Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DETERMINANTS OF PROFIT ABILITY IN BANKING: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ISLAMIC, CONVENTIONAL AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BANKS

This study aims to find the determinants of profitability in Islamic, conventional, socially responsible banks covering the period 2005-2012. This paper applies profitability’s indicators as the return on assets (ROA), return on equities (ROE) and net interest margin (NIM) ratios. The statistical approach to find factors of profitability is OLS. The highest ROA and ROE were attained by conventional banks, whereas, SRBs scored the lowest ROA and ROE. By contrast, the SRBs scored the highest NIM measures, while conventional banks have the minimum NIM ratios. Based on Islamic banks’ results, Islamic banking was affected positively by size and z-score while, capital ratio, GDP and inflation decreased earnings significantly. Also, conventional banks were more profitable with higher size, capitalisation, loans and z-score. Finally, SRBs earnings have positive and significant relationships with z-score and market capitalisation growth. On the other side, foreign, domestic and public ownerships impacted the profits badly. According to industry-specific variables, market capitalisation development supported the profitability ratios whereas, GDP growth reduced the profits. This study helps managers and policy makers in banking sector to increase the profits with lower risks by concentrating on positive factors.
Urban Infestation Patterns of Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile, in Los Angeles

Infestations of buildings by Argentine ants, Linepithema humile (Mayr), were monitored on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Foraging ant activity peaked during the hotter months of the year. The mean monthly maximum temperature, but not rainfall, positively correlated with indoor infestation frequency. Neither garden size nor the predominant groundcover vegetation correlated with the number of foraging ants at baits within gardens. Although the number of foraging ants outside a building varied over 40-fold, ant density in gardens did not predict the likelihood of infestation within the building. Also, the type of vegetative groundcover employed did not predict infestation frequency. There was, however, a significant negative relationship between the size of the garden outside of a building and the number of infestations. Given the large foraging area of L. humile workers, buildings next to small gardens may be infested simply because they lie within the “normal” foraging area of a colony. The best predictor of which rooms were infested within buildings was the presence of a water source. Thus providing water for ant colonies outside and away from buildings may be one method of integrated pest management to reduce the proclivity of ants to infest structures.
Modeling of firn compaction for estimating ice-sheet mass change from observed ice-sheet elevation change

Abstract Changes in ice-sheet surface elevation are caused by a combination of ice-dynamic imbalance, ablation, temporal variations in accumulation rate, firn compaction and underlying bedrock motion. Thus, deriving the rate of ice-sheet mass change from measured surface elevation change requires information on the rate of firn compaction and bedrock motion, which do not involve changes in mass, and requires an appropriate firn density to associate with elevation changes induced by recent accumulation rate variability. We use a 25 year record of surface temperature and a parameterization for accumulation change as a function of temperature to drive a firn compaction model. We apply this formulation to ICESat measurements of surface elevation change at three locations on the Greenland ice sheet in order to separate the accumulation-driven changes from the ice-dynamic/ablation-driven changes, and thus to derive the corresponding mass change. Our calculated densities for the accumulation-driven changes range from 410 to 610 kgm–3, which along with 900 kgm–3 for the dynamic/ablation-driven changes gives average densities ranging from 680 to 790 kgm–3. We show that using an average (or ‘effective’) density to convert elevation change to mass change is not valid where the accumulation and the dynamic elevation changes are of opposite sign.
LORETA Neurofeedback for Addiction and the Possible Neurophysiology of Psychological Processes Influenced: A Case Study and Region of Interest Analysis of LORETA Neurofeedback in Right Anterior Cingulate Cortex

ABSTRACT Introduction. This case study explores the efficacy of low-resolution electromagnetic tomographic (LORETA) neurofeedback (LNFB) in the right anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as a method for addiction treatment and examines the frequency specific effects of this training in eight other regions of the cortex identified as playing an important role in substance use disorders. Methods. This case study was completed with one right-handed, 28-year-old female participant with 3 years of continuous abstinence from polysubstance abuse; her drugs of choice were heroin and alcohol, and she reported an 8-year history of alcohol abuse and a 4-year history of heroin use (IV). She completed 25 sessions of LNFB training in which she increased 14–18 Hz activity in the right ACC. We utilized electrophysiological measures to assess the increase or decrease in eight regions of interest (ROI): the right hippocampus, the right amygdaloid complex, the right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the right occipital lobe, the right.
Why People Contribute Voluntarily to Innovation: Insights from South Africa's Siyabuswa Educational Improvement & Development Trust

