Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Contagion Effects of US Subprime Crisis on ASEAN-5 Stock Markets: Evidence from MGARCH-DCC Application

We attempted to investigate the contagion effects of the US subprime crisis on ASEAN-5 stock markets [including Malaysia (conventional and Islamic), Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines] by applying MGARCH-DCC through the period of January 1, 2004 to July 5, 2012 on daily stock indices returns, and also Continuous Wavelet Transform coherence method through the period of January 1, 2006 to December 31, 20091 on daily stock indices returns. This is motivated by the fact that the 2007-2009 crises in the US mortgage market were transmitted to the rest of the world through cross-country banking linkages. This paper, to our best knowledge, is the first attempt to explore such issue for the ASEAN-5 markets (including Malaysia Islamic stock market) using the most recent econometric techniques. We found evidence that there were statistically significant contagion effects from the US sub-prime crisis to the ASEAN-5 countries and the contagion occurred probably around mid-2008. Our results tend to indicate consistent co-movement between most of the ASEAN-5 stock markets and the US stock market in the long run. We also uncovered evidence of a wide variation in co-movement across different timescales during the financial crisis. The Malaysia conventional stock market is found to be more contagious than its counterpart, the Malaysia Islamic stock market, and the latter is negatively correlated with the US stock market with a decreasing co-movement pattern even during the crisis period indicating policy implications for portfolio diversification.
A Portrait of Trade in Value-Added over Four Decades

Abstract We combine data on trade, production, and input use to document changes in the value-added content of trade between 1970 and 2009. The ratio of value-added to gross exports fell by roughly 10 percentage points worldwide. The ratio declined 20 percentage points in manufacturing, but rose in nonmanufacturing sectors. Declines also differ across countries and trade partners: they are larger for fast-growing countries, for nearby trade partners, and among partners that adopt regional trade agreements. Using a multisector structural gravity model with input-output linkages, we show that changes in trade frictions play a dominant role in explaining all these facts.
Supply chain integration framework using literature review

Definitions and measures of supply chain integration (SCI) are diverse. More empirical research, with clear definition and appropriate measures are needed. The purpose of this article is to identify dimensions and variables for SCI and develop an integrated framework to facilitate this. A literature review of the relevant academic papers in international journals in Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Operations Management for the period 1995–2009 has been undertaken. This study reveals that information integration, coordination and resource sharing and organisational relationship linkage are three major dimensions for SCI. The proposed framework helps integrate both upstream suppliers and downstream customers with the focal organisation. It also allows measuring SCI using both qualitative and quantitative approach. This study encourages researchers and practitioners to identify dimensions and variables for SCI and analyses how it affects the overall supply chain (SC) performance in terms of efficiency and responsiveness. Although there is extensive research in the area of SCI, a comprehensive and integrated approach is missing. This study bridges the gap by developing a framework for measuring SCI, which enables any organisation to identify critical success factors for integrating their SC, measures the degree of integration qualitatively and quantitatively and suggest improvement measures.
Teaching “format as a process” in an era of Web-scale discovery

Purpose – This paper aims to present academic librarians with a framework for teaching and assessing information literacy in response to advancements in online discovery. Advancements in online discovery require academic librarians to develop new means of teaching and assessing information literacy, with an emphasis on having students use critical thinking to evaluate sources. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper analyzes how the threshold concept “format as a process” could be incorporated into information literacy instruction sessions which address Web-scale discovery services and other online search tools. General guidelines for applying this concept are included, along with potential classroom activities and assessments. Findings – Format as a process provides a valuable framework for evaluating information, though librarians need to be mindful of how they present the concept to students. Instruction must be focused on fostering critical thinking skills, rather than how to perform tasks.
The association between privatisation and voluntary disclosure: Evidence from Jordan

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of privatisation on the extent of corporate voluntary disclosure in Jordan.We conduct a longitudinal examination using 243 annual reports of 27 privatised firms in Jordan over a period of nine years from 1996 to 2004. Employing univariate and pooled regression models our results show that privatisation is positively associated with voluntary disclosure. Specifically, we find that accounting regulation reforms and foreign investments accompanying privatisation have a significant impact on the levels of accounting disclosure in Jordan. Our study provides evidence on the role of privatisation in improving the disclosure culture as an important pre‐condition for the development of active capital markets.
The Process of Supervision in the Context of Motivation Theory.

