Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activity of Sulphated Polysaccharides from selected Seaweeds of Vadinar Coast

In the present study the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of sulfated polysaccharide from selected seaweed (U. lactuca, S. tenerrimum, S. cinctum, S. myriostum, P. Boergesenii and G.edulis) has been carried out. The elemental analysis was done showed a high sodium concentration (825 ± 4.25 ppm) in G. edulis followed by U. lactuca (815 ± 5.66 ppm). Potassium was obtained higher percentage in P. boergesnii (21436 ± 5.66 ppm) followed by U. lactuca (16263.5 ± 4.95 ppm). The maximum concentration of calcium was recorded in S. cinctum (6527 ± 5.67 ppm). The physico chemical parameters like carbohydrate and sulphate was obtained maximum concentration in U.lactuca (0.955 ± 0.035 mg; 2.422 ± 0.086). FT- IR analysis of the different six (U. lactuca, S. tenerrimum, S. cinctum, S. myriostum, P. boergesenii, G.edulis) seaweed sample was done and functional group associated were determined. U. lactuca shows effective peaks in 3174 cm-1, 3458cm-1, which belongs to amide group and O-H group respectively. S. tenerrimum exhibited peak value in 1150-1070cm-1 and 3000-2500 cm-1, which belongs to C-O, O-H functional group respectively.
Prognostic and predictive value of IGFBP-6 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

The aim of this study was to assess insulin-like growth factor binding protein-6 (IGFBP-6) expression, and its potential value as a prognostic indicator of survival in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). Quantitative realtime polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry analyses were used to determine IGFBP-6 mRNA and protein expression, respectively, in HNC. The correlations between IGFBP-6 expression levels and clinical characteristics or prognoses were determined via statistical analyses. IGFBP-6 mRNA and protein levels were significantly higher in HNC tissues than in normal adjacent tissues (P<0.000 1). High IGFBP-6 expression in cancer tissues was significantly associated with sex (P=0.013), tobacco consumption (P=0.021), tumor location (P=0.001), histopathological grade (P=0.030), T stage(P=0.04), and tumor classification. IGFBP-6 expression in buccal squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) tissues was correlated with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) development (P=0.001) but not tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) development (P=0.355). High IGFBP-6 expression (P=0.001), histopathological grade (P=0.020), T stage (P=0.007), lymph node metastasis (P=0.001), and pTNM stage (P=0.001) were identified as significant prognostic factors for survival. Kaplan-Meier survival curves demonstrated that patients with high IGFBP-6 levels or stage III + IV cancer exhibited significantly shorter survival times than patients with low IGFBP-6 levels or stage I + II disease. Our findings provide the first evidence that high IGFBP-6 expression is associated with poor prognosis in HNC.
The effects of asset liquidity on dynamic bankruptcy decisions

We develop a dynamic bankruptcy model with asset illiquidity. In the model, a distressed firm chooses between sell-out and default, as well as its timing under the assumption that sell-out is feasible only at Poisson jump times, where the arrival rate of acquirers stands for asset liquidity. With lower asset liquidity, the firm increases the sell-out region to mitigate the risk of not finding an acquirer until bankruptcy. Despite the larger sell-out region, lower asset liquidity increases the default probability and decreases the equity, debt, and firm values. In the optimal capital structure, with lower asset liquidity, the firm reduces leverage, but the cautious capital structure does not fully offset the increased default risk. The stock price reaction caused by sell-out depends on the sell-out timing. When the firm's asset value is not sufficiently high, the stock price jump size is an inverted U-shape with the economic state variable. Lower asset liquidity increases the jump size due to greater surprise. These results fit empirical observations.
MUSLIM PERSONALITY EFFECTS ON WORKPLACE DEVIANCE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYEES WORKING IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs)

Workplace deviant activities are the biggest menace faced by organizations today; moreover, no organization is immune to it. A significant amount of research have indicated that personality factors predict workplace deviance by using the conventional measures of personality. Researchers have neglected the spiritual and religious aspect of personality, in particular the personality characteristics as defined by Islam. In order to fill this gap in literature, the current study analyses do Muslim personality dimensions (intellectual, spiritual, and social) negative impact workplace deviance (interpersonal and organizational). Data were collected from 347 employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating/registered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The results indicate that Muslim personality spiritual and social dimension have negative influence on workplace deviance. Theoretically, the study extends the resource based view, and it provides empirical support for Al-Ghazali’s theory of Muslim personality. Limitations and future directions have also been discussed.
A Job Vacancy Rate for Argentina

