Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Causal Relationship between Stock Price and Gold Price in India: A Granger Causality Test Approach

The purpose of the present study is to examine whether there exists a causal link between BSE Sensex (SENSEX) and gold price (GOLD). Time series data (monthly) of BSE Sensex and gold price for the period from January 2004 to December 2013 are used. To provide evidence on the existence of causal relationship between the variables, the Granger Causality test has been employed. Johansen cointegration results show that there is a cointegration between the two variables chosen and which leads to prove the existence of causal relationship between them. The study found that there exists a causal relationship, which is running from SENSEX to GOLD however there is no such relationship exists from GOLD to SENSEX, and therefore the study concludes that there is a unidirectional relationship existed between stock price and gold price.
Integration of Lesson Study in Teaching Practice of Social Study Student Teachers to Improve the Quality of Learning and Promote a Sustainable Lesson Study.

Teaching Practice is a required course for all students in education programs, divided into two sections. The first, is intended as the process of creating Sylabus, teaching plans, instructional medias and supporting material for peer teaching practice. The second, is intended to assign students to do classroom teaching. Lesson Study (LS) has been integrated in the State University Of Malang for a while. It was decided to integrate it in teching practice of all studentsafter the benefit of Lesson Study was recognized. This study tries to describethe integration of LS in teaching practice for students teachers; the implementation of Lesson Study in the teaching practice of the Social Studies student teachers; the benefits of the implementation of LS in the teaching practice; and the contstrains and the supporting factors in integrating teaching practice for Social Studies students teachers. In this qualitative study, the researcher analyzes documents, conducts observations, gives open ended questions interviews and leads focus group discussions. Lesson Study has strengthened the process of teaching practice and promoted the competency of Social Studies student teachers. Classroom teachers and Social studies student teachers recognize the importance of continuing teaching-learning improvement that can be done by applying Lesson Study. Key words : Integration, Lesson Study, Social Studies, Learning, Sustainable.
Interaction between population and environmental degradation

The present study investigates the long-run interrelationship among the demographic variables and environmental indicators by using the Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique and error correction model to determine the short-run dynamics of the system related to time series data for Pakistan economy, over the period 1972–2001. The paper finds the existence of a cointegrating vector, indicating a valid long-run relationship among the variables. Moreover, demographic variables have a significant effect in the short-run on AL but their short-run coefficients have an insignificant impact on CO2 emission. The empirical evidence clearly support that high population growth rates have a deleterious impact on environment. The policy implication thereof is to enhance the need of lowering population in Pakistan which seems to be a burden on the existing resources and a challenge to the environment.
TRANSIENT PRESSURE ANALYSIS FOR VERTICAL WELLS WITH SPHERICAL POWER-LAW FLOW

Los crudo pesados son considerados actualmente como una clase de yacimientos no convencional de mayor interes para la industria petrolera. Algunos de ellos muestran un comportamiento no Newtoniano pseudoplastico cuyo modelo matematico difiere del caso convencional y por ende, los regimenes de flujo presentan algunos comportamientos particulares. Los fluidos de fracturamiento, las espumas, algunos fluidos usados en recobro mejorado y los lodos de perforacion tambien caen en esta categoria. El flujo esferico/hemisferico causado por completamiento/penetracion parcial merece un tratamiento especial para flujo pseudoplastico. Se encontro para este caso una sola investigacion en la literatura que solo introduce el modelo matematico. En este trabajo se estudia el comportamiento de la presion y la derivada de presion para flujo esferico/hemisferico de un fluido ligeramente compresible, no Newtoniano ley de potencia (pseudoplastico) y se extienden la metodologias convencional y Tiab´s Direct Synthesis (TDS) para propositos interpretativos de pruebas de pozos. En flujo esferico/hemisferico pseudoplastico, la pendiente de la curva de la derivada ya no es de -½, es mas cambia con el valor del indice de comportamiento de flujo n, lo que indica que la interpretacion de datos de presion para los sistemas en cuestion usando metodos tradicionales no seria exacto. Se introducen nuevas ecuaciones para estimar la permeabilidad esferica/hemisferica y el factor de dano esferico/hemisferico para tales sistemas. Las ecuaciones se verificaron satisfactoriamente con casos simulados.
Evaluación de la distancia entre plantas sobre el rendimiento y calidad de semilla de Brachiaria brizantha Effects of plant spacing on seed yield and quality of Bracchiaria brizantha

