Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Engagement in Green Procurement: Antecedents and Outcomes on Manufacturing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from Iran

Implementation of green procurement principles in the public and private sectors is an important issue in favour of sustainable development. This correlational survey aimed to identify and analyse the antecedents and outcomes of the adoption of product-based green procurement practices in manufacturing smalland medium-sized enterprises. Accordingly, the statistical population consisted of all manufacturing smalland medium-sized enterprises operating in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, among which 120 samples was selected, using the complete enumeration sampling method. Managers of these manufacturing companies are more aware of the status of their respective company than anyone else; therefore, senior managers, middle managers, and supervisors were selected as the participants. The collected data was analysed using Smart-PLS software. Based on the findings, environmental concern, employee competency, motivation and rewards had significant positive effects on the adoption of product-based green procurement practices. However, there was no significant relationship between customer pressure and green procurement. The adoption of product-based green procurement practices also had a significant positive effect on corporate performance, market performance, social performance, and environmental performance. The findings and suggestions of the present study can provide marketers and managers with an insight to improve the performance of their respective manufacturing enterprise.
Critical analysis of the role of innovative capabilities on firm performance: Evidence from the University of Cape Coast administration in Ghana

Background: The increasingly competitive business environment has made it imperative for organisations to put in place systems and processes that will guarantee appreciable firm performance in the interest of its stakeholders. To this end, several solutions have been developed to ensure that desired firm outcomes are achieved despite the dynamics of competition. However, critical review of extant literature reported mixed results on the innovative capabilities of firms and their performance nexus. Therefore, this article explored the role of innovative capabilities on the performance of firms with the University of Cape Coast as a case study. Aim: This paper explored the role of innovative capabilities on the performance of firms with the evidence from the University of Cape Coast. Setting: The research was carried out in Ghana to assess innovative capabilities and performance relationship among institutions of higher learning with evidence from the University of Cape Coast. Methods: Using a descriptive research design, the study collected data from 250 administrative staff in the university of Cape Coast. The findings of the study confirmed that the administrative staffs of the University of Cape Coast have embraced innovation at different levels of operations. Results: The findings indicate that innovation in the organisation is able to promote high team spirits, risk taking, productivity, low resistance to change, competitive advantage, increase market share, increase productivity among staffs, growth and profitability of educational institutions, creates loyalty towards the institution’s services, and makes teaching and learning convenient. Conclusion: It was concluded that there have been some innovations in University of Cape Coast and so much of such innovations would make teaching and learning more convenient, lead to higher competitive advantage and market share and boosting overall performance.
Antifungal Activity in Urginea indica Kunth. (Asparagaceae)

Aqueous extract of Urginea indica kunth. (Udupi acccession) was screened for antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Magnaporthe orzae, Aspergillus flavus, Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus niger and Fusarium moniliformae by poisoned food technique. The results confirmed Urginea indica extracts showed very significant antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum and showed significant inhibition for Sclerotium rolfsii and Magnapothea orzaea it showed no activity against Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus flavus. All the activity was evaluated to determine the lowest concentration required to inhibit visible mycelial growth of the pathogen at minmum concentration. Fusarium oxysporum showed very significant inhibition in 10% concentration (Reconfirmed) while Sclerotium showed significant inhibition in 25% concentration followed by Magnoporthe oryzae. The number of sclerotia spores formed was also reduced drastically. These results show that a potential and safe antifungal agent can be obtained from Urginea. Original Research Article Mohana et al.; EJMP, 31(2): 18-23, 2020; Article no.EJMP. 54974 19
SemantiLynx: Using Context Based Icons for Web Navigation and Directed Search Tasks

Typical web navigation techniques tend to support undirected web browsing, which is a depth-ﬁrst search of information pages in hyperspace. This search strategy often results in the unintentional and often undesirable behavior of ‘web surf-ing’, where a user starts in search of some information, but is sidetracked by tangential links. A mobile user in particular would prefer to extract the desired information quickly and with minimal mental effort. In this work, we introduce the concept of ‘SemantiLynx’ to visually augment hyperlinks on web pages for better supporting the task of directed searches on both desktop and mobile platforms.
The Determinates of Revisit Intentions in Wine Cultural Event: The Moderating Role of Experience Authenticity