This paper builds a time series for vacancies in Argentina and shows the path of the Beveridge curve during the period 2000-2018. We use a novel dataset from a survey that collects vacancy postings since 2008 and combine it with a print help-wanted index published from 2000 through 2014. We present, as a result, a job vacancy series long enough to cover six recessions in addition to the 2001 crisis.
Knowledge, Attitude and Barriers using Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Assessment Calculator in Management of Dyslipidemia among Primary Health Care Providers

Objectives: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk estimator is a recently developed online calculator tool for primary prevention. Family physicians, as first-line soldiers, have close contact with local community patients making preventive care management an integral part of their routine work. Therefore, we would like to assess primary health care providers’ knowledge, attitude and barriers for using ASCVD risk estimator in a family health care facility. Methods: This was a quantitative, cross-sectional, single-center study which took place at a tertiary health care facility between December 2018 and January 2019. An English-paper-based self-administered questionnaire was distributed to all primary health care physicians (n=172). Results: Most of the participants were using a different type of cardiovascular risk score calculator 128 (97.7%). Among these scores, ASCVD risk assessment calculator was the highest frequently used calculator 67 (51.1%) and Framingham risk score 43 (32.8%). Study participant preferred to use mobile application 102 (77.9%) as a technical method of risk score calculation. ASCVD knowledge was significantly related to participants’ clinical attitude (r=0.3, p-value=0.003) however, they have moderate knowledge about ASCVD risk calculator (61.7%), and only 37.3% have a positive attitude towards it. Conclusion: Health promotion implementation needs using powerful primary prevention of cardiovascular risk calculators. Therefore, enhancing family physician knowledge and eliminate obstacles will gradually improve their attitude towards disease prediction and prevention.
Transformational Leadership and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Procedural Justice

The aims of this study were to identify the level of job satisfaction (JS) and the degree of transformational leadership (TLS) practice in technical colleges in western Libya, as well as detect the impact of TLS on job satisfaction. Additionally, verifying the role of procedural justice (PJ) as a mediating variable between TLS and job satisfaction. Consequently, to achieving the research objectives, the measurement tools were developed depending on previous studies. Moreover, a simple random sample of 159 faculty members was selected. The study found that the level of job satisfaction was medium and conversely of that the level of TLS practice was low. The results showed that TLS has a substantial and positive impact on job satisfaction. It also revealed that procedural justice partially mediates the relationship between TLS and job satisfaction. Finally, the study recommended improving job satisfaction by focusing on encouraging managers to adopt transformational leadership and adopting procedural justice principles. Keywords—Transformational Leadership; Procedural justice; Job satisfaction; technical colleges; Libya
Approved mental health professionals: A jack of all trades? Hybrid professional roles within a mental health occupation

This article presents findings from the Hybrid Identities Project that investigated the professional role and identities of ten multi-professional Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) from social work, mental health nursing and occupational therapy backgrounds as hybrid professionals. Hybrid professionals are professionals of a mixed origin who work across several roles and areas of expertise within public services. AMHPs have a legal role within the Mental Health Act 1983 (2007) in England and Wales to plan the assessment of individuals who require care and treatment for a mental disorder. An intrinsic case study approach was undertaken with data generated through semi-structured interviews that examined professional hybridisation, illustrated through AMHPs’ enactment of eight hybrid roles. The article contributes to empirical understandings of AMHP professional practice through advancing ideas about role hybridisation within a previously under-researched mental health occupation.
Professionalism and Evidence-Based Mental Health Care: The Roadblocks and New Ways

BACKGROUND: Knowledge acquisition and knowledge update through research remains an important factor to ensure quality and cost-effective care, which is the hallmark of professionalism and evidence-based care. Knowledge is vital in nursing due to the centrality of nursing to health care. More importantly is mental health because mental health is primary to general health, just as nursing is the heartbeat of health care. This makes the issue of mental health care, a necessary service that cannot be overemphasised. The World Health Organisation declares mental health as the essential form of health that needs to be acquired without which all others form of health may not be achieved. Further to this, the global emphasis on care and recovery of lost mental health is on the increase. This, therefore, makes evidence-based mental health care, a necessity and not a choice. AIM: To discuss evidence-based nursing, the benefits, challenges and opportunities. METHODOLOGY: This article adopts the traditional review method to assess the concept of discussion on mental health care, evidence-based practice and professionalism. FINDINGS: The term evidence-based care Is gaining recognition in a variety of professions and organisations. The use of evidence in nursing care is influenced by policies, knowledge of time management, availability of human resources, practice autonomy and attitude of professionals. However, the use of evidence-based practice is not debatable. CONCLUSION: The use of scientific evidence for validating nursing care is germane. This article exposed the barriers to evidence-based mental health nursing and the way forward.
The impact of sharing economy on urban crime

