Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of feeding blends of Fusarium mycotoxin-contaminated grains containing deoxynivalenol and fusaric acid on growth and feed consumption of immature swine.

Experiments were conducted to determine the effect of feeding diets containing combinations of the Fusarium metabolites deoxynivalenol (DON) and fusaric acid (FA) to starter swine. In all experiments, pigs of approximately 8.2 kg initial weight were fed diets containing blends of mycotoxin-contaminated corn, wheat, and barley for 21 d with growth and feed consumption determined weekly. In the first experiment, diets were determined to contain 0 microgram DON/g + 58.9 micrograms FA/g (control), 4.4 micrograms DON/g + 57.1 micrograms FA/g, 6.0 micrograms DON/g + 48.6 micrograms FA/g, and 7.5 micrograms DON/g + 57.4 micrograms FA/g. The feeding of all diets containing DON caused significant linear depressions in growth and feed intake after only 1 wk. Lower concentrations of DON and FA were fed in the second experiment with diets containing 0 microgram DON/g + 16.3 micrograms FA/g (control), . 5 microgram DON/g + 14.3 micrograms FA/g, 1.1 micrograms DON/g + 14.1 micrograms FA/g, and 1.9 micrograms DON/g + 13.6 micrograms FA/g. There was a significant linear reduction in feed intake after 1 wk with increasing levels of dietary DON. Weight gains declined significantly only after 3 wk. Increasing amounts of FA combined with relatively constant amounts of DON were fed in the third experiment. By analysis, diets contained . 5 micrograms DON/g + 2.9 micrograms FA/g (control), 2.2 micrograms DON/g + 12.2 micrograms FA/g, 2.5 micrograms DON/g + 15.6 micrograms FA/g, and 2.4 micrograms DON/g + 15.9 micrograms FA/g. In the 1st wk, the feeding of increasing amounts of fusaric acid combined with a relatively constant amount of DON caused a significant linear depression in weight gain. We concluded that a toxicological synergism exists between DON and FA when fed to immature swine and that FA concentrations in feeds should be determined whenever DON analysis is conducted.
The effects of auditor reputation, financial condition, and potential intensive economy on artificial auditor rotation

This research empirically re-tests the effects of auditor reputation, client’s financial condition, and potential intensive economy on artificial auditor rotation. The issue of audit quality is still interesting for the researchers to empirically. Auditors are demanded to execute their profession independently. To maintain their being independent, this profession is regulated in the Decree by the Minister of Finance No. 17/PMK.01/2008 on public accountant service. It is mandatory for auditor rotation in that regulation and this is interesting to study more profoundly because in Indonesia this phenomenon of artificial rotation is found. Artificial auditor rotation indicates a condition in which, conceptually, there has been a change of the auditor but substantially the relationship between the auditor and the client is still going on. This research uses sample of companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2002-2011, by purposive sampling technique. The analysis of the research was done using logistic regression. The results of the research show that auditor reputation affects auditor rotation. Yet, company’s financial condition and potential incentive economy do not affect auditor rotation. This research is expected to deepen the concept of audit quality, whereas in practice it is expected to provide inputs for regulating auditor rotation. Auditors are expected to show real auditor rotation.
Neurohumoral Mechanisms Involved in the Hypertensive Response Elicited by Bilateral Carotid Occlusion in Conscious Intact or Chronically Sympathectomized Rats

Bilateral carotid occlusion (BCO) increases the sympathetic drive to the circulatory system in conscious intact rats, producing a hypertensive response characterized by two components, i.e., an initial peak followed by a sustained response of lower intensity. The neurohumoral mechanisms involved in the hypertensive response to BCO were evaluated in conscious intact (INTACT) or chronic guanethidine sympathectomized (SYMPX) rats. To accomplish this, the receptor antagonists, prazosin for α1‐adrenergic receptor, losartan for AT1 angiotensin II receptor and [d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)AVP] for vascular V1 vasopressin receptor were used. A saline control group was studied as well. Conscious rats were equipped with cuffs around the common carotid arteries plus arterial and venous catheters. The results indicate that the sympathetic nervous system is the main mechanism controlling the basal arterial pressure in conscious INTACT rats, whereas in chronically SYMPX rats the renin–angiotensin system plays this role. In INTACT rats prazosin abolished the initial peak and blunted the sustained hypertensive response due to BCO, while the other antagonists exhibited no effect. SYMPX rats did not present the initial peak but displayed an enhanced sustained response, which was blunted by prazosin or the vasopressin antagonist. In conclusion, activation of the sympathetic drive is responsible for both the initial peak and the sustained hypertensive response due to BCO in conscious INTACT rats. On the other hand, vasopressin acting in concert with the sympathetic nervous system, plays a key role in the potentiation of the sustained hypertensive response due to BCO in conscious chronically SYMPX rats.
Team Bidding by Private Equity Sponsors: Are the Antitrust Allegations Plausible?

