Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Will to win: Comparative study between the medal winning and non- medal winning athletes

The objective of this study are to examine will to win of medal winning and non-medal winning male athletes. For this purpose investigator select thirty medal winning and thirty non-medal winning athletes of inter college level ranging age from 18 to 25. The sample selection method was used as purposive sampling technique. Will to win questionnaire (kumar and shukla, 1988) was used to measure will to win of players. ttest applied to compare the medal winning and non-medal winning athletes. The level of significance was set 0.05. Results show that there were significant difference found regarding the parameter of will to win between medal winning and non-medal winning athletes. It is concluded from the findings that Medal winner athletes have high will to win comparison to non-medal winner.
A Prospective Screening of Gene Copy Number Variation in Brazilian Admixed Population Sample

Copy number variants (CNVs) represent an important source of variation in the human genome. Some CNVS embedded genes are differently distributed among the human population groups. Therefore, it is important to understand the distribution of CNV within and between populations, especially in those with admixed ancestry, such as the Brazilians. The aim of the study was to investigate the variability of a set of CNV-embedded genes in a sample of the Brazilian population. The CNV-embedded genes were chosen based on data showing that they have differential copy variation distribution between African and Europeans. Four genes (POLR2J4, PCDHB13, NPEPPS and AMY1) were investigated by qPCR in a sample of 96 Brazilians, previously classified by genetic ancestry. The gene AMY1 showed a variable copy numbers in the range of 1 to 8 copies whereas NPEPPS ranged from 1 to 5 copies. A low variability was identified for the POLR2J4 and PCDHB13 genes, showing 2 copies in frequency of 0.875 and 0.917, respectively. Genetic ancestry was not correlated to the number of copies of the AMY1and NPEPPS genes. The results provided an overview of the corresponding frequency of gene copy number variation in a sample of the Brazilian population, serving as reference for further genetic population studies, which may correlate these polymorphisms with other phenotypic features.
Ecotopenkaart Waddenzee volgens de ZES.1 typologie

In dit rapport is de werkwijze beschreven voor het maken van een actuele ecotopenkaart voor de Waddenzee, inclusief het Eems-Dollard estuarium, volgens de ZES.1 methodiek. De ecotopenkaart Waddenzee is publiek digitaal beschikbaar via ArcGIS online. Ga hiervoor naar http://www.arcgis. com/ en typ in het zoekveld: EcotopenkaartWZED. De resultaten worden in dit rapport gepresenteerd in de vorm van oppervlaktes van ecotopen in de gehele Waddenzee (PKB-gebied) en per kombergingsgebied. Tot slot is een vergelijking gemaakt met de ecotopenkaart van de situatie rond 2000 (Wijsman & Verhage, 2004). Deze vergelijking bleek niet goed uitvoerbaar vanwege verschillen in classificaties, een andere gebiedsbegrenzing (PKB-gebied) en andere basisdata (modeluitvoer).
Student choices of choosing colleges and course of study in Penang

A preliminary survey is conducted to identify student choices of choosing colleges and course of study in Penang. The methodology used in the study is convenience sampling, and feedback from the survey indicates that parents are the most important or influential people, apart from friends, relatives and counsellors. Educational marketers should utilise the preliminary findings of the study to produce appropriate marketing strategies to promote their products and services.
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Litigation

Firms with agency problems are more vulnerable to litigation, i.e. they are more likely to be sued. The U.S. securities laws allow shareholders to file a lawsuit against a firm when they feel that their investment in firm was misappropriated or misproperly managed by the firm’s executives. This paper examines the link between shareholder litigation and various corporate governance practices. Focusing on seasoned firms, we employ a sample of 1613 sued firms and a matching sample of 1613 non-sued firms. We find that poor corporate governance mechanism, shorter CEO tenure, lower CEO salary, and lower incentive pay in the form of restricted shares increases the probability of litigation, holding constant a wide range of control variables. We further document that sued firms improve their governance practices after a lawsuit by increasing the proportion of outside members on the board and dissolving the CEO-chairmanship link. These findings support the view that corporate governance has an impact on litigation risk, and that litigation leads to governance changes, at least at the board level.
Phytoplanktonic primary production modulated by coastal geomorphology in a highly dynamic environment of central Chile