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EGG LAYING PERFORMANCE OF CHICKENS FED GRADED LEVELS OF DISCARDED UNDEFATTED CASHEW KERNEL (DUCK) MEAL

A 12-week study was carried out to determine the effect of dietary levels of discarded undefatted cashew kernel (DUCK) meal on feed digestibility and egg laying performance of layer chickens. The cashew kernel was toasted for about 10 minutes in hot iron pot. After toasting, it was allowed to cool and then milled into gritty floor, bagged and labelled DUCK meal. The DUCK meal was incorporated in layer concentrate-based diets at 4 levels (0, 50, 75 and 100 g/kg). In the digestibility trial, 12 hens were randomly assigned to the 4 dietary treatments with 3 replicates per treatment. Known quantities of the experimental diets were weighed and supplied to the hens daily for 5 days. The faeces were collected in plastic sheet placed under the wire-mesh floor of the cages using the Total Collection Method. Samples of the experimental diets and faeces were subjected to proximate analysis and subsequently used for computing the nutrient digestibility. At 29 weeks of age, 120 ISA Brown layers were divided into 4 groups with 3 replicates per group comprising 10 hens per replicate in a Completely Randomized Design during the feeding trial. Feed and water were given ad libitum from 30 to 41 weeks of age. Data collected on nutrient digestibility, egg production and physical egg characteristics were subjected to ANOVA in GenStat. Dry matter digestibility reduced (P 0.05), fat and ash digestibility improved with increasing levels of DUCK meal in the diet. There was no significant (P>0.05) difference in all egg production parameters measured except for hen-day egg production. Birds fed diets containing 0 and 50 g/kg DUCK meal were similar (P>0.05) but higher (P 0.05) among treatment groups. The study concluded that DUCK meal in diets of laying chickens had no adverse effects on protein digestibility, improved fat and ash digestibility and had adverse effect on egg production beyond 50 g/kg dietary inclusion. Keywords: cashew kernel, egg production, toasting, undefatted
Metastatic Adenocarcinoma in the Young Adult

We report a case of metastatic adenocarcinoma pleura in a non-smoking 29-year-old man. X-ray Chest revealed Left sided repeated pleural effusion despite repeated tapping. CT revealed a moderate Left sided pleural effusion. A VATS biopsy of the Left Pleural Nodules and Left lung nodules revealed a metastatic adenocarcinoma. He was a non-smoker and molecular markers revealed an EGFR Mutation and were started on oral TKI. He had near complete resolution after 6 months except for mild thickening of the pleura at the base.
Community structure: A comparative evaluation of community detection methods

Abstract Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practitioners to determine which method would be suitable to get insights into the structural information of the networks they study. Many recent efforts have been devoted to investigating various quality scores of the community structure, but the problem of distinguishing between different types of communities is still open. In this paper, we propose a comparative, extensive, and empirical study to investigate what types of communities many state-of-the-art and well-known community detection methods are producing. Specifically, we provide comprehensive analyses on computation time, community size distribution, a comparative evaluation of methods according to their optimization schemes as well as a comparison of their partitioning strategy through validation metrics. We process our analyses on a very large corpus of hundreds of networks from five different network categories and propose ways to classify community detection methods, helping a potential user to navigate the complex landscape of community detection.
The Relation between the Type of Crime Committed and the Mental Health Status of the Female Prisoners in Urmia

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Background: The mental health of female prisoners as a high-risk group is very important. Evaluating their health needs has been neglected in most societies. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the relation between the type of crime committed and the mental health status of the female prisoners in Urmia province, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 150 female prisoners in 2016. The standard questionnaire of general health with 28 questions and also a questionnaire including demographic information, the type of crime, and the conviction period were used in order to evaluate the mental health status. The collected information was analysed through SPSS16 and by using Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test and one-way ANOVA. Results: The results showed that 74% of the female prisoners were suspected to have mental disorder and the least of it was depression with 20.4 per cent being affected by it and the most severe mental disorder pertaining to social function with 78% being affected. Also, the prisoner who had committed murder or had been accomplices for murder, and those sentenced to death had the worst mental health. The statistical relation between mental health and the type of crime and the length of the sentence was significant and the odds ratio of mental disorders among women who were sentenced for murder and for being accomplices to murder was 2.4 times that of women who were convicted for crimes related to drugs. Conclusion: Considering the poor mental health of female prisoners and its relationship with the severity of the crime and the conviction period, it is necessary to make policies to promote mental health in prisoners in order to promote the other aspects of prisoners’ health and also to prevent the recurrence of crime after the discharge from prison.
The Intervention Effect Assessment on Social Support Condition of the First Settlers in Dan jiangkou Reservoir Area, China

