Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship between Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Going Concern Evaluation: Evidence from Firms Listed on Amman Stock Exchange

This study aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms (representative by each of managerial, institutional ownership, board independence and board meeting) and going concern evaluation among Jordanian listed firms. Through using multiple regression analysis, the results of this study illustrates that there is a positive relationship between managerial ownership, board independence and board meeting and going-concern evaluation, while a negative relationship is found with institutional ownership. There are four main hypotheses, two of them which are managerial and institutional ownership are accepted, while board independence and board meeting are not supported. This study shed more light on the importance of complying with the requirements of governance code and instructions by the companies and the need to impose fines or sanctions on non-compliant companies. The results of this study contribute to the creditors’ interest to be more alert to companies which may possess characteristics that contribute in manipulation of future companies.
Relationship between Sense of Rejection, Academic Achievement, Academic Efficacy, and Educational purpose in High School Students

relationships between sense of rejection, academic achievement, academic efficacy, and educational purpose in high school students. Participants consisted of 353 students at 9 th – 12 th grades which have different socioeconomic levels. Participants’ age ranged from 14 to 19 (mean = 16.93, standard deviation = .95), and there were 217 female (615%) and 136 male (38.5%) students. Structural equation modeling and correlation analysis were used to analyze the data with LISREL 8.5 and SPSS 22. Findings of correlation analysis indicated that the sense of rejection is negatively related to educational purpose, academic efficacy, and academic achievement; academic achievement is positively related to educational purpose and academic efficacy. Moreover, findings of structural equation modeling showed that the sense of rejection negatively predicted the educational purpose, academic efficacy, and academic achievement. On the other hand, the academic efficacy and educational purpose positively predicted academic achievement. To sum up, it is concluded that academic efficacy and educational purpose have partial mediator roles in the relationship between sense of rejection and students’ academic achievement. Sense of rejection Educational purpose Academic efficacy Academic achievement
Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East: The Kuril Islands and Sakhalin in Comparative Perspective

This article presents analyses of lithic and zooarchaeological data from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to better understand the effects of island isolation and biodiversity on human settlement and subsistence. Using the theory of island biogeography, we examine predictions about lithic raw material use, trade, mobility, and foraging behavior for different island groups. This study finds convincing evidence that insularity imposed significant constraints on prehistoric maritime hunter-gatherer access to lithic raw materials and foraging targets in this part of the North Pacific. We find that lithic raw materials are constrained in their distribution and conserved in more insular areas, while zooarchaeological taxonomic composition and richness data pattern according to expectations from optimal foraging theory applied across islands of variable biogeographic diversity. While based on limited samples, the results of these analyses provide support for a biogeographical approach to the prehistory of islands and add to our understanding of human adaptation in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Mood Congruency in Affective Forecasting: The Effects of Current Mood in Near versus Distant Future Predictions

Affective forecasting occurs when an individual predicts their emotional response to a future target. The current study looks at the effect of current mood on affective forecasting. Based on Bower’s (1981) mood congruity effect, it was argued that affective forecasts would be biased towards the direction of an individual’s current affect, depending on the temporal distance of the event that is being predicted. Two competing hypotheses were tested, whereby it was argued that the effects of current mood were either more influential in the near future, or in the distant future. The second hypothesis was supported, while the first hypothesis was contradicted, whereby participants showed a mood congruity effect in the distant future, negative events. Results showed that the valence of the predicted event acted as a potential second moderator to the effects of current mood. The implications of these findings on the impact bias are also discussed.
Organizational Commitment Profiles and Job Satisfaction among Greek Private and Public Sector Employees

