Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Salicylic Acid Treatment of Stored Canola Seed to Decrease the Adversely Effects on Oil quality under Long-Term Storage, High Storage Temperature and Seed Moisture Contents

This study was carried out on canola seeds stored under different temperatures, seed moisture contents, salicylic acid concentrations for 24 months classified into 4 equal periods. The main objectives of this research were to study the effects of the studied 4 factors and their interactions on fatty acid compositions, acidity and free fatty acids (FFA) of the extracted oil, besides test the effect of treating seeds with salicylic acid to reduce the adversely storage conditions on oil compositions and quality. The obtained results showed that around 10%, 46% and 43% reductions in oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids as a result of stored seeds under 24 months and 30C compared with 6 months and 10C ,with significantly increasing in oil acidity and FFA. Also, under the 24 months of the 16% moisture stored seeds highly significantly reductions in oil composition and quality, where percentages of saturated fatty acids (palmitic and stearic) increased and unsaturated fatty acids (oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids) decreased by 23.6%, 47.3% and 49.6%, respectively and both acidity and FFA(%) increased by around 87% compared with the 7% moisture seed stored for 6 months. As seed moisture and storage temperature increased significantly reducing in unsaturated fatty acids and increasing in saturated fatty acids and acidity and FFA. Treating canola seeds with 15 or 30 uM salicylic acid caused in significantly increasing in oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids and decreasing palmitic and stearic acids (%) besides decreasing the acidity and FFA of the extracted oil from the seeds stored under the unfavorable conditions.
Fund Manager Overconfidence and Investment Performance: Evidence from Mutual Funds

The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent mutual fund managers, as an important and representative group of professional investors, are prone to overconfidence and associated behavioural biases such as self-serving attribution. More importantly, we explore how these psychological attributes may have any bearing on investment performance. The fundamental question is why, how, and through which mechanisms does overconfidence affect investment performance, if at all. We measure managerial overconfidence by content analysing the narratives of reports fund managers write to their investors, and by using a range of proxies including overoptimism, excessive certainty and excessive self-reference. We study a large sample of US actively managed equity mutual funds during the 2003-09 period. The cross-sectional variations in this sample demonstrate that superior past performance boosts managerial overconfidence as measured by a number of proxies. Importantly, our findings also suggest that excessive overconfidence is associated, to a large extent, with diminished future investment returns in the 12 months following the publication of the annual report. This effect is robust across different investment styles, although it appears to be stronger among growth-oriented funds. A closer investigation reveals an overall inverted-U relationship between fund manager overconfidence and subsequent investment performance. Furthermore, a hedging strategy based on shorting funds with abnormally overconfident managers and going long in funds with normally confident managers yields positive average returns after controlling for Carhart factors.
The decision making process of your company is really integrated

The paper describes the development of a study of production planning decision-making process. The internal and the external integration of the supply chain have become essential for many industries. However, according to a global survey of the supply chain: companies have put so much attention about supply chain integration that they have forgotten about the internal integration. The literature about internal integration defines it as a key element in the performance of the company and the entire supply chain. Besides there is a problem of misconception of their own level of internal integration. Companies could trust to be integrated based in misconceptions or incomplete information. This could lead to miss valuable synergies that could reduce the overall cost. Using a survey among production planning practitioners, we investigate the decision-making process of the internal planning, operation scheduling and inventory control at the shop level. The degree of integration is analysed using the decision-making process and other drivers suggested in other studies. We conclude that many companies have a misalignment in the implementation of their philosophies. Consequently, the possibility of enhance is lost by silo decisions and managers should implement the internal integration practices in the different areas of the production planning.
‘I know how I feel’

UK government policy advocates involving children in decisions about their lives. However, disabled children are often marginalized and not consulted, especially those with learning and communication impairments. Drawing on an ongoing English Government funded longitudinal study exploring different groups of service users’ choices, this article demonstrates the important contribution that qualitative research methods, especially non-traditional methods, can procure when working with young people who are non-verbal or have limited speech. Working with young people with life-limiting conditions raises some specific challenges for researchers. Here, adapting project wide materials and research methods in order to gain some thematic continuity across different service user groups. Some of these considerations and challenges will be discussed, especially the development of non-verbal forms of communication (talking mats TM). Practical experiences, both positive and negative will be examined. The article concludes by considering some wider implications of using symbols based methods for future research and how these methods can be used across disciplines and by practitioners in their everyday work.
An alternative index to ESP to explain dispersion occurring in Australian soils when Na content is low

