior to the index recurrent VTE were matched 1:1 with no-recurrent VTE patients based on propensity scores. The risk of developing post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) and other disease-related diagnoses (thrombocytopenia, superficial venous thrombosis, venous ulcer, pulmonary hypertension, stasis dermatitis, and venous insufficiency) was compared between the recurrent and no-recurrent VTE groups for up to one year. All-cause and disease-related costs per patient per year (PPPY) were calculated. The recurrent VTE and no-recurrent VTE cohorts (8,001 subjects in each group) were matched with respect to age, gender, and comorbidities. The risk ratios (RRs) indicated that the risk of developing post-event complications was significantly higher for the recurrent VTE group compared to the no-recurrent VTE group (RR [95% CI]: PTS: 2.7 [2.4 - 2.9], p-value <0.01). Patients with recurrent VTE had significantly higher average PPPY all-cause costs compared to no-recurrent VTE patients ($86,744 versus $37,525, cost difference: $49,219 [€33,617]; 95% CI= 46,253-51,989). Corresponding disease-related health care costs PPPY were also significantly higher for the recurrent VTE group ($11,120 vs $1,262, cost difference: $9,858 [€6,733]; 95% CI= $9,081-$10,476). In conclusion, in this large matched-cohort study, recurrent VTE patients had significantly higher risk of complications and health care costs compared to no-recurrent VTE patients.
Eastern Model-Theory for Boolean-Valued Theories

In this paper we study some model-theoretic properties of Boolean-valued models in which the interpretations of certain first-order sentences have prescribed values in a fixed complete Boolean algebra ; these are models of a natural Boolean-valued analogue of a consistent first-order theory as introduced in A. SHORB’S thesis  (see also [7]). We obtain conditions for such a Boolean-valued theory to be preserved under submodels or under unions of chains; the conditions are in terms of the least Boolean-value which an universal, or Qhentence, respectively, has to take in a model of the given theory. These results enable us to investigate model completeness and existentially closed models for a Boolean-valued theory. It is proved that the relation between a model companion for a first-order theory and its cIass of existentially closed models still holds in this context.
Formal Verification of a Power Controller Using the Real-Time Model Checker UPPAAL

A real-time system for power-down control in audio/video components is modeled and verified using the real-time model checker UPPAAL. The system is supposed to reside in an audio/video component and control (read from and write to) links to neighbor audio/video components such as TV, VCR and remote-control. In particular, the system is responsible for the powering up and down of the component in between the arrival of data, and in order to do so in a safe way without loss of data, it is essential that no link interrupts are lost. Hence, a component system is a multitasking system with hard real-time requirements, and we present techniques for modeling time consumption in such a multitasked, prioritized system. The work has been carried out in a collaboration between Aalborg University and the audio/video company B&O. By modeling the system, 3 design errors were identified and corrected, and the following verification confirmed the validity of the design but also revealed the necessity for an upper limit of the interrupt frequency. The resulting design has been implemented and it is going to be incorporated as part of a new product line.
Predetermined Prices and the Persistent Effects of Money on Output

This Paper illustrates a model of predetermined pricing based on the work of Fischer (1977), where firms set a fixed schedule of nominal prices at the time of price readjustment. This type of price-setting specification cannot produce any excess persistence in a fixed duration model of staggered prices. But we show that with a probabilistic model of price adjustment, as in Calvo (1983), a predetermined pricing specification can produce excess persistence. Moreover, in response to a money shock, the aggregate dynamics are very similar to those under a specification of fixed prices, the assumption underlying most recent dynamic sticky-price models.
Tools and Techniques for Automatic Data Layout: A Case Study

Parallel architectures with physically distributed memory providing computing cycles and large amounts of memory are becoming more and more common. To make such architectures truly usable, programming models and support tools are needed to ease the programming effort for these parallel systems. Automatic data distribution tools and techniques play an important role in achieving that goal. This paper discusses state-of-the-art approaches to fully automatic data and computation partitioning. A kernel application is used as a case study to illustrate the main differences of four representative approaches. The paper concludes with a discussion of promising future research directions for automatic data layout.
‘Fred, it’s a mess’: Fred Dagg and the cultural politics of the laconic

