Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Study of Relationship between Achievement Motivation, Self Concept and Achievement in English and Mathematics at Secondary Level

Abstract The study examined the achievement and its relationship with achievement motivation and academic self concept. The subjects consisted of 336 students (146 males and 172 females) from four public and four private schools of the Sargodha district at secondary level. Intact groups of all eight schools enrolled in 9th grade were involved in the study. An Urdu translated version of ‘Academic Self-Description Questionnaire II’ (Marsh, 1990) and ‘General Achievement Goal Orientation Scale’ (McInerney, 1997) was used for data collection. The results revealed that achievement motivation and self concept were significantly related to academic achievement. Significant gender differences were discovered which were in favor of girls. It was suggested that teachers must use motivational strategies to involve students in academic activities for improving their self concept and grades.
Molecular comparisons of in vivo- and in vitro-derived strains of Aleutian disease of mink parvovirus

DNA from one cell culture-adapted and two pathogenic strains of Aleutian disease of mink parvovirus (ADV) was molecularly cloned into the vectors pUC18 and pUC19. The DNA from the two pathogenic strains (ADV-Utah I and ADV-Pullman) was obtained from virus purified directly from the organs of infected mink, whereas the DNA from the nonpathogenic ADV-G was derived from cell culture material. The cloned segment from all three viruses represented a 3.55-kilobase-pair BamHI (15 map units) to HindIII (88 map units) fragment. Detailed physical mapping studies indicated that all three viruses shared 29 of 46 restriction endonuclease recognition sites but that 6 sites unique to the pathogenic strains and 5 sites unique to ADV-G were clustered in the portion of the genome expected to code for structural proteins. Clones from all three viruses directed the synthesis of two ADV-specific polypeptides with molecular weights of approximately 57 and 34 kilodaltons. Both species reacted with sera from infected mink as well as with a monoclonal antibody specific for ADV structural proteins. Because production of these ADV antigens was detected in both pUC18 and pUC19 and was not influenced by isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) induction, their expression was not regulated by the lac promoter of the pUC vector, but presumably by promoterlike sequences found within the ADV DNA. The proteins specified by the clones of ADV-G were 2 to 3 kilodaltons smaller than those of the two pathogenic strains, although the DNA segments were identical in size. This difference in protein molecular weights may correlate with pathogenicity, because capsid proteins of pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains of ADV exhibit a similar difference.
The Effect of Workload, Auditor Tenure, Specialist Auditor and Public Accounting Firm Size on Audit Report Lag

The purpose of the research is determining the factors that influence audit report lag in manufacturing companies in Indonesia. There are four factors which are workload, auditor tenure, specialist auditor, and size of public accounting firm. The research used 117 companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2013 period. Data collecting method used in this research is purposive sampling, based on criteria which have been determined before.Analysis methods used are descriptive analysis, the assumptions of classical test (such as normality, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity), and multiple linear regressions. The results show that specialist auditor and size of Public accounting Firm influence the audit report lag in Indonesia. In the other hand, workload and auditor tenure have no influence to audit report lag.
The Power of Co-Creation: Build It with Them to Boost Growth, Productivity, and Profits

Apple embraced co-creation to enhance the speed and scope of its innovation, generat-ing over $1 billion for its App-Store partner-developers in two years, even as it overtook Microsoft in market value. Starbucks launched its online platform MyStarbucksIdea.com to tap into ideas from customers and turbocharged a turnaround. Unilever turned to co-creation for redesigning prod-uct lines such as Sunsilk shampoo and revitalized growth. Nike achieved remarkable success with its Nike+ co-creation initiative, which enables a com-munity of over a million runners to interact with one another and the company, increasing its market share by 10 percent in the first year. Co-creation involves redefining the way organizations engage individuals-customers, employees, suppliers, partners, and other stake-holders-bringing them into the process of value creation and engaging them in enriched experi-ences, in order to -formulate new breakthrough strategies -design compelling new products and services -transform management processes -lower risks and costs -increase market share, loyalty, and returns In this pathbreaking book, Venkat Ramaswamy (who coined the term co-creation with C. K. Prahalad) and Francis Gouillart, pioneers in working with com-panies to develop co-creation practices, show how every organization-from large corporation to small firm, and government agency to not-for-profit-can achieve "win more-win more" results with these methods. Based on extraordinary research and the authors' hands-on experiences with successful projects in co-creation at dozens of the world's most exciting organizations, The Power of Co-Creation illustrates with detailed examples from leading firms such as those above, as well as from Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Ama-zon, Jabil, Predica, Wacoal, Caja Navarra, and many others, how enterprises have used a wide range of "engagement platforms"-and how they have even restructured internal management processes-in order to harness the power of co-creation. As the authors' wealth of examples make vividly clear, enterprises can no longer afford to view custom-ers and other stakeholders as passive recipients of their products and services but must learn to engage them in defining and delivering enhanced value. Co-creation goes beyond the conventional "process view" of qual-ity, re-engineering, and lean thinking, and is the essential new mind-set and practice for boosting sus-tainable growth, productivity, and profits in the future.
Dark Trading on Public Exchanges

