Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dampak Profitabilitas, Financial Leverage dan Dividend Payout Ratio Terhadap Praktik Perataan Laba (Studi Kasus pada Perusahaan Manufaktur Yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2013-2016

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh profitabilitas, financial leverage , dan dividend payout ratio terhadap praktik perataan laba. Sampel penelitian berjumlah 5 perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode tahun 2013-2016. Faktor-faktor yang diuji adalah profitabilitas (ROE), financial leverage ( debt to equity ratio) , dan dividend payout ratio . Indeks eckel digunakan untuk menentukan perusahaan yang melakukan praktik perataan laba maupun tidak. Hasil perhitungan indeks Eckel menunjukkan bahwa sebanyak 3 perusahaan yang melakukan praktik perataan laba. Sedangkan hasil dari analisis regresi data panel mendapatkan hasil antara lain (1) dengan uji simultan dibuktikan semua variabel secara bersama-sama mempengaruhi praktik perataan laba dan (2) dengan uji parsial baik profitabilitas, financial leverage , dan dividend payout ratio berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap praktik perataan laba. Dengan demikian dapat ditarik kesimpulan dari penelitian ini bahwa profitabilitas, financial leverage , dan dividend payout ratio mempengaruhi perusahaan melakukan praktik perataan laba.
Quantitative Gross and CT measurements of Cadaveric Cervical Vertebrae (C3 – C6) as Guidelines for the Lateral mass screw fixation

Background Lateral mass screw fixation is the treatment of choice for posterior cervical stabilization. Long or misdirected screws carry a risk of injury to spinal nerve roots or vertebral artery. This study was aimed to assess the gross anatomic and CT measurements of typical cervical vertebrae for the selection of lateral mass screws. Methods Dimensions of the articular pillars were measured on 1) Dry cervical vertebrae with Vernier calipers and 2) Multiplanar reformations of CT scans of the same vertebrae with Viewer software package. The data was statistically evaluated. Results The transverse diameter of the articular pillars with Vernier calipers varied from 6.0 to 15.4 mm (mean=10.5 mm ± 1.5) and on CT scans ranged from 8.2 – 16.1 mm (mean=11.6 mm ± 1.4). The antero-posterior diameter, an estimate of the screw length by Roy-Camille technique varied from 3.9 to 12.7 mm (mean=8.6 mm ± 1.6) by Vernier calipers and from 6.4 to 13.3 mm (mean=9.1 ± 1.2) on CT scans. The oblique AP diameter, an estimate of screw length by Magerl method varied from 10.8 to 20.3 mm (mean=14.9 mm ± 1.8) by Vernier calipers and from 11.4 to 19.3 mm (mean=14.5 mm ± 1.7) on CT. The CT measurements for height, transverse and AP diameter of the articular pillars were 0.5 - 1.0 mm larger than dimensions by Vernier calipers. No statistically significant difference was observed between the caliper and CT measurements for the oblique AP diameter. Conclusion CT measurements of the articular pillars may slightly overestimate the desired screw length selected by spine surgeons when compared to actual anatomy. Although means of the articular pillars correspond to the screw lengths used, substantial number of observations below 10 mm for Roy-Camille trajectory and below 14 mm for Magerl trajectory requires careful preoperative planning and intra-operative confirmation to avoid long/misdirected lateral mass screws.
History and sensitivity comparison of the Spirodela polyrhiza microbiotest and Lemna toxicity tests

The history of toxicity tests with duckweeds shows that these assays with free-floating aquatic angiosperms are gaining increasing attention in ecotoxicological research and applications. Standard tests have been published by national and international organizations, mainly with the test species Lemna minor and Lemna gibba . Besides the former two test species the great duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza is to date also regularly used in duckweed testing. Under unfavorable environmental conditions, the latter species produces dormant stages (turions) and this has triggered the attention of two research groups from Belgium and Greece to jointly develop a “stock culture independent” microbiotest with S. polyrhiza . A 72 h new test has been worked out which besides its independence of stock culturing and maintenance of live stocks is very simple and practical to perform, and much less demanding in space and time than the conventional duckweed tests. Extensive International Interlaboratory Comparisons on the S. polyrhiza microbiotest showed its robustness and reliability and triggered the decision to propose this new assay to the ISO for endorsement and publication as a standard toxicity test for duckweeds. Sensitivity comparison of the 72 h S. polyrhiza microbiotest with the 7d L. minor assay for 22 compounds belonging to different groups of chemicals revealed that based on growth as the effect criterion both duckweed assays have a similar sensitivity. Taking into account its multiple advantages and assets, the S. polyrhiza microbiotest is a reliable and attractive alternative to the conventional duckweed tests.
E-learning Policies and E-learning Acceptance and Usage

