Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Conflict and Control: Examining the Association Between Exposure to Television Portraying Interpersonal Conflict and the Use of Controlling Behaviors in Romantic Relationships

Based on content analyses examining the type and amount of relational conflicts featured in popular television (Brinson, 1992; Brinson & Winn, 1997; Comstock & Strzyzewski, 1990; Fine, 1981; Greenberg, Buerkel-Rothfuss, Neuendorf, & Atkin, 1980; Sherry & De Souza, 2005), the present study investigated the link between exposure to television that is high in interpersonal conflict and viewers' use of relational control in their romantic relationships. The results demonstrate a small but statistically significant relationship between exposure to interpersonal-conflict television and relational control, even after controlling for demographic, relationship, and personality variables. Further, the results demonstrate that the main relationship was moderated by viewers' perceived realism of television. Theoretical implications are discussed.
Role of Some Wild Herbal Extracts in Management of American Foulbrood in Honeybee Colonies

Citation: Egypt. Acad. J. Biolog. Sci. (A. Entomology) Vol. 10(2)pp: 114 (2017) Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences is the official English language journal of the Egyptian Society for Biological Sciences, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Sciences Ain Shams University. Entomology Journal publishes original research papers and reviews from any entomological discipline or from directly allied fields in ecology, behavioral biology, physiology, biochemistry, development, genetics, systematics, morphology, evolution, control of insects, arachnids, and general entomology. www.eajbs. eg.net Provided for non-commercial research and education use. Not for reproduction, distribution or commercial use.
Efficiency and Seasonality in the Balearic Hospitality Industry/Eficiencia y estacionalidad en la industria hotelera balear

Efficiency is one of the most decisive factors in an industry’s productivity and competitiveness. However, Spanish and international economic literature has given little attention to measuring efficiency in some fields of activity, like the lodging industry due to the intangible nature of its services. The aim of this paper is to measure the technical efficiency of a sample of fifty mid-range Balearic tourist accommodation units specializing in the sun and sand market using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and to explain observed differences in the results according to seasonal patterns in tourism activities and other characteristics of the accommodation units. La eficiencia es uno de los factores que incide de forma mas decisiva sobre las ganancias de productividad y competitividad de una industria. Sin embargo, en algunos segmentos de actividad, como el de la hosteleria, la medicion de la eficiencia ha sido escasamente tratada por la literatura economica aplicada, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, debido, en gran medida, al caracter intangible de las actividades de servicios. En este contexto, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo medir la eficiencia tecnica de una muestra de cincuenta establecimientos de alojamiento turistico de las Islas Baleares, a partir de la aplicacion del analisis envolvente de datos (DEA) y explicar las diferencias observadas en los resultados de acuerdo al patron estacional de la actividad turisitica y a otras caracteristicas de los establecimientos de alojamiento considerados.
Further studies on the plasma biochemistry of the african giant rat( Cricetomys gambianus, Waterhouse)

Blood samples collected from the orbital sinus of sixteen mature immature male and female African giant rats were analyzed for the levels of some enzyme and metabolite of nine of their plasma. The alkaline phosphate (ALP) level in the immature group was significantly higher (P 0.05) sex differences were evident in the mean values of ALP, AST, ALT, CK, BUN, U.A, CHOLES, TRIG and TBL. The mean value of ALP in adult male was significantly (P while TRG was significantly (P sex difference in the mean value of ALP in immature females compared to the ALP value in adult males. Likewise, the mean values of ALT and TRIG, were significantly (P 0.05) age differences were evident, with higher plasma levels of ALP, ASP and ALT in immature males and lower BUN level in adult males.
A Survey on the Modeling of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Circuit Simulation

Spin-transfer torque-based magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) is a promising candidate for universal memory that may replace traditional memory forms. It is expected to provide high-speed operation, scalability, low-power dissipation, and high endurance. MRAM switching technology has evolved from the field-induced magnetic switching (FIMS) technique to the spin-transfer torque (STT) switching technique. Additionally, material technology that induces perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) facilitates low-power operation through the reduction of the switching current density. In this paper, the modeling of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is reviewed. Modeling methods and models of MTJ characteristics are classified into two groups, macromodels and behavioral models, and the most important characteristics of MTJs, the voltage-dependent MTJ resistance and the switching behavior, are compared. To represent the voltage dependency of MTJ resistance, some models are based on physical mechanisms, such as Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation or voltage-dependent conductance. Some behavioral models are constructed by adding fitting parameters or introducing new physical parameters to represent the complex switching behavior of an MTJ over a wide range of input current conditions. Other models that are not based on physical mechanisms are implemented by simply fitting to experimental data.
Degree of Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty, A Comparison of Foreign vs Local Banks in Ghana

