Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Jurnal Teknologi Stock Market Reaction to Corporate Real Estate Divestitures and Acquisitions during the Global Financial Crisis

Real estate divestitures and acquisitions (D&A) are conducted as part of corporate restructuring. This study aims to fill the knowledge gap on abnormal stock market returns (AR) toward D&A activities during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in a developing country. Malaysian listed non-real estate companies that conducted D&A during the GFC are used as sample. Event study is applied to determine AR surrounding D&A announcements within (-10day, +10day) event window. Results for both D&A announcements shows insignificant AR on and around announcement date (-1 to +1). For preannouncement, divesting (acquiring) companies obtain negative (positive) AR, signifying that the market does not favor (favor) divestitures (acquisitions) due to leakage of information. The outcome of postannouncement proves that divesting companies continue to experience negative ARs, although most divesting companies were paid premium prices. However, acquiring companies experience significant and negative post-announcement AR. This is probably due to the price premium which most acquiring companies paid exceeding valuation for their acquisitions. In summary, the market disapproves divestitures in general and acquisitions of real estate assets exceeding their valuations during economic recessions.
Dynamic Image Stitching for Panoramic Video

The design of this paper is based on the Dynamic image titching for panoramic video. By utilizing OpenCV visual function data library and SIFT algorithm as the basis for presentation, this article brings forward Gaussian second differenced MoG which is processed basing on DoG Gaussian Difference Map to reduce order in synthesizing dynamic images and simplify the algorithm of the Gaussian pyramid structure. MSIFT matches with overlapping segmentation method to simplify the scope of feature extraction in order to enhance speed. And through this method traditional image synthesis can be improved without having to take lots of time in calculation and being limited by space and angle. This research uses four normal Webcams and two IPCAM coupled with several-wide angle lenses. By using wide-angle lenses to monitor over a wide range of an area and then by using image stitching panoramic effect is achieved. In terms of overall image application and control interface, Microsoft Visual Studio C# is adopted to a construct software interface. On a personal computer with 2.4-GHz CPU and 2-GB RAM and with the cameras fixed to it, the execution speed is three images per second, which reduces calculation time of the traditional algorithm.
Misperceptions about capitalism, government and inequality

Prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century, human history was marked by an era of Malthusian economic stagnation. Living standards in the most prosperous contemporary Western economies grew very little from 1 to 1500 AD. Real GDP per capita increased by about one-third (0.02 percent annually) in the 30 Western European nations, while it remained unchanged in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States prior to European colonization. With the rise of Atlantic trade, living standards in Western Europe would increase by nearly 30 percent over the next two centuries (0.13 percent annually), while growing by nearly 20 percent (0.09 percent annually) in the 4 Neo-European nations. The growth of Atlantic trade played a vital role in the development and spread of liberal economic and political institutions throughout Western Europe and its colonial offshoots (Acemoglu et al., 2005). In Chapter 8, Heckelman further discusses institutional convergence; commentary in Chapter 7 by Clark and Lee is also interesting and relevant. The development of liberal institutions such as free trade, private property rights, the rule of law, and limited government created an economic environment that incentivized investment, innovation, and mutually beneficial trade, planting the seeds for the rise of market-based capitalism. The emergence of market capitalism has been interpreted as a robust cause of the Industrial Revolution (Landes, 1998; North and Thomas, 1973). Over the period 1700 to 1850, real income per capita rose by nearly 60 percent (0.30 percent annually) in Western Europe and by 270 percent (0.88 percent annually) in the 4 Neo-European nations. Economic development would continue to accelerate in the West over the next century, as living standards increased at annual rates of 1.1 and 1.7 percent in Western Europe and the Neo-European nations, respectively,
J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol., 45, 263–267 (1999)

