Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HEAVY METAL-RESISTANT RHIZOBACTERIA FROM GOLD MINE IN PONGKOR INDONESIA AND COPPER MINE IN MARINDUQUE PHILIPPINES

The purposes of the study was to isolate, to characterize, and to identify rhizobacteria from plant rhizosphere growing in gold and copper mine. The isolation of rhizobacteria used N-free semisolid agar media, TSA, and SLP plus heavy metals (HMs), namely Pb, Cd, and or Cu. Isolated rhizobacteria were subsequently characterized for resistance to higher level of Pb, Cd, Cu in SLP media. Cultural and morphological characterization of rhizobacteria were conducted for cell morphology, motility, Gram staining, and biofilm formation. The rhizobacteria identification used sequence analysis of the 16S RNA gene fragments. The results showed that the majority of rhizobacterial from Cu mine site (66.7% of 21 isolates) were resistant to Cu (72150 ppm) while the majority of rhizobacteria from gold mine site (77.8% of 18 isolates) were sensitive to 72 ppm Cu. Majority of Cu in the soil was insoluble as granules attaching to gravel so that rhizobacteria of Cu mine site have been exposed and adapted to available Cu. This fact, explaining that the rhizobacteria’s MIC value was lower than the total Cu level in the soil. Three HMs-resistant rhizobacter (PbSM 2.1, MGR 334, and CuNFbM 4.1) formed biofilms, which was as one of the resistance mechanism to HMs. This research informed that HM contaminated-soil is better source for obtaining HM resistant rhizobacteria than HM uncontaminated-soil. The use four isolation media produce rhizobacteria which was more diverse than rhizobacteria from each isolation medium. Further characterization needs to be done to obtain HM resistant-rhizobacteria which can be used as biofertilizers and phytoremediation agent.
The politics of CSR in Japan

The corporate governance (CG) system in Japan has long been relatively coordinated with long-term relationships between firms, owners and employees (Aguilera, Filatotchev, Gospel, & Jackson, 2008; Hall & Soskice, 2001; Yoshikawa, Tsui-Auch, & McGuire, 2007). However, the prevalence of non-market forms of interaction started to change in the late 1990s (Ahmadjian & Robbins, 2005; Jackson & Moerke, 2005), mostly due to a banking crisis and a discussion about the “modernity” of the Japanese economic system. Almost at the same time, around 2001, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) started to be diffused in Japan and steadily developed as legitimate activity of large firms (Mun & Jung, 2018; Suzuki, Tanimoto, & Kokko, 2010). Recent studies have investigated the rise of CSR, explain the rise from different theoretical angles. For instance, the rise of CSR is portrayed as a result of a global shift towards economic liberalism, privatization and deregulation and thus was a way to legitimate these shifts ex ante and ex post (Kinderman, 2012). Within corporatist countries, CSR has been described as a tool that was instrumentally used to challenge, reinterpret, or evoke institutionalized social solidarity (Hollerer, 2013). In contrast, Lim and Tsutsui (2012) highlight the role of global institutional pressure through nongovernmental organizations, activists, governments and international organizations that encourage CSR adoption and thereby highlight the role of the world society approach and isomorphic pressures.
Reduction of odour from garbage transport vehicle

Indian traditional method of garbage collection is very straight. It collects garbage and dump into dumping yards. This results into huge amount of economical losses and further treatment process become tedious. The waste disposal and treatment process starts at this stage which result in adopting more complex method and less success in its safe disposal. The problem of odour and gas ejection has become an issue. Dump yard stink unbearably which affect the surrounding settlement. This unwanted odour has to be eliminated at initial stage which may result in saving energy, money and time. In this project we are proposing reformed method to eliminate odour at the collection stage of garbage collection system by installing a gadget which will suck in the odorous gas, treat it and give out clear air.
Challenges in Administering Property Value Capture in Tanzanian Cities

