Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Entrepreneurial Perception of Students

Research Question: What determinants drive the entrepreneurial intentions of students enrolled in accounting master programs: entrepreneurial competencies, family and friends support or entrepreneurial education? Motivation: The current research purpose is to explore to what extent the entrepreneurship is a feasible alternative career for students enrolled in accounting master programs and the role of academic education in entrepreneurship in selecting the entrepreneurial career. Generally, entrepreneurs are associated with providers of novel products and/or services, but we consider the entrepreneurial career in accounting services as feasible as any other career. Idea: The student’s interest in entrepreneurial activities remains greatly influenced by the entrepreneurial universities policies, making the role of universities crucial. Based on the affirmation that current students will be tomorrow’s successful entrepreneurs (Pribeanu and Milutin, 2014), it is essential to increase the impact of entrepreneurial education on the student’s life. It is not easy for universities, knowing the changes and challenges that they have to face nowadays (Schulte, 2014), but it is their responsibility and they do have the responsibility to make the change possible. Data: The data of this paper is collected based on a survey on the student’s perception on entrepreneurship and analyses the competences and abilities they gain as result of their bachelor studies and how these perceived competencies and abilities are currently helping or will help them to choose an entrepreneurial career. Tools: The study is based on a questionnaire distributed to master students enrolled in accounting master programs organized by The Bucharest University of Economic Studies. The research methodology consists of a descriptive analysis and regression analysis. Additionally, the structure of questionnaire allows us to use the Carlsson et al.’s (2012) framework for investigating the entrepreneurship, which is based on two perspectives, namely explorative and exploitative. Findings: The findings allow to state that students are taking into consideration the entrepreneurship career and their decision is positively influenced by family and friends setting and education. The test of the models resulted in adjusted R-squares higher than 0.90 indicating robust support for the regression models. Contribution: Our empirical study investigates three determinants of entrepreneurial skills and, as result of this research, universities, government officials and others interested in stimulating entrepreneurial motivation should consider how their actions affect potential entrepreneurs’ enthusiasm. Furthermore, this academic paper enhances the Romanian academic literature in the field of entrepreneurship.
Pengaruh Ekstrak Kulit Buah Mangga Harum Manis (Mangifera indica L) terhadap Tekanan Darah pada Tikus Putih Jantan Hipertensi

Hypertension is the most common disease in Indonesia. The impact of hypertension can affect other organs such as the kidneys, heart, and eventually cause death. The prevalence of hypertension increases from year to year. One alternative treatment for hypertension is the use of natural ingredients that contain flavonoids. Mango (the leaves, fruit, fruit peel and stems) is one of the plants that can be used for anti-hypertension, because of its flavonoid content. Ethanol extract of leaves, fruit and stem of Mango already proved as an antihypertensive drug, but the peel of the fruit has not been studied, so far it has only been a waste. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of varying doses of the extract of mango peel varieties Harum Manis (EKBMHM) on white male hypertensive rats. This study was experimental with a pretest-posttest control group design, using male white rats, divided into 6 groups: negative control group, positive control, treatment group 30 mg / kg BW, treatment group 60 mg / kg BW, treatment group 120 mg / kg BW and comparison group (amlodipine 5 mg / kgBW. Prednisone 1.5 mg / kgBW in 2.5% NaCl are used to induce hypertension in animal. The parameters used were blood pressure which measured using a Non-Invasive Blood Pressure. Data analysis was calculated using one-way ANOVA followed by Duncan's test. The results obtained showed a dose of 30 mg / kg BW and a dose of 120 mg / kg BW extract of mango peel cannot reduce blood pressure, while a dose of 60 mg / kg BW can reduce blood pressure in hypertensive rats where the results of blood pressure measurements are not significantly different with comparison group (amlodipine 5 mg / kg BW). The conclusion for this research,the administration of mango peel varieties Harum Manis extract at a dose of 60 mg / kg BW given to hypertensive rats shows potential as an antihypertensive drug (p value = 0.047).
The Role of Nuclear Medicine in Malignant Melanoma

Malignant Melanoma (MM) accounts only for 4% of all skin cancers, but is the most aggressive and lethal type of skin cancer. MM metastizes either to regional lymph nodes or to distant sites following predictable or unpredictable pathways. Nuclear Medicine (NM) plays a key role in nodal staging with the use of sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping and guided sampling techniques. 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) Positron Emission Τomography (PET) has also a pivotal role in staging and restaging of MM and can alter significantly patient’s management. In today’s clinical practice, hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT scanners allow simultaneous assessment of both metabolic and anatomic characteristics of the primary tumor and its potential local, regional, and distant extension. More studies are required to determine the optimal surveillance schedules of PET/CT in patients with high-risk MM in order to maximize the detection of early relapse, as well as the role of PET/CT in the assessment of response to MM therapy. In this paper, we review the clinical contribution of current nuclear medicine technologies to the management of MM.
Health consequences and help-seeking among victims of crime: An examination of sex differences

