Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Initial Differences in Firms’ Espoused Values on Their Postmerger Performance

Recent studies have concluded that most mergers and acquisitions (M&As) reduce rather than increase shareholder value for the acquiring firm, but understanding of why this occurs is limited. To date, most research has focused on issues of strategic fit, whereas this study examines the effects of organizational fit—specifically the effects of differences in firms’ pre-M&A configurations of espoused values in regards to relationships with employees versus production. The dependent variable of interest is the resulting entities’ subsequent financial performance (return on assets, adjusted for industry). The study analyzed 59 M&As between 1989 and 1996. The authors measured the espoused values of both firms in the transaction by content analyzing presidents’letters to shareholders in corporate annual reports. Using a longitudinal design, results show an inverse relationship between differences in espoused values and postmerger performance. Results and methodology are discussed in terms of their application beyond the M&A context.
The Impact of Immigration on Native Wages and Employment

Abstract This paper investigates the immigration impact on native outcomes using microlevel data for France. I find that immigration does not affect the wages of competing natives, but induces adverse employment effects. This finding is consistent with a wage structure that is rigid in France. The quality of the data allows to dig more deeply into the interpretation of the immigration impact. First, I show that immigrants displace native workers because they are more willing to work at lower wages due to lower outside options. Second, I find that natives on short-term contracts, who are less subject to wage rigidities, do experience wage losses due to immigration.
PREVALENCE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME IN IMPAIRED FASTING GLYCEMIC SUBJECTS.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in subjects with impaired fasting glucose. Since IFG is an intermediate stage in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases it may be associated with abdominal obesity and atherogenic dyslipidemic profile. Methods: 50 Subjects with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and 50 normoglycemic adults in the age group of 18-45 years were selected for the study. Fasting blood samples were collected for glucose and lipid profile. Anthropometric measurements were measured. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with IFG according to the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III was 38% and according to the Consensus definition for adult Asian Indians was 62%. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the euglycemic control group according to the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III was 24% and according to the Consensus definition for adult Asian Indians was 24%. Conclusion: The results of this study involving patients with impaired fasting glycemia shows an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Identification of individuals with impaired fasting glycemia and screening for the presence of metabolic syndrome will help to decrease the morbidity associated with this condition. Key words: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, impaired fasting glycemia, metabolic syndrome
A study on quality of life satisfaction & physical health of elderly people in Varanasi: An urban area of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Background: Longevity has increased significantly in the last few decades mainly due to the socio-economic and health care developments. These factors are responsible for the higher numerical presence of elderly people leading to change in age structure, and a higher dependency ratio. In this juncture we need to reappraise the quality of life of elderly people. Aims & Objective: The main objective of this paper is to study the quality of life of elderly people of Varanasi city, India. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted of elderly people living in the four colonies (Mahamana Puri, Sundarpur, Nagwan, Samne Ghat) of Varanasi city. The results are expressed in terms of Mean and SE of mean. Chi-Square test, t-test and one-way ANOVA test have been used to compare the mean scores of quality of life score based on different variables under the domain of Physical Health, Interpersonal life, Economic status, Physical Environment. Results: A total of 166 old age people were included in this study. Out of 166 elderly people 121(72.89%) were Males and remaining were females. The mean age of the study population was found to be 63.95 ± 6.08 years. Majority of them were literate (95.18%). Eye sight weakness is the most prominent problem among the elderly. An overwhelming majority (61.45%) of elderly had an average quality of life, where as 24.10% and 14.45% elderly had a poor and good quality of life respectively. Conclusion: Majority of elderly had an average quality of life quality of life. There is an urgent need of social protection in form of assuring old age pension and compulsory health insurance.
Relationship Lending and Lines of Credit in Small Firm Finance

This paper examines the role of relationship lending in small firm finance. We examine price and nonprice terms of bank lines of credit (L/C) extended to small firms. Our focus on bank L/Cs allows us toe examine a type of loan contract in which the bank-borrower relationship is likely to be an important mechanism for solving asymmetric information problems associated with financing small enterprises. We find that borrowers with longer banking relationships pay lower interest rates and are less likely to pledge collateral. These results are consistent with theoretical arguments that relationship lending generates valuable information about borrower quality.
Phenotypic and Molecular detection of Virulence factors in Proteus mirabilis isolated from different clinical sources