The dozen largest private equity firms are accused of bid-rigging in the M&A market due to the practice of team bidding in groups known as clubs or consortia. Comparatively low offer premiums are unsurprising in low-synergy mergers and no conspiracy theory is needed to explain why financial buyers might pay lower offer premiums than strategic buyers, so Occam’s razor seems applicable here. In a multiple regression using a sample of 2,023 cash-only purchases of U.S. public companies during 1998-2011, including 85 by teams of private equity sponsors, team bidding is associated with a differential average offer premium of zero. The antitrust allegations are implausible because (1) the segments of the M&A market that are dominated by private equity firms are among the most competitive of all when competition is measured by the number of prospective buyers that sign confidentiality agreements or by whether a sale process culminates in an auction, (2) a selling company’s permission generally is required before prospective buyers can team up and (3) the differential average offer premium paid by teams of private equity sponsors is zero.
Cost allocation under competition: a new rail access charging policy

We consider a setting in which a rail infrastructure provider divides the track costs proportionally between the above-rail operators based on their usage. We study a proposed access charge regime aimed at incentivizing the operators to use longer train configurations. The regime sets a target length and gives a discount on an operator’s charge if it deploys a configuration of at least the target. That is, the operators may be able to reduce their access charges by deploying a longer train configuration. We analyze the policy, and conditions under which both operators have an incentive to deploy long train configurations.
Telephone-Based Intervention to Improve Rehabilitation Engagement After Spinal Stenosis Surgery: A Prospective Lagged Controlled Trial

Background: Spine surgery outcomes are variable. Patients who participate in and take responsibility for their recovery have improved health outcomes. Interventions to increase patient involvement in their care may improve health outcomes after a surgical procedure. We conducted a prospective interventional trial to compare the effectiveness of health behavior change counseling with usual care to improve health outcomes after lumbar spine surgical procedures. Methods: In this study, 122 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis undergoing a decompression surgical procedure from December 2009 through August 2012 were enrolled. Participants were assigned, according to enrollment date, to health behavior change counseling or usual care. Health behavior change counseling is a brief, telephone-based intervention intended to increase rehabilitation engagement through motivational interviewing strategies that elicit and strengthen motivation for change. Health behavior change counseling was designed to identify patients with low patient activation, to maximize postoperative rehabilitation engagement, to decrease pain and disability, and to improve functional recovery. Participants were assessed before the surgical procedure and for 3 years after the surgical procedure for pain intensity (Brief Pain Inventory), disability (Oswestry Disability Index), and physical health (12-Item Short-Form Health Survey, version 2). Differences in changes in health outcomes after the surgical procedure were compared between the health behavior change counseling group and the usual care group. Results: By 12 months, health behavior change counseling participants reported significantly greater reductions in pain intensity (p = 0.008) and disability (p = 0.028) and significantly greater improvement in physical health compared with usual care participants (p = 0.025). These differences were attenuated by 24 and 36 months after the surgical procedure. Early improvements in health outcomes were mediated by improvements in physical therapist-rated engagement and self-reported attendance at physical therapy sessions in the health behavior change counseling group. Conclusions: Health behavior change counseling improved health outcomes during the first 12 months after the surgical procedure through changes in rehabilitation engagement. Wider use of health behavior change counseling may lead to improved outcomes not only after lumbar spine surgery but also in other conditions for which rehabilitation is key to recovery. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level II. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Virus‐like particles as HIV‐1 vaccines

Traditional successful antiviral vaccines have relied mostly on live‐attenuated viruses. Live‐attenuated HIV vaccine candidates are not ideal as they pose risks of reversion, recombination or mutations. Other current HIV vaccine candidates have difficulties generating broadly effective neutralising antibodies and cytotoxic T cell immune responses to primary HIV isolates. Virus‐like‐particles (VLPs) have been demonstrated to be safe to administer to animals and human patients as well as being potent and efficient stimulators of cellular and humoral immune responses. Therefore, VLPs are being considered as possible HIV vaccines. Chimeric HIV‐1 VLPs constructed with either HIV or SIV capsid protein plus HIV immune epitopes and immuno‐stimulatory molecules have further improved on early VLP designs, leading to enhanced immune stimulation. The administration of VLP vaccines via mucosal surfaces has also emerged as a promising strategy with which to elicit mucosal and systemic humoral and cellular immune responses. Additionally, new information on antigen processing and the presentation of particulate antigens by dendritic cells (DCs) has created new strategies for improved VLP vaccine candidates. This paper reviews the field of HIV‐1 VLP vaccine development, focusing on recent studies that will likely uncover promising prospects for new HIV vaccines. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Relationship Between Working Capital Management And Profitability In Brazilian Listed Companies

