Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Monetary Pressures and Inflation Dynamics in Turkey: Evidence from P-Star Model

This paper uses the P-star model to explain inflation dynamics in Turkey. In P-star models, money determines the price gap, which is postulated to measure the pressure on prices in an economy. This pressure emerges when output is above the potential, the interest rate is lower than the natural rate, or there is pure excess money in the economy. The estimation results with the Turkish data show that the price gap contains considerable information for explaining inflation dynamics. Moreover, the model selection criterion that compares the empirical performance of the P-star model with the new classical Phillips curve relation favors the P-star model over the Phillips curve relationship. We conclude that money is efficacious in predicting risk in price stability in Turkey.
Modeling and verification of network protocol specs using timed pi-calculus

We present a toolkit based on our timed extension of pi-calculus. The calculus is employed as a domain specific language for modeling telecommunication protocols with real-time properties. This model can be simulated, visualized, debugged and transformed for model-checking using UPPAAL. This paper introduces the general structure of our toolkit and provides a unified running example.
A Complete Blood Typing Device for Automatic Agglutination Detection Based on Absorption Spectrophotometry

Blood type determination is an important clinical test that should be performed before any blood transfusion. However, in emergency situations, due to the patient's condition, there may not be enough time to determine the patient's blood type. In these cases, the O negative blood type is administered, because it causes less incompatibility risk to the patient. This paper presents a low-cost and portable device for ABO, Rh phenotype, reverse, and Cross-matching human blood typing, based on a spectrophotometric approach of the agglutination detection, with a fast response time (results in <;5 min). These features allow the device operation in mobile emergency units, outside conventional clinical laboratories, and close to the patient. It avoids the risk of incompatibility between the donor's and receptor's blood, improving the quality in healthcare services.
Knowledge sharing among public sector employees: evidence from Malaysia

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to: identify the views of public sector employees towards the importance of Knowledge Sharing (KS); identify the barriers to KS; and identify initiatives that may encourage KS.Design/methodology/approach – The design employed in this research was mainly descriptive in nature. A survey‐based methodology employing a research questionnaire was used to elicit the views of public sector employees towards KS. A total of 320 questionnaires were randomly distributed and 170 were successfully collected, giving a response rate of 60 percent.Findings – The results showed that the respondents were very positive in their views towards “importance of KS” and they also strongly felt that knowledge was a source of competitive advantage. However, they were of the view that the importance of knowledge sharing was not clearly communicated and many of them were not sure whether KS strategy existed in their department. The public sector employees also showed self‐serving biases when.
The effects of divided attention on implicit and explicit memory performance

Abstract This study explored the nature of the relationship between attention available at learning and subsequent implicit and explicit memory performance. One hundred neurologically normal subjects rated their liking of target words on a five-point scale. Half of the subjects completed the word-rating task in a full attention condition and the other half performed the task in a divided attention condition. Following administration of the word-rating task, all subjects completed five memory tests, three implicit (category association, tachistoscopic identification, and perceptual clarification) and two explicit (semantic-cued recall and graphemic-cucd recall), each bearing on a different subset of the list of previously presented target words. The results revealed that subjects in the divided attention condition performed significantly more poorly than subjects in the full attention condition on the explicit memory measures. In contrast, there were no significant group differences in performance on the implicit memory measures. These findings suggest that the attention to an episode that is necessary to produce later explicit memory may differ from that necessary to produce unconscious influences. The relationship between implicit memory, neurologic injury, and automatic processes is discussed. (JINS, 1996, 2, 111–125.)
Modelling household purchasing behaviour to analyse beneficial marketing strategies

Price promotion and generic advertising are two common strategies to increase consumer demand for food products. Which one is preferred over the other depends largely, on the relative importance of state dependence and heterogeneity in household purchase decision and behaviour on desired commodity over time. In this article, this issue is investigated for household purchases of fluid milk products using a panel data dynamic Tobit model. The proposed econometric model accounts not only for state dependence and heterogeneity of the purchasing process, but also for the censoring or sample selectivity encountered when using household survey data. Empirical findings show that state dependence is negative and household heterogeneity over milk persists over time implying that advertising efforts aimed at increasing milk consumption would be more effective than short-term price promotions. The results also suggest that advertising efforts should concentrate on attracting new purchasers and increasing purchase frequencies for fluid milk products.
Involvement of transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 in calcium current inhibition by capsaicin

