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Indonesian Sharia and Conventional Banks’ Financial Performance Analysis

Indonesia as the biggest Muslim country in the world have two banking systems. These system are sharia and conventional banking. Despite Islam as majority religion for Indonesians, the number of sharia banks is still much smaller than their non-sharia counterparts. Based on these conditions, this research wants to examine the differences between sharia and conventional banks’ financial performance. This in a quantitative and archival research. Data are taken during 20102014 and then analyzed using means difference test. The result shows that there are differences between conventional and nonconventional bank financial analysis using FDR (Financing to Deposit Ratio) as indicator. FDR in sharia banks are on average smaller than the conventional ones. Keywords—banking; sharia; conventional; Indonesia
Investigating the Effect of the Capillary Pore Pressure on Plastic Shrinkage of Concrete Mixtures Containing Silica Fume and Metakaolin and Its Relation with Early-Age Tensile Strength

Plastic shrinkage occurs in fresh concrete usually within few hours after mixing the concrete and risk of its cracks endangered concrete structures especially in the elements with high surface to volume ratio such as slabs or highway pavement. An experimental investigation on capillary pore pressure, tensile strength and plastic shrinkage of concrete is presented here. The aim of research is to study the relationship between capillary pore pressure build up in concretes, early age tensile strength and plastic shrinkage strain. Capillary pore pressure apparatus was created for the first time in Iran for this research. Test was done in a climate chamber with the constant evaporation rate of 0.7 kg/m2/h . Eight types of concrete in two categories such as normal concrete and self-consolidating concrete were tested including mixture without any mineral admixtures and containing of pozzolanic materials such as silica fume and metakaolin. The results indicated that there is no strong relationship between capillary pore pressure and plastic shrinkage strain and it can be concluded that other parameters such as tensile strength development can play an important role in the plastic state of concrete. However, it should be mentioned that capillary pressure is the main cause and driving force of concrete shrinkage and the onset of capillary pressure is directly related to the onset of shrinkage. The results also showed that early age tensile strength can be effective factor in controlling cracks of concrete. No cracks appeared in the mixtures containing of silica fume and metakaolin in comparison with the reference mixture. However capillary pore pressure in these mixtures was higher than pressure in the reference mixture.
Effects of Epiphyte Density on Seagrass Leaf Turnover Rate

Seagrass meadows have been considered as one of the most productive of the marine ecosystems, contributing significantly to the productivity of shallow coastal areas of both temperate and tropical waters (McRoy & McMillan 1977; Zieman & Wetzel 1980). Seagrass epiphytes are an important component of these highly productive ecosystems, often contributing greater than one-third to the total above ground biomass (Penhale 1977; Heijs 1984; Tomasko & Lapointe 1991) and as much as 30% to the combined seagrass/epiphyte productivity (Penhale 1977; Morgan & Kitting 1984; Heijs 1984, 1985, 1987).
Toxicity Assessment of Herbal Medicine Using Zebrafish Embryos: A Systematic Review

Herbal remedies have been practiced by humans over centuries and therefore possess time-proven safety. However, it is imperative to evaluate the toxic effects of herbal medicine to confirm their safety, particularly when developing therapeutic leads. Use of laboratory animals such as rats, mice, and rabbits was considered as gold standard in herbal toxicity assessments. However, in the last few decades, the ethical consideration of using higher vertebrates for toxicity testing has become more contentious. Thus, possible alternative models entailing lower vertebrates such as zebrafish were introduced. The zebrafish embryotoxicity model is at the forefront of toxicology assessment due to the transparent nature of embryos, low cost, short cycle, higher fecundity, and genetic redundancy to the humans. Recently, its application has been extended to herbal toxicology. The present review intends to provide a comprehensive assembly of studies that applied the zebrafish embryo model for the assessment of herbal toxicity. A systematic literature survey was carried out in popular scientific databases. The literature search identified a total of 1014 articles in PubMed = 12, Scopus SciVerse® = 623, and Google Scholar = 1000. After screening, 25 articles were included in this review, and they were categorized into three groups in which the zebrafish embryotoxicity assay has been applied to investigate the toxicity of (1) polyherbal formulae/medical prescription (2 full texts), (2) crude extracts (12 full texts), and (3) phytocompounds/isolated constituents (11 full texts). These studies have investigated the toxicity of 6 polyherbal formulae, 16 crude extracts, and more than 30 phytocompounds/isolated constituents using the zebrafish embryotoxicity model. Moreover, this model has explicated the teratogenic effects and specific organ toxicities such as the kidney, heart, and liver. Furthermore, in some studies, the molecular mechanisms underlying the toxicity of herbal medicine have been elucidated. This comprehensive collection of scientific data solidifies the zebrafish embryo model as an effective model system for studying toxicological effects of a broad spectrum of herbal remedies. Henceforth, it provides a novel insight into the toxicity assessment of herbal medicine.
Mirage ? Artist-led-Distribution versus Alliance Strategy in the Video Game Industry

