Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A CO-rich merger shaping a powerful and hyperluminous infrared radio galaxy at z = 2: the Dragonfly Galaxy

In the low-redshift Universe, the most powerful radio sources are often associated with gasrich galaxy mergers or interactions. We here present evidence for an advanced, gas-rich ('wet') merger associated with a powerful radio galaxy at a redshift of z similar to 2. This radio galaxy, MRC 0152-209, is the most infrared-luminous high-redshift radio galaxy known in the Southern hemisphere. Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, we obtained highresolution CO(1-0) data of cold molecular gas, which we complement with Hubble Space Telescope (HS7)IWide Field Planetaiy Camera 2 (WFPC2) imaging and William Herschel Telescope long-slit spectroscopy. We find that, while roughly M-H2 x 10(10) Me of molecular gas coincides with the central host galaxy, another M-H2 similar to 3 x 10(10) Me is spread across a total extent of'-60 kpc. Most of this widespread CO(1-0) appears to follow prominent tidal features visible in the rest-frame near-UV HSTIWFPC2 imaging. Lya emission shows an excess over He II, but a deficiency over LIR, which is likely the result of photoionization by enhanced but very obscured star formation that was triggered by the merger. In terms of feedback, the radio source is aligned with widespread CO(1-0) emission, which suggests that there is a physical link between the propagating radio jets and the presence of cold molecular gas on scales of the galaxy's halo. Its optical appearance, combined with the transformational stage at which we witness the evolution of MRC 0152-209, leads us to adopt the name 'Dragonfly Galaxy'.
External Sources of Innovative Capabilities: The Preferences for Strategic Alliances or Mergers and Acquisitions

This paper explores the preferences that companies have as they use alternative (quasi) external sources of innovative competencies such as strategic technology alliances, mergers and acquisitions, or a mix of these. These alternatives are studied in the context of distinct industrial, technological and international settings during the first half of the 1990s. Different strategies followed by companies and the role played by routinized sets of preferences are also taken into consideration. The analysis demonstrates that these options are influenced by both different environmental conditions and firm specific circumstances, such as those related to protecting core businesses.
Noteworthy records of aphyllophoroid fungi in Finland (Basidiomycota)

We present new records of noteworthy aphyllophoroid fungi, mainly polypores and corticioids in Finland. The following 19 rare or infrequently collected species are presented with notes on their substrates: Amylocorticium subsulphureum , Antrodiella parasitica , Ceraceomyces sulphurinus , Clavaria atroumbrina , Clavaria rosea , Gloeophyllum carbonarium , Hyphodontia flavipora , Junghuhnia fimbriatella , Lindtneria chordulata , Odonticium septocystidia , Peniophorella guttulifera , Perenniporia tenuis , Postia immitis , Repetobasidium vile , Resinicium pinicola , Sidera vulgaris , Tomentella coerulea , Trechispora laevis and Xylodon pruni . We also list 41 aphyllophoroid fungi as new to some sections of the boreal vegetation zone in Finland.
Explaining Share Price Performance of Football Clubs Listed on the Euronext Lisbon

The literature concerning the effects of sporting performance on football shares is scarce. Football clubs used to be non-profit organisations and their members had different rights and views from those which affect today's shareholders' perspectives and analysis. We were particularly concerned with sporting performance and how it impacts on share price returns for football clubs. Using the football shares quoted in Euronext Lisbon Stock Exchange and the ARCH and GARCH methodology we found a positive relationship between stock price returns and sporting performance. Therefore, we could provide empirical evidence for immediate impact of victories, draws or defeats on price returns. We also found that impact to be related to the approach of the end of the season. This is in line with previous research on the topic, although using a different methodology. When we look at volatility, apart from showing strong clustering signs, a critical variable seems to be the trading volume around the stock that comes with the end of the season.
Tax Competition and its Consequences for Tax Revenue Structure in Developed Countries: Empirical Evidence Using Panel Cointegration Approach

The paper examines the long run changes in the tax revenue structure in developed countries. We are particularly focused on the testing of a potential shift from taxation on mobile tax bases to less mobile ones, which could be seen as one of the results of rising tax competition. We assume that a decrease in corporate tax revenues is compensated for by higher tax revenues from taxing work and property. Our dataset consists of panel date from 22 OECD countries within the period 1965 to 2012. We tested the potential causalities within the tax mix using Granger causality tests as well as the DOLS and FMOLS panel cointegration techniques in order to reveal possible long run causalities. As far as we know, these techniques have not before been used in this field. Long-run inverse causalities between corporate tax and personal tax revenue as well as corporate tax revenue and indirect taxes are found. Our results could have several important implications for the tax policies in developed countries.
A Gnawing Problem: Does Rodent Incisor Microwear Record Diet or Habitat?

