Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Functions in C ( X ) with support lying on a class of subsets of X

We initiate two subrings CP(X) and C P ∞(X) of C(X), P-compact spaces and also locally-P spaces; here, P is an ideal of closed subsets of a space X. The rings CP(X) and CP ∞(X) are natural generalizations of the well-known rings CK(X) and C∞(X) respectively. We show that CP(X), CP ∞(X) extend a number of properties of CK(X), C∞(X). We give a characterization of P-compact spaces and also we investigate some relevant problems concerning these spaces. We characterize P -spaces and extremally disconnected spaces in the family of all locally-P spaces.
Effect of azadirachtin on digestion , cytoskeletal structure and fecundity of Bemisia tabaci

Received: May 23, 2016 Revised : June 19, 2016 Accepted: June 23, 2016 Published: August 31, 2016 Three digestive enzymes namely trypsin, alkaline phosphatase, lipase and two genes knottin 3 and vitellogenin were evaluated against whitefly after feeding with 5 ppm azadirachtin for 12 hours. Down regulated activity of all the three enzymes were observed. The transcript level of the two genes, related to reproductive system and cytoskeleton respectively were observed feeding with azadirachtin at similar concentration and exposure period as enzyme activity. It was observed that azadirachtin significantly inhibited the expression of both of the genes vitellogenin and knottin 3. *Corresponding author: asadpstu@yahoo.com
Understanding learners’ sense making of movement learning in physical education

ABSTRACT There is a substantial body of physical education scholarship focusing on movement learning. The question of how pupils themselves make sense of movement learning has however, largely escaped attention. Answers to such a question would seem to be highly germane if educators are to engage in pupil-centered pedagogies. In light of this absence, the aim of this investigation was to describe how movement learners made sense of their own movement development. Drawing on theoretical tenets of Gilbert Ryle (2009. The concept of mind. New York, NY: Routledge) and Michael Polanyi (1969. Knowing and being. Essays by Michael Polanyi. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), three cases from an investigation in which movement learning was occurring are presented. The investigation was conducted during a physical education project week with pupils from an upper secondary school. Data were produced using observations, informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and research diaries as a group of pupils learned to juggle. The results suggest that: the aspects of moving to which learners attend change as they learn; learners have a relatively limited capacity to verbally articulate what they learn, and; learners’ expectations of ideal ways of moving have considerable impact on how they come to make sense of their own ways of moving. The practical implications of these points are discussed in the final section of the paper.
Ranking Teachers when Teacher Value-Added is Heterogeneous Across Students

The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students' achievement increases after being exposed to the teacher, or based on the teacher's "value-added''. When teacher value-added is heterogeneous across her students, the typically used measure reflects differences in the average value-added the teacher provides. However, researchers, administrators, and parents may care not just about the average value-added, but also its dispersion. In this paper, I examine the robustness of typical teacher quality measures to alternate ranking systems factoring in the variance of value-added. Encouragingly, ranking systems factoring in the variance produce similar rankings as the ranking system based only on the mean. I also examine whether classroom characteristics and teacher experience affect a teacher's value-added variance and find that they explain little of the variation in value-added variances.
Capital-labor Substitution and Endogenous Fluctuations: a Monopolistic Competition Approach with Variable Mark-up

In macroeconomics, economists introduce most frequently imperfect competition on product markets using the Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) monopolistic competition model. However, by assumption, this framework ignores one important feature of imperfect competition: strategic interactions between producers. Taking into account this remark and following Yang and Hejdra (1993)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A

Nutritional deprivation or desiccation can in ﬂ uence thermal tolerance by impacting the insects' ability to eva-poratively cool, maintain cell membrane integrity and conduct protective or repair processes. Recovery from chilling is also linked to the re-establishment of iono-and osmo-regulatory homeostasis. Here, using Mediterranean fruit ﬂ y ( Ceratitis capitata , Diptera: Tephritidae), we manipulated water and nutrient availability to test the mechanistic expectation that changes in whole organism lipid and water content can elicit variation in cold or heat tolerance (scored as chill coma recovery time and heat knockdown time). We measured body condition (body water and lipid content) as well as heat shock protein 70 gene ( hsp70 ) and protein (HSP70) levels. A signi ﬁ cant reduction in body water content with water restriction did not translate into di ﬀ erences in chill coma recovery. When nutrient restriction was coupled with water deprivation, this resulted in a signi ﬁ cant reduction ( − 54%) of heat knockdown time in females but male ﬂ ies were una ﬀ ected. There was no evidence for an hsp70 or HSP70 response under any of the stress treatments and therefore no correlation with heat or cold tolerance. Heat hardening decreased all hsp levels. Therefore, although body water and total body lipid content di ﬀ ered between the treatment groups, the contribution of these factors to thermal tolerance was inconsistent with mechanistic expectations in heat knockdown time and insigni ﬁ cant for chill coma recovery. These results therefore highlight that the e ﬀ ects of resource restriction on thermal limits in insects are mechanistically more complex than previous models of stress resistance have suggested.
Diagnostic and Management Challenges in Goodpasture ’ s ( Anti-GBM ) Disease

