Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regulatory processes interacting to maintain hepatic blood flow constancy: Vascular compliance, hepatic arterial buffer response, hepatorenal reflex, liver regeneration, escape from vasoconstriction

Constancy of hepatic blood flow (HBF) is crucial for several homeostatic roles. The present conceptual review focuses on interrelated mechanisms that act to maintain a constant HBF per liver mass. The liver cannot directly control portal blood flow (PF); therefore, these mechanisms largely operate to compensate for PF changes. A reduction in PF leads to reduced intrahepatic distending pressure, resulting in the highly compliant hepatic vasculature passively expelling up to 50% of its blood volume, thus adding to venous return, cardiac output and HBF. Also activated immediately upon reduction of PF are the hepatic arterial buffer response and an HBF‐dependent hepatorenal reflex. Adenosine is secreted at a constant rate into the small fluid space of Mall which surrounds the terminal branches of the hepatic arterioles, portal venules and sensory nerves. The concentration of adenosine is regulated by washout into the portal venules. Reduced PFreduces the washout and the accumulated adenosine causes dilation of the hepatic artery, thus buffering the PF change. Adenosine also activates hepatic sensory nerves to cause reflex renal fluid retention, thus increasing circulating blood volume and maintaining cardiac output and PF. If these mechanisms are not able to maintain total HBF, the hemodynamic imbalance results in hepatocyte proliferation, or apoptosis, by a shear stress/nitric oxide‐dependent mechanism, to adjust total liver mass to match the blood supply. These mechanisms are specific to this unique vascular bed and provide an excellent example of multiple integrative regulation of a major homeostatic organ.
Transparasi Informasi Memoderasi Pengaruh Agresivitas Pajak Pada Nilai Perusahaan Pertambangan di Bursa Efek Indonesia

The behavior of tax aggressiveness by taxpayers, especially corporate taxpayers will have an impact on the value of the company. The company's transparency to information relating to the company as well as the fulfillment of corporate liabilities to society, the environment, and government can also affect the value of the company. This research tries to dig deeply about the influence of tax aggressiveness undertaken by the company on the value of the company with the transparency of information as a moderating variable. This study also uses profitability control, leverage, firm size and audit quality. Tax aggressiveness is proxied by comparing Net Profit Margin to Net Profit Margin Industry. Company value is proxied with Tobins'Q ratio. The data selected by purposive sampling method. The sampel in this study were using 36 companies that listing in Indonesian Stock Exchange periode 2013-2015. The result of this research is tax aggressiveness have positive effect on firm value while transparency of information can strengthen the influence of tax aggressiveness on company value.
Raised serum chondroitin sulfate epitope level in ovarian epithelial cancer.

OBJECTIVE To determine the value of serum chondroitin sulfate epitope WF6 and hyaluronan (HA) levels as a biomarker for early detection of ovarian epithelial cancer and other gynecological disorders. METHOD Serum WF6 CS epitope and HA were measured in 91 patients with ovarian epithelial cancer, 39 patients with non-cancer gynecological disorders and 30 healthy women. Serum chondroitin sulfate (CS) WF6 epitope was determined by a competitive immunoassay with the monoclonal antibodies WF6, which specifically recognizes an epitope in native CS chains. In addition, serum HA concentration was measured by an ELISA-based assay with a biotinylated affinity HA-binding proteins. RESULTS The serum concentration of CS (WF6) epitope was highly increased in epithelial types of ovarian cancer and at all stages of development (p < 0.005). Serum HA in ovarian cancer patients was significantly higher than normal controls (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION These results reflect changes in ECM metabolism in progressive ovarian cancer, which cause an increase in serum CS epitopes and HA. Therefore, serum CS epitopes may provide useful biomarkers for cancers and other disorders of the ovary. Measurement of serum HA provided complementary information, which may be useful as a discriminator between benign ovarian disorders and malignant ovarian diseases.
Random Serum Cortisol as a Predictor for Survival of Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer

Although previous research found that serum cortisol levels were associated with cancer prognosis, it is unclear whether this association remains robust even at the very end of life of patients with cancer. We conducted a retrospective chart review of 125 patients with terminal cancer to investigate the role of random serum cortisol levels in predicting the remaining life expectancy. The high random cortisol group had a significantly shorter survival time than the low random cortisol group (7.5 vs 26 days). After adjusting for potential confounders, key factors such as poor performance status, hypoalbuminemia, and high random cortisol level are associated with poor survival. Our results suggest that the random serum cortisol level is an independent predictor of survival time of patients with terminally ill cancer.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DISCRETIONARY ACCRUALS: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIAN ISLAMIC BANKS

