Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Empowerment of Palm Sugar Peasants at the Forest Edge of Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park, Indonesia: A Study of Problems, Local Potentials, and Priority Ideas Towards Empowered Community

This study analyzed the roots of problem of palm sugar peasants at the forest edge of Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park; local potentials in producing palm sugar as a livelihood base; and their priority ideas to create empowered communities. Data collection was done through observation, in-depth interviews, Focused Group Discussion, and literature. The results showed that there were many problems faced by peasants in producing palm sugar, namely the forest where they took firewood was taken over by the national park; discourse on resettlement following the construction of a reservoir; damaged road infrastructure; did not have adequate means of producing palm sugar; uneven government assistance; and marketing of palm sugar through middlemen. In addition to the existing problems, it turns out that there were a number of local potentials that peasants had in developing palm sugar production, namely palm trees growed naturally; palm gardens owned by the peasants themselves; every peasant had sufficient knowledge how to produce palm sugar; palm sugar production was a tradition from generation to generation; solidarity ties were still very strong; the existence of village-owned enterprises; and the concern of the village government to palm sugar peasants. Palm sugar peasants had a number of priority ideas to create an empowered community, namely asking the government to revoke the status of the national park area that took over the forest where peasants take firewood; stopped or moved the reservoir construction plan; road infrastructure improvements; assistance with facilities and infrastructure for producing palm sugar; assistance allocated by the government to prioritize poorer people who had never received before; and standardization of palm sugar prices.
Setting the stage for criteria and indicators for Malaysia Garden Cities: Putrajaya Green City as a case study

Malaysian Government has embarked greening initiative to urban landscapes by planting trees and shrubs. This is in line with ultimate moves to transform the country into a Garden Nation by the year 2020. The policy on landscape was focused to planting of trees and shrubs along roads, sidewalks, highways and rivers together with establishment of many nurseries. The image of garden nation would be materialized when all cities in the country become green cities that portray the garden image in their design and visual dimensions. For Malaysia, however, there are no criteria and indicators to be based on as fundamental basis for green cities. A study was conducted to develop a reliable set of criteria and indicators for an ideal, green city or garden city. Delphi method was adopted to solicit the opinion from 30 experts through a series of questionnaires. As a result, it was able to generate and identified 8 criteria and 42 indicators for an ideal Malaysian green city where the top three criteria selected were: (i) safe, healthy and beautiful living working environment, functional; (ii) integrated landscapes, and (iii) need for a physical master plan to include network of high quality plants, open spaces, parks and green areas throughout the city. Following this, stakeholders’ perceptions on the importance of the selected criteria for the Malaysian green city were assessed using the Importance Performance Analysis Procedure. When compared to the earlier results produced by the expert panels, consensus were achieved including the primary stakeholders, domestic tourists and foreign tourists. The stakeholders’ perceptions upon the performance of Putrajaya as one of Malaysian garden city were also assessed by using Importance Performance Analysis. A “Safe and Healthy” including the “Beautiful Living Working Environment” were found to be consistently in to keep up the good work quadrant. Meanwhile, adequate funding to support garden city program was consistently shown a low performance level. It being perceives that the status of Putrajaya as the administrative centre for Malaysian where public funding by design will always be allocated to support garden city related activities. The study also revealed that beautiful landscapes, gardens, parks and nature are the most important attractions in Putrajaya. Visitors placed green attraction more important than other attractions in their decision to visit Putrajaya. This indicated that green areas particularly her garden and park are considered as the brand that able to attract tourists to visit the city. Hence, Putrajaya could definitely be considered having achieved her objective as a green garden city. The generated criteria and indicators should be used as a standard or condition to be met and recognized as a green or garden city.
Magnetic levitation using high temperature superconducting pancake coils as composite bulk cylinders

Stacks of superconducting tape can be used as composite bulk superconductors for both trapped field magnets and for magnetic levitation. Little previous work has been done on quantifying the levitation force behavior between stacks of tape and permanent magnets. This paper reports the axial levitation force properties of superconducting tape wound into pancake coils to act as a composite bulk cylinder, showing that similar stable forces to those expected from a uniform bulk cylinder are possible. Force creep was also measured and simulated for the system. The geometry tested is a possible candidate for a rotary superconducting bearing. Detailed finite element modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics was also performed including a full critical state model for induced currents, with temperature and field dependent properties and 3D levitation force models. This work represents one of the most complete levitation force modeling frameworks yet reported using the H-formulation and helps explain why the coil-like stacks of tape are able to sustain levitation forces. The flexibility of geometry and consistency of superconducting properties offered by stacks of tapes, make them attractive for superconducting levitation applications.
Sensing Inhibits Genes Controlled by Quorum Ajoene , a Sulfur-Rich Molecule from Garlic