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perspectives of attendees on experience authenticity of a wine culture event to assess what drives their revisit intentions. A questionnaire survey was undertaken for collecting data at a wine cultural event held at Yibin. A total of 529 valid samples were received for the further hypotheses testing. The results showed that both perceived value and event satisfaction were key antecedents of revisit intentions and the moderating role of experience authenticity was confirmed. Finally, the manageable results for wine culture event managers and future researchers were drawn.
Isolation and characterization of chemical constituents, cytotoxicity, antibacterial and antioxidant activity of the isolates, crude extract from Hornstedtia scyphifera var leaf

Hornstedtia scyphifera var belongs to ginger family, they are most of time used as spices for cooking, preservatives in food industry and colouring agents. It provides health-promoting effects to cutile certain diseases and ailment such as stomach-ache, Catarrh, asthma, diarrhoea, cold and cough, digestive disorder and rheumatism. In this study, we isolated phytochemicals and investigated the potentials of the leaf crude extract of hexane, dichloromethane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol, cytotoxicity, antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The experiment was performed and two phytochemicals (quercetin and Dodecanoic acid) were isolated and characterised. Significant result was obtained from the isolated compounds and solvent crude extract with hexane and methanol have higher cytotoxicity of 35.462 and 34.059, chloroform and methanol with higher antioxidant of 34.46±0.32 and 35.33±0.210. There was an observed significant activity at 500 μg/mL in all the extracts against all the selected pathogen with zone of growth inhibition ranging from 07.70 + 27.30 mm to 27.30 ± 0.10 mm in all the solvent extract. The result indicated that with the isolation of quercetin and dodecanoic acid from Hornstedtia scyphifera var Leaf extract is a potential plant medicine which can be harnessed as an agent for antioxidant and potential antibacterial. The compound was isolated for the first time from Hornstedtia scyphifera var.
Dubbing Viewers in Cyberspaces: A Netnographic Investigation of the Attitudesof a Persian-language Online Community

It appears that online communities have provided a free and user-friendly platform for users to do many real-time pieces of stuff from doing translations to discuss translations. The field of translation studies has begun to investigate these online virtual environments for varied perspectives. Nevertheless, the existing research has mainly addressed fansubbing communities. The present investigation, however, analyzed a Persian-language online community where its users exchanged comments and shared ideas regarding dubbing in Iran. For the purposes of this study, netnography, as a reliable research method within the marketing discipline and communication studies, was employed to study the community and its members. The collection and analysis of posts and comments from this online community yielded new insights into Persian dubbing and how Iranian dubbing audiences view Persian dubbing. On another level, the study provided evidence supporting the application of netnography as a methodological tool in investigating reception in audiovisual translation.
Effect of Salinity on Growth and Some Photosynthetic Pigments of Improved Population in Puccinellia ciliata (Poaceae)

Puccinellia (Puccinellia ciliata Bor.) fairly resistant to salinity and used as forage for livestock in China, Australia, and Turkey. In this study, our objective was to determine the effects of salinity on growth and various photosynthetic pigments of an improved population of Puccinellia via recurrent selection. To accomplish this, effects of salinity on seedlings growth of homogenous Puccinellia was examined, one week after emerging of radicle from seeds. Seeds were germinated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium with 6% agar. Seedling growth was studied under different levels of NaCl salinity (0, 10, 20, 30, 40 μS/cm). Salinity applications were carried out for 6 weeks. Cultures were maintained in growth chambers at 24±2oC and 16/8 light/dark conditions. Germination was scored during 2 weeks after culture initiation. The experiment was performed in a completely randomized Original Research Article Yavas et al.; CJAST, 39(1): 64-70, 2020; Article no.CJAST. 54317 65 design with three replicates. Plant growth parameters such as the number of radicle and tillers, maximum radicle and shoot length, plants fresh and dry weights were investigated. Photosynthetic pigments such as total chlorophyll, chlorophyll a, b, chlorophyll a/b ratio, total carotenoid, βcarotene, lutein and neoxanthin were examined. The maximum values for tiller number per plant, the maximum length of shoot and chlorophyll b were found in the 20 μs/cm, while the maximum length of the radicle was recorded at 10 μs/cm NaCl treatment. It was concluded that low salinity levels (10-20 μS/cm) increased seedling growth, while high salinity levels (30 and 40 μS/cm) inhibited the growth significantly. These results indicate that P. ciliata is a promising salt-tolerant and can be grown productively under low to moderate saline conditions between 10-20 μs/cm.
StABLE: Making Player Modeling Possible for Sandbox Games