Most of urban areas in Africa, including in Tanzania, are facing huge infrastructure gaps that require innovative financing mechanisms. Due to the rapid pace of urban development in Africa, land or property value capture could be one of the effective strategies for raising much-needed resources. The paper, using cases of two projects in the Dar es Salaam metropolitan area, examines how the preconditions of implementing land value capture instruments prevail in Tanzania. It evident from the analysis of the legal context and the projects, concerning the prevalence of supportive preconditions for applying value capture instruments, the laws and urban management practices are quite superfluous in their provisions and proposals such that they do not give the required force, although general mandates are there. Impliedly, the laws and practices were designed without a specific focus or outlook towards making applications of property value capture instruments possible. This is a critical area that requires intervention to improve the financing of urban development needs in Africa.
Plans that Disrupt Development: Equity Policies and Social Vulnerability in Six Coastal Cities

Urban plans often ignore the uneven impacts of hazards on socially vulnerable populations. We evaluate the degree to which equity policies in local networks of plans support risk reduction for socially vulnerable populations, and examine the relationship between equity policies scores and the level of social vulnerability in six cities exposed to floods and projected sea level rise. We find high variability in equity policy support for risk reduction, and that equity policies in plans actually actively increase risk of loss in neighborhoods with high levels of social vulnerability, which in turn could disrupt further development.
Financing Economic Growth in Greece: Lessons from the Crisis

We examine the existence of a feedback loop between the resilience of the financial sector and Greek economic activity. A sequence of structural VARs is employed using data for bank credit, liquidity, capital, asset quality and private demand in 2001-2018 in two data sets. One in monthly frequency with which we examine the determinants of credit provision by Greek banks, and another in quarterly frequency with which we examine the finance-growth nexus for the Greek economy. We find that (a) the deterioration in the quality of Greek banks’ balance sheets affected negatively the provision of credit to the economy, (b) central bank liquidity and recapitalizations of Greek banks provided only a partial remedy and (c) the decline in credit significantly weakened economic activity. Also, we find that there is a role for market financing of the economy but this cannot substitute for the predominantly bank-based financing. Therefore, as the Greek economy starts bouncing back Greek banks have an important role to play, first by solving the high NPLs problem and providing the necessary credit and second by improving the efficiency of capital allocation towards a sustainable growth model.
PERAN ORANG TUA DAN KETELADANAN GURU DALAM PENINGKATAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN AKHLAK SISWA MADRASAH IBTIDAIYAH

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis 1) Peran orang tua dalam pendidikan akhlak; 2) Keteladanan guru dalam pendidikan akhlak; 3) Mutu pendidikan akhlak siswa. Penelitian pada Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Syech Mansur Pandeglang. Metodologi penelitian menggunakan studi kasus. Responden penelitian 6 orang terdiri atas orang tua siswa, guru, siswa, kepala madrasah, dan wakil kepala madrasah. Isntrumen penelitian menggunakan wawancara. Teknik analisis data meliputi pengumpulan data, reduksi data, display data, verifikasi data dan penegasan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian sebagai berikut: 1) Peran orang tua dalam pendidikan akhlak meliputi: menasehati dengan lemah lembut, memberi contoh. Menanamkan kedisiplinan melakukan sholat dhuha, sholat dhuhur berjamaah. Membiasakan berdo’a, serta membiasakan mengaji Al-qur’an. 2) Keteladanan guru dalam pendidikan aklak meliputi: membiasakan senyum, salam, sapa, sopan, santun, bersikap sabar, tidak gampang marah, sholat Dhuha, Sholat berjamaah. Membiasakan berdoa sebelum mengerjakan sesuatu. Membiasakan selalu bertutur kata yang sopan dan baik terhadap orang lain; 3) Mutu pendidikan akhlak terlihat dengan selalu berpegang teguh pada nilai-nilai ajaran agama Islam, melaksanakan semua kebijaksanaan sesuai dengan aturan syariat Islam. Menjalankan salat lima waktu dengan tepat waktu. Segala perbuatan sesuai dengan peraturan. Terbiasa senyum, salam, sopan santun. Orang tua, guru dan pihak sekolah meningkatkan peran masing-masing dalam pembinaan aklak siswa, agar mutu akhlak siswa dapat terjaga dan ditingkatkan.
Fostering longevity attitudes in women expatriates: the role of general and targeted types of organizational support