Goodpasture’s or anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease is classically characterised by the presence of circulating autoantibodies directed against the non-collagenous domain of the 3 chain of type IV collagen(3(IV)NC1), targeting glomerular and alveolar basement membranes, and associated with rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis, with alveolar haemorrhage in over half the patients. However, there are increasing examples of variants or atypical presentations of this disease, and proposed novel therapeutic options, which nephrologists should be aware of. The pathophysiology of this condition has been understood through molecular analysis of the antibody-antigen interactions and the use of HLA-transgenic animals, while the association of anti-GBM antibodies with anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) and their combined impact on disease phenotype is increasingly recognised, providing some insights into the basis of glomerular damage and autoimmunity.
What Makes Clusters Decline? A Study on Disruption and Evolution of a High-Tech Cluster in Denmark

Østergaard C. R. and Park E. What makes clusters decline? A study on disruption and evolution of a high-tech cluster in Denmark, Regional Studies. Most studies on regional clusters focus on identifying factors and processes that make clusters grow. However, sometimes technologies and market conditions suddenly shift, and clusters decline. This paper analyses the process of decline of the wireless communication cluster in Denmark. The longitudinal study on the high-tech cluster reveals that technological lock-in and exit of key firms have contributed to decline. Entrepreneurship has a positive effect on the cluster's adaptive capabilities, while multinational companies have contradicting effects by bringing in new resources to the cluster but being quick to withdraw in times of crisis.
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF AUDIT QUALITY ON FINANCIAL REPORTING FRAUD

Several highly publicized financial reporting fraud cases (e.g., Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom) have put the role of external auditors and quality of their audit in ensuring corporate financial reporting quality under considerable scrutiny. Much research has been conducted on the determinants of earnings management. Since earnings management is inherently unobservable, most studies use various measures of accruals as proxies for earnings management. This study examines the relationship between audit quality and a more direct measure of earnings management – financial reporting fraud. Contrary to the concerns that nonaudit services are the primary reason for auditor independence impairment that results in lower audit and earnings quality, this study finds no significant relationship between reporting fraud and fees paid to auditors for various services.
Welfare Cost of the Real Estate Transfer Tax

This paper considers the welfare implications of a tax on real estate transfers. A theoretical analysis shows how the discouragement of mutually beneficial transactions as well as tax-sheltering activities give rise to a welfare loss that can be estimated comprehensively from the empirical elasticity of the tax base. In the absence of tax planning, the elasticity of the tax base is determined by the hazard rate to deter transactions at the margin. With tax planning, the elasticity of the tax base is also driven by the “technology” of tax sheltering. Empirical evidence on the deadweight loss is obtained from the analysis of real estate transfer taxes in Germany. After a constitutional reform has granted the German states the right to set the local rate of the real estate transfer tax, over the last ten years many states have made use of this discretion and have increased the tax rate - some of them repeatedly. Based on the empirical estimate of the revenue effect of these tax increases, the paper shows that the German experience points to a substantial welfare cost of real estate transfer taxation. The preferred estimate suggests that each additional Euro of revenues raised is associated with an increase of the deadweight loss of about 67 cents.
Department of Economics Working Paper Series School Choice with Preference Rank Classes 20002

We introduce and study a large family of rules for many-to-one matching problems, the Preference Rank Partitioned (PRP) rules. PRP rules are studentproposing Deferred Acceptance rules, where the schools select among applicants in each round taking into account both the students’ preferences and the schools’ priorities. In a PRP rule each school first seeks to select students based on priority rank classes, and subsequently based on preference rank classes. PRP rules include many well-known matching rules, such as the standard Deferred Acceptance rule, the Boston rule, the Chinese Application-Rejection rules of Chen and Kesten (2017), the Taiwan Deduction rules of Dur et al. (2018), and the French Priority rules of Bonkoungou (2019), in addition to matching rules that have not been studied yet. We analyze the stability, efficiency and incentive properties of PRP matching rules in this unified framework.
Involvement of PI 3 K / Akt Signaling Pathway in Hepatocyte Growth Factor – Induced Migration of Uveal Melanoma Cells