Published Ahead of Print 6 February 2012. 10.1128/AAC.05919-11. 2012, 56(5):2314. DOI: Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. Givskov Tanner, Niels Høiby, Thomas Bjarnsholt and Michael Fog Nielsen, Leo Eberl, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, David Friedrich Uthe, Peter Østrup Jensen, Claus Moser, Kristian Thomas Bovbjerg Rasmussen, Karlheinz Friedrich, Christensen, Morten Alhede, Mette Eline Skindersoe, Phipps, Meenakshi Sundaram Shanmugham, Louise Dahl Tim Holm Jakobsen, Maria van Gennip, Richard Kerry Sensing Inhibits Genes Controlled by Quorum Ajoene, a Sulfur-Rich Molecule from Garlic,
Interfirm networks, social capital, and knowledge flow

Purpose – Researchers have long been interested in the process of how networking firms share knowledge, what mechanisms firms use to govern knowledge sharing, and what the consequences are for the sharing firms. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer these questions from a social network perspective.Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative method is employed to facilitate deeper understanding of soft variables and key relationships for discovering and mapping non‐formal business practices. The sampling strategy is based on relevance rather than representativeness; data analysis and theoretical analysis stresses an iterative process of theoretical sampling, comparing, and contrasting of samples to build theoretical categories.Findings – The principal findings highlight how social capital, especially trust‐based‐ties, develops in inter‐firm interaction process, accelerates knowledge flow, and acts as an informal governance mechanism between firms. Weak ties help firms to build initial relationsh.
Did China's anti-corruption campaign affect the risk premium on stocks of global luxury goods firms?

Media reports suggest that the recent Chinese anti-corruption campaign adversely influenced business prospects of globally operating luxury goods firms. This paper empirically tests this hypothesis. This paper finds that risk-adjusted returns on stock portfolios consisting of luxury goods firms with high exposure to China shifted persistently downward around the launch of the anti-corruption campaign. Risk-adjusted returns tend to co-vary with the intensity of the campaign. The evidence suggests that the Chinese anti-corruption campaign constituted negative cash-flow news about the affected global luxury goods firms. These findings neither pertain to luxury goods firms with low exposure to China nor to firms from other industries.
WikiV3 results for OAEI 2017

WikiV3 is the successor of WikiMatch (participated in OAEI 2012 and 2013) which explores Wikipedia as one external knowledgebase for ontology matching. The results show that the matcher is slightly better than matchers based on string equality and can get higher recall values. Moreover due to the construction of the system it is able to compute mappings in a multilingual setup. 1 Presentation of the system 1.1 State, purpose, general statement WikiV3 is a system which exploits external knowledgebases in this case Wikipedia. It uses the MediaWiki API and searches pages which corresponds to a given resource. When exploring the interlanguage links of Wikipedia the system is also able to find mapping between ontologies of different languages. These links point from a Wikipedia page to a correspondent page in Wikipedia with a different language. In contrast to the previous version of the matcher (WikiMatch [1] which participated in OAEI 2012 and 2013) all interlanguage links are now stored in Wikidata . Wikidata is a separate project which allows to build a collaboratively edited knowledge base. One part of this project is to centralize the interlanguage links. Thus the text of Wikipedia is used to better map to Wikidata entities than just using the text available in Wikidata. The search engine of Wikipedia is based on Elasticsearch and is wrapped by a MediaWiki plugin called CirrusSearch. The service provided by this plugin is heavily used by this matcher to find corresponding resources. The general approach is shown in figure 1. For each resource of the first ontology a list of corresponding Wikidata concepts is generated. A resource can be a class, datatype property or a object property. All of them are handled seperately to ensure that no mapping between different type of resources is generated (e.g. no class is matched to a datatype or object property). In the same way a list of Wikidata IDs (WIDs) is created for the second ontology. If there is at least one WID of a list in ontology 2 appearing in a list of WIDs in ontology 1, then a mapping is created. This will 1 https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links 2 https://www.mediawiki. org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
Seroprevalence of Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Antibodies in the United States Population, 2009–2010

Background. In the United States, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella immunity is now primarily achieved through vaccination. Monitoring population immunity is necessary. Methods. We evaluated seroprevalence of antibodies to measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 2009–2010. Results. Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella seroprevalence was 92.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 90.9%−93.0%), 87.6% (CI, 85.8%−89.2%), 95.3% (CI, 94.3%−96.2%), and 97.8% (CI, 97.1%−98.3%), respectively. United States (US)-born persons had lower mumps seroprevalence and higher varicella seroprevalence than non-US born persons. Conclusions. Seroprevalence was high (88%–98%) for all 4 viruses in the US population during 2009−2010.
Measurement of In Vivo Intradiscal Pressure in Healthy Thoracic Intervertebral Discs

