Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The iImpact of sSelf-cConstrual and eEthnicity on sSelf-gGifting bBehaviors

This research extends the understanding of how self-construal plays a role in our consumption behavior using self-gifting as its context. By applying a four-dimensional self-construal model, we sought to examine differences in self-gifting behaviors among the four self-construal groups (i.e., Bicultural, Western, Traditional, and Alienated), composed of participants from four ethnic groups in the UK (White, Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi). The dependent variables included self-gift propensity, self-gift selection effort, and self-gift post-emotion. Our findings revealed significant differences in self-gifting patterns among different self-construal groups. Generally, the Bicultural and Western self-construal groups are similar, but differ in self-gifting behaviors from Traditional and Alienated self-construal groups. We demonstrate how the four-dimensional self-construal model allows a more precise conceptualization of self-construal and a more thorough investigation of cross-cultural consumption patterns than does the two-dimensional view.
Rice varieties exhibit different mechanisms for Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE)

Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is an important characteristic for increasing the yield and quality of rice grains and reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizers. This study evaluated parameters that contribute to NUE in two tropical japonica rice varieties contrasting in nitrogen remobilization efficiency (NRE) and nitrate-uptake kinetics: IAC-47 (bred for high-input farming), and Piaui (a landrace from the state of Maranhao, Brazil). The two varieties were grown with and without N supplementation at anthesis stage. Both varieties received urea equivalent to 60 kg N ha -1 in the first ten days after planting (DAP) and a subset of the two varieties received a supplementation with 40 kg N ha -1 at anthesis stage, composing a treatment with supplementation (Ts). The control treatment (Tc) was constituted of the plants that did not receive nitrogen supplementation at anthesis. We analyzed the nitrogen soluble fractions, soluble sugars, dry matter production, total N, crude protein in grains, NUE parameters, and expression and activity of glutamine synthetase (GS). The N uptake after anthesis affected the total N content in the shoots and grains of both rice varieties. In treatments with and without N supplementation, the nitrogen uptake efficiency (NUpE) was higher in IAC-47 than in Piaui plants. The NRE, a desirable characteristic for plants grown with low N input, was around two times higher in the Piaui plants that were not supplemented with N during anthesis. panicles of piaui plants grouwn without N supplementation presented higher expression of the glutamine synthetase gene OsGS1.3 post-anthesis. The results indicate that NRE is the primary factor contributing to NUE in rice varieties adapted to a low N supply, whereas improved varieties exhibit a higher NUpE.
Relationships between Personality Characteristics , Demographic Factors and Occupational Stress among Nurses

Background & objectives: Use of psychology in working environment (e.g. nurses) along with accurate scientific findings in this field can reduce employees' occupational diseases and promote their occupational performance. This study investigates the relationships between personality traits, demographic factors and job stress in workplace. Methods: This research was conducted on 95 nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Gonabad University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Data were collected using demographic questionnaire, NEO Five-Factor Personality and Osipow job stress questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 17. Results: The mean age of participants was 31.27 years with standard deviation of 5.32. There were significant relationships between mean score of occupational stress in both men and women and two groups of BSc and MSc graduates (p<0.05). Pearson correlation test showed a significant relationship between job stress and agreeableness (p=0.001). No significant relationship was found between job stress and other personality characteristics. Conclusion: According to this study, personality characteristics affect nurses' occupational stress. It is suggested to place nurses in appropriate sections based on their personality trait using psychological consultation. Further studies in this area are necessary since other factors may also contribute to increased job stress.
Adolescents’ Identity Formation as Learners in Sukma Bangsa School Pidie, Aceh, Indonesia

This study aimed to explore how adolescents performed towards their identity as learners in Sukma Bangsa School Pidie (SBP) through a phenomenographic approach. More specifically, the research had purpose to understand the way adolescents construct their learning identity in a school environment. The findings suggested that there were variations in the way adolescents experienced their learning identity that might encourage them to achieve different degrees of motivation, self-perceptions (self-efficacy, self-concept, and Volume 1 Issue 2, Jul-Dec 2017, hlm. 249-280 https://jurnalsukma.org/index.php/sukma/article/view/01202
Disease processes of the parasite Perkinsus marinus in eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica: minimum dose for infection initiation, and interaction of temperature, salinity and infective cell dose

