Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PENGARUH KUALITAS PRODUK DAN HARGA TERHADAP MINAT BELI ULANG BANDENG JUWANA VACCUM MELALUI KEPUASAN KONSUMEN SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING (STUDI KASUS PADA PELANGGAN PT. BANDENG JUWANA ELRINA SEMARANG)

Culinary business is one of businesses that keep growing in Semarang. With the large amount of natural resources, that is ikan bandeng (milkfish), causing culinary business named bandeng duri lunak (milkfish with soft bone) more popular. PT. Bandeng Juwana Elrina is one of food business that made ikan bandeng as their basic material to create a special food from Semarang. From the sales data of Bandeng Juwana Vaccum (kg) in year 2014 to 2016, it happened to fluctuated, or the sale is not steady from time to time. The purpose of this research is to find out about the influences of the quality and the price of the product to the willingness of people to buy the product repeatedly through the satisfaction of the buyers of PT. Bandeng Juwana Elrina in Semarang. The type of research that used for this research is explanatory research, and there are 100 samples. Sampling technique that used for this research is purposive sampling and accidental sampling. The techniques of the data collection are the study of library, questionnaire, and interview. The techniques of the data analysis are through cross-tabulation test, correlation test, determination test, simple linear regression test, t test, F test, and sobel test by A.F. Hayes with the help of IBM SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) program version 22.0. The results of this research showed that there is a positive influence between the quality and price of the product on customer satisfaction partially and simultaneously. The results also indicate that there is a positive influence between product quality and price on repurchase intention partially and simultaneous. Based on the results of the analysis of sobel test, it is known that the variable of customer satisfaction is the partial mediation variable that is able to mediate the effect of product quality on repurchase intention with Z value equal to 3,2611 bigger than t table (1,9845) and p value equal to 0,0011 bigger from 0.05. Meanwhile, the variable of consumer satisfaction is the full mediation variable that is able to mediate the influence of price on repurchase intention with the value of Z equal to 2,7835 bigger than t table (1,9845) and the value of p equal to 0.0054 is greater than 0.05. The advice given is to maintain the good quality of the product and observe the prices that are considered more expensive compared to other brands in order to boost up the repurchase intention.
Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Researchers’ Academic Outcomes and Perceptions of Their Research Mentoring Relationships

Few studies have empirically investigated the specific factors in mentoring relationships between undergraduate researchers (mentees) and their mentors in the biological and life sciences that account for mentees’ positive academic and career outcomes. Using archival evaluation data from more than 400 mentees gathered over a multi-year period (2005–2011) from several undergraduate biology research programs at a large, Midwestern research university, we validated existing evaluation measures of the mentored research experience and the mentor–mentee relationship. We used a subset of data from mentees (77% underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities) to test a hypothesized social cognitive career theory model of associations between mentees’ academic outcomes and perceptions of their research mentoring relationships. Results from path analysis indicate that perceived mentor effectiveness indirectly predicted post-baccalaureate outcomes via research self-efficacy beliefs. Findings are discussed with implications for developing new and refining existing tools to measure this impact, programmatic interventions to increase the success of culturally diverse research mentees and future directions for research.
Bridging Practice and Process Research to Study Transient Manifestations of Strategy

Research Summary: At the intersection of Strategy Process (SP) and Strategy‐as‐Practice (SAP) research lies the focal phenomenon they share—strategy, which manifests itself in a variety of ways: intended, realized, deliberate, emergent, unrealized, and ephemeral strategy. We present a methodology comprised of three stages that, when integrated in the manner we suggest, permit a rich operationalization and tracking of strategy content for all manifestations. We illustrate the utility of our methodology for bridging SP and SAP research by theorizing practices that are more likely to give rise to unrealized and ephemeral strategy, identifying their likely consequences, and presenting a research agenda for studying these transient manifestations. Managerial Summary: Managers know well that, sometimes for good reasons and other times with negative consequences for organizations, not all aspects of strategic plans are implemented with fidelity, resulting in unrealized strategy; and not all bottom‐up projects receive the middle‐management support they need to become realized, resulting in ephemeral strategy making. Surprisingly, however, these transient manifestations of strategy receive little attention in the scholarly literature. Our paper addresses this gap by presenting a methodology for tracking all six manifestations of strategy (intended, realized, deliberate, emergent, unrealized, and ephemeral strategy), highlighting the interdependent relations among them. It also describes strategy making practices that are likely to give rise to the two transient manifestations, i.e., unrealized and ephemeral strategy, as well as their consequences for subsequent strategy making.
The Effects of Availability and Trust on Stock Market Participation: A cross-sectional study based on China