Re-use of industrial and agricultural wastewater for irrigation can increase the concentration of potassium in soil and affect soil structure. However, investigations of clay dispersion have traditionally focused on soils with high exchangeable sodium, therefore exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) has been used to assess soil structural stability. Currently, Australian soils have been considered non-sodic or non-dispersive when the soil ESP <6. However, a few studies have demonstrated that potassium (K) ions in the exchange complex of soil can also assist clay dispersion even when the exchangeable sodium (Na) levels are minimal. The dispersion (as turbidity) and ESP were measured on 74 Australian soils. 17 of those soils showed a considerable level of dispersion, despite ESP <4.5. In all of these soils the Na to K ratio was <1. The relationships between ESP and turbidity were poor (R2= 0.23) indicating limitations of using the ESP for identifying potentially dispersive soils when K is present on the soil exchange sites. Therefore, we used exchangeable cation ratio (ECR), as an index alternative to ESP, but which takes into account effects of exchangeable K on clay dispersion. The good correlation obtained between ECR and the parameters like turbidity and zeta potential support its use in assessing soil structural stability when the appreciable amount of K present on exchange sites.
PENGARUH PERSEPSI KEBERMANFAATAN, PERSEPSI KEMUDAHAN PENGGUNAAN, DAN KEPUASAN WAJIB PAJAK TERHADAP PENGGUNAAN E-FILING BAGI WAJIB PAJAK DI YOGYAKARTA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui (1)Pengaruh Persepsi Kebermanfaatan terhadapPenggunaan e- Filing, (2) Pengaruh PersepsiKemudahan Penggunaan terhadap Penggunaan e-Filing, (3) Pengaruh Kepuasan Wajib Pajak terhadapPenggunaan e-Filing, dan (4) Pengaruh PersepsiKebermanfaatan, Persepsi Kemudahan, danKepuasan Wajib Pajak secara bersama-sama terhadapPenggunaan e-Filing.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian asosiatifdengan pendekatan survai yang dilakukan di KantorDirektorat Jendral Pajak Yogyakarta. Respondenyang digunakan adalah wajib pajak badan yangmenggunakan e-Filing yang berjumlah 99 perusahaan.Teknik pengambilan data menggunakankuesioner/angket. Sebelum dilakukan analisis dataterlebih dahulu dilakukan uji coba instrumen,semua item pertanyaan yang digunakan valid dansemua variabel reliabel. Teknik analisis datamenggunakan (1) Uji Asumsi Klasik dan (2) UjiHipotesis yang terdiri dari uji regresi linier sederhanadan uji regresi linier berganda.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) Terdapatpengaruh positif Persepsi Kebermanfaatan terhadapPenggunaan e-Filing ditunjukkan dengan koefisienregresi variabel yang menunjukkan angka positif(0,122) dan mempunyai signifikansi 0,021 (dibawah 0,05), (2) Terdapat pengaruh positif PersepsiKemudahan Penggunaan terhadapPenggunaan e-Filing ditunjukkan dengan koefisienregresi variabel yang menunjukkan angka positif(0,340) dan mempunyai signifikansi 0,000 (dibawah 0,05), (3) Terdapat pengaruh positif KepuasanWajib Pajak terhadap Penggunaan e-Filing ditunjukkandengan koefisien regresi variabel yangmenunjukkan angka positif (0,130) dan mempunyaisignifikansi 0,011 (di bawah 0,05), (4) Terdapatpengaruh positif Persepsi Kebermanfaatan,Persepsi Kemudahan, dan Kepuasan Wajib Pajaksecara bersama-sama terhadap Penggunaan e-Filing ditunjukkan dengan koefisien regresi semuayang menunjukkan angka positif. Dengan SumbanganRelatif (SR) yang diberikan oleh X1 adalahsebesar 7 %, X2 adalah sebesar 73 %, dan X3 adalahsebesar 20 %, dengan total sumbangan efektif(SE) sebesar 36,7%. Nilai koefisien determinasi(Adjusted R²) sebesar 0,342 atau 34,2% yang berartibahwa Penggunaan e-Filing yang dapat dijelaskanoleh variabel Persepsi Kebermanfaatan,Persepsi Kemudahan, dan Kepuasan Wajib Pajakadalah sebesar 34,2%. Kata Kunci : e-Filing, Persepsi Kebermanfaatan,Persepsi Kemudahan Penggunaan, Kepuasan WajibPajak, Wajib Pajak Badan.
A Study of Corporate Governance Factors and Earnings Management Behaviors of Taiwan Public Companies