The objective was evaluating the effect of plant spacing on seed yield and quality in Bracchiaria brizantha cv. Marandu. The experiment was carried out in rain fed conditions in 2007 at the Universidad de Papaloapan, Loma Bonita, Oaxaca, Mexico. Six plant distances (broadcast, 25*25 cm, 50*50 cm, 75*75 cm, 100*100 cm and 125*125 cm between rows and plants, respectively) were assessed. To that end, a completely randomized block design with four replicates was set. The following variables were analyzed: pure seed yield (PSY), pure germinable seed yield (GPSY), number of panicles per m-2, panicle length, seed harvested per panicle, 1,000 seed weight, spikelet abscission rate, seed purity and germination. PSY and GPSY showed differences among treatments (P 0.05). As a conclusion, it can be stated that the largest seed yield was obtained at the 25*25 cm spacing between rows and plants, respectively. Seed germination did not improve in any of the treatments being assessed.
Effects of Firm Size on Activity-based Costing Implementation in Nigerian Manufacturing Sector

Activity-based costing system represents a major innovation in management accounting. It is one of the most investigated management accounting concepts, especially in the advanced market economies of United States of investigated management accounting concepts, especially in the advanced market economies of United States of America, United Kingdom, amongst others. In the organizational innovative literature usually a positive association is found between size and organizational innovativeness. Larger firms are argued to have more complex and diverse facilities and greater resources available, and to employ more professional and skilled workers, that facilitate the implementation of innovations. The results of prior studies in the area of activity-based costing are somewhat mixed, however. Using a survey research design, this study examines the influence of firm size on activity-based costing implementation in the Nigerian Manufacturing sector. Data were obtained using structured questionnaire administered to 500 Accountants, Cost Accountants, Management Accountants and Financial Managers who are in full-time employment of 24 randomly selected manufacturing firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The result of regression analysis revealed significant relationship between the extent of ABC implementation and firm size in the Nigerian manufacturing sector. It is recommended that future studies should seek to investigate the influence of other contextual factors such as top management support, product diversity and level of competition.
Decoupling and de Sitter vacua in approximate no-scale supergravities

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Effect of Selenium Nano Particles on Glutathione Peroxidase mRNA Gene Expression in Broiler Chicken

This study was undertaken with the objective of studying the effect of Selenium Nano particles on liver glutathione peroxidase mRNA(GSHP×1 mRNA) gene expression in broiler chicken. An in vivo feeding experiment was conducted in 150 broiler chicks. Three replicates of 10 birds were maintained for each treatment with various levels of Selenium Nano particles (0.075, 0.1125, 0.1875 and 0.225 mg/kg) along with selenium coarse particle (0.15 mg/kg) as control group. The liver GSHP×1 mRNA expression was significantly (P<0.05) higher in Selenium Nano particles supplemented groups compared to control group with selenium coarse particles found out by doing RT-PCR in 15 birds, with 1 bird selected randomly from each replicate contributing 3 birds per treatment. There was 4.3 fold increases in GSHP×1 mRNA expression in birds supplemented with 0.1875 mg/kg nano selenium. However, when the Selenium Nano particles level was increased to 0.225 mg/kg from 0.1875 mg/kg Selenium Nano particles, GSHP×1 mRNA expression was reduced to 0.76 fold when compared with control group of 0.15 mg/kg selenium coarse particles (1 fold). It is concluded that dietary level of 0.1875 mg/kg Selenium Nano particles increased the expression of liver GSHP´1 mRNA gene in broiler chicken.
Age, growth and diversification in the German machine tool industry, 1936-2002

We focus on the relationship of age, growth and diversification patterns of German machine tool manufacturers in the post war era. Based on trade journal data our analysis reveals four main insights. Firstly, we observe that firms have lower diversification rates as they grow older, and that eventually diversification rates even turn negative for old firms on average. Secondly, we find that product portfolios of larger firms tend to be more diversified, although less than proportionally so (which suggests that larger firms are composed of larger submarkets). Thirdly, with respect to consecutive growth activities, quantile autoregression plots show that firms experiencing diversification in one period are unlikely to repeat this behavior in the following year. Fourthly, survival estimations reveal a lower hazard risk for older organizations as well as the fact that growth activities in general reduce the risk of failure controlling for various additional firm and industry specific fixed effects and business cycles. Interestingly, when differentiating between various age cohorts and their specific consequences when growing, we find that especially teenaged firms face the highest risk of failure. JEL codes: L20, L25
Melanosis and quality attributes of chill stored farm raised whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

Loss of market value of shrimp is mainly due to the formation of black spot called melanosis. A study was conducted for 14 days to determine the extent of melanosis and quality changes during that period of freshly har-vested whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) under chilled storage (2â„ƒ). Among quality parameters, total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBAR-S), were varied from 13.17 mg % to 44.50 mg % and 0.04to 2.57 mg malondehaldehyde/kg of fat respectively whereas melanosis score and metric chroma (C) exhibited significant increases during chilled storage (P<0.05). There was a slight increase in moisture, crude fat and pH from 73.96 % to 74.57 %, 1.05 % to 1.14 % and 6.52 to 7.60 respectively at 14th day of storage. Loss of protein from 22.51 % to 21.28 % may be due to decrease in available amino acids during chilled storage and total plate count (TPC) showed gradual increase of bacterial load up to 1.73*107 log CFU/g at the end of chilled storage. The sensory analysis by panellists indicated, the acceptability of white leg shrimp was up to 6 days in chilled condition and formation of black spot is one of the major parameter for rejection by the panellists.
Increasing Activeness and Learning Outcomes by Developing Borland Delphi 7.0 Application as Instructional Media.