Abstract : A review of some of the basic approaches to the study of supervision in organizations leads to the conclusion that the behavioristic methodology of searching for temporal and spatial correlations between assessed events without establishing specific connections to theoretical networks has provided an inadequate basis for the understanding of the nature of supervision. A process approach to supervision which is emerging in the literature is presented. This approach combines the leadership dimensions of consideration and initiating structure with the path-goal theory of motivation. Data collected among supervisors and subordinates in a manufacturing plant for an exploratory study testing assumption about the psychological meaning of these dimensions in terms of a path-goal theory are presented. It is suggested that the current assumptions underlying the process approach to supervision are too simplistic and an argument is made for the need for construct validation of the leadership concept. A conceptual framework which integrates supervision with valence-instrumentality-expectancy theory of worker motivation, influence and power is outlined. Emphasis is put on the construction of a theoretical network within which the questions of the leadership and supervision process should be examined. (Author)
Social Exclusion and Participation in Community Development Projects: Evidence from Senegal

This article seeks to provide a new insight into the debate about participation through a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms at play behind community participation. The combined use of the concepts of social exclusion and of game theory is explored as a dynamic and innovative analytical tool to understand participatory processes in community development projects. The framework is tested against the analysis of participation in an NGO-led community project in Senegal. Policy implications point to a need to unravel the complexity of participation to design more effective and sustainable community development projects.
Effectiveness of Boards of Governors in Curriculum Implementation in Secondary Schools in Kenya.

The boards of governors (BOG) are legally mandated by the ministry of education under the education act Cap 211 to manage secondary schools in Kenya. Their immediate roles have not been defined in the laws and there are no standards that have been adopted to measure their effectiveness. This study investigates effectiveness of the BOG in curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Kenya. The study was carried out in Keiyo district in Kenya. Adopting survey design, using interviews, questionnaires and documents, data was collected from a sample of 15 schools with 15 head teachers, 70 teachers and 65 governors represented by 5 members from each school using purposive, stratified and simple random sampling. Data collected was coded and analysed descriptively. Findings indicated that training of the members of BOG was directly related to the implementation of the curriculum. The BOG supported schools to acquire physical resources and enhanced curriculum development. The study recommended that schools should strive to provide pre-requisite training to the members of BOG and more involvement in the daily running of the schools (188) words).
Continuum Limit of $B_K$ from 2+1 Flavor Domain Wall QCD

We determine the neutral kaon mixing matrix element BK in the continuum limit with 2+1 flavors of domain wall fermions, using the Iwasaki gauge action at two different lattice spacings. These lattice fermions have near exact chiral symmetry and therefore avoid artificial lattice operator mixing. We introduce a significant improvement to the conventional nonperturbative renormalization (NPR) method in which the bare matrix elements are renormalized nonperturbatively in the regularization invariant momentum scheme (RI-MOM) and are then converted into the MS? scheme using continuum perturbation theory. In addition to RI-MOM, we introduce and implement four nonexceptional intermediate momentum schemes that suppress infrared nonperturbative uncertainties in the renormalization procedure. We compute the conversion factors relating the matrix elements in this family of regularization invariant symmetric momentum schemes (RI-SMOM) and MS? at one-loop order. Comparison of the results obtained using these different intermediate schemes allows for a more reliable estimate of the unknown higher-order contributions and hence for a correspondingly more robust estimate of the systematic error. We also apply a recently proposed approach in which twisted boundary conditions are used to control the Symanzik expansion for off-shell vertex functions leading to a better control of the renormalization in the continuum limit. We control chiral extrapolation errors by considering both the next-to-leading order SU(2) chiral effective theory, and an analytic mass expansion. We obtain BKMS? (3? GeV)=0.529(5)stat(15)? (2)FV(11)NPR. This corresponds to B? KRGI? =0.749(7)stat(21)? (3)FV(15)NPR. Adding all sources of error in quadrature, we obtain B? KRGI? =0.749(27)combined, with an overall combined error of 3.6%.
Expectations and Investment

Using micro data from Duke University quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers, we show that corporate investment plans as well as actual investment are well explained by CFOs’ expectations of earnings growth. The information in expectations data is not subsumed by traditional variables, such as Tobin’s Q or discount rates. We also show that errors in CFO expectations of earnings growth are predictable from past earnings and other data, pointing to extrapolative structure of expectations and suggesting that expectations may not be rational. This evidence, like earlier findings in finance, points to the usefulness of data on actual expectations for understanding economic behavior.
Internal differentiation of the diffuse-avoidant style in Berzonsky's model: the results of analyses in variable-centered and person-centered approaches