AbstractWriting on ‘The New Zealand Sense of Humour’ in his posthumously published book, Tinkering, John Clarke describes the comic temperament of his country of birth as ‘laconic, under-stated and self-deprecating’ (2017, ). In evoking the laconic as a marker of national comic character, Clarke is far from alone: the term is frequently used as an easy, ready-to-hand account of the comic characteristics of both Clarke’s native New Zealand and Australia, where he found his later comic success. Yet the ease with which the term is conjured belies the complexity of the comic forms to which it refers. Literally, ‘laconic’ refers to the use of few words, but it is not always clear how this definition informs laconic humour. This article explores how the laconic might be understood by examining John Clarke’s comedy with particular reference to his Fred Dagg persona. It argues that Dagg’s presentation of the laconic can be productively understood in opposition to Sianne Ngai’s account of the ‘zany’. This compar...
Physics results from dynamical overlap fermion simulations

I summarize the physics results obtained from large-scale dynamical overlap fermion simulations by the JLQCD and TWQCD collaborations. The numerical simulations are performed at a fixed global topological sector; the physics results in the theta-vacuum is reconstructed by correcting the finite volume effect, for which the measurement of the topological susceptibility is crucial. Physics applications we studied so far include a calculation of chiral condensate, pion mass, decay constant, form factors, as well as (vector and axial-vector) vacuum polarization functions and nucleon sigma term.
Мифологический ресурс семейно-брачного функционирования

Myth as a resource of marital and family functionality is substantiated in the article. Myth is used in A. F. Losev's interpretation as the meaning-giving basis of life. Pentalogical dialectics is used as a methodological tool to expand on the subject. This dialectics is taken from the author's interpretation by professor V. Yu. Zavialov, author of the national school of Dianalysis.
The Scientific-Technological Revolution and the Formation of Man's Sensible Needs Under the Conditions of Developed Socialist Society

Socialist society is a society whose basic economic law and goal are the most complete satisfaction of the needs of the people. Proceeding from this, the Twenty-fourth Congress of the CPSU articulated a policy aimed at a more intense orientation of the economy toward the solution of various problems associated with improving the well-being of the Soviet people, not only for the period of the five-year plan, but also for the economic development of the country for the extended future.
Theoretical Model for the Structural Phase Transition and the Metal–Insulator Transition in Polymerized KC60

The recently discovered structural phase transition in polymerized KC60 at about 50 K leads to a doubling of the unit cell volume and is accompanied by a metal–insulator transition. Here, we show that the superstructure results from orientational charge density waves along the polymer chains and correlated displacements of the K+ ions. The presented model can also account for the metal–insulator transition. The effect is specific for the space group Pmnn of KC60 and is absent in both Rb‐ and CsC60 (space group I2/m), in agreement with the present experimental knowledge of these compounds.
Sign and other aspects of semiclassical Casimir energies

The Casimir energy of a massless scalar field is semiclassically given by contributions due to classical periodic rays. The required subtractions in the spectral density are determined explicitly. The semiclassical Casimir energies so defined coincide with those of zeta function regularization in the cases studied. Poles in the analytic continuation of zeta function regularization are related to nonuniversal subtractions in the spectral density. The sign of the Casimir energy of a scalar field on a smooth manifold is estimated by the sign of the contribution due to the shortest periodic rays only. Demanding continuity of the Casimir energy under small deformations of the manifold, the method is extended to integrable systems. The Casimir energy of a massless scalar field on a manifold with boundaries includes contributions due to periodic rays that lie entirely within the boundaries. These contributions in general depend on the boundary conditions. Although the Casimir energy due to a massless scalar field may be sensitive to the physical dimensions of manifolds with boundary. In favorable cases its sign can, contrary to conventional wisdom, be inferred without calculation of the Casimir energy.
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes

www.physicstoday.org on many of the topics in the text; his experience is reflected in the interesting and cohesive perspectives related to the different subjects discussed and in the adaptation of calculations from his own work to new, substantial, and intriguing problems. Each chapter has two short introductions: one to outline its contents and the other to discuss the exercises at the end of the chapter. The introductions are most useful for providing context, and they help the flow of the presentation. The one choice made by the author with which I disagree is that he did not provide literature recommendations when he did not cover a topic in depth. A highlight of the book is the broad array of thoughtful exercises; an answer key to most of them is available to instructors on request. That sensible policy is a tremendous boon to timecrunched instructors who want to make up problem sets that take an appropriate amount of time for students to complete. Sethna asks that instructors do not post the answers to the exercises on the Web or distribute them electronically. The exercises include a substantial number of computational problems; software for several of them can be downloaded from the author’s website. Some of the software is prewritten so that students can easily download and run simulations. When I was writing this review, some of the canned exercises did not work on Macintosh OS X. I hope the problem is remedied by the time this review is published. Some of the exercises in the book guide students to write their own simulations. They are encouraged to program in Python, a computer language that runs on all standard platforms and is relatively easy to learn. Some of the exercises would take a long time to grade, so it is best to assign them in a course only when the class is small or considerable grading assistance is available. Sethna’s book provides an important service to students who want to learn modern statistical mechanics. The text teaches students how to work out problems by guiding them through the exercises rather than by presenting them with worked-out examples. Overall, Statistical Mechanics is probably more appropriate as a textbook than a selfstudy guide. Instructors can point out to students which material is core and central to understanding following chapters, and which is cultural and not required to comprehend later topics. Susan Coppersmith University of Wisconsin–Madison Many Worlds in One
The U.S. software industry : an analysis and interpretative history

A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website. • The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review. • The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers.
Enhancement of dielectric and electrical properties in BT/SiC/PVDF three-phase composite through microstructure tailoring

A polymer composite with high dielectric permittivity was prepared by embedding silicon carbide (SiC) whisker with an average diameter of 500 nm–1 μm in poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). However, the high dielectric loss and electrical conductivity of the two-phase composite prohibits its potential applications. Barium titanate (BT) particles with average diameter of 100 nm and 1 μm were incorporated as a third phase to fabricate a three-phase composite. The morphology structure, dielectric and electrical properties before and after the addition of BT particles were investigated. The three-phase composite exhibits largely suppressed dielectric loss and electrical conductivity without sacrificing the high dielectric permittivity, which was extremely hard to be realized for two-phase composite. It is also found that the nano-size BT is more favorable in achieving high dielectric permittivity than the micro-size BT, where their dielectric loss and electrical conductivity are similar. Furthermore, electric modulus analysis confirms the largely suppressed electron conduction process which results in the enhanced dielectric and electrical properties in three-phase composite.
Arte e Política em Joseph Beuys: o Homem como obra de arte

The article seeks to address the relationship between art and politics present in the work of Joseph Beuys. The hypothesis for the analysis is based on the fact that the work of the German artist can not be reduced to mere political discourse. At the moment of dialogue, interaction with the public, Beuys believed both are carving, so "every man is an artist." Whether in the form of posters, multiples, videos, performances, or "conversations", the viewer is led to not only transform the society in which he lives (political action), but also to become, to build a new staff structure, open and therefore full meanings - poetry. Restrict ourselves to the two works "will not succeed without a rose" and "A Rose for Direct Democracy" - poster and multiple, since these two works allow us to reflect on some production issues present in the work of Beuys.
Resurrecting Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was once a world‐famous psychoanalyst and sociologist. His writings, spanning six decades, placed him among the most prolific and well‐known analysts of his generation. In this paper, we outline Fromm's major themes and theoretical contributions. His unique attempts to synthesize depth psychology and a critical perspective on modern social forces make his work central to social work's mission of alleviating oppression, fostering social justice, and facilitating emotional healing and personal growth. In resurrecting Fromm, we hope to stimulate thought about some of the complex theoretical problems that inform practice. “The understanding of the unconscious of the individual presupposes and necessitates the critical analysis of his (sic) society.” Erich Fromm (1959/1963, p. 116)
Citizenship and the Russian nation during World War One: A comment