Abstract Although organizational support has long been considered a cornerstone of expatriate success, more research is needed to understand how different types of support affect the career outcomes of women expatriates. We draw on strategic human resource management theory to show that organizations interested in gaining or maintaining a strategic competitive advantage should attend to the under-representation of women expatriates. We posit that general (i.e. perceived organizational support [POS]) and targeted (i.e. organizational cultural intelligence [OCQ], family-supportive work perceptions [FSOP]) support perceptions can foster a strategic advantage by addressing the barriers barring women from expatriate assignments. We use two samples to test a model wherein general and targeted support perceptions increase three longevity attitudes (i.e. commitment, career satisfaction, and community embeddedness) through adjustment. Results showed that POS did not significantly increase adjustment and subsequent longevity attitudes for men or women. Then, OCQ aided male employees’ adjustment (as did FSOP to a lesser degree), leading to heightened commitment, career satisfaction, and community embeddedness. Women, in contrast, were aided by FSOP, but not OCQ.
News Frame Analysis: An Inductive Mixed-method Computational Approach

ABSTRACT Framing is one of the most central, applicable, and contested theories in communication research. At the heart of the debate on framing is the question of operationalizing and measuring emphasis frames. We harness novel computational tools to propose a new method for inductive identification of frames. We argue and demonstrate that frame elements could be identified using topic modeling, and that frame elements can then be automatically grouped into frame “packages” using community detection techniques applied to the topic network. Building upon recent conceptual and methodological developments in framing research, we introduce a new approach, the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN). We demonstrate the applicability of our method in case studies where framing theory is developed and fairly consistent, and in exploratory ones where it is not, using three diverse U.S. news corpora: the coverage of political candidates in Senate races (n = 8,337 articles), foreign nations (n = 18,216), and infectious diseases and epidemics (n = 5,005). We conclude by discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of ANTMN.
Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker

This chapter advances an articulation of the contemporary knowledge worker as an infrastructural bricoleur. The practical and pragmatic intelligence of the contemporary knowledge worker, particularly those involved in project-based work, reflects an ability to build adaptable practices and routines, and to develop a set of working arrangements that is creative and event-laden. Like Ciborra’s octopi, workers augment infrastructures by drawing on certain forms of oblique, twisted, flexible, circular, polymorphic and ambiguous thinking until an accommodation can be found. These workers understand the non-linearity of work and working, and are artful in their pursuits around, through and beyond infrastructural givens. Modern knowledge work, then, when looked at through the lens of infrastructure and bricolage, is less a story of failure to understand, a limitation in training or the shortcomings of a system, but instead is more a mirror of the contemporary realities of today’s knowledge work drift as reflected in individuals’ sociotechnical practices.
A Study of News Recommender System using Natural Language Cloud Computing Services

The Natural language processing is widely used for opinion mining, in which text are processed based on the sentiments. Inworld of digital society, news is ranked on the basis of their liking, disliking and number of times the news have been shared on the cowed-source networks. To compete with the other competitor, it is now necessary for the newspaper organizations to share their latest news on the crowd-sourcing platform that user can circulate news in a fast and impact full way to other users. Hence, It is difficult for the company to read all posts and recommend news to other users. For this, an automatic mechanism or framework is required to analyze the comments placed on the crowed source networks. The natural language toolkit can play its role for analyzing the comments and recommend the news. In this research, we used Google cloud natural language API for analyzing comments placed on the crowed source platforms and recommend the news based on the user feedback.
Designing and Using Digital Mental Health Interventions for Older Adults: Being Aware of Digital Inequality