Objective: To assess the effect of psychological intervention on social support condition of the first settlers in Dan jiangkou reservoir area. Methods: Using the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) to measure the social support condition of the first batch of immigrants before and after the intervention, and then compare it with the immigrants who were not intervened. Results: Compared with the immigrants who were not intervened, the immigrants who received intervention have a higher score on the availability of social support ( P Conclusion: Psychological intervention can improve the social support condition for immigrants, especially in enhancing the availability of social support.
Information Content of Earnings and Operating Cash Flows: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the relative and incremental information content of earnings and operating cash flows in the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Moreover, the present study investigates the loss effect on the information content of earnings and operating cash flows. For this purpose, we investigate and analyze a sample of 475 firm-years from the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2006-2010.The results indicate that, the earnings have more information content than operating cash flows in explaining stock returns. In addition, earnings model is preferable in explaining stock returns than operating cash flows model. Also, results show that earnings have positive effect and loss has negative effect on earnings information content and operating cash flows. zed eco ? e feared LDCs fragile financial systems and their potential policy mismanagement given their lack of familiarity. Incongruously, markets have taken revenge on the “rentiers” and empirical evidence has shown that technocrats running the international financial system are also prone to big mistakes with adverse economic consequences.
What Matters More?

Research has provided little empirical support for the concept that employee job satisfaction is a causal driver of employee job performance, customer satisfaction, and company performance. This concept is an enduring one, however, and it has been codified as the starting point in the widely espoused service profit chain. Using a sample of eighty-four food and beverage (F&B) manager groups from forty Asian hotel properties owned and managed by a single multinational hotel chain, we examine the effect of job satisfaction, and contrast this effect with that of group service climate, on supervisor ratings of group job performance behaviors (group task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors). The findings underscore the weak connection between job satisfaction and job performance. However, group service climate was found to have a positive effect on supervisor ratings of group job performance behaviors. Consistent with prior research, this study’s findings indicate that managers may improve their employees’ job performance (and job satisfaction) by ensuring that employees understand what is expected of them and how their performance will be appraised and rewarded by the organization.
Genetic Analyses of Carcass Characteristics in Crossbred Pigs: Cross between Landrace Sows and Korean Wild Boars

Carcass characteristics of 241 crossbred pigs (Korean wild boars × Landrace sows) were analyzed to examine variations in fasted body weight (FASTWT), carcass weight (CARCWT), dressing percentage (DP), back fat thickness (BFT) and longissimus muscle weight (LMW), and to estimate genetic and phenotypic parameters using three different slaughter-end points. Covariates in the least squares full sib model were slaughter age, fasted body weight and back fat thickness of the carcass. Coefficient of variation was highest for BFT followed by LMW, CARCWT, FASTWT and DP in magnitude. Regressions of three covariates on traits were all linear. However, slaughter age was not significant as a linear covariate for five traits while FASTWT was significant for CARCWT and LMW and BFT was significant for all remaining traits. Genetic and phenotypic variation was considerably reduced by regressing FASTWT or BFT in the model. Heritability estimates of FASTWT, CARCWT, DP and BFT were 0.68, 0.61, 0.11 and 0.49, respectively, using slaughter age as covariate (model 1). Those of CARCWT, DP, BFT and LMW were 0.15, 0.15, 0.30 and 0.11, respectively, using FASTWT as covariate (model 2). Heritability estimates of the traits using LMW as covariate (model 3) were similar to the estimates from Model 1 except that the estimate of CARCWT was reduced to 0.39. Genetic or phenotypic correlations among FASTWT, CARCWT and BFT were all positive and moderate to high. Those between BFT and LMW were also positive and low to moderate. However, genetic and phenotypic correlations between DP and CARCWT were positive while those between DP and FASTWT were negative. It was suggested from this study that differences in carcass yield traits be determined using slaughter age or back fat thickness as slaughter-end point and carcass quality traits using fasted body weight as slaughter-end point. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2002. Vol 15, No. 8 : 1080-1084)
Grouping genotypes and test environments by some cluster methods regarding genotype × environment interaction in multi-environment trials