In this paper we contribute to the debate between researchers who argue that the emergence of online distribution allows content producers in the creative industries to bypass powerful publishers and distributors, and other researchers who argue that this strategy cannot succeed without the complementary assets that these intermediaries provide. We use a case study of the Dutch Video Game Developer (DVGD) bringing to market an identical game using two different but comparable distribution channels as a quasi-experiment: In the first release DVGD used online distribution to reach consumers directly, whereas in the second it used an alliance with an established video game publisher. We find that, while the alliance required DVGD to share with the publisher a substantial fraction of the value appropriated by the game, the alliance strategy resulted in greater absolute financial performance and relative market performance compared to the self-publishing strategy. We conclude that the differences in performance can be traced back to specialized complementary assets required for successful commercialization.
Comparison between First and Repeat Spectators of Super Rugby Games : Focusing on Spectators' Motivations, Psychological Connections, and Behavioural Intentions

The first Japanese professional rugby team, the SUNWOLVES, has been participating in the Super Rugby since 2016. This study compared the motives, points of attachment, and behavioural intentions of spectators by considering two different segments of Super Rugby spectators in Japan: spectators attending a SUNWOLVES game for the first time and repeat spectators. A questionnaire survey was carried out with the spectators of the last SUNWOLVES game of the 2016 season held in Tokyo. Compared to repeat spectators, the first time spectators were younger and came to the stadium with male friends. Although they had strong relations with rugby, they have not been actively attending rugby games. They needed some extrinsic cues to attend a game, such as being accompanied by others or receiving tickets. Therefore, the promotional activities may be required to potential spectators who were members of the high school, collegiate or regional rugby team. For both segments, even though players are strong symbols of a team, they did not influence spectators’ behaviours in this study. Super Rugby players are the world-class players, but they are relatively unknown in Japan. Raising Japan’s awareness of Super Rugby players is crucial for developing the fan base. * Correspondence to: Yukako Wada, Ph.D. Lecturer, Faculty of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University 1-1-1, Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan E-mail: yu-wada@fc.ritsumei. ac.jp ** Correspondence to: Hirotaka Matsuoka, Ph.D. Professor, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University 3-4-1 Higashifushimi, Nishitokyo, Tokyo 202-0021, Japan *** Correspondence to:Daichi Oshimi, Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Sport and Leisure Management, Tokai University 4-1-1, kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan 44 『社会システム研究』(第 39 号)
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Eurosids basically evolved from the core Eudicots ‘Rosids’. The Rosids consist of two large assemblages, Eurosids I (Fabids) and Eurosids II (Malvids), which belong to the largest group of Angiosperms, comprising of >40,000 and ~15,000 species, respectively. Although the evolutionary patterns of the largest class of disease resistance genes consisting of a nucleotide binding site (NBS) and leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) have been studied in many species, systemic research of NBSencoding genes has not been performed in different orders of Eurosids II. Here, five Eurosids II species, Gossypium raimondii, Theobroma cacao, Carica papaya, Citrus clementina, and Arabidopsis thaliana, distributing in three orders, were used to gain insights into the evolutionary patterns of the NBS-encoding genes. Our data showed that frequent copy number variations of NBS-encoding genes were found among these species. Phylogenetic tree analysis and the numbers of the NBSencoding genes in the common ancestor of these species showed that species-specific NBS clades, including multi-copy and single copy numbers are dominant among these genes. However, not a single clade was found with only five copies, which come from all of the five species, respectively, suggesting rapid turn-over with birth and death of the NBS-encoding genes among Eurosids II species. In addition, a strong positive correlation was observed between the Toll/interleukin receptor (TIR) type NBS-encoding genes and species-specific genes, indicating rapid gene loss and duplication. Whereas, nonTIR type NBS-encoding genes in these five species showed two distinct evolutionary patterns.
Generation-Distillation for Efficient Natural Language Understanding in Low-Data Settings

