Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predicting the Influence of Travel Web Site Effectiveness Characteristics on Technology Acceptance and Its Marketing Implications

This paper is intended to examine the capital budgeting practices of listed companies in Malaysia. A comparison is made between the Main Board and Second Board companies with respect to the techniques used in evaluating major capital investment projects. In achieving the intended purpose, 356 questionnaires were sent to companies listed on the Main Board and 254 to the Second Board of nine industrial sectors of Bursa Malaysia. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results of the study indicate prevalent use of the payback and the accounting rate of return (ARR) techniques in evaluating major capital investment projects. This is followed by the net present value (NPV) and the internal rate of return (IRR) methods. Large and small companies in an emerging market such as Malaysia prefer a simpler and less sophisticated technique in the assessment of major investment projects. This is inconsistent to the proposition that the theory-practice gap has narrowed in recent years. As for the non financial criteria 22.9% of the Main Board companies used such evaluation in their project assessments. This is not observed in the Second Board companies which are considered to be smaller than the Main Board companies. With respect to the usage frequency of the financial analysis techniques, the more complicated the technique, such as the IRR, the higher are the percentages of the smaller companies not using or rarely used the method. ABSTRAK Artikel ini bertujuan untuk meneliti amalan belanjawan modal bagi syarikat tersenarai di Malaysia. Perbandingan tentang teknik yang digunakan dalam menilai projek utama pelaburan modal dibuat di antara syarikat yang berada di Papan Utama dan Papan Kedua. Bagi mencapai matlamat tersebut, sebanyak 356 borang soal selidik dihantar kepada syarikat tersenarai di Papan Utama dan 254 kepada syarikat tersenarai di Papan Kedua dalam sembilan sektor industri di Bursa Malaysia. Statistik deskriptif dan inferens digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan penggunaan yang ketara bagi tempoh bayar balik dan kadar pulangan perakaunan dalam menilai projek utama pelaburan modal. Ianya diikuti dengan kaedah nilai masa kini (NPV) dan kadar pulangan dalaman (IRR). Syarikat besar dan kecil dalam pasaran membangun seperti Malaysia lebih mengutamakan teknik yang mudah dan kurang canggih dalam menilai projek pelaburan utama. Ianya tidak sejajar dengan usul yang menyatakan jurang amalan-teori semakin berkurangan kebelakangan ini. Bagi kriteria bukan kewangan, 22.9% syarikat di Papan Utama menggunakan kaedah penilaian ini dalam menilai projek. Ianya tidak diamalkan di kalangan syarikat Papan Kedua yang lebih kecil daripada syarikat Papan Utama. Bagi kekerapan penggunaan teknik analisis kewangan, semakin kompleks teknik tersebut (contohnya IRR), semakin tinggi peratusan syarikat kecil tidak menggunakan atau jarang menggunakan kaedah berkenaan.
Assessment of the Engineering Properties and Suitability of Some Tropical Soils as Backfill Materials

Little to none has been known about some soils excavated for backfilling purposes in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. Thus, this study, which involved literature reviews, field sampling, and integrated geotechnical analyses, presents an assessment of their engineering properties and suitability as backfill (foundation, embank subgrade, and base) materials. Eight soil samples (ABG, NIM, OZB, NKA, OKJ, ORK, ULI, and NBI) from eight borrow pits were studied. Grain analysis revealed that the eight soils are dominantly composed of medium-coarse grains. Laboratory USCS identified and grouped the soils into five SW, SP, SC and CL. Their permeability coefficients ranged from 4.22x10 to 4.34x10m/sec, hence they are permeable. Compaction test revealed MDD range of 1.76–1.94g/cm, OMC range of 13.29 bulk density range of 1.68–1.90g/cm. Their specific gravity ranged from 2.55-2.69. The soils have low natural moisture content, ranging from 1.61 Atterberg limits of the fines showed that they are nonplastic to low plastic materials, with the highest PI as 12% (for the CL soil). The soils have low cohesion (0.66–6.72kPa) but high frictional angle (32.54 36.47), except for the CL soil which has 27.31kPa cohesion and 19.34 friction angle. From the findings, it was deduced that, generally, these soils are g backfilling materials, though to varying degrees (SW˃GP˃SP˃SC˃CL), because of differences in their engineering properties. However, factors that could alter their good characteristics and suitability were discussed and recommendations given. | Volume – 2 | Issue – 1 | Nov-Dec 2017 6470 | www.ijtsrd. com | Volume Journal of Trend in Scientific and Development (IJTSRD) International Open Access Journal Ogbonnaya Igwe lty of Nigeria, Nsukka Chidiebere H. Nnamani Department of Geology and Mining, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu
The 2:3:6 QPO structure in GRS 1915+105 and cubic subharmonics in the context of relativistic diskoseismology

