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Intellectual Capital and Corporate Value in an Emerging Economy: Empirical Study of Taiwanese Manufacturers

Competitive success now is based less on the strategic allocation of physical and financial resources, and more on the strategic management of intellectual capital. Although intellectual capital is intangible and cannot be accurately measured, companies must develop methods of increasing corporate value by proactively focusing on intellectual capital management. This study examines the relationship between intellectual capital and corporate value in an emerging economy. This study employs an intellectual capital perspective, resource-based view and a financial perspective, and investigates how to apply the concept of intellectual capital to value creation. After reviewing the relevant literature, this study identifies human capital, organizational capital, innovation capital and relationship capital as four constructs of intellectual capital. Corporate value is measured using three selection methods: (1) Market/Book value, (2) Tobin’Q and (3) Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAICt). Through a questionnaire survey and secondary data collection, this study applies the Structure Equation Model to analyze the relationships among four constructs of intellectual capital, as well as the relationship between intellectual capital and corporate value. From the empirical findings, for Taiwanese manufacturers, a positive relationship exists between intellectual capital and corporate value. This study visualizes and mobilizes intellectual capital to articulate eight value creation paths.
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF WAVE PROPAGATION IN RANDOM MEDIA BASED ON QUANTY AND STATISTICAL FIELD THEORY

In this work, we summarize the existing theoretical methods based on statistical and quanty theory and give some non-standard mathematical approaches based on such theories to explain the principal scalar and vector electrodynamic problems for future applications to acoustic, radio and optical wave propagation in homogeneous, isotropic, anisotropic and inhomogeneous media. We show of how the statistical description of wave equations can be evaluated based on quantum field theory with presentation of Feynman's diagrams by a limited-to-zero finite set of expanded Green functions according to perturbation theory for single, double, triple, etc, scattering phenomenon. It is shown that at very short wavelengths, the Green's function is damped over a few wavelengths if the refractive index fluctuations in the medium are strong; at long wavelengths the effective phase velocity of electromagnetic waves may be increased. It is shown, that the coupling between different wave modes and the energy transfer between different wave modes, may be important, even for week random fluctuations of parameters of the medium, but it takes a very long time.
Searches for Lepton Number Violation and resonances in K±→ πμμ decays at NA48/2

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected in 2003-2004 a large sample of charged kaon decays with multiple charged particles in the final state. A new upper limit on the rate of the lepton number violating decay K ± → π ± μ ± μ ± obtained from this sample is reported. Moreover searches for two-body resonances in the K ± → πμμ, decays (including heavy neutral leptons and inflatons) in the accessible range of masses and lifetimes are presented. During the 2016 run the NA62 experiment has collected data with a dedicated trigger for kaon decays with two muons in the final state. Preliminary results on the statistics collected during a period of two weeks for the decay K + → π+μ+μ− will be presented. The NA62 experiment has good potential for the studies of rare K + decays in addition to its main goal, the measurement of the branching ratio of the decay K + → π ν ν ¯ .
Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) and Associated Sediments Do Not Reflect the Physical and Chemical Properties of Early Precambrian Seas

Ring-in-ring structures in Australian Early Precambrian banded iron formation (BIF) were identified as bubbling mud wavelets, which lithified during temporary exposure, contradicting the alleged BIF deep ocean origin. Least altered BIFs consist of alternating chert laminae with, and without iron oxides (or carbonates). They were precipitated during on-and-off periods of ferrous iron oxidation controlled by microbial oxygenic photosynthetic activity during solar illumination, which stopped during darkness as characterizing the Polar Regions, thus forming genuine annual varves. This polar environment is further corroborated by the magnetite-hematite-magnetite microcrystal layers in the iron-rich laminae reflecting mid-spring-summer-autumn changes in solar radiation, and by diamictite at the end of the sequence deposited from melting glaciers when the continental plate shifted to lower latitudes. BIF sequences in various countries comprise evaporates. They attest to intensive evaporation of the warm hydrothermal solution in restricted shallow lakes under the freezing dry climate up to silica (geyserite) precipitation referred to chert. The existence of oceans, mid-ocean-ridges and island arcs during the Early Precambrian results from the misinterpreted oceanic origin of BIFs and the Phanerozoic occurrences of the associated mafic-ultramafic basalt flows (Greenstone Belt).
Determination of selenium by atomic absorption spectrometry with simultaneous retention of selenium(IV) and tetrahydroborate(III) on an anion-exchange resin followed by flow injection hydride generation from the solid phase