La circulacion asociada a surgencias costeras tiene un efecto regional sobre la comunidad fitoplanctonica (i.e. aumento de las tasas fotosinteticas, incremento en biomasa), pero su influencia a escalas espaciales locales es menos clara. A una escala local (cientos de metros) y bajo condiciones de surgencia, zonas de retencion con altos niveles de produccion primaria (PP) tienden a ocurrir en el lado protegido de pequenas peninsulas inducidas por la orientacion, geometria, tamano y geomorfologia general de este tipo de formaciones costeras. Nosotros cuantificamos produccion primaria neta (NPP), bruta (GPP), respiracion comunitaria (CR) y biomasa (Chl-a) de ensambles naturales de fitoplancton en ambientes costeros de Chile central. El principal objetivo fue determinar un patron a corto plazo en PP y CR en ambos lados de dos pequenas peninsulas en Chile central, donde son esperables diferencias mensurables en varias variables ambientales. Nuestra hipotesis de trabajo es que estas diferencias no ocurren bajo condiciones de relajacion o de no-surgencia. Los resultados indican que NPP, GPP y CR difieren a una escala local y, contrariamente a lo reportado previamente, encontramos que el debilitamiento de los vientos favorables a las surgencias pueden generar un patron opuesto a lo observado durante un periodo activo de surgencia, donde el sitio expuesto retiene altas concentraciones de biomasa y exhibe elevados niveles de PP comparados con el sitio protegido. Nuestros resultados destacan la importancia de la variabilidad a corto plazo de PP y CR y su acople con la distribucion y abundancia del fitoplancton y su rapida respuesta a una escala espacial local
Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management Theory

This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi-perspective, multi-voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practices to develop ideas for new avenues for reflexive practice by OMT researchers.
Changes in the quality characteristics of the butter of Pentadesma butyracea under various storage conditions

The aim of this study was to identify the storage conditions that warrant the optimum quality of the butter of P. butyracea. An experimental design was set up to study the effects of kernel boiling, the packaging material and the storage duration on the colour, saponification value and unsaponifiable fractions, acid and peroxide values and the iodine index of the butter of P. butyracea. The quality parameters of the butter vary significantly according to the storage conditions of the kernels. For all samples, the acid value increased significantly during the storage varying from 0.08 to 0.99 mg KOH/g and from 0.08 to 0.91 mg KOH/g for the kernels boiled and dried and for the kernels dried directly without boiling respectively. The peroxide value of the butter remains quite stable during the first 6 months of storage. The most significant modification occur between 6 and 12 months where an increasing from 3.82 to 15.20 meq O2/kg was recorded for this parameter. The highest values of acid and peroxide value ​​were observed in butter extracted from the kernels stored in basket. The iodine index, the saponification and unsaponifiable content of the butter were affected in various extent. Overall, the kernels boiled prior to drying, stored in jute bag for a duration less than six months provided a butter with optimum quality characteristics. Key words: Pentadesma butyracea, kernels, butter, packaging material, storage duration.
Comparison of the Rate of Convergence of Various Iterative Methods for the Class of Weak Contractions in Banach Spaces

In this article, we propose a new iterative method for finding fixed points of a class of weak contractions in arbitrary Banach spaces. Comparison of the rate of convergence between Mann, Ishikawa, Noor iterations, and the proposed iterative method are also discussed. It is shown that the proposed iterative method converges faster than the others. Moreover, we give a numerical example for comparing the rate of convergence of those methods.
Parallel Computation of Data Cubes

Since its proposal, data cube has attracted a great deal of attention in both academic and industry research communities. Many research papers have been published about different issues related to data cubes and many commercial OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems have been released to market with data cube operations as their core functions. Several algorithms have been proposed to compute data cubes more efficiently. PIPESORT and PIPEHASH algorithms proposed by Agrawal et. al., OVERLAP algorithm proposed by Naughton et. al., Partitioned-Cube algorithm proposed by Ross et. al. and the Multi-way Array algorithm proposed by Naughton et. al. are the most significant ones. All of these algorithms are designed for implementation on sequential machines, however computing a data cube can be an expensive task. For some organizations it may take a very powerful computer working around the clock for a week to compute all the data cubes they may want to use. Application of parallel processing can speed up this process. Despite the popularity and importance of data cubes, very little research has been carried out on the parallel computation of them. The only parallel algorithm for computation of data cubes, which I am aware of, is the algorithm proposed by Goil et. al. Their algorithm works for cases where the data
Pseudoscardovia radai sp . nov . , a representative of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of a wild pig ( Sus scrofa scrofa )

