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Research-Thesis, COLLÉGIALITÉ

This thesis considers international differences in corporate capital structure decisions. As far as the author is aware, little research has been conducted on this topic previously. The literature review describes three mainstream theories of capital structure and derives testable hypotheses for each theory. The methodology used to test the hypotheses is a mixture of previously used methodologies and newly developed methodologies. A unique panel dataset of large multinational corporations from the US and the UK was collected specifically for this thesis. Econometrics methods were used to test the validity of each capital structure theory and to identify differences between the US and the UK. The results were analysed and differences between the US and the UK were discussed in the context of previous research.
Fine-grained Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Based on Gating and Attention Mechanism

In recent years, more and more people express their feelings through both images and texts, boosting the growth of multimodal data. Multimodal data contains richer semantics and is more conducive to judging the real emotions of people. To fully learn the features of every single modality and integrate modal information, this paper proposes a fine-grained multimodal sentiment analysis method FCLAG based on gating and attention mechanism. First, the method is carried out from the character level and the word level in the text aspect. CNN is used to extract more fine-grained emotional information from characters, and the attention mechanism is used to improve the expressiveness of the keywords. In terms of images, a gating mechanism is added to control the flow of image information between networks. The images and text vectors represent the original data collectively. Then the bidirectional LSTM is used to complete further learning, which enhances the information interaction capability between the modalities. Finally, put the multimodal feature expression into the classifier. This method is verified on a self-built image and text dataset. The experimental results show that compared with other sentiment classification models, this method has greater improvement in accuracy and F1 score and it can effectively improve the performance of multimodal sentiment analysis.
Demand-Supply Balancing: A Comparative Study Between Companies? Operation Strategies

Demand-Supply Balancing (DSB) strategies have been adopted by organizations in order to adjust their capacity to demand fluctuations. In service sector, in addition to demand behavior forecasting, it is essential that the organization be able to respond to the market’s needs and expectations on time. The aim of this research is to compare the results of two previous studies, one carried out in Finland in manufacturing companies and other in Brazil in a service company, with the objective of identifying demand-supply balancing strategies in the context of operations management. This is an exploratory and applied research, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, through the application of the questionnaire designed by [1] in the same company object of study from [2]. The results showed an alignment between the strategies divided in six categories. The strategy that presented the least alignment in demand-supply balancing category was the supply chain structure. On the other hand, capacity management showed the greatest convergence.
Volume: I: Issue-2: Aug-Oct -2010 ISSN 0976-4550 PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ORAL HYPOGLYCEMIC ACTIVITY OF LEAF EXTRACT OF LEAVES OF ANDROGRAPHIS STENOPHYLLA

Andrographis stenophylla C.B. Cclarke (Acanthaceae) leaves are commonly used as folk medicine in south India. The present study is planned to determine the oral hypoglycemic activity of dichloroethane (DCE) extract of Andrographis stenophylla leaves. The Andrographis stenophylla leaves showed high yield extract values in DCE, DCM (dichloromethane) and carbinol. The DCE extract showed clear compound separation in thin layer chromatography, hence that extract was used for phytochemical analysis and pharmacological study. The DCE extract showed significant oral hypoglycemic activity in rats. The present study concludes, the DCE extract of Andrographis stenophylla leaves are suitable for isolate the terpene and it’s showed significant oral hypoglycaemic activity.
Emotion Recognition Task in typically developing Children: Design and Psychometric Properties

Facial expression is one of the most important social indicators that allows people to know our emotions. Emotion recognition is mostly defining as an ability to understand facial expressions. The study is aimed at designing a test to measure emotion recognition and determining its psychometric properties. A test consists of 44 (male/female and mild/intense) facial expressions that were designed to measure 6 basic emotions. 240 students were selected using cluster sampling method. Split-halves and Kuder-Richardson coefficients were used to assess reliability of the test. In order to assess the construct validity of the task the Pearson coefficients were calculated between total score and 6 scales. Relationships between total score of Emotion Recognition Task, Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and Theory of Mind test (ToM) were calculated to show convergent construct validity. The results showed that the test is reliable and valid.
RESEARCH ON THE EFFECT OF SOIL HEAVY METAL ELEMENTS IN THE POTENTIAL HABITATS OF GIANT PANDAS

By building a geochemical (heavy metal) niche model for giant pandas, this paper researched and analyzed the restriction of Cr, Hg and Pb in the soil in Pingwu County, Sichuan Province on the giant pandas’ selection of habitats. According to the model analysis, in this study area, Cr has the largest impact on the giant pandas’ selection of habitats. In this habitat, the maximum bearing value of Cr is 70×10 mg/kg; the maximum bearing value of Hg is 462.8×10 mg/kg; and the maximum bearing value of Pb is 37.94×10 mg/kg. If the content of the above three heavy metal elements exceeds their respective maximum bearing value, the encounter rate of the giant pandas in this area will decrease to 0, and the giant pandas will no longer choose this area as a habitat.
Amantadine for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury and its Associated Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Complications

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has wide-ranging consequences for survivors’ quality of life. Disabilities include decreased level of consciousness (LoC) as well as cognitive, neuropsychiatric (anxiety, depression) and neurobehavioral sequelae the latter often taking the form of irritability, hyperexcitability, disinhibition, poor impulse control, agitation and aggression. Amantadine has the potential to increase the concentrations of dopamine (DA) in the brain and the agent is one of the most commonly prescribed medications for the management and treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness undergoing neurorehabilitation following TBI. The current review was initiated in order to (A) clarify current opinion relating to the mechanism of action of amantadine as an agent for the treatment of TBI and its associated CNS disorders and (B) to critically review the evidence in support of the efficacy of amantadine for the treatment of TBI and its associated cognitive and neuro-behavioural complications. Findings from individual published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as well as related systematic reviews and meta-analyses are compiled and compared and some implications of the findings for the updating of practice guidelines are reviewed.
Study of efficacy and cost effectiveness of topical permethrin, benzyl benzoate and oral ivermectin in the treatment of scabies

Background: Scabies is an ectoparasitic infestation caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis that occurs due to direct skin to skin contact.It is a common public health problem that affects humans regardless of age, gender and social class.An ideal scabicide should be effective against both adult and egg of the mite, easily applicable, acceptable, nontoxic, and economical. It should be safe to use in all ages. Objectives: To compare the therapeutic efficacy and cost effectiveness of topical 5% permethrin, 25% benzyl benzoate and oral ivermectin (200mcg/kg/dose) in the treatment of scabies. Materials and Methods: A total of 90 patients with scabies attending the dermatology outpatient at the Department Of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Adichunchanagiri Hospital and Research Centre, B.G. Nagara, were randomly divided into three treatment groups A, B and C with 30 patients in each group. Group A patients received 5% permethrin cream which was made to remain in contact with the skin for at least 8 hours. This was repeated after 7 days. Group B patients received 25% benzyl benzoate lotion which was made to remain in contact with the skin for at least 8 hours. This was done for three consecutive nights. Group C patients received oral ivermectin in a single dose of 200mcg/kg body weight taken with meals and it was repeated after 10 days. All patients were followed up at the end of first, second and third week to assess clinical grading score and pruritus grading score by visual analogue scale. The cost effectiveness was calculated on basis of total expenditure on medicine at the end of the third week and cure rate of the three groups were compared on the basis of amount needed to treat one case successfully. Results: At the end of third week, complete clinical cure was seen in 28 (93.3%) patients in group A, 13 (43.3%) patients in group B and 22 (73.3%) of patients in group C. Permethrin was more efficacious than benzyl benzoate and ivermect
Red defect detection for rice quality assurance by using Machine Learning

This article presents an inspection system to detect red kernel defect, normally contaminating in white rice product. This contamination causes a reduction in the price rice of 6% approximately. To detect Red defect successfully, a method proposed in this paper was build up on Machine Vision techniques. The method contains three processing steps as follows. Firstly, noise elimination and localization were executed through image processing techniques. After that, RGB image would be transformed to HSV in order to obtain discriminative features. Finally, the pre-processed data was then passed into model training by using both linear and non-linear Support Vector Machines. Apart from that, Logistic regression was then employed to challenge margin maximization ability of the SVMs. The experimental result shows that linear-SVM still yields the highest performance at 86.3% of classification accuracy.
Determinants of Export in East Africa: Heterogeneous Panel Data Analysis

Despite its vast agricultural potential, Africa’s balance of trade for at least three decades is in deficit, remained a net importer of agricultural products. Hence, it is worthy studying determinants of export in East Africa. This study employed world and Africa development indicator data for 37 years of 9 East African countries to study determinants of export. Descriptive result showed that Exports in East Africa remained low because domestic demand is high from high population of having low productivity. FDI is low. The pooled mean group estimation result shows that Real GDP of exporting and some importing countries, trade openness, labor supply, domestic demand and gross capital formation are variables which significantly affect export in East Africa in the short run. Similarly, Gross capital formation, Final consumption, foreign direct investment, real GDP of exporting countries, real GDP of importing countries and trade openness are variables that affect significantly export of East African countries in the long run. The study suggests that productivity of labor is too low and hence ways to improve is highly recommended. FDI though significantly affects Export both short run and long run is very low. Hence, ways to attract more FDI is highly recommended. Above all, Real GDP of both exporting and some importing countries significantly and positively affect export. Hence, both Supply side and demand side of export are equally important.
Ethnicity, Migration, And Entrepreneurship In Indonesia

Article History Published Online: publisher use only Extant studies demonstrate the vital roles of ethnicity group and culture influencing individual intention and decision to become an entrepreneur. Meanwhile, in the entrepreneurial decision, each ethnic group has different preferences regarding where to run it, at the origin or overseas. This study examines the roles of group ethnicity and culture in affecting the likelihood of an individual’s choosing entrepreneurship as their occupation using the combined data of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and the Population Census Report. Our findings substantiate that group ethnicity and culture significantly influence the likelihood of entrepreneurial decisions. Furthermore, using Javanese as a reference, we found the Balinese, Batak, Chinese, South Sumatran, and Minangkabau tend towards entrepreneurship. The difference is that the Balinese, Batak, Chinese, and South Sumatran tend to run their business around where they live, while the Minangkabau are overseas.
In vitro CALLOGENESIS OF MEDICINALLY IMPORTANT AYURVEDIC HERB Enicostema littorale BLUME

Purpose: The practice of in vitro culturing of medicinally important plants has gained much attention in enhancing the secondary metabolite production. In this perspective, the current study was carried out to promote a rapid and standard method for in vitro callogenesis of Enicostema littorale Blume using different explants. Research Methods: In vitro callogenesis of Enicostema littorale was done on Murashige and Skoog’s media. Explants were cautiously sterilised and later put on MS medium added with variable combinations and combinations of growth regulators and were maintained in culture room at temperature of 25 ± 2C with photoperiods of 16 h. The cultures were observed at regular intervals for callus initiation and results were recorded regularly. Findings: Maximum callus was yielded from nodal explants when Murashige and Skoog medium was added with various growth promoters (6-Benzylaminopurine and Kinetin -3.0 and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid -1.5 mg each followed by Kinetin-2.0 and Naphthyl Acetic Acid -0.5 mg) per liter amount of media. Similarly, it was also revealed from the present investigation that leaf explants proved better for callogenesis on MS media added with 6-Benzylaminopurine-3.0 and Naphthyl Acetic Acid -1.0 mg/l followed by Kinetin-1.5 and NAA0.5 mg/l. However, shoot tip explants weakly responded for callogenic induction during the present study. The present study while using combinations of growth regulators at different concentrations and combinations, all the selected explants responded distinctly. Value: The developed tissue culture protocol can be proved as rapid and reliable method for enhancing and extracting the secondary metabolite production, and as a landmark to meet the industrial need in the near future.
A RAPID AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA FROM SMALL AMOUNTS OF SOME FRUIT TREES

he plant mitochondrial genome is a source of potentially useful markers for studies of phylogeny and population genetics. The isolation of high quality mtDNA from plants containing a high content of polyphenolics has been a difficult problem because the presence of metabolites that interfere with DNA isolation procedures and downstream applications such as PCR and DNA restriction. The present study describes a rapid and easy protocol that provides mtDNA of sufficient purity from small amounts (milligrams to 1gram) leaves tissue from different species of fruit trees such as pear (Pyrus betulaefolia), apple (Anna), olive (Kalamata), mango (Sukkary), and banana (Grand Nain), containing a high content of polyphenolics. The purity of mtDNA was confirmed by PCR amplification of genomic, mitochondrial gene and RAPD profiles. The mitochondrial COXIII gene of 400 bp was amplified while the genomic β-actin gene was not amplified. The technique is fast, inexpensive, reproducible, and suitable for PCR-based markers.
Evaluating the role of nutri-priming in improving PEG-induced drought stress tolerance of stevia (Stevia rebuadiana Bertoni)

Poor germination and low seedling growth of stevia are common problems in the cultivation of the plant. Nutri-priming is a newest, safe, easy, and effective method to increase germination characteristics and seedling tolerance against stress. The objective in this study was to assess the effect of nutri-priming with nano potassium (nano-K), paclobutrazol (PBZ), and salicylic acid (SA) on stevia seed germination indices and physiological traits under drought stress conditions (0, -3, -6, and -9 bar; induced by polyethylene glycol 8000). Results indicated that germination indices (germination percentage and rate, mean germination time, seedling length, and seedling vigor index) and photosynthetic pigment contents (chlorophyll a, b, and total) were negatively affected by drought stress. While drought stress increased activity of antioxidant enzymes (peroxidase, catalase, and superoxide dismutase) and proline content. Seed nutri-priming with nano-K + SA + PBZ was the best treatment in improving germination traits and physiological characteristics. The highest germination percentage was related to seeds that were treated by nano-K + SA + PBZ under control and -3 bar drought treatments (62.4 and 64.0%, respectively). In all drought levels, the lowest amounts of germination percentage were found in unprimed seeds. The minimum germination percentage was obtained from unprimed seeds at -9 bar (29.05% reduction compared to unprimed seeds under the osmotic potential of 0 bar). As a result, this study indicated that the use of nano-K+SA+PBZ as a pre-sowing seed treatment can promote the poor germination performance of stevia and protect from negative impacts of drought stress.
Elliptic Curve Layered: A Secure Polyalphabetic Vignere Cryptographic Algorithm for Textual Data

: Digital content is unsecured during public data transmission. Cryptography is a technique to provide data security to transfer user’s information securely in a cloud computing environment without the intervention of a third party. Cryptographic methods provide data security and have become important nowadays to enhance the security of this digital data. Sensitive data and information when exchanged using the cloud services, lead to eavesdropping. Unauthorized access leads to data breach and various types of security attacks. A distributed network environment is very critical maintaining the confidentiality of the user’s data. Cloud services provide encryption and decryption of data while transfer using the TLS protocol. But to use this feature a trusted third-party source is needed. Thus, data security gets affected in such a cloud infrastructure. This paper discusses various issues with different classical cryptography techniques and proposed a hybrid approach using symmetric and asymmetric key algorithm. A new combination of Vignere cipher and Elliptic curve is proposed and implemented and the result is analysed based upon Friedman test and Index of Coincidence. The results show that the novel method provides double layer security to user’s data and information. More randomness and confusion have been added in the resulted ciphertext using the new scheme.
Analysis Of Factors Affecting Sme’s Performance With Financial Capital And Network Abilities As Mediation Variables

This study aims to determine the effect of entrepreneurship orientation and social capital on the performance of SMEs in the Garment industry in one of the largest city in the East Java Province in Indonesia, Madiun City. This research is an explanatory research with survey research design through quantitative approach. The population of this study are SMEs in the garment industry, specifically batik producers around Madiun City. Cluster sampling area was used as sampling technique where 160 SMEs were used as the final sample in this study. Structured questionnaire was used as data collection method, while SEM and Sobel Test were used to analyze the hypothesis. The results of this study indicate that all hypotheses proposed in this study are accepted. There is a significant effect of entrepreneurship orientation on networking ability, and social capital on financial capital. There is a significant effect of networking ability on SME performance, as well as financial capital on SME's performance. The results of the mediation analysis using the Sobel test show the mediating role of networking ability and financial capital on the influence of entrepreneurship orientation and social capital on the performance of SMEs. This research contributes to the SME performance literature, it provides a deeper understanding of SME performance which includes how financial capital, entrepreneurship orientation, social capital and networking, can collectively improve business performance.
Antioxidant and Ethnobotanical Study of Strychnos icaja Baillon (Loganiaceae) from Gabon

Aim: In plants, are found large amount of vitamin (A, B, C, E), mineral (Zn, Cu, Se) and biochemical (glutathione, taurine, phenol acids) substances which also have a well-known antioxidant power. These substances have phytotheraptic applications in the fight against aging caused by oxidative stress and are oxidative component of acute pathologies: (infectious, traumatic, inflammatory and allergic). Strychnos icaja Baillon (Loganiaceae) is a tropical shrub common in the tropical forest of Central Africa. Strychnos species is mainly used by the local population as an arrow or ordeal poison, for treatment of haemorrhoids and malaria by the Pygmies tribes from Cameroon due to its magic-medical property. This study determined the medicinal uses of Strychnos and assessed its antioxidant potential. Methodology: Extracts of alkaloids, aqueous, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane and butanol from Strychnos were evaluated for their antioxidant properties. An ethnobotanical survey of 20 traditional therapists was carried to obtain the medicinal uses of the root of Strychnos icaja. Results: 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) test shows good antiradical activity. Antioxidant activity by the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) test, show that Strychnos total alkaloids of the roots have a value of 5.94 ± 0.14mmol EAA/g that is significantly close from Ascorbic acid (5.86 ± 0.51 mmol EAA/g). The results of survey of traditional therapists identified six indications of this plant, namely in the treatment of haemorrhoids, against ear infections, male urethritis, rheumatic and dental pain and sterility in women. Conclusion: The Strychnos icaja possesses antioxidant activity, this can find use in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.