This paper investigates the effects of behavioral finances on stock market participation by employing data from China Family Panel Study (CFPS). Availability and trust are chosen as the target variables to explain the participation problems in the stock market. The study finds evidence that financial service availability and individual trust have positive influences on the stock market participation decisions. Further, when compared with financial service availability, regional economic advance does not show a significant impact on the participation rate. Additionally, a counter-intuitive finding is that females are more likely to participate in the stock market as family head in China.
Estrogen Receptor Expression in 21-Gene Recurrence Score Predicts Increased Late Recurrence for Estrogen-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer

Purpose: To identify the individual genes or gene modules that lead to the OncoptypeDx 21-gene recurrence score's reduced performance after 5 years and thereby identify indices of residual risk that may guide selection of patients for extended adjuvant therapy. Experimental Design: We conducted a retrospective assessment of the relationship between (i) the individual genes and gene modules of the Recurrence Score and (ii) early (0–5 years) and late (5–10 years) recurrence rates in 1,125 postmenopausal patients with primary estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer treated with anastrozole or tamoxifen in the Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or Combined (ATAC) randomized clinical trial. Results: In the HER2-negative population (n = 1,009), estimates of recurrence risk were similar between years 0–5 and 5–10 for proliferation and invasion modules but markedly different for the estrogen module and genes within it (all split at the median): for low estrogen module, annual recurrence rates were similar across the two time windows (2.06% vs. 2.46%, respectively); for high estrogen module, annual rates were 1.14% versus 2.72%, respectively (Pinteraction = 0.004). Estrogen receptor transcript levels showed inverse prediction across the time windows: HR, 0.88 (0.73–1.07) and 1.19 (0.99–1.43), respectively (Pinteraction = 0.03). Similar time-, module-, and estrogen-dependent relationships were seen for distant recurrence. Conclusions: Patients with tumors with high estrogen receptor transcript levels benefit most from 5 years' endocrine therapy but show increased recurrence rates after 5 years and may benefit from extended therapy. Improved prognostic profiles may be created by considering period of treatment and follow-up time. Clin Cancer Res; 21(12); 2763–70. ©2015 AACR.
Importance of Socioeconomic Status and Tree Holes in Distribution of Aedes Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract Immature Aedes mosquitoes were found in domestic, peridomestic, and tree hole habitats within three socioeconomic strata of Jodhpur, a city within an arid area of Rajasthan, India, endemic for dengue. Peridomestic habitats served as a persistent source of Aedes vectors, especially those used for watering cows for religious reasons that were located within high socioeconomic areas. Domestic (indoor) containers within low socioeconomic strata showed a higher container index (27.0%) than periurban areas with cattle sheds (14.3%) or high socioeconomic areas (18.1%). Mosquitoes were collected in tree holes at zoos and gardens supporting several species of monkeys. Six of 67 Aedes albopictus Skuse reared from immatures collected in tree holes tested positive for dengue antigen acquired through vertical transmission, possibly indicating a persistence mechanism for dengue virus within an urban environment.
Female chess players outperform expectations when playing men

“Stereotype threat” has been offered as a potential explanation of differential performance between men and women in some cognitive domains. Questions remain about the reliability and generality of the phenomenon. Previous studies have found that stereotype threat is activated in female chess players when they are matched against male players. I use data from over 5.5 million games of international tournament chess and find no evidence of a stereotype threat effect. In fact women players outperform expectations when playing men. Further analysis shows no influence of degree of challenge, nor of player age, nor of prevalence of female role models in national chess leagues on differences in performance when women play men versus when they play women. Though this analysis contradicts one specific mechanism of influence of gender stereotypes, the persistent differences between male and female players suggest that systematic factors do exist and remain to be uncovered.
Factors affecting health tourism and international health-care facility choice

Purpose Health-care tourism has become a major industry in the past decade. Following the increasing activity in health-care tourism, the decision-making process of consumers in choosing an international health-care facility has become increasingly important to the related parties. The present study aims to offer a holistic model of international health-care facility choice that incorporates the important dimensions by assessing the growth drivers and the alternative factors proposed in the literature and by validating them via a survey study. Design/methodology/approach The factors deemed important in the existing literature were used as the basis of a study in Turkey. In total, 65 structured interviews were conducted with health-care professionals and international health tourists to understand the perspective of the two important parties that affect policymaking. Findings The findings of the study support the significance of the majority of the variables proposed as important factors affecting international health-care facility choice. Research limitations/implications The study was carried out in four large hospital chains in Turkey; however, this creates a limitation in scope and may have limited representativeness of the overall market. The model has yet to be tested on a larger scale. Practical implications There are significant differences in the opinions of professionals and international health-care tourists in terms of choice criteria. This indicates problems with health professionals’ understanding of the consumer decision process. Originality/value The study provides a model that can be used to gain insights on the consumer decision process and also provides the policymakers and stakeholders of the international health-care industry with a sound theoretical foundation to build further studies upon. Only a limited number of studies was carried out in Turkey that focus on international health-care tourism, and the present study will fill a substantial research gap.
Fracture Rates and Lifetime Estimations of CAD/CAM All-ceramic Restorations

