Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of self-efficacy in explaining gender differences in physical activity among adolescents: a multilevel analysis.

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine if a) gender moderated the relationship between self-efficacy and physical activity (PA) among youth in Alberta, Canada, and, alternatively b) if self-efficacy mediated the relationship between gender and PA. METHODS A novel web-based tool was used to survey a regionally diverse sample of 4779 students (boys = 2222, girls = 2557) from 117 schools in grades 7 to 10 (mean age = 13.64 yrs.). Among other variables, students were asked about their PA and self-efficacy for participating in PA. RESULTS Based upon a series of multilevel analyses, self-efficacy was found to be a significantly stronger correlate of PA for girls. But, boys had significantly higher self-efficacy compared with girls, which resulted in significantly more PA. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest self-efficacy is an important correlate of PA among adolescent girls but that boys are more physically active because they have more self-efficacy for PA.
Mobile advertising and its impact on message acceptance and purchase Intention

Advertising is experiencing rapid technological changes that have led to digitalization of media, consequently resulting in the emergence of new media types, such as mobile phones. This has facilitated the easy spread of advertisements among consumers and allowed interaction with them in an easier manner. However, to fully utilize the potential of the mobile phone as an advertising channel, marketers must understand its unique and relevant characteristics and the different approaches that consumers use to interact with this channel. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between message relevance, information value, message receiving time, and consumers’ permission to receive advertising messages as independent variables and consumers’ acceptance of mobile advertising and subsequent effect on purchase intention of promoted products or services using mobile advertising. Based on the information obtained from 205 respondents of Saudi Arabia, the present study attempts to examine the relationship between message relevance, information value, message receiving time, and consumers’ permission to receive advertising messages on consumers’ acceptance of mobile advertising and subsequent intention to purchase of promoted products using mobile advertising. The findings of the study indicate the positive relationship between informational value, receiving time and consumer permission in consumers’ acceptance of mobile advertising. The present study recommends that marketers should pay attention to drivers and obstacles of mobile advertising as a significant marketing tool that influences brand image, competitiveness, and long-term success. Corresponding author: Mohammed Saleh Salem Email addresses for corresponding author: m.salem@arabou.edu. sa First submission received: 7th July 2017 Revised submission received: 1st October 2017 Accepted: 5th February 2018
Clostridial antibody response from injection-site lesions in beef cattle, long-term response to single or multiple doses, and response in newborn beef calves.

Experiments were conducted to compare clostridial antibody response of beef heifers that do and do not develop injection-site lesions, evaluate long-term antibody response of a single- and multiple-dose toxoid, and evaluate the ability of a clostridial toxoid to elicit an active antibody response in newborn calves. In Exp. 1, 37 weaned heifers were vaccinated (d 0) with a clostridial vaccine (Alpha-7, 2 mL, s.c.). Serum samples were collected on d 0, 28, 56, 84, and 112 to determine clostridial antibody titers. On d 28, heifers were visually inspected and palpated for injection-site lesions. The percentage of heifers that developed lesions was 64.9%. Lesioned heifers had elevated antibody titers for Clostridium chauvoei (CC) on d 28 (P < 0.08) and 84 (P < 0.07) compared with non-lesioned heifers. Clostridium sordellii (CS) and perfringens type D (CPD) antibody titers were greater in lesioned heifers than in non-lesioned heifers on d 28 and 56. In Exp. 2, long-term antibody response of Alpha-7 (A7) and Ultrabac 7 (UB7) was investigated in stocker heifers. The A7 heifers (n = 15) received one 2-mL vaccination (d 0), and the UB7 heifers (n = 15) received a 5-mL vaccination on d 0 and 28. Blood samples were collected on d 0, 28, 56, 84, 112, 140, and 180. Clostridium chauvoei, CPD, and Cl. novyi (CN) antibody titers from the A7 heifers were greater than those from the UB7 heifers on d 28. Due to the second UB7 injection, CC, CS, CN, and Cl. perfringens type C (CPC) antibody titers were greater in UB7 heifers than in A7 heifers on d 56. By d 112, titers were not different, and by d 140 all antibody titers were below detectable levels. In Exp. 3, 58 pregnant, mature, crossbred cows were vaccinated with A7 before calving. At birth, calves were carefully observed to ensure consumption of colostrum. Calves were blocked according to parturition date, and calves in each block were randomly allocated to receive A7 (s.c. at 3 +/- 3 d of age) or remain unvaccinated controls. Calves were bled at the time of vaccination (d 0) and on d 28, 56, 84, and 112. Antibody titers for CC, CPC, and CPD were elevated on d 0 and decreased throughout the experimental period (P < 0.01), but no titer differences (P > 0.10) were detected between treatment groups on any of the days sampled. These data indicated that antibody titers against clostridial diseases are enhanced when injection-site lesions develop. One injection of Alpha-7 seemed to provide the same length of protection as two injections of Ultrabac 7.
Fault diagnosis and numerical simulation of broken rotor bars for small cage induction motors

The failure rate of rotor bars is high, which causes large area of broken conducting bars, shortening the lifetime of motors. Therefore, the diagnosis of broken rotor fault diagnosis is of great importance. First, the mathematical model of induction motors is presented, and the internal and external magnetic field boundary conditions are defined. Second, frequency domain analysis method is combined to establish the open phase model of induction motors. Then, the scheme is designed for fault types of induction motors by considering asymmetry and broken bar number. Simulation results show that the larger the number of broken bars is, the more asymmetric the magnetic field is, except for evenly distributed broken positions; The current fault characteristic component of stators has weak changes; The frequency characteristics of electromagnetic torque increase, and the asymmetric component is larger than the symmetric component; The broken bar number increases under asymmetric distribution conditions of broken bar positions. The content of the 21st and 23rd harmonics is added, providing the idea of predicting broken bar number and the symmetry of magnetic field.
Subjective financial knowledge, prudent behaviour and income

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study how subjective and objective knowledge of finance, behaviour in managing personal finances and socio-economic status affect financial well-being. Design/methodology/approach The financial well-being score is constructed in quantitative financial literacy survey data from Estonia as the arithmetic mean of four statements on a five-point scale. Four hypotheses are tested in multiple regression analysis. Findings Subjective knowledge has a stronger relation with financial well-being than objective knowledge. Financial behaviour score and income level correlate with financial well-being. Research limitations/implications The paper contributes to literature on financial literacy, subjective financial knowledge and financial well-being. In future research, psychological factors and future orientated financial well-being should be included, and their relationship to subjective well-being could be analysed further. Practical implications The results highlight the importance of subjective knowledge and sound behaviour for improving financial well-being. Providers of financial services should address these more in the design of their services and communication. Social implications Policymakers developing national strategies for financial education need to address subjective financial knowledge for increasing financial well-being in society. Originality/value Knowledge, behaviour and subjective knowledge have not been used simultaneously in the analysis of financial well-being in Europe before.
The Effects of Authentic Leadership on Employees’ Interpersonal Trust; Case of Employees of Private Commercial Banks in Peshawar City

Authentic leadership is an important concept gaining attention in the Western literature. The extent of presence of authentic leadership in Pakistani banking sector context and its outcomes are not studied much. In current study, the objective was to test the effects of authentic leadership on employee’s attitude (interpersonal trust). The context of the study was commercial banks in the city of Peshawar. Survey method is used to collect data from staff from five commercial banks branches (n=129). Descriptive statistics indicate that in the sample, the perception of authentic leadership including self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and internalized moral perspective was high. The level of interpersonal trust was also high. Regression analysis indicated that authentic leadership dimensions of self-awareness, balanced processing, and internalized moral perspective had positive and significant influence on staff interpersonal trust. It is recommended that commercial banks should use authentic leadership style as a criteria during the recruitment, selection, training, performance management, and rewarding of managerial staff.Keywords: Authentic Leadership, Interpersonal Trust, Commercial Banks, Peshawar
The role of the central nervous system in heatstroke: reversible profound depression of cerebral activity in a primate model.

BACKGROUND The neurological manifestations of heatstroke victims vary. The exact sequence of the central nervous system (CNS) changes during lethal hyperthermia has only been partially explored, and the data covering the post-resuscitation CNS changes, which in most cases lead to secondary cardiac arrest, are insufficient. HYPOTHESIS Following heating of the organism to cardiopulmonary arrest, successful resuscitation may be achieved by standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), plus glucose and surface cooling. There is a characteristic sequence of neurological responses to hyperthermia preceding cardiopulmonary arrest, and questionable reversibility following successful resuscitation. METHODS We exposed 12 pigtail monkeys under light anesthesia to total body hyperthermia (cerebral T = 42 degrees C) until cardiac arrest. We monitored EEG, mean arterial pressure (MAP), intracranial pressure (ICP), epidural temperatures, PaO2, PaCO2, serum sodium, osmolality, blood glucose, pupillary diameter, light response, corneal reflex, extremity movement, and seizures. RESULTS During hyperthermia EEG frequency decreased and amplitude increased, followed by burst suppression pattern of the EEG. Then during severe hypoglycemia, EEG seizure activity and isoelectric EEG occurred when MAP and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) decreased while ICP was almost unchanged. Pupils were first responsive to light and became gradually unresponsive with maximal dilation, correlating with low CPP. After temporarily successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restoration of spontaneous circulation), normal EEG tracing and reversibility of the unresponsive pupils were observed. As shock led to secondary rearrest, deterioration with depression of all cerebral functions was documented. Some 147 min after restoration of spontaneous circulation, brains were macroscopically (and microscopically) normal in six of the eight monkeys. CONCLUSIONS The acute cerebral derangements during and after lethal hyperthermia are reversible. The cause of death is probably not CNS damage, but systemic hemodynamic deterioration.
Earnings Volatility, Cash Flow Volatility and Informed Trading

I examine whether earnings that are smoother or more volatile than cash flows provide or garble information. Consistent with theories that predict more informed trading when public information is less informative, I find that bid-ask spreads and the probability of informed trading are higher both when earnings are smoother than cash flows and also when earnings are more volatile than cash flows. Additional tests suggest that managers' discretionary choices that lead to smoother or more volatile earnings than cash flows garble information, on average. However, I find that informed trading is attenuated in settings in which theory suggests that discretionary smoothing or volatizing of earnings is likely to be informative.
Experimenting in export markets

My thesis contributes to the firms and trade literature, both theoretically and empirically, focusing on the export participation strategy by firms in one particular market, introducing products sequentially. I illustrate differences in export dynamics between firms according to their experience in that destination, and move further in my analysis by exploring how fast that experimentation is. I am particularly interested in the influence of trade liberalisation, as well as differences between products in terms of production effciency. Chapters 3 and 4 present a two-period analysis on firms' sequential exporting strategy to a single destination. Chapter 3 shows theoretically, inspired by Albornoz et al. (2012), that new exporters in a market tend to grow faster in that destination than expert exporters, both at the intensive and extensive margin, across products; but those newcomers are also more prone to exit that business, while trade liberalisation, as well as the focus on \core competence" products, helps new exporters to remain in the market and continue experimenting. With a rich dataset of Peruvian export transactions to the USA market, Chapter 4 backs most predictions from the theory empirically. In Chapter 5, I go deeper into the sequential exporting strategy with a theoretical framework, based on Nguyen (2012), to explain how quickly exporters in one market move from one product to another. I find, supported by empirical evidence, that trade liberalisation accelerates firms' experimentation in that destination.
E-Mail and V-Mail Usage: Generalizing Across Technologies

Many researchers and practitioners describe electronic mail (e-mail) and voice mail (v-mail) together and assume that their usage and impacts are similar. However, empirical evidence on the issue is mixed. For example, whereas some research found similar relations to hold across both e-mail and v-mail, other research presents evidence suggesting that e-mail and v-mail are used differently and their impacts are distinct. This research investigates whether theories derived and tested with respect to e-mail are generalizable to v-mail. Specifically, the research examines whether the antecedents of e-mail use are different than the antecedents of v-mail use. To do so, the research tests a theoretical model for both e-mail and v-mail usage in the same organization. This model expands the technology acceptance model (TAM) to incorporate antecedents of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEU). These antecedents, which are based on theories of communications media choice and use, include social influence about usage of the medium, social presence of the medium, physical and informational accessibility of the medium, media style, and availability of training and support on use of the medium. Results indicate important differences between antecedents of e-mail and v-mail usage, in both the determinants of system use and in the determinants of PU and PEU. Specifically, the relations between use and beliefs appear to be more complex than originally proposed in TAM. The effect of social influence on use and its relation to beliefs differ across the two media, suggesting that strong social norms may have a moderating effect on the relation between beliefs and use.
The Relationship between Training and Development and Employee Performance of Executive Level Employees in Apparel Organizations

Even though, organizations are promoting different training programmes for executive level employees, there is no mechanism to ensure how it impacts to employees’ performance. Hence, this study attempts to identify the relationship between training and development and employee performance of executive level employees of Apparel organizations in Si Lanka. The study was quantitative and a cross-sectional survey where data was collected through a structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample and the sample consisted of 150 executive level employees. The data was analyzed using correlation and regression analytical tools. Findings revealed that training and development is positively related to employee performance of executive level employees. Based on the findings, the researchers were recommended that the organization should build a correct and logically substantial mechanism to select the employees who definitely participating to the training program and the organization management should establish a widely spread post-evaluation scheme to evaluate performance of employees.
The Golem at large: what you should know about technology

This thin book is the second volume of a contemplated "Golem series. " The first volume was titled "The Golem: What You Should Know About Science" and like that, this one describes seven case studies, or "stories," as the authors call them. Bach story involves specific technological events: 1) The role of the Patriot missile in the Gulf War of 1991. 2)Assigning blame for the Challenger explosion of 1986. 3) Two specific demonstrations to "prove" technological desiderata. 4) Disputes about the origins of oil. 5) The failures of macroeconomic modeling. 6) The effects on sheep in Cumbria (Britain) of Chernobyl nuclear fallout. 7) Cures for AIDS and lay expertise. A golem, they say, is a powerful mythological creature who will follow orders and do your work but it is clumsy and dangerous. It is not an evil creature but it is a little daft. The cases they describe flesh out the substance of their conception of "Golem Technology. " The reviewer outlines a few of their case studies in order to make comprehensible their conception of the golem.
Six month pilot study of captopril for mildly symptomatic, severe isolated mitral and isolated aortic regurgitation.