High service quality leads to competitive advantage as customers feel satisfied and thus are more probable to further buy the company’s services, to recommend them to others and to ignore competitors’ offerings. The focus of this study was to empirically determine the degree of service quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty among retail banking customers and to compare the individual levels of these constructs between foreign and local banks in Ghana. This study employed a set of survey questionnaire to collect raw data from 1,020 bank customers for analysis. The GAP analysis was used to identify the levels of service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Comparisons were then made between foreign banks and their local counterparts. Comparatively, service quality and customer loyalty are higher in foreign banks than in local banks. On the other hand, the local banks performed better than their foreign counterparts on customer satisfaction. But for two banks, the levels of service quality and customer satisfaction are higher across the banking industry of Ghana with respective mean scores of 5.42 and 5.51, against a scale mean of 5.0. The same cannot be said of customer loyalty, which recorded very poor results with overall mean score of 4.62. Banks are generally advised to work at improving the levels of service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, as these remain key ingredients for bank performance. Keywords: Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Retail Banking
Enhanced Loop Structure of NFC Antenna for Mobile Handset Applications

A new structure of an NFC loop antenna for mobile handset applications is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of conventional loop elements and a parasitic loop embedded capacitor to enhance its performance. Although the sintered ferrite sheets with higher relative permeability have been used to reduce the performance deterioration due to the eddy current on the battery pack of a mobile handset, their costs are high, and they are considerably breakable. In this paper, with the proposed structure, we effectively enhance the performance of an NFC loop antenna by employing the ferrite-polymer composite with lower relative permeability .
Stellar X-ray heating of planet atmospheres

Aims. To investigate the effects of the stellar X-ray irradiation on planet atmospheres, we study the X-ray transfer and energy deposition in a hydrogen rich gas. Methods. We construct an accurate X-ray transfer model taking both photoionization and Compton scattering into account; the electron energy deposition is followed by tracking the discrete exchange processes between electrons and the gas mixture. Results. Exospheric heating rates are derived as functions of the pressure in model atmospheres using a wide range of X-ray luminosity, spectral hardness representative of different stellar ages, and distances from the parent star. The computed heating rates suggest that X-ray irradiation might be an important heating source in planetary exospheres even at large distances from the parent star.
Personality Predictors of School Loneliness in Adolescent Students

This time-lagged study explores the role of the big-five factors of personality in predicting school loneliness in adolescent students. Personality data were gathered on 203 Israeli high-school students towards the beginning of the school year. Four months later, data were gathered on self-reported loneliness in school. Overall, these data support the conclusion that personality variables are meaningfully related to school-related loneliness in adolescents. Thus, consistent with our predictions, adolescents higher on extraversion and agreeableness were also lower on loneliness, whereas those higher on neuroticism were also higher on loneliness. A surprising positive relationship between openness and loneliness, when controlling for other personality factors, was found in the study, attributed to suppressor effects.
VARIATIONS IN THE CLINICAL AND ANAESTHETIC PARAMETERS DURING ADMINISTRATION OF ROPIVACAINE AND FENTANYL AS LUMBOSACRAL ANAESTHESIA IN GOATS

The aim of study was to assess the quality of analgesia and record the alteration in clinico-anesthetic indices following epidural administration of ropivacaine alone and its combination with fentanyl. A total of 10 clinically healthy goats of 1-3 years aged and weighing between 10-15 kg were used for the present experiment. All the animals were randomly divided into two groups of five animals each. Ropivacaine (0.75%) @ 1 mg/kg BW was administered epidurally at the lumbosacral space in group 1 whereas, the animals of group 2 were given fentanyl @ 2 μg/kg BW in combination with ropivacaine hydrochloride (1 mg/kg BW). Rectal temperature, respiration rate and heart rate showed nonsignificant (P>0.05) variations in both the groups. Duration of analgesia in the different parts of hindquarter was longer in group II as compared to group I. Analgesia, motor incoordination and sedation depicted greater degree in group II. The results suggest that the ropivacaine alone or in combination with fentanyl produced effective analgesia (sensory and motor) of different parts of the hindquarters with little effect on physiology. However, the combination groups manifested higher degree of analgesia, motor incoordination and sedation.
Effects of Reward and Punishment on Conflict Processing: Same or Different?