We propose a simple toy model to explain the 2:3:6 QPO structure in GRS 1915+105 and, more generally, the 2:3 QPO structure in XTE J1550-564, GRO J1655-40, and H 1743-322. The model exploits the onset of subharmonics in the context of diskoseismology. We suggest that the observed frequencies may be the consequence of a resonance between a fundamental g-mode and an unobservable p-wave. The results include the prediction that, as better data become available, a QPO with a frequency of twice the higher twin frequency and a large quality factor will be observed in twin peak sources, as it might already have been observed in the especially active GRS 1915+105.
Evaluation of Premature Contacts Using the T-Scan III

Objective: The aim of study is to evaluate premature contacts and occlusal forces for each tooth in complete dentures before occlusal adjustment. Material and methods: The study population was comprised of 30 subjects (aged 50 - 75). The measurements were performed using the T-Scan. The occlusion was analyzed before and after frames which from the T-scan “Force Movies” are Centric Relation bite recordings. Several practices closures were made until a repeatable pattern of contacts was seen on the video monitor and sensor was calibrated. Each subject was asked to bite on the sensor in a position of maximum intercuspation thus obtaining the location of each tooth contact. Premature contacts and percentage distribution of forces per tooth were obtained before and after occlusal adjustment. Results: The worst occlusal balance was recorded in a patient (F/74) by occlusal force values at right 5.9% and left 94.1% before occlusal adjustment. After occlusal adjustment, all patients’ percentage of occlusal balance values was adjusted at average of 48.8%, left 51.1%. The percentage distribution of forces per tooth results showed that premature contacts had been observed at posterior teeth either right or left side of occlusion. Conclusions: Occlusal adjustment is requested for all complete dentures to prevent patients from muscular pain and/or temporomandibular disorders for further terms.
Resonance Raman studies of twisted bilayer graphene and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides

Raman spectroscopy is a very useful tool to study graphene, since it furnishes information about the atomic structure, presence of disorder, number of layers, charge transfer and strain. However, important information about electrons can be also obtained in a resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) investigation, where the energy of the laser excitation can be tuned. An increasing number of studies have been dedicated twisted bilayer graphenes (TBG), since their optical and electronic properties are strongly dependent on the twisting angle. In particular, the Raman G-band can be significantly enhanced for TBG with specific twisting angles, and the enhancement occurs when the incident laser energy is in resonance with van Hove singularities that appear in the crossing region between the two Dirac cones of the top and bottom layers. Moreover, new and sharp extra peaks appear in the spectra both below and above the G-band position, and are ascribed to phonon modes within the interior of the graphene Brillouin zone that become Raman active through an umklapp double resonance (U-DR) Raman process, where momentum conservation involves reciprocal lattice vectors of the Moire patterns. [1]. In this work, we performed a Raman spectroscopy study of 150 samples of TBG with many different twisting angles, using several different laser lines in the visible range. The intensities and FWHM of all Raman features, mainly the G and 2D bands, were analyzed as function of the twisting angle and laser energy. A huge increase in the G band intensity could be observed for samples with intermediate twisting angles (between 9 and 14 degrees) and the results could be explained in terms of resonances with van Hove singularities of TBG. We will also present resonance Raman results of the sharp and extra peaks ascribed to the umklapp double resonance process. The Raman excitation profile of both the G-band and the new extra peaks was obtained experimentally [2], and our results are compared to the theoretically simulated spectra of TBG considering both resonances with van Hove singularities and the umklapp double resonance processes. Finally, we will present resonance Raman studies of the 2D transition metal dichalcogenides MoS2, WSe2 and WS2 with one and few layers. We will show that the Raman spectra is strongly dependent on the laser energy, and we will present the Raman excitation profile of the first and second-order Raman features, which provide information about the electronic transitions and the electron-phonon interaction in these compounds.
Deep‐center hopping conduction in GaN

