Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Marketing Impact of Halal Labeling Toward Indonesian Muslim Consumer’s Behavioral Intention Based on Ajzen’s Planned Behavior Theory: Policy Capturing Studies on Five Different Product Categories

The purpose of this paper is to test the applicability of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in explaining the intention to switch from products without certified Halal labels within a wide array of purchase context, especially in the purchase of food and medicine products. A policy capturing questionnaire was used to elicit responses from consumers using a convenience sampling technique. A total of 7500 responses were obtained from 150 participating respondent in 50 different scenario cases. Data is analyzed using Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling. The study finds that the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is not completely valid to explain both the behavioral intention of Muslim consumers in Indonesia to seek information about the Halal certification of a product and to cancel their purchase if the product did not have Halal certification. Differences in magnitude and significance of causal relationships exist between different product categories.
HOW TO CONTROL THE CONTROLLER – CEO COMPENSATION AND MOTIVATION

One of the main control mechanisms that shareholders have used to rein in rogue managers is compensation. Through a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, shareholders have tried to provide the right balance to motivate senior managers to perform at their best. Shareholders have often failed in achieving this balance through compensation. In this paper, we argue that this failure is not the result of compensation packages as such, but on the focus of compensation packages on extrinsic motivators such as pay-for-performance bonuses and stock options. Instead, the focus of compensation packages should be on cultivating intrinsic motivators such as firing and prestige.
“I’m a mother, but I’m also a facilitator in her every-day life” : Parents’ voices about barriers and support for internet participation among young people with intellectual disabilities

In general, the Internet is an arena where parents (as well as other adults) have limited insight and possibilities to support the young person. However, several studies indicate that parents are one of the most important facilitators in the every-day life of young persons with intellectual disabilities. Therefore, the aim of the current article is to highlight parents’ perceptions and actions in relation to opportunities and barriers for these young people when using the Internet. The empirical material consists of interviews with 22 parents of intellectually challenged young people in Sweden. The transcribed interviews were analysed using a thematic analysis, which is a method of identifying, analysing and reporting patterns within data sets. The results show that parents’ views are double-edged; on the one hand, they see great possibilities for their children, thanks to the Internet, but on the other hand, they are afraid that due to their disability, their children are more sensitive to different contents and interactions on the Internet. Furthermore, the results indicate that parents believe that the Internet can facilitate participation in social life, but that it precludes young people with intellectual disabilities from being part of society in general when it comes to community functions and services. This article will discuss barriers and support in relation to the individual and her or his support system, which brings into focus the parent’s responsibility and support for young people, helping them to surmount barriers – instead of avoiding or ignoring them – and find ways to take action to do so.
Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling

This paper identifies sharp bounds on the mean treatment response and average treatment effect under the assumptions of both concave monotone treatment response (concave-MTR) and monotone treatment selection (MTS). We use our bounds and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate mean returns to schooling. Our upper-bound estimates are substantially smaller than (1) estimates using only the concave-MTR assumption of Manski (1997) and (2) estimates using only the MTR and MTS assumptions of Manski and Pepper (2000). They fall in the lower range of the point estimates given in previous studies that assume linear wage functions. This is because ability bias is corrected by assuming MTS when the functions are close to linear. Our results therefore imply that higher returns reported in previous studies are likely to be overestimated.
Cold-induced changes of protein and phosphoprotein expression patterns from rice roots as revealed by multiplex proteomic analysis.

Cold stress is a critical abiotic stress that reduces crop yield and quality. The response of the rice proteome to cold stress has been documented, and differential proteomic analysis has provided valuable information on the mechanisms by which rice adapts to cold stress. A global analysis of the change in protein phosphorylation status in response to cold stress remains to be explored, however. Here, we performed a phosphoproteomic analysis of rice roots following exposure to cold stress using a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis-based multiplex proteomic approach. Differentially expressed proteins and phosphoproteins were detected and identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight/time of flight mass spectrometry combined with querying rice protein databases. Nineteen protein gel spots (stained with silver) showed a twofold difference in abundance of protein spots from gels with and without cold stress; these proteins were identified to be involved in redox homeostasis, signal transduction, and metabolism. Twelve of the thirteen phosphoprotein gel spots (stained with Pro-Q Diamond) that showed a twofold abundance difference were identified, including the following nine proteins: enolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, nucleoside diphosphate kinase, ascorbate peroxidase, adenosine kinase, CPK1 adapter protein 2, ATP synthase subunit alpha, methionine synthase 1, and tubulin. Phosphorylation site predictors were used to confirm that the identified proteins had putative phosphorylation sites. These results suggest that phosphorylation of some proteins in rice roots is regulated in response to cold stress.
The Challenges of Teaching and Training in Intellectual Property

The article discusses the challenges of teaching Intellectual Property (IP) in the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil), with reference to the data obtained from a large survey and analysis of the disciplines offered in the undergraduate, graduate and university extension courses, and interviews with professors responsible for these courses and disciplines. The results indicate that although Unicamp has a prominent role in promoting innovation, occupying the second position in the ranking of the largest depositors of patent applications in Brazil, the teaching of the subject in the institution still relies on individual initiatives of the professors themselves, being exclusively dependent on the interest and skills of these individuals rather than a more general orientation of the university. The discussion closes with some observations as to how education and training in IP could be improved, in an attempt to convert them into instruments conducive to the promotion of innovation within nations.
Children with Disability in Nepal : New Hope Through CBR ?