One of the most often used models in research on identity is Berzonsky’s (1989b, 2011) model of identity processing styles, in which three styles are distinguished as different ways of building personal identity: informational, normative, and diffuse-avoidant. For measuring these styles, Berzonsky proposed the Identity Style Inventory (ISI; Berzonsky et al., 2013). There have been suggestions in the literature (Cieciuch, 2010; Topolewska, & Cieciuch, 2012) that it is possible to distinguish two factors within the diffuse-avoidant style scale: diffuse-carefree and avoidant. The aim of the article is to check the legitimacy of distinguishing these two subscales. Research was conducted on a sample of young adults (N = 603, age: 19–25, M = 21.24, SD = 1.68, 65% women) using the Polish version of Identity Style Inventory (ISI-4; Senejko, 2010). Analyses performed in accordance with two approaches (variable-centered and person-centered) led to similar conclusions. The analyses following the variable-centered approach revealed different associations between the two diffuse-avoidant subscales and eudaimonic well-being. Following the person-centered approach, it was shown that both subscales are the basis for distinguishing separate groups of people, which also differ in terms of well-being. The obtained results support the thesis about the heterogeneous nature of the diffuse-avoidant style and about the different functioning of people who differ in their scores on the two subscales. This means that taking both the avoidant style scale and the diffuse-carefree style scale into account in empirical studies may yield more precise results.
Stylophorans in middle Arenig shallow water siliciclastics: Vizcainocarpus from the Imfout Syncline in Morocco’s western Meseta

Numerous specimens of the ankyroid Vizcainocarpus naimae sp. nov. (Stylophora, Echinodermata) have been found in middle Arenigian shallow-water, inner shelf, fine to medium grained siliciclastics of the Oum-er-Rbia Formation, located in the Imfout Syncline in Morocco's western Meseta. Their occurrence in this sedimentary/ecological setting is atypical because ankyroids are most common in deeper water calcisiltites and lime- stones. Aspects of orientation and feeding habits in the debate over stylophorans as echinoderms or calcichordates (ongoing since the 1960s) appear to be largely resolved by data derived from these specimens. The aulacophores of most specimens face into the prevailing sediment-depositing current and ap- pear to have draped over the adjacent sand wave. There is no evidence that they were orientated in the calcichordate mode with the convex side of the theca facing down and aulacophore extending into the substrate, as proposed by Jefferies (1973, 1986, 2001) and Sutcliffe et al. (2000).
Laboratory evaluation of the insect growth regulator dudim and the plant extract neem oil against Culex pipiens mosquitoes with reference to its side effects on aquatic nontarget organisms

The biological effects of the insect growth regulator (IGR) , Dudim and the plant extract Neem oil on the developmental stages of Culex pipiens, the dominant mosquito species in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia, were evaluated. The records showed that the response of Cx. pipiens to the test compounds depends on the differential mode of action of the compounds and its effective concentrations. According to IC50 values (concentration which to inhibit the emergence of 50% of mosquito adults emergence), the IGR Dudim (0.0003 ppm) proved to be more effective against Cx. pipiens than the Neem oil (70 ppm). On the other hands, treatment whit IC90 values (concentration which to inhibit the emergence of 90% of mosquito adults emergence) of Dudim (0.0032 ppm) and Neem oil (140 ppm) did not exhibit any market effect on nontarget organisms (naiads Odonata, aquatic hemipterans, aquatic coleopterans) associated with mosquito breeding sites.
A dozen de Finetti-style results in search of a theory

Les k premieres coordonnees d'un point uniformement distribue sur la sphere de dimension n se comportent comme des variables gaussiennes reduites independantes quand n→∞ avec k fixe. Si k→∞ le theoreme reste vrai meme au sens de la distance de la variation, pourvu que k=o(n). Le principal resultat de cet article est une borne assez precise sur la distance de la variation
Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil

Soils are the product of a complex suite of chemical, biological, and physical processes. In spite of the importance of soils for society and for sustaining life on earth, our knowledge of soil formation rates and of the influence of biological activity on mineral weathering and geochemical cycles is still limited. In this paper we provide a description of the Damma Glacier Critical Zone Observatory and present a first synthesis of our multidisciplinary studies of the 150-yr soil chronosequence. The aim of our research was to improve our understanding of ecosystem development on a barren substrate and the early evolution of soils and to evaluate the influence of biological activity on weathering rates. Soil pH, cation exchange capacity, biomass, bacterial and fungal populations, and soil organic matter show clear gradients related to soil age, in spite of the extreme heterogeneity of the ecosystem. The bulk mineralogy and inorganic geochemistry of the soils, in contrast, are independent of soil age and only in older soils (>100 yr) is incipient weathering observed, mainly as a decreasing content in albite and biotite by coincidental formation of secondary chlorites in the clay fraction. Further, we document the rapid evolution of microbial and plant munities along the chronosequence.
Preferential Trade Agreements and Welfare: General Equilibrium Analysis