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is an important source of protein and carbohydrate food for people of developing countries and is popular in some developed countries where they are perceived as a healthy component of the diet. Ten lentil genotypes were tested for grain yield in five different environmental conditions, over two consecutive years to classify thes genotypes for yield stability. Seed yield of lentil genotypes ranged from 989.3 to 1.367 kg ha-1 and the linear regression coefficient ranged from 0.75 to 1.18. The combined analysis of variance showed that the effect of environment (E) and genotype by environment (GE) interaction were highly significant while the main effect of genotype (G) was significant at 0.05 probability level. Four different cluster procedures were used for grouping genotypes and environments. According to dendograms of regression methods for lentil genotypes there were two different genotypic groups based on G plus GE or GE sources. Also, the dendograms of ANOVA methods indicated 5 groups based on G and GE sources and 4 groups based on GE sources. According to dendograms of regression methods for environments there were 5 different groups based on G plus GE sources while the dendograms of ANOVA methods indicated 9 groups based on G and GE sources and 3 groups based on GE sources. The mentioned groups were determined via F-test as an empirical stopping criterion for clustering. The most responsive genotypes with high mean yield genotypes are G2 (1145.3 kg ha-1), G8 (1200.2 kg ha-1) and G9 (1267.9 kg ha-1) and could be recommended as the most favorable genotypes for farmers.
The financial expertise of CFOs and accounting restatements

We investigate whether the characteristics of chief financial officers (CFOs) are associated with accounting errors (using accounting restatements as a proxy). We investigate several metrics of financial literacy similar to those suggested for members of audit committees by the NYSE‐NASD Blue Ribbon Committee. These metrics include years of work as a CFO, experience at another company, advanced degrees (like M.B.A.s), and professional certification (like a CPA). We use a logit model to test whether the likelihood of an earnings restatement is related to the above metrics of financial literacy (measured at the date of the original accounting error). Restating and non‐restating companies during the period 1997–2002 were matched on year, industry, and company size. Overall, our results are consistent with restatements being negatively associated with the CFO's financial expertise. Specifically, we find that companies whose CFOs have more work experience as CFOs, M.B.A.s, and/or CPAs are significantly less li.
Inhibitory Potential of Aqueous Leaves Extract of Mesua Ferrea and Mimusops Elengi on Antigen Specific Immune Response using Human Whole Blood

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of variable doses of aqueous leaves extract of Mesua ferrea and Mimusops elengi (0.5 - 10 mg/ml, 50 µl), medicinal plant on human lysed whole blood (cultured for 48 h) in order to determine the antigen (IBD, infectious bursal disease; virus derived from chicken) specific immune response including CD14 monocyte surface marker which is determined through flow cytometry. The results showed that Mesua ferrea and Mimusops elengi (10 mg/ml, 50 µl) showed dose dependent decline in antigen specific immune response including CD14 monocyte surface marker as compared to IBD virus and control. IBD used as standard for these studies and the results showed that there is significant enhancement in antigen specific immune response and CD14 monocyte surface marker as compared to control. Moreover, the outcomes of the work provide a platform on the way to discover novel immunosuppressive as well as anti-viral agents against IBD virus from plant origin.
Household Strategies: Their Conceptual Relevance and Analytical Scope in Social Research

The article considers the idea of `household strategies' as a concept that takes into account the motivations and agency of actors in society, as a method of analysis through looking at the intersection of different economies in household behaviour and as a unit of analysis, with a focus on households rather than individuals. Although the concept of household strategies has been criticized in each of these dimensions, it has nevertheless remained an important empirical tool of investigation in different parts of the world. Indeed, household strategies have become perhaps even more salient under conditions of social change such as post-Communism or post-Fordism. The danger of an over-emphasis on agency implied by this approach can be counteracted by considering structural factors that have emerged in empirical studies and which constrain the creation and deployment of household strategies. However, such constraints are not just objective but also culturally defined. Seen in this way, household strategies can be used for comparative research and can help to elucidate the social factors underlying economic behaviour. The article ends by suggesting certain conditions under which household strategies are likely to become especially important.