Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cash Holdings and Corporate Profitability: Some Evidences form Jordan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of cash holdings level on firms' profitability. Three simple regression models were used to examine the relationships between cash holdings and firms' profitability using a panel data of 65 non-financial firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period from 2000 to 2011. The results showed a positive significant relationship between cash holdings and profitability. This means that a good financial performance of the firm is an outcome of vast corporate cash holdings. This positive relationship reflected the beliefs of Jordanian firms' managers that the absence of effective liquidity management will cause cash shortages and will result in difficulties in paying obligations, which negatively affected the firm's profitability. This study contributes to the practical world. It helps firms in the markets of emerging countries in general and in ASE in particular, manages their liquidity and cash. Furthermore, the study helps firms hold the percentage of cash, which lead to efficient financial performance. This study encourages the future researches to find out the suitable strategies related to cash holdings.
GPU-Based Tracking Algorithms for the ATLAS High-Level Trigger

Results on the performance and viability of data-parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in the ATLAS Level 2 trigger system are presented. We describe the existing trigger data preparation and track reconstruction algorithms, motivation for their optimization, GPU-parallelized versions of these algorithms, and a “client-server” solution for hybrid CPU/GPU event processing used for integration of the GPU-oriented algorithms into existing ATLAS trigger software. The resulting speed-up of event processing times obtained with high-luminosity simulated data is presented and discussed.
Congenital anomalies of the uterus in riverine buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

The developmental defects of the tubular genital tract including ovaries, oviduct, uterus, cervix and vagina have been reported in cattle as well as buffalo. These defects cause infertility and even complete sterility. As such less information on these aspects in buffalo is available. The present study reported the morphological and histological diagnosis of two rare congenital abnormalities of the uterus i.e. uterus unicornis and uterus didelphys in riverine buffalo.
REDUCE THE RISK OF STOCK TRADING BY USING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS IN IRAN'S STOCK MARKET

One of the basic criteria for evaluating the performance of a stock portfolio is taking into account the return on investment with the rate of their risk. In this research, efficiency of 50 active companies of Tehran Stock Exchangeevaluated by moving average method with their appropriate risk. In measuring mentioned strategic risk, Fama and French three-factor developed model has been used toughlywhich is among the most important models. The results indicate significant effects of excess market efficiency, size of company and the ratio of book value to market value.In other words, the risk premium of price, size and value of market was predicted which with increasing the efficiency of stock in proportion to efficiency of government bonds, market efficiency also increase.And the risk premium of size and value has negative impact on efficiency of stock forecasting. With this observation, this research suggest forming a portfolio with zero cost by purchasing the highest portfolio of book value at market prices (BM) and selling lowest portfolio of book value at market prices (BM) by signals issued by Moving Average. Keywords: technical analysis, efficiency, risk, moving averages, Fama and French
THE ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS NEARBY GALAXY SURVEY TREASURY. IV. THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF NGC 2976

We present resolved stellar photometry of NGC 2976 obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) as part of the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) program. The data cover the radial extent of the major axis of the disk out to 6 kpc, or ∼6 scale lengths. The outer disk was imaged to a depth of MF606W ∼ 1, and an inner field was imaged to the crowding limit at a depth of MF606W ∼ −1. Through detailed analysis and modeling of the resulting color–magnitude diagrams, we have reconstructed the star formation history (SFH) of the stellar populations currently residing in these portions of the galaxy, finding similar ancient populations at all radii but significantly different young populations at increasing radii. In particular, outside of the well-measured break in the disk surface brightness profile, the age of the youngest population increases with distance from the galaxy center, suggesting that star formation is shutting down from the outside-in. We use our measured SFH, along with H i surface density measurements, to reconstruct the surface density profile of the disk during previous epochs. Comparisons between the recovered star formation rates and reconstructed gas densities at previous epochs are consistent with star formation following the Schmidt law during the past 0.5 Gyr, but with a drop in star formation efficiency at low gas densities, as seen in local galaxies at the present day. The current rate and gas density suggest that rapid star formation in NGC 2976 is currently in the process of ceasing from the outside-in due to gas depletion. This process of outer disk gas depletion and inner disk star formation was likely triggered by an interaction with the core of the M81 group ≳1 Gyr ago that stripped the gas from the galaxy halo and/or triggered gas inflow from the outer disk toward the galaxy center.
Experience-based co-design: A method for patient and family engagement in system-level quality improvement