The gathering of clinical data on fractures of dental restorations through prospective clinical trials is a labor- and time-consuming enterprise. Here, we propose an unconventional approach for collecting large datasets, from which clinical information on indirect restorations can be retrospectively analyzed. The authors accessed the database of an industry-scale machining center in Germany and obtained information on 34,911 computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) all-ceramic posterior restorations. The fractures of bridges, crowns, onlays, and inlays fabricated from different all-ceramic systems over a period of 3.5 y were reported by dentists and entered in the database. Survival analyses and estimations of future life revealed differences in performance among ZrO2-based restorations and lithium disilicate and leucite-reinforced glass-ceramics.
Collisions Among Random Walks on a Graph

A token located at some vertex $v $ of a connected, undirected graph G on n vertices is said to be taking a “random walk” on G if, whenever it is instructed to move, it moves with equal probability to any of the neighbors of $v $. The authors consider the following problem: Suppose that two tokens are placed on G, and at each tick of the clock a certain demon decides which of them is to make the next move. The demon is trying to keep the tokens apart as long as possible. What is the expected time M before they meet? The problem arises in the study of self-stabilizing systems, a topic of recent interest in distributed computing. Since previous upper bounds for M were exponential in n, the issue was to obtain a polynomial bound. The authors use a novel potential function argument to show that in the worst case $M = ( \frac{4}{27} + o ( 1 ) )n^3 $.
Towards Robustness for Cyber-Physical Systems

While the importance of robustness in engineering design is well accepted, it is less clear how to design cyber-physical systems (CPS) for robustness. With the objective of developing a robustness theory for CPS, we introduce a notion of robustness for cyber systems inspired by existing notions of input-output stability in control theory. We show that the proposed notion of robustness captures two intuitive goals: bounded disturbances lead to bounded deviations from nominal behavior, and the effect of a sporadic disturbance disappears in finitely many steps. For cyber systems modeled as finite-state transducers, the proposed notion of robustness can be verified in pseudo-polynomial time. The synthesis problem, consisting of designing a controller enforcing robustness, can also be solved in pseudo-polynomial time.
Competition, Financial Constraints and Misallocation: Plant-level Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

This paper studies the dual impact of increased competition on aggregate output in a setting with both oligopolistic competition and financial constraints. In the absence of financial constraints, more competition unambiguously increases output by reducing markup levels, which increases aggregate capital. However, with financial constraints, stronger competition reduces the profitability of constrained firms and thereby slows down their rate of self-financed capital growth. Extensive reduced-form evidence confirms the theoretical predictions, including evidence from the pro-competitive impact of an industrial policy reform in India. In line with the theory, this reform reduces markup levels and dispersion, and slows capital growth. The quantitative analysis demonstrates that allocative efficiency declines with competition, but this negative effect on output is initially more than offset by a higher aggregate capital level due to lower markups. However, when firms have fixed operating costs, capital growth slows down drastically with competition, which eventually reduces aggregate capital. In this setting, less access to finance implies a lower optimal degree of competition.
Petrology and Chemistry of Metasomatic Blocks from Bawshir, Northeastern Oman

Several types of Ca-rich, metasomatically altered rocks occur as blocks or reaction zones in a serpentinite-matrix mélange in the Bawshir-Al-Khuwair area, west of Ruwi in northeastern Oman. Type A rodingites contain mainly hydrogarnet, with smaller amounts of diopside, tremolite ± pumpellyite ± prehnite. Type B rocks contain more diopside ± tremolite and smaller amounts of hydrogarnet. Type C nephrites consist chiefly of tremolite and have a distinctive botryoidal texture. Quartzite blocks in this mélange were also affected by Ca-metasomatism, and contain variable amounts of tremolite, hydrogarnet, chlorite, and clinozoisite. Relatively immobile trace and rare-earth element contents of these rocks suggest that the protoliths of types A and B metasomatic rocks were ocean-island basalts, whereas type C nephrites represent metasomatized serpentinites. Isocon diagrams show that all metasomatic rocks formed by the addition of Ca ± Mg ± volatiles, and leaching of almost all other elements to variable degrees. Field and textural relations interpreted with an activity-corrected petrogenetic grid in the system CMASH suggest that metasomatism took place in stages over a range of P-T conditions, beginning at 220-310°C and 3-6 kbar, and ending at 250-310°C, P < 3.2 kbar. Diffusion of Ca2+ out of the serpentinizing peridotites into blocks of basalts and quartzites was the primary cause of early metasomatism, which overlapped with high P/T metamorphism of the same blocks. Infiltration of low-salinity aqueous fluids was partly responsible for the latest stages of metasomatism, which took place during exhumation, and continued after the final emplacement of the ophiolite.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND FIRM PERFORMANCE