This paper studies the welfare effects of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) within a general equilibrium framework following Eaton and Kortum (2002) and conducts a comparative statics analysis of the equilibrium. The paper provides a closed-form analysis with no assumption of balanced trade and analyzes how a PTA affects the price level, trade flows, and welfare of both member and nonmember countries. We show that a PTA decreases the price level of not only member but also nonmember countries. We also show that a positive coalition externality can arise in that a nonmember country can gain from the establishment of a PTA. Our analysis indicates that countries possessing a large nonmanufacturing sector relative to the economy or a high level of technology are more likely to gain from a coalition externality. Under no assumption of balanced trade, our analysis demonstrates that changes in tariff revenues and labor mobility between tradable and nontradable sectors are a key factor affecting welfare and, thus, countriesâ€™ incentives to join a PTA. Finally, using a calibrated model for 38 countries, we estimate price and welfare changes under several scenarios of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and numerically demonstrate our theoretical results. equilibrium model to explore how a Trans-Pacific Partnership affects each countryâ€™s welfare and trade flows. We decompose the total change of trade flows from member countries into income effects and substitution effects, and investigate the factors that affect trade flows. We demonstrate that a positive coalition externality could exist in that some nonmember countries could gain more than member countries and further investigate under which circumstances it arises.
Middle School Students' Understanding of Average: A Problem-Solving Approach.

This study used an open-ended problerimsolving approach to teaching and assessing middle school students' understanding of the concept of arithmetic average. Three main results of this study show evidence of positive instructional impact on students' understanding of the concept of average; (1) the number of students who gave correct answers increased from pretest to posttest; (2) on the posttest, more students used appropriate strategies to solve the average problems than on the pretest; and (3) more students used multiple representations on the posttest to explain their solutions than on the pretest. The findings of this study indicate that learning the concept of average is cognitively more complex than the computational algorithm suggests. However, with appropriate instruction, Czudents can have an understanding vf the concept beyond the computational algorithm. (Author) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. ***********A********************************************************** Middle School Students' Understanding of Average: A Problem-Solving Approach Jinfa Cai and John C. Moyer Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (17th PME-NA, Columbus, OH, October 21-24, 1995) PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY
To What Extent Do Non-teacher Raters Differ from Teacher Raters on Assessing Story-retelling

The present study aims to explore to what extent non-teacher raters differ from teachers’ raters on assessing story-retelling in China’s National Matriculation English Test, Guangdong version. Facets analysis suggests that the two rater groups are comparable in terms of internal consistency and severity. Results from raters’ written comments show that both rater groups followed a similar pattern in focusing on different criteria categories when making assessments. Difference occurs only in how they commented: teacher raters’ comments tended to be more specific while non-teacher raters’ comments were more general. Based on the findings, we conclude that in rating high stakes tests like Story-retelling in NMET GD, non-teachers (college/graduate students) are qualified to be raters.
A most compendious and facile quantum de Finetti theorem

In its most basic form, the finite quantum de Finetti theorem states that the reduced k-partite density operator of an n-partite symmetric state can be approximated by a convex combination of k-fold product states. Variations of this result include Renner's “exponential” approximation by “almost-product” states, a theorem which deals with certain triples of representations of the unitary group, and the result of D'Cruz et al. [e-print quant-ph/0606139;Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 160406 (2007)] for infinite-dimensional systems. We show how these theorems follow from a single, general de Finetti theorem for representations of symmetry groups, each instance corresponding to a particular choice of symmetry group and representation of that group. This gives some insight into the nature of the set of approximating states and leads to some new results, including an exponential theorem for infinite-dimensional systems.
The Configuration among Social Capital, Distributive and Procedural Justice and Its Consequences to Individual Satisfaction

The experiment study examined the influences of distributive justice and procedural justice on individual satisfaction. Social capital as moderating variable that influences the relationship among them. The relationship among between distributive and procedural justice and individual satisfaction based on the two factor model. The two factor model is a concept introduced by Sweeney and McFarlin (1993) who explained that distributive justice and procedural justice have a different influences on outcomes. In this research, focus on individual satisfaction. Distributive justice will be stronger to predict individual satisfaction compared to procedural justice. In fact that model is not always supported. This research explained that this model should be considered social capital as moderating variable, because social capital reflects subjective perspective.