Dental microwear has been shown to reflect food preferences and habitat in extant vertebrates, and its analysis has been applied to fossil assemblages to infer paleodiet and paleoenvironment. Such reconstructions are, of course, only as good as the extant baseline used to infer relationships between wear pattern and diet/habitat. This study tests, through dental microwear texture analysis, the potential of modern rodent lower incisors to reveal those relationships, and evaluates the extent to which effects of diet and habitat can be parsed from the signal. Microwear texture profiles were created for individual lower rodent incisors (n=430) using confocal profilometry and quantified using scale-sensitive fractal analysis. The museum sample used in this study includes omnivorous, herbivorous, and frugivorous species collected from African desert, savanna, woodland, and rainforest habitats. The effect of substrate (terrestrial versus arboreal) is also analyzed. Increasingly, attention had been directed toward rodents as a source of paleoenvironmental data due to their discrete home ranges and their ubiquity and abundance in many fossil and archaeological assemblages. Results presented here suggest that rodent incisor microwear pattern reflects different habitat types, through environmental factors or food availabilities, and holds potential as a proxy for paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
BULGE-FORMING GALAXIES WITH AN EXTENDED ROTATING DISK AT z ∼ 2

We present 0. ″2-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations at 870 μm for 25 Hα-seleced star-forming galaxies around the main sequence at z = 2.2–2.5. We detect significant 870 μm continuum emission in 16 (64%) of these galaxies. The high-resolution maps reveal that the dust emission is mostly radiated from a single region close to the galaxy center. Exploiting the visibility data taken over a wide uv distance range, we measure the half-light radii of the rest-frame far-infrared emission for the best sample of 12 massive galaxies with log(M*/M⊙) > 11. We find nine galaxies to be associated with extremely compact dust emission with R1/2,870 μm < 1.5 kpc, which is more than a factor of 2 smaller than their rest-optical sizes, , and is comparable with optical sizes of massive quiescent galaxies at similar redshifts. As they have an exponential disk with Sérsic index of in the rest-optical, they are likely to be in the transition phase from extended disks to compact spheroids. Given their high star formation rate surface densities within the central 1 kpc of M⊙ yr−1 kpc−2, the intense circumnuclear starbursts can rapidly build up a central bulge with ΣM*,1 kpc > 1010 M⊙ kpc−2 in several hundred megayears, i.e., by z ∼ 2. Moreover, ionized gas kinematics reveal that they are rotation supported with an angular momentum as large as that of typical star-forming galaxies at z = 1–3. Our results suggest that bulges are commonly formed in extended rotating disks by internal processes, not involving major mergers.
Decompositions of Spatially Varying Quantile Distribution Estimates: The Rise and Fall of Tokyo House Prices

We extend Machado-Mata’s (2005) approach for decomposing the differences in the distribution of a dependent variable across two samples to account for location when the models are estimated using conditional parametric procedures. We find that a substantial portion of the change in the distribution of condominium prices in Tokyo between the rapid rise in prices in 1986 – 1990 and the sharp decline in 1991 – 1995 is due to changes in the values of the explanatory variables. Changes in the locations of sales serve to shift the price distribution to the left because later sales were more likely to be farther from downtown Tokyo, where prices are lower.
Phenotypic variation in live weight and live-weight changes of lactating Holstein-Friesian cows

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Lean Supply Chain Management Practices and Performance: Empirical Evidence from Manufacturing Companies

The current study aims to investigate the effect of lean supply chain management practices on supply chain performance and market performance in manufacturing companies in Jordan. Five lean supply chain management practices were identified based on an extensive literature review, just-in-time system, flow of information, supplier relationship, customer relationship, and waste reduction. To achieve the study goals, a survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed to managers of 400 manufacturing companies from different sectors and sizes. The final number of returned usable questionnaires was 308, representing a response rate of 77%. The results revealed positive and significant effects of three lean supply chain management practices on market performance, namely, JIT system, flow of information, and customer relationship. In addition, all lean supply chain management practices showed positive and significant effects on supply chain performance. Furthermore, supply chain performance demonstrated a positive and significant effect on market performance.
Minimizing integrals in certain classes of monotone functions.