Study Design. In vivo pressures were measured in radiologically healthy middle and lower thoracic discs in 6 adult volunteers. Objectives. To quantify and compare intradiscal pressures from the middle and lower thoracic spine during various body positions and maneuvers, and to investigate the potential variation of these pressures with orientation of the measurement transducer. Summary of Background Data. In vivo intradiscal pressures have been reported for the lumbar spine; however, the authors are unaware of any studies presenting intradiscal pressures in the thoracic spine. Methods. A specially constructed pressure-sensing needle was inserted into the nucleus pulposa, and pressures were recorded during a variety of body positions and maneuvers in middle and lower thoracic discs in 6 study participants. In three of the body positions, pressures were measured with the needle in both vertical and horizontal orientations to investigate whether the measured pressures were directionally dependent. Results. Intradiscal pressure varied significantly with body position and maneuver, with pressures being greatest in positions where study participants held 10-kg weights in each hand. Disc level and orientation of the pressure needle did not significantly influence intradiscal pressure. In some body positions, thoracic intradiscal pressures were significantly different from previously reported pressures from the lumbar spine. Conclusions. Thoracic intradiscal pressure was significantly influenced by body position and maneuver but not disc level. Intradiscal pressures are useful for gaining greater insight into the biomechanics of the thoracic spine.
Determinants of Organizational Performance in Private Universities

Private university had higher risks (e.g. performance decline, bankrupt) than the state ones because it depended on the annual student’s admission. Therefore, this study aims to determine a simple model of organizational performance determinants in university that can be applied to private university. The population was the heads of department of a private university in Malang and the samples used purposive sampling. The data was analyzed using a path analysis. The results showed that internal marketing and marketing orientation directly affected the organizational performance, and internal marketing had influences on marketing orientation. However, there is no effect on marketing orientation as mediator variable in this model. Keywords—internal marketing; marketing orientation, organizational performance.
Myocardial metabolism of 123I‐BMIPP in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Assessment by radial long‐axis SPET

SUMMARYTo elucidate the metabolism of free fatty acid in the myocardium of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), SPET was performed with 123I-15-(p-iodophenyl)-3-R,S-methylpentadecanoic acid (BMIPP), an analogue of free fatty acid, and with 201Tl in nine patients with HCM and eight healthy volunteers who acted as controls. For quantitative analysis of the apical area, a radial long-axis tomogram was reconstructed every 6° after short-axis tomography. The relative regional uptake (RRU, %) in each segment was obtained by normalizing to the maximal value among all segments. The 3-h washout rate was calculated both for BMIPP and for 201Tl. The ratio of the RRU of BMIPP to that of 201Tl was significantly lower in the apical and antero-septal regions compared with other walls (P<0.01) in the patients with HCM, whereas uptake of both BMIPP and 201Tl in the controls was homogeneous and there was a significant correlation between them. The coefficient of variation (CV) in all segments in the HCM patients was significantly higher (P<0.01) than that of the controls for both BMIPP and 201Tl, indicating inhomogeneous uptake of BMIPP in the HCM patients. The washout rate of BMIPP over 3 h was significantly higher in the patients with HCM (mean ± S.D. 26.3 ± 7.3%) than the controls (18.3 ± 7.5%, P<0.05). The ratio of segmental washout rate of BMIPP to that of 201Tl in the HCM patients was increased, especially in the septum and apex. These results indicate that the discordance between blood flow and metabolism in the myocardium, and the abnormal myocardial fatty acid metabolism in HCM patients, involve not only hypertrophic myocardium but also the areas of myocardium adjusting to the hypertrophic regions.
Neurotoxicity of interferon‐alpha