Recent research into organizational commitment has advocated a profiles-based approach. However, with the exception of Wasti, published findings are confined to North American samples. This article examines the relationships between organizational commitment profiles and job satisfaction in Greece. Greek organizations have rarely been the subject of detailed examination, so the study provides baseline information regarding levels of organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Greece. Both private sector (N = 1119) and public sector (N = 476) employees in Greece were surveyed, as this sectoral distinction is regularly associated with different patterns of job-related attitudes. The contrasts between Greek and Anglo-American values present a new challenge to the profiles approach. The results confirm the utility of the profiles approach to the study of organizational commitment. Affective organizational commitment was found to be most influential with respect to levels of intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. This concurs with other studies of the behavioural outcomes of commitment.
Pakistan's two-stage monsoon and links with the recent climate change

[1] Meteorological conditions related to the Pakistan floods of 2010 were examined in the context of monsoon dynamics and large-scale circulations. Case and climatological analyses suggest that summer precipitation in northern Pakistan comprises two distinct phases: (1) a premonsoon trough phase (July) whose rainfall is more episodic and intense, occurring prior to arrival of the monsoon trough, and (2) a monsoon trough phase (August) whose rainfall is persistent, yet less episodic, driven by northward migration of the monsoon trough. Analyses of conditional instability, moisture flux, and circulation features support a persistent increase in conditional instability during the July premonsoon trough phase, accompanied by increased frequency of heavy rainfall events. Conversely, evidence does not support intensification of the August monsoon trough phase. The increased convective activity during the premonsoon trough phase agrees with the projected increase in the intensity of heavy rainfall events over northern Pakistan. Large-scale circulation analysis reveals an upper-level cyclonic anomaly over and to the west of Pakistan–a feature empirically associated with weak monsoon. The analysis also suggests that the anomalous circulation in 2010 is not sporadic but rather is part of a long-term trend that defies the typical linkage of strong monsoons with an anomalous anticyclone in the upper troposphere.
The Power (of) Lunch and the Role of Incentives for Fostering Productive Interactions

We conducted a field experiment in a sales organization to investigate whether management interventions improve knowledge transmission between coworkers. Encouraging agents to talk about their sales process with a randomly chosen partner during short meetings and over lunch substantially lifted average sales revenue during and after the experiment. Sales increases from these structured meetings are larger and more persistent than those achieved by providing joint incentives tied to partner sales improvement. Joint incentives yielded small incremental sales gains for agents who also received the meetings treatment. Agents in the meetings treatment solved problems together and shared best practices, with the largest gains for agents paired with above-median partners. Given the substantial sales improvement from treatment and the high-powered individual incentives already in place before the experiment, we discuss possible reasons why agents did not realize these gains on their own. JEL: D8, J3, L2, M5.
Hyposexuality in Men with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is a common sleep disorder affecting 4 to 9% of adult males and makes repetitive upper airway obstruction occurring hundreds of times in a night. Apnea related hypoxia triggers arousal from sleep. This induces sleep fragmentation. Hyposexuality is defined as diminished sexual drive or libido, and may or may not be accompanied by erectile or orgasmic dysfunction. Sexuality is an important aspect of life and it is known to be intimately linked with sleep. It is already known that OSA leads to reversible neuroendocrine dysfunction, which is presented by decreased plasma luteinizing hormone (LH), testosterone, and sex hormone-binding globulin levels. Serum testosterone level rises during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep period, especially in the first REM sleep. However, OSA related sleep fragmentation disrupt attenuation of the nocturnal rise of testosterone. To date, there has been no large population-based study of association between OSA and hyposexuality in South Korea. The present study is to investigate the prevalence of hyposexuality in OSA male and to explore the related factors for hyposexuality in those subjects.
Remarks on Fréchet differentiability of pointwise Lipschitz, cone-monotone and quasiconvex functions

