Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Associations between Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Academic Performance in U.S. Undergraduates: A Secondary Analysis of the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment II

Purpose. To examine associations between academic performance and moderate-vigorous physical activity, strength training, fruit and vegetable intake, and sleep. Design. Cross-sectional observational study. Setting. Forty U.S. colleges and universities participating in the Fall 2008 National College Health Assessment-II (NCHA-II) (median response, 27%). Subjects. A total of 16,095 undergraduate students (18–24 years; 703% female). Measures. Self-reported lifestyle variables from the NCHA-II questions were dichotomized as meeting or not meeting public health recommendations. Grade average ranged from 1.00 to 4.00 points. Analysis. Linear regression, adjusting for sociodemographic and health-related variables. Results. The prevalence of meeting public health recommendations was as follows: moderate-vigorous physical activity, 41.9%; strength training, 32.4%; fruit and vegetable intake, 4.6%; and sleep, 23.6%. Grade average was higher in students meeting moderate-vigorous physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, and sleep recommendations (p ≤ .019). If moderate-vigorous physical activity was met, grade average was higher by . 03 points, . 15 points higher when meetingfruit and vegetable intake recommendations, and . 06 points higher for sleep. There was no significant change in grade average in those meeting strength-training recommendations. Conclusion. College students who adhere to public health recommendations for lifestyle behaviors have modestly higher grade averages after adjusting for sociodemographic and negative health behaviors.
The impact of the Digital Age in Moral Judgments

Nowadays, several of the situations in which we have to make decisions are in digital form. In a first experiment (N=1010) we showed that people’s moral judgments depend on the Digital Context (Smartphone vs. PC) in which a dilemma is presented, becoming more utilitarian (vs. deontological) when using Smartphones. To provide additional evidence, we ran a second (N=250) and a third experiment (N=300), where we introduced time constraints and we manipulated time instructions. Our results provide an extended perspective on Dual-Process Models of Moral Judgment, as we showed that the use of smartphones, often assumed to be hurried which would be consistent with gut-feeling decision-making, increased the likelihood of utilitarian responses and decreased deontological ones. This is the first study to look at the impact of the digital age on moral judgments and the results presented have consequences for understanding moral choice in our increasingly virtualized world.
Family Firms’ Professionalization: Institutional Theory and Resource-Based View Perspectives

Our article examines the assumption that family firms are an inferior organizational form as compared to non-family firms by analyzing family firms’ professionalization in developed and developing economies. We use institutional theory and resource-based view frameworks to analyze how environmental factors may affect the antecedents and consequences of family firms’ professionalization. We put forth three propositions concerning family firms’ professionalization and the relationship to competitive advantages in developing and developed economies. In developed economies, due to the pressure of social conformity, a family firm is more likely to professionalize, but professionalization is not likely to be the driver of competitive advantages because non-family firms are more likely to professionalize and it would not be rare and valuable. In developing economies, employment of professional managers and adoption of professional norms become costly, but valuable. Therefore, we expect that family firms’ professionalization is more likely to become the source of competitive advantages in an institutional context of developing economies rather than developed economies. We put forth four suggestions based on our propositions for future research. Implications for practice and those advising family firms, particularly small family firms, in developed and developing economies are discussed.
PQBP‐1 is expressed predominantly in the central nervous system during development

Mutations of PQBP‐1 (polyglutamine binding protein‐1) have been shown recently to cause human mental retardation accompanied by microcephaly at a high frequency. As a first step towards understanding the molecular basis of this developmental anomaly, we analysed developmental expression of PQBP‐1 by in situ hybridization, immunohistochemsitry and Western blot analysis. Although it had been shown by Northern blot analysis that PQBP‐1 mRNA is expressed in multiple organs in adult mice, our present results revealed that PQBP‐1 mRNA and protein are dominantly expressed in the central nervous system (CNS) in embryos and in newborn mice. The mean expression level of PQBP‐1 reaches a peak around birth and is down‐regulated in adulthood. Furthermore, the expression pattern in the CNS changes remarkably following birth. PQBP‐1 mRNA in the cerebral cortex is high in embryos but it rapidly decreases after birth. PQBP‐1 mRNA increases in external and internal granular cell layers of the cerebellum from postnatal day 1 (P1) to P5. In addition, expression in the subventricular zone, where neurogenesis occurs, was high from P5 to adulthood. Collectively, these findings suggest that PQBP‐1 might be involved in neuronal proliferation and/or maturation. These ideas may be relevant to the insufficient growth of brain structure reported in PQBP‐1‐linked human mental retardation.
STANDAR AKUNTANSI KEUANGAN ENTITAS TANPA AKUNTABILITAS PUBLIK PADA USAHA KECIL DAN MENENGAH