Islamic banking system is growing rapidly since its first model established in 1963 in Egypt. An Islamic banking refers to a banking system or activity that is in accordance with the basic principles of Islamic rules and values (El-gamal, 2000). The spread of Islamic banking not only has occurred in Islamic countries but it has also spread widely to the nonMuslim and developed countries such as Hong Kong, Luxembourg, UK and South Africa. Ahmed (2015) reported that Islamic banking institutions have operated in over 50 countries with the total assets stood at an estimated 1.8 trillion US dollars at the end of 2013. In Indonesia, the growth of Islamic banking has begun since 2007. The wide spread of Islamic banks is a result of many factors, but the important one is corporate governance. Jensen and Meckling (1976) defined corporate governance as a principle directing and controlling the company in order to achieve a balance between the power and authority of the company in providing accountability to the shareholders in particular, and stakeholders in general. It is designed to regulate the authority of the directors, managers, shareholders and other parties associated with the development of companies in a particular environment. With the implementation of good corporate governance, the enterprise resource management is expected to be efficient, effective, economical and productive with goal-oriented company and pay attention to stakeholders approach (Jenkinson and Mayer, 1992). At the national level, best practices of governance helps companies access and are successful on the market (Pietrasieński, 2014). Whether corporate governance is a critical factor to lower discretionary accruals of Islamic banks from previous studies raise a question. A discretionary accrual can be defined as management’ intentional actions to obtain preferred level of income but those actions are remaining within the constraints of generally accepted accounting principles. Empirical studies have showed mixed Abstract
Are Chinese Firms Attracted to Political Risk? Locational Determinants of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment

This study evaluates the foreign direct investment (FDI) location choices made by Chinese firms from 1996 to 2015 and investigates the extent to which Chinese firms are attracted to investing in countries with high levels of political risk. Using new Chinese data, the study categorizes Chinese firms into Central State-Owned Enterprises and Other Chinese Firms to see the relationship between investment location and political risk for firms with varying levels of Chinese government control. Additionally, the data is divided between investments made from 1996 to 2003 and investments made from 1996 to 2015 to measure the effect that important changes in Chinese domestic policy in 2004 have had on the investment location choices of these firms. After conducting negative binomial regressions, the results show that these two types of Chinese firms have different attractions to political risk across different time periods. Central State-Owned Enterprises’ FDI location choices are not significantly influenced by a country’s political risk regardless of time period, but China’s Other Firms change from being attracted to political risk prior to 2004 to being deterred by it after 2004. These findings show that changes to Chinese domestic policy and level of control by the Chinese central government can have a profound influence on Chinese firms’ views towards political risk, and this reflects the larger ability of Chinese government intervention to enact change in Chinese firms and in the greater Chinese business environment.
Male-female differences in family size preferences among college students.

The question of differences between males and females in fertility values and attitudes was explored through surveys of unmarried male and female college students in North American colleges between 1967 and 1973. The tabulated data indicate that there is a definite difference in family size preference between males and females, with differences varying from 2- to 7/10 of a child depending on religious faith. Number of siblings in the respondent's family had no bearing on the family size preference. Nearly 1/2 of all respondents indicated a desire for number of children in the 2-4 range. However, males were more likely to prefer the lower end of the range while females preferred the upper end. Among all respondents, there were significant increases in preferences for 2-3 children and significant decreases in preferences for 5 or more, even among Catholics. In sum, Catholics preferred a range of 3-4 children with males choosing the lower and females the higher value. The optimal range for Protestants was 2-3, again with males preferring the lower and females the higher value. It is speculated that early socialization may be the reason why women prefer larger families. Research is needed into the effect of working and nonworking mothers on family size preferences of their children.
Control strategy to mitigate the impact of reduced inertia due to doubly fed induction generators on large power systems

The present work is based on developing a control strategy to mitigate the impact of reduced inertia due to significant DFIG penetration in a large power system. The paper aims to design a supplementary control for the DFIG power converters such that the effective inertia contributed by these wind generators to the system is increased. The paper also proposes the idea of adjusting pitch compensation and maximum active power order to the converter in order to improve inertial response during the transient with response to drop in grid frequency. Results obtained on a large realistic power system indicate that the frequency nadir following a large power impact in the form of generators dropping out is effectively improved with the proposed control strategy. The proposed control is also validated against the sudden wind speed change in the form of wind gust downs and wind ramp downs occurring in conjunction with the generators dropping out. A beneficial impact in terms of damping power system oscillations is also observed, which is validated by eigenvalue analysis. The affected mode is then excited with a large disturbance in time domain. The damping improvement observed in time domain and subsequent Prony analysis support the result obtained from eigenvalue analysis.
Firm Strategies and Business Models in the Software Industry: A Configurational Approach