Results: Children with disability and their families ranked physical health, psychological health, empowerment and level of independence as the most important factors for their QoL. Of the 19 children, 13 had experienced positive changes in their life and 1 child reported a negative change. The positive changes related mainly to their physical health and functioning. The impact of these changes was felt in the ‘social’, ‘level of independence’ and ‘empowerment’ outcome categories. The children mentioned that they had more friends, experienced less stigma, could go to school and were more hopeful about the future.
The Mediating Effect of Dividend Policy on the Quality of Corporate Governance and Informative Income Smoothing

The present study investigates the mediating effect of the dividend policy on the relationship between corporate governance quality and informative income smoothing. Tucker and Zarowin (TZ) and Albrecht and Richardson (AR) approaches are utilized as the proxies of informative income smoothing. In addition, the accumulated coding method and dividend are applied to measure the corporate governance quality and dividend policy respectively. By applying a systematic elimination method, 109 firms remained as the final sample for the period from 2007 to 2014. Using the TZ method, we found that there is a significant and positive relationship between corporate governance quality and informative income smoothing. Finally, according to the results of Sobel’s Test, the role of dividend policy as a mediating variable was not verified in the relationship between corporate governance quality and informative corporate governance (TZ); however, if the AR method is used for measuring informative income smoothing, the dividend policy may mediate the relationship between corporate governance quality and informative income smoothing.
Organosulfates and organic acids in Arctic aerosols: speciation, annual variation and concentration levels

Abstract. Sources, composition and occurrence of secondary organic aerosols in the Arctic were investigated at Zeppelin Mountain, Svalbard, and Station Nord, northeastern Greenland, during the full annual cycle of 2008 and 2010, respectively. Speciation of organic acids, organosulfates and nitrooxy organosulfates – from both anthropogenic and biogenic precursors were in focus. A total of 11 organic acids (terpenylic acid, benzoic acid, phthalic acid, pinic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid, adipic acid, pimelic acid, pinonic acid, diaterpenylic acid acetate and 3-methyl-1,2,3-butanetricarboxylic acid), 12 organosulfates and 1 nitrooxy organosulfate were identified in aerosol samples from the two sites using a high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) coupled to a quadrupole Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer. At Station Nord, compound concentrations followed a distinct annual pattern, where high mean concentrations of organosulfates (47 ± 14 ng m−3) and organic acids (11.5 ± 4 ng m−3) were observed in January, February and March, contrary to considerably lower mean concentrations of organosulfates (2 ± 3 ng m−3) and organic acids (2.2 ± 1 ng m−3) observed during the rest of the year. At Zeppelin Mountain, organosulfate and organic acid concentrations remained relatively constant during most of the year at a mean concentration of 15 ± 4 ng m−3 and 3.9 ± 1 ng m−3, respectively. However during four weeks of spring, remarkably higher concentrations of total organosulfates (23–36 ng m−3) and total organic acids (7–10 ng m−3) were observed. Elevated organosulfate and organic acid concentrations coincided with the Arctic haze period at both stations, where northern Eurasia was identified as the main source region. Air mass transport from northern Eurasia to Zeppelin Mountain was associated with a 100% increase in the number of detected organosulfate species compared with periods of air mass transport from the Arctic Ocean, Scandinavia and Greenland. The results from this study suggested that the presence of organic acids and organosulfates at Station Nord was mainly due to long-range transport, whereas indications of local sources were found for some compounds at Zeppelin Mountain. Furthermore, organosulfates contributed significantly to organic matter throughout the year at Zeppelin Mountain (annual mean of 13 ± 8%) and during Arctic haze at Station Nord (7 ± 2%), suggesting organosulfates to be important compounds in Arctic aerosols.
Insights into species diversity of associated crustose coralline algae ( Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta ) with Atlantic European maerl beds using DNA barcoding