This study examines whether sex differences in level of distress and help-seeking for physical and emotional problems as a result of criminal victimization can be explained by injury, type of crime, and the victim–offender relationship. The study uses data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) from 2008–2014. Analyses utilize multivariate logistic regression and interaction terms to address possible differences between males and females. Consistent with the existing literature, females reported elevated distress and were more likely to seek help for emotional and physical problems. However, being a victim of intimate and family violence contributed to heightened distress and increased help-seeking for both males and females. Male distress was elevated when the offender was a friend or acquaintance and when the attack was a robbery. Victims services should address crimes males are more likely to experience, including robbery and victimizations by known, but not necessarily intimate, relationships.
Cortical source imaging of resting-state MEG with a high resolution atlas: An evaluation of methods

Non-invasive functional neuroimaging of the human brain at rest can give crucial insight into the mechanisms that underpin healthy cognition and neurological disorders. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures extracranial magnetic fields originating from neuronal activity with very high temporal resolution, but requires source reconstruction to make neuroanatomical inferences from these signals. Many source reconstruction algorithms for task-based MEG data are available. However, no consensus yet exists on the optimum algorithm for resting-state data. Here, we evaluated the performance of six commonly-used source reconstruction algorithms based on minimum-norm and beamforming estimates. In the context of human resting-state MEG, we compared the algorithms using quantitative metrics, including resolution properties of inverse solutions and explained variance in sensor-level data. Next, we proposed a data-driven approach to reduce the atlas from the Human Connectome Project’s multimodal parcellation of the human cortex. This procedure produced a reduced cortical atlas with 250 regions, optimized to match the spatial resolution and the rank of MEG data from the current generation of MEG scanners. For both voxel-wise and parcellated source reconstructions, we showed that the eLORETA inverse algorithm had zero localization error, high spatial resolution, and superior performance in predicting sensor-level activity. Our comprehensive comparisons and recommandations can serve as a guide for choosing appropriate methodologies in future studies of resting-state MEG.
The â€˜Goodâ€™ University Teacher As Perceived By The Students

A sample of 176 second year University of Zimbabwe students was asked to select the three most important characteristics of a â€˜goodâ€™ teacher from fifteen characteristics presented to them. It was shown that students attached great importance to the teacherâ€™s ability to stimulate intellectual curiosity and transmit knowledge, rather than according to the university criteria of research and publication. Results were also analyzed according to faculty and no significant differences were found among the four groups of students in terms of their choices of the three characteristics. The concepts â€˜goodâ€™ teacher, lecturer, instructor and professor are used interchangeably in this paper.
Citizens’ Satisfaction with Government in a Highly Corrupt Public Life: Role of Trust in Democracy and Civil Society Participation in Somalia

Corruption is the biggest obstacle in the way of human development. In a highly corrupt public life, citizens’ satisfaction seems to be a mirage. But can citizens’ satisfaction be possible even if there is less chance of sounding the death knell for corruption? To investigate this, this study examines the mediating effect of trust in democracy and civil society participation in the relationship of corruption and citizens’ satisfaction in the context of Somalia, considered to be the most corrupt country in the world. Using a survey, a total of 205 valid responses from public service users in Somalia were put into confirmatory factor analysis. The empirical results show the partial mediation of civil society participation and trust in democracy; however, civil society participation is more effective than trust in democracy in mediating the relationship of corruption and citizens’ satisfaction, because of less negative indirect effect.
A Qualitative Literature Review on Linkage Techniques for Data Integration

The data linkage techniques “entity linking” and “record linkage” get rising attention as they enable the integration of multiple data sources for data, web, and text mining approaches. This has resulted in the development of numerous algorithms and systems for these techniques in recent years. The goal of this publication is to provide an overview of these numerous data linkage techniques. Most papers deal with record linkage and structured data. Processing unstructured data through entity linking is rising attention with the trend Big Data. Currently, deep learning algorithms are being explored for both linkage techniques. Most publications focus their research on a single process step or on the entire process of “entity linking” or “record linkage”. However, the papers have the limitation that the used approaches and techniques have always been optimized for only a few data sources.
Return migrants’ entrepreneurial decisions in rural China

