Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ANALISIS PENGARUH PMDN, PMA, DAN PDRB TERHADAP PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH (PAD) DI KABUPATEN PATI TAHUN 1982-2011

Abstrak ___________________________________________________________________ Peneltian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh penanaman modal dalam negeri , penanaman modal asing , dan produk demostik regional bruto terhadap pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten Pati, menggunakan data skunder dari Badan Pusat Statistik, Dinas Pendapatan Pengelolaan Kekayaan Aset Daerah, dan Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal Daerah Kabupaten Pati dengan periode pengamatan dari tahun 1982 sampai dengan tahun 2011. Penelitian ini menggunakan alat analisis regresi berganda dengan model double log, bentuk persamaan regresi Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan (1) variabel penanaman modal dalam negeri berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten Pati. (2) variabel penanaman modal asing berpengaruh positif dan tidak signifikan terhadap pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten Pati. (3) variabel produk domestik regional bruto berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten Pati. (4) variabel penanaman modal dalam negeri, penanaman modal asing, dan produk domestik regional bruto secara bersama-sama berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten PatiSWOT . Abstract __________________________________________________________________ This research aims to look at the influence of domestic capital investment, foreign investment, and a gross regional product of demostik against the original revenue areas in Pati, using secondary data from the Central Bureau of statistics, the Department of Revenue wealth management Assets, and the investment Coordinating Board of Pati Regency with the observation period from 1982 until the year 2011. This study uses multiple regression analysis tool with double log model, a form of regression equations of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). The results showed (1) the domestic capital investment variables affect positively and significantly to the original income areas in Pati. (2) the variable foreign investment influential positive and insignificant to the original income areas in Pati. (3) the variable gross regional domestic product of positive and significant effect to the original income areas in Pati. (4) variable domestic capital investment, foreign investment, gross regional domestic product and collectively influence positively and significantly to the original income areas in Pati.
Spontaneous anterior interosseous nerve palsy.

Palsy of the anterior interosseous nerve (AIN) was first described by Tinel 1 in 1918 under the title 'Dissociated paralysis of the median nerve'. In 1948 Parsonage and Turner 2 noted six examples of this syndrome in a review of 136 patients with neuralgic amyotrophy, and in 1952 Kiloh and Nevin 3 reported two cases of the palsy as an isolated neuritis. In 1955 Lipscomb and Burleson 4 described the condition in association with a supracondylar fracture and in 1965 Fearn and Goodfellow 5 first observed that an entrapment neuropathy was responsible for some examples of the AIN. The indications for operative treatment for spontaneous AIN palsy are controversial. When the cause of the palsy is an entrapment, the nerve should be explored early. If it is due to neuralgic amyotrophy or an isolated neuritis, surgery is not generally indicated and conservative treatment is followed. However, it is not easy to determine the appropriate method of management because there are no clinical findings or neurophysiological investigations to differentiate these two lesions. Recently, there have been several reports 6-8 of cases in which an hourglass-like fascicular constriction was discovered in the main trunk of the median nerve after interfascicular neurolysis. The aetiology and the strategy for treating AIN palsy should therefore be reconsidered. This review describes the anatomy, clinical features, the aetiology and the treatment of an hourglass-like constriction of the fascicles in spontaneous palsy. Anatomy The anterior interosseous nerve is the largest branch of the median nerve and arises 5 to 8 cm distal to the level of the lateral epicondyle, 9 usually immediately distal to the superior border of the superficial head of pronator teres. It was found to originate from the radial side of the median nerve in 61% of 31 cadaver arms and from the deep, posterior aspect in the remainder. 10 It runs between the deep and superficial heads of pronator teres accompanying the median nerve and passes beneath the arcade of flexor digi-torum superficialis to lie on the anterior interosseous membrane , terminating in the capsule of the wrist. Proximally, above its branching from the median nerve, the fasciculus destined to become the anterior interosseous nerve runs in the posterior part of the main trunk of the median nerve. According to Sunderland's 11 detailed anatomical studies of the median nerve, fibres destined to become the anterior interosseous nerve can be isolated from the main trunk …
Investment, exchange rates and relative prices: evidence from emerging economies

