Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Capital Investments and Cash Dividend Policy on Regional Development Bank (BPD) PT. Bank Sumut to the District Own Source Revenue and Economic Growth

This study aims to examine the impact of capital investment and cash dividends policy from the operations of the Regional Development Bank (PT. Bank Sumut) of the contribution to district own resource and economic growth is the result of capital investment is done as a form of application dividend policy and agency theory. The study design was descriptive quantitative. The study population is the District Municipality in the North Sumatra capital with share holder equity by the number of research samples are 25 District Municipality of the 2010-2014 period in which the sampling technique is done by purposive sampling method. Analysis of the data used to test the hypothesis is descriptive analysis, and pooling the data with the help of AMOS program. The results of this study concluded (1) Shares Holder Equity is significant effect on own resources revenue. (2) The cash dividend variableno significant effect on the own resources revenue (3) Variable Shareholder Equity no significant effect on economic growth. (4) Cash Dividend Variableis not significant effect to the economic growth. (5) Local Own Revenue Variable significant effect on economic growth and the influence of Sahreholder Equity (70.3%) and cash dividend (1.4%) to the Own Resource Revenue and the magnitude of the effect on the economic growth of shareholder equity variable (41%) and Cash Dividends (9.7%).
Ictal SPECT statistical parametric mapping in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Objective: Although subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM) is clinically useful in epilepsy surgery evaluation, it does not determine whether the ictal–interictal subtraction difference is statistically different from the expected random variation between 2 SPECT studies. We developed a statistical parametric mapping and MRI voxel-based method of analyzing ictal–interictal SPECT difference data (statistical ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI [STATISCOM]) and compared it with SISCOM. Methods: Two serial SPECT studies were performed in 11 healthy volunteers without epilepsy (control subjects) to measure random variation between serial studies from individuals. STATISCOM and SISCOM images from 87 consecutive patients who had ictal SPECT studies and subsequent temporal lobectomy were assessed by reviewers blinded to clinical data and outcome. Results: Interobserver agreement between blinded reviewers was higher for STATISCOM images than for SISCOM images (κ = 0.81 vs κ = 0.36). STATISCOM identified a hyperperfusion focus in 84% of patients, SISCOM in 66% (p < 0.05). STATISCOM correctly localized the temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) subtypes (mesial vs lateral neocortical) in 68% of patients compared with 24% by SISCOM (p = 0.02); subgroup analysis of patients without lesions (as determined by MRI) showed superiority of STATISCOM (80% vs 47%; p = 0.04). Moreover, the probability of seizure-free outcome was higher when STATISCOM correctly localized the TLE subtype than when it was indeterminate (81% vs 53%; p = 0.03). Conclusion: Statistical ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (STATISCOM) was superior to subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI for seizure localization before temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery. STATISCOM localization to the correct TLE subtype was prognostically important for postsurgical seizure freedom.
Results-based payment: Who should be paid, and for what?

Key messagesResults-based payment (RBP), the main innovation brought by REDD+, has also been the most challenging to implement. Three key challenges for RBP are: what to pay for, how to set reference levels, and whom to pay; these challenges are at risk of biases, including a ‘cherry picking’ of numbers.Current and emerging RBP initiatives are hybrid approaches. As such, they make compromises on key RBP principles, such as payment based solely on results, recipient discretion (on how to achieve results) and independent verification of results.Minimising these risks requires learning from previous experiences to develop a clear rule book for the Paris Agreement, as well as institutional checks and balances. Managing these risks would help preserve the effectiveness (environmental integrity) and efficiency of RBP in REDD+, and thus its longterm political credibility and financing.
Simulating NBTI Degradation in Arbitrary Stressed Analog/ Mixed-Signal Environments

A compact negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) model is presented by iteratively solving the RD equations in a simple way. The new compact model can handle arbitrary stress conditions without solving time-consuming equations, and is hence, suitable for analogue/mixed-signal NBTI simulations in SPICE-like environments. The model has been implemented in Cadence ADE with Verilog-A and also takes the stochastic effect of ageing into account. The simulation speed has increased at least a thousand times compared to classical RD models. The performance of the model has been validated by both RD theoretical solutions and 140-nm CMOS silicon measurement.
The Differentiation of Menstrual from Venous Blood and Other Body Fluids on Various Substrates Using ATR FT‐IR Spectroscopy