While it is commonly known that reward and punishment are two effective motivators of behavior, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of reward and punishment in conflict processing. Here, we examined what roles reward and punishment played in this cognitive process by using a revised version of Stroop task. Confining to incongruent trials, explicit reward association in task-relevant dimension obstructed the processing of conflict information in Experiment 1, while the explicit punishment association in task-relevant dimension enhanced the conflict processing relative to the no-punishment condition in Experiment 2, suggesting the mechanisms of reward and punishment are different from each other with the possible involvement of particularly used strategy. Additionally, both reward associations and punishment associations to task-irrelevant dimension showed faster response time in conflict processing, which likely reflected the roles of reward and punishment were the same when they were implicitly related to conflict processing. Such results document that the effects of reward and punishment on conflict processing are modulated by the involvement of consciousness, supporting the flexible roles of reward and punishment in conflict processing.
A novel intelligent approach for detecting DoS flooding attacks in software-defined networks

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that provides an advanced programming capability and moves the control functionality to a centralized controller. This paper proposes a two-stage novel intelligent approach that takes advantage of the SDN approach to detect Denial of Service (DoS) flooding attacks based on calculation of packet rate as the first step and followed by Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification as the second step. Flow concept is an essential idea in OpenFlow protocol, which represents a common interface between an SDN switch and an SDN controller. Therefore, our system calculates the packet rate of each flow based on flow statistics obtained by SDN controller. Once the packet rate exceeds a predefined threshold, the system will activate the packet inspection unit, which, in turn, will use the (SVM) algorithm to classify the previously collected packets. The experimental results showed that our system was able to detect DoS flooding attacks with 96.25% accuracy and 0.26% false alarm rate.
Risk Disclosure Practices in Annual Reports of Listed Companies: Evidence from a Developing Country

Introduction of IFRS 7 by International Accounting Standards Board adds to the quality of risk disclosure practices to be exercises by all preparers of financial statements. It is expected to provide potential investors the opportunity to better evaluate financial risk exposures of entities holding material financial assets and liabilities. Our main objective was to evaluate the quality of risk reporting practices of Macedonian listed entities subsequent to introduction of IFRS 2009 and provide empirical evidence on the state of compliance with IFRS 7 requirements. This paper investigates the factors that influence the quality of disclosures related to risks arising from financial instruments provided by Macedonian listed companies in their financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). We have constructed a disclosure index for each listed company based on IFRS 7 requirements. The regression analysis includes variables representing some characteristics of listed companies investigated, such as their size, industry, type of auditor engaged, ownership concentration, profitability and leverage. We have concluded that the level of compliance with risk disclosure requirements is related to the type of auditor engaged and ownership concentration in investigated companies. The research highlighted areas of financial reporting practice that could be improved by most listed companies in order to be fully compliant with IFRS requirements. Key words: financial risks, disclosure indices, company characteristics
Evaluation of the Knowledge and Perceptions about Pharmacovigilance Activities among Pharmacy Students in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study

Studies on pharmacovigilance (PV) activities in Nigeria focused on perceptions of PV among professional healthcare workers are described here. There is paucity of information on pharmacy students’ knowledge about PV activities. Hence, this study, evaluated the knowledge and perceptions of final year pharmacy students about PV activities using descriptive and inferential statistics. A cross sectional study was undertaken in three Nigerian universities with a pretested questionnaire during the period of January and February, 2016. The questionnaire included closed-ended questions on demographic variables and questions designed to achieve the objectives of the study. Data was analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and presented in percentages, means, standard deviations and median at 50% percentile. The mean knowledge score of pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reporting for the final year students was 4.25±0.18. There were significant differences in the mean scores of knowledge domain by age groups 21-24 years 4.8±0.70, 25-30 years 6.2 ± 0.84 and >30 years 4.6±0.72 at p=0.001; gender: male 4.1±1.20 and female 4.4±0.98 at ( p =0.0001) as well as the current universities attended as follows University 1 with a scrore of 5.1±1.03, University 2 had a mean score of 6.3±0.99 at p =0.0120 and University 3 with a mean score of 4.3±1.01 at p =0.012. Furthermore, significant difference exist in the mean values of pharmacovigilance knowledge between those who had taking some courses in pharmacovigilance (7.3± 0.22) and those who did not (4.7 ± 0.13) at p =0.0001. Generally, the students had inadequate knowledge of PV activities. Therefore, emphasis on relevant PV courses in their curriculum is necessary. Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Journal 20 (1): 1-13, 2017
The revival of urban social and neighbourhood movements in Spain: a geographical characterization

