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The Influence of Perception Towards Promotion and Self-Efficacy on Intention and Compliance Behavior of Income Zakat in Kedah, Malaysia

Zakat is not only a religious obligation which must be complied by all eligible Muslims but also plays a very important role in Islamic fiscal system, specifically as a major source of income and could be used as an instrument to finance certain programs in order to achieve social, political and economic development among Muslim communities. However, the issue which arises is that zakat collection including income zakat is still low which hinders the effectiveness of zakat in playing a more significant role in the state of Kedah. Therefore, this study attempts to examine the influence of perceptions towards promotional exposure and self-efficacy on the intention and compliance behavior of income zakat. The sample size used in this study is 372 based on Krejcie & Morgan (1970). This study uses PLS-SEM bootstrap and blindfolding technique in order to examine the relationship of the variables of the study. This study reveals that perception towards promotional exposure and self-efficacy have significant relationships and positive influence on intention. Moreover, this study provides evidence that intention has a significant relationship on compliance behavior. The findings of this study have important implications not only for knowledge but also to zakat institutions. The important contribution of this study is that the factors identified as significant determinants of compliance behavior of income zakat such as perception towards promotional exposure and self-efficacy could be useful as a guide for relevant authorities and policy makers to formulate suitable strategies to increase zakat collection in the future.
Does Analyst Optimism About Future Earnings Distort Stock Prices?

Monthly returns to firms with optimistic expectations are 1.5% lower versus firms with pessimistic expectations, while annual buy-and-hold returns to firms with optimistic expectations are 20% lower. The optimistic component of stock prices lingers months after the optimism is revealed to the market. It also exists separately from the component related to analyst forecast dispersion. The possibility that forecast dispersion is related to transitory versus permanent earnings is proposed.
RAMinate: Hypervisor-based Virtualization for Hybrid Main Memory Systems

In the future, STT-MRAM will achieve larger capacity and comparable read/write performance, but incur orders of magnitude greater write energy than DRAM. To achieve large capacity as well as energy-efficiency, it is necessary to use both DRAM and STT-MRAM for the main memory of a computer. In this paper, we propose a hypervisor-based hybrid memory mechanism (RAMinate) that reduces write traffic to STT-MRAM by optimizing page locations between DRAM and STT-MRAM. In contrast to past studies, our mechanism works at the hypervisor level, not at the hardware or operating system level. It does not require any special program at the operating system level nor any design changes of the current memory controller at the hardware level. We developed a prototype of the proposed system by extending Qemu/KVM and conducted experiments with application benchmarks. We confirmed that our page replacement mechanism successfully worked for unmodified operating systems and dynamically diverted memory write traffic to DRAM. Our experiments also confirmed that our system successfully reduced write traffic to STT-MRAM by approximately 70% for tested workloads, which results in a 50% reduction in energy consumption in comparison to a DRAM-only system.
Clarifying the Relationship between Psychopathy and Intelligence Using Four Dimensions of the WASI-II

ABSTRACT Empirical evidence concerning the relationship between psychopathy and intelligence remains equivocal. The aim of the current study was to clarify the nature of the relationship by examining the association between four facets of the Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS) and the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence – Second Edition (WASI- II) . Based on a non- institutionalised sample (N = 253), Affective Responsiveness demonstrated a significant negative association with Similarities, whereas Interpersonal Manipulation demonstrated a significant positive association with Vocabulary. Egocentricity demonstrated a significant negative relationship with both Vocabulary and Matrix Reasoning. Implications of these findings for the assessment of psychopathy and intelligence are discussed.
Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia: comparisons from real-world clinical experience

Background The purpose of this paper is to report real-world data on the relative effectiveness of a biosimilar erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA; Binocrit®), and other available ESAs for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia. Methods Data were collected retrospectively from single centers in Spain (n=284) and Germany (n=145). Hemoglobin outcomes, transfusion requirements, and serious drug-related adverse events were assessed for each ESA. Results Hemoglobin outcomes and transfusion requirements were generally similar in the different ESA treatment groups assessed. No serious drug-related adverse events were recorded in any of the treatment groups. Conclusion These data confirm the real-world effectiveness and safety of a biosimilar ESA (Binocrit®) for the treatment of cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia.
Distributed Optimal Coordination for Distributed Energy Resources in Power Systems