Crime scene investigators and laboratory analysts use chemical tests to detect and differentiate body fluids. Testing often requires a sample of the stain, and the chemicals may cause degradation of the fluid or interfere with subsequent tests. Colorimetric chemical tests do not differentiate between different types of the same fluid, such as venous and menstrual blood, and there is no presumptive test available to simultaneously differentiate several body fluids. In this study, we recorded ATR FT‐IR spectra of venous and menstrual blood, semen, saliva, and breastmilk. Neat and simulated casework body fluid samples were analyzed on cotton, nylon, wood, paper, and glass substrates. Differences in fluid composition, including proteins and small molecules, resulted in spectral differences. Venous and menstrual blood is differentiated by the peak at 1039 cm−1 attributed to phosphoric acid found in menstrual blood. Peak intensity is influenced by the porosity and weave of the substrate fabric.
KOLABORASI STAKEHOLDERS DALAM PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT (STUDI KASUS DI DESA WONOYOSO, KECAMATAN PRINGAPUS, KABUPATEN SEMARANG)

Community empowerment in Wonoyoso village is constrained by the passivity of the village government. This research aims to see collaboration between stakeholders established in Wonoyoso Village, the impact on the community empowerment, and the influencing factors. This research uses a qualitative method with data collection techniques of observation, interviews, and documentation. Determination of research subjects using purposive sampling technique and convenience sampling. The data validity use triangulation techniques. The results of the study show that the stakeholders that occurred in Wonoyoso Village did not work well. The stakeholders involved are: village government, sub-district government, DISPERMADES, DISKOPUMKMPERINDAG, Education Agency and Health Office in this case represented by the PUSKESMAS. The less active stakeholders are the village government. The positive impacts of the empowerment are: The Increasing of community participation in economic and health activities, the increasing of human resources quality, increased employment opportunities through MSME activities, and the negative impacts are: few PAUD's participants, and jealousy or injustice arising in the community associated with involvement in MUSRENDES. Inhibiting factors: passive village parties, minimal opportunities, no coordinating body; Supporting factors: responding local government, high community participation, organizations that have official permission. Suggestions that can be given are: making commitments between the village and residents, increasing the amount of the budget for community empowerment, and enforcing the DISPERMADES roles as the coordinator.
Frequency of acute coronary syndrome in patients with normal electrocardiogram performed during presence or absence of chest pain.

OBJECTIVES The authors hypothesized that patients with active chest pain at the time of a normal electrocardiogram (ECG) have a lower frequency of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) than patients being evaluated for chest pain but with no active chest pain at the time of a normal ECG. The study objective was to describe the association between chest pain in patients with a normal ECG and the diagnosis of ACS. METHODS This was a prospective observational study of emergency department (ED) patients with a chief complaint of chest pain and an initial normal ECG admitted to the hospital for chest pain evaluation over a 1-year period. Two groups were identified: patients with chest pain during the ECG and patients without chest pain during the ECG. Normal ECG criteria were as follow: 1) normal sinus rhythm with heart rate of 55-105 beats/min, 2) normal QRS interval and ST segment, and 3) normal T-wave morphology or T-wave flattening. "Normal" excludes pathologic Q waves, left ventricular hypertrophy, nonspecific ST-T wave abnormalities, any ST depression, and discrepancies in the axis between the T wave and the QRS. Patients' initial ED ECGs were interpreted as normal or abnormal by two emergency physicians (EPs); differences in interpretation were resolved by a cardiologist. ACS was defined as follows: 1) elevation and characteristic evolution of troponin I level, 2) coronary angiography demonstrating >70% stenosis in a major coronary artery, or 3) positive noninvasive cardiac stress test. Chi-square analysis was performed and odds ratios (ORs) are presented. RESULTS A total of 1,741 patients were admitted with cardiopulmonary symptoms; 387 met study criteria. The study group comprised 199 males (51%) and 188 females (49%), mean age was 56 years (range, 25-90 years), and 106 (27%) had known coronary artery disease (CAD). A total of 261 (67%) patients experienced chest pain during ECG; 126 (33%) patients experienced no chest pain during ECG. There was no difference between the two groups in age, sex, cardiac risk factors, or known CAD. The frequency of ACS for the total study group was 17% (67/387). There was no difference in prevalence of ACS based on the presence or absence of chest pain (16% or 42/261 vs. 20% or 25/126; OR = 0.77, 95% confidence interval = 0.45 to 1.33, p = 0.4). CONCLUSIONS Contrary to our hypothesis concerning patients who presented to the ED with a chief complaint of chest pain, our study demonstrated no difference in the frequency of acute coronary syndrome between patients with chest pain at the time of acquisition of a normal electrocardiogram and those without chest pain during acquisition of a normal electrocardiogram.
The Debate Regarding Profitability