E-learning is identified in many studies as an enabler of education. A lot of benefits and opportunities have been anticipated in the adoption of e-learning. However despite this, its benefits have not been fully realized and e-learning has not been fully utilized as advertised. This study focuses on the individual users’ acceptance and usage of e- learning and influence of e-learning policies on e-learning acceptance and usage. A selected sample of universities in Uganda was used to carry out this study. Several challenges were identified from which possible requirements where obtained. The science methodology design was used. Evaluation results indicated that where e-learning policies existed, acceptance and usage of e-learning systems were greatly improved.
Molecular Characterization of Giardia Isolates from Calves and Humans in a Region in Which Dairy Farming Has Recently Intensified

ABSTRACT Giardiasis is a notifiable disease of high prevalence in New Zealand, but there is limited knowledge about the sources of Giardia duodenalis genotypes that can potentially cause human infections. Dairy calves are one environmental source of Giardia isolates, but it is unknown whether they harbor genotypes that are potentially capable of causing infections in humans. To address these questions, 40 Giardia isolates from calves and 30 from humans, living in the same region and collected over a similar period, were genotyped using the β-giardin gene. The G. duodenalis genetic assemblages A and B were identified from both calves and humans, and genotype comparisons revealed a substantial overlap of identical genotypes from the two hosts for both assemblages. Significantly, no assemblage E (the genotype commonly found in cattle elsewhere in the world) has been detected in New Zealand livestock to date. Given recent and rapid land use conversions to dairy farming in many South Island regions of New Zealand, an increasingly large concentration of domestic cattle harboring genotypes potentially capable of causing infections in humans is particularly concerning.
Hazards of challenge tests in atopic dermatitis

It is sometimes desirable to perform challenges with foods or food additives in children with atopic dermatitis (AD). Such challenges can be open, single-blind, or double-blind. The need for this time-consuming and unwieldy procedure is partly attributable to the lack of any other reliable clinical or laboratory test. The failure to develop a simple test can be ascribed to the numerous immunological and pharmacological mechanisms which operate in food or additive intolerance. Some sort of test is required chiefly because parents' observations about food intolerence are notoriously unreliable (1-3). Challenge tests are fraught with difficulties, but perhaps the most serious hazard is that the procedure may arrive at the wrong answer, leading to the inappropriate inclusion or exclusion of an item from the child's diet. Possible hazards are briefly described below, with attention given to the final one which has caused us particular problems-anaphylactic shock (4).
Les causatives en franais, un cas de comptition syntaxique

Anne Abeille, Danielle Godard, Philip Miller : Les causatives en francais, un cas de competition syntaxique ; Causative structures in French belong to two different types in syntactic variation. They differ by their semantic inferences, with respect to the realization of the causee, the possibility of negating the infinitival V complement, and of being the complement of a "facile" adjective. The structures are formalized in HPSG. The variation hypothesis explains the variability of acceptabilities which characterize VP complementation.
MIPSGAL: A Survey of the Inner Galactic Plane at 24 and 70 μm

MIPSGAL is a 278 deg2 survey of the inner Galactic plane using the Multiband Infrared Photometer for Spitzer aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. The survey field was imaged in two passbands, 24 and 70 μm with resolutions of 6″ and 18″, respectively. The survey was designed to provide a uniform, well-calibrated and well-characterized data set for general inquiry of the inner Galactic plane and as a longer-wavelength complement to the shorter-wavelength Spitzer survey of the Galactic plane: Galactic Plane Infrared Mapping Survey Extraordinaire. The primary science drivers of the current survey are to identify all high-mass (M > 5 M⊙) protostars in the inner Galactic disk and to probe the distribution, energetics, and properties of interstellar dust in the Galactic disk. The observations were planned to minimize data artifacts due to image latents at 24 μm and to provide full coverage at 70 μm. Observations at ecliptic latitudes within 15° of the ecliptic plane were taken at multiple epochs to help reject asteroids. The data for the survey were collected in three epochs, 2005 September–October, 2006 April, and 2006 October with all of the data available to the public. The estimated point-source sensitivities of the survey are 2 and 75 mJy (3 σ) at 24 and 70 μm, respectively. Additional data processing was needed to mitigate image artifacts due to bright sources at 24 μm and detector responsivity variations at 70 μm due to the large dynamic range of the Galactic plane. Enhanced data products including artifact-mitigated mosaics and point-source catalogs are being produced with the 24 μm mosaics already publicly available from the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive. Some preliminary results using the enhanced data products are described.
The Availability of Business Finance

Access to business finance has improved markedly since the global financial crisis, and debt-servicing costs are near historic lows. Nevertheless, small businesses continue to face challenges accessing finance. This article looks at the sources and availability of finance for Australian businesses. It also explores several innovations, such as comprehensive credit reporting and alternative finance platforms. These could make financing more accessible for small businesses in the start-up or expansion phase.
Intravenous palonosetron compared with a combination of ramosetron and dexamethasone in preventing post operative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynaecological surgeries under spinal anaesthesia, a randomised study

