Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PENGARUH FINANCIAL LITERACY, OVERCONFIDENCE, REGRET AVERSION BIAS DAN RISK TOLERANCE TERHADAP INVESTMENT DECISION DI KOTA BATAM

Rise of the case of illegal investment in Batam City illustrates that the financial knowledge of investors and potential investorsis still not good. Even though financial literacy index in Batam has penetrated the national target, it cannot be used as areason why investors decide to invest. the number of investors who have high overconfidence makes many investors aredeceived by investment fraud in Batam City. Moreover, investors who have previously made mistakes in investing andexperiencing losses, a high sense of doubt will interfere with these investors in investing. Furthermore, investors in Batamhave various levels of tolerance to investment risk. The greater income of an investor in investing, the higher tolerance forfurther investment. Investment decisions that are only based on one factor are certainly not a good decision, because it isprone to mistakes in making decisions. The purpose of this study is to determine the partial and simultaneous influence offinancial literacy, overconfidence, regret aversion bias and risk tolerance variables on investment decisions in Batam City.This research is a quantitative study with a sampling technique using simple random sampling using Krejcie and Morgantables with a sample of 375 respondents. The analytical method used is multiple linear regression analysis and uses a Likertscale as a measurement scale. T-test results (partial test) states that the variables of financial literacy, overconfidence, regretaversion bias and risk tolerance partially have a positive and significant effect on investment decisions. And the results of theF test (simultaneous test) states that financial literacy, overconfidence, regret aversion bias and risk tolerance together havea positive and significant effect on investment decisions in Batam City. Data management tools used in this research is theapplication of SPSS version 22.
Pushing the boundary? Testing the “functional elongation hypothesis” of the giraffe's neck

Although giraffes maintain the usual mammalian cervical number of seven vertebrae, their first thoracic vertebra (T1) exhibits aberrant anatomy and has been hypothesized to functionally elongate the neck. We test this “functional elongation hypothesis” by combining phylogenetically informed analyses of neck length, three‐dimensional (3D) vertebral shape, and of the functional significance of shape differences across a broad sample of ruminants and camelids. Digital bone models of the cervicothoracic transition were subjected to 3D geometric morphometric analysis revealing how the shape of the seventh cervical (C7) has converged in several long‐necked species. However, we find a unique “cervicalization” of the giraffe's T1. In contrast, we demonstrate a “thoracalization” of C7 for the European bison. Other giraffids (okapi and extinct Sivatherium) did not exhibit “cervicalized” T1 morphology. Quantitative range of motion (ROM) analysis at the cervicothoracic transition in ruminants and camelids confirms the “functional elongation hypothesis” for the giraffe in terms of increased mobility, especially with regard to dorsoventral flexion/extension. Additionally, other factors related to the unique morphology of the giraffe's cervicothoracic transition such as neck posture and intervertebral stability are discussed and should be considered in future studies of giraffe neck evolution.
The Effect of Golf Club Moment of Inertia on Clubhead Delivery and Golfer Kinematics

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of modifying whole club moment of inertia (MOI) on clubhead delivery, thorax and wrist kinematics. Seven skilled golfers hit ~10 shots with two driver conditions (MOI difference ~400 kg∙cm2). A GOM system tracked the clubhead at impact and a 12-camera Vicon system was used to determine golfer biomechanics. Paired sample t-tests were conducted to quantify the effect of MOI on clubhead delivery, whilst biomechanical differences during the downswing were determined using statistical parametric mapping. Increasing MOI significantly reduced clubhead velocity (p = 0.001) but had a small and non-significant effect (p ≥ 0.294) on clubhead direction and orientation. The increase in MOI significantly decreased lead wrist flexion, thorax lateral bend and thorax axial rotation velocities during the downswing. The timing and magnitude of the decreases in both thorax velocities, suggests that these were contributing factors of the observed decrease in clubhead velocity.
Use of banana (Musa sp.) pseudostem hay in feedlot sheep feeding

ABSTRACT The objective with this study was to evaluate intake, feeding behavior, rumen fluid characteristics, performance, and nutrient digestibility of sheep fed banana pseudostem hay (BPH) with and without virginiamycin (VM). Thirty-two uncastrated male crossbred Dorper × Santa Ines lambs at approximately five months of age, with an average initial body weight of 25.00±1.95 kg, were used in the experiment. Four diets were tested, as follows: Tifton grass hay (TGH) plus concentrate with VM; BPH replacing 60% of TGH plus [. ]
The use of dijkstra mechanistic model for genetic analysis of the lactation curve characteristics and their relationships with age at first calving and somatic cell score of Iranian dairy cows