Selenium(IV) and tetrahydroborate(III) (borohydride) were simultaneously retained on a strong anion-exchange resin in a packed column. Hydrogen selenide was generated by passage of an injected zone of hydrochloric acid with subsequent detection by AAS with quartz tube atomization. The limits of detection, defined as the concentration giving a signal equal to 3s of the blank, were 0.24, 0.15 and 0.12 µg l - 1 of Se for 1, 2 and 3 min preconcentration at a sample flow rate of 3 ml min - 1 , respectively. The precision of the procedure, expressed as the RSD of 10 successive determinations of 5, 10, and 20 µg l - 1 of Se, varied from 0.41 to 1.32, 0.24 to 0.81 and 0.18 to 0.61% for 1, 2 and 3 min preconcentration, respectively. The system was used for the determination of selenium in river, lake and tap water matrices. No appreciable matrix effects were observed and the system was calibrated with aqueous solutions of a pure selenium salt (Na 2 SeO 3 ). The recoveries of spikes (0.5, 2, and 10 µg l - 1 of Se) added to the water samples ranged from 96.0 to 102.0, 96.0 to 107.0 and 98.9 to 108% for river, lake and tap water, respectively.
Management of Fruit Rot Disease of Arecanut Incited by Phytophthora meadii

The arecanut palm (Areca catechu L.) is one of the most important plantation crops in Karnataka. It is commonly known as betelnut or supari and used in various religious and social ceremonies. Although, India is the largest producer of arecanut its productivity is very low, 1214kg/ha. Besides, arecanut cultivation is beset with recurring problems due to reduced productivity, delayed commercial yield, soil fertility depletion, small holding size, price fluctuation and pests and diseases. Among the many reported diseases, fruit rot or Mahali (heavy devastation) or Koleroga caused by Phytophthora meadii is a serious fatal disease causing huge loss to farmers. The disease may cause fruit drop of 50 to 100 per cent in individual palms if timely and proper control measures are not adopted. Fruit rot disease occurs in all the arecanut growing regions receiving heavy rainfall during southwest monsoon period (JuneSeptember). Though the disease is sporadic in nature, outbreaks of epidemic are also common during favourable climatic conditions especially in years of prolonged rainy season. Bultler (1906) first recorded the disease in the Karnataka. The disease was reported from the Dakshina International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 7 (2017) pp. 2824-2828 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Remedy for Receding Productivity of Small and Medium Scale Enterprise: A Nigeria Perspective

Nigeria is experiencing immense structural changes which are affecting the economy. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a vital force in the economy of any nation because of the strategic role it plays in the achievement of productivity. The aim of this paper is to provide more insight into EO as a remedy for productivity for small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria by providing in-depth knowledge of the nature and behavior of an entrepreneur and its dimensions toward risk taking, proactiveness and the aggressiveness. How all these can lead to entrepreneurship through (EO) also formed the vanguard of modern enterprises. The creation of a country’s wealth and dynamism depends upon the entrepreneurial orientation of its firms and this, in turn, relies fundamentally on the capabilities of its entrepreneurs and managers.
Absence of External Causes of Lag in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Summary: In contrast to observations by previous workers of an inverse relationship between inoculum size and the length of the lag phase, the lag time of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was found to be independent of inoculum size whether the inocula were derived from an exponential phase, diauxic lag phase or stationary phase parent culture. It is concluded that the lag phase of this organism is dependent on the internal physiological state of the parent culture cells, rather than the need to accumulate diffusible substances in the extracellular medium.
Simple Technical Trading Rules on the JSE Securities Exchange of South Africa, Part 2

In part 1 of this study, it was suggested that technical trading systems were capable of out performing the market. Part 2, of this empirical study, now being discussed, is based on the JSE All Share Index over the period of April 1988 to April 2007. The over-all data series is broken down and tested in four non-overlapping sub-periods. The results show that excess returns over a buy-and-hold strategy are possible using technical analysis, even in the presence of transactional costs. However, the statistical significance tests of the results obtained in this research are inconclusive as they fail to reject the null hypothesis that daily technical trading returns are equal to or less than zero. The VMA trading rule was found to outperform the other simple rules tested and shorter moving average time lengths were found to yield better results, even in the presence of transaction costs.
COGNITIVE POETICS AND BIOCULTURAL (CON)FIGURATIONS OF LIFE, COGNITION AND LANGUAGE. TOWARDS A THEORY OF SOCIALLY INTEGRATED SCIENCE

Based on the biocultural dynamics of Greek poiesis and autopoiesis as evolutionary processes of meaning evaluative (con)figuration, Cognitive Poetics proposes key methodological adjustments, mainly at the philological, ontological and cultural levels. The aim is to improve our understanding of cognitive and conceptual activity and the social foundations of individual language. From its new status as a fundamental metacognitive theory, it searches for a theory of socially integrated sciences from a new alliance as that discerned in current Cognitive Sciences: from Linguistics or Psychology, through Anthropology, Neurophilosophy or Literary Studies, to Neurobiology or Artificial Life Sciences. From a realist turn to a view of cognition as (social) action , it provides new unforeseen accounts of the complex dynamics of human understanding processes studying and analyzing all form of texts as active data
Evaluation Model of the Entrepreneurial Character in EU Countries