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint of these large LMs often makes them difficult to deploy in many scenarios (e.g. on mobile phones). Recent research points to knowledge distillation as a potential solution, showing that when training data for a given task is abundant, it is possible to distill a large (teacher) LM into a small task-specific (student) network with minimal loss of performance. However, when such data is scarce, there remains a significant performance gap between large pretrained LMs and smaller task-specific models, even when training via distillation. In this paper, we bridge this gap with a novel training approach, called generation-distillation, that leverages large finetuned LMs in two ways: (1) to generate new (unlabeled) training examples, and (2) to distill their knowledge into a small network using these examples. Across three low-resource text classification datsets, we achieve comparable performance to BERT while using 300 times fewer parameters, and we outperform prior approaches to distillation for text classification while using 3 times fewer parameters.
Early Intervention for Children at High Risk of Developmental Disability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Narrative Review

In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while neonatal mortality has fallen, the number of children under five with developmental disability remains unchanged. The first thousand days are a critical window for brain development, when interventions are particularly effective. Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are supported by scientific, human rights, human capital and programmatic rationales. In high-income countries, it is recommended that ECI for high-risk infants start in the neonatal period, and specialised interventions for children with developmental disabilities as early as three months of age; more data is needed on the timing of ECI in LMICs. Emerging evidence supports community-based ECI which focus on peer support, responsive caregiving and preventing secondary morbidities. A combination of individual home visits and community-based groups are likely the best strategy for the delivery of ECI, but more evidence is needed to form strong recommendations, particularly on the dosage of interventions. More data on content, impact and implementation of ECI in LMICs for high-risk infants are urgently needed. The development of ECI for high-risk groups will build on universal early child development best practice but will likely require tailoring to local contexts.
Mutual fund performance in the Swedish premium system

This paper presents an evaluation of the Swedish pension system, using performance measures that accounts for higher moments of the distribution. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between the classical Sharpe ratio and more sophisticated measures, while specifically focusing on the outcome of the default fund in the system. These additional measure consists of the ASSR which accounts for relative skewness preference and the GR which is based on the Gini coefficient as the method for measuring risk. This is accomplished by calculating various ratios for all funds with a PPM history dating back to at least 2010 and dividing them into subcategories in order to get a more accurate representation of fund performance within a certain category. The default fund is then benchmarked against its own category and against all other equity funds in the sample. Correlation between measures is determined by firstly assigning ranks to each performance measure and secondly calculating the rank correlation using Spearman’s rho. For the data set used in this study, the results show that the default fund meets its explicit goal of achieving a long term return at least as good as the average of all PPM-funds, given its level of risk. The highest rank correlation is seen between the SR and the ASSR while the lowest correlation is seen between the SR and the GR, a result which fits perfectly in line with what we would expect in theory.
Coreference Resolution in Full Text Articles with BERT and Syntax-based Mention Filtering