Driven by smart grid technologies, distributed energy resources (DERs) have been rapidly developing in recent years for improving reliability and efficiency of distribution systems. Emerging DERs require effective and efficient coordination in order to reap their potential benefits. In this paper, we consider an optimal DER coordination problem over multiple time periods subject to constraints at both system and device levels. Fully distributed algorithms are proposed to dynamically and automatically coordinate distributed generators with multiple/single storages. With the proposed algorithms, the coordination agent at each DER maintains only a set of variables and updates them through information exchange with a few neighbors. We show that the proposed algorithms with properly chosen parameters solve the DER coordination problem as long as the underlying communication network is connected. The simulation results are used to illustrate and validate the proposed method.
Multiple human detection in depth images

Most human detection algorithms in depth images perform well in detecting and tracking the movements of a single human object. However, their performance is rather poor when the person is occluded by other objects or when there are multiple humans present in the scene. In this paper, we propose a novel human detection technique which analyzes the edges in depth image to detect multiple people. The proposed technique detects a human head through a fast template matching algorithm and verifies it through a 3D model fitting technique. The entire human body is extracted from the image by using a simple segmentation scheme comprising a few morphological operators. Our experimental results on three large human detection datasets and the comparison with the state-of-the-art method showed an excellent performance achieving a detection rate of 94.53% with a small false alarm of 0.82%.
Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course

QUESTIONS OF TRANSFER: WRITERS' PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR TASKS IN A CAPSTONE WRITING COURSE Heather G. Lettner-Rust Old Dominion University, 2010 Director: Dr. Joyce Magnoto Neff Understanding what students bring from one writing context to another may the central concern for teachers of writing from elementary school to adult learning. Research from the field of composition studies offers knowledge about writing as process(es) (Emig, 1971; Shaughnessy, 1979; Russell, 1999), as socially constructed performances (Flower & Hayes, 1980; Bartholomae, 1985; Bloom, 1985), and as part of a larger activity system (Russell, 1997). This dissertation ties together theories of writing as an activity in a broader system of tools and outcomes and current research on transfer in writing in order to illustrate writers' perspectives on particular writing tasks. Essential to the understanding of what students are doing is to know what tools students report using to complete familiar and unfamiliar writing tasks. Data collected include surveys of 148 students in a capstone writing course as well as interviews from 13 students who completed the survey while enrolled in the capstone writing course. Findings suggest that the concept of "high-road transfer" (Perkins & Salomon, 1988) is not present in participants' writing skills, processes, and knowledges as they approach what they perceive as unfamiliar writing tasks. Significant to this study is the finding that participants' perception informed their description of writing tasks. Certain familiar writing tasks were described as unfamiliar if parts of the tasks were altered. Furthermore, the perception of a writing task as unfamiliar informed the participant's use of external tools. Some participants experienced what the researcher termed a "moment of erasure" in which they claimed that the unfamiliar writing task was completely new and they had no idea what to do. The pedagogical implications are that if participants do not perceive certain familiar writing skills as applicable to the current task—when in fact, they should be, then it is as if those skills do not exist. Teaching for the unfamiliar may help to avoid the "moment of erasure. " The final chapter presents pedagogical implications for instructors in light of the findings regarding writers' perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar writing tasks.
A 15Gb/s 0.5mW/Gb/s 2-tap DFE receiver with far-end crosstalk cancellation

The increasing demand for high-bandwidth interconnection between integrated circuits requires large numbers of I/Os per chip as well as high data rates per I/O. Key limitations in meeting these requirements include channel characteristics and I/O power consumption. Even in short interconnects, the channel attenuation at very high data rates is significant, and using receiver equalization can greatly improve the link performance [1–5]. However, compensating a high level of loss requires many taps of equalization, which can significantly reduce the power efficiency of the link. Parallel data transmission increases the aggregate data rate, but compact traces placed in close proximity suffer from a high level of crosstalk interference. This problem is exacerbated when transmit pre-emphasis techniques are exploited to boost the high frequency gain. While the use of differential signaling can mitigate the effect of crosstalk, it requires twisting pairs leading to area and bandwidth penalties.
Hybrid localization of an emitter by combining angle-of-arrival and received signal strength measurements

Emitter localization, using different types of sensors and integrating their output properly can potentially increase localization accuracy. It is relatively easy to measure the received signal strength (RSS), but RSS localization is generally less accurate than angle-of-arrival (AOA) localization in most practical environments. When both RSS and AOA are available, fusing their measurements can improve localization accuracy. This paper develops a set of linear equations that optimally combines both AOA and RSS measurements, and is suitable for solution by weighted least squares. The simulation results show that at sufficiently low noise, the hybrid scheme is near optimal.
Tillage, Mulch and N Fertilizer Affect Emissions of CO2 under the Rain Fed Condition