Integrating patient and family member needs, wants and preferences in healthcare is of utmost importance. However, a standardized patient and family engagement model to understand these needs, wants and preferences in order to translate into high quality improvement activities is lacking. Experience based co-design (EBCD) is an approach that enables patients, family members and healthcare providers to co-design improvement initiatives together. In this study, EBCD was employed to: 1) assess the current state of information and educational resources at a local oncology center and 2) partner with patients, family members, and healthcare providers to create quality improvement initiatives targeting identified issues. Three focus groups were conducted: 1) patient and family member-specific, 2) healthcare providerspecific, and 3) all participants (including patients, family members and healthcare providers). Discussion questions were focused around current educational resources, barriers encountered throughout the cancer continuum, and recommendations for improvement. Six themes emerged from the two initial focus groups with patients and family members and healthcare providers: 1) patient-provider communication, 2) accessing information, 3) tailored information, 4) side effect information, 5) caregiver information, and 6) partners in care. Themes were presented to participants to ensure findings accurately depicted their experience and five quality improvement projects were created, aligning with the themes. This study provides an example of how EBCD helped to foster a safe environment, where patients, family members, and healthcare providers worked together in order to improve educational resources.
Tourism Loyalty: An Extended Communicative Action Model

The present study investigates tourists’ communicative action and its relationship with their loyalty towards destinations. Founded on the concept of communicative action in problem solving proposed by Kim, Grunig and Ni (2010) and drawn on the syntheses of literature about information behavior and tourism, the study suggests a conceptual model of loyalty-based communicative action in tourism. Three dimensions of communicative action are identified: acquisition, selection, and transmission of information. Tourists’ loyalty and its relationship with each dimension of communicative action are examined. This study proposes that the degree of these dimensions increase with higher levels of loyalty. The model further indicates that different patterns of communicative action would be observable among individuals with different levels of behavioral and attitudinal loyalty.
An extreme cytoplasmic bottleneck in the modern European cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) is not reflected in decreased levels of nuclear diversity

We have used the polymorphic chloroplast (cp) and nuclear simple sequence repeats (SSRs) to analyse levels of cytoplasmic and nuclear diversity in the gene pool of the European cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum). Primers designed from the complete chloroplast sequence of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) were used to amplify polymorphic products in a range of potato cultivars. Combining the data from seven polymorphic cpSSR loci gave 26 haplotypes, one of which (haplotype A) accounted for 151 out of the 178 individuals studied and corresponded to the T–type cytoplasm previously identified in cultivated potatoes using chloroplast restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Phylogenetic and diversity analyses of the relationships between cpSSR haplotypes confirmed much higher levels of cytoplasmic diversity outwith the T–type group. Diversity levels at eight nuclear SSR loci, however, were not significantly different between cytoplasmic groups, suggesting a severe maternal bottleneck in the evolution of the modern cultivated potato. These results highlight the importance in quantifying levels of cytoplasmic as well as nuclear diversity and confirm the need for a change in breeding practices to increase levels of non–T–type cytoplasm in the cultivated gene pool, thus helping reduce problems associated with pollen sterility. This may be facilitated by germplasm analysis using cpSSRs, which will allow efficient selection of diverse cytoplasm donors.
Physicochemical, microbiological and sensory characteristics of cashew milk formulated yoghurt

Cashew yoghurt was formulated using cashew kernel milk. The physicochemical, microbiological and organoleptic assessment of the resulting product was examined and compared with commercial yoghurts. Results indicated that crude protein of 16.8% for cashew milk yoghurt compared favorably with 14.82% of commercial yoghurt. Caloric value of cashew yoghurt (133.06 kJ) was higher than that obtained for commercial yoghurts (112.01 kJ). Microbiological study revealed a total count of 1x106 CFU/g, which was attributed to the culture used in the fermentation process. The cashew milk yoghurt was generally accepted by the panelist as there were no differences in the sensory characteristics examined; however, there was a difference at p> 0.05 for mouth feel for the sample studied. It can be concluded that cashew milk serves as a potential recipe for acceptable yoghurt formulation. Key words: Cashew kernel, yoghurt, sensory, protein, organoleptic.
Closing The Loop: Using Qualitative Assessment In The Continuous Quality Improvement Of The Succeed Coalition

One of the primary tenets of most approaches to total quality management is the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle. Under this system, teams should plan their activities, implement the plan, evaluate the implementation and make changes based on the evaluation before starting the process over. This paper aims to show how a qualitative assessment process used by the National Science Foundation sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition can be used to support the Check stage of the PDCA cycle. Specifically, we propose a Quality Management Support Model that outlines a 10-step process of evaluation and feedback that has been successfully used by the coalition to improve its management processes. The model is described and its use demonstrated through a case study.
Pricing-Based Primary-Secondary User Power Control Game for Cognitive Radio Networks