The evidence of entrepreneurship development as a factor of sustainable growth at national and regional level frequently calls for the interest of theorists and practitioners on identifying and outlining the best conditions and economic essential prerequisites for supporting the entrepreneurial initiatives on the long term. In this context, the objective of the present research is to analyse and measure the entrepreneurial character of the European Union member countries in an integrated manner, by developing an innovative model for proposing specific action lines and objectively evaluating the entrepreneurship development in the investigated states. Our model is based on a synthesis variable of the entrepreneurial national character, which was developed by sequential application of principal component analysis, while the initial variables are from secondary sources with good conceptual representativeness. Depending on the objective relevance of the three model components (cultural, economic and administrative, and entrepreneurial education components), the achieved results confirm the importance of a favourable cultural and economic and administrative background for entrepreneurship development and they reiterate the inefficiency of isolated entrepreneurial education unless supported by good entrepreneurial culture or adequate economic and administrative infrastructure. The case of Romania, in relation with the European Union member countries, is presented in detail.
Consistency of nonverbal affect and affect reciprocity in marital interaction.

This article reexamines the issue of cross-situational consistency by studying the consistency of the nonverbal behavior of married couples on two tasks, a high-conflict, decision-making task about sex and a low-conflict, nondecision-making, conversational task. Consistency is explored separately for (a) the frequencies of positiveness and negativeness of affect coded from facial expressions, voice-tone cues, and selected body position and movement cues and (b) sequential analyses of positive and negative affect reciprocity. Consistency was found to be highest for negative rather than positive affect and for negative rather than positive affect reciprocity. Furthermore, there was more evidence of consistency across tasks using the sequential rather than the nonsequential variables. This article recasts the issue of crosssituational consistency in human behavior in a new mold, that of interpersonal interaction. Also, the question is asked, Does more consistency exist in sequences of be-, havior than in relative frequencies, which collapse the occurrences of the behavior over time? Although many constructs in the area of interpersonal behavior (such as dominance) are discussed theoretically in terms of sequences (e.g., one person's actions influence the other person's subsequent actions), hypotheses about the constructs have usually only been tested for frequency or relative frequency of a selected behavior (e.g., interruptions during a conversation). The present investigation explored the consistency of nonverbal aspects of social! interaction on a high- and a low-conflict task by examining both frequency and sequential measures of the same interactions within married couples. There are several reasons for these experimental choices. The general issue of cross-situati onal consistency of
Evaluation of AIRS Precipitable Water Vapor against Ground-based GPS Measurements over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surroundings (Special Issue on Japan-China Meteorological Disaster Reduction Corporation Research Center Project (JICA/Tibet Project))

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on board the Aqua satellite provides the estimate of precipitable water vapor (PWV), which can be assimilated into numerical prediction models to improve precipitation forecasts. In this study, the AIRS retrieval of PWV is evaluated against ground-based GPS measurements at 24 stations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its surroundings. First, the PWV estimates from the GPS delay signals at these stations are improved by applying a new scheme for computing the water-vapor-weighted mean atmosphere temperature, a key parameter in the GPS PWV retrieval. Compared with a traditional retrieval, this revision can improve the PWD estimate by up to 6% in some cases. Second, the newly retrieved PWV data are used to evaluate the AIRS product. Prior to the evaluation, an elevation correction is made to these GPS PWV data to account
X-ray spectroscopy of MXB 1728-34 with XMM-Newton

We analyzed an XMM-Newton observation of the low-mass X-ray binary and atoll source MXB 1728–34. The source was in a lowluminosity state during the XMM-Newton observation, corresponding to a bolometric X-ray luminosity of 5 × 10 36 d 2.1 kpc erg s −1 . The 1–11 keV X-ray spectrum of the source, obtained combining data from all the five instruments on-board XMM-Newton ,i s well fitted by a Comptonized continuum. Evident residuals are present at 6−7 keV, which are ascribed to the presence of a broad iron emission line. This feature can be equally well fitted by a relativistically smeared line or by a self-consistent, relativistically smeared reflection model. Under the hypothesis that the iron line is produced by reflection from the inner accretion disk, we can infer important information on the physical parameters of the system, such as the inner disk radius, Rin = 25−100 km, and the inclination of the system, 44 ◦ < i < 60 ◦ .
Theory of reasoned acTion for conTinuous improvemenT capabiliTies: a behavioral approach

