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Do Financial Performance, Size and Age Of The Company Affect The Disposition Effect Of Investor? Case: Indonesian Stock Exchange. International Journal of Research Science & Management

Information has an important role in determining the results of investment decisions. Investors seek information related to investment opportunities so these conditions will create informed investors and uninformed investors. This study analyzes financial and non-financial variables that can influence the disposition effect behavior in the Indonesian capital market. The variable used in this study is the disposition effect, profitability as financial variables and measured with return on asset, return on equity and net profit margin, and non-financial variables measured with company size using total assets approach, and the age of the company measured with the length of time the company stands. This research use SEM-PLS (Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square) as the method by using the data of company in the group of LQ45, this group is indices by Indonesian stock exchange which is consists of 45 company that has highest market capitalization, highest transaction, and good prospect in growth listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2017. The results of this study show that the variable profitability, firm size, and age of the company affect disposition effect on the Indonesian capital market. These results are expected to provide knowledge and updates on the study of disposition effect behavior and provide input for academics in the field of management especially economic behavioral about the development of behavior in the capital market and provide input for investors regarding the importance of understanding investor behavior in the Indonesian capital market.
Home Respiratory Polygraphy-An Alternative for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is one of the most common types of sleep-disordered breathing in children and is characterized by partial or complete obstruction of the upper airways during sleep with repeated episodes of airflow cessation, reduction in blood oxygen saturation and sleep disruption to restore patency of the upper airways. Because polysomnography, the gold-standard test for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, is a costly procedure with technical difficulties, home respiratory polygraphy is used as an alternative diagnostic method. This review seeks to summarize the utility of home respiratory polygraphy in detecting obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and to show if it can be used as a substitute for polysomnography in children.
T-Cell Mediated Immune Responses in Obstetric Population Acutely Infected With Toxoplasmosis in Kano , Nigeria

Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii which is endemic worldwide. There is paucity of reports on the immunological responses of pregnant women to toxoplasmosis in Kano. This study was carried to determine T-cell mediated immune responses in pregnant women with acute toxoplasmosis in Kano and factors associated with seropositivity. A total of 320 blood samples were collected and assayed for antiToxoplasma gondii Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody using ELISA test kit. Samples were assayed for CD4, CD8, using BDFACSCount and the cytokines interferon-gamma (IFN-Υ), tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) using ELISA test kits while differential leucocytes count was carried out microscopically by Leishman staining technique. The IgM seroprevalence was 24(7.5%) and 296(92.5%) were negative. Associated risk factors were cat ownership and consumption of unwashed vegetables (p values = 0.0014 and 0.001 respectively). Mean CD4, CD8, CD4:CD8 and differential count were within normal range for the study subjects with no statistically significant relationship across trimesters. IFN-Υ and TNF-α were elevated. Moderate eosinophilia appeared with statistically significant relationship between lymphocyte and neutrophil counts across trimesters ( p value = 0.0278). The immunomodulatory effect of pregnancy does not classically suppress T-cell mediated immune responses as our findings revealed normal but slightly reduced distribution of CD4 and CD8 cell counts with elevated IFNΥ and TNF-α. The findings revealed the immune status of the study subjects, as slightly modulated, nonetheless, it is urgent to offer adequate health education programs on toxoplasmosis to pregnant women yet to be infected on how to prevent the infection so as to avoid occurrence of congenital infection.
Path Loss Models for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks : Experimental Results using LoRa

More and more low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) are being deployed and planning the gateway locations plays a significant role for the network range, performance and profitability. We choose LoRa as one LPWAN technology and evaluated the accuracy of the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) of different chipsets in a laboratory environment. The results show the chipsets report significantly different RSSI. To estimate the range of a LPWAN beforehand, path loss models have been proposed. Compared to previous work, we evaluated the Longley-Rice Irregular Terrain Model which makes use of real-world elevation data to predict the path loss. To verify the results of that prediction, an extensive measurements campaign in a semi-urban area in Germany has been conducted. The results show that terrain data can increase the prediction accuracy.
MACRO AND MICRONUTRIENTS IN THE SOILS OF SOMESHWAR WATERSHED IN ALMORA DISTRICT OF UTTARAKHAND