In cognitive radio networks, if the license spectrum that is allocated to the primary users (PUs) is not utilized, the unutilized spectrum can be used by the secondary users (SUs). This unutilized spectrum is called spectrum hole. However, when the SUs access the spectrum hole, they become source of interference to the others primary and secondary users. Interference temperature is the model, which used to manage the amount of interference that the PU can tolerate. Therefore, efficient power control is crucial to control the interference in the cognitive radio system and promote system quality. Previous works on power control are mainly focus on the SUs SIR maximization as the QoS requirements, ignoring the Primary User (PU). In this paper, PU is considered that has a general utility function, and a linear pricing function is used for SUs utility function. Pricing is an effective tool used to reduce the potential harmful effect of the system and guarantee the PU QoS. We formulated the power control game as a non-cooperative game, in which the first player is the PU. The number of SUs in the system is limited by the status of PU and its ability to achieve its QoS rather than used the interference temperature limits. The numerical results show that the proposed power control algorithm with pricing reduce the power consumed by PU and SUs terminals, and improved the utility functions of PU and SUs.
Optimal pricing and commitment in two-sided markets ∗

This paper proposes a model of Bertrand competition between platforms and analyzes the sustainability of dominant platform equilibria in two-sided markets with the following characteristics: i) platforms are essential bottlenecks for buyers (users) to access the products offered by sellers (developers); ii) sellers enter the market before buyers; iii) only sellers can multihome; iv) platforms can charge fixed fees on both sides and variable fees (royalties) to sellers. The central issue arising in such a context is the ability of platforms to credibly commit to the price they will charge buyers when they set their prices for sellers. The possibility of commitment changes the pricing game substantially by enlarging the set of pricing strategies available to platforms and we investigate its effect on the sustainability of dominant platform equilibria and resulting profits, both when sellers are bound to exclusivity and when they are allowed to multihome.
INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNICATION ON FACE BOOK: EXPLORING INTERACTION PATTERNS OF PERSONALITY AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES

The study is intended to explore individuals’ involvement and interaction on Facebook as an outcome of personality dimensions,and attachment styles. Participants (N=383) Facebook users included 60.3% females with an age range of 18-27 years (means = 22.47±2.91). Results suggested that extraversion (β=.12, p<.05) and neuroticism (β=.15, p<.05) predicted Facebook usage (intensity), and effects of neuroticism is moderated by secure attachment style (β interaction= - .23, p<.01). Social interaction on Facebook was predicted by extraversion (β=.14, p<.05) and the effects was moderated by secure attachment style (β interaction= -.16, p<.05). It is concluded that computer mediated communication on social networking sites is a complex phenomenon and shall be studied as a consequence of interaction between personal and environmental factors.
Nutritional labelling in the face of health-taste choices

In several countries, nutritional labelling is one of the tools being considered or already implemented by public authorities to attempt to modify consumer behaviour in the face of the health impacts of imbalanced diets. The results summarised here attempt to identify the interests and limits of these labelling approaches and to assess the existing or potential effects both on the demand side (modification of consumer choices) and on food supply (modification of corporate strategies). Descriptive labelling would seem to have a more modest, diffuse and longer-term impact on consumers who prefer short-term taste properties to nutritional impacts. Prescriptive labelling identifying “nutritionally healthy” products and products “to be limited” could have a more pronounced impact by helping reorientate consumer behaviour. However, its impact on the supply side depends on the practical terms of implementation; there is a risk of seeing the emergence of balances between supply and demand in which the changes in the former are cancelled out by the latter, without any significant nutritional improvement.
Shareholder wealth effects of listed property trusts` takeover activities

Event study has been widely applied to measure the effect of an economic event on the stock price of a firm and to test the efficiency of a stock market. In this paper, the authors use this method to study the effect of takeover activities that occurred among the Listed Property Trusts in the Australian Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2004. This research investigates the financial performance by daily stock prices and trading volumes, as well as the abnormal share returns throughout the period surrounding the announcement date of takeover activities. It concludes that takeover activities have a significant effect on Listed Property Trusts. Target firms obtained significant abnormal wealth for shareholders of 3.5 per cent mean during the examined period, while shareholders of the acquiring trusts did not benefit. INTRODUCTION Listed property trusts (LPTs) have been a successful indirect property investment vehicle in Australia. In November 2004, the LPT sector had total assets of over $100 billion, comprising over 1500 institutional-grade properties in diversified and sectorspecific portfolios (Property Investment Research, 2005). The LPTs currently account for over $73 billion in market capitalization, representing over 8 per cent of the total Australian stock market capitalization and making up 12 per cent of the world’s listed real estate assets (Australian Stock Exchange, 2006). They are among the most securitized in the world. With an annualized ten year return of 13 per cent (equities delivered a 10.5 per cent total return over the same period), the LPTs’ strong performance is seen as coinciding with the growing pool of superannuation funds. The first wave of consolidation began at the end of the 1990s, when the number of trusts shrank from 51 in 1992 to 37 in 2000, falling again to 34 in 2001. Some researchers
Systemic Estimation of Monetary Variables, Oil Price and Naira Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

This paper estimates Naira real exchange rate equilibrium viz-a-viz the US Dollar and its determinants by examining the existence of a significant long –run relationship between exchange rate, money (M2) supply, interest rate differentials and external reserves on high frequency data series over a 4-year period from 2008-2011. Vector Error Correction model was used to generate threshold for misalignment of exchange rate in this study. Empirical findings reveal that a rise in oil price leads to a real appreciation of the Naira, while M2 growth and rise in real interest rate differentials undermine real Naira/Dollar rate. Keywords: Real exchange rate, exchange rate misalignment, currency overvaluation, co-integration, unit roots test, vector error correction, the Balassa-Samuelson effect and causation tree.
Improved plasmids for gene targeting at the his-3 locus of Neurospora crassa by electroporation

We report two new plasmids, pBM60 and pBM61, and procedures to efficiently generate singlecopy transformants targeted to the his-3 locus in Neurospora crassa. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. This regular paper is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol44/iss1/13 Improved plasmids for gene targeting at the his-3 locus of Neurospora crassa by
BEAR: Benchmarking the Efficiency of RDF Archiving

There is an emerging demand on techniques addressing the problem of efficiently archiving and (temporal) querying different versions of evolving semantic Web data. While systems archiving and/or temporal querying are still in their early days, we consider this a good time to discuss benchmarks for evaluating storage space efficiency for archives, retrieval functionality they serve, and the performance of various retrieval operations. To this end, we provide a blueprint on benchmarking archives of semantic data by defining a concise set of operators that cover the major aspects of querying of and interacting with such archives. Next, we introduce BEAR, which instantiates this blueprint to serve a concrete set of queries on the basis of real-world evolving data. Finally, we perform an empirical evaluation of current archiving techniques that is meant to serve as a first baseline of future developments on querying archives of evolving RDF data. (authors' abstract)
Inventory of the volatiles on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta/ROSINA

The ESA Rosetta spacecraft (S/C) is tracking comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in close vicinity. This prolonged en- counter enables studying the evolution of the volatile coma composition. Aims. Our work aims at comparing the diversity of the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at large heliocentric distance to study the evolution of the comet during its passage around the Sun and at trying to classify it relative to other comets. Methods. We used the Double Focussing Mass Spectrometer (DFMS) of the ROSINA experiment on ESA’s Rosetta mission to determine relative abundances of major and minor volatile species. This study is restricted to species that have previously been detected elsewhere. Results. We detect almost all species currently known to be present in cometary coma with ROSINA DFMS. As DFMS measured the composition locally, we cannot derive a global abundance, but we compare measurements from the summer and the winter hemisphere with known abundances from other comets. Differences between relative abundances between summer and winter hemispheres are large, which points to a possible evolution of the cometary surface. This comet appears to be very rich in CO2 and ethane. Heavy oxygenated compounds such as ethylene glycol are underabundant at 3 AU, probably due to their high sublimation temperatures, but nevertheless, their presence proves that Kuiper belt comets also contain complex organic molecules.
Total polyphenol content and antioxidant properties of Solina (Triticum aestivum L.) and derivatives thereof

This study aims to characterize grains and derivatives of Solina, an Italian traditional winter soft wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Total polyphenol content and antioxidant properties were investigated in grains, whole flours and bread, both in aqueous-organic extracts and residues. Results showed the important contribution of hydrolysable polyphenols, isolated in the residue of the aqueous-organic extract, to antioxidant properties (over 90% in grains and derivatives), and the key role played by milling and baking in antioxidant properties. Moreover, the analysis of potentially bioactive antioxidants remaining in the residues showed to be required for a comprehensive determination of antioxidant capacity in cereals. The study highlights Solina represents a valuable Italian traditional wheat cultivar with proved antioxidant properties.