La reduccion de la delincuencia urbana es una preocupacion politica primordial en todo el mundo. Los gobiernos han implementado una amplia variedad de programas para controlar el crimen, que van desde la vigilancia policial de los puntos calientes hasta los trabajos de transicion para ex convictos. En las ultimas decadas, la economia colaborativa, donde las personas comparten o alquilan bienes personales como automoviles o casas, ha ganado importancia como uno de los caminos mas accesibles para que los trabajadores poco cali ficados tengan un ingreso regular. Este documento examina el impacto de una de las companias de economia colaborativa mas grandes de America Latina (Rappi) en el crimen urbano en Bogota. Al usar un modelo dinamico de diferencias en diferencias, se encuentra evidencia sugerente de que la llegada de Rappi condujo a una disminucion en los robos. Este trabajo contribuye a la literatura sobre las externalidades de la economia colaborativa.
Investigation of University Students with Respect to Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Within the Context of Shweder’s Big Three Ethics

The aim of this study is to determine whether the frequency of using ethical codes of university students differs according to gender identity and sexual orientation variables. The sample of this descriptive study consists of 200 university students from various universities and departments. Ethical Worldview Scale developed by Walker and Jensen (2016) and adapted into Turkish by Dost Gozkân (2016) was used for data collection. The results of two-way multivariate analysis of variance denoted that subcategory points differed significantly with respect to sexual orientation, did not differ significantly with respect to gender identity and the interaction effect of gender identity and sexual orientation was not significant.
Analysis of the stock market anomalies in the context of changing the information paradigm

The present paper describes the results of a comprehensive research in the information efficiency of the Ukrainian stock market in the context of a financial paradigm transformation which causes a need to modify the EMH (efficient market hypothesis). The aim of the research is to identify the market inefficiencies (anomalies) that occur in the market and contradict the EMH provisions. The database used for the research is from both the world and the Ukrainian stock markets (from 2008 to 2013). Besides, the authors compiled their own event database on Ukrainian mass media data with clear formalization of the event evaluation, which excludes any judgmental approach. Both the standard statistical procedures and the authors’ event analysis become the instruments for the analysis. To randomize the research, an event date was shifted by 1-5 days with the reference to the emissions by the moving average method. The research becomes the basis for a new information paradigm, and the fourth form of information efficiency was justified. These changes underlaid the evaluation methodology for the arisen anomalies being the result of explicit or implicit collusion at the stock market of Ukraine.
The female offender - A century of registered crime and daily press reporting on women’s crime

ABSTRACT This article examines how women’s crime has been reflected in crime statistics and media crime reporting. We employ a long-term historical perspective, looking at developments from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. We describe the overarching processes that underlie the decline in the gender gap in convictions for theft and violent crime, respectively, at different times during the past century. The study also use a new data set comprised of newspaper articles on women’s and men’s offending published by the Swedish press between 1905 and 2015. We compare the trend in the number of articles focused on offences committed by women and men respectively, variations in the offence types that the daily press choose to report on and the overarching explanations for crime that are discussed in the articles. The results show that levels of coverage and the types of crime that attract media attention are strikingly similar for men and women, but throughout the whole period there is a greater need for the newspapers to find reasons for women’s offending. Moreover, there has been no marked increase in the press focus on women’s crime as women have comprised an increasing proportion of those convicted of criminal offences.
Stakeholder pressure and its effect on environmental proactiveness and firm performance: The mediating role of dynamic managerial capabilities

This study examines how Indonesia’s hotel industry responds to environmental sustainability pressure and how dynamic managerial capabilities play a significant role in defining environmental proactiveness as a proxy of strategic response and its impact on a firm’s performance. This will be done using a model that integrates institutional theory, resource dependence theory, and cognitive theoretical perspectives. The findings of this study indicate that stakeholder pressures perceived by hotel managers have a positive impact on hotels’ environmental proactiveness through the mediating effect of dynamic managerial capabilities. This current study also finds a strong and positive relationship between environmental proactiveness and firm performance. Drawing from the results, research contributions, managerial implication, policy implication, and future avenues of inquiries for researchers are provided.
Stock Price Synchronicity and Current and Potential Credit Ratings