vent-producing Clostridium spp. strains was among the first large-scale fermentation processes developed (Jones and Woods, 1986). Commercial production of acetone and butanol by fermentation began with the Weizmann process (Jones and Woods, 1986; Walton and Martin, 1979). The Weizmann organism was used extensively to produce acetone from maize mash during World War I. From the late 1930s, molasses was used as the carbon substrate in solvent production by fermentation, and newly isolated bacteria were needed to produce solvents from sugars under practical conditions. For patent purposes, each new strain was assigned a novel species name, but the nomenclature adopted was not systematic and was applied in a haphazard manner (Ross, 1961; Ryden, 1958). In 1926, McCoy et al. performed a comparative study of 11 starch-utilizing strains (McCoy et al., 1926). These investigators concluded that small phenotypic variations occurred in these strains, but all 11 strains should be grouped in a single species named C. acetobutylicum (McCoy et al., 1926). Weyer and Rettger (1927) also performed a comparative study of six different starch-utilizing, solvent-producing strains belonging to C. acetobutylicum and selected one of these strains, ATCC 824, which was isolated from Connecticut garden soil in 1924, as the type strain of the species (Weyer and Rettger, 1927). Thus almost all historic strains of solvent-producing clostridia available from major culture collections have been listed as C. acetobutylicum. Recently, several strains of C. acetobutylicum were subjected to detailed biochemical, physiological, and genetic analysis, and these results indicated that some of these strains were actually C. beijerinckii based on the DNA-DNA reassociation method (Johnson et al., 1997). Earlier results of 16S rDNA analysis showed that C. acetobutylicum was closely related to C. beijerinckii (Collins et al., 1994; Hutson et al., 1993; Lawson et al., 1993), but these studies used a culture of C. acetobutylicum that was later identified as C. beijerinckii. On the other hand, many solvent-producing bacteria that have characters different from those of C. acetobutylicum were isolated and named. For example, “C. butanologenum” (Asai and Haruta 1943) JCM 7833, “C. butyricum var. convexa” (Sugama) JCM 7839, “C. isopropylicum” (Sugama) JCM 7844, 7845, and “C. pectinolyticum” (Prevot 1957) JCM 7847 were newly isolated, assigned a novel species name, and added to culture collections of the Japan Collection of Microorganisms (JCM) and Institute of Applied Microbiology (IAM). These invalid species are solvent-producing clostridia with different characters, but their taxonomic positions are not clear. These solvent-producing clostridia were characterized, and 16S rDNA sequences were used to determine their taxonomic positions. To identify strains of a species, we used DNA-DNA reassociation to analyze five solvent-producing clostridia. Assignment of the six solvent-producing Clostridium spp. to Clostridium beijerinckii based on DNA-DNA reassociation
A Lexisearch Algorithm for the Distance-Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem

The vehicle routing problem (VRP), belongs to the class of NP-hard problems, is considered as one of the most difficult problems. The problem aims to serve a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles that can be defined as to find an optimal set of tours with minimum cost to connect the depot to n customers with m vehicles, such that every customer is visited exactly once; every vehicle starts and ends its tour at the depot. Out of many variations of the problem, we consider here distance-constrained VRP (DVRP) where the total travelled distance by each vehicle in the solution is less than or equal to the maximum possible travelled distance. The problem has many applications in real-life and no any polynomial time exact algorithm is available to solve the problem, and even small sized instances may require long computation time. However, there are some situations where exact solution is required. Therefore, we look for exact solution to the problem, and accordingly, we develop a lexisearch algorithm to obtain exact solution to the problem, and present solution for the DVRP using some TSPLIB instances of various sizes.
A Survey of Identification of Plant Disease Using Image Processing Techniques and Chameleon Clustering Method

This work presents overview of different methods to find plant diseases based on leaf characteristics. If these plant diseases are not identified at appropriate time then that can be result into less agriculture productivity. Sometimes even Farmers find it difficult to detect disease in plant. Using image processing, we can detect disease easily using various clustering methods. These methods are only used for detection of diseases using leaves and 65-75 % diseases are on leaves of plant. Here, analysis on different clustering methods i.e. Known Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), K-means and K-Medoid is done which are being used in process for detection of disease. Basic steps includes image acquisition, image preprocessing, feature extraction and statistical analysis and classification based on classifier. All three classification methods detects diseases successfully, But accuracy is different.
The Relationships among Servant Leadership, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Person-Organization Fit and Organizational Identification in Fars Quality Cooperation

This study proposes that there is a relationship between servant leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and that person-organization fit and organizational identification moderate that relationship. Eighty participants completed a cross-sectional self-report survey. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that servant leadership behavior partially predicts organizational citizenship behaviors and that person-organization fit and organizational identification partially moderate the relationship between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. One implication is that leaders who want to encourage citizenship behaviors among employees would do well to model those same behaviors toward others.
Air pollution in hills from the proposed Gloucestershire incinerator

