Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Motivation, Ability, Role Perception on Employee Performance and Situational Factor as Moderating Variable of Public Agency in Bandung, Indonesia

This study aims to determine the effect of MARS model consists of motivation, ability, role perception and situational factors on employee performance. The research was conducted on two public sectors of government with a sample of 83 people. Methods of explorative research are used with the aim of predicting the contribution of MARS Model to employee performance. This research uses structural equation modeling partial least square. The result shows MARS model has a significant effect on employee performance with the motivation variable is the biggest contribution to the employee performance. The results also show that situational factors are proven to mediate employee performance.
Weak precipitation, warm winters and springs impact glaciers of south slopes of Mt. Everest (central Himalaya) in the last 2 decades (1994–2013)

Abstract. Studies on recent climate trends from the Himalayan range are limited, and even completely absent at high elevation (> 5000 m a.s.l.). This study specifically explores the southern slopes of Mt. Everest, analyzing the time series of temperature and precipitation reconstructed from seven stations located between 2660 and 5600 m a.s. l. during 1994–2013, complemented with the data from all existing ground weather stations located on both sides of the mountain range (Koshi Basin) over the same period. Overall we find that the main and most significant increase in temperature is concentrated outside of the monsoon period. Above 5000 m a.s. l. the increasing trend in the time series of minimum temperature (+0.072 °C yr−1) is much stronger than of maximum temperature (+0.009 °C yr−1), while the mean temperature increased by +0.044 °C yr−1. Moreover, we note a substantial liquid precipitation weakening (−9.3 mm yr−1) during the monsoon season. The annual rate of decrease in precipitation at higher elevations is similar to the one at lower elevations on the southern side of the Koshi Basin, but the drier conditions of this remote environment make the fractional loss much more consistent (−47% during the monsoon period). Our results challenge the assumptions on whether temperature or precipitation is the main driver of recent glacier mass changes in the region. The main implications are the following: (1) the negative mass balances of glaciers observed in this region can be more ascribed to a decrease in accumulation (snowfall) than to an increase in surface melting; (2) the melting has only been favoured during winter and spring months and close to the glaciers terminus; (3) a decrease in the probability of snowfall (−10%) has made a significant impact only at glacier ablation zone, but the magnitude of this decrease is distinctly lower than the observed decrease in precipitation; (4) the decrease in accumulation could have caused the observed decrease in glacier flow velocity and the current stagnation of glacier termini, which in turn could have produced more melting under the debris glacier cover, leading to the formation of numerous supraglacial and proglacial lakes that have characterized the region in the last decades.
Consequences of China’s Opening to Foreign Banks

China’s government has recently implemented additional reforms to relax the regulatory environment for foreign banks. Specifically, State Council Order No. 657, signed by Premier Li Keqiang, announced a decision to revise the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Administration of Foreign-Funded Banks, effective from 1 January 2015. Implications of the revised regulations include removal of the requirement that a minimum of RMB100 million operating capital be transferred unconditionally from the overseas parent bank to the newly opened Chinese branch. In addition, in terms of the conditions attached to the right to carry out RMB-denominated activity, foreign banks are now eligible to apply to undertake local currency business after operating in China for one year—down from the previous three years. The requirement for two consecutive years of profit will be scrapped as well.
Is Sound Just Noise?

We analyze the information content of the ambient noise level in the Chicago Board of Trade's 30-year Treasury Bond futures trading pit. Controlling for a variety of other variables, including lagged price changes, trading volumes, and news announcements, we find that the sound level conveys information which is highly economically and statistically significant. Specifically, changes in the sound level forecast changes in the cost of transacting. Following a rise in the sound level, prices become more volatile, depth declines, and information asymmetry increases. Our results offer important implications for the future of open outcry and floor-based trading mechanisms. Copyright The American Finance Association 2001.
Pendidikan Karakter dalam Pembelajaran pada Mahasiswa Calon Guru Matematika

The aim of the research is to study: 1) how prospective mathematics teachers plan character education in learning; 2) how prospective mathematics teachers carry out character education in learning; 3) how prospective mathematics teachers assess character education in learning. The research is a qualitative descriptive research. The research subjects are IKIP PGRI Pontianak teachers, especially those in Mathematics Education study program. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that. 1) Prospective mathematics teachers plan well the character education, internalize it in the KKNI curriculum and design it according to the indicators set in the SNP-PT guidelines. 2) Prospective mathematics teachers carry out well the character education. 3) Prospective mathematics teachers assess very well the character education as an improvement in character in the study program environment
Attractiveness of brood cells from different honey bee races (Apis mellifera) to Varroa mites