This study explores the impact of corporate governance factors to earnings management behaviors. The sample covers 268 publicly held corporations in Taiwan. We use modified Jones model to test the free cash flow, discretionary accrual items and some corporate governance factors. Our analysis shows that the discretionary accruals are positively related with free cash flow. The results also indicate that companies that have been audited by the Big-Four CPA firms have less discretionary accrual items. Debt to asset ratio has a negative relationship with discretionary accruals. Results from corporate governance factors indicate that the turnover rate of internal auditors, the number of financial report restatement and the number of earnings forecast are not significantly related with discretionary accrual items. Our analysis also shows different earnings management behaviors between high-tech and traditional industry.
Sustainable tea production : an assessment of farmer field schools in Kenya

This report presents the results of the KTDA/Lipton Sustainable Agriculture Project. The aim of the KTDA/Lipton Sustainable Agriculture Project is to increase the sustainability of tea production by increasing the rate of adoption of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and thereby directly improve profitability. In 2006 the Kenya Tea Development Agency and Lipton started four pilot Farmer Field Schools (FFS). The results of the four pilot FFS are encouraging. Although no quantitative increase in tea production per acre due to the FFS could be observed, overwhelming evidence has been gathered about the increase of knowledge on and implementation of GAPs. This will have short and long-term benefits for smallholders engaged in FFS. Indirect effects of the FFS were better group cohesion and strengthened learning capacities. The pilot suggests that FFS are a more efficient way of extending production management techniques than the traditional extension methodology
Emotional Archives: Online Photo Sharing and the Cultivation of the Self

This paper focuses on the archiving of emotion in online photo sharing, and specifically on biography sites in which we are encouraged to package our lives as a succession of dramatic moments. It considers how social software functions to animate memory and history in ways that extend photography's role as a medium through which individuals confirm and explore their own identity. The paper focuses on thisMoment (www.thismoment.com), which innovates certain key features of popular photo archives such as Flickr and Nokia Lifeblog. On this site, visual “moments” are given an emotional classification (“This moment made me feel … happy/proud/etc”). Perhaps more importantly, a dynamic visual timeline enables users to supplement their own photographic memories with fragments from the mass media, thereby aiding memorialization and personalizing history. Such practices inevitably arrive in the context of contemporary developments in neo-liberalism, and despite significant continuities demand a rethinking of dominant theories of popular photography.
Clinical study of open versus laparoscopic management for gastroduodenal perforation

Background: This study was organized to compare the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic and open repair of gastroduodenal perforation, and to provide the impressive surgical method of treatment for gastroduodenal perforation. Methods: The present study was conducted with 174 consecutive patients treated for gastroduodenal perforations. These patients included 121 with perforated gastric ulcers, 53 with perforated duodenal ulcers, Whereas 31 patients were treated laparoscopically, and 143 patients underwent conventional (open) surgery. Results: A total of 174 patients were studied with men and women ratio of 4:1. This observational study revealed 80% male preponderance, with mean age of 48 years. Gastric perforations (n=77, i.e., 84.62%) were more common than duodenal perforations (n=14, i.e., 15.38%). Simple closure with omental patch (n=74, i.e., 81.32%) was the most common surgical method for duodenal perforation. While for gastric perforations were repaired primarily with two layered sutures. The mean operating time of open were 61 min and 86 min for laparoscopic surgery. Wound infection was the commonest post-operative complication which was seen in 31 (17.81%) patients. Conclusions: Laparoscopic gastroduodenal perforation repair is safe and reliable, has good clinical efficacy, the incidence of complications compared with open surgery does not increase, and has less surgical trauma, less bleeding, advantages of fast recovery of gastrointestinal function and short hospitalization time, Thus it has great clinical significance and should be promoted in surgery.
Priors for the Long Run

ABSTRACT We propose a class of prior distributions that discipline the long-run behavior of vector autoregressions (VARs). These priors can be naturally elicited using economic theory, which provides guidance on the joint dynamics of macroeconomic time series in the long run. Our priors for the long run are conjugate, and can thus be easily implemented using dummy observations and combined with other popular priors. In VARs with standard macroeconomic variables, a prior based on the long-run predictions of a wide class of theoretical models yields substantial improvements in the forecasting performance. Supplementary materials for this article, including a standardized description of the materials available for reproducing the work, are available as an online supplement.
An approach to propagate streamflow statistics along the river network

