Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinants of customers’ intention to use Islamic financing services

Sri Lanka is one of the few non-Islamic countries to have legislated for Islamic banking. Islamic banking and finance is a emerging industry in sri lanka where there is a fully fledge islamic bank and other conventional banks operating islamic windows providing services to wide range of customers. This study is designed to examine the effects of the following factors: attitude; social influence; religious obligation; and pricing of Islamic financing, on the intention to use Islamic financing. Data were collected through questionnaire and used SPSS 16.0 to analyze the data using regression analysis. The study found two determinants to be significant in influencing the intention to use Islamic financing, namely, consumer attitude and religious obligation. Social influence and pricing of Islamic financing were found to be insignificant.
Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Surgical Site Infection in Pediatric Surgery

Surgical site infection (SSI) in a serious complication requiring prolonged hospitalization, intravenous antibiotics, wound care and dressings resulting in increased cost and resistant bacteria. Despite the new advances in asepsis and surgery, postoperative (SSI), still considered a serious morbidity. Several reports suggest that (SSI) may be prevented by the administration of appropriate antimicrobial regimes. Quality improvement techniques in surgery are in continued practice since long time with the aim to reduce (SSI) rate. Many centers are implementing standardized protocols in using antibiotic prophylaxis for (SSI) to achieve the best outcome. In this study, we present the effectiveness of our hospital protocol for the use of antibiotic prophylaxis for (SSI). After approval of the study from ethical and research committee, the data of all pediatric patients who underwent uncontaminated procedures in general pediatric surgery & urology at Queen Rania Hospital for Children were reviewed prior and after the implementation of the new hospital protocol using the current literature. All patients who had infection, obvious contamination or on antibiotic treatment were excluded from the study. Other exclusion criteria were re operation, diabetic patient, malignancy, steroid treatment, clean inguinoscrotal surgery, circumcision and patients with allergy, blood or metabolic disorders. According to our hospital protocol, antibiotic prophylaxis for (SSI) will continue for 3 doses over 24 hours. The choice of single or combined antibiotic depends on the type of surgery. Cefazolin was the first choice for most procedures. For gastrointestinal surgery Cefoxitin (40mg/kg) and Metronidazole (15mg/kg) were used in combination. Cefazolin (30mg/kg) alone or with Gentamycin (2,5mg/kg) were used for urogenital surgery. Antibiotic should be administered intravenously one hour prior surgery. Procedures and (SSI) were evaluated prior and after protocol implementation. Thirteen pediatric surgeons in the hospital performed 11.000 procedures between March 2010 – March 2014. The minimum follow-up period for (SSI) was 4 weeks, 2000 procedures (group I) met the criteria prior the implementation of the hospital protocol and 2000 procedures (group II) met the criteria after the implementation of the protocol. The (SSI) rate decreased from 8.4 % (group I) to 4.6% (group II). Over all protocol implementation commitment was 86% and improved during the observation interval. The implementation of a standardized protocol for antibiotic prophylaxis in pediatric surgery significantly reduces (SSI). Generally, the protocol compliance was very good and easy to practice. The implementation of the hospital protocol has been considered as baseline in our major medical center and other hospitals for proper assessment of new treatments plans. The identification of factors associated with (SSI) will help in the revision and improvement of protocols in the future resulting in more control and reduction of (SSI) with significant cost effective results, less hospitalization and less bacteria resistance.
SMALL FOOD STORES ASSESSMENT IN LOW INCOME LOW ACCESS COMMUNITIES IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

Inventory requirements for authorized Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailers have undergone several revisions to increase the availability of healthful foods. A proposed rule of 84 staple food items was not implemented due to concerns that stores would not withstand this expansion, resulting in a final rule requiring 36 items. This study used the Food Access Research Atlas data to characterize food provisions in 30 small retailers in areas with high and low proportion of SNAP and racial minority residents in Providence, RI. Stores were assessed with an audit instrument to tally variety, perishability and depth of stock of four staple food categories. Descriptive, ANOVA and chi square analyses were performed using SPSS. Across stores, 80% were compliant with the final rule, but 66.7% would need to expand their offerings to meet the proposed rule. Mean dairy variety was lowest among all categories (p<0.05). Most stores met the perishability (92.3%) and depth of stock requirements (96.1%) under both rules. No difference was detected between areas with high and low proportion of SNAP and racial minority residents. Future expansion of requirements may increase healthful food availability without imposing undue burden on retailers in Providence, RI, excluding increased requirements for dairy variety.
Formation and decay of Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes

We study various aspects of black holes and gravitational collapse in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory under the assumption of spherical symmetry. Numerical evolution on hyperboloidal surfaces extending to future null infinity is used. We begin by constructing colored and Reissner-Nordstrom black holes on surfaces of constant mean curvature and analyze their perturbations. These linearly perturbed black holes are then evolved into the nonlinear regime and the masses of the final Schwarzschild black holes are computed as a function of the initial horizon radius. We compare with an information-theoretic bound on the lifetime of unstable hairy black holes derived by Hod. Finally we study critical phenomena in gravitational collapse at the threshold between different Yang-Mills vacuum states of the final Schwarzschild black holes, where the n ¼ 1 colored black hole forms the critical solution. The work of Choptuik et al. [Phys. Rev. D 60, 124011 (1999)] is extended by using a family of initial data that includes another region in parameter space where the colored black hole with the opposite sign of the Yang-Mills potential forms the critical solution. We investigate the boundary between the two regions and discover that the Reissner-Nordstrom solution appears as a new approximate codimension-two attractor.
Aeronomical constraints to the minimum mass and maximum radius of hot low-mass planets

Stimulated by the discovery of a number of close-in low-density planets, we generalise the Jeans escape parameter taking hydrodynamic and Roche lobe effects into account. We furthermore define $\Lambda$ as the value of the Jeans escape parameter calculated at the observed planetary radius and mass for the planet's equilibrium temperature and considering atomic hydrogen, independently of the atmospheric temperature profile. We consider 5 and 10 $M_{\oplus}$ planets with an equilibrium temperature of 500 and 1000 K, orbiting early G-, K-, and M-type stars. Assuming a clear atmosphere and by comparing escape rates obtained from the energy-limited formula, which only accounts for the heating induced by the absorption of the high-energy stellar radiation, and from a hydrodynamic atmosphere code, which also accounts for the bolometric heating, we find that planets whose $\Lambda$ is smaller than 15-35 lie in the "boil-off" regime, where the escape is driven by the atmospheric thermal energy and low planetary gravity. We find that the atmosphere of hot (i.e. $T_{\rm eq}\gtrapprox$ 1000 K) low-mass ($M_{\rm pl}\lessapprox$ 5 $M_{\oplus}$) planets with $\Lambda$ < 15-35 shrinks to smaller radii so that their $\Lambda$ evolves to values higher than 15-35, hence out of the boil-off regime, in less than $\approx$500 Myr. Because of their small Roche lobe radius, we find the same result also for hot (i.e. $T_{\rm eq}\gtrapprox$ 1000 K) higher mass ($M_{\rm pl}\lessapprox$ 10 $M_{\oplus}$) planets with $\Lambda$ < 15-35, when they orbit M-dwarfs. For old, hydrogen-dominated planets in this range of parameters, $\Lambda$ should therefore be $\geq$15-35, which provides a strong constraint on the planetary minimum mass and maximum radius and can be used to predict the presence of aerosols and/or constrain planetary masses, for example.
Growth and Financing Behaviour of Firms of Textile Industry in Pakistan: A Panel Data Analysis

High economic growth, extremely low nominal interest rate and negative real interest rate gave a boost to financial leverage (gearing ratio) of the textile sector to its peak in 2005. Firms are now are facing the consequence of high gearing. An explosion in their financing costs along with removal of textile quota from 2005 onwards and later on an acute energy crisis hampered their profitability and ability to repay their debt. This in turn contributed to non-performing loans which is now is likely to pose a big challenge for financial sector and push economy into another crisis. Most of the previous studies including a very few on capital structure of Pakistani firms focus on understanding only the firm specific determinants of financial leverage and completely ignore macroeconomic or institutional factors. Findings of this paper prove that all firm specific determinants including profitability and efficiency, firms‘ growth, risk and collateral excluding size significantly influence corporate financial leverage of textile industry in Pakistan. All macroeconomic variables including overall economic growth, equity market conditions and nominal cost of debt also have significant impact on corporate gearing. Negative sign with the composite measure of profitability and efficiency implies that banks are compelled to fund inefficient and unprofitable firms because demand for loans comes more from inefficient and unprofitable firms. Positive sign with growth and negative sign with risk is indicative of the fact that banks prefer to lend to growing rather than riskier firms.
Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron II. Observations of 3C 273 at minimum activity