Experiments were conducted to: (1) test the response of oysters to different doses of the oyster parasite Perkinsus marinus and to 2 stages, meronts or prezoosporangia; and (2) investigate the synergistic effects of temperature, salinity and infective cell concentration on P. marinus infection in oysters. A dose-dependent response of P. marinus infection was found in oysters inoculated with 0, 10, 102, 104, and 105 meronts or prezoosporangia per oyster and maintained at 22 to 25°C and 14 to 21 ppt for 8 to 12 wk. The minimum dose required to infect oysters was 102 meronts or prezoosporangia per oyster through shell cavity inoculation. Interactive effects between temperature, salinity, and infective cell dose on p marinus prevalence was insignificant In the experiment, in which oysters were challenged by 0, 2.5 X 103 or 2.5 X 104 meronts per oyster and held at 9 temperature-salinity regimes (10, 15 and 25°C at 3, 10 and 20 ppt). However, there was a significant positive interaction relevant to infection intensity between temperature and salinity, and between temperature and meront dose. Temperature was the most important factor followed, respectively, by the infective cell dose and salinity in determining the susceptibility to P. marinus in oysters. Reduced condition index was observed in moderately to heavily infected oysters and in oysters at 25OC.
Growth and sucrose synthase activity of developing chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seeds under field conditions.

Seed growth characteristics and sucrose synthase activity in chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) were examined in a field experiment at Merredin, Western Australia. ‘Sona’, a small-seeded desi cultivar, and ‘Kaniva’, a large-seeded kabuli cultivar, were grown after flowering with irrigation and under a rainout shelter, used to induce terminal drought. Seed and pod wall dry weight followed a similar pattern in the two cultivars with terminal drought significantly reducing the dry weight of the pod wall and seed in both cultivars. The pod wall reached its maximum dry weight 21 days after podding (DAP) in ‘Kaniva’ and 28 and 35 DAP in ‘Sona’ with terminal drought and irrigation, respectively. The dry weight of the pod wall decreased during seed filling, particularly in the plants subjected to terminal drought. The increase in seed dry weight followed a sigmoid curve with a lag phase of 14 DAP and 21 DAP in ‘Kaniva’ and ‘Sona’, respectively, followed by a rapid almost-linear phase until 35 DAP when the dry weight leveled off and even decreased slightly near maturity. Sucrose synthase activity peaked at 32 DAP in ‘Kaniva’ and 35 DAP in ‘Sona’ and then decreased to near zero at maturity. A significant and positive association was observed between seed dry weight at maturity and peak sucrose synthase activity in both cultivars and both treatments. We suggest that sucrose synthase is a good physiological indicator for use in breeding for improved seed size in chickpea.
Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labour economics is built on the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a systematic challenge to the standard model of perfect competition. "Monopsony in Motion" stands apart by analyzing labour markets from the real-world perspective that employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labour market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, Manning re-examines much of labour economics based on this alternative and equally plausible assumption.This book addresses the theoretical implications of monopsony and presents a wealth of empirical evidence. Our understanding of the distribution of wages, unemployment, and human capital can all be improved by recognizing that employers have some monopsony power over their workers. Also considered are policy issues including the minimum wage, equal pay legislation, and caps on working hours. In a monopsonistic labour market, concludes Manning, the 'free' market can no longer be sustained as an ideal and labour economists need to be more open-minded in their evaluation of labour market policies. "Monopsony in Motion" will represent for some a new fundamental text in the advanced study of labour economics, and for others, an invaluable alternative perspective that henceforth must be taken into account in any serious consideration of the subject.
Screening of radical scavenging activity of some medicinal and aromatic plant extracts

Extracts of 12 medicinal and aromatic plants were investigated for their radical scavenging activity using DPPH and ABTS assays: Salvia sclarea, Salvia glutinosa, Salvia pratensis, Lavandula angustifolia, Calendula officinalis, Matricaria recutita, Echinacea purpurea, Rhaponticum carthamoides, Juglans regia, Melilotus officinalis, Geranium macrorrhizum and Potentilla fruticosa. Salvia officinalis was used as a reference plant with well documented antioxidant activity. G. macrorrhizum and P. fruticosa extracts possessed very high radical scavenging activity (RSA) in both assays, higher than that of S. officinalis extract. High RSA was also characteristic to other Salvia species and Rhaponticum carthamoides. The content of total phenolic compounds, flavonoids and flavonols was measured in plant extracts. A correlation between radical scavenging capacities of extracts with total phenolic compound content was observed. # 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Rapid Cytodiagnosis By Different Staining Techniques In Comparison With Conventional Stains In Thyroid Cytology

BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a very important component of pre-operative / pre-treatment investigation in combination with clinical, radiological and other laboratory data. In spite of its advances and advantages, conventional FNAC fails to achieve a 100% accuracy. To improve the accuracy of FNAC, a supravital stained Toluidine blue wet mount (TBWM) preparation of the aspirate and Methylene blue/Eosin (M/E) stained smears are studied which will give additional information regarding the lesion on which FNAC is done. OBJECTIVE: To assess the diagnostic rapidity of the Toluidine blue wet mount preparation and Methylene blue/Eosin stain in FNAC and to compare the morphological features and results obtained from rapid stains with conventional PAP and H&E techniques in FNAC. METHODS: The study was conducted on Fine needle aspirates from 100 patients presenting with thyroid swelling in R.L Jalappa hospital attached to Sri DevarajUrs Medical College, Kolar, Karnataka. TBWM, M/E stain, H&E stain and Pap stain was done for all 100 cases. Time taken for each stain is assessed and the morphology of rapid stains were compared with the conventional stain. Quality index was calculated for all the stains. RESULTS: The rapidity of the stains was assessed for all four stains. Toluidine blue wet mount takes only 2 minutes for staining followed by Methylene blue/eosin which takes 5 minutes. M/E stain gave the same result as compared to the conventional stains [PAP and H&E]. In TBWM there was difficulty in diagnosing few cases due to three dimensional clusters. The sensitivity and specificity of TBWM were 66% and 90% whereas for M/E stain 98% and 100%. The quality index of PAP stain, H&E stain, M/E stain and TBWM were 0.85, 0.81, 0.71, 0.660. 66. CONCLUSION: Thus, both stains can be routinely undertaken as a supplementary procedure for conventional stains to improve the cellularity and to reduce the time taken for re-sampling. DOI: 10.21276/APALM.1621
Insights of YouTube View Check System

YouTube is the most popular website for videos nowadays. Its business model is based on advertisement: ads are introduced in the videos and uploaders are paid based on the number of views of their videos. For this reason, it is imporant for YouTube to be able to check that views are real, and discard those that are faked. The main purpose of this paper is to understand the mech- anisms implemented by YouTube to detect and discard faked views. To this aim, we have developed a robot that performs faked views; by building on a thorough study of the patterns and the most common traffic sources of videos, and emulating this patterns, our robot shows a very similar behavior to real users. From the results obtained from our experiments, we observe that: (i) we are able to overcome the 301 limit, which corresponds to the first thorough analysis YouTube performs to detect faked views, (ii) we are capable of pushing the total number of views to an unlimited large number, but at a limited growth rate, (iii) YouTube appears to be insensitive to many behaviors that show that views are faked, except for the IP address used by the client, and (iv) regardless of how sophisticated the robot is, YouTube only counts a fraction of the views realized (around one half). In order to compare the behavior observed by our robot to other behaviours, we have considered (i) an experiment with real people watching the video, and (ii) services offered in the Internet that sell views for YouTube videos. We have observed from the first experiment that even with real views, YouTube only seems to be counting about half of them as real views. Furthermore, the second experiment confirms that even some basic tools are able to increase the number of views (e.g., in some cases we found that the average view duration was 0 but still for those cases YouTube counted a large number of views). The experiments conducted seem to show that YouTube implements a very basic scheme to detect fake views that is easily tricked by simple tools, and that YouTube discards a subsantial number of the views performed even for real views. Such results seem to point to the need for revisting the algorithms implemented by YouTube to detect fake views.
VIREO @ TRECVID 2014: Instance Search and Semantic Indexing

This paper summarizes the following two tasks participated by VIREO group: instance search and semantic indexing. We will present our approaches and analyze the results obtained in TRECVID 2014 benchmark evaluation [1]. Instance Search (INS): We submitted seven runs derived from the following three systems (1) the baseline: our last year’s best system; (2) the normalization: the method refining the normalization terms for both query and reference images; (3) the video agumented query: the original image query is augmented with the video example. -F A VIREO 7: Baseline using the first image example only. Our baseline system is based on the Bag-of-Words (BoW) model [2], augmented with Hamming Embeding [3], spatial verification via Delaunay Triangulation [4] and context weighting via “Stare” model [5]. -F B VIREO 6: Baseline using the first two image examples only. -F C VIREO 5: Baseline using the first three image examples only. -F D VIREO 2: Baseline using all the four image examples. -F D VIREO 3: Baseline + normalization method, using all the four image examples. -F E VIREO 4: Baseline + video augmented query, using all the four image examples as well as the video examples where the query images are extracted. -F E VIREO 1: Late fusion of the results from all our systems, including the baseline, normalization and video augmented query. This run also queries with all the four images and video examples. Semantic Indexing (SIN): This year, we experimented various features including the visual, motion and audio features in concept training. Specifically, state-of-the-art motion feature: Improved Trajectories [6] and aduio features: MFCC, LPC, LSF, OBSI [7] are involved in this year’s benchmark evaluation. We submitted two runs to test these newly added features: -2 BM D VIREO.14 1: Late fusion of the detection scores using visual features. -2 BM D VIREO.14 2: Late fusion of the detection scores using visual, motion and audio features.
Determinants of Cross-Border Syndication: Cultural Barriers, Legal Context, and Learning