To overcome competition in a very complex environment, few companies have been able to use the optimization of working capital as a real competitive advantage to leverage profit. The objectives of this article are twofold: a) to investigate if there is any difference between corporate profitability and working capital management in two separate groups of companies: working capital intensive and fixed capital intensive; b) to identify the variables that most affect profitability. The profitability was measured in three different ways: return on sales (ROS), on asset (ROA) and on equity (ROE). The independent variables used are cash conversion efficiency, debt ratio, days of working capital, days receivable and days inventory. Two samples were obtained consisting of 16 Brazilian listed companies in each group for the period 2005-2009. Multiple linear regression has identified that, as far as ROS and ROA are concerned, to manage working capital properly is equally relevant for the two groups of companies. However the impact of debt ratio and days of working capital are relevant in the company profitability in the fixed capital group as opposed to the working capital group. From ANOVA it is evident that days inventory has negative relationship with ROS and ROA but has no statistical evidence in ROE improvement in working capital intensive group. It has also identified days of working capital as the variable that influences ROS in the second group (positive relationship) while debt ratio is the only variable that affects ROA (negative relationship). These results show that regardless the type of company, whether working capital or fixed capital intensive, managing working capital properly is equally important. Moreover, managing inventory as well as cash conversion efficiency to an optimum level will yield more profit in the working capital intensive type of company, while two other different variables create more profit in the fixed capital intensive type of company.
PENGARUH INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY SET, STRUKTUR MODAL, PERTUMBUHAN PERUSAHAAN, DAN RETURN ON ASSET TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN

The purposes of this research to analyze the effects of investment opportunityset (IOS), structure capital, growth, and return on asset (ROA) to firm’s value. This researchused all the companies listed on Indonesian Exchange in the peroid 2012 until 2014. Thenumber of all companies that were became in this study were 119 companies with 3 yearobservation. Based on method purposive sampling, research sample total is 357 financialstatements and annual report. Data analyzed by regression data panel. Result of this researchindicates that investment opportunity set (IOS), growth, and return on asset (ROA)influences significantly positive on the firm value, while structure capital does not influencesto firm value DOI: 10.15408/akt.v8i1. 2760
MULTIMEDIAS ET LANGUE DE SPECIALITE

The department of IT is the department where the teachers and the students’ roles are reverse. This is what we found at the University of Piraeus where the students who attend the lesson of the French language as a language of specialty are not only familiar with the multimedia, but they are also almost professionals. The students of this department are more prompt to take initiative in comparison with other departments of the University and the teacher functions more like a consultant. He will illustrate to the students that he familiarizes them with the terminology of their science and the enhancement of their language skills, in general, recommending various websites the can visit.
Time-Varying Price Discovery in the European Treasury Markets

We study the price discovery process in Euro area government bond markets. We analyze the most active German, French, Italian and Spanish sovereign securities traded on the MTS electronic inter-dealer markets for various maturity buckets. We find that the level of contribution to the price discovery process by the bonds of a certain country changes within each maturity bucket. The French market takes price leadership at the short maturity while the German market is more informative at the medium and long maturities. Importantly, we find that the speed of the yield adjustment to the long-term equilibrium relationship among yields varies over time and can be affected by certain explanatory variables. Our results show that economic news announcements reinforce information contributions to the common efficient interest rate and, consequently, lead to larger and faster yield adjustments.
Ownership structure an performance of the banking sector: The evidence from six balkan countries

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the bank performance differences between foreign owned and domestic banks in six South Eastern European countries and to identify the main determinants of bank performance in the region. The banking sectors of the selected set of six Balkan countries have undergone a remarkable transformation from the beginning of the 1990s, which resulted in a relatively consolidated and to a large extent privatized banking industry that is characterized by a heavy presence of foreign owned banks. Therefore the performance measurement issues in these banking markets in relation with the bank ownership structure arise as intriguing research questions that still need to be answered. Our analysis is based on the bank level, industry level and macroeconomic data for the period 1995 – 2004. The first part of the analysis consists of a series of the mean equality tests for four performance measures between foreign owned and domestic banks in each of the investigated countries. The second part of the analysis relies on the econometric analysis of the bank performance determinants in selected banking sectors. Results do not reveal any substantial statistically significant differences in performance of domestic and foreign owned banks, while the econometric tests identify some factors that can be associated with bank performance indicators. However, further research still needs to be done by using updated datasets and by employment of the additional explanatory variables that could better reflect differences in banking business structure among banks.
Understanding the Stickiness of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting as a Post Globalization Digital Marketing Strategy: A Study of Multinational Automobile Companies in India