This study examines whether the stock prices reflet the relevant information on the companies´current and potential credit ratings. This investigation was carried out from the construct of stock price synchronicity, that is, the more the stock prices reflect the specific information of a certain company, the less the synchronicity of these prices in relation to the market general information tends to be. It would imply that the stock prices tend to be more informative on the companies´potential in generating future economic benefit and on their risk levels. For carrying out this study, information on the companies which have their shares listed at the Brazilian Stock Exchange (Brazil, Stock Exchange and Over-the-counter – B3) from 2010 to 2015 were analyzed. The results obtained point that the stock prices not only embody information on the alterations of the companies´s current credit ratings regarding the upgrade, but also reflect, with certain antecipation, the potential credit ratings. Nevertheless, the results indicate that not every credit rating class is associated with relevant information for the capital market.
Welfare and poverty impacts of aquaculture growth

Introduction Aquaculture is one of the world’s fastest growing food-producing sectors, and its share in global fish consumption by humans is projected to grow to more than 60 percent by 2030 (FAO 2014). This growth is remarkable given that the sector was almost nonexistent in the 1950s and its share in total fish production remained below 20 percent until the early 1990s. The underlying implications of this trend are considered to be so significant that they are now commonly termed a “Blue Revolution,” and there are good reasons for using the term. Aquaculture holds the promise of meeting most of the world’s fish demand without ruining the environment (Economist 2003; Sachs 2007); aquaculture also will be able to help reduce poverty while improving food security and nutritional well-being.1 If aquaculture had stopped growing in 1980—that is, if growth in the world’s fish supply depended only on marine and inland capture fisheries—per capita annual fish availability in 2013 would have been only 14.0 kilograms, which is 17 percent lower than the availability in 1980 and about half of the actual availability of 26.8 kilograms in 2013. The consequences of such a scenario are easy to imagine: higher prices, lower consumption, and far greater pressure on marine and inland capture fisheries. The adverse consequences would have been particularly severe for the developing countries of Asia, where fish is an important part of the diet and where fish production and marketing provide the livelihoods for millions of poor households. Thanks to technological innovation and some deliberate policy actions, the world did not have to live through such a reality. As discussed in the Introduction, calculations from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s
Luteolin and luteolin-7-O-glucoside protect against acute liver injury through regulation of inflammatory mediators and antioxidative enzymes in GalN/LPS-induced hepatitic ICR mice

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activities of luteolin and luteolin-7-O-glucoside were compared in galactosamine (GalN)/lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced hepatitic ICR mice. MATERIALS/METHODS Male ICR mice (6 weeks old) were divided into 4 groups: normal control, GalN/LPS, luteolin, and luteolin-7-O-glucoside groups. The latter two groups were administered luteolin or luteolin-7-O-glucoside (50 mg/kg BW) daily by gavage for 3 weeks after which hepatitis was induced by intraperitoneal injection of GalN and LPS (1 g/kg BW and 10 µg/kg BW, respectively). RESULTS GalN/LPS produced acute hepatic injury by a sharp increase in serum AST, ALT, and TNF-α levels, increases that were ameliorated in the experimental groups. In addition, markedly increased expressions of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 and its transcription factors, nuclear factor (NF)-κB and activator protein (AP)-1, were also significantly attenuated in the experimental groups. Compared to luteolin-7-O-glucoside, luteolin more potently ameliorated the levels of inflammatory mediators. Phase II enzymes levels and NF-E2 p45-related factor (Nrf)-2 activation that were decreased by GalN/LPS were increased by luteolin and luteolin-7-O-glucoside administration. In addition, compared to luteolin, luteolin-7-O-glucoside acted as a more potent inducer of changes in phase II enzymes. Liver histopathology results were consistent with the mediator and enzyme results. CONCLUSION Luteolin and luteolin-7-O-glucoside protect against GalN/LPS-induced hepatotoxicity through the regulation of inflammatory mediators and phase II enzymes.
Local environmental governance and policy implementation: Variegated environmental education in three districts in Tianjin, China

Variation in the implementation of environmental policies in urban China has received widespread scholarly attention, but the extensive heterogeneity in local governance frameworks has remained under-studied. Leaning on the abundant, new institutionalism theory, this article suggests that the concept of institutional configuration can bring structure to the analysis of local complex governance frameworks and help identify factors that create different approaches to environmental policies. This study analyses the construction of approaches to new environmental education policies in three urban districts in Tianjin to illustrate how the suggested conceptual framework applies to centrally administered Chinese cities. The findings show that different combinations of formal and socio-cultural factors emerge as decisive in the institutional configuration of each district. This study also reveals new interesting nuances in the motivations behind environmental policy implementation.