The objective of this study was to estimate lactation curve parameters with Dijkstra mechanistic model and to evaluate genetic and phenotypic relationships between the parameters and the average somatic cell count in primiparous cows. The finding indicated that heritability estimates for partial milk yield (PMY1, PMY2 and PMY3), total 305-day milk yield (TMY305), decay parameter (λ2), age at first calving (AFC) and peak yield (PY) were moderate while the heritability of persistency (PS%), average somatic cell score (AVGSCS), time to peak yield (TP), initial milk production (λ0), specific rate of cell proliferation at parturition (λ1), and specific rate of cell death (λ3) were quite low. Genetic correlations between both AFC and PS% traits with average somatic cell scores was negative (-0.047 and -0.060) but low positive genetic correlation were between partial milk yields (PMY1 and PMY3) while negative genetic correlation (-0.06) was obtained between TMY305 and AVGSCS. Differences between TMY305 of cows with less than 100000 cells mL and cows with >1,500,000 cells mL was approximately 708 Kg and is equivalent to 8% loss of milk yield/cow during lactation period and also loss of persistency (11.1 %( was shown for the extreme classes of SCC in this study.
Effective medium properties of a ferromagnetic microwire grid

The work presented in this paper involves the analysis of effective permittivity and permeability of a ferromagnetic microwire grid consisting of an infinite number of ferromagnetic microwires. Analytical solution is obtained through satisfying the tangential boundary conditions at the surface of a reference microwire. Subsequently, the local and average fields and hence, effective permittivity and permeability are obtained within a unit cell. The analysis reported in the literature allows to calculate only and components of the effective permittivity and permeability for the case of polarization with normal incidence. Proposed analysis provides a most generalized solution for the three diagonal elements of the effective permittivity and permeability tensors for the case of arbitrary polarization with arbitrarily incident uniform plane wave. Numerical results are obtained through MATLAB to show the impact of frequency, radius of the microwires, periodicity and applied external magnetization on the effective permittivity and permeability for and polarization. A comparative analysis is also done with the numerical results available in the literature to validate the proposed method of analysis.
Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacteria spp having antibacterial and antiviral effects on chronic HCV infection

Hepatitis C virus is a serious hepatic disease that could be developed into hepatocellular carcinoma. Previously, some probiotic strains showed a natural therapeutic activity against the fatty liver disorder. Therefore, it could make sense to evaluate the antiviral and antibacterial responses to probiotics as Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacteria spp. in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus. Twenty (20) patients with chronic hepatitis C (both gender in age 47± 5 years) were treated with capsule that contains probiotics (L. acidophilus and Bifidobacterium spp.). They administered one capsule per day for a month before HCV treatment; blood and urine samples were collected before and after the given treatment and they were processed for a quantitative estimation of HCV by PCR, identification of bacteria by VITEK2 system and 16S r RNA gene sequencing assay. Moreover, the estimation of antibacterial activity of probiotics by antibiotic sensitivity test, counts of leukocytes, CD3+ T cells and CD56+ natural killer cells by flowcytometry, DGAT1 by ELISA. Administration of probitics enhanced the treatment response rate to HCV treatments pegylated IFN-α and ribavirin by 25% and showed an antibacterial activity against five species of the most common infectious bacteria in chronic HCV patients which were identified by this study. CD3+ cells counts and CD56+ natural killer cells were increased. L. acidophilus and Bifidobacterium spp. can act as a supportive supplement with antiviral and antibacterial activities; we recommend Probiotics side by side with HCV treatments. Key words: Hepatitis C virus, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacteria spp. , CD3+, CD56+, pegylated IFN-α and ribavirin.
A multi-center study for instructions for use-compatible elective endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair via Lifetech Ankura™ abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft

Correspondence: Naim Boran Tümer, MD. SBÜ Ankara Şehir Hastanesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Kliniği, 06800 Çankaya, Ankara, Türkiye. e-mail: naimborantumer@hotmail.com 1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Atatürk University Medical Faculty, Erzurum, Turkey 3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Kayseri City Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara Güven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Effectiveness of Competency Training Program on Modified Early Warning System
(MEWS) upon the Knowledge of Nurses in Selected Hospitals, Chennai

Background: Adverse events results in unintended harm to the patients including permanent disability and death. MEWS was introduced to identify and document the deteriorating patients in hospital settings. Adequate training and education of nurses will enhance early recognition and response in preventing adverse events. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of competency training program on MEWS among nurses. Methodology: A Quasi experimental study was conducted among nurses who were working in inpatient units of selected hospitals, Chennai. 140 nurses were selected as participants out of which (n=70) is constituted to experimental group and (n=70) was constituted to control group. Pre-test knowledge was assessed in both groups. Competency training program on MEWS was given to experimental group of nurses and post test was assessed after one month. Results: The mean post-test knowledge scores was significantly higher in experimental group (M=18.2) to that of control group (M=10.6) which shows the effectiveness of competency training program on MEWS with (t=22.29, p less than 0.001). Conclusion: The present study reveals that Competency training program on MEWS had a significant increase in the knowledge of nurses in the experimental group.
A Two-Staged Approach to Technology Entrepreneurship: Differential Effects of Intellectual Property Rights