Researchers have long focused on the determinants of firm success, which is of crucial interest to practitioners as well, since being successful is at the very heart of economic activity. Extant research emphasizes three levels of analysis at which determinants occur: firm, industry, and group level. Each level has been found to affect firm success. At group level, firms choose between a limited set of competitive approaches. The resulting groups are referred to as configurations. The analysis of configurations, their characteristics, and effects are the particular focus of configurational research and this thesis. Along with a multitude of other concepts, scholars have used industry-specific conceptualizations of firm strategy to derive configurations, referred to as strategic groups. Despite theoretical and methodological weaknesses in its beginnings, strategic group research has overcome initial challenges and produced a strong body of theoretical argument, methodology, and empirical evidence in the tradition of configurational research. More recently, business models have emerged as a topic of growing interest to researchers and practitioners. Though some methods from configurational research have been applied to business models, previous studies do not nearly grasp the full potential of configurational analysis. In addition to methodological shortcomings, business model research is still under criticism for theoretical and conceptual weaknesses. This thesis uses the theoretical and methodological body of knowledge from strategic group research and applies it to strategies and business models of software firms. The particular case of the software industry is chosen because of its dynamics, size, growth, and importance to other industries. In order to improve our understanding of strategies and business models in the software industry, a software-specific value chain is derived and used as the main theoretical foundation to both concepts. Building upon detailed conceptualizations, three empirical studies are presented, each using a unique dataset to analyze the concepts at hand. The empirical studies demonstrate the applicability of configurational analysis to software firms and provide insights into their characteristics and success factors. The results indicate that the most distinctive delineators of strategies and business models determine a firm’s product and market scope, such as firm size, share of international revenues, and the number of targeted industries. Strong empirical evidence suggests that broader scope is associated with higher success in terms of higher performance, higher risk-adjusted performance, and in some cases lower risk. Being consistent with the economic properties of software products and markets, such as network effects, the findings bear rich implications for researchers and practitioners, including decision makers, investors, analysts, and policy makers.
Using Co-creation Process to support Service Innovation: An Action Research Study of a Private University in Thailand

Higher Education Institutions are operating in a more and more competitive environment. In the case of Southeast Asia for instance, the creation of the Asian Economic Community (AEC as part of the ASEAN), is allowing AEC members and International universities to open campuses in any of the 10 founding countries without having to have a local university partner. Furthermore, the number of entry students is currently declining due to pyramid age gap in most Asian countries. Consequently, universities are operating in a much more competitive environment and in order to compete, or even just to survive, they need to provide more than just excellent education. The services that are provided to students must also meet students and parents high demanding and high quality expectations. University service providers are in general not fully equipped with the tools and mindset to develop novel services that will fully meet students’ expectations. This research looked at how using a co-creation approaches and tools, involving graduate students and university service providers, could help developing novel services. An action research approach was used to test this approach and shown positive outcomes in helping building stronger understanding between university service providers and students, but also by helping building empathy between them leading to the co-creation of novel university students’ services ideas. This study was conducted in a private Thai university but the researchers believe it could be similarly applied in any other university context (private or public and in any other country). Approved: Signature of Advisor
Assessing the Effects of Service Quality of Government and Student Satisfaction in Education’s Field

The aim of the research is to analyze how the service quality of Indonesian government affect student’s satisfaction in the education field. Data collection was conducted in September 2016 through distributing questionnaires to 132 students at private universities in south Tangerang city. Sampling used incidental sampling method, while data analysis is descriptive, qualitative and quantitative, which were analyzed with the Importance Performance Analysis. The survey results revealed that the satisfaction level of the students of South Tangerang good enough to service of the Government in higher education sector with a value of 83.61 using Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). Nevertheless, there are several factors that should be prioritized for immediate enhanced, namely: government’s ability to respond effectively to solve the problems in the academic world, fairness of the government in providing assistance to both state and private universities and attention of the government to higher education.
DAIRY MARKET TRENDS IN VAVUNIYA: IDENTIFYING POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES IN A POST-CONFLICT SETTING