Correspondence J. Killer Killer.Jiri@seznam.cz Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics v.v. i. , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vı́deňská 1083, Prague 4 – Krč, 142 20, Czech Republic Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Microbiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Kamýcká 129, Prague 6 – Suchdol, 165 21, Czech Republic Institute of Microbiology v.v. i. , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vı́deňská 1083, Prague 4 – Krč, 142 20, Czech Republic Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústi nad Labem, Za Válcovnou 1000/8, 400 96 Ústı́ nad Labem, Czech Republic
LIMITED LIABILITY IN BUSINESS GROUPS

We consider a model in which a holding company has to decide whether to finance an investment project in a subsidiary. The project can be financed either through internal capital or through debt. The subsidiary's manager has private information on the quality of the project and has empirebuilding preferences. When bankruptcy is costly for the subsidiary's manager, the choice between internal and external financing is part of an optimal mechanism that induces truthful revelation of the information. The first best solution can be approached if the cost of bankruptcy for the manager is high enough.
Patterns of Species Richness in Eight Northeastern United States Cities

In this paper, the native and nonnative floras of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis urban areas are compared, and overall native diversity and nonnative diversity are correlated with a variety of factors. A total of 4,159 species has been reported in the eight urban areas. Of these, 2,708 (65.1%) are native to one or more of the urban areas and 1,451 (34.9%) are nonnative. Only 316 (11.6%) of the native species and only 109 (7.5%) of the nonnative species are common to all of the urban areas. When the similarity of native species is compared, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., form a cluster, as do Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis; St. Louis is least similar to the other seven urban areas. Correlating climatic variables (growing season, temperature) and geographical variables (area, latitude, longitude) with species richness showed that nonnative species richness was most strongly correlated with longitude (probably as a function of age of settlement). This is in contrast
A Tale of Two Middle Schools : Setting the Stage for our Story

Access to appropriate technological resources in schools has become an issue, commonly labeled the “digital divide. ” While the debate ensues in regards to an explicit definition for this phenomenon, research overwhelmingly demonstrates that students of marginalized populations remain on the lower end of access to and innovative use of current digital technologies. Accordingly, advocates of social justice point to the disparities of resources and quality learning opportunities experienced by students in poverty, including their exposure to dynamic technology integration in teaching and learning. This study narrates a five-year struggle to impact the digital divide on an urban middle school campus.
Assessment of impacts of future climate change on water resources of the Hulu Langat basin using the swat model

This study conducted to assess the impacts of climate changes on hydrological regime of Langat River Basin using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM) applied as a practical tool to bridge the spatial difference between GCM grid-box scale and sub-grid box scale in the Langat River Basin as a tropical area. The calibrated and validated SDSM was applied to project the possible scenarios in two future periods (2030s and 2080s) of meteorological variables. The SDSM predicts increasing mean monthly precipitation and maximum temperature during the two future periods. The Sequential Uncertainty Fitting (SUFI-2) algorithm was used for sensitivity analysis and calibration of the SWAT model in simulating of observed average monthly streamflow. The observed data matched reasonably well with the simulated flows with respect to Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient, PBIAS, RSR, and R2 with values of 0.62, 5.7, 0.61, 0.63 during calibration process (1997–2004) and 0.55, 3.5, 0.67, 0.56 during validation process (2005-2011), respectively. The projected results of monthly streamflow revealed that the average annual streamflow may increase about 71% and 108% in future mid-century and significantly for end century period, respectively along with increase in surface runoff.
DIFERENCIAS MOTORAS EN ATLETAS CADETES DE TAEKWONDO SEGÚN NIVEL COMPETITIVO

The aim of this study was to determine the differences between Taekwondo cadet athletes belonging to different competition levels in terms of anthropometry, legs power, flexibility and reaction time. Twenty male athletes were analysed, divided in two groups: national medallist and non-national medallist. Data of every athlete’s anthropometric measurements, reaction speed ability, leg power and hip ROM (range of movement) were taken. Medallist athletes showed significantly lower values for height, arm span, foot reaction time (dominant and non-dominant) and non-dominant hand reaction time; and higher values for leg length, passive hip flexion, active hip abduction and passive hip abduction in ROM tests. Slight differences observed between medallists and non-medallists in leg power (CMJ), body fat (Σ skinfolds) and active hip flexion do not agree with previous studies. Knowing this information could be interesting for coaches in order to carry out talent detection programs.
The Contribution of Domain Satisfaction to Life Satisfaction: Convergent Validity of Importance Measures