A two year (2010–2012) study was conducted to assess the effects of different agronomic management practices on the emissions of CO2 from a field of non-irrigated wheat planted on China's Loess Plateau. Management practices included four tillage methods i.e. T1: (chisel plow tillage), T2: (zero-tillage), T3: (rotary tillage) and T4: (mold board plow tillage), 2 mulch levels i.e., M0 (no corn residue mulch) and M1 (application of corn residue mulch) and 5 levels of N fertilizer (0, 80, 160, 240, 320 kg N/ha). A factorial experiment having a strip split-split arrangement, with tillage methods in the main plots, mulch levels in the sub plots and N-fertilizer levels in the sub-sub plots with three replicates, was used for this study. The CO2 data were recorded three times per week using a portable GXH-3010E1 gas analyzer. The highest CO2 emissions were recorded following rotary tillage, compared to the lowest emissions from the zero tillage planting method. The lowest emissions were recorded at the 160 kg N/ha, fertilizer level. Higher CO2 emissions were recorded during the cropping year 2010–11 relative to the year 2011–12. During cropping year 2010–11, applications of corn residue mulch significantly increased CO2 emissions in comparison to the non-mulched treatments, and during the year 2011–12, equal emissions were recorded for both types of mulch treatments. Higher CO2 emissions were recorded immediately after the tillage operations. Different environmental factors, i.e., rain, air temperatures, soil temperatures and soil moistures, had significant effects on the CO2 emissions. We conclude that conservation tillage practices, i.e., zero tillage, the use of corn residue mulch and optimum N fertilizer use, can reduce CO2 emissions, give better yields and provide environmentally friendly options.
Comparison of Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-Mental State Examination in Evaluating Cognitive Domain Deficit Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Objective Cognitive deficits are common after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH), and clinical evaluation is important for their management. Our hypothesis was that the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCa) is superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in screening for cognitive domain deficit in aSAH patients. Methods We carried out a prospective observational and diagnostic accuracy study on Hong Kong aSAH patients aged 21 to 75 years who had been admitted within 96 hours of ictus. The domain-specific neuropsychological assessment battery, the MoCA and MMSE were administered 2–4 weeks and 1 year after ictus. A cognitive domain deficit was defined as a cognitive domain z score <−1.65 (below the fifth percentile). Cognitive impairment was defined as two or more cognitive domain deficits. The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov of the US National Institutes of Health (NCT01038193). Results Both the MoCA and the MMSE were successful in differentiating between patients with and without cognitive domain deficits and cognitive impairment at both assessment periods. At 1 year post-ictus, the MoCA produced higher area under the curve scores for cognitive impairment than the MMSE (MoCA, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.83 to 0.97 versus MMSE, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.83, p = 0.009). Interpretation Cognitive domain deficits and cognitive impairment in patients with aSAH can be screened with the MoCA in both the subacute and chronic phases.
Functional Synergies Underlying Control of Upright Posture during Changes in Head Orientation

Background Studies of human upright posture typically have stressed the need to control ankle and hip joints to achieve postural stability. Recent studies, however, suggest that postural stability involves multi degree-of-freedom (DOF) coordination, especially when performing supra-postural tasks. This study investigated kinematic synergies related to control of the body’s position in space (two, four and six DOF models) and changes in the head’s orientation (six DOF model). Methodology/Principal Findings Subjects either tracked a vertically moving target with a head-mounted laser pointer or fixated a stationary point during 4-min trials. Uncontrolled manifold (UCM) analysis was performed across tracking cycles at each point in time to determine the structure of joint configuration variance related to postural stability or tracking consistency. The effect of simulated removal of covariance among joints on that structure was investigated to further determine the role of multijoint coordination. Results indicated that cervical joint motion was poorly coordinated with other joints to stabilize the position of the body center of mass (CM). However, cervical joints were coordinated in a flexible manner with more caudal joints to achieve consistent changes in head orientation. Conclusions/Significance An understanding of multijoint coordination requires reference to the stability/control of important performance variables. The nature of that coordination differs depending on the reference variable. Stability of upright posture primarily involved multijoint coordination of lower extremity and lower trunk joints. Consistent changes in the orientation of the head, however, required flexible coordination of those joints with motion of the cervical spine. A two-segment model of postural control was unable to account for the observed stability of the CM position during the tracking task, further supporting the need to consider multijoint coordination to understand postural stability.
DDSPON: A Distributed Dynamic Scheduling for EPON

Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) are a cost-effective solution for the bottle-neck problem in the access network. An open issue for this technology is the bandwidth allocation over the upstream channel in order to provide differentiated services, fairness and efficiency. Several algorithms for dynamic bandwidth allocation in EPON have been proposed, but very few of them address the possibilities for an on-the-fly (immediate) distributed scheduling method. In this paper we propose and simulate a distributed scheduling method where the user devices participate in the bandwidth allocation process. The results show a significant improvement in terms of delay and queue size for high network loads when compared to one of the most popular schemes.
New perspectives on the relevance of gravitation for the covariant description of electromagnetically polarizable media