DNA barcoding in combination with morpho-anatomical analysis was applied to study the diversity of crustose coralline algae associated to two maerl beds from two protected Atlantic European areas from Brittany and Galicia —France and Spain, respectively—. Given the records of gametophytes of the maerl species Phymatolithon calcareum under crustose growth-forms, and that associated crustose coralline algae appear to be involved in the recruitment of new maerl plants, we compared the species composition between the associated crustose coralline algae to Breton and Galician maerl beds with the maerl species identified in these beds in previous DNA barcoding surveys. Our molecular results revealed higher species diversity in associated crustose coralline algae than in maerl-forming species. Nine taxa of crustose coralline algae were found in both study areas: four in Brittany and five in Galicia. Three species from Brittany were identified as Phymatolithon calcareum, Phymatolithon lamii , and Lithophyllum hibernicum . The remaining six ones were assigned to the genera Phymatolithon and Mesophyllum , along with Lithothamnion and Lithophyllum . Morpho-anatomical examination of diagnostic characters corroborated our molecular identification. Our results showed that the most representative genus of crustose coralline algae in Brittany was Phymatolithon , while in Galicia was Mesophyllum . In Brittany, Phymatolithon calcareum was found under both growth-forms, maerl and crustose coralline algae, the latter assigned to the gametophyte stage by the presence of uniporate conceptacles. The recruitment of new maerl plants involving associated crustose coralline algae with maerl beds may occur, but only we can affirm it for Phymatolithon calcareum in Brittany. By contrast, the different species composition between both growth-forms in the Galician maerl beds would indicate that the fragmentation of own free-living maerl species appears to be the most common propagation mechanism.
Quantifying Phase Configuration Inside an Intact Core Based on Wettability Using X-ray Computed Tomography

ix Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 MOTIVATION . 1 1.2 BACKGROUND . 1 1.3 DESCRIPTION OF CHAPTERS . 3 Chapter 2: Theory and Literature Review . 4 2.1 MULTIPHASE FLOW . 4 2.1.1 Basics of Multiphase Flow. 5 2.1.1.1 Fluid Interaction and Interfacial Tension . 5 2.1.1.2 Wetting and non-wetting phase . 6 2.1.1.3 Capillary Pressure . 7 2.1.1.4 Force Balance on an Oil Droplet . 8 2.1.1.5 Phase saturations in porous medium . 9 2.1.2 Drainage and Imbibition . 10 2.1.2.1 Drainage . 10 2.1.2.2 Imbibition . 11 2.1.3 Capillary Trapping . 12 2.1.3.1 Capillary Pressure – Saturation Relationship . 12 2.1.3.2 Relative permeability . 13 2.1.3.3 Capillary number and mobility ratio . 15 2.2 WETTABILITY . 16 2.2.1 Effect of Wettability on Fluid Distribution . 17 2.2.1.1 Residual phase saturation . 17 2.2.2 Wettability Alteration . 19 2.2.3 Silylation . 20 2.2.3.1 Reaction mechanism . 20 2.3 PORE SCALE DATA COLLECTION AND IMAGING . 22 2.3.1 X-ray Computer Tomography . 22 2.3.2 Image Processing and Segmentation . 24 Chapter 3: Materials and Experimental Procedure . 26 3.1 MATERIALS AND CHEMICALS . 26 3.1.1 Brine . 26 3.1.2 Oil . 27
Modelling of the Curvature Term of the Flame Surface Density Transport Equation for Large Eddy Simulations

A simplified chemistry based three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) database of freely propagating statistically planar turbulent premixed flames with a range of different values of turbulent Reynolds number has been used for the a priori modelling of the curvature term of the generalised Flame Surface Density (FSD) transport equation in the context of Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The curvature term has been split into the contributions arising due to the reaction and normal diffusion components of displacement speed and the term originating from the tangential diffusion component of displacement speed. Subsequently, these contributions of the curvature term have been split into the resolved and subgrid contributions. New models have been proposed for the subgrid curvature terms arising from the combined reaction and normal diffusion components and the tangential diffusion component of displacement speed. The performances of the new model and the existing models for the subgrid curvature term have been compared with the corresponding quantity extracted from the explicitly filtered DNS data. The new model for the subgrid curvature term is shown to perform satisfactorily in all cases considered in the current study, accounting for wide variations in LES filter size.
Rana sphenocephala (Southern Leopard Frog) Malformities Found in Illinois with Behavioral Notes

Several malformed southern leopard frogs (Rana sphenocephala [R . utricularia]) were discovered in a small pond in Southern Illinois. Deformities included missing limbs, split limbs, complete but abnormal limbs, missing eyes, and partial limbs. This study appears to report the first Illinois case of multiple malformities at one site and is apparently the second reported case of malformed southern leopard frogs in the country. The source pond of these frogs needs further study to resolve the many questions about these malformities at this site.
Económico The Fiction of Full BEKK