PURPOSE. Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adult humans. Unlike cutaneous melanoma, uveal melanoma disseminates preferentially to the liver through the hematogenous system. To date, the mechanism underlying this metastatic homing is largely unknown. This study investigated the effect of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-triggered signaling pathways to identify the role of HGF and its downstream effectors in inducing the migration of uveal melanoma cells.
Growth Accelerations

Unlike most cross country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least 8 years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange rate depreciations. Political-regime changes are statistically significant predictors of growth accelerations. External shocks tend to produce growth accelerations that eventually fizzle out, while economic reform is a statistically significant predictor of growth accelerations that are sustained. However, growth accelerations tend to be highly unpredictable: the vast majority of growth accelerations are unrelated to standard determinants and most instances of economic reform do not produce growth accelerations.
Using DEA window analysis for performance evaluation of Iranian wood panels industry

Wood panel manufacturing is one of the important sectors in Iranian wood industry. The sector faces serious limitations in production technology and raw materials. So the performance of 10 firms of Iranian wood panels industry was evaluated. A DEA window analyses with a free oriented slack-based measure model (SBM) were performed based on financial data collected for the period of 5 years (2002 to 2006). The (firms) decision-making units were ranked based on average of efficiency scores and determination of the trends of their behaviors and stability of performances. The results of estimated efficiency score showed that all decision-making units (DMUs) in wood panel sector were stable (considering low standard deviation). But their trends and stability behaviors showed that almost half of decision-making units were positive. The difference of total range and the efficiency score average showed that many DMUs still were inefficient and reflect a fluctuation in efficiency score. Key words: Data envelopment analysis, performance evaluation, windows analysis, wood panels industry
FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS

Even though the literature of platforms suggests that there is a positive feedback loop effect between platform installed base and complement variety due to the network effects principle (ARTHUR, 1989; KATZ and SHAPIRO, 1986), it is not clear if this effect also happens between platform installed base and complement quality. Indeed, complement attributes, such as complement quality, in some content-delivery platforms are vital for the value creation and adoption of such platforms (SONG et al., 2018; STEINER et al., 2016). However, the investigation of what factors impact the quality of complementary products of platforms is scarce in the literature. The contribution of this study is to empirically assess if there is a reverse causation effect between platform installed base and complement quality as well as to investigate the impact of platform technical architecture performance and platform maturity on complement quality in the context video game consoles industry. Data contains information about exclusive game titles and platforms numbers released in the seventh video game console generation in the U.S. market from November 2005 to November 2013. Results suggest that platform installed base positively affect game quality but there is no significant effect in the opposite direction, indicating that there is no feedback loop effect between those two variables. In addition, there is strong evidence suggesting that platforms with more advanced technical architecture present higher game quality compared to their rival platforms. Finally, results suggest that platform maturity has a negative impact on game quality. These findings are important for practitioners and researchers in the field, shedding new light on what impacts the quality of complements in the video game platform industry and elucidating the path for future research in the field. Key-words: platforms, complement quality, game quality, platform installed base, network principle effect, video game industry.
Critical success factors for Lean Six Sigma in business school: A view from the lecturers

Lean is a process improvement approach to improve organization’s efficiency by identifying and eliminate non-value-added activities, while Six Sigma is a methodology focused on reduction of process variation. The integration of both, namely Lean Six Sigma (LSS) drives organization on waste elimination, variation reduction and value creation, which ultimately enhancing organizational performance. LSS has been viewed by prior scholars as one of effective approach for business improvement regardless of manufacturing or services industry. However, the research of LSS in education sector, particularly for business school is relatively lacking. Hence, this research aimed to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) for LSS within a business school in Malaysia. The research also aimed to explore the relationship between the LSS, CSFs, and organization performance. There were six CSFs identified from literature review, while organization performance is assessed via the concept of system theory. The research was quantitative based with the lecturers in the business school as the targeted population. Questionnaire was distributed based on stratified sampling plan with 69 responded. Descriptive and Pearson correlation analysis result revealed that lecturers within the business school perceived that all the six LSS CSFs as “very important”, and strongly correlated with organization performance, except CSF “project selection and prioritization”. implication, finding from this research suggested that the adaption of LSS between manufacturing and education sectors shared the commonality in term of CSF. However, the business school should look into project proposal from the lecturers’ perspective as an alternate source of process improvement opportunity.
Teachers’ acceptance of technology as predictors of the use of Google Classroom analytical learning