Vavuniya is primarily an agricultural district. Milk production is an important secondary source of livelihood for the rural people. The aim of this study is to map the potentials and challenges of dairy market in Vavuniya district. This study inquires whether milk and milk based products have a good market opportunity and what challenges are faced in marketing milk and milk based products in Vavuniya. Questionnaire survey, interviews and focus group discussion were used to collect primary data from a cross section of dairy consumers, producer groups, institutional representatives and key informants. The research team obtained response from 265 households in four DS divisions. Narrative and statistical analysis methods were used to analyse the primary data. This study is significant in finding out that there exists considerable demand for fresh milk. However, the lack of availability, accessibility, and quality of local fresh milk, and locally processed milk based products have made the consumers resort to seeking more imported powdered milk and milk based products. The study also found that there is considerable willingness to buy or switch to local products when these constraints are addressed. The study concludes that it is a positive trend in developing dairy market in Vavuniya, particularly in a post-conflict setting. Key word: Fresh milk, Dairy market, Milk based products
Decidability results concerning tree transducers I

A tree transducer is called functional if its induced transformation is a partial mapping. We show that the functionality of tree transducers is decidable. Consequently, the equivalence problem for deterministic tree transducers is also decidable. The latter result was independently achieved by Z . Z A C H A R in [12] for bottomup tree transducers and a restricted class of top-down tree transducers. The solvability of the equivalence problem for generalized deterministic sequential machines is known from [2] and [4]. It was proved in [11] that this positive result can not be generalized for arbitrary, i.e. generalized nondeterministic", sequential machines. Therefore, the equivalence problem for nondeterministic tree transducers is undecidable. Our result can be used to minimize deterministic tree transducers in an effective manner. However, the minimal realizations of a deterministic tree transducer are not isomorphic. We investigate conditions assuring the uniqueness (up to isomorphism) of minimal realizations in certain , classes of tree transducers. Part of the results of the present paper have been announced in [8]. The terminology is used in the sense of [5].
Do You Feel Financially Secured? The Investigation of Economic Indicators and Consequences of Financial Well-Being

The economy has been in downward movement in the past few years in the United States as well as different parts of the world. Consumers’ financial situations have been found to influence their purchase behaviors. While some personal finance experts blame consumers’ (lack of) spending plans for their financial situations, others suggest that consumers’ perception of their financial standing influences their purchase plans. Using two nationwide large scale survey studies, we investigated how the consumer’s financial well-being affects planned and unplanned purchasing decisions from two competing perspectives. Supporting our notion of financial well-being as a status, the results revealed consumers with high financial well-being are more likely to make planned purchases and less likely to make unplanned purchases. We also examined the value of applying economic indicators as proxy measure of financial well-being. Instead of income or debts, wealth was found to be the most important economic indicator of financial well-being.
Development and validation of a functional co-dominant SNP marker for the photoperiod thermo-sensitive genic male sterility pms3 (p/tms12-1) gene in rice

The fertility conversion of photoperiod thermo-sensitive genic male sterility (P/TGMS) lines in rice is mostly regulated by the P/TGMS genes in different environmental conditions. A point mutation with G-C on the pms3 (p/tms12-1) gene regulates the pollen fertility of Nongken58S and a large amount of Nongken58S-derived lines. In this study, we developed and designed a functional co-dominant marker according to the SNP loci for the pms3 (p/tms12-1) gene. We can differentiate the SNP loci in pms3 (p/tms12-1) gene from another TGMS lines and inbred cultivars using the dpms3-54 marker. The results showed that 376 bp band was detected in the homozygous genotype for pms3 (p/tms12-1), while 359 bp band was detected in the homozygous genotype for non-pms3 (p/tms12-1), two bands with 376 and 359 bp were detected in the heterozygous genotype. The dpms3-54 marker can be used to test the purity of two-line hybrid rice seeds and to divide each of F1 plant into homozygous and heterozygous genotypes at the seedling stage. Thus, this study provide a useful functional marker to detect pms3 (p/tms12-1) gene in different genetic resources and populations, which can be applied to the development and breeding of P/TGMS lines in two-line hybrid rice system with marker-assisted selection.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCOUNTING CONSERVATISM LEVEL AND THE AMOUNT OF BANK LOAN IN INDONESIAN STOCK EXCHANGE (IDX) COMPANIES FOR 2012 – 2014 PERIOD

In today’s era financial statement is prepared to benefit several parties for a certain purpose. Thus, information in financial statement is not neutral containing information asymmetries. Conservatism principle in accounting emerges to give protections for the information users. Using banks institution as the financial statement users to see the relationship between accounting conservatism and the amount of bank loan – as their form of decision – in the companies listed in IDX for 2012 to 2014. This finding shows that accounting conservatism do not significantly affecting the amount of Bank Loan. However, the liquidities ratio and the cash flow from operating activities can be an indicator to the amount of Bank Loan possess by the companies.