Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impacts of Firm-Specific Factors and Macroeconomics Factors towards Salesforce's Performance

A company's profitability performance or return on assets (ROA) can be affected by its internal and external variables. The internal variables that used in this study were operating margin, corporate governance index, current ratio and average collection period whereas the external variables used were inflation, GDP, interest rate, exchange rate, and standard deviation. The main objective of this study was to examine the impacts of firm-specific factors and macroeconomics factors towards company performance. The independence variables of firm-specific factors and macroeconomic factors were examined to determine their relationship with the dependent variable which is the company performance or ROA. Data were gathered through the company's annual reports, Focus Economics, World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and was analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22. Besides, this study applied descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, coefficients, and multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between the variables. The multiple regression analysis of company performance shows that there is significant relationship with the average collection period and inflation. The recommendation for this study is that Salesforce Inc should practices well risk management in order to mitigate unexpected threats. In addition, Salesforce Inc should also invest in corporate social responsibility to maintain its sustainable development. This study is able to help people in studying the impacts of the firm-specific variables and macroeconomic variables towards the company performance.
A Short-Circuit Fault Diagnosis Method for Three-Phase Quasi-Z-Source Inverters

In this article, we present a cost-effective solution for switching short-circuit fault diagnosis in a three-phase quasi-Z-source inverter (qZSI). The fault is announced to the processor utilizing a peripheral circuit that covers the fault detection in all switches of the inverter. After the fault detection, a nonmaskable interrupt is activated, cutting the CPU routine, and a fault-diagnosis algorithm is initiated. The exact location of the failed switch is identified through the proposed algorithm. The entire process is accomplished in advance of the critical overcurrent condition, which typically arises after a short-circuit fault. Thanks to this overtake, the proposed technique prevents secondary damage in the system. A qZSI prototype is implemented to verify the satisfactory performance of the proposed method.
Momentum Balance Across a Barrier Reef

This paper reports on a combined experimental and numerical study dedicated to barrier reefs hydrodynamics. A network of pressure sensors and velocity profilers has been deployed for more than 2 months over the Ouano reef barrier, New Caledonia. The primary aim of the study is to assess the relevance of the classical depth‐averaged momentum balance in such a complex and poorly documented environment. The combined analysis of experimental and numerical measurements reveals a specific hydrodynamic behavior contrasting with sandy beaches and fringing reefs. The cross‐reef current induced by wave breaking over the barrier reef plays an important role in the momentum budget, in particular through friction processes. The hydrodynamic behavior over the barrier reef is thus characterized by the progressive transition from a nearly classical beach type behavior on the forereef, where the gradient of radiation stress is balanced by a barotropic pressure gradient associated to the wave setup, to an open‐channel type regime, dominated by frictional head loss. The reef top wave setup shows a clear depth dependency mainly attributed to the forereef curvature. During extreme wave events, the measurements tend to indicate a transition toward a critical hydraulic regime above the reef top. The numerical simulations, involving a non‐hydrostatic wave‐resolving model coupled to a urn:x-wiley:jgrc:media:jgrc23848:jgrc23848-math-0001 turbulence model, highlight the vertical structure of the flow. Over the reef flat, a classical log‐layer profile is observed, in agreement with measurements, while above the forereef an anticlockwise circulation develops under the breaking zone.
Adenine molecule interacting with golden nanocluster: A dispersion corrected DFT study

The interaction between nanoparticles and biomolecules such as protein and DNA is one of the major instructions of nanobiotechnology research. In this study, we have explored the interaction of adenine nucleic base with a representative golden cluster (Au13) by using dispersion corrected density functional theory (DFT-D3) within GGA-PBE model of theory. Various active sites as and ways of approach as well as several affecting parameters on the interaction nature of interacting molecules such as adsorption energy, binding distance, solvent effect and, electronics structure were investigated. Our first-principles results indicated that adenine forms a stable complex with the golden cluster with interaction energy of –42.84 kcal/mol and binding distance of 2.139 A. Charge transfer analysis with Hirshfeld approach demonstrated about 0.52 e was transferred from adenine to golden cluster skeleton. It was found from the obtained interaction parameters that there is strong interaction (chemisorption) between adenine and golden cluster. The type and strength of interaction have been also confirmed by hybrid functional B3LYP level of theory. This finding is very promising for potential medicinal and pharmaceutical applications of golden clusters.
Complexity of frequency receptive fields predicts tonotopic variability across species