Historians of late imperial Russia have been categorical in asserting that Russian peasants lacked any form of national identity. Scholars as diverse as Orlando Figes, Geoffrey Hosking, John Keep, Bruce Lincoln, Richard Pipes, Robert Service, Ronald Suny, and Allan Wildman have agreed that Russian peasants were too rooted in Gemeinschaft, too particularistic in their social identities, to be capable of identifying with the polity and territory of Russia.' John Keep expresses the consensus concisely when he writes:
Twentieth-century France : politics and society, 1898-1991

Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated focussing on the presidencies of Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing, and Mitterrand and on the immense social and economic changes the country has expereinced in the years since 1969. No other book provides such a stimulating and up-to-date study of modern France.
Virtual LSPs at e

Currently popular search strategies for supersymmetric particles may be significantly affected due to relatively light sneutrinos which decay dominantly into invisible channels. In certain cases the second lightest neutralino may also decay invisibly leading to two extra carriers of missing energy (in addition to the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP)) – the virtual LSPs (VLSPs). It is shown that if the sneutrino masses happen to be in the small but experimentally allowed range (m ˜ ν ≈ 45-55 GeV), these particles together with neutralino pairs may contribute significantly to the missing energy in the process e + e − −→ γ+ E T at LEP-2 energies as an enhancement over the Standard Model or the conventional MSSM predictions. It is further shown that a much larger region of the parameter space can be scanned at a high luminosity e + e − collider at 500 GeV like the proposed NLC machine. Moreover this process can play a complementary role to direct chargino searches at LEP-2 and NLC which may fail due to a near mass degeneracy of the chargino and the sneutrino. Formulae for the cross sections taking into account full mixings of the charginos and the neutralinos are derived. The signal remains observable even in the context of more restricted models based on N =1 SUGRA with common scalar and gaugino masses. The effect of soft photon brehmsstrahlung on the signal is also discussed briefly.
Urbanization of Information Systems with a Service Oriented Architecture According to the PRAXEME Approach - Application to the Information System of the National Social Insurance Fund (CNAS)

This article addresses the problem of urbanization of information systems. The development of an information system company is certainly a complex task. Hence the choice for organizations to opt for an urbanization approach of their information. In our work we are interested in a comprehensive approach to recast Information System (IS). This approach is oriented service (Service Oriented Architecture), based on a mapping and an orchestration of business processes related to the IS.
Pregnancy outcomes in multiple sclerosis following subcutaneous interferon beta-1a therapy.

Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) are advised to discontinue interferon-beta therapy before trying to conceive. Unplanned pregnancies occur and risks related to exposure remain unclear.



To determine pregnancy outcomes following interferon-beta therapy, we examined pregnancies from a global drug safety database containing individual case safety reports received in the post-marketing setting and safety data from clinical trials of subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in MS.



One thousand and twenty-two cases of exposure to subcutaneous interferon beta-1a during pregnancy were retrieved; 679 had a documented outcome. In cases for which exposure duration was available (n  = 231), mean time of foetal exposure to subcutaneous interferon beta-1a before treatment discontinuation was 28 days; most pregnancies (199/231; 86.1%) were exposed for ≤ 45 days. To avoid bias, only outcomes for prospective data (n  = 425) in pregnancies exposed to interferon beta-1a in utero were analysed further. Of these, 324 (76.2%) resulted in normal live births and four (0.9%) in live births with congenital anomalies (3 [0.7%] were 'major'). Four (0.9%) pregnancies resulted in stillbirths (1 [0.2%] with foetal defects). There were 5 (1.2%) ectopic pregnancies, 49 (11.5%) spontaneous abortions and 39 (9.2%) elective terminations. Most pregnancies exposed to subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in utero were associated with normal live births. The rates of spontaneous abortion and major congenital anomalies in live births were in line with those observed in the general population.



These data should be taken into account when considering options for women with MS who become pregnant or who are planning pregnancy while on treatment with subcutaneous interferon beta-1a.