The current economic and financial crisis manifests itself specifically in cities and metropolitan areas. As in other ­periods of recession throughout history, one of the characteristic features of this crisis was the bursting of a housing bubble. In Spain, the spectacular construction boom slowed down, and many families could not afford to pay the mortgages on their main or second homes. At the same time, welfare spending was slashed to meet the obligations of the banks and cajas (savings banks) ruined by the property slump. In addition, the unemployment rate rose to above 20 %. As a result of this process, urban space reflects the resurgence of social and political movements of different kinds, ranging from more defensive movements focused on a particular place (against the closure of a company or an eviction order issued to a mortgage victim) to more general movements demanding direct democracy and an end to corruption. These movements fuelled the indignados protest with its camps on the streets of all major cities. This article primarily aims to classify urban social movements in contemporary Spain on the basis of their motives and demands. Secondly, it proposes a presentation of the movements assessing their impact on cities and their preferred demonstration spaces inside the city. Finally, it analyses their political-urban character in relation to local resistance, e.g. in Burgos, demands for urban communal ownership, the occupation of squares and houses, and the focus on creating new political expressions such as mareas ciudadanas (citizen tides) and the Podemos phenomenon.
The Relationship between Ownership Structure and Dividend Policy: An Empirical Investigation

This paper examines the possible association between ownership structure, dividend payout policy. It is also one of the very first examples, which tries to detect any potential association in ownership structure, and well established dividend payout models in context of an emerging market . The present study examines the payout behavior of dividends and the association of ownership structure for Jordanian industrial firms over the period 2005-2009. The results consistently support the potential association between ownership structure and dividend payout policy. The results suggest that ownership structure approach is highly relevant to an understanding of corporate dividends policy in Jordan. More precisely, the results indicate that there is a significantly negative correlation between the institutional ownership and dividend per share, and a significantly negative relationship between the state ownership and the level of dividend distributed to shareholders. The results also indicate that the higher the ownership of the five largest shareholders, the higher the dividend payment. The regression results conducted on five models show a strong effect of the free cash-flow on dividend policy. The empirical evidence about the effect of firm size on the level of dividend shows a negative and significant effect. Larger firms are less likely to pay out dividends. Moreover, those firms with better investment opportunities are more likely to pay dividends and firms with high leverage tend to distribute a lower level of dividends.
Assessing Internet Activities and Its Derived Benefits for Learning Among Secondary School Students in Ilorin South, Kwara State, Nigeria

This study was carried out to investigate students’ internet activities and its benefits on their learning outcomes in a secondary school in Ilorin South, Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey; three research questions were raised to guide the study. There were 256 students for the study sample and the instrument utilized was researchers’ designed questionnaire with 20 items. The statistical tools used for data analysis included frequency count, simple percentage and mean score. The findings showed that students utilized internet for playing games, watching movies and as a place that provides quality learning contents and best answers to their schoolwork among others. Furthermore, the findings indicated that students had many benefits from the internet such as, motivating them to go on adventure, found fun and able to solve many schoolwork/assignments. Based on the findings, the study recommends that students of secondary education should be encouraged to pay attention more to educative activities online than other activities, and get focused on their academics accordingly. The stakeholders in general and secondary school authority in particular should monitor well the activities students engage themselves with online. Keywords: Assessment, Digital technology, Internet activities, Learning outcomes, Benefits
A Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Network and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model on Modeling and Forecasting Exchange Rate

 Abstract — This paper examines the forecasting performance of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) models with the published exchange rate obtained from South African Reserve Bank (SARB). ARIMA is one of the popular linear models in time series forecasting for the past decades. ARIMA and ANN models are often compared and literature revealed mixed results in terms of forecasting performance. The study used the MSE and MAE to measure the forecasting performance of the models. The empirical results obtained reveal the superiority of ARIMA model over ANN model. The findings further resolve and clarify the contradiction reported in literature over the superiority of ARIMA and ANN models.