In open economies, external factors have an important effect on real and nominal macroeconomic variables, and hence on economic welfare. For example, external factors such as the degree of trade openness and the level and variability of the exchange rate are important for the determination of domestic investment and domestic prices. Several aspects of the external sector and their impact on the domestic economy form the main themes that are investigated in this thesis of four main empirical chapters. Firstly, we investigate the determinants of business investment for a panel of emerging economies. We take an open economy framework incorporating the exchange rate as an important factor in a simple stylised model. To test the model implications we utilise sectoral industry data and endeavour to take account of panel heterogeneity and endogeneity in our estimation. In the empirical section of this chapter a rise in the exchange rate, a domestic currency appreciation, was found to be positively related to investment for some of the countries. We posit that this is due to the importance of the cost channel for firms. In the next chapter, we examine the impact of exchange rate volatility on sectoral investment for emerging economies. Volatile exchange rates make investment decisions in open economies difficult due to uncertainty. Our approach is robust to four different measures of exchange rate volatility. The empirical results show that permanent exchange rate volatility measure has a strong positive impact on domestic investment in the long run, which could possibly imply investors in small open economies with better financial markets are able to diversify risks. Volatility may also be more important than the level of the exchange for investment. The next chapter in this Thesis on Open Emerging Market Economies considers the extent of exchange rate pass through to import prices. In a stylized model, import prices are dependent upon the exchange rate, marginal cost and the mark up. Our results show that the average response of import prices to movements in the exchange rate is negative and incomplete. However, once we take account of exchange rate asymmetry, important differences such as market share and mark-ups exist between Latin America and Asia. The fifth chapter, and final main empirical chapter, investigates whether increased trade openness dampens relative producer prices in a panel of Indian manufacturing sector. We purport that the import share, average labour productivity and the mark-up are the key determinants of sectoral wholesale relative producer prices. After accounting for endogeneity, our main result is that, there is some evidence that rise in import share decreases the relative producer prices, but only feebly influences the decline across the sectors in India.
The Purinergic System and Glial Cells: Emerging Costars in Nociception

It is now well established that glial cells not only provide mechanical and trophic support to neurons but can directly contribute to neurotransmission, for example, by release and uptake of neurotransmitters and by secreting pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators. This has greatly changed our attitude towards acute and chronic disorders, paving the way for new therapeutic approaches targeting activated glial cells to indirectly modulate and/or restore neuronal functions. A deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways involved in neuron-to-glia and glia-to-glia communication that can be pharmacologically targeted is therefore a mandatory step toward the success of this new healing strategy. This holds true also in the field of pain transmission, where the key involvement of astrocytes and microglia in the central nervous system and satellite glial cells in peripheral ganglia has been clearly demonstrated, and literally hundreds of signaling molecules have been identified. Here, we shall focus on one emerging signaling system involved in the cross talk between neurons and glial cells, the purinergic system, consisting of extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides and their membrane receptors. Specifically, we shall summarize existing evidence of novel “druggable” glial purinergic targets, which could help in the development of innovative analgesic approaches to chronic pain states.
Analysis of Multiuser MIMO Downlink Networks Using Linear Transmitter and Receivers

In contrast to dirty-paper coding (DPC) which is largely information theoretic, this paper proposes a linear codec that can spatially multiplex the multiuser signals to realize the rich capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink broadcast (point-to-multipoint) channels when channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter. Assuming single-stream (or single-mode) communication for each user, we develop an iterative algorithm, which is stepwise optimal, to obtain the multiuser antenna weights accomplishing orthogonal space-division multiplexing (OSDM). The steady state solution has a straightforward interpretation and requires only maximal-ratio combiners (MRC) at the mobile stations to capture the optimized spatial modes. Our main contribution is that the proposed scheme can greatly reduce the processing complexity (at least by a factor of the number of base station antennas) while maintaining the same error performance when compared to a recently published OSDM method. Intensive computer simulations show that the proposed scheme promises to provide multiuser diversity in addition to user separation in the spatial domain so that both diversity and multiplexing can be obtained at the same time for multiuser scenario.
Genistein from Vigna angularis Extends Lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans

The seed of Vigna angularis has long been cultivated as a food or a folk medicine in East Asia. Genistein (4′,5,7-trihydroxyisoflavone), a dietary phytoestrogen present in this plant, has been known to possess various biological properties. In this study, we investigated the possible lifespan-extending effects of genistein using Caenorhabditis elegans model system. We found that the lifespan of nematode was significantly prolonged in the presence of genistein under normal culture condition. In addition, genistein elevated the survival rate of nematode against stressful environment including heat and oxidative conditions. Further studies demonstrated that genistein-mediated increased stress tolerance of nematode could be attributed to enhanced expressions of stress resistance proteins such as superoxide dismutase (SOD-3) and heat shock protein (HSP-16.2). Moreover, we failed to find genistein-induced significant change in aging-related factors including reproduction, food intake, and growth, indicating genistein exerts longevity activity independent of affecting these factors. Genistein treatment also led to an up-regulation of locomotory ability of aged nematode, suggesting genistein affects healthspan as well as lifespan of nematode. Our results represent that genistein has beneficial effects on the lifespan of C. elegans under both of normal and stress condition via elevating expressions of stress resistance proteins.
Green Agrowth as a Third Option: Removing the GDP-Growth Constraint on Human Progress