Molecular‐beam‐epitaxial GaN layers change from strongly conductive (ρ≂10−2 Ω cm at 300 K) to semi‐insulating (ρ≂106 Ω cm) as the N flux is increased. Layers grown at low fluxes show strong n‐type conduction, with transport in the conduction band at high temperatures and in a shallow donor band at low temperatures. For layers grown at high N fluxes, the Hall coefficients become too small to measure, suggesting hopping conduction among deep centers. The temperature‐dependent resistivity data are most consistent with multiphonon, rather than single‐phonon, hopping.
Determination of Yield and Some Yield Components of Safflower of Konya Conditions

Geliş tarihi 15 Nisan 2016 Kabul tarihi 01 Eylül 2016 Aspir (Carthamus tinctorius L.), kuraklığa dayanıklı önemli bir yağ bitkisidir. Bu araştırma, bazı aspir çeşitlerinin Konya ekolojik koşullarında verim ve verim unsurlarını tespit etmek amacıyla, 2014 yılı vejetasyon döneminde (Mart-Ağustos) yürütülmüştür. Tesadüf blokları deneme desenine göre yürütülen denemede; Remzibey-05, Black Sun 2, KS 07, Balcı, AC Stirling, Ole, V 50/63, Dinçer, Ayaz, BDYAS-4, Linas, Yenice, TRE-ASO 12/08 olmak üzere 13 aspir çeşidi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma da; çeşitlere göre bitki boyu 83.33-138.17 cm (KS 07Yenice), bitkide dal sayısı 6.50-10.13 adet (Dinçer-Yenice), bitkide tabla sayısı 9.40-22.83 adet (AC Stirling-Yenice), tabla çapı 1.90-2.62 cm (TRE-ASO 12/08-Ole), ilk dal yüksekliği 36.17-79.10 cm (Balcı-Yenice), tablada tohum sayısı 25.33-56.67 adet (Ayaz-V 50/63), bin tohum ağırlığı 32.77-43.28 g (V 50/63-Ayaz), kabuk oranı %44.24-59.07 (TRE ASO 12/08-AC Stirling) ve tohum verimi 135.54-392.71 kg da (Ole-KS 07) arasında değişmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda, tohum verimi ve verim unsurları bakımından yüksek değerlerin elde edildiği KS 07, Dinçer ve Remzibey çeşitlerinin Konya koşullarına uygun olduğu ve benzer ekolojik koşullara sahip yörelerde başarılı bir şekilde yetiştirilebileceği kanısına varılmıştır. Anahtar Kelimeler:
Determinants of Continuance Intention to Use Social Networking Sites SNS’s: Studying the Case of Facebook

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trust, perceived enjoyment, and subjective norms on users’ satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. Using a structured questionnaire, the primary data was collected from 584 users’ who have an active Facebook accounts. Multiple regression analysis was employed to test the research model and hypotheses. The research findings indicated that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trust, perceived enjoyment, and subjective norms have a positive and significant effect on users' satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook. The findings also indicated that the strongest predictors, based on beta values, on both users’ satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook is subjective norms, and respectively; perceived enjoyment, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived trust. Research results, recommendations, and future research opportunities are also discussed.
HARDWARE VIRTUALIZATION IN NESTED VIRTUALIZATION