We present some consequences of a deep result of J. Lindenstrauss and D. Preiss on $\Gamma$-almost everywhere Frechet differentiability of Lipschitz functions on $c_0$ (and similar Banach spaces). For example, in these spaces, every continuous real function is Frechet differentiable at $\Gamma$-almost every $x$ at which it is Gâteaux differentiable. Another interesting consequences say that both cone-monotone functions and continuous quasiconvex functions on these spaces are $\Gamma$-almost everywhere Frechet differentiable. In the proofs we use a general observation that each version of the Rademacher theorem for real functions on Banach spaces (i.e., a result on a.e. Frechet or Gâteaux differentiability of Lipschitz functions) easily implies by a method of J. Malý a corresponding version of the Stepanov theorem (on a.e. differentiability of pointwise Lipschitz functions). Using the method of separable reduction, we extend some results to several non-separable spaces.
The Influence of Humidity on Intra-tubular Penetration and Bond Strength of AH Plus and MTA Fillapex: An In Vitro Study

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of humidity on the intra-tubular penetration, bond strength and failure mode associated with AH Plus (AH) and MTA Fillapex (MTAF) sealers. Methods: For this analysis, an apparatus was created to maintain the humidity of the specimens. Sixty bovine single-rooted teeth with similar anatomy were used. The teeth were randomly divided into 4 groups (n=15): G1 - AH/moist, G2 - AH/dry, G3 - MTAF/moist and G4 - MTAF/dry. A laser scanning confocal microscope was used to analyse the penetrability of the sealers into the dentinal tubules. A push-out test was performed to examine the diameter and height of the root canal fillings. The failure mode was analysed under a stereomicroscope at 40× magnification. The data were submitted to non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn’s tests. The significance level was P<0.05. Results: The MTAF sealer exhibited higher intra-tubular penetration values compared to AH Plus (P<0.05) sealer. AH Plus showed the highest bond strength values. Regarding the type of failure mode, a majority of cohesive failures was identified, irrespective of the moisture conditions, which were not statistically significant among the sealers (P<0.05). Conclusion: Humidity conditions did not influence the intra-tubular penetration, bond strength and failure mode of AH Plus and MTAF sealers.
Synchronous bidecadal periodic changes of oxygen, phosphate and temperature between the Japan Sea deep water and the North Pacific intermediate water

From time series of dissolved oxygen (O2), phosphate (PO4) and water temperature (T) during the last forty years in the Japan Sea Deep Water and the North Pacific Intermediate Water, we found that O2, PO4 and T show a clear bidecadal oscillations of about 18 years superimposed on the linear trends of decrease of 0.47 μmol‐O2 kg−1 yr−1 and increase of 0.003 μmol‐PO4 kg−1 yr−1 and 0.005°C yr−1 in both two oceanic areas. The changes of O2, PO4 and T in the two oceanic areas were synchronized despite the water formation systems of each area being independent. Both the linear trends and the oscillations of O2, PO4 and T in the two oceanic areas also showed a strong correlation with the anomaly of the sea surface level pressure in the North Pacific that possibly affects the change of surface oceanic condition.
How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT

This article evaluates purported progress over the past years in RST discourse parsing. Several studies report a relative error reduction of 24 to 51% on all metrics that authors attribute to the introduction of distributed representations of discourse units. We replicate the standard evaluation of 9 parsers, 5 of which use distributed representations, from 8 studies published between 2013 and 2017, using their predictions on the test set of the RST-DT. Our main finding is that most recently reported increases in RST discourse parser performance are an artefact of differences in implementations of the evaluation procedure. We evaluate all these parsers with the standard Parseval procedure to provide a more accurate picture of the actual RST discourse parsers performance in standard evaluation settings. Under this more stringent procedure, the gains attributable to distributed representations represent at most a 16% relative error reduction on fully-labelled structures.
Predictors for complete obliteration of arteriovenous malformations following stereotactic radiosurgery