The objective of this work is to detection some the phenotypic and virulence genes characteristics of P. mirabilis isolates from human. During the period from Jun to August 2014. Nineteen P. mirabilis isolates were isolated from patients were suffering different infections and admitted to the Al-Diwaniya city hospitals. Isolates were identified by traditional biochemical tests, and then confirmed by Vitek- 2 system. Various virulence factors including Urease, protease, swarming activity, adhesive factors haemolysin, biofilm formation, and siderophores production were determined. These isolates of P . mirabilis consisted of 7 isolates (36.9%) obtained from children with diarrhea, 5 isolates (26.3%) obtained from wounds/pus, 5 isolates (26.3%) obtained from otitis media and 2 isolates (10.5%) obtained from burns. Results were showed that all isolates (100%) posses UreC gene, ZapA gene, flaA gene and mrp gene. So, these results show that all isolates (100%) have the ability to produce Urease, protease, haemolysin and Haemaglutination (colonization factor antigen-CFA), as well as swarming activity. Whereas 89.5% and 10.52% of the isolates gave positive results for biofilm formation and siderophores production respectively.
Household Storage of Medicines among Residents in Barangay Talamban

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify actual medicine storage conditions, identify factors that influenced respondents on medicine storage and knowledge of respondents on the storage of medicines. Methodology: This was an exploratory, descriptive study. Systematic random sampling was used in the selection of respondents living among the seven cluster sites in Talamban, Cebu City. The research instrument used was a written interview questionnaire in a pre-defined order including questions on medicine storage, influence on storage, and awareness. Household visit was made to allow personal interview accompanied with a charted illustration of medicines for easier identification by the respondents. Results & Conclusion: In a total of 101 households, tablets (81.19%), capsules (55.45%), and syrups (38.61%) were the commonly stored medicines. Cabinet (42.64%) at room temperature away from direct sunlight was the main storage condition while other respondents stored medicines in the pill container, living room, and refrigerator. Stored medicines were commonly for fever (66.34%), cough and colds (61.39%), and headache (49.5%). Influence on medicine storage was mainly based on self (47.52%) as individual perception. Furthermore, pharmacists (10.52%) were not the identified major information source for medicine storage. The respondents (60.39%) were aware that individual dosage forms have specific storage condition recommendations. Respondents were unaware of the role of pharmacists in medicine dispensing which also includes information dissemination on medicine storage. Active participation of the health care professionals as medicine information source must be emphasized as indicated by the data that respondents mostly relied on personal judgment on medicine storage.
Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills

This paper reports on the development of reflectiveness and research skills in eight pre-service teachers, through their participation in a funded research project to develop the handwriting of children with literacy problems. The project aimed to analyse the reflections of the trainee teachers participating in an authentic research study and to consider what this reflection on practice might offer to the education of teachers in the current UK training context. The context for the paper was a project which engaged pre-service trainee teachers in researching the proposition that automaticity in handwriting plays a role in facilitating composing processes and that the automaticity of early writers can be trained. Some outcomes of the project for pupils are reported. The focus in the present paper is, however, on the participating trainee teachers and the paper suggests that conducting research was a significant learning event for these pre-service teachers and that, through working together, they were able to analyse their development as researchers and their learning during the research process. At a time when the English government views teacher training as a method of school improvement and the effectiveness of training is measured through its immediate impact on pupil outcomes, this study offers an example of how shared research can offer positive learning outcomes for pupils, develop the reflective thinking of pre-service teachers through researching a real problem, and develop links across a range of school and university settings.
In-flight degradation correction of SCIAMACHY UV reflectances and Absorbing Aerosol Index

[1] In this paper we study the close relationship between the radiometric calibration of a satellite instrument and the Absorbing Aerosol Index (AAI) derived from the observed Earth reflectance. Instrument degradation of the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument in the ultraviolet wavelength range is examined by analyzing time series of global means of the AAI, making use of the experience that the global mean should be more or less constant when instrument degradation is absent. The analysis reveals the magnitude of the (scan angle dependent) instrument degradation of SCIAMACHY and also shows that currently available correction techniques are not able to correct the instrument degradation in a sufficient manner. We therefore develop and introduce a new method for degradation correction, which is based on the analysis of the time evolution of the global mean reflectance. Seasonal variations in the global mean reflectance, which mainly result from seasonal variations in scattering geometry and global cloud coverage, are separated from the time series in order to isolate the instrument degradation. Finally, we apply the derived reflectance correction factors to the SCIAMACHY reflectances and calculate the AAI to find that the effects of instrument degradation are reduced to within the 0.1 index point level. The derived AAI is also compared with the AAI based on other correction techniques. The proposed in-flight reflectance degradation correction method performs best in all aspects.
Gender Difference in Frequency of Conventional Risk Factors in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Admitted in Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal

Background : Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is the major manifestation of coronary artery disease (CAD), which is a major killer of mankind. The modifiable risk factors for CAD may have different impact on men and women, which may also differ in different population groups. Identification and control of conventional risk factors is expected to result in a decline in incidence of CAD similar to that seen in western industrialized countries. Method: A retrospective study of 232 consecutive patients admitted to Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara between September 2009 to December 2010 by studying their hospital records for following conventional risk factors of CAD viz Body mass index, current cigarette smoking, hypertension, excessive alcohol use, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia. The results were analyzed by SPSS 16. Results : The important modifiable risk factors in order of descending frequency were high BMI, smoking, hypertension, excessive alcohol use, raised total cholesterol, raised triglyceride and diabetes mellitus. Smoking and excessive use of alcohol were seen in statistically significant higher percentage of cases in males. Our study further revealed that in females, unstable angina whereas in males ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) was present in statistically significant higher number of cases. Conclusion: Our study showed a statistically significant higher incidence of smoking and excessive alcohol use as risk factors for ACS in males. It was also seen that in females unstable angina and in males STEMI was present in statistically significant higher number of cases. Keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary artery disease; gender difference; risk factor DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3126/njms.v1i1. 5794 Nepal Journal of Medical Sciences. 2012; 1(1): 31-34
Information networks and power: confronting the "wicked problem" of REDD+ in Indonesia

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is a priority issue for forest and climate policy in Indonesia, and REDD+ policy-making activity has been characterized by considerable public consultation. Despite this engagement, discussions on REDD+ in Indonesia are reported to have remained top-down, a disconcerting pattern when adaptive governance and transformational change require cross-scale and cross-sectoral communication. Explicitly modeling the patterns of information exchange related to REDD+ can clarify these claims and help identify potential barriers to the transformational change needed to implement REDD+. We used data obtained through semistructured and structured interviews held in 2011 with representatives from a broad range of organizations (N = 64), formally or informally involved in the national REDD+ policy processes in Indonesia, to study REDD-related information exchange. Adopting a social network analysis approach, we found that (1) organizations perceived as most influential in REDD+ policy formulation, often, but not exclusively, those with institutional authority over particular aspects of REDD+, tend not to seek information from other actors and (2) organizations exchange information primarily within three clusters of similar organizations, with weak connections between clusters. This evidence suggests weak information exchange between the national government, national civil society, and transnational actors. We contend that the emergence of brokers able to connect these different clusters will be crucial for effective and inclusive REDD+ governance in Indonesia.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAS-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED SIMULATION USING A LATTICE BOLTZMANN BASED DRAG CORRELATION

From the pool of industrial gas-solid fluidization processes those using circulating fluidized bed (CFB) technology are implemented in a wide variety of fields, including fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), combustors, powder generation and mineral processing. As this process requires a huge economical investment for building a new or upgrading an existing unit, there is an especial interest in understanding the fluid dynamic behavior of CFBs. Unfortunately there is no sufficiently accurate analytical model that describes all the complex phenomena that occur in such units. In this context the computational fluid dynamic (CFD) is a very promising tool, allowing the simultaneous modeling and numerical solution of mass, energy and momentum transfer as well as the hidrodynamics and collisional phase interactions even on very complex geometries. This work has as aim to study the implementation of a drag force correlation in three-dimensional gas-solid CFD simulations, performed with a commercial CFD code (Ansys CFX 10.0), in a laboratory scale. This correlation was developed by [4], which was obtained not by the usual empirical data, but was instead formulated on lattice Boltzmann simulations data and later extended by [2]. A Fortran subroutine was developed in order to include in the commercial CFD code a set of drag correlations, based on data from lattice-Boltzmann simulations. The numerical results were compared with the laboratory scale CFB experimental work of [10]. The apparatus consist of a 1 m vertical column with an internal diameter of 0.032 m. For the numerical mathematical modeling, the Eulerian-Eulerian approach was used to describe the gas-solid flow in a CBF. For the gas phase the k-epsilon model was applied to represent the turbulence, and a laminar model was used for the particles phase. Also, the results of this work were compared with simulations carried out by [8] using the hybrid drag correlation suggested by [3].
The overshoot problem in inflation after tunneling