Background and Aims: Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most common complications in patients undergoing gynaecological surgeries under spinal anaesthesia (SA). Palonosetron has the unique property of controlling 'delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting' when compared to older serotonin antagonists. This study compared the effectiveness of palonosetron with a combination of ramosetron and dexamethasone in preventing PONV. Methods: Sixty patients undergoing gynaecological surgeries under SA were randomly allocated into two groups of thirty each,to receive either a combination of 0.3 mg of ramosetron and 8 mg of dexamethasone intravenously (IV) (Group RD) or 0.075 mg of palonosetron IV (Group P). The incidence of PONV, number of complete responders (no nausea, vomiting or use of rescue anti-emetics) and severity of nausea were evaluated during intra- and post-operative period. Results: The incidence of complete responders during intraoperative period was 80.0% in Group RD and 76.7% in Group P (P = 0.074) whereas postoperatively at 0–2 h and 2–6 h, it was 73.3% and 83.3% in Group RD respectively as compared to 46.6% and 56.6% in Group P respectively (P = 0.016 and P= 0.024). The incidence of PONV during 24 h of post-operative period was 30.00% in Group RD as compared to 60.00% in Group P (P = 0.0195). Nausea severity score and use of rescue anti-emetics did not vary between the groups. Conclusion: Combination of ramosetron and dexamethasone is more effective than palonosetron alone in preventing PONV in patients undergoing gynaecological surgeries under SA.
1950 MHz Electromagnetic Fields Ameliorate Aβ Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease Mice

The involvement of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) in the neurodegenerative disease, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), has received wide consideration, however, outcomes from several researches have not shown consistency. In this study, we determined whether RF-EMF influenced AD pathology in vivo using Tg-5xFAD mice as a model of AD-like amyloid β (Aβ) pathology. The transgenic (Tg)-5xFAD and wild type (WT) mice were chronically exposed to RF-EMF for 8 months (1950 MHz, SAR 5W/kg, 2 hrs/day, 5 days/week). Notably, chronic RF-EMF exposure significantly reduced not only Aβ plaques, APP, and APP carboxyl-terminal fragments (CTFs) in whole brain including hippocampus and entorhinal cortex but also the ratio of Aβ42 and Aβ40 peptide in the hippocampus of Tg-5xFAD mice. We also found that parenchymal expression of β-amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1(BACE1) and neuroinflammation were inhibited by RF-EMF exposure in Tg-5xFAD. In addition, RF-EMF was shown to rescue memory impairment in Tg-5xFAD. Moreover, gene profiling from microarray data using hippocampus of WT and Tg-5xFAD following RF-EMF exposure revealed that 5 genes (Tshz2, Gm12695, St3gal1, Isx and Tll1), which are involved in Aβ, are significantly altered inTg-5xFAD mice, exhibiting different responses to RF-EMF in WT or Tg-5xFAD mice; RF-EMF exposure in WT mice showed similar patterns to control Tg-5xFAD mice, however, RF-EMF exposure in Tg-5xFAD mice showed opposite expression patterns. These findings indicate that chronic RF-EMF exposure directly affects Aβ pathology in AD but not in normal brain. Therefore, RF-EMF has preventive effects against AD-like pathology in advanced AD mice with a high expression of Aβ, which suggests that RF-EMF can have a beneficial influence on AD.
Adaptive Mode Selection in D2D Communications Considering the Bursty Traffic Model

This letter proposes a new mode selection scheme to improve the overall packet rates for device-to-device (D2D) communications systems in the bursty traffic model. We consider three types of D2D modes, i.e., dedicated mode, cellular mode, and reuse mode. In the full-buffer traffic model, if all the uplink (UL) channels are occupied by cellular users, the dedicated and cellular modes are not available for D2D user equipments (DUEs) to choose. However, in bursty traffic model, the traffic load is time-varying and DUEs have the option to select the dedicated or cellular modes. To determine the best mode for a DUE in the bursty traffic, we propose a mode selection scheme, which considers the traffic load for the bursty traffic model. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme achieves a remarkable enhancement in average end-to-end delay, dropping probability, and packet rate.
Green Nanoparticles Engineering on Root-knot Nematode Infecting Eggplants and Their Effect on Plant DNA Modification