Abstract Streamflow at ungauged sites is often predicted by means of regional statistical procedures. The standard regional approaches do not preserve the information related to the hierarchy among gauged stations deriving from their location along the river network. However, this information is important when estimating runoff at a site located immediately upstream or downstream of a gauging station. We propose here a novel approach, referred to as the Along-Stream Estimation (ASE) method, to improve runoff estimation at ungauged sites. The ASE approach starts from the regional estimate at an ungauged (target) site, and corrects it based on regional and sample estimates of the same variable at a donor site, where sample data are available. A criterion to define the domain of application around each donor site of the ASE approach is proposed, and the uncertainty inherent in the estimates obtained is evaluated. This allows one to compare the variance of the along-stream estimates to that of other models that eventually become available for application (e.g. regional models), and thus to choose the most accurate method (or to combine different estimates). The ASE model was applied in the northwest of Italy in connection with an existing regional model for flood frequency analysis. The analysed variables are the first L-moments of the annual discharge maxima. The application demonstrates that the ASE approach can be used effectively to improve the regional estimates for the L-moment of order one (the index flood), particularly when the area ratio of a pair of donor–target basins is less than or equal to ten. However, in this case study, the method does not provide significant improvements to the estimation of higher-order L-moments. Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor S. Grimaldi Citation Ganora, D. , Laio, F. , and Claps, P., 2013. An approach to propagate streamflow statistics along the river network. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (1), 1–13.
A wearable force plate system for the continuous measurement of triaxial ground reaction force in biomechanical applications

The ambulatory measurement of ground reaction force (GRF) and human motion under free-living conditions is convenient, inexpensive and never restricted to gait analysis in a laboratory environment and is therefore much desired by researchers and clinical doctors in biomedical applications. A wearable force plate system was developed by integrating small triaxial force sensors and three-dimensional (3D) inertial sensors for estimating dynamic triaxial GRF in biomechanical applications. The system, in comparison to existent systems, is characterized by being lightweight, thin and easy-to-wear. A six-axial force sensor (Nitta Co., Japan) was used as a verification measurement device to validate the static accuracy of the developed force plate. To evaluate the precision during dynamic gait measurements, we compared the measurements of the triaxial GRF and the center of pressure (CoP) by using the developed system with the reference measurements made using a stationary force plate and an optical motion analysis system. The root mean square (RMS) differences of the two transverse components (x- and y-axes) and the vertical component (z-axis) of the GRF were 4.3 ± 0.9 N, 6.0 ± 1.3 N and 12.1 ± 1.1 N, respectively, corresponding to 5.1 ± 1.1% and 6.5 ± 1% of the maximum of each transverse component and 1.3 ± 0.2% of the maximum vertical component of GRF. The RMS distance between the two systems' CoP traces was 3.2 ± 0.8 mm, corresponding to 1.2 ± 0.3% of the length of the shoe. Moreover, based on the results of the assessment of the influence of the system on natural gait, we found that gait was almost never affected. Therefore, the wearable system as an alternative device can be a potential solution for measuring CoP and triaxial GRF in non-laboratory environments.
Empirical research of the relationship between customer participation, customer satisfaction and service innovation performance in China

Customer participation has received considerable attention in service organizations. To examine the relationship between customer participation, customer satisfaction and service innovation performance, this paper logically discriminated the relevant concepts of them, put forward four assumptions. Through 278 valid questionnaires, confirmatory factor analyses, correlation analyses, structural equation modeling analyses were carried out to select the model and test the hypotheses. The results of the study indicate that customer participation has significantly positive impact on customer satisfaction and service innovation performance. And customer satisfaction has significantly positive impact on service innovation performance. Implications for practicing managers and for future research are discussed. The results of these studies not only support the practice of service innovation activities, but also provide a good research perspective and bases for follow-up research. Key words: Customer participation, service innovation performance, customersatisfaction.
The Protective Effect of Panax Ginseng Root Extract against the Toxicity of Carbon Tetrachloride that Induces Infertility to Male Rabbits

The present study used 20 male rabbits that divided randomly to four groups (each group consist 5 rabbits), control group received only normal diet, the group received carbon tetrachloride (CCL4) for forty days, the group treated (orally) with carbon tetrachloride and (100mg/per day) root extract for forty days, the fourth treated with carbon tetrachloride and (200mg/per day) root extract for forty days. the rabbits that treated with carbon tetrachloride showed decreased in the counts, motility, number of living sperms and increased the deformity of sperms with decreased the levels of LH, FSH and testosterone show high significant changes (P <0.05) compare with control. In contrast, these parameters still normal when the groups that administrated with Panax ginseng root extract. It was concluded that the root extract play important role against heavy metals that causes fertility of male rabbits.
Fermi surface of ferromagnetic EuB6

We have determined the Fermi surface and effective masses of electronic carriers in ferromagnetic EuB{sub 6} from pulsed field magnetization and steady field torque Landau quantum oscillatory measurements. To aid in the interpretation of the measurements, superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer measurements of the overall magnetization were made on the same samples. The results are consistent with recent electronic structure calculations and show both an electron and a hole pocket located at the {ital X} point in the Brillouin zone. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}