Long term therapy with vasodilating drugs has been shown to reduce left ventricular size and improve performance in chronic aortic regurgitation (AR). Similar trials in mitral regurgitation (MR) have not been published, nor has the effect of medium or long term therapy with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors been examined in either of these regurgitant lesions. Such therapy, if demonstrated to be effective in reducing left ventricular end-systolic size, might be anticipated to delay the need for valve replacement in asymptomatic patients. Medium term studies of the effects of ACE inhibitors on left ventricular size in regurgitant disease would therefore be helpful in designing long term trials to assess their impact on the timing of surgery. Patients with severe isolated MR (n = 32) or isolated AR (n = 23) and mild or no symptoms received either placebo or captopril 25 mg three times daily in a randomized, double blind, six month pilot study of left ventricular size using echocardiography. Treatment was well tolerated with no reported side effects. In MR, there were no significant immediate or 6-month effects of treatment on left ventricular diameter at end-systole (mean change at six months vs. baseline = +1% vs. +3% in placebo, p = 0.58 between groups) or end-diastole (+3% vs. 0% for placebo, p = 0.33). Nor was ejection fraction computed from radionuclide angiography effected by 6-month treatment (0.00 units vs. -0.01 units change in placebo). (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Effect of Radiation on Saliva Flow Rate in Patients under Head and Neck Radiotherapy

1 Assistant professor, Department of oral and maxillofacial pathology, Dental school, khorasgan (Isfahan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran 2 Assistant professor, Department of oral and maxillofacial radiology, Dental school, Isfahan, khorasgan(Isfahan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran 3 Dentist, Private practice 4 Graduate student, Department of oral and maxillofacial radiology, Dental school, khorasgan (Isfahan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Control of Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems in the Presence of Constraints

L'objectif de cette these est de proposer des solutions aux problemes lies a la commande optimale de systemes dynamiques multi-agents en presence de contraintes. Des elements de la theorie de commande et d'optimisation sont appliques a differents problemes impliquant des formations de systemes multi-agents. La these examine le cas d'agents soumis a des contraintes dynamiques. Pour faire face a ces problemes, les concepts bien etablis tels que la theorie des ensembles, la platitude differentielle, la commande predictive (Model Predictive Control - MPC), la programmation mixte en nombres entiers (Mixed-Integer Programming - MIP) sont adaptes et ameliores. En utilisant ces notions theoriques, ce travail de these a porte sur les proprietes geometriques de la formation d'un groupe multi-agents et propose un cadre de synthese original qui exploite cette structure. En particulier, le probleme de conception de formation et les conditions d'evitement des collisions sont formules comme des problemes geometriques et d'optimisation pour lesquels il existe des procedures de resolution. En outre, des progres considerables dans ce sens ont ete obtenus en utilisant de facon efficace les techniques MIP (dans le but d'en deduire une description efficace des proprietes de non convexite et de non connexion d'une region de faisabilite resultant d'une collision de type multi-agents avec des contraintes d'evitement d'obstacles) et des proprietes de stabilite (afin d'analyser l'unicite et l'existence de configurations de formation de systemes multi-agents). Enfin, certains resultats theoriques obtenus ont ete appliques dans un cas pratique tres interessant. On utilise une nouvelle combinaison de la commande predictive et de platitude differentielle (pour la generation de reference) dans la commande et la navigation de vehicules aeriens sans pilote (UAVs).
PENGARUH INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, EARNINGS MANAGEMENT, TAX AVOIDANCE TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN DENGAN GCG SEBAGAI PEMODERASI

The purpose of this research was to know the influence of Intellectual Capital, Earnings Management, and Tax Avoidance to the company's value with Good Corporate Governance as the moderating variable in the banking company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015. This study used the quantitative approach. The data were obtained from the annual report of the banking company. After going through the stage of purposive sampling, the sample was 38 companies. Technique of data analysis used the classic assumption test and multiple linear analysis. The study results indicated that Intellectual Capital, Earnings Management and Tax Avoidance does not affect company's value. While the Intellectual Capital that was moderated by Good Corporate Governance had significant influence to company's value and Earnings Management that moderated by Good Corporate Governance did not influence company's value.