Capsaicin has been used as a topical analgesic to treat diverse pain conditions. We investigated the molecular mechanisms that mediate the inhibition of high-voltage-activated calcium channel currents (ICa) using trigeminal ganglion neurons and a heterologous expression system. Capsaicin inhibited ICa in capsaicin-sensitive trigeminal ganglion neurons, but not in capsaicin-insensitive neurons. Single-cell reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction revealed the expression of TRPV1 only in capsaicin-sensitive neurons. Capsaicin inhibited ICa in transient receptor potential vanilloid-1-expressing C2D7 cells stably expressing human N-type calcium channels, whereas capsaicin failed to inhibit ICa in naïve C2D7 cells with no endogenous transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 expression. Calcium influx via transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 is not likely to play a critical role in capsaicin-induced ICa inhibition in trigeminal ganglion neurons. ICa inhibition might be one of the mechanisms for the analgesic effect of capsaicin.
International Migration, Remittances, and Poverty in Developing Countries

Few studies have examined the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. The authors try to fill this gap by constructing a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and middle-income developing countries. Four key findings emerge: 1) International migration-defined as the share of a country's population living abroad-has a strong, statistical impact in reducing poverty. On average, a 10 percent increase in the share of international migrants in a country's population will lead to a 1.9 percent decline in the share of people living in poverty ($1.00 a person a day). 2) Distance to a major labor-receiving region-like the United States or OECD (Europe)-has an important effect on international migration. Developing countries that are located closest to the United States or OECD (Europe) are also those countries with the highest rates of migration. 3) An inverted U-shaped curve exists between the level of country per capita income and international migration. Developing countries with low or high per capita GDP produce smaller shares of international migrants than do middle-income developing countries. The authors find no evidence that developing countries with higher levels of poverty produce more migrants. Because of considerable travel costs associated with international migration, international migrants come from those income groups which are just above the poverty line in middle-income developing countries. 4) International remittances-defined as the share of remittances in country GDP-have a strong, statistical impact in reducing poverty. On average, a 10 percent increase in the share of international remittances in a country's GDP will lead to a 1.6 percent decline in the share of people living in poverty.
BD180LV - 0.18 μm BCD technology with best-in-class LDMOS from 7V to 30V

0. 18μm BCD technology with the best-in-class nLDMOS is presented. The drift of nLDMOS is optimized to ensure lowest Rsp by using multi-implants and appropriate thermal recipe. The optimized 24V nLDMOS has BV<inf>DSS</inf>=36V and Rsp=14.5 mΩ-mm<sup>2</sup>. Electrical SOA and long-term hot electron (HE) SOA are also evaluated. The maximum operating voltage less than 10% degradation of on-resistance is 24.4V.
Interest Rate Risk Immunization - The Impact of Credit Risk in the Quality of Immunization Case Study: Immunization With Portuguese Bonds and German Bonds

This paper involves an assessment of the interest rate risk present in Financial Institutions and the methods used for its immunization. The paper consists on two parts. The first part presents a theoretical review of the interest rate risk and how this risk can be immunized. Concepts such as Macaulay (1938) and Fisher & Weil (1971) duration and their limitations in the process of the approximation to the price of a considered bond will be highlighted. In the second part the main indicators of the credit risk on bonds are analyzed. Based on market prices of Portugal’s bonds and Germany’s bonds, the quality of immunization is tested. The interest rate derivatives are then introduced as a method of hedging interest rate risk. At the end, an interview is conducted with the responsible for hedging the interest rate risk in one of the largest private banks in Portugal in order to identify the methods used to capture the interest rate risk and to understand how this risk is immunized. This paper allows us to conclude about the importance of credit risk in an immunization strategy of interest rate risk. We conclude that interest rate hedging based on Fisher & Weil (1971) duration is not possible in a scenario of high volatility of credit risk. Interest rate hedge based on interest rate swap becomes more attractive to the Financial Institutions.
What's Good for Toyota...?

Since long the auto industry has been a valued source of leading business cycle indicators. While practitioners continue to use data on new car registrations to forecast economic activity, the predictive performance of auto industry related stock returns has deteriorated in the past decades. For the US this can be traced to the advent of Japanese manufacturers. The increased US market penetration by Japanese automakers coincides with a decline in the predictive ability of domestic auto returns. We are, however, able to recover a role for auto returns in business cycle forecasting by employing Japanese data. No such result can be found for European countries. We do conclude, however, that what's good for Toyota, is good for the world economy.
Market Efficiency and Anomalies: Evidences from S&P CNX NIFTY