ABSTRACT This paper presents an empirical analysis of return migrants’ entrepreneurial decisions after returning home using individual survey data in Jiangxi Province. We apply an extended hurdle model to investigate how social-economic factors, in particular, social network, local government support and previous migration experience may play different roles in affecting return migrants’ entrepreneurial decisions in different stages. A standard probit model is incorporated in the first stage to separate potential return migrant entrepreneurs from those who are not willing to consider establishing enterprises. In the second stage, a lognormal hurdle model is used to identify factors affecting return migrants’ entrepreneurial establishment and investment amount decisions. Results from the extended hurdle model suggest that government policy support is the most important factor for successfully attracting return migrant entrepreneurs back in Jiangxi Province. In addition, previous migration experience and household attributes are crucial and play different roles in affecting both return migrants’ willingness to consider entrepreneurship decisions and entrepreneurial investment decisions. On the other hand, individual characteristics are shown to affect only return migrants’ entrepreneurial investment decisions but not willingness to consider entrepreneurship decisions.
Diabetes Educators in Primary Care—A Natural Fit

As diabetes reaches epidemic proportions in the US and around the world, there is an ever-increasing need for diabetes educators and other healthcare professionals to provide education and care to people with and at risk of diabetes, yet hospital-based diabetes education programs are closing at an astonishing rate. This state of affairs raises pointed questions. Why does the healthcare system not adequately support
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective*

We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population from 1989 to 2015. We document three results. First, black Americans and American Indians have much lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility than whites, leading to persistent disparities across generations. Conditional on parent income, the black-white income gap is driven by differences in wages and employment rates between black and white men; there are no such differences between black and white women. Hispanic Americans have rates of intergenerational mobility more similar to whites than blacks, leading the Hispanic-white income gap to shrink across generations. Second, differences in parental marital status, education, and wealth explain little of the black-white income gap conditional on parent income. Third, the black-white gap persists even among boys who grow up in the same neighborhood. Controlling for parental income, black boys have lower incomes in adulthood than white boys in 99% of Census tracts. The few areas with small black-white gaps tend to be low-poverty neighborhoods with low levels of racial bias among whites and high rates of father presence among blacks. Black males who move to such neighborhoods earlier in childhood have significantly better outcomes. However, less than 5% of black children grow up in such areas. Our findings suggest that reducing the black-white income gap will require efforts whose impacts cross neighborhood and class lines and increase upward mobility specifically for black men.
Role of Allelopathy and Transplanting Space in Reducing Herbicide Use under Transplanted Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Two field experiments were carried out at the farm of Sakha Agric. , Res., Station, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt, through 2018 & 2019 seasons to study the role of allelopathy and transplanting space in reducing herbicide use under transplanted rice (Sakha 106 cv). Rice seedlings were manually transplanted under three spaces included 15x20cm, 20x20cm and 25x20cm. Four weed control treatments included pre-mixed herbicide Pindar 13.6% OD (triclopyr-butotyl 12 % + penoxsulam 1.6%) was used at recommended and ½ recommended dose compared with hand weeding and weedy check. Narrow transplanting space recorded the best in controlling E. crus-galli, C. difformis, Eclipta sp. , as well as total weeds. Besides, achieved the highest dry weight of rice; panicles m-2; panicle weight and grain yield during both seasons. The highest dry weights of tested weeds and lowest values of rice characteristics were recorded under wider transplanting space throughout the tested seasons. Recommended rate of herbicide exceeded other weed control treatments in weeds control and produced highest dry matter and yield of Sakha 106 cv through both seasons. Recommended or half herbicide rate were the best in controlling weeds; dry weight of rice; grain yield and its attributes under 15 x 20 cm space without significant differences in the two seasons. It could be concluded that allelopathic rice cultivar Sakha 106 can be helpful in reducing herbicide use up to half dose when rice plants were transplanted on 15 x 20 cm.
Impact of Performance-Based Financing on Health Facilities Performance in Family Planning

Toward the end of that scaling up of performance-based financing (PBF) started in Benin since 2015, it's important to realize whether the impacts in terms of performance improvement of health facilities (HFs) will still be confirmed or not, especially as far as family planning (FP) is concerned. A longitudinal retrospective study covered by the period of 14 quarters of a year (Q1 2014 to Q2 2017), was conducted including all public and private functional HFs of the two health district. The outcome variable (performance of HFs in FP) was the increase rates of new acceptance for any modern contraceptive method through the study period. The independent variables were the quality of the structure, the quality of the process and the context. A linear regression model was adjusted to find out the explanatory variable of the performance; the significance threshold was 5%. 55 HFs participated to the study. There was no improvement in supplying process of FP services (p=0.308). There was no improvement in both trained staff (p=0.67) and midwifery staff (p=0.75); however, there was a significant improvement in the rest of the structure at the risk of 10% (p=0.063) and the performance in FP (p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, the evolution of the structure was the only explanatory variable (p=0.029) of HFs performance in FP; in rural areas, the structure-process interaction (p=0.038) was the explanatory variable of HFs performance in FP, whereas in suburban and urban areas, the models were not significant. PBF should act not only on the structures but also on the processes of supplying services, taking into account the context.
Chemogenetic actuator drugs impair prefrontal cortex-dependent working memory in rhesus monkeys