To the Editor: Meyers, Scheibel, and Forman’ report evidence of persistent neurotoxicity of interferon-alpha therapy based on neuropsychological test results, In addition, they propose that the reason other studies have not found persistent symptoms is due t o their choice of assessment techniques (eg, fewer tests, practice effects) or to their prospective design. However, the methodologic flaws in this study seriously jeopardize the validity and reliability of these authors’ findings. For example, the authors point out that their study is retrospective and their population self-referred. These characteristics violate the basics of experimental design (ie, ability to manipulate the independent variable, randomization of the population). 2 With the present design, there is no way to attribute causality.3 The threats to the internal validity of this study include the following: (1) maturation, which is any biologic or psychological process within subjects that is not relevant to the research hypothesis that affects the status of subjects (eg, at the time of the assessment, patients’ time since treatment ranged from 18 days to over 3 years with no indication of premorbid characteristics); (2) history is when an extraneous event outside the experimental situation affects the status of patients (eg, the external environment of patients was not controlled and was most likely very different); (3) instrumentation, which includes any changes in measuring devices or procedures during the course of the study (eg, subjects did not receive every test in the battery); and (4) differential selection which is a threat whenever intact groups are used (eg, the studied group included only patients referred due to their complaints) and is also a threat to the generalization of results. These problems are easily controlled by including more than one group in the research study and randomly assigning subjects to group^. ^ In attempting to control for practice effects, the authors failed to utilize comparable assessment instruments. For example, results obtained from the WAIS-R are not comparable with those of t h e Dementia Rating Scale, t h e Verbal Selective Reminding Test is not equivalent to the WMS Logical Memory subtest, and the information obtained from the MMPI is significantly different from that of the Neurobehavioral Rating Scale. This lack of test comparability makes statistical analysis of the results difficult if not imp~ss ib le . ~ In addition, the authors indicate that 79% of their patients demonstrated “prominent psychiatric and emotional symptoms” but failed to comment on the possible adverse effects of these problems on their neuropsychological test performance.6 When research is well designed, the results can have important implications for the treatment of patients. Therefore, perhaps these authors should consider redesigning their studies to incorporate valid, reliable research strategies before extending their research population.
Lean startup orientation : empirical evidence on venture success

The LSM has reached a high popularity and wide use in the startup world. However, it’s unknown if LSM is positively related to the performance of a new venture. Existing research on the effectiveness of LSM is either scarce or indirect. Therefore, the popularity across entrepreneurs using LSM is in contrast with the lack of its empirical validation. First qualitative research and operationalisation to reveal the essence of LSM exists but an empirical validation is still missing. This thesis advances the academic discourse on LSM by providing direct evidence that supports the effectiveness claim of LSM. First, the degree to which startups use Lean Startup (Lean Startup Orientation, LSO) is presented. The quantitative analysis of data collected by 100 Berlin-based software startups revealed a strong, robust and highly significant relationship between LSO and performance. Therefore, LSO delivers on its promise for new venture performance. The relevance for research lay in the proposed operationalisation of LSO that future research can build on and refine. Moreover, evidence for the positive performance impact of experiential entrepreneurship is provided. The empirical validation of LSO activities contributes to existing management strategies by providing strong justification for lean startup capabilities leading to higher likelihood of success.
Protein Kinase C-Dependent Potentiation of Intracellular Calcium Influx by σ1 Receptor Agonists in Rat Hippocampal Neurons

Intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) plays a major role in neuronal excitability, especially that triggered by the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-sensitive glutamatergic receptor. We have previously shown that σ1 receptor agonists potentiate NMDA receptor-mediated neuronal activity in the hippocampus and recruit Ca2+-dependent second messenger cascades (e.g., protein kinase C; PKC) in brainstem motor structures. The present study therefore assessed whether the potentiating action of σ1 agonists on the NMDA response observed in the hippocampus involves the regulation of [Ca2+]i and PKC. For this purpose, [Ca2+]i changes after NMDA receptor activation were monitored in primary cultures of embryonic rat hippocampal pyramidal neurons using microspectrofluorometry of the Ca2+-sensitive indicator Fura-2/acetoxymethyl ester in the presence of σ1 agonists and PKC inhibitors. We show that successive activations of the σ1 receptor by 1-min pulses of (+)-benzomorphans or (+)-N-cyclopropylmethyl-N-methyl-1,4-diphenyl-1-ethyl-but-3-en-1-ylamine hydrochloride (JO-1784) concommitantly with glutamate time dependently potentiated before inconstantly inhibiting the NMDA receptor-mediated increase of [Ca2+]i, whereas 1,3-di-o-tolyl-guanidine, a mixed σ1/σ2 agonist, did not significantly modify the glutamate response. Both potentiation and inhibition were prevented by the selective σ1 antagonist N,N-dipropyl-2-[4-methoxy-3-(211phenylethoxy) phenyl]-ethylamine monohydrochloride (NE-100). Furthermore, only (+)-benzomorphans could induce [Ca2+]i influx by themselves after a brief pulse of glutamate. A pretreatment with the conventional PKC inhibitor 12-(2-cyanoethyl)-6,7,12,13-tetrahydro-13-methyl-5-oxo-5H-indolo [2,3-a] pyrrolo [3,4-c] carbazole (Gö-6976) prevented the potentiating effect of (+)-benzomorphans on the glutamate response. Our results provide further support for a general mechanism for the intracellular σ1 receptor to regulate Ca2+-dependent signal transduction and protein phosphorylation.