Seasonality in stock market is a well recognized postulation. The phenomenon stands for a regular or rhythmic pattern, apparent in stock returns. The present study investigates the persistence of such regularities in the form of weekend effect, monthly effect and holidays effect employing twelve-year data from 2000 to 2011 of S&P CNX Nifty. The article examines the survival of seasonalities in Indian stock market through Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) (1,1) model. The results indicate the occurrence of weekend effect in long run but reject the hypothesis of positive weekends and negative Mondays. On the contrary, the mean return on Tuesday is negative for the entire period. Instead of March effect, the study comes out with November effect and hence nullifies the ‘Tax-Loss Selling Hypothesis’. On dividing the entire period into three-year lags, anomalies instantaneously disappear confirming the fact that any seasonality takes some time to establish itself. Higher GARCH values validate that the Indian stock market is inefficient in its weak form and does not follow a random walk.
Aqueous extract of Securidaca longipendunculata Oliv. and Olax subscropioidea inhibits key enzymes (acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase) linked with Alzheimer’s disease in vitro

Abstract Context: Plants have historically been used to treat neurodegerative diseases which include Alzheimer’s disease. Objective: This study investigated the antioxidant properties and inhibitory effect of aqueous extracts of Securidaca longipendunculata root and Olax subscropioidea leaf on the cholinergic system in rat brain in vitro. Materials and methods: Aqueous extracts (1:20 w/v) of S. longipendunculata root and O. subscropioidea leaf was prepared and the ability of the extract to inhibit the activities of acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase was evaluated as well as antioxidants as typified by 2,2-azino-bis-(3-ethylbenthiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS•) radical scavenging ability and Fe chelation spectophotometrically. Results: ABTS• radical scavenging ability showed that S. longipendunculata (0.075 Mmol TEAC/100 g) had a higher scavenging ability than O. subscropioidea (0.07 Mmol TEAC/100 g). Also, the Fe2+ chelating ability of both extracts revealed that S. longipendunculata (IC50 = 105.57 g/mL) had a significantly (p < 0.05) higher Fe2+ chelating ability than O. subscropioidea (IC50 = 255.84 g/mL). Extracts of S. longipendunculata and O. subscropioidea inhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) activities. However, S. longipendunculata (IC50 = 108.02 g/mL) has the higher AChE inhibitory activity than O. subscropioidea (IC50 = 110.35 g/mL). Also, both extracts inhibit BChE activity in vitro but S. longipendunculata (IC50 = 82.55 g/mL) had a higher BChE inhibitory activity than O. subscropioidea (IC50 = 108.44 g/mL). Discussion and conclusions: The mechanism by which S. longipendunculata root and O. subscropioidea leaf perform their anti-Alzheimer’s disease activity may be by their inhibition on the key enzymes linked to this disease.
Automated explanation of financial data

We describe a methodology for explanation generation in financial knowledge-based systems. This offers the possibility to generate explanations and diagnostics automatically to support business decision tasks. The central goal is the identification of specific knowledge structures and reasoning methods required to construct computerized explanations from financial data and models. A multistep look-ahead algorithm is proposed that deals with so-called cancelling-out effects, which are a common phenomenon in financial data sets. Our method is an extension of the traditional variance decomposition in accounting. The method was tested on a case-study conducted for Statistics Netherlands involving the comparison of financial figures of firms in the Dutch retail branch. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

In order to support poor families in the developing world to seek and use health care, a multi-pronged strategy is needed on both the supply and the demand side of health care. A demand-side program called Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) strives to reduce poverty and also increase food consumption, school attendance, and use of preventive health care. Since 1997, seven countries in Latin America have implemented and evaluated CCT programs with health and nutrition components. The core of the program is based on encouraging poor mothers to seek preventive health services and attend health education talks by providing a cash incentive for their healthy behavior (with healthy behavior representing performance). Evaluations of these programs measured outputs in the utilization of services; health knowledge, attitudes, and practice; food consumption; the supply and quality of services; as well as outcomes in vaccination rates; nutritional status; morbidity; mortality; and fertility. While CCT impact evaluations provided unambiguous evidence that financial incentives increase utilization of key services by the poor, the studies gave little attention to the impact on health-related behaviors, attitudes, and household decision-making or how these factors contribute to or limit impact on health outcomes. Recommendations include expanding the scope of future evaluations to study these effects, modeling program effects beforehand, and carefully selecting the conditions for payment so that they are not too burdensome yet not irrelevant. Continuing to focus on the extreme poor is recommended since findings show that the poorest households must reach a minimum level of food consumption before they are able to make other investments in their health and well-being.
ATR performance assessment of target type number for HRR radar