Abstract Our research note explores a debate in the hotel industry regarding the relationship between hotel RevPAR and profitability, a debate around which there is a great degree of “noise. ” Using a sample of 1,954 actual hotels for which both top line and bottom line indicators were available for the same year, we conclude through our statistical analyses that while hotels with higher revenue, and particularly higher room revenue, have a higher NOI in dollars, they do not necessarily have a more profitable business model in terms of NOI percentage. Also, we present brand level analyses.
1 High XIST and low 53 BP 1 expression predict poor outcome after high dose alkylating chemotherapy in patients with a BRCA 1-like breast cancer

High XIST and low 53BP1 expression predict poor outcome after high dose alkylating chemotherapy in patients with a BRCA1-like breast cancer Philip C Schouten1, Marieke A Vollebergh1, Mark Opdam1, Martijn Jonkers2, Martin Loden2, Jelle Wesseling3, Michael Hauptmann4, Sabine C Linn1,5,6 1 Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 MRC Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5 Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 6 Division of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Running Title: Predictive value of XIST + 53BP1 in BRCA1-like breast cancer
Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study

In French as in many other Romance and Germanic languages, verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation divide into two morphological and three distributional classes. With verbs of class A, the anticausative (AC) is morphologically unmarked (∅-ACs), cf. « bruler ». With verbs of class B, the AC is marked with the reflexive clitic se, cf. « se briser ». ACs of class C allow both markings (∅/se-ACs) allow both markings, cf. « (se) casser ». Several authors have proposed that the presence vs. absence of the reflexive clitic goes along with differences in meaning, see e.g. Labelle 1992, Doron & Labelle 2011, Labelle & Doron 2010, according to which se-ACs express externally caused events while ∅-ACs express internally caused events (claim 1) and se-ACs focus on the achievement of a result state while ∅-ACs focus on a process (claim 2). To derive these alleged differences in meaning, fundamentally different syntactic structures have been proposed for se-ACs and ∅-ACs: Labelle 1992 argues that se-ACs are unaccusative while ∅-ACs are unergative, whereas Doron & Labelle 2011 and Labelle & Doron 2010 (henceforth DL) propose that se-ACs and ∅-ACs are both unaccusative but differ substantially in their event decomposition and the position where the lexical root is merged in the structure. The goal of this paper is to show that most of the meaning differences proposed to hold between se-ACs and ∅-ACs are either not existent or idiosyncratic/verb-specific. In particular, they cannot be generalized to the presence/absence of morphological marking. This makes a structural explanation of these meaning differences unfeasible: the presence vs. absence of se cannot be associated with syntactic differences driving meaning differences. To the extent that meaning aspects can be robustly associated with either marked or unmarked ACs, we argue that this holds only for verbs of class C (optional marking; cf. also Legendre & Smolensky 2009). We derive these within a pragmatic account: with verbs of class C (i.e. if a choice is possible), a pragmatic reasoning on the possible interpretations of the string [DP se V] (AC or also semantically reflexive) leads the speaker to prefer one version over the other. Note that we do not deny any syntactic differences between ∅-ACs and se-ACs: the presence of se suggests a syntactic extra- layer on top of vP, a middle or expletive Voice (Doron 2003, Alexiadou et al. 2006, Schafer 2008). The presence of this expletive Voice projection triggers (morpho-)syntactic differences (e.g. auxiliary selection) but does not add any semantics.
The role of Internet addiction in online game loyalty: an exploratory study

Purpose – The paper's aim is to explore the factors that affect the online game addiction and the role that online game addiction plays in the relationship between online satisfaction and loyalty.Design/methodology/approach – A web survey of online game players was conducted, with 1,186 valid responses collected. Structure equation modeling – specifically partial least squares – was used to assess the relationships in the proposed research framework.Findings – The results indicate that perceived playfulness and descriptive norms influence online game addiction. Furthermore, descriptive norms indirectly affect online game addiction through perceived playfulness. Addiction also directly contributes to loyalty and attenuates the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty. This finding partially explains why people remain loyal to an online game despite being dissatisfied.Practical implications – Online gaming vendors should strive to create amusing game content and to maintain their online game communitie.
Regional and individual determinants of entrepreneurial growth aspirations