Primary cortical areas contain maps of sensory features, including sound frequency in primary auditory cortex (A1). Two-photon calcium imaging in mice has confirmed the presence of these large-scale maps, while uncovering an unexpected local variability in the stimulus preferences of individual neurons in A1 and other primary regions. Here we show that fractured tonotopy is not unique to rodents. Using two-photon imaging, we found that local variance in frequency preferences is equivalent in ferrets and mice. Much of this heterogeneity was due to neurons with complex frequency tuning, which are less spatially organized than those tuned to a single frequency. Finally, we show that microelectrode recordings may describe a smoother tonotopic arrangement due to a bias towards neurons with simple frequency tuning. These results show that local variability in the tonotopic map is not restricted to rodents and help explain inconsistencies in cortical topography across species and recording techniques.
Engaging Customer Cocreation in New Product Development Through Foreign Subsidiaries: Influences of Multinational Corporations’ Global Integration and Local Adaptation Mechanisms

Efforts to engage customers in cocreating new products have garnered much research attention from studies documenting customer cocreation’s (CC’s) positive impact on firm innovation and performance. Less research, however, has counterbalanced the bright side with the potential dark side of CC, especially as a strategy for multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in foreign markets. This study examines how MNC subsidiaries’ CC affects new product innovativeness and knowledge leakage to competitors. Adopting a broader agency perspective to recognize that subsidiaries often do not perform up to headquarters’ expectations due to both self-serving opportunism and honest incompetence, this study explores how CC effects are contingent on MNCs’ global management mechanisms. Using a dyadic managerial survey of 238 MNC subsidiaries, the authors find that MNCs can control knowledge leakage by implementing proper global integration and local adaptation mechanisms. However, CC may not improve new product innovativeness, except when the subsidiary has low local research-and-development staff influence. This study contributes to the CC literature by showing its benefits, challenges, and boundary conditions as a growing MNC innovation strategy.
Quantitative imaging of the liver with 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with hepatic steatosis

Background and Aims: Hepatic steatosis (≥10% fat within the liver) affects ~75% of obese and ~15% of non-obese adults. It leads to steatohepatitis (SH) in ~10% of patients. SH may then lead to cirrhosis. The primary aim of the thesis was to image the liver with FDG PET/CT to determine if glucose utilisation rate (MRglu) is increased in steatosis. Texture analysis of FDG PET/CT was also explored as a means of detecting steatosis and SH. Previous PET studies of steatosis quantified hepatic FDG uptake as the standardised uptake value (SUV). Methods: All patients were referred for routine PET/CT. ROI were placed over the liver on whole body scans for measurement of CT density, which is inversely proportional to hepatic fat content, and SUV. SUV may be expressed as the ‘hottest’ pixel (SUVmax) or as the average of all pixels in the ROI (SUVave). Dynamic imaging from 0-30 min post-injection was also done in 60 patients and hepatic FDG clearance and MRglu were measured using Patlak-Rutland analysis. Texture analysis of PET and CT scans was explored as possible means of identifying SH at an early stage. Results: SUV was overestimated in obese individuals when calculated using weight but not when using estimated lean body mass. SUVmax, but not SUVave, was increased in steatosis because SUVave is reduced in fatty liver as a result of ‘signal dilution’ by the fat. SUVmax/SUVave is therefore a marker of steatosis. Hepatic FDG clearance and MRglu were increased in steatosis, irrespective of BMI, but not in obese patients who did not have steatosis. Results of texture analysis were promising but inconclusive. Conclusions and future work: SUV has major shortcomings as a surrogate for FDG clearance but in general indicates increased MRglu in steatosis. Dynamic studies confirm that MRglu is increased in steatosis. SUVmax/SUVave is a marker of steatosis. Future work should aim to a) use dynamic FDG imaging to diagnose hepatic inflammation, and b) explore texture analysis to detect transition from steatosis to SH.
PENGARUH PROFITABILITAS, PERTUMBUHAN ASSET, DAN UKURAN PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP STRUKTUR MODAL (STUDY KASUS PADA PERUSAHAAN REALESTATE DAN PROPERTY YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI TAHUN 2013 – 2015)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Profitability, Asset Growth, and Firm Size to Corporate Capital Structure . This study focused on Property and Real estate companies listed in Bursa Efek Indonesia for period 2013-2015. This research is using quatitative and purposive sampling method in order to collect the sample. Based on certain criteria, there were 24 properties and real estate companies that matched with the sample. The statistical method used in this study is multiple regression. The simultaneous testing showed that Profitability, Asset Growth, and Firm Size are influenced to Capital Structur e Keywords - Corporate capital structure, profitability, asset growth, firm size
Responding to far right challengers: does accommodation pay off?*