Background Root-knot nematodes are known to cause significant damage to eggplants. New approaches by green silver nanoparticles (GSN) are used to control plant-parasitic nematode to avoid chemical nematicide hazards. Objectives Analyses of the incorporation of different concentrations of nanoparticles on two different algae (Ulva lactuca and Turbinaria turbinata) were carried out. Furethermore, the effect of GSN on the eggplant DNA profile was studied using RAPD and EST molecular markers. Materials and Methods Green Silver Nanoparticles (GSN) have been synthesized and characterized using the algal extract solution prepared from two algal genera. Nematicidal effect of the GSN was evaluated in greenhouse on eggplants (Solanum melongena cv. Login). Genomic DNA was extracted for use in molecular analysis. Both RAPD and EST molecular markers were used to study the GSN effect on eggplant DNA modification. Results GSN (17 mg.mL-1) obtained from U. lactuca was more effective in reducing second-stage juveniles (J2s) of M. javanica (69.44%) population in soil. All treatments improved eggplants growth parameters. Change in DNA profile using of both RAPD and EST markers was noted. Conclusions GSN (12.75 mg.100 mL-1) were effective on controlling the root-knot nematode (both T. turbinata and U. lactuca algae), similar to chemical control in eggplants. GSN did not cause any phototoxicity in eggplants under treatment.
Final findings: Jobseekers

This final report presents the key findings for the jobseeker sample of the Welfare Conditionality project. These findings draw directly on the experiences of 43 jobseekers (from an original sample of 65) who took part in at least two of the three waves of repeat interviews, undertaken between 2014 and 2017. Jobseekers were sampled as part of the larger repeat qualitative longitudinal panel study that informs the project alongside additional interviews and focus groups conducted with relevant policy stakeholders and practitioners.
Do Accounting Numbers Have Any Relation with Stock Prices? A Case of Public and Private Sector Banks of India

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the accounting numbers and the share price of the banks in India, and also to study if there is any significance difference in the relevance of accounting numbers in case of public sector and private sector banks.Design/methodology/approach-The study used panel least regression analysis by incorporating Fixed effect model (FEM) and Random effect model (REM), where nine set of accounting variables regressed against market share price of private and public sector banks for a period of 10 years from 2005 to 2014.Findings ? The empirical findings revealed that, out of nine independent variables used; the earnings per share, book value per share, assets turnover and current ratio were significant in private sector banks and earnings per share, book value per share, return on equity and net non-performing assets ratio were significant in public sector banks. Overall empirical findings reported that the accounting numbers in public sector banks is more relevant than that of private sector banks and this supports the hypothesis of the study that there is significant difference in the relevance of accounting numbers between public sector banks and private sector banks.Practical implications ? The empirical findings of this study contribute to existing literature and provide additional insight to Indian investors to understand the importance of accounting numbers in banking sector; also it provides insight to bankers by identifying accounting numbers which are accorded significance by the stock market. Originality/value -To the best of author? s knowledge, this is the first empirical study which compared the accounting numbers private and public sector banks of India.
Lesions of the extended amygdala in C57BL/6J mice do not block the intermittent ethanol vapor-induced increase in ethanol consumption.

BACKGROUND The central extended amygdala (cEA) which includes the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) and the lateral posterior bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNSTLP), has been proposed to play a key role in excessive ethanol consumption in humans (Koob and Le Moal, 2005 Nat Neurosci 8:1442). To examine this relationship, we used a murine model of ethanol dependence (Becker and Lopez, 2004 Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:1829; Lopez and Becker, 2005 Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181:688) and compared animals with sham lesions and electrolytic lesions of the CeA and BNSTLP. METHODS Male C57BL/6J (B6) mice were first acclimated to a limited-access 2-bottle-choice preference procedure. The access period began 3 hours into the dark phase of the light-dark cycle and continued for 2 hours. Once acclimated (1 week), mice underwent chronic exposure to and intermittent withdrawal from ethanol vapor. The animals were then retested in the limited-access 2-bottle-choice preference procedure. In some experiments, electrolytic and sham lesions of the CeA or BNSTLP were performed prior to initiating the 2-bottle choice procedure. RESULTS In a series of 5 preliminary experiments, mice were randomly assigned either to the standard intermittent ethanol vapor procedure or to the standard procedure but with air in the vapor chamber (control). The air-control procedure produced no change in ethanol intake when compared to baseline consumption. In contrast, intermittent ethanol vapor exposure increased ethanol consumption by almost 50%. The increase in consumption was associated with an increase in total fluid volume consumed and no change in ethanol preference. Lesions of both the BNSTLP and CeA significantly decreased baseline ethanol consumption, the former by decreasing fluid consumption and the latter by decreasing ethanol preference. Intermittent ethanol vapor exposure significantly increased consumption in both the BNSTLP- and CeA-lesioned animals, largely by increasing the total volume of fluid consumed. CONCLUSIONS The results obtained clearly demonstrate that the cEA has a role in the regulation of ethanol consumption in the limited-access procedure. However, neither lesions of the CeA nor BNSTLP prevented the intermittent ethanol vapor-induced increase in consumption. These data do not preclude some role of the cEA in the increased ethanol consumption following intermittent ethanol vapor exposure, but would suggest that other brain regions also must have a significant influence.