The purpose of the paper is to show that univariate GARCH is not a special case of multivariate GARCH, specifically the Full BEKK model, except under parametric restrictions on the off-diagonal elements of the random coefficient autoregressive coefficient matrix, provides the regularity conditions that arise from the underlying random coefficient autoregressive process, and for which the (quasi-) maximum likelihood estimates have valid asymptotic properties under the appropriate parametric restrictions. The paper provides a discussion of the stochastic processes, regularity conditions, and asymptotic properties of univariate and multivariate GARCH models. It is shown that the Full BEKK model, which in practice is estimated almost exclusively, has no underlying stochastic process, regularity conditions, or asymptotic properties.
Quantification of NO2 and SO2 emissions from the Houston Ship Channel and Texas City industrial areas during the 2006 Texas Air Quality Study

In August-September 2006, as part of the Second Texas Air Quality Study, NO2 and SO2 emissions from the Houston Ship Channel and Texas City industrial areas were quantified using mobile mini-differential optical absorption spectroscopy instruments. The measured NO2 emissions from the Houston Ship Channel and Texas City industrial areas were 2542 and 452 kg h(-1), respectively, yielding NOx emissions 70% and 43%, respectively, above the reported inventory values. Quantified SO2 emissions from the Houston Ship Channel area were 1749 kg h(-1) and were found to be 34% above the values reported in the inventory. Short-term variability of NO2 and SO2 emissions was found at the Houston Ship Channel. On 31 August 2006, a plume was detected at the HSC during three consecutive measurements, yielding a HCHO flux of 481 kg h(-1). This event has been mainly attributed to photochemical production.
Elastic Moduli of Woven Fabric Composite by Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Method

A meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method, for the micro-mechanical material model of woven fabric composite material is presented in this paper. The material models are based on a repeated unit cell approach and two smooth fibre modes. A unit step function is used as the test functions in the local weak-form which leads to local boundary integral equations. The analysed domain is divided into small sub-domains and the radial basis function interpolation without element mesh is adopted. The woven fabric composite elastic moduli evaluated have been shown to be in good agreement with finite element results.
Hybrid drift‐diffusion–TLM analysis of high‐speed and high‐output UTC traveling‐wave photodetectors

The scope of the hybrid drift‐diffusion (DD)–TLM method is extended to include the analysis of unitraveling‐carrier (UTC) photodetectors. The extended method takes into account the overshoot velocity at which electrons in the collector of an UTC photodiode drift. The method is used for large and small signal analysis of the UTC traveling‐wave photodetector (TWPD) and near‐ballistic (NB) UTC TWPD. It is shown that there is a trade‐off between the UTC TWPD's bandwidth and saturation current that has to be considered in the design. A higher bias voltage reduces the bandwidth, but also increases the saturation current of the photodetector. The presented UTC TWPD has bandwidths of 110 and 83 GHz and saturation currents of 15 and 30 mA under 1 and 5 V biases, respectively. To improve the performance under high bias voltage, the NB‐UTC TWPD is investigated. A maximum RF power of 6.5 dBm was obtained at 110 GHz under 5 V bias voltage. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Residential water demand with endogenous pricing: The Canadian Case

In this paper, we show that the rate structure endogeneity may result in a misspecification of the residential water demand function. We propose to solve this endogeneity problem by estimating a probabilistic model describing how water rates are chosen by local communities. This model is estimated on a sample of Canadian local communities. We first show that the pricing structure choice reflects efficiency considerations, equity concerns, and, in some cases, a strategy of price discrimination across consumers by Canadian communities. Hence estimating the residential water demand without taking into account the pricing structures' endogeneity leads to a biased estimation of price and income elasticities. We also demonstrate that the pricing structure per se plays a significant role in influencing price responsiveness of Canadian residential consumers.
Recommendations for photo-identification methods used in capture-recapture models with cetaceans

Capture-recapture methods are frequently employed to estimate abundance of cetaceans using photographic techniques and a variety of statistical models. However, there are many unresolved issues regarding the selection and manipulation of images that can potentially impose bias on resulting estimates. To examine the potential impact of these issues we circulated a test data set of dorsal fin images from bottlenose dolphins to several independent research groups. Photo-identification methods were generally similar, but the selection, scoring, and matching of images varied greatly amongst groups. Based on these results we make the following recommendations. Researchers should: (1) determine the degree of marking, or level of distinctiveness, and use images of sufficient quality to recognize animals of that level of distinctiveness; (2) ensure that markings are sufficiently distinct to eliminate the potential for “twins” to occur; (3) stratify data sets by distinctiveness and generate a series of abundance estimates to investigate the influence of including animals of varying degrees of markings; and (4) strive to examine and incorporate variability among analysts into capture-recapture estimation. In this paper we summarize these potential sources of bias and provide recommendations for best practices for using natural markings in a capture-recapture framework.