The debate on growth versus the environment is usually summarized as optimists believing in limitless growth versus pessimists seeing environmental and resource limits to growth. This opposition defines the main strategies: namely, striving for green growth versus some anti-growth approach. In this paper I argue that we should not feel obliged to choose between these polarized opinions, as there is in fact a third option. I call this the “agrowth” strategy, and it offers a way out of the impasse that characterizes the growth-versus-environment debate. I will define this agrowth strategy, motivate its rationality, and examine its premises, implications, advantages, political feasibility and practical steps. I suggest that an agrowth strategy follows logically from accepting the shortcomings of GDP (per capita) as an indicator of social welfare. It will be graphically shown that both anti-growth and pro-growth goals represent avoidable, unnecessary constraints on our search for human betterment, which lead to lower realizations of social welfare than are in fact feasible. I will further discuss the idea of green agrowth, notably in the context of avoiding dangerous climate change. Finally, a pragmatic approach to selecting alternative macro indicators is proposed.
Evaluating Effective Use of Social Networks for Recruitment

Social media applications and services have become popular over the years and organizations are increasingly exploiting social media related services in business functions. Human resource recruiting is one such function, which has stepped into a new era of social recruitments. Talent sourcing plays a major role in any organization as recruiting competent people with right skills for right positions leads organizations to achieve their vision, mission, and objectives. Therefore, it is important for organizations to adopt innovative recruitment techniques. As organizations are increasingly exploiting social networks for recruitment, it is important to research and evaluate how useful social networks are as a recruitment tool and how it can be used effectively. The main objective of this study was to evaluate social networks as a recruitment tool for HR professionals and identify effective uses of social networks for recruitments. The research shows that process efficiency, reachability and passive talent attraction can be identified as effective uses of social networks for recruitment.
Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

„h Australiai¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). iV Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. iV Faster productivity growth accounted for over 90 per cent of the acceleration. „h The income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and capital shares in economywide income were stable throughout the 1990s. Concerns that productivity-enhancing factors have adversely affected the income-earning potential of labour appear to be unfounded at the aggregate level.
Kernel-based 2DPCA for Face Recognition

Recently, in the field of face recognition, two-dimensional principal component analysis (2DPCA) has been proposed in which image covariance matrices can be constructed directly using original image matrix. In contrast to the covariance matrix of traditional PCA, the size of the image covariance matrix using 2DPCA is much smaller. As a result, it is easier to evaluate the covariance matrix accurately, computation cost is reduced and the performance is also improved. In an effort to improve and perfect the performance efface recognition system, in this paper, we propose a Kernel-based 2DPCA (K2DPCA) method which can extract nonlinear principal components based directly on input image matrices. Similar to Kernel PCA, K2DPCA can extract nonlinear features efficiently instead of carrying out the nonlinear mapping explicitly. Experiment results show that our method achieves better performance in comparison with the other approaches.face r
APPLIED RHEOLOGY IN THE PROTECTIVE AND DECORATIVE COATINGS INDUSTRY

The success of a wide range of commercial products and industrial processes depends on meeting specific flow requirements. Industrial applied rheology attempts to relate fundamental properties to fitness-for-use of fluids of commerce. Architectural and industrial coatings, molded plastics, adhesives, personal care products and cosmetics, inks, cement, drilling muds, ceramic slips, solder pastes, foodstuffs and medicines are examples of rheologically complex fluids whose commercial viability depends on having the “right” rheology. For such materials, the necessary rheological properties must be defined with due regard to the prevailing conditions of stress and strain rate in processing and application. Unfortunately, the predominant practice in industry with respect to rheological characterization is to rely on rugged but simple viscometers or “viscometry devices”. These typically measure within a limited range of stress or strain rate, generally returning arbitrary numbers of uncertain value. On the other hand, it is often very difficult to link fundamental rheological properties with “real-world” performance. The challenge to the applied rheologist is to design experiments having relevance to the process at hand and then usefully apply the result - in other words, to bridge rheology and technology. This article discusses the use of, in particular, controlled-stress rheometry to characterize complex fluids, with the main thrust toward the coatings industry.
Prevalence and Distribution of Segmentation Errors in Macular Ganglion Cell Analysis of Healthy Eyes Using Cirrus HD-OCT