In this article we examine how the strength of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime drives technology entrepreneurship innovation (TEI). The latter is comprised of novel unfamiliar technological products and new business models, which in turn lead to new product-market combinations. We consider TEI to be a two-stage process that involves access to and use of new technologies and technological resources by entrepreneurs. While stronger IPR may constrain easy availability of new technologies and technological resources for entrepreneurs, using technology itself helps lead to TEI. We suggest that stronger IPR regimes could lead to TEI. The positive effect of TEI is felt through easier accessibility to the latest technologies and technology resources by entrepreneurs. Our model contributes to understanding the effect of strong IPR regimes on different stages of the innovation process. Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' innovations that build, in some way, on others.
The Role of Gender Diversity in Downside Risk: Empirical Evidence from Vietnamese Listed Firms

Corporate governance has been marked as an important component of the fast-growing pace of the Vietnam economy recently. Aligning with the concern that gender plays a critical role in corporate management, this study aims to reveal the entire benefits of the appearance of women on board to reduce downside risk in the frontier countries. By using a unique dataset from Vietnamese listed firms and appropriate econometric methods, we present tight results that the presentation of women at firm management level is more likely to lessen the downside risk. In particular, female non-senior reduces all risk attributes, whereas the presence of women in executive board decrease firm risk only. Furthermore, the decreasing of individual and systemic risk are additionally driven by female Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and chairman. We found strong evidence that female leadership may decrease risk-taking in the low-risk firms at all managerial levels but not in the case of a female CEO. In summary, by examining data from specific frontier areas such as Vietnam, we confirm that the role of female leadership in terms of reducing the downside risk depend on their power managerial levels and the firm-risk behavior.
Economic Evaluation of Oral Alendronate Therapy for Osteoporosis in Chinese Postmenopausal Women: The Impact of Medication Compliance and Persistence

Objective: Prevalence of osteoporosis in Chinese postmenopausal women has significantly increased over the past decade and oral bisphosphonates are the most potent antiresorptive drugs. The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of oral alendronate for individuals with osteoporosis. We also assessed the impact of medication compliance and persistence on economic outcomes of alendronate and potential economic evaluations of persistence-enhancing interventions. Methods: We constructed an individual-level state-transition model to project health outcomes and costs of oral alendronate for Chinese postmenopausal osteoporotic women. The impact of medication compliance and persistence on economic evaluation was addressed in various scenario analyses. Model inputs were derived from clinical trials and published sources, where available. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were conducted to explore the impact of uncertainties and assumptions on the cost-effectiveness results. Results: Compared with no treatment, alendronate treatment was associated with an additional 0.052 QALYs (quality-adjusted life-years) at an additional cost of USD 738, which yielded an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of USD 14,192.308/QALY. The ICER for the different scenarios (full compliance, full persistence, and both full persistence and full compliance) was USD 4,933.333/QALY, USD 3,006.849/QALY, and USD 2,049.822/QALY, respectively. One-way sensitivity analysis showed the ICER was most sensitive to variations in time horizon and residual effect. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis demonstrated that, at a willingness to pay of USD 29,340/QALY, the probability that oral alendronate therapy will be cost-effective is approximately 80%. Conclusion: The findings support the view that oral alendronate is cost-effective for the treatment of osteoporotic fractures in Chinese postmenopausal women. Medication persistence is found to have a greater impact on cost-effectiveness than compliance and interventions to improve persistence to be an efficient use of resources.
Genetic variation in the constitutive defensive metabolome and its inducibility are geographically structured and largely determined by demographic processes in maritime pine