l Introduction, This paper is concerned with the existence, uniqueness and representation of minimizing functions. It includes many results of [1] and [2]. Applications are discussed in [3]. The authors are indebted for various ideas to W. T. Reid with whom Brunk and Ewing collaborated in a study [2] of a particular integral (1.4) in the one-variable case. Also, the authors wish to acknowledge the helpful suggestions of the referee. Extension to n variables and to more general integrands is of interest per se and is motivated by a variety of problems. For example, let x (y) be the random variable, maximum dilution (that is, unity minus concentration) of an insecticide / (J) which is lethal to an insect from a given population. Then
Evolving Post-World War II U.K. Economic Performance

In this paper we use tests for multiple structural breaks at unknown points in the sample, and band-pass filtering techniques, to investigate changes in U.K. economic performance since the end of World War II. Empirical evidence suggests that the most recent decade, associated with the introduction of an inflation targeting regime, has been significantly more stable than the previous post-WWII era. Both for real GDP growth, and for three measures of inflation, we identify break dates around the time of the introduction of inflation targeting, in October 1992. For all four series, the estimated innovation variance over the most recent sub-period is the lowest of the post-WWII era. The volatility of the band-pass filtered macroeconomic indicators we consider is, after 1992, almost always lower than either during the Bretton Woods regime, or over the 1971-92 period, often, like in the case of inflation and real GDP, markedly so. The Phillips correlation appears to have undergone significant changes over the last 50 years, from being unstable in the 1970s, to slowly stabilising from the beginning of the 1980s onwards. After 1992, the correlation exhibits, by far, the greatest extent of stability of the post-WWII era.
A note on firm-productivity and foreign direct investment

Assuming linear demand and unit transportation cost, Head and Ries (2003, 'Heterogeneity and the FDI versus export decision of Japanese manufacturers', Journal of the Japanese and International Economies) conclude that the theoretical prediction of Helpman et al. (2004, 'Export versus FDI with heterogeneous firms', The American Economic Review), which show that the more productive firms undertake FDI and the less productive firms export, does not depend on their assumptions of CES preferences and iceberg transportation costs. Considering iceberg transportation costs in an otherwise similar setup of Head and Ries (2003), we show that the theoretical prediction of Helpman et al. (2004) may not hold. Hence, CES preference in Helpman et al. (2004) is important for their theoretical results.
Relating Concepts and Applications through Structured Active Learning.

The central research question in this study was whether structured active learning affects the abilities of science and engineering undergraduates to relate abstract concepts and realistic applications more than a relatively traditional instructional method. More specifically, the research was designed to determine whether differences in the learning outcome were apparent to faculty representing a variety of disciplines as well as to the students who participated in the course. The effects of structured active learning on the measured outcome were compared between men and women. The results suggest that students who participated in structured active learning perceived a greater ability to connect abstract concepts and real-world applications than students who participated in a relatively traditional instruction program. Faculty from a broad range of disciplines also perceived that students who participated in structured active learning were more competent than their counterparts in the traditional program, particularly in comprehending the larger context surrounding a problem and understanding the relationship between theory and practice during the problem-solving process. The positive effect of structured active learning on students' abilities to connect concepts and applications extended to both men and women. (PVD) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ********************************************************************************
Association between TNF-a, Nutritional status and Quality of Life in Syrian Patients with Cancer

An increasingly important issue in oncology is the evaluation of patient outcomes such as nutritional status and quality of life (QoL), which have been important factors to consider in the holistic monitoring of cancer patients. Nonetheless, no study so far has assessed them among Syrian cancer patients. Our study was conducted to highlight this importance, and assess Syrian cancer patient’s throughout investigating the prevalence of malnutrition, evaluating Qol of the patients, and looking for an early marker for malnutrition and bad QoL among Syrian cancer patients. The current study was carried out on 72 individuals in three groups: 24 patients of breast cancer, 24 patients of lung cancer and 24 matched age and sex healthy subjects. Patient outcomes were evaluated by well-known questionnaires: Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment PG-SGA to evaluate nutritional status, and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) questionnaire to evaluate QoL. TNF-alpha serum concentrations were measured using an enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay. We observed that in both breast and lung cancer groups malnourished patients had significantly worse QoL scores and higher values of TNF-a, Additionally, we found that TNF-alpha concentration was highly associated to PG-SGA total score and QoL scores, which in turn were significantly associated. We concluded that single laboratory test of TNF-alpha serum concentrations, can give a strong evaluation as the validated questionnaires do, which can save time and efforts. We suggest adding it to the tests used in monitoring Syrian breast and lung cancer patients.
Oviposition behaviour of Gryon gallardoi (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) on eggs of different ages of Spartocera dentiventris (Hemiptera, Coreidae)