Objective: Radiosurgery is one of the management options used to treat cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM). The primary goal of treatment is the complete obliteration of AVM. Multiple factors have been proposed predicting complete AVM obliteration. This meta-analysis aims to assess the predictors of complete obliteration following stereotactic radiosurgery. Materials and Methods: A literature search was conducted using the databases PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and EMBASE. Articles discussing predictors of obliteration of AVM following radiosurgery were included. Odd ratio and 95% confidence intervals were used to assess the predictive ability of identified predictors. Results: Higher obliteration rates were observed in previously ruptured AVM (OR: 1.21, 95% CI, 1.02–1.43, p = 0.03), lower Spetzler-Martin grade (OR: 1.66, 95% CI, 1.11–2.50, p = 0.01), and in AVM receiving a higher marginal dose (OR: 1.18, 95% CI, 1.11–1.24, p < 0.001). In contrast, deep AVM location (OR: 0.51, 95% CI, 0.39–0.67, p < 0.001), eloquence (OR: 0.67, 95% CI, 0.42–1.06, p = 0.09), prior embolization (OR: 0.83, 95% CI, 0.72–0.95, p = 0.006), larger target volume (OR: 0.82, 95% CI, 0.71–0.95, p = 0.009), and a higher Radiosurgery-based AVM score (RBAS) (OR: 0.48, 95% CI, 0.36–0.65, p < 0.001) were associated with lower obliteration rates. Conclusions: A previously ruptured AVM, a lower Spetzler-Martin grade, a higher marginal dose, non-deep location, no prior embolization, smaller target volume, and lower RBAS were identified as positive predictors for obliteration. Particularly, patients with AVM categorized as having a lower RBAS, radiosurgery should be considered as a first management option for a higher obliteration rate. However, factors such as age, eloquence and sex were not found to influence obliteration rates.
Do epidurals cause higher intrapartum temperatures in parturients and neonates? A Belgian experience

In a prospective study including 200 parturients, maternal and neonatal temperatures were registered and changes were evaluated in relationship with epidural treatment, duration of labor or parity. Epidural analgesia was more often requested by nulliparous parturients, prolonged the duration of labor by approximately 1 hour and also resulted in more need for oxytocin. Parturients receiving epidural analgesia had a higher body temperature at full cervical dilation as compared to their non-epidural counterparts. In the epidural group 31.1% of women had temperatures > 37.5°C versus only 8.9% in the non-epidural group (p < 0.001). However, epidurally-induced fever was not significantly correlated with parity (p = 0.3) and duration of labor (p = 0.8) although. Similarly, neonates of epidurally treated mothers also had higher body temperatures. This fever does not cause a problem in a vast majority of mothers and neonates with respect to early outcome parameters. More studies are needed to develop a reasonable concept of mechanism for this phenomenon, whether it should be considered to be fever or hyperthermia and how it might be prevented. However, there is no reason to dissuade neuraxial analgesia based in the present results while pain-free mothers may cooperate better and may be more satisfied. Alternative analgesic methods such as opioid
Simultaneous estimation of genetic correlations for milk yield among 27 Holstein populations

Genetic correlations among bulls’ estimated breeding values in different countries, which are needed for implementation of multi-trait across country evaluations, are currently estimated in subsets of data in the form of certain country combinations, at most 10 countries at a time. In order to better utilize the data, especially genetic ties, it is desirable to estimate correlations among all countries of Holstein populations (currently 27 populations) at one single run. However, this is computationally not plausible at the moment and therefore, a different kind of selection of sub-set of data is needed. Here, effects of selection of sub-sets of data based on bulls’ statistical connectedness and effective number of proofs on estimation of genetic correlations among countries is reported. Results indicate that reasonable estimates are obtainable by relatively low number of bulls. However, there is a need to verify these results by simulated data.
DE TRAVAIL DT / 2006-01 The determinants of subjective poverty : A comparative analysis between Madagascar and Peru