In an effort to grow or even survive, SMEs face many obstacles or problems partly due to low education, lack of understanding of information technology, and lack of reliability characteristics of the financial statements. The Indonesian government has set up a special obligation to prepare financial statements of SMEs. The regulations set forth in the Financial Accounting Standards (GAAP), which is published by the Association of Indonesian Accountants on May 19, 2009. But the level of need GAAP for SMEs is still very low. SME Accounting Standards is considered to be burdensome for Small and Medium Enterprises. With the financial report, the owner can know the benefits, the additional capital to achieve, and the balance of rights and liabilities owned This research is aimed to know the factors - any factor that may influence the needs of Financial Accounting Standards Entities Without Public Accountability for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Conclusions derived from multiple linear regression analysis on the researcher is variable understanding of information technology (X2) is the effect on GAAP requirements for SMEs, while the regression coefficient on owner education variable (X1) and the qualitative characteristics of financial statements (X3) is no effect on the demand GAAP for SMEs.
Glucose Insensitivity and Amino-acid Hypersensitivity of Insulin Release in Rats with Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes: A Study with the Perfused Pancreas

Non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM) was obtained in adult rats following a neonatal streptozotocin injection. Rats with NIDDM exhibited slightly lowered plasma insulin, slightly elevated basal plasma glucose values (<200 mg/dl), anancreatic insulin stores (50% of the controls). Insulin secretion was studied in this model using the isolated perfused pancreas technique. Insulin response to glucose stimulation over the range 5.5–22 mM was lacking, thus indicating complete loss of B-cell sensitivity to glucose. Even in presence of theophylline, the B-cells remained insensitive to glucose. In contrast, glyceraldehyde elicited an insulin release as important as that obtained in the control pancreata. This could possibly suggest that the Bcell dysfunction in rats with NIDDM involves a block in glucose metabolism in the early steps of glycolysis prior to the triose-phosphate. Mannose stimulated insulin secretion less in the diabetics than in the controls. The insulin secretion obtained in response to isoproterenol indicated that the ability of the adenylcyclase to generate cAMP in the B-cells of the diabetics was not decreased. The insulinotropic actions of acetylcholine and tolbutamide were normal and increased, respectively, as compared with the controls. In the absence of glucose, the B-cells of the diabetics were unexpectedly hypersensitive to arginine and leucine. The α-ketoisocaproate effect in the diabetics was not significantly different from that obtained in the controls. The possibility that enhancement of insulin response to leucine in the diabetics might be related to a more active conversion of leucine to ketoisocaproate along the first steps of intraislet leucine metabolism is proposed.
Consumer–Company Identification: A Framework for Understanding Consumers’ Relationships with Companies

In this article, the authors try to determine why and under what conditions consumers enter into strong, committed, and meaningful relationships with certain companies, becoming champions of these companies and their products. Drawing on theories of social identity and organizational identification, the authors propose that strong consumer–company relationships often result from consumers’ identification with those companies, which helps them satisfy one or more important self-definitional needs. The authors elaborate on the nature of consumer–company identification, including the company identity, and articulate a consumer-level conceptual framework that offers propositions regarding the key determinants and consequences of such identification in the marketplace.
Views of social work managers on the transformation management of non-profit social welfare organisations

Transformation management is an essential competency that is required by social work managers for the effective transformation of non-profit social welfare organisations. Given the harsh socio-economic environment in which these organisations exist, particularly with the decline of the global economy, transformation management is critical for sustainability and survival. Moreover, the altruistic need in dealing with the decay of the moral and social fabric of society compounds the necessity for these benevolent organisations to survive. To this end, the landscape of effective social welfare service delivery in South Africa will immensely regress without their survival. In this regard, the transformation of the non-profit social welfare sector in this country has been characterised by being slow and underdeveloped. Despite the inception of democracy and the subsequent promulgation of a myriad of laws, policies and protocols, the malaise within the non-profit social welfare sector continues unabated. The burgeoning growth of social welfare dependants increases daily, crime and violence in the country is at an all time high and the levels of unemployment still escalates. What exacerbates these challenges even further is that social demands are particularly prevalent in historically disadvantaged communities throughout South Africa where poverty levels have continued to remain unchanged. The dire need to revitalise and renovate the social welfare sector by government is thus an urgency that cannot be ignored. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the state to fulfil its social mandate of ensuring that the embedded human rights contained within the Bill of Rights and Constitution of South Africa is upheld. It is thus incumbent of this government to demonstrate the necessary political will in expediting beneficent social transformation in fulfilment of its mandated obligation. Transformation and development of the social welfare sector can no longer be seen as an ideal. Instead, it must be driven as an intentional and compelling priority by the state in order to accelerate the transformation of the ailing social welfare sector. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
Disclosure Level And Compliance With IFRSs: An Empirical Investigation Of Kuwaiti Companies