The oviposition behaviour of Gryon gallardoi (Brethes, 1914) on eggs of Spartocera dentiventris Mendonca Jr. (Berg, 1884) of different ages (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12 days) was investigated. Groups of 12 eggs of each age were exposed to single females of G. gallardoi, and the oviposition behaviour was recorded under a stereomicroscope for two hours. Ten replicates were used for each age. In order to identify the moment the parasitoid egg was released inside the host, 1-day old eggs of S. dentiventris were exposed to G. gallardoi females, and the oviposition was interrupted at intervals of 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140 and 160s after ovipositor insertion had initiated. Five behavioural steps were recorded: drumming, ovipositor insertion, marking, walking and resting. The average drumming and ovipositor insertion times increased with the host age (P<0.01). Ovipositor insertion usually occurred next to the longitudinal extremities of the host eggs. Marking took on average 19.5 ± 0.7s, and as walking and resting, was not affected by host age. Self-parasitism behaviour was observed in only 13.8 ± 2.3% of the eggs, being more evident with increasing patch depletion (reduction in non-parasitized eggs in the egg group, P<0.01), again with no variation due to changes in host egg age. For all ages tested, self-parasitized host eggs were less frequently contacted and accepted than non-parasitized ones (P<0.01). The parasitoid egg was released 137.0 ± 3.7s after ovipositor insertion. Spartocera dentiventris egg condition can lead to parasitoid behavioural changes, especially during the process of host choice and discrimination.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL LITERACY? A LITERATURE REVIEW

This article provides a literature review about the dilemma of financial literacy. The individuals and families' financial decision process is getting more vital in recent years. Given the increasingly risky and globalized markets, the actual context of global financial crisis and the continuous increasing in the complexity of financial products and services, individuals must be able to make well-informed and correct decisions. Consequently, higher levels of financial knowledge contribute to more extensive economic growth and development. However, it has been shown that, in global terms, the financial literacy present low values, which suggest the need of financial educational programs in the schools curricula. There is also evidence of a positive relationship between financial literacy and investment decisions, as well as retirement programs. Studies conducted to date suggest that there are socioeconomic conditions that influence the financial knowledge, attitudes and behaviours, such as age, gender, work experience, income and education level.
Statistical analysis of UV spectra of a quiescent prominence observed by IRIS

Context. The paper analyzes the structure and dynamics of a quiescent prominence that occurred on October 22, 2013 and was observed by several instruments including the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Aims. We aim to determine the physical characteristics of the observed prominence using Mg II k and h (2796 and 2803 Å), C II (1334 and 1336 Å), and Si IV (1394 Å) lines observed by IRIS. In addition we study the dynamical behavior of the prominence. Methods. We employed the one-dimensional non-LTE (departures from the local thermodynamic equilibrium – LTE) modeling of Mg II lines assuming static isothermal-isobaric slabs. We selected a large grid of models with realistic input parameters expected for quiescent prominences (temperature, gas pressure, effective thickness, microturbulent velocity, height above the solar surface) and computed synthetic Mg II lines. The method of Scargle periodograms was used to detect possible prominence oscillations. Results. We analyzed 2160 points of the observed prominence in five different sections along the slit averaged over ten pixels due to low signal to noise ratio in the C II and Si IV lines. We computed the integrated intensity for all studied lines, while the central intensity and reversal ratio was determined only for both Mg II and C II 1334 lines. We plotted several correlations: time evolution of the integrated intensities and central intensities, scatter plots between all combinations of line integrated intensities, and reversal ratio as a function of integrated intensity. We also compared Mg II observations with the models. Results show that more than two-thirds of Mg II profiles and about one-half of C II 1334 profiles are reversed. Profiles of Si IV are generally unreversed. The Mg II and C II lines are optically thick, while the Si IV line is optically thin. Conclusions. The studied prominence shows no global oscillations in the Mg II and C II lines. Therefore, the observed time variations are caused by random motions of fine structures with velocities up to 10 km s−1. The observed average ratio of Mg II k to Mg II h line intensities can be used to determine the prominence’s characteristic temperature. Certain disagreements between observed and synthetic line intensities of Mg II lines point to the necessity of using more complex two-dimensional multi-thread modeling in the future.