This paper describes our system developed for the coreference resolution task of the CRAFT Shared Tasks 2019. The CRAFT corpus is more challenging than other existing corpora because it contains full text articles. We have employed an existing span-based state-of-theart neural coreference resolution system as a baseline system. We enhance the system with two different techniques to capture longdistance coreferent pairs. Firstly, we filter noisy mentions based on parse trees with increasing the number of antecedent candidates. Secondly, instead of relying on the LSTMs, we integrate the highly expressive language model–BERT into our model. Experimental results show that our proposed systems significantly outperform the baseline. The best performing system obtained F-scores of 44%, 48%, 39%, 49%, 40%, and 57% on the test set with B3, BLANC, CEAFE, CEAFM, LEA, and MUC metrics, respectively. Additionally, the proposed model is able to detect coreferent pairs in long distances, even with a distance of more than 200 sentences.
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Annual wormwood interference on soybean crop growth and yield may result from competition and allelopathy, which are modulated by crop management. Allelochemicals released by annual wormwood (e.g. artemisinin) may affect the crop directly or indirectly through the effect on the nitrogen fixing symbiont, Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The objectives were (i) to quantify the crop response (i.e. biomass production, nodulation and yield) to weed interference and (ii) to determinate the relative change of competition and allelopathy interferences, when a sublethal dose of herbicide is applied. Two split plot field experiments with three replications were used. The experiment involved a factorial combination of five weed–crop density (soybean/annual wormwood, plants m−2) levels: D1, pure soybean, 40/0 plants m−2; D2, 40/2 plants m−2; D3, 40/4 plants m−2 and D4, 40/8 plants m−2, and D5, pure annual wormwood, 0/8 plants m−2, two activated carbon (allelopathy) levels: C−, with activated carbon (reduced allelopathy) and C+, non activated carbon applied (with allelopathy) and two herbicide levels: H−, untreated and H+, treated with a sub-lethal dose of glyphosate. Activated carbon to adsorb allelochemicals (with and without activated carbon) and glyphosate application (with and no herbicide) were assigned to sub-plots. Increasing weed density did not affect crop biomass at flowering, but changed nodule number and soybean yield with a different pattern depending on carbon and herbicide treatment. Relative crop yield decreased with increasing relative weed biomass. This decrease was particularly drastic when allelopathy was reduced by activated carbon and without herbicide application. The maximum yield losses of 33% in 2006 and 17% in 2007 were observed with the highest weed density (8 plants m−2). In contrast, without carbon (high allelopathy level), soybean yield remained stable within the explored range of annual wormwood biomass, despite the fact that weed biomass at high densities (D4) was high enough to generate competition. The lack of response to increasing weed density could be related to the indirect effect of allelochemicals interacting with soil microorganisms (i.e. B. japonicum) that positively affected the nodulation (e.g. larger nodules in 2006 and increased nodules biomass due to higher number of roots in 2007 at high densities). With herbicide application, soybean yield of both carbon treatments remained stable when biomass of annual wormwood increased. This research provided strong evidence in support of the existence of positive effect of allelopathic and competitive interactions between annual crop u wormwood and soybean
Domains of Leadership Behavior of Administrators as Determinants of Self-Efficacy of Faculty in Engineering and ICT Schools

The importance of teacher efficacy in the academic setting cannot be discounted. Thus, there is a need for figuring out the role of leadership behavior on the self-efficacy of teachers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence or the contribution of leadership behavior of administrators towards selfefficacy of teachers in Engineering and Information and Technology (ICT) schools. Data from 236 respondent teachers of the identified schools were used to realize the purpose. Purposive sampling, and statistical tools like mean and multiple regression were utilized in the study. Results specified that on the whole, the six domains of leadership behavior influenced the self-efficacy of teachers. But among the domains, the leader’s ability to provide intellectual stimulation had the highest influence on teacher selfefficacy.
The Long Shadows of Past Insults

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930-34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of health and the impact of previous generations’ health shocks on socioeconomic outcomes. Our results provide strong evidence in favour of IGT of health, in particular for males. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on early life health outcomes, our paper shows that the effect on later-life mortality might be even more relevant. However, the story appears to be complex and multi-faceted: the IGT exhibits an inverted socioeconomic gradient, and the impact on socioeconomic outcomes is often very different from the effect on health.
Stock Return Predictability Using Panel Regression: Empirical Evidence from Pakistani Equity Market

The main goal of this study is to examine firm and market level variables that predict stock returns by using quarterly data taken from July 1999 to December 2015. The study sample is sub-divided into pre and post financial crisis of 2007-08. The results of the study depict that in the pre-financial crisis period momentum and earnings growth rate are the significant predictors of stock returns while momentum, earnings growth rate, institutional ownership and trading volume are the significant predictors of stock returns in the post-financial crisis period. Furthermore, overall results show that momentum, earnings growth rate and size are the significant predictors of stock returns for the overall sample period. The results of the study are robust and can be generalized to other time periods.