Soil is a diverse complex that can be defined as a mixture of minerals and organic materials, which are capable of supporting plant life (Ayoub et al. 2007, Brady et al. 1990). Soil contains 13 out of 16 different elements essential for plant growth (Raven et al., 1995). However, only small amounts of nutrients are available for plants (McLean and Watson, 1985). Nutrients become available through mineral weathering and through decomposition of organic matter into inorganic mineral which are absorbed by plants in the form of ions. Soil nutrients are threatening agriculture potentials, because their availability depends on SOM content, soilpH, adsorptive surface, soil texture and nutrient interactions in the soil. Also the efforts to enhance soil macro and micronutrients are constrained by lack of up-todate data. Hence, such kinds of interventions depend on major national soil survey information dating back to the 1980s(FAO). Millions of hectares of land worldwide are low in available micro-nutrients, and many of these deficiencies were further aggravated by the increased demands of more rapidly growing crops for available forms of micro-nutrients (Rengel, 2007, Alloway, 2008). The solubility and availability of micro-nutrients is largely influenced by clay content, pH, SOM, CEC, phosphorus level in the soil and tillage practices (Fisseha, 1992).
Series 2019 / 010 House Prices , ( Un ) Affordability and Systemic Risk

This is the first paper to examine the role of the real estate sector and housing unaffordability in the determination of systemic risk. We measure the systemic risk of the UK by employing the ∆CoVaR method developed by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011, 2016), and we explore both its cross-sectional and time series behaviour. Regarding the former, we show that when the real estate sector is under distress the tail risk of the entire financial system increases significantly. With respect to the latter, the findings of our dynamic model suggest that sustainable house prices positively contribute to the stability of the financial sector; whilst house price exuberance and rapid increases in housing unaffordability amplify systemic risk. Finally, we examine the conjecture that the banking sector comprises a transmission channel from the housing market to the systemic risk of the financial system. Our empirical results are in line with this argument and highlight the key role of housing unaffordability.
Managerial Ownership of Debt and Accounting Conservatism *

We examine the relation between accounting conservatism and managerial ownership of debt in the form of deferred compensation and pension benefits. Consistent with debt holdings by managers mitigating the debtholder-shareholder conflicts and reducing debtholders‟ demand for accounting conservatism, we find significant evidence of less conservative financial reporting at firms whose CEOs have accumulated more deferred compensation and pension benefits. This negative relation is more pronounced in firms with higher leverage, less tangible assets, higher bankruptcy risk, and more growth options, i.e., firms characterized by higher expected agency costs of debt. Our results are robust to correcting for potential endogeneity of managerial ownership of debt and to using a number of alternative accounting conservatism measures. We also find that debt holdings by a firm‟s CFO and its top management team reduce accounting conservatism as well.
LLFI : An Intermediate Code Level Fault Injector For Soft Computing Applications

Hardware errors are on the rise with reducing chip sizes. However, a certain class of applications called soft computing applications, (e.g., multimedia applications) can tolerate most hardware errors, except those that result in outcomes that deviate significantly from the error-free outcomes. We term such outcomes as Egregious Data Corruptions (EDCs). To identify source code level characteristics of EDC causing faults, we built an LLVM based fault injector tool called LLFI. LLFI performs fault injection at the intermediate code level of the application. We quantitatively validate LLFI accuracy with respect to assembly level fault injection. Using LLFI, we performed a study to identify the correlation between faults in specific data types, and EDC outcomes. This data categorization will help us identify detector placement locations with high coverage for EDC causing faults.
Prevalence of vaginolysin, sialidase and phospholipase genes in Gardnerella vaginalis isolates between bacterial vaginosis and healthy individuals

Background: Gardnerella vaginalis is considered as the predominant microorganism found in bacterial vaginosis (BV). The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of virulence factors in G. vaginalis associated with BV or non-BV cases and their correlations with this disorder. Methods: A total of 102 vaginal specimens were collected from patients during their visit to Akbar Abadi hospital in Tehran, Iran. Bacterial vaginosis was determined by Nugent score and Amsel’s criteria. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used for the detection of G. vaginalis 16S rRNA, vaginolysin, sialidase and phospholipase genes. To evaluate the association between the presence of vly, pho, and sld genes and BV. Pearson Chi-square test was applied using SPSS software. P-value ≤0.05 was considered as significant. Results: Totally, 27.4% of the patients were suffering from BV. Gardnerella vaginalis was found in 100% women with BV and in 56.7% women with normal vaginal discharge. The prevalence of vly, sld and pho genes in BV-associated G. vaginalis was 10 (35.7%) (95% CI [0.18, 0.53]), 19 (67.8%) (95% CI [0.51, 0.85]) and 6 (21.4%) (95% CI [0.06, 0.37]), respectively. The prevalence of the aforementioned genes in non-BV associated G. vaginalis was 20 (47.6%) (95% CI [0.33, 0.63]), 28 (66.6%) (95% CI [0.52, 0.81]), and 5 (11.9%) (95% CI [0.02, 0.22]), respectively. Our results showed no statistically significant association between the presence of the virulence genes and BV associatedness of this microorganism. Conclusion: Our results showed the presence of G. vaginalis in all BV patients and relatively high prevalence in healthy individuals. The prevalence rates of the three virulence genes were different in BV and non-BV associated G. vaginalis; however, the differences were not statistically significant.
The epidemiology of suicides on the territory of the city of Niš within 2001–2002