RadioAstron is a 10 m orbiting radio telescope mounted on the Spektr-R satellite, launched in 2011, performing Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) observations supported by a global ground array of radio telescopes. With an apogee of about 350 000 km, it is offering for the first time the possibility to perform {\mu}as-resolution imaging in the cm-band. We present observations at 22 GHz of 3C 273, performed in 2014, designed to reach a maximum baseline of approximately nine Earth diameters. Reaching an angular resolution of 0.3 mas, we study a particularly low-activity state of the source, and estimate the nuclear region brightness temperature, comparing with the extreme one detected one year before during the RadioAstron early science period. We also make use of the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR survey data, at 43 GHz, to study the kinematics of the jet in a 1.5-year time window. We find that the nuclear brightness temperature is two orders of magnitude lower than the exceptionally high value detected in 2013 with RadioAstron at the same frequency (1.4x10^13 K, source-frame), and even one order of magnitude lower than the equipartition value. The kinematics analysis at 43 GHz shows that a new component was ejected 2 months after the 2013 epoch, visible also in our 22 GHz map presented here. Consequently this was located upstream of the core during the brightness temperature peak. These observations confirm that the previously detected extreme brightness temperature in 3C 273, exceeding the inverse Compton limit, is a short-lived phenomenon caused by a temporary departure from equipartition. Thus, the availability of interferometric baselines capable of providing {\mu}as angular resolution does not systematically imply measured brightness temperatures over the known physical limits for astrophysical sources.
Study on the absorption and transport of different glutamine dipeptides in small intestine of weaned piglets.

1 SUMMARY This experiment was conducted to study hydrolysis, absorption and transportation characteristics of Alanyl-glutamine amino acid (Ala-Gln) and Glycyl-glutamine amino acid (Gly-Gln) in small intestine of weaned piglet by detecting the dipeptide and glutamine monomer in culture solution, serosal fluid and tissue of cultured reversal intestine segments in vitro . The results showed that, in experiment 1, the content of Ala-Gln and Gly-Gln dipeptides were 9.00±1.57 mmol/L, 8.85±1.78 mmol/L, respectively. In experiment 2, both Ala-Gln and Gly-Gln were detected in the incubated intestinal sac tissue and serosal fluid. The content of Ala-Gln dipeptide transported into the sac was 10.26±0.74 mmol/L, significantly greater than that of Gly-Gln dipeptide, 7.25±1.47 mmol/L (P 0.05). Absorption content of dipeptides was significantly greater that absorption content of Gln in relative free amino acids treatment. The absorption rate of dipeptides or Gln monomer had the same changing characteristic as the absorption content of dipeptides or Gln monomer. The results suggested that these two dipeptides (Ala-Gln and Gly-Gln) were not totally hydrolyzed in jejunum segments of weaned piglets, and their content gradual decreased. They were absorbed by intestinal cells as intact form, and quickly hydrolyzed. The absorption rate of Ala-Gln was faster than that of Gly-Gln. Dipeptides absorption rate were faster from solutions containing the same amount of amino acids in dipeptide than Gln absorption rate in free form. This study provided the theoretical groundwork for dipeptide nutrition. This suggests that either Ala-Gln or Gly-Gln dipeptides can be used to substitute Gln monomer in weaned piglets feeding.
GEOTHERMAL PROGRAM REVIEW X "Geothermal Energy and the Utility Market = The Opportunities and Challenges for Expanding Geothermal Energy in a Competitive Supply Market"

' The Heat Cycle Research project i s developing the technology base that w i l l permit a much greater u t i l ization o f the moderate-temperature, liquid-. ' dominated geothermal resources, particularly f o r the generation o f electrical power. The emphasis i n the project has been the improvement o f the performance o f binary power cycles. The investigations have been examining concepts projected t o improve the brine u t i l i z a t i o n by 20% relative t o a "Heber-type" binary plant; these investigations are nearing completion. Preparations are currently underway i n the project t o conduct f i e l d investigations o f the condensation behavior o f supersaturated turbine expansions. These investigations w i l l evaluate whether the projected additional 8% t o 10% improvement i n brine u t i l i z a t i o n can be realized by allow- ing these expansions. Future program e f f o r t s w i l l focus on the problems associated with heat rejection and on the transfer o f the technology being devel-Conventional binary cycles have used turbine expan- sions which occur t o t a l l y within the dry vapor region. The Heat Cycle Research project i s current- l y investigating the f e a s i b i l i t y o f turbine expansions which pass through the two-phase region i n a metastable condition.
Differences in Extinction of an Appetitive Instrumental Response in Female Inbred Roman High- (RHA-I) and Low- (RLA-I) Avoidance Rats

An experiment was conducted with the goal of exploring strain differences between female inbred Roman High and Low Avoidance rats (RHA-I, and RLA-I, respectively) on acquisition and extinction of a food-rewarded running response in a straight alley. Acquisition proceeded faster in the less emotional RHA-I and Wistar rats (used as controls) than in the more emotional RLA-I rats. However, extinction proceeded slower in RHA-I rats than in RLA-I and Wistar rats. This strain-based asymmetry on instrumental performance between acquisition and extinction is discussed in terms of strain differences in locomotor activity, associative flexibility and emotional
Integrating products and services through life: an aerospace experience