Automatic target recognition (ATR) performance evaluation has become an important subject in ATR theory community since the last two decades. The extended operation condition (EOC) and system cost are two key aspects in ATR performance evaluation. For the situation of air-to-ground (A-G) ATR using high range resolution (HRR) data, this paper analyzes the influence of target type number on ATR system performance. The system cost is also considered in evaluation process. An experiential performance model of typical ATR systems is given. The performance model and the corresponding conclusions have useful reference to ATR system performance prediction and assessment in the similar A-G applications.
The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Is a Key Component of the SUMO-2/3 Cycle*S

Many proteins are regulated by a variety of post-translational modifications, and orchestration of these modifications is frequently required for full control of activity. Currently little is known about the combinatorial activity of different post-translational modifications. Here we show that extensive cross-talk exists between sumoylation and ubiquitination. We found that a subset of SUMO-2-conjugated proteins is subsequently ubiquitinated and degraded by the proteasome. In a screen for preferential SUMO-1 or SUMO-2 target proteins, we found that ubiquitin accumulated in purified SUMO-2 conjugates but not in SUMO-1 conjugates. Upon inhibition of the proteasome, the amount of ubiquitin in purified SUMO-2 conjugates increased. In addition, we found that endogenous SUMO-2/3 conjugates, but not endogenous SUMO-1 conjugates, accumulated in response to proteasome inhibitors. Quantitative proteomics experiments enabled the identification of 73 SUMO-2-conjugated proteins that accumulated in cells treated with proteasome inhibitors. Cross-talk between SUMO-2/3 and the ubiquitin-proteasome system controls many target proteins that regulate all aspects of nucleic acid metabolism. Surprisingly the relative abundance of 40 SUMO-2-conjugated proteins was reduced by proteasome inhibitors possibly because of a lack of recycled SUMO-2. We conclude that SUMO-2/3 conjugation and the ubiquitin-proteasome system are tightly integrated and act in a cooperative manner.
Space division duplex (SDD) system using smart antenna [mobile radio applications]

In this paper, we introduce a new duplexing system, the so-called space division duplex, which can eliminate all kinds of interference. This new duplexing system consists of smart antenna multiple steered narrow beams and orthogonal large area synchronous spread spectrum codes. The purpose is to increase system capacity while maintaining its zero correlation window characteristics. The major types of interference and the properties of large area synchronous codes to combat these are studied. An overview of code division duplexing systems applying these orthogonal smart codes in a wireless environment is analyzed. This analysis shows that the number of orthogonal codes which can be utilized is limited. The proposed solution of a space division duplexing system, with its advantages, is presented. In addition, a code reuse concept is proposed to overcome the limitation of orthogonal codes. Finally, the system performance in term of spectral efficiency and capacity are presented.
Testing the Predictive Power of Dividend Yields

This paper reexamines the ability of dividend yields to predict long-horizon stock returns. The authors use the bootstrap methodology, as well as simulations, to examine the distribution of test statistics under the null hypothesis of no forecasting ability. These experiments are constructed so as to maintain the dynamics of regressions with lagged dependent variables over long horizons. They find that the empirically observed statistics are well within the 95 percent bounds of their simulated distributions. Overall there is no strong statistical evidence indicating that dividend yields can be used to forecast stock returns. Copyright 1993 by American Finance Association.
The Validity of the Economic Value Added Approach: An Empirical Application

"This study investigates the relative explanatory power of the Economic Value Added (EVA) model with respect to stock returns and firms' market value, compared to established accounting variables (e.g. net income, operating income), in the context of a small European developing market, namely the Athens Stock Exchange, in its first market-wide application of the EVA measure. Relative information content tests reveal that net and operating income appear to be more value relevant than EVA. Additionally, incremental information tests suggest that EVA unique components add only marginally to the information content of accounting profit. Moreover, EVA does not appear to have a stronger correlation with firms' Market Value Added than the other variables, suggesting that - for our Greek dataset - EVA, even though useful as a performance evaluation tool, need not necessarily be more correlated with shareholder's value than established accounting variables. " Copyright 2007 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
An analysis of the networks evolving from an artificial reef development

Understanding the flow and development of knowledge within tourism networks is important to the success and value of the network, especially networks based on a single resource such as an artificial reef. Using the ex-HMAS Brisbane Conservation Park as the context, a network analysis was conducted with stakeholders to address the question: ‘How can network analysis be used to measure the social value of an artificial reef? ’ The results of this study identified information flows over time, who was involved and not involved at different stages of development, as well as opportunities for further collaborative relationships.