Reproduction of the Varroa mite only occurs inside capped brood cells of honey bees. Therefore, invasion into brood cells is crucial for the mite’s reproduction and the rate of invasion will affect the growth of the mite population. We investigated the invasion response of the mites to drone or worker larvae of different honey bee races, because selection for less attractive brood may help Varroa mite control. We compared attractiveness of brood cells in 3 or 6 hour intervals before cell capping, because invasion response of the mites increased strongly with the age of both worker and drone larvae. The results suggest that not the racial origin of the worker brood, but the distance between the larva and the cell rim affected the invasion response of the Varroa mites to worker brood cells. Possibilities to obtain less attractive brood via selection seem to be limited.
Birth Order, Child Labor and Schooling: Theory and Evidence from Cameroon

This paper examines determinants of child labor and schooling with a special emphasis on birth order and sibling age structure. We present a theoretical model accounting for the dynamics of birth order and its interaction with credit constraints. We show that poor - credit-constrained - parents send their elder children to work relatively more. Since …rst borns are the only available source of additional income when constraints on resources become more binding, they work more and end up with a lower level of human capital compared to their younger siblings. On the other hand, wealthier parents do not discriminate between their children on the basis of birth order. We test these predictions on the 2001 Cameroon Household Survey database.
Assessing the Effects of Structural Differences on Action, Reaction and Conformation in Construction Projects

Research studies indicate the existence of three generic ways for dealing with uncertainties: control, flexibility and buffers. These are the ways of assuring organizational robustness to support the proactive and reactive management of events that occur during the project. Traditionally, project management practices have strongly relied on the combined use of control and buffers. However, the increasing notion of project complexity has changed paradigms and pushed structural changes towards the development of flexibility capabilities. One such change is the adoption of a more flat organizational structure characterized by autonomy and decentralization, being its most visible aspect the multi-functional teams working as mobile production cells. This paper focuses on structural changes required for this type of flexibility and its effects on managers’ interventions and use of buffers. Interviews were conducted with project managers from five high rise building firms who adopt different organizational structures and a parallel between their distinct practices was established. The analysis of strategic contents shows the successful implementation of this type of flexibility as the result of strategic choices accompanied by bundles of best practices at the operational level and by proper decisions regarding the use of buffers at the tactical level.
Comparison of the FASD 4-Digit Code and Hoyme et al. 2016 FASD diagnostic guidelines

Background: As clinicians strive to achieve consensus worldwide on how best to diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), the most recent FASD diagnosstic systems exhibit convergence and divergence. Applying these systems to a single clinical population illustrates contrasts between them, but validation studies are ultimately required to identify the best system. Currently, only the 4-Digit Code has published comprehensive validation studies. Methods: The 4-Digit Code and Hoyme 2016 FASD systems were applied to the records of 1,392 patients evaluated for FASD at the University of Washington to: 1) Compare the diagnostic criteria and tools used by each system, 2) Compare the prevalence and concordance of diagnostic outcomes and assess measures of validity. Results: Only 38% of patients received concordant diagnoses. The Hoyme criteria rendered half as many diagnoses under the umbrella of FASD (n=558) as the 4-Digit Code (n=1,092) and diagnosed a much higher proportion (53%) as fetal alcohol syndrome/partial fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS/PFAS) than the 4-Digit Code (7%). Key Hoyme factors contributing to discordance included relaxation of facial criteria (40% had the Hoyme FAS face, including patients with confirmed absence of alcohol exposure); setting alcohol exposure thresholds prevented 1/3 with confirmed exposure from receiving FAS/FASD diagnoses; and setting minimum age limits for Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder prevented 79% of alcohol-exposed infants with neurodevelopmental impairment a FASD diagnosis. The Hoyme Lip/Philtrum Guides differ substantively from the 4-Digit Lip-Philtrum Guides and thus are not valid for use with the 4-Digit Code. Conclusions: All FASD diagnostic systems need to publish comprehensive validation studies to identify which is the most accurate, reproducible, and medically valid.
N ° 2015-06 Bank Credit and Productivi ty : Evidence from Mexican Firms March 2015

Based on a survey of Mexican firms, this paper provides evidence of the positive effect of bank credit on firms' productivity. This effect is larger for those firms with access to bank credit and investment opportunities than for firms that only have either investment perspectives or bank credit. The potential problem of endogeneity in the empirical estimates is addressed by using instruments -collateral and expenses on energy and telecommunicationsfor the main explanatory variables. The relevant parameters indicating a positive effect of bank credit to productivity are consistent between estimation techniques.
RELATIONSHIP OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION: A FIELD STUDY OF TAX OFFICE EMPLOYEES

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between components of organizational commitment and job satisfaction of tax Office employees. It was assumed that there has not been any similar research conducted on tax Office employees therefore this study could make important contribution to extant research in management and organizational behavior. Factor analysis was conducted on the data obtained through organizational commitment scale developed by Meyer and Allen (1990). Cronbach's alpha coefficient and also test item total correlation were calculated for reliability of the factors. For two groups comparisons Mann Whitney u test and more than two groups comparisons Kruskall Wallis test were used.
Chemical and protein quality of soybean (Glycine max) and tigernut (Cyperus esculentus) based weaning food.