The upsurge in Malaysia’s Industrial Revolution 4.0 (4IR) is in line with the changes in the global education environment. One of the latest approaches in the education field is learning analytics (LA). The use of LA in Google Classroom (GC) as the learning platform that measures, collects, analyses data and reports information about students to help teachers improve teaching and learning (T&L). This study aimed to determine the factors of teachers’ technology acceptance as the predictor for use LA in GC among the teachers in secondary schools. It is done by observing 304 teachers in daily secondary schools in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. The research instrument used was online questionnaire using Google Form, which data were collected and analyses by using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 26.0. The findings from this study show that the use of GC, teachers’ perceived usefulness and behavioral intention were the predictors that influenced the performance of LA in GC. This study hoped to provide a description and contribute a required alternative for the Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia and the schools in designing an effective strategy that can help teachers monitor the suitability of using LA in GC during teaching and learning.
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Received Jun 3, 2021 Revised Feb 15, 2022 Accepted Apr 2, 2022 The problem-based learning (PBL) methodologies are considered adequate for core engineering courses. The integration between cooperative learning and PBL methodologies establishes an encouraging environment for the students. However, for effective implementation of cooperative problembased learning (CPBL) environment, close supervision of students’ experiences is vital, and deficient areas are to be improved, as PBL is a dynamic process. A study was conducted for the first-year undergraduate engineering class taught under the PBL environment. The objective was to evaluate the course by the preview of students, for highlighting weak domains in the teaching methodology for future improvements. A course experience questionnaire was designed considering PBL implications, with 35 question items, and 31 responses were collected by the end of the semester. Three different analyses were performed on the collected data, i.e., descriptive statistics and Cronbach’s alpha, Student's t-test, and Pearson Chisquare test. The achieved results supported the effective adoption of the PBL system by the students. However, few areas were highlighted requiring special consideration, such as PBL workload, pressure due to extra course content, and assessment opportunities under the PBL system. It was proved that maximum students considered PBL methodologies convenient and effective for learning than the traditional learning approach.
Astro 2020 Science White Paper Are Supernovae the Dust Producer in the Early Universe ? Thematic Areas

optional): Whether supernovae are a significant source of dust has been a long-standing debate. The large quantities of dust observed in high-redshift galaxies raise a fundamental question as to the origin of dust in the Universe since stars cannot have evolved to the AGB dust-producing phase in high-redshift galaxies. In contrast, supernovae occur within several millions of years after the onset of star formation. This white paper will focus on dust formation in SN ejecta with USExtremely Large Telescope (ELT) perspective during the era of JWST and LSST.
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Received Aug 3, 2022 Revised May 26, 2023 Accepted Jun 19, 2023 COVID-19 has put a large impact on the education system all around the world. School, college and university students are forced to attend hybrid learning (HL) classes. This has posed challenges to the learners to adapt with the new learning system. The objective of this case study is to examine students’ perception on HL, in particular, the impacts on students’ learning experience. This study used survey as the methodology and the instrument for data collection is questionnaire. Data was collected from 93 students of five mathematics classes at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. Their perceptions in five learning aspects were analyzed, namely the accessibility to the online learning system, the effectiveness of both HL and face-to-face (f2f) learning, the pedagogical, technical and social aspects. The results have shown positive acceptance on HL and they enjoyed the new learning experience which uses both f2f and online mediums. This finding indicated that HL has a good potential to be extended to other courses at the university. This also indicated the opportunity for the university to enhance the teaching and learning methods and support the HL system in terms of moral and physical assistances.
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Silfia Ilma, Mimien Henie Irawati Al-Muhdhar, Fatchur Rohman, Murni Sapta Sari Postgraduate Doctoral of Biology Education Study Program, Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia Study Program of Biology Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Borneo Tarakan, Tarakan, Indonesia Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Ricardo Jesus Villarreal-Lozano, Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales-Martinez, Angel Garcia-Collantes, Maynor Enrique Barrientos-Amador Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School (FIME), Nuevo Leon Autonomous University, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico Institute of Research on the University and Education, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA), Madrid, Spain Research Program on Fundamentals of Distance Education, Costa Rica’s State University of Distance Education (UNED), San José, Costa Rica