This study aims to produce instructional media of petty cash fund with Borland Delphi 7.0 application in the Finance Administration subject, Managing Petty Cash Fund material in class XII APK in Vocational High School (SMK) Negeri 1 Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. This study used Research and Development (R&D) design procedures through 10 steps, which are: (1) potentials and problems, (2) data collecting, (3) design product, (4) design validation, (5) design revision, (6) product try-out, (7) product revision, (8) field testing, (9) product revision, and (10) mass production. Based on the results of expert validation and try-out in small scale, it was obtained the average score of media expert was 92.86% and media expert was 95.58% and small scale try-out was 98.61% which indicated that the media were categorized as valid and applicable. For the product effectivity based on the achievement test, the experimental class obtained 91.03 and control class 84.59, so that the media were effective to use.Therefore, Finance Administration teacher is suggested to use the media as an alternative learning support. Keywords: Borland Delphi 7.0 Instructional Media, Activeness, Students’ Learning Outcomes, Managing Fund of Petty Cash
Mineral chemistry and geochronology of the potassic alkaline ultramafic Inagli complex, Aldan Shield, eastern Siberia

Abstract The Inagli complex, one of several Mesozoic intrusive complexes of the Aldan Shield (Siberian Platform), exhibits a concentric structure comprising several alkaline ultramafic rock-types. A central dunite body is surrounded by olivine- and phlogopite-clinopyroxenites forming an inner rim. The outer rim consists of different shonkinitic and malignitic rocks. The K-At ages obtained for the whole complex vary around 132 Ma. The dunites and clinopyroxenites are characterized by cumulate textures. With increasing modal abundances of clinopyroxene and subordinate phlogopite, the rocks develop to olivine-clinopyroxenite, shonkinite, and malignite with intercumulus potassium feldspar. Mineralogical characterization of the rocks suggests they evolved by fractional crystallization. The highly forsteritic olivines (Fo up to 95) require a melt as magnesian as rag# 87.1, representing ±26 wt. % MgO. The parental melt is likely to be an olivine-, H2O- and K2O-rich picritic liquid of shoshonitic character. Major and trace element systematics show high LILE/ LREE and LREE/HFSE ratios indicating the involvement of a subduction zone component in the genesis of these rocks.
Hydrogel Contact Lens for Extended Delivery of Ophthalmic Drugs

Soft contact lenses can improve the bioavailability and prolong the residence time of drugs and, therefore, are ideal drug carriers for ophthalmic drug delivery. Hydrogels are the leading materials of soft contact lenses because of their biocompatibility and transparent characteristic. In order to increase the amount of load drug and to control their release at the expected intervals, many strategies are developed to modify the conventional contact lens as well as the novel hydrogel contact lenses that include (i) polymeric hydrogels with controlled hydrophilic/hydrophobic copolymer ratio; (ii) hydrogels for inclusion of drugs in a colloidal structure dispersed in the contact lenses; (iii) ligand-containing hydrogels; (iv) molecularly imprinted polymeric hydrogels; (v) hydrogel with the surface containing multilayer structure for drugs loading and releasing. The advantages and disadvantages of these strategies in modifying or designing hydrogel contact lenses for extended ophthalmic drug delivery are analyzed in this paper.
MACQUARIE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT MGSM WORKING PAPERS IN MANAGEMENT "Public Sector Performance Reporting: The Intellectual Capital Question?"

Over the past two decades, the reporting frameworks used within the public sectors of a wide variety of jurisdictions have undergone significant change. Much of this change has arguably been relatively incremental, resulting in reporting frameworks still being cast in highly traditional form. At the same time, events in global capital markets have resulted in many elements of traditional reporting frameworks being discredited. In this paper, we examine the possibility that alternative reporting frameworks, and specifically those related to intellectual capital (IC), might be beneficially adopted in public sector settings. We examine reasons why such an outcome might be beneficial, and examine a range of established alternative reporting frameworks that address IC, together with some of their strengths and weaknesses. We argue that there is room for the adoption of elements of these systems in public sector settings, and that it is plausible to anticipate material accountability and transparency benefits as a result.
Determining Malaria Hotspot Using Climatic Variables and Geospatial Technique in Central Urban Area of Ibadan, Southwest, Nigeria