ABSTRACT Right-wing populist and far right parties are on the rise across Europe. While established parties are suffering dramatic electoral losses, right-wing parties are celebrating one electoral victory after another. To address their radical right challengers, many established parties have adopted a so-called ‘accommodative strategy’ by taking a more immigration-skeptical policy position. However, it is unclear whether such a strategy yields the expected benefits or whether such a position shift in turn hurts a party electorally. In this article, we find that mainstream left parties benefit from ‘going tough on immigration’ whereas it neither helps nor hurts mainstream right parties electorally. We arrive at this conclusion through an analysis of 16,811 vote choices in 15 elections in six countries from 1998 until 2013. Our findings have important implications for understanding what explains the rise of far right parties and the changing nature of electoral competition across Europe.
Bringing Childhood Health into Focus: Incorporating Survivors into Standard Methods of Investigation

The osteological paradox addresses how well interpretations of past population health generated from human skeletal remains reflect the health of the living population from which they were drawn. Selective mortality and hidden heterogeneity in frailty are particularly relevant when assessing childhood health in the past, as subadults are the most vulnerable group in a population and are therefore less likely to fully represent the health of those who survived. The ability of subadults to represent the health of those who survived is tested here by directly comparing interpretations of childhood stress based on non-survivors (subadults aged 6-20,14 females and 9 males) to those based on retrospective analyses of survivors (adults aged 21-46, 26 females and 27 males). Non-survivors and survivors were directly matched by birth year, using the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection; therefore interpretations of childhood stress reflect a shared childhood. Long bone and vertebral canal growth, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, scurvy indicators and periosteal bone reactions were assessed for both groups. Overall, long bone growth generates the same interpretation of
Asteroid–Meteoroid Complexes

This is an overview of recent research on meteors and the parent bodies from which they are produced. While many meteor showers result from material ejected by comets, two out of the three strongest annual showers (the Geminids and the Quadrantids) are associated with objects whose physical properties are apparently those of asteroids. In the last decades dynamical and observational studies have confirmed the existence of a number of Asteroid-Meteoroid Complexes, comprising streams and several macroscopic, split fragments. Spectroscopy of meteor showers has been utilized to investigate the perihelion-dependent thermal alteration while in interplanetary space. In this chapter, we review characteristics of the complexes, including those of some minor streams. The scientific interest is to trace the physical and dynamical properties of the complexes back to the evolutionary pathways to learn about the variety of production processes of meteoroids to form streams. We also discuss open questions in the field for the next decade.
Correlates and predictors of quality of life among Saudi nursing students

Article history: Received 10 August 2019 Received in revised form 24 November 2019 Accepted 24 November 2019 The demands of academic life for nursing students are overwhelming. Despite all available resources and coping mechanisms, still, the quality of life of some if not all students, may be affected in many ways. It has been determined that in the general assessment of nursing students QOL or Quality of Life, those without any obligation at home and other social sources have less stress and better quality of life compared to those who have. This study primarily focused on the following aims. First, it determined the demographic profile of the participants as to age, gender, academic classification, nursing related experience, and grade point average (GPA); second, how nursing students (the participants) perceived their quality of life using based on their responses to the Quality of Life Evaluation Scale (QOLES) for Nursing Students; third, determined the degree of relationship between the demographic profile of the participants to their responses to the (QOLES) for Nursing Students Scale; and lastly, it evaluated how can academic profiles become predictors of quality of life of nursing students. The Grade Point Average (GPA) of each student participant cannot exactly and profoundly explain the status of their quality of life. The quality of life of students, not only nursing students, while in the university is a mix of unrest and steady situations.
Do occupants change behaviour when their home is renovated

In recent years, it has become apparent that households in energy inefficient buildings use less energy than the theoretical calculations predict, whereas households in the latest, most energy efficient buildings use more energy than provided in the theoretical calculations. Based on this, some have claimed that the energy efficiency of a building affects the occupants’ behaviour in relation to heating so the occupants become less energy saving when the energy efficiency increases. It has been hypothesized that residents of energy efficient buildings have higher indoor temperatures and in general a more wasteful behaviour than occupants do in less efficient buildings. This project tested that hypothesis by investigation of an extensive renovation of four apartment blocks in Denmark. The heat use was measured for eight years before the renovation and one year after the renovation. Before the renovation, indoor temperature, relative humidity and CO2 concentration was measured in the bedroom and living room at 5-minute intervals for 4 months in 17 apartments. After the renovation, indoor temperature and relative humidity was measured in the central corridor at 5-minute intervals in all apartments in one block (63 apartments). No evidence in support of the hypothesis was found. In most of the apartments, the temperature measurements were similar before and after the renovation indicating that the occupants did not increase the heating set-point as a result of the renovation. The heat use was reduced by 64% after the renovation and the measured use after renovation was lower than the calculated estimate of energy use.
Option-Implied Volatility-Managed Asset Pricing Risk Factors and Resurrection of the Value Factor