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of “product‐service” (P‐S) strategies in the aerospace sector. Despite the widespread perception that aerospace organisations are advanced in terms of P‐S integration, little is known about the realities of P‐S provision in the sector. Much of the existing literature is normative and prescriptive, focusing upon what organisations aspire to do, but offers little insights into how attempts to integrate products and services occur or the challenges organisations encounter.Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents an in‐depth case study of an international aerospace original equipment manufacturer, referred to as “JetCo”. A total of 18 interviews were conducted with key actors involved in the operationalisation of P‐S strategy within defence aerospace and civil aerospace divisions. In addition, analysis of internal company documentation was also undertaken.Findings – This paper reveals that current P‐S strategy, which builds upon a long h.
Punta Arenas Punta Arenas Atlantic Pacific Patagonia

We present a long–term study of the aerosol conditions in Latin America below 50◦S, which is based on spaceborne measurements of CALIOP and ground–based Raman lidar measurements of PollyXT at Punta Arenas, Chile (53◦S). Punta Arenas is influenced by the Antarctic low–pressure belt and constant westerly winds of marine origin through the whole year. The CALIOP–derived median AOT value of 0.04 confirms the clean aerosol conditions in the surrounding of Punta Arenas. However, we found an unexpectedly high fraction of continental aerosol in the CALIOP typing scheme. A closer view on the CALIOP data analysis showed evidence that this might result from the surface–type–dependent data algorithm. The determination of marine aerosol is prohibited above land which leads to discrepancies in the coastal region of Punta Arenas. Additionally, we found evidence of cloud affected level 2 version 3 data which were unmarked by the CALIOP quality flags. The Raman lidar measurements at Punta Arenas offer the unique opportunity of a ground truthing approach of CALIOP in aerosol conditions close to the detection level in a marine environment.
The Murder Epidemic: A Global Comparative Study

We build on literature from policy and academic circles to assess whether Latin America is leading when it comes to persistence in homicides. The focus is on a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on generalized method of moments. The following main finding is established. The region with the highest evidence of persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and then by Europe and Central Asia. In order to increase room for policy implications, the data set is decomposed into income levels, religious domination, landlockedness, and legal origins. From the conditioning information set, the following factors account for persistence in global homicides: crime, political instability, and weapons import positively affect homicides whereas the number of “security and police officers” has the opposite effect.
Nutritional Quality of Bivalves, Crassostrea madrasensis and Perna viridis in the Kali Estuary, Karnataka, India

Quality aspects of oysters ( Crassostrea madrasensis) and mussel (Perna viridis) in the Kali estuary, Karwar were examined in different seasons over a 13 month period. Ecophysiological parameters and nutritional quality parameters of oysters and mussel (composition of Protein, Carbohydrate, Lipid and Ash content) were determined at different seasons of the year. Seasonal variations were observed in the nutrient content, with particular regard to protein 52.33% (September 2003) to 63.86% (June 2004); Carbohydrate 14.01% (February 2004) to 25.24% (October 2003), Lipid 8.46% (October 2003) to 18.77% (February 2004) ash 4.21% (February 2004) to 14.82% (September 2004) in oysters whereas in mussels protein 57.39% Â (March 2004) to 66.51% (November 2003) , Carbohydrate 14.69% (November 2003) to 26.81% (March 2004), Lipid 8.09% (Feb. 2004) to 12.62% (November 2003), ash 6.18% (November 2003) to 9.02% (March 2004) . In spite of this variability, the nutritional quality of the oysters was generally good, especially just before gamete release (premonsoon) when the concentration of nutrients was at its maximum. A low level of fat was detected in the edible meat of oysters and mussels.
SERVITIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT SECTOR

The role of manufacturing in value chains has become less dominant given the trend of stagnating demand, commoditization of products, and declining profitability. Confronted with this challenging scenario, a growing number of companies seek to add value to their businesses by adopting the approach of “servitization” (offering product-service solutions). However, literature on this subject is divided on the effectiveness of this approach since the intended outcome is not always achieved (service paradox). As such, this study quantitatively evaluates this relationship in manufacturing firms within the machinery and equipment industry. Data on different service categories developed by these firms and their corresponding impacts were collected. It was verified that there is a positive and significant relationship between the majority of these service categories and organizational performance, which indicates that identifying and developing a consistent service bundle may serve as an effective servitization strategy.