Malnutrition and poverty poses a major challenge to low-income families in developing nations and the twin issues are very critical for a growing infant. Commercially processed weaning foods are expensive for these categories of families; hence the objective was to formulate and evaluate the functional, antinutritional and protein quality of composite weaning food based on soybean and tigernut flour. Soybean and Tigernut seeds were processed into flour and three weaning diets: STF 1 (Tigernut; 75%, Soybean 15%); STF 2 (Tigernut; 65%, soybean 25%) and STF 3 (Tigernut; 55%, Soybean 35%) with 10% full cream milk powder (FCM) addition were produced according to FAO/WHO/UNU recommendations. Commercial weaning food (CB) was used as control. Effect of tigernut flour addition on the functional, antinutritional and protein quality of the formulated blends were evaluated using standard methods. The protein quality was evaluated using rat assay. The functional properties of the samples were significantly (P<0.15) different from the commercial sample. STF 3 sample had significantly (P<0.05) lower swelling index (SI), Packed bulk density, (PBD), loose bulk density (LBD) and water absorption capacity (WAC) with values of 3.63±0.10, 0.53±0.01 g/cm, 0.32±0.03 g/cm and 187.00 ± 2.10 ml/100g compared to values of 6.14±0.22, 0.55 ± 0.01g/cm, 0.42±0.01g/cm and 374.00 ± 3.40 for commercial sample, respectively. Total oxalic, soluble oxalic acid, phytic acid and tannins values of the diets were significantly (P<0.05) higher than CB, and the lowest values were for STF S . Protein quality indices of the samples showed significant (P<0.05) difference. The NPU, PER, NPR, TD and BV of STF 3 compared favorably with CB. STF 3 sample supported good growth for the growing rats. The results suggested that STF3 is nutritionally balanced & possessed good growth promoting quality for a growing infant and could be adopted at the house hold-level to curb infant malnutrition and death.
Evolutionary Game Analysis of the Supervision Behavior for Public-Private Partnership Projects with Public Participation

The public can directly or indirectly participate in the PPP (public-private partnership) projects and then has an impact on the project profit and public or private behavior. To explore the influence of the public participation of the PPP projects supervision behavior, this paper analyzes the mutual evolutionary regularity of the private sector and government supervision department and the influence of public participation level on public and private behavior based on evolutionary game theory. The results show that the supervision strategy is not chosen when the supervision cost of government supervision department is greater than the supervision benefit; it can make private sector consciously provide the high-quality public products/services with the improvement of public participation level. Therefore, the government should reduce the cost of public participation and improve the public participation level and influence through the application of the Internet, big data, and other advanced technologies, in order to restrain the behavior of the private sector and improve the supervision efficiency.
Revealed Preferences for Corporate Leverage

I consider a simple model of dynamic capital structure with adjustment costs, and I show how financial decisions reveal firms' preferences for leverage. I show that the most commonly used empirical models of capital structure (the partial adjustment model, and the financial deficit model) are mis-specified. Estimating a correctly specified model yields new insights and solves spurious puzzles: The expected future financial deficit is a significant determinant of the current choice of debt versus equity, and profitable firms have a higher target leverage. However, while the value functions that I estimate display qualitatively sensible properties, they also appear extremely flat for moderate values of leverage, which is inconsistent with tax-based theories. The methodology that I propose can be readily extended to test the importance of other determinants of capital structure decisions. As an application, I show that CEO tenure flattens the left part of the estimated value function, which is consistent with agency theories.
Socio-Cultural Perspectives of Sport Participation Among Female Students in Tertiary Institution in Kano State, Nigeria

This study examined socio-cultural factors influencing female participation in sports in Tertiary institution in Kano State in Nigeria. The need jar the study arose in order to stern the tide of low female participation in sports in Tertiary institution in Kano State. The population of the study was all female students in six tertiary institutions in Kano in 2012/2013 academic session. Records of enrolment showed that seven thousand five hundred and fifteen (7,515). The sample comprises of three hundred and seventy five (375) subjects made up of female students who were selected through multistage sampling technique. The instrument was a Likert type questionnaire designed by the researcher and was validated through a pilot study, with reliability coefficient of 0.87. Data collected were analyzed using Chi -square at 0.05 level of significance. All the three hypotheses tested were rejected which showed that socio-cultural factors influenced female participation in sports in tertiary institution in Kano State. It was therefore suggested that barriers against female participation in sports such as customs, traditions, religion should be de-emphasized, to allow more females engage in sports.
Bone marrow aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of hematologic and non-hematologic diseases in a multi-specialty hospital in Nepal