The region that directly gravitates to health institutions in the City of Niš comprises the population of about 400.000 inhabitants. The number of suicides, compared to the period preceding 2001, appears to have doubled within 2001-2002 when expressed in absolute figures. Epidemiologically, however, the phenomenon has not yet reached a critical point.The increase of suicides occurred in a climate following a long lasting social disintegration and a period anticipating some sort of consolidation of social relations. A detailed insight into the structural features of the 2001-2002 epidemiological picture of suicides can help in the predicton of new attempts, which is presented in this report. The data suggest that suicides are proportionately more common in males who are married, elderly and officially employed, and who generally commit suicide by hanging in the daytime. In addition, seasonal variations can be also noticed, the summer and spring months being associated with more suicides.
Style Transfer on Non-Parallel Text by Iterative Matching and Translation FYP 18008 FINAL REPORT

The task of language style transfer is to change the style of a piece of text without modifying its context. The focus of previous studies is mostly on the use of adversarial models, whose training process is complicated and output is of low grammatical accuracy. In this report, we present a more successful approach, Iterative Matching and Translation, based on cross-corpora sentence matching and sequence-to-sequence translation in iterations. We have compared our model with three state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets, and human evaluation results suggest improvements in three key areas, namely content preservation, style correctness, and grammatical accuracy. Our model is an advancement in the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG), and it has a wide range of promising applications, including text formality conversion and news text generation.
Extract, Adapt and Recognize: An End-to-End Neural Network for Corrupted Monaural Speech Recognition

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in challenging conditions, such as in the presence of interfering speakers or music, remains an unsolved problem. This paper presents Extract, Adapt, and Recognize (EAR), an end-to-end neural network that allows fully learnable separation and recognition components towards optimizing the ASR criterion. In between a state-of-the-art speech separation module as an extractor and an acoustic modeling module as a recognizer, the EAR introduces an adaptor, where adapted acoustic features are learned from the separation outputs using a bi-directional long short term memory network trained to minimize the recognition loss directly. Relative to a conventional joint training model, the EAR model can achieve 8.5% to 22.3%, and 1.2% to 26.9% word error rate reductions (WERR), under various dBs of music corruption and speaker interference respectively. With speaker tracing the WERR can be further promoted to 12.4% to 29.0%.
THE PROSODIC PROPERTIES OF THE CANTONESE SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES aa1 AND aa3 IN RHETORICAL WH-QUESTIONS

In this production experiment we investigated the suprasegmental properties of the Cantonese sentence-final particles (SFPs) aa1 and aa3 in different types of questions. The context of each trial was manipulated to elicit a set of stringidentical wh-questions with the following four readings: information-seeking questions (ISQs), positive rhetorical questions (RQ+s) ‘Who likes coffee? John’, negative rhetorical questions (RQ-s) ‘Who likes coffee? Nobody’, and rhetorical questions as retort (Retort) ‘Who ordered an extra large coffee? Who likes coffee? ’. Overall, the results show that the prosodic difference in SFPs helps to distinguish between these question types. We found that (i) SFPs in RQ+ and Retort contexts are characterized by rising tonal contours, while those in ISQ and RQcontexts have more level contours, and that (ii) the duration of SFPs in RQcontexts are significantly longer than in any other context. We also found that aa1 and aa3 pattern similarly.
Designing a Model for the Relationship Between Marketing Activities and Organization Performance: Meta-Analysis on the Moderating Role of Research Topic Characteristics

The role of marketing in explaining firms’ business performance has received significant attention throughout the history of the marketing discipline. Over the past two decades, researchers have considerably enhanced the conceptual understanding of the role of marketing in enabling firms to create and sustain a competitive advantage. Recent advances in the marketing–performance interface have also begun to provide more empirical evidence of the impact of specific marketing activities and different types of marketing-related assets on firms’ performance. On the other side, results of studies in many academic fields that are conducted about a specific issue are usually confusing and contrasting. Meta-analysis is a research approach that helps the researcher to a large extent to identify the moderating variables in the results of previous studies. Despite various researches having been conducted, such contrast is also observed in the relationship between marketing activities and organization performance. Characteristics of the research topic can be referred to among the several reasons that have been mentioned for such divergence in similar studies. It was tried in the present survey to identify the role of moderating variables regarding the characteristics of the research topic in the relationship between marketing activities and organization performance using the meta-analysis approach. The results revealed that the moderating variables related to the ht tp :// ijm s. uu m . e du . m y
Evaluation of Low Level Laser Therapy Using Diode Laser in Enhancement of Episiotomy Wound Healing