How to cite this paper: Buallay, A. M. (2017). The relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance. Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review, 1(1), 32-41. http://doi.org/10.22495/cgobr_v1_i1_p4 Copyright © 2017 Virtus Interpress.
Is cochlear implantation safe and effective in the elderly?

BACKGROUND Significant hearing loss is prevalent among patients aged 65 years and is increasingly recognized as having unique implications for physical, social, and cognitive health. It is estimated that 25% of individuals aged 65 to 75 years, and up to 80% of those aged>75 years, experience hearing loss. Up to 10% of these individuals experience hearing loss too severe for adequate rehabilitation with conventional hearing aids (HAs). As the proportion of the population in this cohort continues to increase, due to improved overall longevity and other demographic trends, both the individual and public health burden of hearing loss will continue to grow in scope and importance. To date, research suggests that elderly individuals with poor word understanding (despite amplification with conventional HA) may benefit from cochlear implantation (CI) Reticence to subject the elderly individuals to general anesthesia for elective procedures (e.g. CI) may reflect a misperception of perioperative risk in this population, thereby unnecessarily restricting this technology from older hearing-impaired adults. In addition, suspicion regarding neuronal loss and degenerative processes in the central and peripheral auditory systems has led to concerns regarding postoperative performance in this aging population.
Changes of the t‐wave amplitude and angle: An early marker of altered ventricular repolarization in hypertension

Background: The heterogeneity of ventricular repolarization is an important proarrhythmic factor. QT dispersion has been proposed to reflect the inhomogeneity of ventricular repolarization, but a poor reproducibility limits its clinical applicability. Reliable noninvasive methods to quantify abnormalities in ventricular repolarization are still lacking. The T‐loop morphology analysis is a novel method aimed at quantifying ventricular repolarization.
Window function and interpolation algorithm for OFDM frequency-offset correction

In orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) digital communication systems, an uncorrected frequency offset can lead to a severe degradation of the system performance. The paper describes a technique to mitigate the influence of frequency offset on system performance by applying a weighted discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to a novel OFDM frequency-assignment scheme in which null carriers are regularly inserted among modulated data carriers. This frequency-assignment scheme makes possible the application of a window function at the demodulator to broaden the signal spectrum and renders the demodulated signal more immune to the influence of frequency offset. In addition, a variant of this frequency-assignment scheme also leads to a DFT-based measurement technique for easy and accurate determination of the frequency offset. Interpolation algorithms and frequency-assignment schemes suitable for both initial frequency acquisition and subsequent frequency tracking are described in detail. The Rife and Vincent (Class-I) windows (see Rife, D.C. and Vincent, G.A., Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol.49, p.197-228, 1976) are examined and their estimation results are obtained for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and a multipath fading channel.
Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany

This study analyzes the effect of child care costs on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002). Child care costs are estimated on the basis of a sample selection model. A structural household utility model, which is embedded in a detailed tax-benefit model, is used for labor supply estimation. In contrast to a previous German study, I find significant effects of child care costs on mother's labor supply. Compared to other countries such as the US, Canada or the UK, the effects are rather small, which can be explained by the fact that child care costs are already heavily subsidized in Germany.
Networks symbiosis capability as mediator between strategic alliance and business performance: empirical study on ikat industry in Bali and Aast Nusa Tenggara

Purpose - The trend of increasing cooperation between companies in the form of strategic partnership is currently considered as a response to the rapid changes on business environment. However, there are still contradictions on both the business phenomenon and the research result. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine the mediating role of networks symbiosis capability in bridging the relationship of strategic alliance and business performance Methodology - The population of this research are tenun ikat businesses in the province of East Nusa Tenggara and Bali. The samples are 200 respondents in the Region of Sumba Timur, Kota Madya Kupang, Region of Gianyar and Klungkung. Data were collected with the use of questionnaires and analyzed using structural equation analysis with AMOS V.21. Findings- The results show that the strategic alliances built by ikat businesses have no impact on the improvement of business performance. However, the network symbiosis capability plays a significant mediating role in bridging the relationship between strategic alliances and business performance. Conclusion- Strategically, SMEs can improve business performance by developing the network symbiosis capability as a resource for their companies.