The importance of interaction between Operations Management (OM) and Human Behavior has been recently re-addressed. This paper introduced the Reasoned Action Theory suggested by Froehle and Roth (2004) to analyze Operational Capabilities exploring the suitability of this model in the context of OM. It also seeks to discuss the behavioral aspects of operational capabilities from the perspective of organizational routines. This theory was operationalized using Fishbein and Ajzen (F/A) behavioral model and a multi-case strategy was employed to analyze the Continuous Improvement (CI) capability. The results posit that the model explains partially the CI behavior in an operational context and some contingency variables might influence the general relations among the variables involved in the F/A model. Thus intention might not be the determinant variable of behavior in this context. ABSTRACT Submitted 22.12. 2011. Approved 16.08. 2012 Evaluated in double blind review Scientific Editor: André Lucirton Costa
Eigenvalue criteria for existence of multiple positive solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems of local and nonlocal type

New criteria are established for the existence of multiple positive solutions of a Hammerstein integral equation of the form $$ u(t)= \int_{0}^1 k(t,s)g(s)f(s,u(s))ds \equiv Au(t) $$ where $k$ can have discontinuities in its second variable and $g \in L^{1}$. These criteria are determined by the relationship between the behaviour of $f(t,u)/u$ as $u$ tends to $0^+$ or $\infty$ and the principal (positive) eigenvalue of the linear Hammerstein integral operator $$ Lu(t)=\int_{0}^1 k(t,s)g(s)u(s)ds. $$ We obtain new results on the existence of multiple positive solutions of a second order differential equation of the form $$ u''(t)+g(t)f(t,u(t))=0 \quad\text{a.e. on } [0,1], $$ subject to general separated boundary conditions and also to nonlocal $m$-point boundary conditions. Our results are optimal in some cases. This work contains several new ideas, and gives a {\it unified} approach applicable to many BVPs.
Acreage Response under Varying Risk Preferences

The assumption in standard expected utility model formulations that the coefficient of risk aversion is a constant is potentially unrealistic. This study takes the standard linear expected meanvariance problem and replaces the coefficient of risk aversion with a function of risk aversion, allowing risk to be depicted as a constraint that farmers face. Treating output prices as stochastic, the theoretical formulation measures the impact price variability itself has on risk preferences. Acreage response elasticities are also estimated as a function of prices and price variances using U.S. county-level data for corn, soybean, and wheat producers.
EFFECT OF CHITOSAN COATING CONTAINING ACTIVE AGENTS ON MICROBIAL GROWTH, RANCIDITY AND MOISTURE LOSS OF MEATBALL DURING STORAGE

Edible coatings based on chitosan were applied on meatball product in order to preserve quality during storages atambient and refrigeration temperatures. To improve its efficacy, chitosan coatings were incorporated with garlic oil0.2%, potassium sorbate 0.1 % and nisin 51,000 IU. The qualities of meatball assessed were total microbial growth, TBA value and percentage of moisture loss. All chitosan coatings suppressed microbial growth in meatball and strong- ly revealed when stored at refrigeration temperature. Incorporating garlic oil 0.2% into chitosan coating resulted in a greater reduction of rancidity level in meatball for both storages. Moisture loss of meatball was significantly reduced by all chitosan coatings and obviously shown when stored at refrigeration temperature.
Hedge Funds and the Asian Currency Crisis of 1997

We test the hypothesis that hedge funds were responsible for the crash in the Asian currencies in late 1997. To do so, we develop estimates of the changing positions of the largest ten currency funds in one currency, the Malaysian ringgit and to a basket of Asian currencies. Our methodology is adapted from the Sharpe's (1992) style analysis approach that decomposes fund returns. We find that the net long or short positions in the ringgit or its correlates did fluctuate dramatically over the last four years. However, these fluctuations were not associated with moves in the exchange rate. The estimated net positions of the major funds were not unusual during the crash period, nor were the profits of the funds during the crisis. In sum, we find no empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that George Soros, or any other hedge fund manager was responsible for the crisis.
CLIMATE PREFERENCES FOR TOURISM: AN EXPLORATORY TRI-NATION COMPARISON

This study examines tourist perceptions of optimal climatic conditions for tourism and the relative importance of four climatic parameters (air temperature, precipitation, sunshine, wind) in three major tourism environments (beach-coastal, urban, mountains). A survey instrument was administered to 831 university students representative of the young-adult travel segment, in three countries (Canada, New Zealand, Sweden). Three salient findings included: the perceived optimum climatic conditions varied significantly among the three major tourism environments, the relative importance of the four climatic parameters was not the same in the three tourism environments, and the climatic preferences of respondents from the three nations were found to be consistent in some ways but varied significantly in others. The findings have a number of important implications for the literature on climate and tourism, including the development of climate indices for tourism, the definition of single optimal climate for global tourism, and climate change impact assessments. We believe that with a broader cross-cultural sample of tourist segments, this approach holds much promise for revealing the detailed complexities of tourist preferences for climate.