Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bank Selection Criteria and SERVQUAL Survey among Muslims in Mauritius

As a Muslim minority country located far off the east coast of South Africa, Mauritius has successfully introduced Islamic finance since 1998. However, the development is not as expected since two Islamic banking windows were closed down and the only Islamic commercial bank in the country has been struggling hard in order to generate favorable expected profits. The aims of this study are to investigate the bank selection criteria among Muslims in Mauritius and to evaluate the customer satisfaction upon the Islamic banking service quality in the country. The findings show that privacy, easy access, service quality, facilities, transparency and bank reputation are the factors influence Muslim Mauritian to patronize bank and interestingly religion and religiosity are out of it. The importance – performance analysis is used to provide an interesting visual analysis on the service quality items examined. The findings suggest that Islamic banks must improve their Tangible and Reliability aspects in order to satisfy the customers and eventually become more profitable.
Effect of a Speech Aid Prosthesis on Reducing Muscle Fatigue

It has been reported that the levator veli palatini muscles of speakers with velopharyngeal incompetence tend to demonstrate muscle fatigue during speech. This study examined whether a speech aid prosthesis might reduce levator muscle fatigue in such speakers. Eight individuals with post-surgical cleft palates, and who wore a speech aid prosthesis, were studied. Each person was asked to pronounce the syllable [pu] more than 50 times. Mean power frequency (MPF) of one syllable was obtained from electromyographic data from the levator muscle. The MPF regression line was calculated during the course of syllable repetition. The absolute values of the slopes of the regression lines with the prosthesis were significantly smaller than those without the prosthesis. It was shown that the prosthesis reduced the decrease in MPF during speech. These results suggested that speech aid prostheses reduce levator muscle fatigue during speech in persons with velopharyngeal incompetence.
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting on Financial Performance in Libya and Jordan

This paper investigates the effect of corporate social responsibility reporting on financial performance use triple bottom line of 130 stock market companies in developing countries Libya and Jordan. Twenty reporting criteria were developed for evry line of reporting areas: economic, social, and environmental categories. We construct of corporate social responsibility reporting index based on global reporting initiative guidelines. Corporate social responsibility reporting toward financial performance examined by data collected from website annual reports. The sample included companies criteria used to select availability data for a period of 5 years (2008-2012). SPSS analysis used to examine hypothesis consistent with stakeholder theory and signalling theory proxied by tools of measurement use return on assets, return on equity, and return on liabilities. This result controlled by variables, size of firms and type of industry by linear regression analysis. Based on the analysis and result corporate social responsibility reporting in Libya and Jordan still not optimistic, that affected by triple bottom line and higher corporate social responsibility reporting is associated with financial performance. Our findings imply that global reporting initiative guidelines organize corporate social responsibility reporting.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Founder Power and Exit via Initial Public Offering

Founders can voluntarily exit their ventures via initial public offerings (IPOs). In this study, we build on power theory to develop and test a model of founder exit using a dataset of 313 founders from 177 entrepreneurial IPOs between 2002 and 2010. We largely find support for the model—a negative relationship between founder power and full exit. To capture the underlying mechanism of the power-exit relationship, we conducted two experiments in which we randomly assigned decision makers to either a high- or low-power condition. We find that decision makers in the low-power condition are more likely to use a full exit via IPO than those in the high-power condition and that frustration mediates this relationship. However, founders can also engage in partial exits, including a managerial partial exit in which the founder leaves management but keeps ownership and a financial partial exit in which the founder divests ownership but remains in management. We find that the negative relationship between founder power and exit is more negative for full exits than partial exits. With this paper, we contribute to the literature on exit by identifying a novel mechanism—frustration—underlying power’s influence on the likelihood and type of founder exit.
INFLUENCE OF TEMPORAL FACTORS ON CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOR IN CHAIN SUPERMARKETS IN KENYA.