Background: Peripheral blood smear examination and other routine laboratory assays are not always sufficient to diagnose various diseases which affect the blood and bone marrow. A bone marrow aspirate examination is essential in most of the cases. Methods: This work was a hospital-based cross sectional analytical observational study carried out in the department of pathology at the Chitwan Medical College, Teaching Hospital, Nepal, over a period of 3 years from January, 2013 to December 2015. Bone marrow was aspirated from posterior superior iliac crest under local anesthesia; sternum was the alternative site in obese patients. Univariate analysis was performed for each variable using frequency distribution and means with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences 20.0 (SPSS 20.0) software. Results: One hundred and fifty-nine patients were included in the study. Eight cases of 'dry tap' were excluded, for whom bone marrow biopsy was advised. Anemia was the largest group followed by malignancy, infection and miscellaneous diseases. Among anemia, megaloblastic anemia was the most common, followed by aplastic anemia, dyserythropoietic anemia and myelopthisic anemia. The category 'malignancy' consisted of leukemia, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome. Regarding individual diseases, megaloblastic anemia was the most common haematological disorder followed by immune thrombocytopenic purpura, leukemia and aplastic anemia. Conclusions: Bone marrow aspiration cytology is a mildly invasive technique which can diagnose many haematological and non-hematologic diseases that can be confirmed by more advanced investigations, if needed: serological, biochemical or molecular. However, bone marrow sample cannot be obtained (dry tap) in a proportion of cases. In such cases, a bone marrow biopsy needs to be performed.
A SURVEY OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON MANAGEMENT OWNERSHIP

This study reviews relationship between management ownership and firm performance with regard to empirical evidences. Although in the financial literature, management ownership is suggested for reduction of agency problem, there are contradictory view points on this suggestion. Some empirical studies show that increasing in equities of managements can be responsible to better alignment of the monetary incentives between the managers and other equity owners. In contrast, other studies support the entrenchment argument hypothesis. The hypothesis stats that increasing of management's equity can contribute to reduce financial performance and may it creates control problem, when level of management ownership is high. In disputation between the incentive alignment and entrenchment argument, combined argument and Stultz's integrated theory raise. These arguments which are integrated by other arguments show that corporate performance is a non-monotonous function of management ownership. In spite of the above arguments, some scholars believe that management ownership has a passive role in corporate governance, because of being a function of financial performance. However, others state that absolutely there is no relationship between management ownership and financial performance. In circumstances, perhaps a new combination of ownership alternative mechanisms can do work competently. Key words: Management Ownership, Agency Problem and Financial Performance
Crack Propagation Modeling by Remeshing Using the Cell Method (CM)

A numerical code for modeling crack prop- agation using the cell method is proposed. The Mohr- Coulomb criterion is used to compute the direction of crack propagation, and the new crack geometry is real- ized by an intra-element propagation technique. Auto- matic remeshing is then activated. Applications in Mode I and Mixed Mode are presented to illustrate the robust- ness of the implementation. keyword: Cell Method, fracture mechanics, crack propagation, automatic remeshing.
Testing Numeric: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a computer based mathematics intervention in Cape Town high schools

This thesis presents the results of randomized controlled trial conducted to evaluate a Grade 8 after-school mathematics intervention. The programme employed student coaches to facilitate classes in which Khan Academy resources were used to teach basic numeracy. Large gains of 0.321 standard deviations were observed on basic numeracy outcomes for learners who were selected to be on the programme. Similarly, learners in treatment also scored 0.246 standard deviations higher on core Grade 8 curriculum questions at endline. The improvements in mathematics outcomes were evident for learners throughout the distribution and treatment learners outperformed control group learners on every subsection of the mathematics test. There was also no significant differential treatment effect by gender, race, home language, baseline typing speed or cognitive development. However, treatment learners with better English literacy at baseline scored significantly higher than learners in the bottom third on core grade 8 curriculum questions. Additionally, despite close contact between control and treatment learners, no statistically significant evidence of spillover was detected. Un ive rsi ty of Ca pe To wn The copyright of this thesis vests in the author. No quotation from it or information derived from it is to be published without full acknowledgement of the source. The thesis is to be used for private study or noncommercial research purposes only. Published by the University of Cape Town (UCT) in terms of the non-exclusive license granted to UCT by the author. Un ive rsi ty f C ap e T ow n