We use AERMOD to model emissions from the proposed Gloucestershire incinerator and compare the resulting predictions with those in the original Air Quality Assessment [1]. Our predictions are in very good agreement with those of [1]. One difference is the direction of the most polluted area, caused by the difference between the wind direction in Bristol (used by [1]) and in Gloucestershire (used by us). The other difference is the level of pollution on the hills to the east of the incinerator. We predict higher pollution in these hills, which (in particular) causes the nitrogen deposition rate in the Cotswold Beechwoods to exceed 1% of the critical level. It also causes some elevated towns and villages (including Edge, Randwick, and Minchinhampton) to join the list of places most affected by the incinerator pollution.
Detoxification of Olive Mill Wastewater Using the White Rot Fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium

Olive mill wastewater (OMWW) is the black liquid byproduct of the olive extraction process. It isestimated that 10-30 million m3 of OMWW are produced each year. Despite that OMWW contains plantnutrients; it is considered one of the most pollutants affecting soil and water. The high phenoliccompounds found in Olive mill wastewater prevent its direct disposal into the environment. Treatment ofOMWW is very important in many European and Mediterranean countries. Current physic-chemicalprocesses are not practical in decreasing the high toxicity of OMWW. The use biological bioremediationmight provide a suitable alternative in proper treatment of the effluents. In this work the white rot fungusPhanerochaete chrysosporium was used in detoxifying Olive mill wastewater. The fungus was able togrow on undiluted OMWW. Spectrophotometric studies revealed that after two weeks of treatment, totalphenols were reduced by 60.1% compared to untreated OMWW. Interestingly, the toxicity of OMWWwas significantly reduced. Barley seeds irrigated with Olive mill wastewater treated with the fungusshowed 81.6% seed germination. Keywords: Fungi, Environment, Phenolic compounds, Pollution, Olive oil mill wastewater,Bioremediation
Phylogenetic Analysis of the North American Beetle Genus Trichiotinus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Trichiinae)

A hypothesized evolutionary history of the North American endemic trichiine scarab genus Trichiotinus is presented including all eight species and three outgroup taxa. Data from nineteen morphological traits and CO1 and 28S gene sequences were used to construct phylogenies using both parsimony and Bayesian algorithms. All results show that Trichiotinus is monophyletic. The best supported topology shows that the basal species T. lunulatus is sister to the remaining taxa that form two clades, with four and three species each. The distribution of one lineage is relatively northern while the other is generally more southern. The ancestral Trichiotinus lineage arose from 23.8–14.9 mya, and east-west geographic partitioning of ancestral populations likely resulted in cladogenesis and new species creation, beginning as early as 10.6–6.2 mya and as recently as 1.2–0.7 mya. Morphological character evolution is also briefly discussed. The limited distribution of T. rufobrunneus in Florida and T. viridans in the Midwest mainly due to urban development and widespread agriculture makes these two species of conservation concern.
Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in an Anxiety Group: primary care result evaluation

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a therapeutic group based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the care of the person with anxiety disorder in the primary health care network. 12 women aged 20 to 49 years started treatment and 11 completed it three months after the beginning of the intervention. Data were collected using the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale. Statistical analyses based on the method proposed by Jacobson and Truax (JT) revealed that the most part of the participants presented a reliable positive change after the intervention. Therefore, it was concluded that the use of both instruments proved to be a facilitator of the management and structuring of the activities of the therapeutic group since the results provided a situational diagnosis. Another point to be highlighted concerns about the reliability of the results obtained from the JT Method with all the respective parameters.
Fundamental And Induced Biases In Technological Change In Central Canadian Agriculture

A new procedure is developed to estimate innovation possibility frontiers and test for biases in technological change. Using data on four inputs (land, machinery, chemicals and labour) from central Canada (Ontario and Quebec) over the period 1926-1985, we find that the innovations possibilities frontier shifts neutrally over time. This is consistent with Ahmad's model of induced innovations, but is not consistent with de Janvry's application of Ahmad's model to the historical development of Argentine agriculture. Agricultural research in Canada has been conducted with the objective of developing cost minimizing technologies. Empirical support was found for this notion in the development of the innovation possibilities frontier.
European Regional Policy and Development in Greece: Do Statistics Justify the Investments?