This study empirically investigates the extent of compliance of Kuwaiti listed companies with IAS/IFRSs disclosure requirements, and provides evidence of the factors associated with the level of compliance. The factors examined are: company size, profitability, leverage, liquidity, type of industry, type of auditor, and company age. For this purpose a disclosure index is developed including 101 disclosure items representing 12 IASs. The annual reports of a sample of 48 non-financial companies carefully scrutinized against the disclosure index. The findings of the study indicate that the overall compliance level for the sampled companies averages 69% of the disclosures required by the standards tested. Regression results indicate that only company size and type of industry have positive association with IAS-required disclosures and their coefficients are significantly different from zero. Other explanatory variables are found statistically insignificant.
Trade Policy Instruments Over Time

This paper surveys political-economic research on the variety of instruments that governments use to conduct international trade policy. It presents key insights on the relationships between instruments such as tariffs, quotas, voluntary export restraints, and other nontariff barriers, as well as the ebb and flow of the national use of temporary trade barriers such as antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards. The survey examines trends in use of these trade policy instruments over recent history; and it reviews the major theoretical and empirical explanations behind, and interrelationships between, their uses. Finally, the paper highlights potential institutional impacts of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral, unilateral, and preferential tariff liberalization may introduce political-economic shocks and affect incentives over time for how governments rely on different instruments.
S100A6 (calcyclin) is a novel marker of neural stem cells and astrocyte precursors in the subgranular zone of the adult mouse hippocampus

S100A6 (calcyclin), an EF‐hand calcium binding protein, is considered to play various roles in the brain, for example, cell proliferation and differentiation, calcium homeostasis, and neuronal degeneration. In addition to some limbic nuclei, S100A6 is distributed in the rostral migratory stream, one of the major neurogenic niches of the adult brain. However, the potential involvement of S100A6 in adult neurogenesis remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the role of S100A6 in the other major neurogenic niche, the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus in the adult mouse hippocampus. Immunofluorescent multiple labeling showed that S100A6 was highly expressed in neural stem cells labeled by sex determining region Y‐box 2, brain lipid‐binding protein protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein. S100A6+ cells often extended a long process typical of radial glial morphology. In addition, S100A6 was found in some S100β+ astrocyte lineage cells. Interestingly, proliferating cell nuclear antigen was detected in a fraction of S100A6+/S100β+ cells. These cells were considered to be lineage‐restricted astrocyte precursors maintaining mitotic potential. On the other hand, S100A6 was rarely seen in neural lineage cells labeled by T‐box brain protein 2, doublecortin, calretinin and calbindin D28K. Cell fate‐tracing experiment using BrdU showed that the majority of newly generated immature astrocytes were immunoreactive for S100A6, while mature astrocytes lacked S100A6 immunoreactivity. Administration of S100 protein inhibitor, trifluoperazine, caused a reduction in production of S100β+ astrocyte lineage cells, but had no impact on neurogenesis. Overall, our data provide the first evidence that S100A6 is a specific marker of neural stem cells and astrocyte precursors, and may be especially important for generation of astrocytes in the adult hippocampus. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Analysis of Incremental Returns of Canadian Mutual Funds

Abstract This paper presents some stochastic models of mutual fund returns to explain the risks associated with the net incremental return over a benchmark due to active investment management practices. This model can describe the stochastic behavior of the returns on established funds, but, more importantly, it also models the uncertainty or risk associated with new funds or funds with no track record. Using Canadian data, the paper also shows how to estimate the parameters of the model and check the model assumptions.
Boundaries of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship

Our research begins with a theoretical critique of the social capital literature, and then focuses on Old Harbor, Alaska. In this remote outpost, mainly populated by Alutiiq people, all entrepreneurs self–identified as Euro–Americans or multi–ethnic, not Alutiiq. Although Alutiiq people have abundant social capital, which they employed for economic purposes, they did not employ their social capital for commercial entrepreneurship. Our findings suggest that social capital promotes entrepreneurship only when supportive cultural capital is in place.
Structural and electrical properties of polymorphic pentacene thin films