Purpose: The global retail market is currently a most promising business owing to the growth it is experiencing. In 2016, Kenya's retail spending hit Sh1.8 trillion as the sector expanded by 13 per cent. Chain supermarkets have been growing rapidly over the years attracting local and foreign players. Currently Kenya retail has expanded extensively and is experiencing huge consumer footfalls but dismal sales performance. In a fast-changing world, emerging consumer buying behavior trends require supermarkets to stay close to the consumers. Maximum flexibility in response to dynamic consumer behavior is vital to give the retailers a competitive edge for exploiting such opportunities profitably. The objective of the study was to establish the effect of temporal factors on consumer buying behavior in in supermarkets in Kenya. Methodology: The target population consisted of 33 chain supermarkets in Kenya. The target population comprised of 634 employees from these supermarkets. Descriptive research design was used for this study. In addition, regression and correlation analysis was used to link the relationships between the dependent and the independent variables. Results: The study found out that there was a positive and significant relationship between temporal factors and consumer buying behavior (r=0.600, p=0.000). Unique Contribution to Theory and Practice: It was found out that temporal factors have a positive and significant effect on Consumer Buying Behavior. Therefore, the study recommends for chain supermarkets to provide promotional discounts to consumer so as to increase their business sales. Further, chain supermarkets need to work towards having a corporate brand name renown for high quality brands. Good displays of products are also an added advantage. These insights will enable supermarkets to enjoy benefits of high sales.
Selection for productivity and robustness traits in pigs

Pig breeding programs worldwide continue to focus on both productivity and robustness. This selection emphasis has to be accompanied by provision of better-quality environments to pigs to improve performance and to enhance health and welfare of pigs. Definition of broader breeding objectives that include robustness traits in addition to production traits is the first step in the development of selection strategies for productivity and robustness. An approach has been presented which facilitates extension of breeding objectives. Post-weaning survival, maternal genetic effects for growth as an indicator of health status and sow mature weight are examples of robustness traits. Further, breeding objectives should be defined for commercial environments and selection indexes should account for genotype by environment interactions (GxE). Average performances of groups of pigs have been used to quantify the additive effects of multiple environmental factors on performance of pigs. For growth, GxE existed when environments differed by 60 g/day between groups of pigs. This environmental variation was observed even on well managed farms. Selection for improved health of pigs should focus on disease resistance to indirectly reduce pathogen loads on farms and on disease resilience to improve the ability of pigs to cope with infection challenges. Traits defining disease resilience may be based on performance and immune measures, disease incidence or survival rates of pigs. Residual feed intake is a trait that quantifies feed efficiency. The responses of divergent selection lines for residual feed intake to various environmental challenges were often similar or even favourable for the more efficient, low residual feed intake line. These somewhat unexpected results highlight the need to gain a better understanding of the metabolic differences between more or less productive pigs. These physiological differences lead to interactions between the genetic potential of pigs for productivity and robustness and the prevalence of specific environmental conditions.
Inhibition of tumour growth and inflammation by consumption of tea

The antitumour effect of tea was evaluated in the 3‐methylcholanthrene (3‐MC) induced solid tumour model in mice. Both black and green tea inhibited tumour growth and prevented metastasis. Histopathological study showed that tea treatment was able to reduce malignancy. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), a free radical scavenger, was found to be significantly increased in the serum of mice administered tea. Moreover, tea extracts were able to reduce the level of thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) in the sera of mice. Tea extracts (both black and green) also showed antiinflammatory activity in the carrageenan‐induced paw oedema model in the rat. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Improvement of relationship between main contractor and subcontractor for successful construction project implementation

Cooperation between the main contractor and subcontractor to deliver the construction project within the time, quality and cost are important in the construction industry. The success of the construction project depends on the subcontractors because they are the party that execute the technical and the operation of the works. The main contractor needs to possess the ability to effectively coordinate and manages the sub-contractors. Despite to this importance, there are relationship issues between the main contractor and the subcontractor that required to be reviewed. The objectives of this research were to determine the factors leading to relationship problems between the main contractors and subcontractors in a construction project and to propose recommendations to improve the main contractor and subcontractor relationship for a successful project implementation. A qualitative method was chosen and face to face semi-structure interview was conducted by having the discussion with six respondents from both main contractors and subcontractors. The scope of this research is the housing development project in Johor Bahru. The data collected was analysed using content analysis. The outcome of this research concluded the relatives to this issues, the factors leading to relationship problems between the main contractor and subcontractor are time and cost overrun factor, delay, trust, lack of quality, lack of communication, lack of safety, shortage of construction material and shortage of skill labors. On the other hand, the recommendation to improve the relationship between both parties are skill, integrity, trust, responsibility and communication application which is mutual in a contractual relationship between both parties. In conclusion, the finding can assist in the improvement of the main contractor and subcontractor relationship for successful construction project implementation.
[Effects on growth, tolerability and biochemical parameters of two different human milk fortifiers in very low birth-weight newborns].