Interspecific phenotypic variation in plant secondary metabolites (PSM) is often explained by biotic and abiotic factors. However, patterns of variation within species do not clearly fit the theoretical predictions. Exploring how genetics, environment and demographic processes shape such variation among and within populations is crucial for understanding evolution of PSM, particularly in long‐lived plants such as forest trees. Here, we quantified genetic variation in PSM among and within populations, and explored drivers of local adaptation by studying the role of climate as a source of population differentiation in PSM of maritime pine. Constitutive profile and concentrations of 63 PSM and their herbivory‐associated inducibility were determined in the bark of 130 clonally replicated genotypes with known familial structure from 10 populations covering the distribution range of the species. We compared neutral and quantitative population genetic differentiation of PSM (FST and QST). Also, we accounted for population genetic structure and kinship among individuals when exploring climate–trait relationships. We found large population differentiation and additive genetic variation in constitutive PSM. Many PSM were inducible, although very low genetic variation was observed with respect to their inducibility. QST–FST comparisons suggest that differentiation of most diterpenes, monoterpenes, and phenolics can be explained by neutral demographic processes. Spatially heterogeneous selection across populations leading to local adaptation was only found for total constitutive sesquiterpenes and a few individual PSM. After accounting for population genetic structure, only the constitutive concentration of two sesquiterpenes showing signs of diversifying selection was predicted by climate, with decreasing concentrations along a growth‐prone climatic gradient. Synthesis. Evolutionary patterns of plant secondary metabolites depended on their chemical nature, with neutral differentiation governing most plant secondary metabolites. Evidence of local adaptation was only found for total constitutive sesquiterpenes and a few individual plant secondary metabolites. The low genetic variation in the inducibility of plant secondary metabolites suggests a conserved model of defensive induction in this species. Since population differentiation linked to past demographic history could lead to false positives of adaptive differentiation signals, accounting for the genetic relatedness among populations is required to infer the environmental determinants of intraspecific genetic variation in putatively adaptive traits such as plant defences.
Continuous Decolorization of Molasses Waste Water with Mycelia of Coriolus versicolor Ps4a

Continuous decolorization of molasses waste water by mycelia of Coriolus versicolor Ps4a was studied using waste water from a baker’s yeast factory, treated by means of methane fermentation and with activated sludge. Optimum decolorization with bare pellet-type mycelia in shaking flasks needed the addition of glucose (0.5%) and peptone (0.05%) and aerobic conditions (1ppm of dissolved oxygen). Continuous decolorization in a bubbling column reactor showed a decolorization yield of approximately 75% in only 20 hr at a dilution rate (D) of 0.03 hr−1 under the optimum conditions.In order to continue the decolorization for a longer time, mycelia immobilized within Caalginate gel were tested in a bubbling column reactor under the optimum conditions. The immobilized mycelia showed an almost constant decolorization yield (65.7%) during continuous decolorization for 16 days at D = 0.22 hr−1.
Hydrogen evolving systems. 1. The formation of molecular hydrogen from aqueous suspensions of iron(II) hydroxide and reactions with reducible substrates, including molecular nitrogen

The evolution of hydrogen from mildly alkaline suspensions of Fe(OH)/sub 2/ appears to involve elemental iron as the intermediate, which is generated by way of a base-induced disproportionation of Fe(OH)/sub 2/. The disproportionation reaction also occurs in strongly alkaline suspensions of Fe(OH)/sub 2/; under these conditions H/sub 2/ is not formed and elemental iron accumulates in the precipitates instead. Disordered modifications of Fe(OH)/sub 2/ seem to exist which undergo disproportionation preferentially. The reactive modifications of Fe(OH)/sub 2/ are formed in higher relative concentrations or are stabilized by weak complexing or dispersing agents such as sugars and polyhydric alcohols, as well as to some extent by Mg(OH)/sub 2/ or glycine. The disproportionation of Fe(OH)/sub 2/ is significantly stimulated by ultraviolet light, as evidenced by the increased yields of H/sub 2/ in uv-light exposed samples. The evolution of H/sub 2/ is also stimulated by coprecipitation of Fe(OH)/sub 2/ with Ni(OH)/sub 2/. A variety of reducible substrates, e.g., C/sub 2/H/sub 2/, C/sub 2/H/sub 4/, CO, and N/sub 2/, act as inhibitors of H/sub 2/ formation. Reduction of these substrates occurs in a manner typical of reactions with highly dispersed elemental iron. With molecular nitrogen, hydrazine and ammonia are formed; both products were identifiedmore » by specific colorimetric tests as well as by using /sup 30/N/sub 2/-enriched nitrogen as the substrate and subsequent mass-spectrographic analysis. « less
Potential for waste to energy generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana

Purpose Globally, waste management has been a topical issue in the past few decades due to the continual increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) generation that is becoming difficult to handle with conventional waste management techniques. The situation is much more pronounced in economically developing countries where population growth rate and urbanisation are becoming uncontrollable. The purpose of this study was to assess the potential for waste to energy generation in the Kumasi metropolis, the second-largest city in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach To address the objectives of the study, a quantitative research approach, namely, the questionnaire was adopted. The data analysis was done using the statistical package for social sciences version 25, including both descriptive and inferential statistics to give an in-depth meaning to the responses from the participants. Findings The results showed that several factors hinder waste to energy technology in Ghana; key among them was high capital cost, high operational cost and lack of governmental support and policy framework. The results also revealed that 1 m3 of biogas generated from MSW in Kumasi could generate 36 MJ of energy, equivalent to 10 kW/h. Originality/value The unique contribution made by the paper is that it combines expert opinions, empirical data that included time series data and opinion of key actors in the waste management chain in assessing the potential for waste to energy generation in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana.