Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
New Economic Geography: Real or Hype?

New economic geography has become a mantra for many economists, geographers, and regional scientists. Many recent studies have tested the importance of economic geography for production activities and found a significant association between them. Most of these studies, however, have not taken into account that productivity gains from economic geography, if any, are conditional on firm-location choice. This article illustrates a potential bias that can arise when firm-location choice is not considered in estimating the contribution of economic geography to firm performance. An analysis using microdata of Indian manufacturing firms shows that there is an upward bias in the contribution of economic geography to productivity when firm-location choice is not jointly taken into account as part of production decisions.
Pipelined data-flow delegated orchestration for data-intensive eScience workflows

Purpose – eScience workflows use orchestration for integrating and coordinating distributed and heterogeneous scientific resources, which are increasingly exposed as web services. The rate of growth of scientific data makes eScience workflows data‐intensive, challenging existing workflow solutions. Efficient methods of handling large data in scientific workflows based on web services are needed. The purpse of this paper is to address this issue.Design/methodology/approach – In a previous paper the authors proposed Data‐Flow Delegation (DFD) as a means to optimize orchestrated workflow performance, focusing on SOAP web services. To improve the performance further, they propose pipelined data‐flow delegation (PDFD) for web service‐based eScience workflows in this paper, by leveraging from the domain of parallel programming. Briefly, PDFD allows partitioning of large datasets into independent subsets that can be communicated in a pipelined manner.Findings – The results show that the PDFD improves the executi.
Synthesis of TiO 2 /Pd/Multi-Walled Carbon Nano-Structures by Hydrothermal Technique and deposited it on n-Si substrate as TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs:n-Si Heterojunction by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Carbon nanostructures (CNTs) have been prepared by a Hydrothermal deposition technique based on the polymer Polyethylene glycol (PEG) dissolved in water and Ethanol alcohol of a new carbon sources materials mixed with (PdCl 2 ) as a catalyst mixed with Sodium hydroxide (8gm NaOH) using Parr reactor at temperature (190°C) and forming the hybrid composite material ( TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs) by the same way. Thence, deposited heterojunction material (TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs:n-Si) using the Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique (PLD), on the substrate of n-silicon wafer. The obtained (MWCNTs & TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs) are investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Photo-electron Spectroscopy (XPS). Normal MWCNTs are formed multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and carbon nanosheets (CNSs) but in little bit amount. MWCNTs were obtained as main products with lengths of (1.6–3 μm) and diameters of (30-60 nm) could be synthesized at as low temperature as (190°C). Deconvolution of the (C1s ) peaks which characteristic of C-C bonds, showed a main peak at (284.96 and 285.04 eV) with total amount (74.96 and 30.64 at%) for the product of MWCNTs and TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs composite respectively. Current – voltage characteristics of heterojunction showed that forward bias current change exponentially approximately with applied voltage at dark and this agreement with tunneling–recombination model. Also (I-V) characteristics under illumination of TiO 2 /Pd/MWCNTs heterojunction deposited on p-Si substrate (η=10.5) efficiency in Solar Cell.
Are Crop Yields Normally Distributed? A Reexamination

This article demonstrates that normality test procedures that include individual detrending of short-term panel data can severely reduce the power of normality tests and strongly bias normality tests in a Type II direction. An alternative error component implicit detrending procedure is suggested that demonstrates higher power for the distributions examined. Both procedures are applied to a large data set with normality of yield residuals being rejected. Assuming normality is shown to reduce potential premium rates for a large number of producers in an existing crop insurance product.
Comparison and grade analysis of the effective criteria in organizational learning by hierarchical analysis (AHP)

The aim of this research is to make a comparison and grade analysis of the effective criteria in organizational learning. The latter is fulfilled using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) among the staff of educating and training organizations in high school level. 111 staff of educating and training organizations (managers, deputies and teachers) were randomly chosen. Templeton method and other organizational learning questionnaires, comprising eight factors: awareness, communication, performance assessment, intellectual cultivation, environmental adaptability, social learning, intellectual capital management and organizational grafting, were used to collect data. Some well-known statistical and decision making software were used to analyze the data. As a result of using Templeton, Lewis and Snyder structural method with eight factors, the highest score is assigned to awareness and the lowest is assigned to organizational grafting. According to the research findings, increasing the awareness among the staff of educating and training organization leads to an increase in learning in the mentioned organization and consequently it proves considerably effective and prominent in higher performance of the organization. Key words: Organizational learning, ranking, comparison, analytical hierarchy process (AHP).
Promoting health and well-being through leisure: introduction to the special issue

Health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of disease or illness. Leisure is typically defined as an activity or a state of mind that enhances enjoyment and well-being. Leisure as it is embodied through contexts and settings such as the arts, sports, recreation, parks, tourism and events offers numerous options for people to engage in healthy behaviours. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to highlight the connections among leisure, health and well-being from global perspectives. The right to leisure is a global human rights issue. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights stated in Article 24 that: “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay”. Further, through the efforts of the World Leisure Organization in cooperation with the United Nations, a Charter of Leisure was drafted and approved in 1970 with periodic updates over the years. This proclamation reinforces the importance and value of recreation and leisure in the lives of the world’s citizens. The statement addresses a belief that individuals have the right to experience freely chosen activities that lead to selffulfilment, improved quality of life and the attainment of community values. It also states that: “Provisions for leisure for the quality of life are as important as those for health and education”. As noted in the WHO’s definition, health includes physical, mental and social wellbeing. These areas are highly interrelated and leisure opportunities often open the door for embodying this synergy. People who are physically active are often less depressed, and physical activity is often most enjoyed when it is with others. Many of the forms of leisure available to people around the world have the potential of promoting health and well-being. The relationship between leisure and health is not a new topic. It has been a justification for providing leisure facilities and programmes for decades. However, because of the concerns related to obesity, for example, as a growing worldwide problem, more emphasis is placed on the direct role that leisure can play in mitigating health problems. Leisure is an important part of the health care system when it provides a means to enhance the quality of life and mitigate lifestyle illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, some types of cancer and diabetes. This special issue represents current thinking from around the world related to dimensions of leisure and health. Perspectives are presented from North America, Africa, Europe and Asia. The articles have some commonalities across the globe. One theme that was evident in three of the articles in this special issue related specifically to walking as a healthy leisure activity. Arguably, whether people walk out of necessity or whether freely chosen as leisure, walking offers a convenient way to be World Leisure Journal, 2014 Vol. 56, No. 2, 96–98, http://dx.doi. org/10.1080/16078055.2014. 903730
Testing Equality of Modified Sharpe Ratios

The modified Sharpe ratio is commonly used to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of an investment with non-normal returns, such as hedge funds. In this note, a test for equality of modified Sharpe ratios of two investments is developed. A simulation study demonstrates the good size and power properties of the test. An application illustrates the complementarity between the Sharpe ratio and modified Sharpe ratio test for performance testing on hedge fund return data.
Life expectancy of different ethnic groups using death records linked to population census data for 4.62 million people in Scotland

Background Few countries record the data needed to estimate life expectancy by ethnic group. Such information is helpful in assessing the extent of health inequality. Method Life tables were created using 3 years of deaths (May 2001–April 2004) linked to Scottish 2001 Census data for 4.62 million individuals with self-reported ethnicity. We created 8 ethnic groups based on the census definitions, each with at least 5000 individuals and 40 deaths. Life expectancy at birth was calculated using the revised Chiang method. Results The life expectancy of White Scottish males at birth was 74.7 years (95% CI 74.6 to 74.8), similar to Mixed Background (73.0; 70.2 to 75.8) and White Irish (75.0; 74.0 to 75.9), but shorter than Indian (80.9; 78.4 to 83.4), Pakistani (79.3; 76.9 to 81.6), Chinese (79.0; 76.5 to 81.5), Other White British (78.9; 78.6 to 79.2) and Other White (77.2; 76.4 to 78.1). The life expectancy of White Scottish females was 79.4 years (79.3 to 79.5), similar to mixed background (79.3; 76.6 to 82.0), but shorter than Pakistani (84.6; 82.0 to 87.3), Chinese (83.4; 81.1 to 85.7), Indian (83.3; 80.7 to 85.9), Other White British (82.6; 82.3 to 82.9), other White (82.0; 81.3 to 82.8) and White Irish (81; 80.2 to 81.8). Conclusions Males and females in most of the larger ethnic minority groups in Scotland have longer life expectancies than the majority White Scottish population.
Graduates in economics and educational mismatch: the case study of the University of Naples ‘Parthenope’ 1

The quality of jobs of economics graduates was studied in terms of educational mismatch. The returns of over‐education on earnings and on the job‐search were also investigated. The discussion regards the second wave of a longitudinal survey of a random sample of economics graduates from the University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, a major school of economics in southern Italy. Over‐education was measured using two different indicators of educational mismatch, one based on an objective parameter and the other on the same parameter combined with a subjective one. A probit regression with selection was carried out to analyse the influence of a set of control variables (such as family, background, employment geography and characteristics of job, work history, gender and channels used to enter the labour market) on over‐education. The same variables were used to study the returns of over‐education on earnings and on the job‐search. The probability of being over‐educated was significantly affected by gender, attainments in Higher Education (HE), channels used to enter the labour market, job location and job sector applied for. Females, lower HE achievers and graduates working in trade/sales or information systems sectors were more likely to be over‐educated than other subjects, whereas use of further education to enter the labour market decreased the probability of being over‐educated. Over‐educated workers were found to have a high probability of low earnings. Over‐education and low earnings induced workers to change jobs.
Labour Supply, Employment and Unemployment in Macroeconomics: A Critical Appraisal of Orthodoxy and a Heterodox Alternative

The paper begins with a critical evaluation of the modelling of the individual supply function of labour in orthodox economics. The varying ways in which the aggregate labour supply curve has been represented in macroeconomics texts is then outlined. A proposal for a simple representation of the aggregate labour supply curve based on economic, social and institutional realities is then provided. Finally the implications of our discussion for macroeconomic analysis are drawn.
Based 3D finite element analysis of a synchronous reluctance motor with sinusoidal rotor shape

This paper deals with the numerical analysis of the Synchronous Reluctance Motor (SynRM) with sinusoidal rotor shape in the axial direction using the 3D Finite Element Method (FEM), and presents the airgap magnetic flux governing equation derived from Kelvin-Stoke's theorem. In the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) the airgap flux density, machines performance indexes, the torque and its ripple contents are presented. In this paper three motors having different rotor anisotropies are modelled and analyzed. The SynRM with sinusoidal rotor shape (SynRM3) FEA results are compared with the conventional SynRM without cut-off (SynRM1) and SynRM with cut-off (SynRM2) on the q-axis. The stator geometry of a 5.5 kW, 4-pole, 50-Hz, 8 A, conventional three-phase squirrel cage induction motor, with distributed double layer winding chorded by a single slot is used to model all three SynRMs.
Faith and business practice amongst Christian entrepreneurs in developing and emerging markets

This article examines the impact of faith on the business approach of Christian entrepreneurs in developing and emerging market settings. Special attention is given to the distinctive context for business in these environments (including high levels of poverty and corruption); the entrepreneurs’ responses, and how faith influences these responses. Focusing on the experience of two entrepreneurs out of a larger pool of 65, we found that faith appears to play an important role in shaping their priorities. Putting reputation before short-term profit, both entrepreneurs adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards corrupt dealing, and have become known for this stance. Both entrepreneurs also exhibit a sense of dependence on God that is greater than that documented amongst Christian entrepreneurs in developed countries, perhaps reflecting the challenges associated with their environments.
MANAGING SURGES IN CAPITAL INFLOWS: THE PHILIPPINE CASE*

The Philippines is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that has experienced massive capital inflows. Being a latecomer in this arena, it can avoid the undesirable effects of these inflows by drawing lessons from the experiences of Latin American and other Asian countries. This paper provides a background and characteristics of capital inflows to developing countries and discusses the issues associated with it. Analysis shows that full sterilization deprives the country of higher investment and growth associated with foreign exchange inflows. This article has been published as a 1994 PIDS discussion paper.
Update propagation in distributed memory hierarchy

A distributed memory hierarchy (DMH) is a memory system consisting of storage modules distributed over a high-bandwidth local area network. It provides for transaction applications an abstraction of single virtual memory space to which shared data are mapped. As in a conventional memory hierarchy (MH) in a single-machine system, a DMH is responsible for locating, migrating, and caching data pages; however, unlike a conventional MH, a DMH must do so across the storage modules in a network. In addition, a DMH must handle the problem of propagation of transaction updates preserving serializability of transactions. The performance of a DMH system is strongly influenced by concurrency control and update propagation. It is also crucial that performance analysis accounts for memory resources and network requirements. A DMH system is presented, the tradeoffs between conservative and aggressive update propagation strategies are defined, and promising new strategies are identified. <<ETX>>
Deciphering Africa's Divergent Transitions

Commentaries on recent political developments in the sub-Saharan region run the gamut from giddy Afrophilia to gloomy Afropessimism. Early assessments were hopeful, seeing the peaceful electoral displacement of authoritarian regimes in countries like Benin and Zambia as harbingers of "political renewal" and a "second liberation. "' A critical backlash soon followed in the wake of a series of disputed elections in places like Angola and Kenya. At best, analysts pondered thoughtfully about the sustainability of multiparty competition under conditions of ethnic fragmentation and elite corruption2 or, at worst, lapsed into apocalyptic warnings of impending civil disorder in the wake of the "stalling . winds of change. "3 In my view, analysts should not rush to judgment but instead adopt a detached and broadly comparative view of what is essentially a mixed situation of democratization in Africa. As David Peterson suggests, "democratic development will not be a uniform, linear process":4 even in democratizing countries, transitions
A systematic approach to behavior change interventions for the water and sanitation sector in developing countries: a conceptual model, a review, and a guideline

Public health practitioners increasingly agree that it is not enough to provide people with water and sanitation hardware. Numerous approaches are used to tackle the “software” which means to ensure behavior change necessary to come along with the sanitation hardware. A review of these approaches reveals several shortcomings, most importantly that they do not provide behavioral change interventions which correspond to psychological factors to be changed. This article presents a sound psychological model, which postulates that for the formation of new habitual behavior, five blocks of factors must be positive with regard to the new behavior: risk factors, attitudinal factors, normative factors, ability factors, and self-regulation factors. Standardized tools for measuring the factors in face-to-face interviews are presented, and behavioral interventions are provided for each factor block. A statistical analysis method is presented, which allows the determination of the improvement potential of each factor.
[The assessment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by teacher ratings - validity and reliability of the FBB-HKS].

OBJECTIVES This study analyzes the German version of the teacher rated Symptom Checklist for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (FBB-HKS) which is part of the Diagnostic System of Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents (DISYPS-KJ). Factorial validity as well as convergent, divergent und differential validity and reliability (internal consistency and retest reliability) of the scale are analyzed. METHODS The questionnaire consists of 20 four point symptom items, assessing the 18 symptom-criteria according to ICD-10 und DSM-IV. Data were collected in a sample of pupils from a school for children with behavioral, emotional and learning problems (study 1: n = 50), as well as in a referred sample from a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic (study 2: n = 78), and a sample from a multi-center study on the effects of long-acting methylphenidate (study 3: n = 79). RESULTS The exploratory and the confirmatory factor analyses confirm both a three factor structure with hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention as separate factors and a two factor structure (with hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention). Internal consistencies and retest reliabilities are in a good to very good range. Convergent, divergent and differential validity can be confirmed. Thus, the rating scale is suitable for the assessment of ADHD symptoms at school.
Variability in the Clinical Presentation of Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was the eighth overall leading cause of death in the United States in 2003 and the fifth leading cause among people 65 years and older. Estimates indicate that the prevalence of AD will quadruple in the next 40 years. Although cognitive impairment is the core feature of the disease, other psychological and psychiatric conditions can interfere with diagnosis and treatment. New treatments that specifically delay cognitive decline are available but are underused, as is combination pharmacotherapy. Here, experts in the field offer their insights on recognizing and managing this insidious disorder. his ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS section of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry presents the highlights of the series of planning teleconferences “New Paradigms in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease,” which were held in June, July, and August 2006. This report was prepared by the CME Institute of Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc., and was supported by an educational grant from Forest Laboratories, Inc. The teleconferences were chaired by Pierre N. Tariot, M.D., Memory Disorders Clinic, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Phoenix, Ariz. The faculty were Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Deane F. Johnson Center for Neurotherapeutics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles; M. Saleem Ismail, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Monroe Community Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. ; and Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., M.H. S. , Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Bayview, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Faculty disclosure appears at the end of the article. The opinions expressed herein are those of the faculty and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CME provider and publisher or the commercial supporter. New Paradigms in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Corporate social responsibility: are firms in Nigeria actually giving back or giving away?

Firms that are less rational in their socially responsible actions might just be giving away rather than actually given back because they are unable to prioritise their socially responsible efforts. The extent to which firms in Nigeria apply rational decision techniques for prioritising their socially responsible actions is unknown. Therefore, this study analysed three primary stakeholder groups to which firms concentrate their social responsibility efforts using analytic hierarchical process (AHP). Cross-sectional design, quota, simple random, and convenient sampling techniques were employed to obtain responses from 225 corporate affairs officers in various quoted companies. Responses were placed on a 3 × 3 matrix estimates of perception of primary stakeholder groups that received attention. Socio-cultural and economic stakeholders rated much lower than the priority accorded political constituency. Alternative priorities for the dimensions of stakeholder salience were also higher for legitimacy and power more than urgency. The implications of these findings were discussed.