Global life satisfaction is the evaluation of one’s life among important domains. Therefore, importance ratings should improve the relation between domain satisfaction and life satisfaction. However, this is not the case because studies have shown that importance ratings do not improve the model. This study examined the validity of importance and satisfaction measures using a multi-method approach. 316 participants were recruited in friendship pairs to fill out a series of questionnaires about themselves and their friend. Based on the self-informant agreement scores, there is some validity in importance and the satisfaction ratings. The importance measures for some domains also predicted people’s behavioural patterns. Indirect importance ratings were also extracted using regression and correlational analysis. In conclusion, there was also evidence for convergent validity of the direct and indirect importance measures. Therefore, people do think about the important domains to some extent when making a global life satisfaction judgment.
On some m-fold symmetric functions with generalized bounded variation

In this paper we study a class Bk(�; b; c; m; ) which uni�es a number of classes studied previously by Mocanu and others. This class includes several known classes of analytic functions such as convex and starlike functions of order b, �-convex functions, functions with bounded boundary rotation, bounded radius rotation and bounded Mocanu variation. Several interesting properties like inclusion results, In- tegral representation, arclength problem, coe�cient bounds and distortion results of this class are discussed.
Characterization and Rheological Behavior of Dextran from Weissella confusa R003

Dextran from Weissella confusa R003 isolated from sugar cane juice was purified and characterized. Dextran synthesis was performed by fermenting W. confusa R003 in MRS medium containing 10% (w/v) sucrose with continuous shaking at 125 rpm and at 30°C. For 24 hours, the 50% efficiency yield was obtained. Dextran in the culture medium was purified by ethanol precipitation. Structural analysis of dextran using 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and 2D NMR techniques showed the existence of glucoses with 97.4% α (1→6) linkage in the main chains and 2.6% α (1→3) in branches. The estimation of molecular weight by dynamic light scattering exhibited average molecular weight of 1.0 × 104 kDa. At low concentration (2.5% w/v), dextran behaved like liquid structure, while, increasing the concentration (5.0 and 10.0% w/v), it was revealed as viscoelastic behavior. The highest gelling phenomenon was found in the concentration of 10% w/v and at 37°C. Due to its production and properties, it may be suitable for commercial production and application in the field of foods as well as hydrogel.
User Acceptance of Mobile Broadband in Nigeria

Broadband access has been identified as a fundamental part of any thriving economy because it contributes to GDP. Besides, mobile broadband has been seen as the means for which developing countries can leapfrog into the post-industrial era. According to the figure released by Nigerian Communications Commission in April, 2014, the number of mobile internet subscribers had dropped from 64.5 to 63 million as at February, 2014 and steadily rose to 87 million in April, 2015. Considering those figures and comparing it with the national population figure of about 178 million, and the mobile telephone subscription figure of about 145 million in Nigeria, the rate of acceptance of mobile broadband is not an appreciable penetration rate to substantially drive the adoption of other e-services like mobile commerce, mobile payment services throughout the entire country, except for few cities. To bridge this gap and foster faster rate of acceptance of mobile internet, this paper sought to investigate the factors that could stimulate the intention of users to use mobile broadband in Nigeria by empirically validating an integrated research model, adopted from the unified theory of acceptance and use technology (UTUAT) model by integrating mobile broadband motivation, government support and perceived price value constructs. Online survey data was collected from 376 respondents and analyzed using partial least square (SmartPLS) technique. Result shows that mobile broadband motivation, government support, perceived price value, social influence’ and facilitating conditions are significant determinants of intention behavior to use mobile broadband in Nigeria. The findings of this research are vital to telecoms and broadband service providers in understanding the factors that stimulate people’s behavior for subscribing to mobile internet and for deploying infrastructures and services; it will also help government and telecoms regulators to streamline their policy towards meeting these factors. To the academia, this integrated research model presents an extended view of the UTAUT model for investigating the determinants of broadband acceptance in developing countries. Keywords: mobile broadband, motivation, government support, Nigeria
Web Site Satisfaction for Older Adults

As older adults increasingly make use of the Internet, the study of web site usability for older adults is becoming increasingly relevant. Web site usability is concerned with both utilitarian (i.e. functional) and hedonic (i.e. pleasure-related) aspects. This study explores the impact of age on select utilitarian (mental model accuracy and performance) and hedonic (disorientation and engagement) measures of web site usability, and the subsequent impact of these utilitarian and hedonic measures on user satisfaction. An experiment was conducted with 50 younger and 47 older participants. The results suggest that age has a more pronounced impact on utilitarian constructs than hedonic ones. Specifically, older adults were less able to create an accurate mental model of the web site and in turn had poorer performance within the web site. In terms of impact on user satisfaction, the contribution of hedonic constructs was significant while the impact of utilitarian constructs was not.