This paper investigates the unique and joint effects of population density and early-stage entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments (higher education, entrepreneurship training and owner-manager experience) on entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a number of hypotheses using data that combine individual and province level information in Spain over the period 2008-2010. We argue that growth aspirations of early-stage entrepreneurs are higher in more densely populated regions, but that such environmental influence is stronger for individuals with greater human capital. This is because they will be more aware that denser regions offer more favorable conditions for new businesses and also requires greater firm growth to compensate for a higher risk of business failure. Consistent with our view, we find that the growth aspirations of entrepreneurs with higher education are higher in densely populated provinces.
Structure of Alphacoronavirus Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus nsp1 Has Implications for Coronavirus nsp1 Function and Evolution

ABSTRACT Coronavirus nsp1 has been shown to induce suppression of host gene expression and to interfere with the host immune response. However, the mechanism is currently unknown. The only available structural information on coronavirus nsp1 is the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structure of the N-terminal domain of nsp1 from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) from the betacoronavirus genus. Here we present the first nsp1 structure from an alphacoronavirus, transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) nsp1. It displays a six-stranded β-barrel fold with a long alpha helix on the rim of the barrel, a fold shared with SARS-CoV nsp113–128. Contrary to previous speculation, the TGEV nsp1 structure suggests that coronavirus nsp1s have a common origin, despite the lack of sequence homology. However, comparisons of surface electrostatics, shape, and amino acid conservation between the alpha- and betacoronaviruses lead us to speculate that the mechanism for nsp1-induced suppression of host gene expression might be different in these two genera.
The Impact of Financial Leverage and CSR on the Corporate Value: Egyptian Case

The study aimed to analyze the effect of the capital structure of the corporate and its interference in corporate social responsibility activities on the firms corporate value during the time period from 2014-2017 the study tested the effect of financial leverage and CSR on the corporate value of the firms by testing 17 companies registered in the indicator of CSR in the Egyptian stock market through applying panel data analysis. After testing the effect of both variables together the study found that there is significant effect of financial leverage on corporate value while applying CSR activities has no effect on the corporate values which means that there is a lack in the awareness of investors about the importance of applying CSR activities in Egypt.
Marketing Strategies of Services and Purchasing Incentives in Asia

Objective – This research explores the changing mechanism in the relationship between retailers and consumers whereby consumers face higher-prices due to inflation while their earnings, and thereby their disposal income, does not simultaneously increase. Methodology/Technique – An examination is conducted on the use of loyalty cards in the Malaysian retail sector to determine whether Asian consumers are enticed by the use of loyalty programs, which can be seen as an attempt to save money when making purchases. Findings – The findings suggest that loyalty programs will expand in the future to include other offerings as they gain momentum and popularity. This research concludes that Malaysian consumers, like most of Southeast Asian consumers, are price adverse, and hence will take opportunities to save money when making purchases. Novelty – The findings of this research can be generalized to the Southeast Asian region due to the similarity of consumption and national characteristics between Malaysian and Southeast Asian consumers. Type of Paper: Empirical.
From consumer to prosumer: a supply chain revolution in 3D printing

Purpose Recent technological advances in three-dimensional printing (3DP) may disrupt traditional manufacturing and logistics processes. Because the increasing availability of 3DP service centers, affordable 3D printers, and online platforms empower consumers to design and print objects at home, companies must determine the motives that lead consumers to become prosumers so that they can establish appropriate business models and supply chains. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to identify factors that drive consumer acceptance and use of 3DP technologies. Design/methodology/approach The explanatory conceptual framework, based on the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, undergoes empirical testing with a sample of 196 3DP consumers who participated in an online survey. Findings Facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation and a do-it-yourself mentality are key determinants of consumer acceptance and use intention of 3DP technology. Practical implications Companies can use these insights about consumers’ motivation to determine whether their use of 3DP technology threatens current business models or supply chains. In turn, they can develop new ideas about how to adapt these features, as well as identify opportunities for new revenue streams. Originality/value Unlike most extant literature on 3DP in manufacturing and logistics domains, this study takes consumers’ point of view to shed light on an issue typically investigated from an operations management perspective.