Due to its outstanding carrier transport capabilities the aromatic hydrocarbon pentacene is still one of the most promising out of all organic semiconducting materials investigated so far. Pentacene appears in several polymorphic structures that significantly differ with respect to the d(001) spacing. It is shown, that precise control of the epitaxial growth process of thin films enables not only to adjust the formation of the polymorphic phases, but also to influence grain size and shape. The relative volume fraction of the pentacene polymorphs is determined by several parameters which are substrate material, deposition rate, film thickness and substrate temperature. A comparison of X-ray diffraction and Raman measurements reveals that the phase with the smaller layer-by-layer spacing grows on top of the other]. Moreover, there is a strict correlation between evaporation rate and maximum grain size. In addition to structural we also investigated the electrical properties of pentacene thin films focussing on polymorphism and its influence on the transport properties. Apart from the fact that the charge carrier mobility is strongly influenced by the grain size it turned out that the bulk phase is related to a lower intrinisic mobility than the thin film phase.
The efficacy of primer on sealant shear bond strength.

Sealants were introduced 30 as a years ago preventive material for minimizing dental caries. 1 The high susceptibility of pit and fissures to carious attack and the rapid onset of the disease at these sites soon after tooth eruption is reported by several researchers. 2-~ Water fluoridation and topically applied fluoride reduce the incidence of proximal caries by about 75% while reducing occlusal caries by only 36%. 5
Closure of Tubular Patent Ductus Arteriosus With the Amplatzer Vascular Plug IV

Background: Closure of tubular patent ductus arteriosus remains a challenging procedure. Anecdotal use of Amplatzer Vascular Plug IV for tubular ductus closure has been reported but feasibility and safety in a consecutive patients’ series remain unknown. Methods: We performed a monocenter prospective study at the Marie Lannelongue Hospital in Paris, France. From 2009 to 2014, a total of 47 patients (39 infants, 3 children, and 5 adults) underwent ductus closure with the Plug IV. Results: Ductus morphology was a type E in 34 (72.3%) patients and a type C in 13 (27.7%) patients. Ductus closure occurred in 39 (83.0%) infants at a median age of seven months (range: 3-23 months) and a median weight of 6.9 kg (range: 4.1-17.0 kg). A past history of prematurity and very low birth weight was found in 33 (70.2%) of them. Twelve (25.5%) patients had pulmonary hypertension. Mean Plug IV diameter was 1.9 ± 0.1 mm larger than the mean maximal ductus diameter. Early complete closure of the ductus was obtained in all patients. Early migration of an undersized Plug IV occurred in one (2.1%) patient and was suitable for percutaneous device retrieval. After a mean follow-up of 3.4 ± 1.4 years, all patients are alive and asymptomatic, no late complication occurred. Conclusion: Transcatheter closure of tubular ductus with the Amplatzer Vascular Plug IV can be safe and effective, with a 100% early occlusion rate. This device, suitable for a 4F sheath, is a new alternative for tubular ductus closure in low-body-weight infants.
Magnitude and Factors Associated with Road Traffic Accident among Traumatized Patients in Arba Minch General hospital, 2017

Introduction: RTAs are among the leading causes of death and injury worldwide, causing an estimated 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries each year (World Health Organization (WHO), 2004). Ethiopia has the highest rate of RTAs, owing to the fact that road transport is the major transportation system in the country. However; it is often possible to minimize injury and crash consequences by providing better information about specific factors associated with RTA. Like other hospitals of Ethiopia, AMH is faced with the problem of traumatized patients. Objective: To assess the magnitude and factors associated with road traffic accident related trauma among traumatized patients in Arba Minch Hospital, 2017. Method: Institutional based cross sectional study was carried out among trauma victims presenting to Arba Minch hospital from May 10 to June 10. Totally 238 trauma victims were interviewed. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 20 software. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to see the association between dependent and independent variables. Results: A total of 238 trauma victims were included in the study. Of all interviewed trauma victims, 162(68.1%) were male and 76(31.9%) were female. The mean age of the victims was 25.5. The highest numbers of victims (33.6%) were aged between 20-29 years and followed by age 10-19 years (21.8%). The victim’ sex, age, occupation were significantly associated with RTA in a bivariate analysis. Conclusion and Recommendations: The magnitude of trauma caused by road traffic accident was the highest cause of trauma (47%). Road traffic accident victims were predominantly males and people aged 20-49 years. The majority of them are from urban areas. Of all road traffic accidents, motor vehicle crash was the primary causes of injury. Passengers and pedestrians were the most commonly affected victims. We recommend Arba Minch transport authority to give more attention for those motor cycle drivers as most of the trauma were due to motorcycle.