Purpose To determine the frequency of different types of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) scan artifacts and errors in ganglion cell algorithm (GCA) in healthy eyes. Methods Infrared image, color-coded map and each of the 128 horizontal b-scans acquired in the macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer scans using the Cirrus HD-OCT (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA) macular cube 512 × 128 protocol in 30 healthy normal eyes were evaluated. The frequency and pattern of each artifact was determined. Deviation of the segmentation line was classified into mild (less than 10 microns), moderate (10–50 microns) and severe (more than 50 microns). Each deviation, if present, was noted as upward or downward deviation. Each artifact was further described as per location on the scan and zones in the total scan area. Results A total of 1029 (26.8%) out of total 3840 scans had scan errors. The most common scan error was segmentation error (100%), followed by degraded images (6.70%), blink artifacts (0.09%) and out of register artifacts (3.3%). Misidentification of the inner retinal layers was most frequent (62%). Upward Deviation of the segmentation line (47.91%) and severe deviation (40.3%) were more often noted. Artifacts were mostly located in the central scan area (16.8%). The average number of scans with artifacts per eye was 34.3% and was not related to signal strength on Spearman correlation (p = 0.36). Conclusions This study reveals that image artifacts and scan errors in SD-OCT GCA analysis are common and frequently involve segmentation errors. These errors may affect inner retinal thickness measurements in a clinically significant manner. Careful review of scans for artifacts is important when using this feature of SD-OCT device.
Elevated Src family kinase activity stabilizes E-cadherin-based junctions and collective movement of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

EGF receptor (EGFR) overexpression is thought to drive head and neck carcinogenesis however clinical responses to EGFR-targeting agents have been modest and alternate targets are actively sought to improve results. Src family kinases (SFKs), reported to act downstream of EGFR are among the alternative targets for which increased expression or activity in epithelial tumors is commonly associated to the dissolution of E-cadherin-based junctions and acquisition of a mesenchymal-like phenotype. Robust expression of total and activated Src was observed in advanced stage head and neck tumors (N=60) and in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma lines. In cultured cancer cells Src co-localized with E-cadherin in cell-cell junctions and its phosphorylation on Y419 was both constitutive and independent of EGFR activation. Selective inhibition of SFKs with SU6656 delocalized E-cadherin and disrupted cellular junctions without affecting E-cadherin expression and this effect was phenocopied by knockdown of Src or Yes. These findings reveal an EGFR-independent role for SFKs in the maintenance of intercellular junctions, which likely contributes to the cohesive invasion E-cadherin-positive cells in advanced tumors. Further, they highlight the need for a deeper comprehension of molecular pathways that drive collective cell invasion, in absence of mesenchymal transition, in order to combat tumor spread.
Social Exclusion and Female Mating Behavior: Rejected Women Show Strategic Enhancement of Short-Term Mating Interest

Because cost asymmetries in sexual reproduction have historically enabled women to exchange sexual access for other resources, including social resources, we tested the possibility that social exclusion would lead women to display an elevated preference for short-term mating strategies in the service of reaffiliation. In Study 1, women were given false feedback to manipulate social inclusion or exclusion prior to indicating their endorsement of short and long-term mating behaviors. Socially excluded women indicated greater interest in short-term mating and reduced interest in long-term mating. In Study 2, women wrote about a social inclusion, social exclusion, or control experience and then indicated their preference for different male body types. Women in the social exclusion condition preferred more muscular male partners – a pattern of preference typical of short-term mating – than women in the other conditions. Collectively, these results are consistent with a social exchange theory of women's sexual behavior following social exclusion.
Distributed MOPSO with dynamic pareto front driven population analysis for TSP problem

This paper describe the use of Multi-Objective concept to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The traveling salesman problem is defined as an NP-hard problem. The resolution of this kind of problem is based firstly on exact methods and after that is based on single objective based methods as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). Firstly, a short description of the Multi-objective Particles swarm optimization (MOPSO) is given as an efficient technique to use for many real problems. Based on the concept of Pareto dominance, the process of implementation of the algorithm consists of two stages. First, when executing a multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO), a ranking operator is applied to the population in a predefined iteration to build an initial archive using ε-dominance The TSP problem is characterized by two contradictory objectives as minimize the total distance traveled by a particle and minimize the total time. An experimental study is conducted in this paper. A comparative study with other algorithms existing in the literature has shown a better performance of our algorithm (pMOPSO).