Over the last decade, market participants increasingly use trading tools that allow them to hide their trading intentions. We study how “dark trading” in the form of fully hidden, or dark, orders posted on a visible exchange affects the quality of the visible market. Dark orders were introduced on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2011 in two stages, allowing us to employ a difference-in-differences approach to isolate the causal effect of the availability of dark trading. Using order-level data, we observe that the introduction of dark orders led to a widening of quoted spreads and an increase in trading costs, leaving depth, volume, and volatility unaffected. At the intra-day level, dark trading leads to decreased quoted spreads, increased depth, increased volume and to reduced trading costs and volatility. We interpret our findings as two sides of the same coin: the possible presence of dark liquidity causes market participants to post visible quotes more carefully. Upon detecting dark executions, however, traders infer that dark liquidity is diminished and thus post quotes more aggressively.
Financial Liberalisation and Determinants of Investment: An Enquiry into Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing Sector

The main objective of a shift from a controlled regime to a more liberal regime in the financial sector was to promote investment in the economy. The studies on the determinants of private investment in developing countries, against the traditional theories of investment, focussed on the role of government policy and tried to derive an explicit relationship between the principal policy instruments and private investment. Recent theoretical and empirical studies have produced results consistent with the idea that the economic policy of a nation is crucial in determining the domestic investment behaviour. These studies emphasised the role of financial sector development on private investment, and provide a framework for understanding the effects of changes in economic policies on private investment. In the present paper we study the determinants of manufacturing investment in the light of financial sector liberalization introduced in 1991. The results indicate that traditional determinants like output, profit etc still play a major role in determining investment than financial sector liberalization. Though the domestic financial liberalisation produced an environment conducive for investment, it could not succeeded in creating a sustained increase in capital formation in the post reform period. In other words, firms consider the demand factor, internal liquidity position and past investment decisions etc as the major indicators for future investment.
Binge Eating Among Racial Minority Groups in the United States

BACKGROUND: Binge eating (BE) is a disordered eating behavior that has been linked to the development of eating disorders and obesity, with the latter being a condition with higher prevalence rates among some racial minority groups. Although researchers have begun to examine characteristics of BE among racial minority groups, it is unclear how these differ from White populations. OBJECTIVE: This article provides an integrative review of published literature within the past decade reporting on the characteristics of BE in minority compared with White racial groups. METHOD: Health care computerized databases were searched using key terms. RESULTS: Eighteen research studies met the inclusion criteria. More than half of the studies reviewed reported racial differences in some aspect of BE; however, heterogeneity in the definition and measurement of BE limits the ability to compare findings across studies. CONCLUSIONS: BE is reported across racial groups. To determine whether meaningful differences in BE exist by race, further studies using the same conceptual and operational definitions of BE are needed.
An empirical model for predicting the feasibility of corporate turnaround

The primary objective of this research was to identify the determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility and their effect (in terms of their state of existence and their existence) on the probability of corporate turnaround feasibility in Successful and Non Successful Turnaround Companies. The other objective was the development of an empirical model of the determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility capable of predicting the feasibility of corporate turnarounds. One hundred ' troubled companies' were identified out of two hundred and eleven publicly listed companies of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange through observations of their share price performance, earnings before interest and tax, earnings after interest and tax and by the the Malaysian Z Score (PNB Score) failure detection model test. They were further demarcated into 57 Successful Turnaround Companies (STC) and 43 Non Successful Turnaround Companies (NSTC). These two groups were then compared on the determinants of turnaround feasibility. The study confirms that the feasibility of corporate turnaround of an organisation is dependent on the existence (exists or non existant) and the state of existence (whether favourable or non favourable) of a set of variables or determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility i.e. Causes of Decline, Severity of Crisis, Company's Historical Strategy, Industry Characteristics, Company's Cost Price Structure, Commitment of Shareholders, Commitment ofBankers, Commitment of Creditors, Commitment ofEmployees, New Competent Management, Viable Core Business, Bridge Capital and Realistic Turnaround Plan. In identifYing the existence and the state of existence of the key determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility in the STC and the NSTC, it was found that the STC had higher occurrences of favourable states of existence for the key determinants than the NSTC. STC's were also found to experience higher occurrences of existence (exists) in the key determinants compared to the NSTC. A ' Corporate Turnaround Feasibility Intensity Model ' was developed to test corporate turnaround feasibility intensity level. Subsequently, the empirical model or the multivariate logistic regression model was then applied to finalise and reaffirm the feasibility of the corporate turnaround of the organisation. The qualitative and empirical models complement each other in their application, or used on their own can test the feasibility of corporate turnaround. The availability of both qualitative and empirical models above to test and to predict the feasibility of corporate turnaround from this research can help solve one of the biggest dilemmas facing numerous shareholders, top management, management consultants and bankers, namely, deciding whether to go ahead with the turnaround process or not. The models can help save costly errors in terms of money, labour cost, psychological turmoil, time and wasteful resources due to wrong decision making. They also constitute a new contribution to knowledge.
Serum level of soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products in asthmatic children and its correlation to severity and pulmonary functions.

BACKGROUND Soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) acts as a decoy receptor for RAGE which has several distinct pro-inflammatory ligands in the extracellular compartment, and is believed to afford protection against inflammation and cell injury. This study was conducted to measure serum sRAGE in asthmatic children and to assess its correlation with clinical and functional severity and to asthma phenotype according to sputum cytology. METHODS The study was conducted on 60 asthmatic children from the Pediatric Chest Clinic, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University. The patients were divided according to asthma control and severity. RESULTS sRAGE showed statistically significant lower levels in asthmatic patients (899.1 +/- 399.8 pg/mL) compared to the control group (1406.7 +/- 474.3 pg/mL, p = 0.000), with a cut off value of asthma diagnosis of 1080.4 pg/mL with a sensitivity and specificity of 77% and 75%, respectively. Uncontrolled and severe asthmatic subgroups showed lower levels of sRAGE, cut off value of sRAGE for the severity of asthma was 829 pg/mL with 89% sensitivity and 81% specificity. Asthmatic patients stratified according to sputum cytology revealed that those with > 2% eosinophils and > or = 40% neutrophils showed lower levels of sRAGE (710 +/- 258 pg/mL) compared to those with > 2% eosinophils and < 40% neutrophils (1064 +/- 431 pg/mL) (p = 0.000). There was a highly significant positive correlation between sRAGE levels and FEV 1% (r = 0.41, p < 0.01), a highly significant negative correlation with eosinophilic count and total IgE (r = -0.49 and -0.39, respectively, p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS Serum level of sRAGE may correlate with severity of bronchial asthma clinically and functionally. It may be a target of future therapeutic interventions.
A case of an iliopsoas abscess in a neonate

The present study describes a male neonate with an iliopsoas abscess. He was born by Caesarean section at 35 weeks and 3 days gestation. At 24‐days‐old he had a fever and localized swelling of the groin to the femur. By ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT), the swelling was diagnosed as iliopsoas abscess. We treated him through percutaneous needle drainage and antibiotics. Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was detected in the culture of the fluid from the abscess and the urine. US and CT were useful for the diagnosis and provided guidance for the needle puncture and follow‐up of the iliopsoas abscess.
Homocysteine, Coagulation, Platelet Function, and Thrombosis

Over the last 30 years, a growing body of evidence has documented the role of hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) as an independent vascular risk factor. However, the mechanisms through which elevated circulating levels of homocysteine (Hcy) cause vascular injury and promote thrombosis remain elusive. Most findings have been achieved in in vitro studies employing exceedingly high concentrations of Hcy, whereas only a few studies have been carried out in vivo in humans. In homocystinuric patients, homozygotes for mutations of the gene coding for the cystathionine beta-synthase enzyme, abnormalities of coagulation variables reflecting a hypercoagulable state, have been reported. In vitro studies provide a biochemical background for such a state. In homocystinuric patients, an in vivo platelet activation has also been reported. The latter abnormality is not corrected by the bolus infusion of concentrations of hirudin, which determines a long-lasting impairment of the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin by thrombin; in contrast, it appears at least in part lowered by the administration of the antioxidant drug probucol. During the autooxidation of Hcy in plasma, reactive oxygen species are generated. The latter initiate lipid peroxidation in cell membranes (potentially responsible for endothelial dysfunction) and in circulating lipoproteins. Oxidized low-density lipoproteins (LDL) may trigger platelet activation as well as some of the hemostatic abnormalities reported in such patients. Thus the oxidative stress induced by Hcy may be a key process in the pathogenesis of thrombosis in HHcy. Accumulation of adenosylhomocysteine in cells (a consequence of high circulating levels of homocysteine) inhibits methyltransferase enzymes, in turn preventing repair of aged or damaged cells. This mechanism has been recently documented in patients with renal failure and HHcy and provides an additional direction to be followed to understand the tendency to thrombosis in moderate HHcy.
New venture creation research : from established perspectives to new horizons

It is the principal aim of this handbook on new venture creation research to contribute to the greater unification of our knowledge through presentation of a diverse range of scholarship on various aspects of the topic. This is not a paradox. Greater unity can only be achieved by canvassing a broad range of perspectives and interests within the field and searching for the common ground. The chapters in this collection are, principally, forward looking works of critique. In soliciting contributions for this volume we did not seek papers that fitted the traditional moulds of either empirically or conceptually oriented studies. Instead, when we issued our call for papers, we stressed that the mission of the book was that of critical commentary. We sought work that would focus on important aspects of new venture creation research and critically discuss, explore, criticise and suggest improvements to the field in that focal area. A reader of this book and any individual chapter within it should obtain a strong sense of both the ‘state-of-the-art’ (what has and has not been done in the field of new venture creation research) and the ‘state of what-could-and should-be’ (future directions the field should take to improve knowledge and address urgent issues). We provided an opportunity for experienced new venture researchers to tell the world not only where the field has been, but where it should be going. Their responses have provided an insightful and stimulating collection of essays which will, we hope, be of great practical value to researchers working in this vital and rapidly expanding field.
Quality of life in childhood asthma: use of the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire in a Swedish sample of children 7 to 9 years old

Reichenberg K, Broberg AG. Quality of life in childhood asthma: use of the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire in a Swedish sample of children 7 to 9 years old. Acta Pædiatr 2000; 89: 989‐95. Stockholm. ISSN 0803‐5253
Corporate Diversification Strategies

Pre-print journal article,Attention shifts from formulating strategy for a single-business enterprise to formulating strategy for a diversified enterprise. Because a diversified firm is a collection of individual businesses but corporate strategy - making is a bigger picture exercise than crafting strategy for a single-business company. A single-business enterprise, management only has to contend with one industrial environment and how to compete successfully in it. But in diversified company, corporate managers have to craft a multi-business, multi-industry strategic action plan for a number of different business divisions competing in diverse industry environments. A corporate strategy in a diversified company concentrates on: - â€¢ Making moves to position the company in the industries chosen for diversification; taking actions to improve the long-term performance of the corporations portfolio of businesses once diversification has been achieved; â€¢ Trying to capture whatever strategic benefits that exist within the portfolio of businesses and turn them into competitive advantage; and â€¢ Evaluate the profit prospects of each business unit and steer corporate resources into the most attractive strategic opportunities.
Top management team functional diversity and organizational innovation in China: The moderating effects of environment

While conflicts (cognitive and affective) have been considered as important process variables to better understand the mixed findings on the relationship between top management team functional diversity and organizational innovation, such an input-process-outcome model is still incomplete without considering the environmental factors. This study was formulated to assess the importance of both competitive and institutional environments in moderating such upper echelon effects within a transition economy. The chief executive officers and chief technology officers of 122 Chinese firms were surveyed and both competitive uncertainty and institutional support were found to shape top management team decision making processes and their outcomes. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF CHINESE CONSTRUCTION FIRMS' ENTRY INTO AFRICA

Based on original empirical data collected through an interview and questionnaire survey, this paper analyzes the intentions, strategies, and risk management perspectives of Chinese construction firms (CCFs) active in Africa. It summarizes the qualitative evidence from the survey and the main trends that emerge from analyzing the data as a whole. The study offers a unique look into the mindset and philosophy of the biggest players in the Chinese construction industry, at a time when they are expanding aggressively beyond their traditional home market into Africa and beyond.
The Power of Small Wins

A: Some people believe that “creativity in business” is an oxymoron, but they couldn’t be more wrong. All human progress depends on creativity—the production of something new and useful. Because the world is changing so rapidly today, with lightning-fast shifts in technology, economics, and society, businesses need great agility in coming up with new, useful solutions. This is particularly important for startups and small businesses, because their constrained resources put them at greater risk of extinction. Entrepreneurs need to be creative in nearly everything they do—from perceiving opportunities that others miss, to finding resources, to wooing customers.