Objective: Malaria is one of the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries, most especially in the sub-Saharan Africa where the transmission rates are very high. Despite some intervention by government, many people are still infected by the disease. Therefore, this study seeks to evaluate the environmental risk factors affecting malaria prevalence and the spatial-temporal distribution of malaria incidence, in order to delineate the most severely affected area in Ibadan, Southwest and Nigeria. Methodology: The data and materials used include Monthly reported cases of malaria for ten years, 2006-2015, meteorological data (Rainfall, relative humidity and Temperature) and remotely sensed data such as Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and soil map of the study area. The relationship between malaria incidence and climate variables were evaluated. The result obtained from climatemalaria correlation was used in ranking the selected climatic factors in developing malaria risk map. Mapping of different spatial clustering patterns like hot spots, high risk and cold spots over the entire study area was done by Hotspot analysis. Result: The results showed that there is a strong relationship between climatic factors and malaria incidence especially maximum temperature and relative humidity. It was also observed that the intensity of clustering of high values (hot spot) and low value (cold spot) was low and varied throughout the study period, but relatively high in the year 2010, 2011 and 2014. The statistically significant hotspots of malaria were consistently detected in southern and eastern part of Ibadan central urban area (Ibadan South-West, Ibadan South-East and Ibadan North-East LGAs) and except Ibadan North-East LGA once in 2011. However, Ibadan North and Ibadan North-West LGAs remained malaria coldspot throughout the study period. The results could help government agencies, health practitioners and policy makers to plan in the prevention and control of malaria prevalence in the area.
Dynamic Spin-Lattice Coupling and Nematic Fluctuations in NaFeAs

We use inelastic neutron scattering to study acoustic phonons and spin excitations in single crystals of NaFeAs, a parent compound of iron pnictide superconductors. NaFeAs exhibits a tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural transition at $T_s\approx 58$ K and a collinear antiferromagnetic (AF) order at $T_N\approx 45$ K. While longitudinal and out-of-plane transverse acoustic phonons behave as expected, the in-plane transverse acoustic phonons reveal considerable softening on cooling to $T_s$, and then harden on approaching $T_N$ before saturating below $T_N$. In addition, we find that spin-spin correlation lengths of low-energy magnetic excitations within the FeAs layer and along the $c$-axis increase dramatically below $T_s$, and show weak anomaly across $T_N$. These results suggest that the electronic nematic phase present in the paramagnetic tetragonal phase is closely associated with dynamic spin-lattice coupling, possibly arising from the one-phonon-two-magnon mechanism.
Prevalence of Obesity and its Relationship with the Presence of Type 2 Diabetes

Aim: The aim of the present article was to identify the prevalence of obesity and to evaluate the relationship between body mass index, waist circumference and fasting plasma glucose in a sample of Romanian patients from general population. Material and Method: The study sample consisted in 2200 patients care aged 25 years or older who gave their participation consent. The study was carried out on patients in primary care in Gorj County. Results: According to BMI, 19.5% of study participants had obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ) and 28.2% were overweight (BMI = 25-29.99 kg/m 2 ). Prevalence of both condition was lower in patients < 40 years of age (18% of patients had overweight and 8.1% had obesity) and increased with age. Prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 6% (132 persons), and 4% (88 persons) of the study group presented impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance. When the prevalence was analyzed according to the BMI, obese patients had significantly higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes compared with overweight patients and normal weight patients (p < 0.001). The same tendency was observed for impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance (p < 0.001). There was a positive correlation between BMI and fasting plasma glucose and between waist circumference and fasting plasma glucose. Conclusion: A high prevalence of overweight and obesity in the Romanian population from Gorj County was identified.
The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective

This paper reviews the recent literature on monetary policy rules. We exploit the monetary policy design problem within a simple baseline theoretical framework. We then consider the implications of adding various real world complications. Among other things, we show that the optimal policy implicitly incorporates inflation targeting. We also characterize the gains from making a credible commitment to fight inflation. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we show that gains from commitment may emerge even if the central bank is not trying to inadvisedly push output above its natural level. We also consider the implications of frictions such as imperfect information.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERCEIVED INJUSTICE , WORK RELATED DEPRESSION , ANXIETY , AND IRRITATION AND THEIR EFFECT ON TURNOVER INTENTION AMONG EMPLOYEES IN A MANUFACTURING

A cross-sectional survey using a convenience sampling method was used to collect data from sample participants. Data were analysed from 168 questionnaire administered to employees in a company that manufactures computer parts. Data were computed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 24. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted to establish the relationship between perceived injustice, work related depression, anxiety, irritation and turnover intention.