We show the absence of the usual parametrically large overshoot problem of small-field inflation if initiated by a Coleman-De Luccia (CDL) tunneling transition from an earlier vacuum in the limit of small inflationary scale compared to the tunneling scale. For low-power monomial exit potentials V() ~ n , n < 4, we derive an expression for the amount of overshoot. This is bounded from above by the width of the steep barrier traversed after emerging from tunneling and before reaching a slow-roll region of the potential. For n ≥ 4 we show that overshooting is entirely absent. We extend this result through binomials to a general potential written as a series expansion, and to the case of arbitrary finite initial speed of the inflaton. This places the phase space of initial conditions for small-field and large-field inflation on the same footing in a landscape of string theory vacua populated via CDL tunneling.
Biological and environmental rhythms in (dark) deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems

Abstract. During 2011, two deep-sea observatories focusing on hydrothermal vent ecology were up and running in the Atlantic (Eiffel Tower, Lucky Strike vent field) and the Northeast Pacific Ocean (NEP) (Grotto, Main Endeavour Field). Both ecological modules recorded imagery and environmental variables jointly for a time span of 23 days (7–30 October 2011) and environmental variables for up to 9 months (October 2011–June 2012). Community dynamics were assessed based on imagery analysis and rhythms in temporal variation for both fauna and environment were revealed. Tidal rhythms were found to be at play in the two settings and were most visible in temperature and tubeworm appearances (at NEP). A ∼ 6 h lag in tidal rhythm occurrence was observed between Pacific and Atlantic hydrothermal vents, which corresponds to the geographical distance and time delay between the two sites.
NUMERICAL STUDY OF HEAT AND MOMENTUM TRANSFER IN CHANNELS WITH WAVY WALLS

ABSTRACT A two-dimensional steady developing fluid flow and heat transfer through a periodic wavy passage were studied numerically for a fluid with a Prandlt number of 0.7 and compared to flow through a corresponding straight (parallel-plate) channel. Sinusoidal and arc-shaped configurations were studied for a range of geometric parameters. At low Reynolds number, the two geometric configurations showed little or no heat transfer augmentation in comparison with a parallel-plate channel. In some cases the heat transfer enhancement ratios were as high as 80% at higher Reynolds number. An increase in either the height ratio or the length ratio for both sine and arc-shaped configurations resulted in a decrease in the recirculation size and strength. Periodically fully developed flow was attained downstream of the first module of the six modules considered in this study.
Healthcare Personnel's Acceptance of Clinical Information Systems in Teaching Hospitals of Rasht in 2014

History Received: 2015/06/9 Accepted: 2015/09/19 Objectives: Developed countries have long been aware of the importance of information technologies in achieving success. The role of information technologies in improving the quality of healthcare and aiding patient safety has always been a research interest for the healthcare industry. The present study was conducted to assess healthcare personnel's acceptance of clinical information systems in teaching hospitals of Rasht in 2014. Methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 in a study population consisting of the healthcare personnel employed at teaching hospitals of Rasht. The study samples were selected through stratified random sampling and included 520 individuals. Data were collected using a standard questionnaire. The normal distribution of the data was confirmed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The Pearson correlation test and the confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: Significant positive relationships were found between the features of information and communication systems and perceived benefits (R = 0.357 and P = 0.001), between the knowledge of information and communication systems and perceived simplicity (R = 0.211 and P = 0.0001), between perceived simplicity and perceived benefits (R = 0.558 and P = 0.0001), between perceived simplicity and the attitude toward application (R = 0.472 and P = 0.0001), between perceived simplicity and the acceptance of clinical information systems (R = 0.441 and P = 0.0001), between perceived benefits and the attitude toward application (R = 0.272 and P = 0.0001), between perceived benefits and the acceptance of clinical information systems (R = 0.171 and P = 0.0001), and between the attitude toward application and the acceptance of clinical information systems (R = 0.676 and P = 0.0001). Conclusion: The results obtained suggest that teaching hospitals' personnel should help modify the prevailing culture that impedes the acceptance of information systems and to constantly foster more appropriate values and behavioral patterns. The empowerment of the personnel to use clinical information systems is an effective measure that helps increase productivity, efficiency and the optimal use of time. Type Original Article