Worldwide, approximately 15% of the people older than 60 suffer from a mental disorder, such as depression and anxiety disorders (1). A total of 322 million people worldwide are affected. The prevalence rates vary by age and peaks in older adults (2). Modern devices, such as smartphones and tablets, can be used to provide digital interventions for various health-related issues. Digital interventions are promising in their ability to provide researchers, medical practitioners, and patients with a dynamic and individualizable tool for assessing behavior and behavioral change, consultation, treatment, and integrated care. These digital interventions can help patients manage their diseases or their general health as a form of disease prevention. This is particularly important in older people, as individuals often have to deal with highly complex interactions involved in managing their daily lives along with the consequences of a multitude of chronic diseases (3). Digital interventions can, for example, assess, control, and positively influence mental health and well-being among older patients (4). Particularly with regard to mental health, digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) appear to close a gap in healthcare provision. Many patients with mental health problems have to wait a long time to get an appointment for initial counseling or therapy; in rural areas, older patients may face long travel distances, and many people are still afraid of stigmatization and avoid therapy completely (5). Reviews and meta-analyses have shown the benefits of DMHIs, for example, for people with depression and anxiety (6–8). While DMHIs are becoming more important and popular, there exists a danger that older people will be excluded. When not comfortable with new technologies, older adults can experience barriers to accessing DMHIs, which might result in larger healthcare inequalities (9). This can happen if only already-advantaged populations use and benefit from these interventions. Therefore, this article will outline and discuss the problems in this field and make recommendations for future developments.
Examining intra-African tourism: A trade theory perspective

Background: Around the world, domestic and regional travel is considered the backbone of the tourism industry, with as much as 80% of international visitors within the same region, however, various factors permit or deter tourists to move around freely. The arguments of tourism promoting trade and vice versa, are both valid. Since trade can promote tourism in Africa it implies that regional integration is necessary to foster regional tourism.Aim: This article seeks to determine whether trade theory is able to explain intra-African tourism. This was done by applying four theoretical models of international trade to bilateral African tourism flows.Method: Using panel data from 25 African countries over a 10-year period, this research shows that intra-African tourism flows can best be explained by the gravity theory.Results: Cultural and geographic proximity, as well as the development of the destination country, dictates intra-African tourism. Additionally, African countries that already have an advantage in worldwide tourism receipts also benefit from intra-African tourism.Conclusion: This research contributes to a greater understanding of the determinants that attract African travellers to other African countries, which holds important implications for both policymakers and destination managers.
Does amazonian land use display market failure? An opportunity-cost approach to the analysis of amazonian environmental services

The article discusses whether deforestation in the Amazonian region should be considered a typical case of market failure and computes the opportunity cost of economic activities that promote deforestation relative to uses that keep the forest intact. For environmental resources threatened by Amazon deforestation, forms of productive land use (“opportunity” uses) are considered in terms of the net benefit values of primary land-based activities. The accounting exercise conducted in this study calculates the net benefit per hectare obtained from the direct use value (DUV) for different land use alternatives (timber, non-timber, livestock and agriculture); the indirect use value (IUV) related to carbon storage; and the non-use value (NUV) (existence value). The results show that the opportunity cost of deforestation in 2009 was positive for the most common land use, livestock activity. Such findings indicate a market failure. Nonetheless, this is not the only possible outcome when considering alternative land uses.
Assessment of the Potential and Current Limitations of Integrating CFD and Structural Analyses for the Design of Offshore Wind Turbines