it is a software implementation that runs on computers to run different programs like a real physical machine. There are two classifications of Virtual Machines categorized by their use i.e. System Virtual Machine and Process Virtual Machine. Virtual Machine Monitor or Hypervisor is the software layer that provides virtualization. The operating system running on virtual machine is called guest operating system. From Operating System designs and development, Virtualization has great impact and importance. Different techniques are used in virtualization; each has its own implementations under certain circumstances. One technique is not truly efficient for other environment. Shared kernel, full kernel and hypervisor virtualization are different techniques that be used combined as well as independently. Nowadays the full virtualization with binary translation is the most effective and reliable technology used ever with great ease of use. VMware uses both full virtualization with binary translation and hardware assisted virtualization. We have discussed many types of virtualization techniques and their interrupt handling. How virtual machine works over host operating system is well explained in this review. In nested virtualization there is a lack of architecture support for multi-level virtualization. For this reason it has up to 10% of overload. It is possible to overcome the overhead i.e. 6-10% for nested virtualization and to find a better solution.
Recapture and condition of pond-reared, and hatchery-reared 1 + European grayling stocked in addition to wild conspecifics in a small river

The relative performance of European grayling Thymallus thymallus reared in a hatchery on commercial dry feed or in a pond with natural food and their wild conspecifics, was assessed through recapture of tagged fish 5 months after their release into the Blanice River, Czech Republic. One-year old pond and hatchery reared fish from a resident broodstock were marked using Visible Implant Elastomer tags and released into 3 sections of river in May 2006. Wild one-year-old grayling were also tagged in these sections on the same days. The ratio of hatchery reared, pond reared, and wild fish was 1:1:1 in all sections. The recapture rate (hatchery 14.9%, pond 22.1%, and wild 51.3%) and site fidelity (hatchery 7.8%, pond 13.0%, and wild 35.1%) were significantly different among groups. Wild fish had a higher probability of recapture upstream of their original section than did hatchery or pond reared fish. Pond rearing was superior to conventional hatchery rearing for subsequent stocking of 1 + grayling in running water. Initially different mean condition factors were similar in all groups at recapture, suggesting adaptation of the artificially reared fish that remained in the river sections surveyed.
Fiscal Policy and Growth: Do Financial Crises Make a Difference?

In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the period 1981-2007. The fiscal multiplier for the full sample for instrumented regular and crisis spending is about 0.6-0.8 considering the sample average government spending share of GDP of about one third. Altogether, we cannot reject the hypothesis that crisis spending and regular spending have the same impact using a variation of controls, sub-samples and specifications.
Inventory Effects of Two Risk-Averse Market Makers

The inventory positions of two risk-averse market makers are introduced into a Kyle (1985) type batch trading model and the effects analyzed. An equilibrium is defined including participation constraints and incentive compatibility and is characterized as a y-coalitional equilibrium. At equilibrium, the two market makers share the risk of clearing orders so that the aggregate pricing schedule becomes linear. The pricing schedule coincides with the regret-free pricing of a fictitious risk-averse market maker. The inventories shift the pricing schedule vertically, and the coalition parameter changes the slope. Orders by the informed trader are then found to depend on inventories.
Management of distal femur fractures with locking compression plate: A prospective study

Background: Fractures distal femur are one of the commonest fractures encountered in high velocity trauma which are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Isolated fracture can itself lead to complications such as ARDS and pulmonary embolism. This necessitates early stabilization of fractures. Internal fixation is the choice of treatment in fractures distal femur and Locking Condylar plate. Plate has shown to give one of the best results in terms of recovery, fracture union, return to work and the functional outcome. Methods: This prospective study reviewed 25 cases of distal femoral fractures surgically managed with distal femoral locking compression plate between JANUARY 2017 and January 2018 at, SSG Hospital and Medical College Baroda. Fractures were categorized according to OTA classification by Muller. Results: 21 out of 25 patients had closed injury. Type A2 Muller’s fracture was the most common fracture type 8 out of 25 patients (32%). Out of 25 patients 19 were male and 6 were female. The mean follow up period in this study was 6 months. The average range of knee flexion achieved was about 110. Out of 25 patients 14 had excellent, 8 had good, 2 had fair and 1 had poor result. Conclusions: The locking compression plate is the treatment of choice in the management of comminuted distal femoral fractures especially Type A fractures where we have found higher Neer scores.
FLUORESCENCE DETECTION OF ERGOVALINE IN ANIMAL TISSUES