Digital Marketing Initiatives of Firms are considered as one of the most influential marketing strategies of corporates to maximize the benefits of their businesses. One of the marketing approaches of businesses to find sophisticated ways of linking social and business values at individual and stakeholder level is through Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR) reporting on websites. There is a "mad" race to promote CSR in order to enhance corporate visibility towards societal welfare. The objective of this paper is to evaluate whether there are elements of stickiness in CSR reporting as published in the websites of multinational automobile companies in India. Basically, Stickiness refers to a site's ability to retain users and drive them further into a site5. This paper takes into consideration four elements of stickiness as conceived by Gillespie, Krishna, Oliver, Olsen, and Thiel15. Comprising four broad components, they suggest that stickiness drivers in a website are content, customization, real-time interaction, and site promotion. The methodology adopted in this paper is thematic analysis of the CSR reporting of major (according to Forbes ranking) multinational automobile companies in India. The findings from this paper would suggest: firstly, whether all the four elements as proposed by Gillespie, Krishna, Oliver, Olsen and Thiel are prevalent in websites of these companies; secondly, the parameters that are more prominent among the automobile companies; thirdly other parameters (if at all) to be taken into consideration in order to enhance the stickiness of CSR Reporting.
Research on the Determinants of Purchasing Intention in Online Shopping——From the Perspective of Trust and Perceived Risk

In online shopping,consumers can not obtain comprehensive products information by seeing and touching.And they may even worry about the transaction security.Online shopping offers a transaction situation with distrustful factors and high perceived risks.So in addition to providing cheap prices and continent purchasing services,it is more important for online stores to meet consumers’ psychological requirement of security.This article proposes a purchasing intention influence model based on trust and perceived risk theories,and presents the development and validation of scales of model variances.Empirical research is conducted based on interview and questionnaire survey.SEM analysis is used to explore the influences of online stores’ brand image,sales management,services,technology security,and consumers’ disposition to trust on consumers’ trust and perceived risk,as well as their effects on purchasing intention.Finally,the article puts forward a credit enhancement framework involving efforts from government,industry association,enterprises,the third-party payment,and consumers,and also proposes suggestions for the management practice
Management of eating disorders in children and adolescents

The eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and their variants, typically develop in adolescence or early adulthood, mainly in females. Despite a long history, the evidence base for effective treatments is weak and existing clinical guidelines are based on consensus views rather than strong research. Effective coordinated management of physical and psychological aspects of the disorders is crucial, but outcomes remain very variable, with adverse outcomes commonly extending into adulthood. Anorexia nervosa carries a high morbidity and occasional mortality.
Effects of Fair - Value Relaxation during a Crisis: What are the Costs and Benefits? Evidence from the Reclassification of Financial Securities

Fair value accounting (FVA) rules were relaxed through an ad-hoc amendment of IAS 39 at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. The extent to which the trade-off between financial stability and transparency implied by this measure was reflected in the reaction of bond and equity markets is analyzed in an event study setting. For credit markets, there is at most inconclusive evidence that transparency concerns dominated potential financial stability benefits implied by the reclassification option. For equity markets, the evidence that the October announcement implied financial stability gains for a subset of regulatory constrained banks is weak. Overall, the results suggest that the financial stability benefits of the introduction of the reclassification option are contained.
Regulation of Early Tomato Fruit Development by theDiageotropica Gene1

The vegetative phenotype of the auxin-resistantdiageotropica (dgt) mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) includes reduced gravitropic response, shortened internodes, lack of lateral roots, and retarded vascular development. Here, we report that early fruit development is also dramatically altered by the single-genedgt lesion. Fruit weight, fruit set, and numbers of locules and seeds are reduced in dgt. In addition, time to flowering and time from anthesis to the onset of fruit ripening are increased by the dgt lesion, whereas ripening is normal. The dgt mutation appears to affect only the early stages of fruit development, irrespective of allele or genetic background. Expression of members of the LeACS(1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase, a key regulatory enzyme of ethylene biosynthesis) and LeIAA(Aux/IAA, auxin-responsive) gene families were quantified via real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in both dgt and wild-type fruits, providing the first analysis of Aux/IAA gene expression in fruit. Thedgt lesion affects the expression of only certain members of both the LeACS and LeIAAmultigene families. Different subsets of LeIAA gene family members are affected by the dgt mutation in fruits and hypocotyls, indicating that the DGT gene product functions in a developmentally specific manner. The differential expression of subsets of LeIAA and LeACS gene family members as well as the alterations in dgt fruit morphology and growth suggest that the early stages of fruit development in tomato are regulated, at least in part, by auxin- and ethylene-mediated gene expression.