The multidimensionality of poverty is now fully acknowledged. A number of studies show a weak correlation between the monetary approach to poverty and household's subjective perception of wellbeing. Recent studies in developed countries demonstrate that well-being is not only based on monetary income or consumption, but also on other factors such as employment and health. This paper examines the factors that determine households’ subjective evaluation of their living standards, through a comparative analysis in two developing countries, Peru and Madagascar. Our study is based on a first-hand database grouping objective individual variables (the households’ socio-economic characteristics, environment and individual trajectories, provided by the two surveys’ panel studies), and identical questions on subjective well-being for both countries. How much do income levels influence households' welfare perceptions? Do these depend on the level of income and/or the relative position with respect to a given reference group? Apart from income, does the type of labour market inclusion or job quality have a significant impact on subjective well-being? To what extent do individual trajectories and local environment affect well-being (social origin, spatial inequalities in the district)? Finally, how important are the new dimensions of poverty such as vulnerability and social and political exclusion?
Toxicant effects on the zoospore stage of the marine macroalga Ecklonia radiata (Phaeophyta:Laminariales)

Marine macroalgae provide both food and habitat for a range of other organisms in nearshore coastal areas. The effect of contaminants upon macroalgae is therefore a n important aspect to consider in the regulation of marine effluent discharges. Unfortunately, a lack of standardized bioassay protocols has limited the extent to which macroalgae have been used in routine toxicity testing. In the present study, the effect of selected reference toxicants (hexavalent chromium, copper and zinc) upon germination and growth of zoospores of the marine macroalga Ecklonia radiata (C.Ag.) J.Ag. was investigated in 48 h bioassays. E. radiata is often a dominant member of near-shore subtidal communities in temperate Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, regions m which toxicological data for native species are lacking. Release of zoospores was induced in the laboratory and settled spores were exposed to the metals. Zoospores from 3 different populations in Western Australia and 1 population in Victoria were tested to evaluate geographic variation in response. There were no significant ddferences in 48 h EC,, values between the populations tested. At 20°C, EC,, values for germination ranged between 54.9 and 65.1 mg 1-' for chromium, 320 and 470 pg I-' for copper and 18.1 and 18.6 mg 1-' in 2 bioassays conducted with zinc. Germination of control zoospores was greater than 90% in all bioassays. Germination tube growth was the more sensitive of the 2 endpoints examined. ECS0 values for growth ranged between 31.8 and 47.5 mg I-' for chromium and 180 and 210 pg 1-' for copper. Coefficients of variation for ECS0 values from tests with chromium or copper were between 24 and 47% for germination and 11 and 54 % for germination tube growth. With its wide distribution, ecological significance and simple bioassay methodology. E. radiata is well suited for use in routine marine toxicity testing.
Inflation Convergence and Inflation Targeting : International Evidence

We examine whether the inflation rates of the countries that pursue inflation targeting policies have converged as opposed to the experience of the OECD non-inflation targeters. Using a methodology introduced by Pesaran (2007a), we examine the stationarity properties 0f the inflation differentials. This approach has the advantage of avoiding setting arbitrarily a specific country as the benchmark economy. Our results indicate that the inflation rates converge irrespective of the monetary policy framework.
A Non-Systematic Bibliographical Review: Barriers and Facilitators for Access to Legal Abortion in Low and Middle Income Countries

Worldwide, it is estimated that 2.4 million maternal deaths occurred between 2003 and 2009, of which 7.9% were caused by abortion complications, almost all of them in low and middle income countries as result of unsafe procedures [1]. Maternal mortality and morbidity rates have significant declined after the legalization of abortion [2]. In countries like Nepal, where abortion decriminalization in 2002 was followed by an early decline of 40% in septic abortions and later by a reduction of 30% in overall serious complications of unsafe abortion such as serious infections, injury to the reproductive system and systemic complications [3]. There is a complex interplay between women’s preferences, abortion services availability and the context in which these are provided [4]. Even in countries where it is legal, denial of abortion is common, especially in low and middle income countries, forcing women to seek the service elsewhere and bringing serious consequences to the health and wellbeing of many women and their families [5-9].