Ergot alkaloids are produced in grasses during the development of endophytic fungi of the genus Epichloë (formerly named Neotyphodium) [7]. The association is symbiotic; the endophyte increases the tolerance of the plants to environmental stress and provides resistance to insects, whereas the plants give nutriments to the endophyte [16]. A part of the benefits provided to the plants by the endophytes are linked to the presence of alkaloids. Unfortunately, some of them are highly toxic for the mammalian species [16, 28]. Among the diseases observed in livestock after consumption on endophyte-infected plants, fescue toxicosis is probably the most important. The disease was first observed in the 1940s in cattle fed with tall fescue grass and attributed to the consumption of sclerotia (ergots) of Claviceps species [5]. However, the disease was experimentally reproduced in steers fed tall fescue hay in the absence of visual detection of ergots [13] and the systemic endophyte, Epichloë coenophiala, was isolated from tall fescue in 1975’s years [1]. During a decade, the responsible agent remains controversial until the isolation of ergopeptine alkaloids in toxic endophyte infected tall fescue, ergovaline (EV, Figure 1) being the most abundant [26]. ABSTRACT
Study of the Main Factor of Volleyball Spectator's Presence and Aggression In Premier League

The purpose of this study was to identify main factors of volleyball spectator’s presence and cause of their aggression in Premier League. The method of this study was descriptive-analyzing. Statistical society was all men volleyball spectators among Kaleh with Saipa, Giti Pasand and peykan team competition. 350 people were selected randomly through statistical formula as sample. Data tools were questionnaire include main factors of spectator’s presence in economical, game attraction, spectator’s premiership and facilities. Questionnaire included 26 items and 23 questions about cause of aggression. T and Friedman test were used in this study. Attraction factors, spectator’s premiership and facilities have significant meaning with spectator’s presence but there is no significant meaning between economic factors and spectator’s presence (P < 0.05). According to Friedman test personality characters, player’s bad behavior, referee fault in sensitive times, delay in starting game and weak operation of team are most important factors in establishing. Group media and discipline force are least cause for aggression. So, organization and sport match celebrant should pay attention to effective factors to attract spectators. Although some characters of aggression is not controlled but we could decrease aggression through management and planning.
Customer Orientation and Firm Performance among SMEs in Thailand

This research aims at studying the relationship between customer orientation and firm performance among Thai SMEs. In addition, this research also investigates the moderating effect of marketing information system and managerial attitudes that influence the relationship between customer orientation and firm performance among Thai SMEs. Questionnaire was used to collect data. Sample of this research is two hundred and twenty two SMEs of the northeastern region of Thailand. Results show that customer orientation is positive significant relevant with firm performance among Thai SMEs. The researchers also found out that marketing information system and managerial attitude are related to each other in order to adopt the strategy to achieve competitive advantages of Thai SMEs in a turbulent business environment.
Association between the HMW-glutenin Subunits and Gluten Strength Characteristics in Khorassan Wheat Lines

Khorassan wheat ( Triticum turgidum ssp. turanicum Jakubz em. A. Love & D. Love) is an ancient tetraploid wheat that was grown in the Mediterranean region and Near East. Sixteen lines differing in the com - position of high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMWGs) were evaluated for SDS-sedimentation volume and quality index (QI). The data suggested that the two subunit combinations detected in the examined materials at the Glu-b1 locus showed differences in both characteristics (relatively higher levels at the presence of the subunit combination 7+15 compared to 6+8). Weak gluten is in general characteristic of this wheat species. It could be used in a better way for other baking applications than for the pasta industry.
A Study on the Determinants of Dividend Policies of Commercial Banks in Saudi Arabia

: The objective of this research is to identify the determinants of Dividend Policies of Commercial Banks in Saudi Arabia. The study was carried on 12 commercial banks that are listed at Saudi Arabia Stock Exchanges (Tadawul) in the period of 2011-2015, total observations of 60 firms-years. Factors that were considered include Profitability, Growth, Free Cash Flow, and Past Dividends. The research has used correlation analysis and Panel Data Regression Model and the findings shows independent variables (Profitability, Growth, and Free Cash Flow) place no significant impact on the Dependent Variable (Dividend Pay-out Ratios) of commercial banks in Saudi Arabia. While the last Independent Variable (Past Dividends) place a significant positive impact on the Dividend Pay-out Ratios with a moderate strength.