While the need for electric energy grows over the years, the environmental impact is an important factor for the energy generation as well. Wind power plays a major role among the renewable energies nowadays. However, the available space onshore is restricted and complex terrain complicates the use of various areas even more. Among others this is one of the reasons why the use of offshore wind power stations becomes more attractive. Therefore, the assessment of offshore sites is an important aspect that may decide whether to place a wind plant or not. For this Computational Fluid Dynamics have become a popular approach over the past years replacing simpler spectral methods. In this study the modeling of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for the generation of an offshore environment using a Large Eddy Simulation was investigated. Overall it was found, that this method is able to reproduce the Atmospheric Boundary Layer well, especially when it comes to the mean velocity field. Nevertheless, inaccuracies were found considering the Reynolds stresses, especially the shear components. Moreover, the flow field obtained with the Large Eddy Simulation was compared to a spectral flow field and the dynamic response of two wind turbines was assessed using the aero-elastic solver FAST. The results of both methods are in close agreement to each other. Therefore, the integration of the aero-elastic solver FAST into the process of an analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics works well. Finally, the performance of the Actuator Disk and Actuator Line model was tested in Star-CCM+. The effect of these models on the flow field was investigated as well as the thrust and torque calculation. It was found that both models do not match the FAST results very well in terms of the torque prediction. However, the thrust calculation of the Actuator Line Model comes close to the results from FAST. Several aspects were outlined for further investigation.
Crustal S‐wave velocity structure across the northeastern South China Sea continental margin: implications for lithology and mantle exhumation

The northeastern margin of the South China Sea (SCS), developed from continental rifting and breakup, is usually thought of as a non‐volcanic margin. However, post‐spreading volcanism is massive and lower crustal high‐velocity anomalies are widespread, which complicate the nature of the margin here. To better understand crustal seismic velocities, lithology, and geophysical properties, we present an S‐wave velocity (V S) model and a V P/V S model for the northeastern margin by using an existing P‐wave velocity (V P) model as the starting model for 2‐D kinematic S‐wave forward ray tracing. The Mesozoic sedimentary sequence has lower V P/V S ratios than the Cenozoic sequence; in between is a main interface of P‐S conversion. Two isolated high‐velocity zones (HVZ) are found in the lower crust of the continental slope, showing S‐wave velocities of 4.0–4.2 km/s andV P/V S ratios of 1.73–1.78. These values indicate a mafic composition, most likely of amphibolite facies. Also, aV P/V S versus V P plot indicates a magnesium‐rich gabbro facies from post‐spreading mantle melting at temperatures higher than normal. A third high‐velocity zone (V P : 7.0–7.8 km/s;V P/V S: 1.85–1.96), 70‐km wide and 4‐km thick in the continent‐ocean transition zone, is most likely to be a consequence of serpentinization of upwelled upper mantle. Seismic velocity structures and also gravity anomalies indicate that mantle upwelling/ serpentinization could be the most severe in the northeasternmost continent‐ocean boundary of the SCS. Empirical relationships between seismic velocity and degree of serpentinization suggest that serpentinite content decreases with depth, from 43% in the lower crust to 37% into the mantle.
Defining a Reliable Multi-Period Project Rate of Return. An Alternative to IRR.

In this paper, we lay out theoretical shortcomings of the IRR criteria that have largely dropped out of the finance literature. We discuss the problem of multiple IRRs and non-existent IRR under a new light. We also discuss the financial ambiguity that can arise when interpreting the IRR. Then, we describe two new rate of return metrics proposed by Magni (2010, 2013). These include the Book Average Internal Rate of Return (BAIRR) and the Economic Average Internal Rate of Return (EAIRR). These revised rate of return metrics rely on different assumptions about the pattern of changes to the value of an investment over its economic life. The result is a multi-period rate of return measure that is free of the limitations of the IRR and is consistent with net present value (NPV). The approach links NPV and the rate-of-return notion in an explicit and intuitive way, such that the NPV may be found as a product of the overall invested capital and the project’s expected rate of return (net of the cost of capital). Consequently, for those settings in which a rate of return measure is needed, the two metrics provide alternatives that can be used.