The study presented in the paper attempts to examine if the alleged effectiveness of the developmental funds - one of the main strategic tools of the EU - can be traced in the typical statistics provided by various authorities and organizations. The study focuses in the case of funds used in Greece during a period of years and it tries to provide insight in the issue, based on statistical and empirical data analysis methodologies. Available information regarding European programmes and corresponding funds is charted and linked to relevant official statistical data provided by Greek national authorities and Eurostat. Selected sectoral and regional actions are analyzed based on an optimal match between funding objectives and official statistics. The results, both statistical and empirical, appear to support the argument: assessment of EU regional policy based on statistics does not seem to be a conclusive method of evaluation. Keywords: EU funds, regional development, developmental statistics, policy effectiveness, territorial cohesion, policy evaluation
Automatic Melodic Transcription of Flamenco Singing

Background in ethnomusicology and music analysis. Melody in flamenco music is characterized by the presence of microtonality, pitch glides (portamenti or smooth transitions), a short pitch range or tessitura (usually limited to a range of a sixth and characterized by the insistence on a note and its contiguous ones), the use of enharmonic scale (having microtonal intervallic differences between enharmonic notes), a Baroque ornamentation (with an expressive function) and the use of a Greek Dorian mode in the most traditional songs (Fernandez 2004).
Muscle cellularity and flesh quality of wild and farmed sea bass , Dicentrarchus labrax

Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) has been widely farmed in the last decade. In order to a better understanding of the final quality of this species, muscle cellularity and quality parameters of the flesh were studied on 14 specimens of wild and 11 farmed Atlantic sea bass, at approximate commercial size (weight 350 g, length 32 cm). White muscle cellularity was evaluated by means of the following parameters: number and diameter of muscle fibres, as well as the muscle fibre size distribution, throughout the total cross-section of the flesh. To ascertain the flesh quality, several physico-chemical parameters (moisture, protein, total fat, fatty acids, hydroxyproline, collagen and pH) were analyzed, and textural mechanical properties (hardness, springiness, chewiness, cohesiveness, gumminess) were determined objectively with a texturometer. Muscle cellularity was different between both groups, such that muscle fibre density was higher for wild specimens ( p b0.05). Farmed sea bass showed a higher content of moisture and protein ( p b0.01), and a lower flesh pH, and hydroxyproline and collagen contents ( p b0.01). Despite of the fact that the total fat did not show significant differences between both populations, saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids were significantly higher in farmed than in wild sea bass, whereas wild fish showed a higher content of polyunsaturated fatty acids ( p b0.05). No significant differences were found in the total content of N 3 fatty acids between both groups. All textural properties were significantly higher in wild than in farmed fish ( p b0.001), all of them show a positive and significant correlation with muscle fibre density, pH, hydroxyproline and collagen contents. Changes in these parameters determined marked differences in the flesh quality of wild and farmed sea bass, whereas no relationship was found between muscle cellularity and nutritional composition of the sea bass. According to our results, genetic factors as well as the influence of extrinsic factors such as feeding regimes and/or exercise may determine significant variations of some structural and flesh quality parameters of the sea bass. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and salinity: the effects of NaCl on population growth.

Salinity is an important abiotic variable prevalent in aquatic habitats and can have an effect on population growth, including that of algae. The effect of salinity on the population growth of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was investigated using NaCl. The null hypothesis assumes that as salt concentration increases the growth of C.reinhardtii will remain the same as initial cell concentration. One alternative hypothesis is that as salinity increases the growth of the organism decreases. Lastly, our other alternative hypothesis states that as salinity increases so will the growth of the organism. We grew C. reinhardtii under four different NaCl concentrations (0µM, 100µM, 150µM, and 200 µM), taking samples six times non-consecutively over a period of two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, we used a haemocytometer to count cells. For our analysis, we performed a two-way ANOVA on the cell count data after two weeks to determine whether the differences in growth due to increased salinity was significant. we found that the effect of salinity on growth is significantly different in our control group which experienced exponential growth (p= 6.373 x 10^-14, at 0.05 significance level). For 100µM concentration, some significant growth was observed for specific treatments while for both 150µM and 200µM concentrations, no significant growth occurred. The data suggests that C. reinhardtii can grow in very little salt concentration, but exponential growth only occurs in the absence of NaCl. The implications of the experiment are discussed.