Option-implied volatility-managed risk factor models produce higher maximum squared Sharpe ratios than the recently proposed six-factor model, which is used as a benchmark model in this study. A model that incorporates option-implied volatility-managed risk factors based on dynamic scaling factors that systematically overestimate the expected market risk, as measured by the VIX, is superior to other asset pricing model specifications. After the death of the value factor has been repeatedly declared, it is surprising news that multivariate spanning regressions reveal that both the option-implied volatility-managed momentum and value factor are the only option-implied volatility-managed risk factors that generate alpha and that are therefore the cause of the asset pricing model’s superiority.
COMMENTARY Induced Endometriosis in Nonhuman Primates 1

In this month's issue of Biology of Reproduction, Afshar et al. [1] report on the effects of endometriosis on gene expression in the baboon endometrium. This work underscores the value of an appropriate animal model for conducting research relating to human disorders. To determine if the development of endometriosis directly alters endometrial physiology within the uterus, the authors made use of a research protocol where endometriosis was induced in the baboon by intraperitoneal inoculation of autologous menstrual endometrium [2-6]. The menstrual inoculate developed into endometriotic lesions, and the uterine endometrium was analyzed at defined time points following induction of the disease. The analysis revealed altered endometrial gene expression, providing supportive evidence that it is the presence of endometriosis, rather than an inherent defective endometrium, that causes an aberrant endometrial phenotype in subjects with the disease.
Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of The Cervix Presenting As A Splenic Cyst

Squamous cell carcinoma metastatic to the spleen is a rare occurrence and has been reported mostly in autopsy series. Only two cases of carcinoma cervix with solitary metastasis to the spleen have been reported in living patients. Among these, the tumour was confined to the spleen in only one case, where as in the other it had extended to involve the pancreas and the left kidney and adrenal. We present a case of a 50 year old patient with carcinoma cervix, treated with radiotherapy in 1997. Four years after completion of primary treatment, she presented with a painful mass in the left hypochondrium. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a splenic cyst which on pathological examination was diagnosed as metastatic squamous cell carcinoma. The patient received chemotherapy and was alive four years later, at the time of writing of this report.
Emission of Volatile Organic Compounds from Heartwood and Sapwood of Selected Coniferous Species

The qualitative and quantitative composition of volatile organic compounds (VOC) emitted from furnishings from solid wood and all kinds of wood derivative materials depends on many factors, of which the most important is the wood species. The intraspecies and interspecies differences in VOC emission result from the differences in the chemical composition and anatomical structure of heartwood and sapwood of different species. VOC composition analysis was performed separately for heartwood and sapwood of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst. ) and European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) trees. The studies were conducted in a glass climatic chamber of 0.025 m3, equipped with a system for the monitoring and control of climatic conditions. Samples of air for analyses were collected after 3, 7, 14 and 28 days of exposure. The results provided evidence for interspecies and intraspecies differences in the qualitative and quantitative compositions of VOC. The concentration of total VOC (TVOC) released from heartwood of Scots pine was higher than that released from sapwood. For European larch and Norway spruce, the opposite relations were observed. The VOC emission from Scots pine heartwood was about 17 times higher than the emission from European larch and Norway spruce heartwood. The differences in TVOC emitted from the sapwood of samples from different species were smaller. For each of the species, the highest percentage contribution to TVOC was made by terpenes. The second highest percentage contribution in TVOC was made by compounds containing a carbonyl group, mainly aldehydes, while aromatic compounds made the third highest contribution.
International Journal of Advance Research in Computer Science and Management Studies

A simulated network models a typical distribution of calls between nodes; those nodes which carry extra traffic can become congested, and that will result in loosing calls. In addition to calls, the network also supports a population of simple peer node with behaviours modelled on the trail laying abilities of Dynamic ants. The Dynamic ants can move in the network randomly between chosen pairs of nodes; as they move they deposit simulated pheromones as a function of their distance from their source node, and the congestion encountered on their journey. They select their path on every node depending on the distribution of simulated pheromones at every node. Calls between nodes are routed as a function of the pheromone distributions at each intermediate node. The performance of the network is measured by the average no of hops taken to complete the calls. In this paper, the results of using the Dynamic antbased control (D (DABC)) are compared with those achieved by using k-means algorithm used in network management. The (DABC) system is shown to result in fewer call failures than the other methods, while exhibiting many attractive features of distributed control.