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to compare a group of very low birth-weight infants feeded with a preterm formula with two other groups feeded with human milk and two different fortifiers. METHODS 30 preterm newborns with birth-weight < 1.500 g, admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Department of Neonatology of Catholic University of Rome were randomized for three different feeding groups: total enteral nutrition with HM fortified with Enfamil Human Milk fortifier or with Eoprotin, compared to a group feeded with Similac 24 preterm formula. Statistical analysis was performed using the two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). RESULTS During the study and at the end we found a growth rate for weight, cranial circumference and lenght similar to the fetal standard growth rate in the third trimester of pregnancy in all the three groups. Fortified HM was well tolerated. No pathologic value of the biochemical parameters studied was found. Higher level of serum phosphorus in spite of significantly lower intakes of phosphorus occurred in fortified HM feeded neonates, as if there was a better availability of this nutrient in HM. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the role of fortified HM as a good alternative to the preterm formula.
Between Fact and Fiction

This paper looks at the ways in which popular science books, through their explicit insertion of science into the public domain, act to reinforce a distinct demarcation between scientists and their publics. It is argued that these books acquire a distributed media presence by acting as nodal points in an intertextual web. The intertextuality of popular science books causes images of science which are supportive of scientists’ interests to continue to circulate in public discourse despite the alternative images thrown up by public scientific controversies reported in the news. The paper looks at examples of popular physics books which, like many other popularizations of physics, draw explicitly on science fiction. Since these texts do not respond to any specific controversy within or around science, they provide examples of ‘routine’ boundary work. It is argued that by working at multiple boundaries, texts such as these are able to claim potentially contradictory attributes for science at the same time as sustaining its place at the top of a hierarchy of ways of knowing.
Journal prestige, publication bias, and other characteristics associated with citation of published studies in peer-reviewed journals.

CONTEXT Citation by other authors is important in the dissemination of published science, but factors predicting it are little studied. METHODS To identify characteristics of published research predicting citation in other journals, we searched the Science Citations Index database for a standardized 3.5 years for all citations of published articles originally submitted to a 1991 emergency medicine specialty meeting. Analysis was conducted by classification and regression trees, a nonparametric modeling technique of regression trees, to determine the impact of previously determined characteristics of the full articles on the outcome measures. We calculated the the number of times an article was cited each year and calculated the mean impact factor (citations per manuscript per year) in other citing journals. RESULTS Of the 493 submitted manuscripts, 204 published articles met entry criteria. The mean citations per year was 2.04 (95% confidence interval, 1.6-2.4; range, 0-20.9) in 440 different journals. Nineteen articles (9.3%) were never cited. The ability to predict the citations per year was weak (pseudo R(2) = 0.14. ). The strongest predictor of citations per year was the impact factor of the original publishing journal. The presence of a control group, the subjective newsworthiness score, and sample size predicted citation frequency (24.3%, 26.0%, and 26.5% as strongly, respectively). The ability to predict mean impact factor of the citing journals was even weaker (pseudo R(2) = 0.09). The impact factor of the publishing journal was the strongest predictor, followed by the newsworthiness score (89.9% as strongly) and a subjective quality score (61.5%). Positive outcome bias was not evident for either outcome measure. CONCLUSION In this cohort of published research, commonly used measures of study methodology and design did not predict the frequency of citations or the importance of citing journals. Positive outcome bias was not evident. The impact factor of the original publishing journal was more important than any other variable, suggesting that the journal in which a study is published may be as important as traditional measures of study quality in ensuring dissemination.
Antipsychotic Drug-Induced Dysphoria

Background Dysphoric reactions to antipsychotic medication are well recognised in association with akathisia, but can also occur independently. Method Fifty-one healthy volunteers were given haloperidol 5 mg in two consecutive pharmacokinetic studies. Results Dysphoria occurred in about 40% of the subjects on both occasions, but akathisia was only detected in 8% (first study) and 16% (second study). All adverse effects were transient and were abolished in nine of the ten subjects given procyclidine. Conclusions While dysphoria is a well-recognised reaction in healthy volunteers, it is probably insufficiently recognised in patients, particularly if it occurs in the absence of akathisia. Better detection could improve compliance in patients.
PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN SAHAM PUBLIK, UKURAN PERUSAHAAN DAN PROFITABILITAS TERHADAP CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DISCLOSURE (STUDI PADA PERUSAHAAN PERBANKAN YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI PERIODE 2012-2015

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kepemilikan saham publik, ukuran perusahaan dan profitabilitas terhadap corporate social responsibility disclosure pada perusahaan perbankan yang terdaftar di BEI periode 2012-2015. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling sehingga diperoleh sampel 13 perusahaan dengan data yang diobservasi berjumlah 52 laporan. Sumber data diperoleh dari laporan keuangan, laporan tahunan dan laporan keberlanjutan perusahaan. Teknik analisis data dengan regresi linier berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kepemilikan saham publik, ukuran perusahaan tidak berpengaruh terhadap pengungkapan corporate social responsibility. Profitabilitas dengan proksi ROA berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap pengungkapan corporate social responsibility. Secara simultan kepemilikan saham publik, ukuran perusahaan dan profitabilitas berpengaruh terhadap pengungkapan corporate social responsibility.
IoT devices and applications based on LoRa/LoRaWAN

Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the traditional Internet where only human-centric services were offered. It has enabled objects to have the ability to connect and communicate through the Internet. IoT has several applications such as smart water management systems. However, they require high energy-efficient sensor nodes that are able to communicate across long distance. This motivates the development of many Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technologies, such as LoRa, to fulfill these requirements. Therefore, in this paper, we survey IoT devices and different applications based on LoRa and LoRaWAN in order understand the current stream of devices used. The objective is to contribute toward the realization of LoRa as a viable communication technology for applications that needs long-range links and deployed in a distributed manner. We highlighted the device parameter settings and the output of each experiment surveyed.
Video-ethnography of social media apps’ connection cues in public settings

This paper aims to analyze the uses of mobile social network services (mSNS) during daily commutes on the basis of a video ethnography conducted with 35 users of the Facebook app. This method is based on the combination of context-oriented recordings made with user-worn camera glasses and mobile screen video capture. These data reveal the way smartphone usage patterns tend to be organized according to notification functions (mSNS, SMS), a specific set of technical cues that mediatize social demand and promote social connectedness. Users manage these cues through a recurrent trend composed of a three-step sequence: they often start by using applications displaying notifications; they favor those that display social demands; and, among them, they prioritize these relational solicitations in accordance with social status or types of relationships. By examining the distribution of users’ attention between urban environments and smartphone applications, this video-ethnography also highlights how these “checking habits” are organized according to a set of spatial cues and some daily commute characteristics, such as visual coordination with passengers in public transport. These technical cues mediatize a growing number of social demands that encourage users to keep their eyes focused on their smartphone’s screen in public spaces. We argue that these technical cues create a temporary bubble effect and social isolation at a proximal scale, which mostly operate at the beginning of smartphone usage patterns.
CONCERN FOR ECONOMIC RESULTS AND CORPORATE 
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – A COMPARATIVE STUDY 
OF LITHUANIA AND SLOVENIA

The purpose of this draft paper is to empirically examine the role of concern for economic results for shaping corporate social responsibility in Lithuania and Slovenia. Results are based on 80 answers of students from Lithuania and 101 answers of students from Slovenia. Results reveal that Slovenian students on average show significantly higher concern for corporate social responsibility, as well as for economic results, than their Lithuanian counterparts. Similarly in both countries, students perceive or-ganizations concern to pay the full financial cost of using energy and natural resources as most signif-icant factor shaping corporate social responsibility. Findings are important for practitioners and for academia, which get insight into the perception of corporate social responsibility of their future em-ployees.
[Oral hygiene habits among Brazilian adults in an urban area of southern Brazil].

AIMS This study sought to analyse the oral hygiene habits (toothbrushing frequency, use of toothpick and dental floss), of a group of Brazilian adults, in relation to socio-demographic variables. The level of dental plaque and number of teeth with gums bleeding after probing were also investigated. METHODOLOGY The sample was composed of 234 women and 237 men, from two socioeconomic status. The age range was from 24 to 44 years. Data was collected through structured interviews and clinical examinations. RESULTS Daily toothbrushing was frequent. The median and mode were three, and it was associated with sex and socio-economic status. The majority of the sample population (67.5%), reported using dental floss and its use was associated with sex and socio-economic status. The use of toothpicks was frequent: 54.6% of the study group used them, and their use was also associated with sex, age and social class. The majority of the sample population had a moderate level of dental plaque (62.6%). The level of dental plaque was associated with social class. A quarter of the subjects did not have teeth with gums bleeding after probing. Bleeding gums were associated with age and social class. CONCLUSION Oral hygiene habits were considered good for most of the participants of the study. However, improvements, are necessary among men and members of low social class.