we studied the effect of low level laser therapy (LLLT) using diode laser with wavelength of (790-805) nm in promotion and enhancement of wound healing of episiotomy and to evaluate the analgesic effect of LLLT in reducing the pain sensation caused by the episiotomy wounds. Nineteen women with episiotomy wound were selected and divided into three groups; 1 group (group No.1: control group) given antibiotics without laser therapy, in the 2 group (group No.2) the wounds were exposed to laser therapy (4 sessions, each session with energy density of 19.90 J /cm every other day ) and systemic antibiotics were prescribed for 1 week. In the 3 group (group No.3) the wounds were exposed to laser therapy (4 sessions, the same as in the 2 group) but without antibiotics. Those women who exposed to laser therapy showed significant reduction in the level of pain and tenderness after the 1 laser exposure. Rapid healing process occurred within seven days. The results were about to be equal in both (group 2 and group 3), while group 1 showed prolonged period of healing (9-11) days with moderate to severe pain and tenderness that interfered with their sitting and walking. One case ended with dehiscent wound. In conclusion LLLT can be used to enhance episiotomy wound healing, and to induce analgesic effect if proper wavelength, energy density and exposure time were selected.
Effects of psychological capital on employee turnover intentions: A study based on Hai Di Lao Hot Pot

According to the statistics provided in “2014 Turnover and Salary Survey Report”, the average turnover rate in Chinese companies remains high at 16.3 %. In addition, the statistics in “2015 Food Industry Salary Management White Paper” show that the voluntary turnover rate in the Chinese food industry has increased to 35 %. Among these, younger employees have the highest turnover rate, reaching above 40 %. It is well known that high turnover rates have a negative impact on the operations of companies. Ensuring the stability of personnel and the successful adaption of employees to their positions is a crucial topic in human resource management for Chinese companies. “Our company has a comprehensive human resource management system and has been investing heavily in human capital development. However, we have not been able to reach the expected target performance; the turnover rate remains high and the employees lack enthusiasm for work. ” For companies with such an issue in human resource management, motivations are provided for practical applications of the concept of psychological capital by analyzing the operation of a Chinese restaurant chain “Hai Di Lao Hot Pot” as a case study.
Mechanics of 21 st Century-ICTAM 04 Proceedings

Avalanches and other types of slides represent significant danger to people and property in large parts of the world. Deflecting dams, i.e. dams that change the courses of avalanches to prevent impact upon houses or roads, are used as protection from this hazard. A curved deflecting dam can catch the avalanche at a gentle angle of impact. The flow direction is continuously and gently altered along the whole length of the dam, hence avoiding the more abrupt deflection of a straight dam. As will be shown in the article, spreading the deflection over longer time and distance results in significantly lower run-up heights on the deflecting structure or terrain. A direct consequence of this is that curved deflecting dams may be built lower than straight ones—with less impact to the local environment and at lower cost. The purpose of the present study is to achieve quantitative knowledge about the effect of curvature on run-up heights. We compare observed behavior to computational results for naturally curved avalanche tracks, applying three models that are described below. Similar studies have been presented by Irgens, Harbitz and others [5], [2]. The present study, however, involves the improved NIS simulation procedure, as well as the quasi-static run-up model for curved deflecting dams that have not been previously published.
Dividend policy and its effects on shareholders wealth : Evidence from UK retail industry

One key area in financial management that has generated continuous debate among financial managers, academicians and practising managers is the concept of dividend policy and how it affects shareholders wealth. This study seeks to find out the effect of dividend policy on shareholders wealth in the UK retail industry from 2004-2008.With this, 25 firms from the retail industry in the UK were selected. The variables adopted in the study are earnings, profitability, share price, firm size, leverage and investment. The results indicate that, firm size, current dividend payout and current investment do not have much significant effect on shareholders wealth. However, variables such as earnings, profitability, share price, leverage, investment and dividend payout lagged one year have significant effect on shareholders wealth. In all, the result indicates that dividend policy has positive effect on shareholders wealth and the study is concluded by indicating some recommendations and areas of future research.
Miscellanea Fast block variance estimation procedures for inhomogeneous spatial point processes

We introduce two new variance estimation procedures that use non-overlapping and overlapping blocks, respectively. The non-overlapping blocks estimator can be viewed as the limit of the thinned block bootstrap estimator recently proposed in Guan & Loh (2007), by letting the number of thinned processes and bootstrap samples therein both increase to infinity. The non-overlapping blocks estimator can be obtained quickly since it does not require any thinning or bootstrap steps, and it is more stable. The overlapping blocks estimator further improves the performance of the non-overlapping blocks with a modest increase in computation time. A simulation study demonstrates the superiority of the proposed estimators over the thinned block bootstrap estimator.