Private equity (PE) has become an increasingly international phenomenon but there is a lack of research that looks at the process by which PE firms invest across borders. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by examining the role of cultural distance, legal context and organizational learning as determinants of cross-border private equity syndication. We examine these issues by studying the international expansion by later-stage UK PE investors into continental Europe over the period 1990 to 2005. Our results indicate that legal context and organizational learning are significantly related to the use of cross-border syndicates. Implications for theory and practice are suggested.
How previous visits shape trip quality, perceived value, satisfaction, and future behavioral intentions: the case of forest-based ecotourism in Sri Lanka.

A better understanding on relationships between future behavioural intentions and its antecedents allow ecotourism operators to manipulate their ecotourism products to optimize customer satisfaction, and improve marketing efforts. Although the relationship between previous visits and future behavioural intentions have been previously studied, less attention has been given on understanding the process of how previous visits interact with other key determinants of behavioural intentions such as trip quality, perceived value, and satisfaction to form future behavioural intentions. This study proposes a model to examine the role of previous visits in predicting future behavioural intentions to participate in ecotourism, and the relationship between previous visits and future behavioural intentions is modelled in a quality-satisfaction domain. Results suggest previous visits, trip quality, satisfaction and perceived value as important predictors of ecotourists’ intention to revisit and recommend the destination, as well as their propensity to engage in ecotourism in the future. Trip quality was the most important determinant of future ecotourism behavioural intentions. Implications of the study are discussed in the perspective of ecotourism marketing.
Detection of Intercellular Adhesion Genes (icaA and icaD) in Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates in Zabol- Iran

Corresponding Author: Mehdi Hassanshahian Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran. Phone: +98-9132906971 E-mail: hasanshahi@gmail.com Abstract Background: The nosocomial infections that cause the establishment of biofilms on the embedded biomedical surfaces are the leading cause of sepsis and are often related to colonization of implants by Staphylococcus epidermidis. Materials and Methods: A total of 40 clinical S. aureus isolates were collected from Zabol, Iran. The ability of these strains to form biofilm was determined by microliter tissue culture plates. All clinical isolates were tested for the presence of icaA and icaD genes by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Results: The outcome of this study showed that from 40 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, 12 (30%) of them were contained icaA gene and 8 (20%) isolates were positive for icaD gene and five (12.5%) isolates were contained both genes. Conclusion: The capability of S. aureus clinical isolates to form biofilm is different/diverse. This may be caused by the differences in the containing of biofilmrelated genes, genetic make-up and physiological situation.
How Do Europeans Evaluate Income Distributions? An Assessment Based on Happiness Surveys

The purpose of this paper is to measure the evaluation of income inequality by European citizens. Starting from the concept of a social welfare function defined on income distributions the paper estimates the degree and nature of inequality aversion of Europeans. It uses subjective well-being (SWB) as an empirical measure of welfare and estimates how SWB is related to average income and measures of income inequality (from an appropriate class). The estimated relationship is used to determine those inequality measures which qualify as proper representations of people's inequality aversion.
Blood parameters and enzymatic and oxidative activity in the liver of chickens fed with calcium anacardate

The aim of this research was to evaluate the inclusion of calcium anacardate (CAC) as a source of anacardic acid in the diet of broiler chickens on blood parameters, and enzymatic and oxidative activity in the liver. A total of 840 male chicks, one day old, were kept in a completely randomised experimental design, with six treatments and seven replications of 20 birds, totalling 140 birds per treatment. The treatments consisted of feed without the addition of growth promoter (GP), feed with GP, and feed with no GP and the addition of CAC at levels of 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1%. The biochemical blood variables to be analysed were uric acid, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, creatinine, AST, ALT, triglycerides, total erythrocytes, haemoglobin, haematocrit, mean corpuscular volume, corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, total plasma protein, total leukocytes, heterophils, lymphocytes, platelets and heterophil/lymphocyte ratio. The concentrations of superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and malondialdehyde were analysed for the enzymatic and oxidative parameters in the liver. There were no significant differences between treatments in the blood parameters or the enzymatic and oxidative activity in the liver of the chickens, demonstrating that the use of calcium anacardate as a source of anacardic acid is non-toxic, and does not affect these parameters.