By recognizing that stress–energy–momentum tensors are fundamentally related to gravitation in spacetime it is argued that the classical electromagnetic properties of a simple polarizable medium may be parameterized in terms of a constitutive tensor whose properties can in principle be determined by experiments in non-inertial (accelerating) frames and in the presence of weak but variable gravitational fields. After establishing some geometric notation, discussion is given to basic concepts of stress, energy and momentum in the vacuum where the useful notion of a drive form is introduced in order to associate the conservation of currents involving the flux of energy, momentum and angular momentum with spacetime isometries. The definition of the stress–energy–momentum tensor is discussed with particular reference to its symmetry based on its role as a source of relativistic gravitation. General constitutive properties of material continua are formulated in terms of spacetime tensors including those that describe magneto-electric phenomena in moving media. This leads to a formulation of a self-adjoint constitutive tensor describing, in general, inhomogeneous, anisotropic, magneto-electric bulk matter in arbitrary motion. The question of an invariant characterization of intrinsically magneto-electric media is explored. An action principle is established to generate the phenomenological Maxwell system and the use of variational derivatives to calculate stress–energy–momentum tensors is discussed in some detail. The relation of this result to tensors proposed by Abraham and others is discussed in the concluding section where the relevance of the whole approach to experiments on matter in non-inertial environments with variable gravitational and electromagnetic fields is stressed.
ANALISIS PENERIMAAN DAERAH DARIINDUSTRI PARIWISATA DI PROVINSI DKIJAKARTA DAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANGMEMPENGARUHINYA

DKI Jakarta as a capital city of Indonesia has a high potential tourism to be developed. Yet, the contribution of the tourism industry to the PAD is smaller than the contribution of non tourism sector. This research aims to analyze the influence of the number of foreign and domestic tourists, investments in tourism industry, USD exchange rate, and the safety factor to local revenues of the tourism industry in Jakarta. This research used multiple linear regression (OLS), in 1991-2012. Type of data used is secondary data obtained from Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Department of Tourism and Culture Jakarta Capital City Government, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board and other literature such as books and economic journals. The result of regression analysis showed that the variable number of foreign and domestic tourists and USD exchange rate influence significantly to local revenues of the tourism industry in Jakarta whereas investment in tourism and safety factors variable had no significant effect. Simultaneous test result showed that overall variable number of foreign and domestic tourists, investment in tourism, USD exchange rate, and safety factor together indicate effect to local revenue of the tourism industry in Jakarta. R-square value of 0,930 which mean 93 percent of local revenue of the tourism variation can be explain from fourth variation of the independent variables (number of foreign and domestic tourist, investment in tourism, USD exchange rate and safety factor), whereas the remaining 7 percent is explained by other factor beyond the model
Syntactic Judgment Experiments

Informal judgments of sentence acceptability have long been the primary source of evidence about grammaticality in syntax, and have been controversial just as long. In the past decade, there has been growing interest in collecting and analyzing acceptability judgments according to the formal protocols of experimental psycholinguistics, an approach sometimes called experimental syntax. This article reviews the major issues relevant to this approach, namely, the relative reliability, validity, sensitivity, and convenience of formal vs. informal methods. 1. From Informal Judgments to Formal Judgment Experimentation Theoretical syntacticians typically test empirical claims with what may be called informal judgments: they create one or two example sentences and decide (perhaps with the help of a colleague or two) whether they seem acceptable in their native language. Informal judgments inspire horror in many scholars, as they so clearly violate the methodological protocols standard in the rest of the empirical cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology and neuroscience). The procedure seems to be a kind of psycholinguistic experiment, with the sentences as stimuli and the judgments as responses (as noted even by critics like Labov 1975), but too few sentences and speakers are tested to assess generality, the experimental participant is usually the linguist himself or herself (risking unrepresentativeness and experimenter bias), and judgments are usually made on a binary good/ bad scale (despite the general recognition that sentence acceptability varies gradiently; Chomsky 1965: 10–1). Moreover, it is not clear how acceptability judgments relate to other data sources like corpora or processing experiments, let alone grammaticality itself (i.e. the status of a sentence accorded by the internal mental grammar). Linguists have been debating the role of acceptability judgments in syntax ever since Chomsky (1957) put judgments at the center of his methodology. In a highly influential review of these debates, Schutze (1996) concludes that syntacticians must learn to collect and analyze judgments in proper psycholinguistic fashion. Today, more attention is being paid to linguistic judgments than ever before. A crude measure of this