The most common chemogenetic neuromodulatory system, Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs), uses a non-endogenous actuator ligand to activate a modified muscarinic acetylcholine receptor that is no longer sensitive to acetylcholine. It is crucial in studies using these systems to test the potential effects of DREADD actuators prior to any DREADD transduction, so that effects of DREADDs can be attributed to the chemogenetic system rather than the actuator drug. We investigated working memory performance after injections of three DREADD agonists, clozapine, olanzapine, and deschloroclozapine, in male rhesus monkeys tested in a spatial delayed response task. Performance at 0.1 mg/kg clozapine and 0.1 mg/kg deschloroclozapine did not differ from mean performance after vehicle in any of the four subjects. Administration of 0.2 mg/kg clozapine impaired working memory function in three of the four monkeys. Two monkeys were impaired after administration of 0.1 mg/kg olanzapine and two monkeys were impaired after the 0.3 mg/kg dose of deschloroclozapine. We speculate that the unique neuropharmacology of prefrontal cortex function makes the primate prefrontal cortex especially vulnerable to off-target effects of DREADD actuator drugs with affinity for endogenous monoaminergic receptor systems. These findings underscore the importance of within-subject controls for DREADD actuator drugs to confirm that effects following DREADD receptor transduction are not due to the actuator drug itself, as well as validating the behavioral pharmacology of DREADD actuator drugs in the specific tasks under study. Significance Statement Chemogenetic technologies, such as Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs), allow for precise and remote manipulation of neuronal circuits. In the present study, we tested monkeys in a spatial delayed response task after injections of three actuator drugs – clozapine, olanzapine, and deschloroclozapine. We found that monkeys showed significant working memory impairments after 0.2 mg/kg clozapine, 0.1 mg/kg olanzapine, and 0.3 mg/kg deschloroclozapine compared to vehicle performance. In monkeys that showed impairments, these deficits were particularly apparent at longer delay periods. It is imperative to validate the drugs and dosages in the particular behavioral test to ensure any behavior after DREADD transduction can be attributed to activation of the receptors and not administration of the actuator drug itself.
Characterization of soot particles and their precursors produced during the combustion of conventional and alternative fuels : an in-situ laser diagnostics and ex-situ mass spectrometry investigation

L'interet pour les biocarburants s’est considerablement accru ces dernieres annees car ceux-ci pourraient permettre de diminuer la dependance aux combustibles fossiles et contribuer a une croissance neutre en carbone. L’influence de l’utilisation de biocarburants sur les emissions de polluants (CO,CO_2,NO_x,HC, etc.) a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux, cependant les effets de la nature de ces carburants alternatifs sur les proprietes physico-chimiques des particules et des especes aromatiques produites sont encore peu etudies. Dans le cadre de ce travail de these, nous visons a caracteriser les emissions de particules de suie et d'hydrocarbures aromatiques polycycliques (HAP) lors de la combustion de carburants conventionnels et alternatifs (biocarburants) pertinents pour les secteurs de l'automobile et de l'aeronautique, tout en essayant de mettre en lumiere leurs influence sur les mecanismes de formation de ces polluants. Pour atteindre cet objectif, deux reacteurs de laboratoire, un bruleur turbulent swirle et un Combustion Aerosol STandard (CAST), ont ete utilises comme generateurs de suie. De plus, nous avons combine differentes techniques laser complementaires in situ, les incandescence et fluorescence induites par laser (LII/LIF), et ex situ, la spectrometrie de masse apres desorption et ionisation laser (L2MS) et la spectrometrie de masse des ions secondaires (SIMS). Dans une flamme turbulente swirlee pour cinq carburants (Diesel, n-butanol, melange 50/50 Diesel/n-butanol, Jet A1 et Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene SPK), les profils LII et LIF et les proprietes des particules de suie et de leurs precurseurs en fonction de la hauteur dans la flamme ainsi que leur composition chimique ont ete etudies. De fortes correlations entre les resultats obtenus avec les techniques in situ et ex situ ont ete mises en evidence permettant de caracteriser spectralement et chimiquement ces especes. En outre, une nouvelle methode d'etalonnage a ete developpee pour deduire directement la fraction volumique de suie a partir du signal LII en utilisant la luminance energetique absolue emise par une source ayant un rayonnement de corps noir. En parallele, les experiences utilisant le dispositif CAST ont ete menees avec les carburants aeronautiques (Jet A1 et SPK). Outre l'influence du carburant de substitution, les effets d’un stripper catalytique (CS) sur les particules de suie et les especes volatiles ont ete examines.