Digital games are increasingly delivered as services. Understanding how players interact with games on an ongoing basis is important for maintenance. Logs of player activity offer a potentially rich window into how and why players interact with games, but can be difficult to render into actionable insights because of their size and complexity. In particular, understanding the sequential behavior in-game logs can be difficult. In this thesis, we present the String Analysis of Behavior Log Elements (StABLE) method, which renders location and activity data from a game log file into a sequence of symbols which can be analyzed using techniques from text mining. We show that by intelligently designing sequences of features, it is possible to cluster players into groups corresponding to experience or motivation by analyzing a dataset containing Minecraft game logs. The findings demonstrate the validity of the proposed method, and illustrate its potential utility in mining readily available data to better understand player behavior.
Spatial and temporal fluctuations in bacterioplankton and correlated abiotic variables in eutrophic environments of the Brazilian semi-arid region

During the dry and rainy periods, fluctuations on bacterioplankton and trophic state indexes were studied in lotic and lentic environments of the Piranhas-Assu river hydrographic basin. Mean total bacterial densities varied in a magnitude from 106 to 107 organisms mL–1 and, they were higher in the rainy period (t-Test: p = 0.0025). No significant variation of bacterioplankton occurred between sampling sites. Cocci bacteria were numerically predominant in all sampling stations, affecting the total abundance of bacterioplankton. Total bacterial biomass varied from 659 to 1,997.3 μgC. L–1 due to the high values of filament cellular volume. Total phosphorus amounted to 108 μg. L–1 and presented a positive correlation with chlorophyll “a” (r = 0.94; p < 0.05) during dry periods, when presented higher concentrations. Low transparency of water and phosphorus and chlorophyll concentrations indicated eutrophic or hypereutrophic levels in the studied stations of reservoir. Considering this condition, associated with high density and biomass values found, it is necessary a constant monitoring of the semi-arid aquatic ecosystems, since the quality of water is affected by drought occurrence.
JPL Document D-64843 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXOPLANET MISSONS Technology Milestone White Paper Hybrid Lyot Coronagraph Technology – Linear Masks

ACCESS is one of four medium-class mission concepts selected for study in 2008/9 by NASA’s Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concepts Study program. In a nutshell, ACCESS evaluates a space telescope designed for extreme high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanetary systems. An activelycorrected coronagraph is used to suppress the glare of diffracted and scattered starlight to the levels required for exoplanet imaging. The ACCESS study asks: What is the most capable medium-class coronagraphic mission that is possible with telescope, instrument, and spacecraft technologies available today?
Towards a Cognitive Based Framework for Evaluating Information Visualisation Tools as tools for Learning

Information Visualisation (InfoVis) is deﬁned as the interactive visual representation of abstract data. We view the end-users’ interaction with InfoVis tools as a learning experience which is made up of a set of highly demanding cognitive activities. These activities assist the end-user in making sense and gaining knowledge of the represented domain. There is a consensus in the InfoVis community about the importance of user evaluation studies in measuring the effectiveness of InfoVis tools. However, usability studies, which are most commonly used in this domain, are not appropriate for capturing the end-user cognitive processes that occur during the learning experience. To address this issue this paper discusses work in progress in developing a cognitive based framework for evaluating the effectiveness of InfoVis tools on the user learning process, by employing metrics for measuring the peoples ability to remember, understand, analyse, and derive insights from the visualised data, applied in the Cultural Heritage domain.
Premium, pertalite or pertamax: an empirical study of Alchian-Allen phenomenon on gasoline consumer behavior

In Indonesia, consumers can choose to consume either high or low quality gasoline based on their preferences. Changing preference to a higher quality that is affected by the declining relative price can lead to an Alchian-Allen (A-A) phenomenon. This study aims to determine whether the A-A Phenomenon occurs on the behavior of consumers before and after the existence of Pertalite. The regression model used is the panel data regressions and the regression result proves that there is an A-A phenomenon in market share in Indonesia before and after Pertalite. This indicates that the high difference of relative prices between high and low quality gasolines has a negative impact towards their relative consumption. Prior to Pertalite, consumers continued changing preference into high quality gasoline in the 2nd and 3rd month intervals when relative price difference decreased. After the existing of Pertalite, consumers did not quickly transfer their preferences from Premium to Pertalite when the relative price declined, so that the A-A phenomenon did not occur in this low and middle grade gasoline consumption pattern. However, Pertamax's consumption to Pertalite increases when the relative price between them declines; thus raising the AA phenomenon. This implies that the government of Indonesia could use their authority to make arrangements on price differences between gasoline qualities.
Women on boards and earnings management: What really matters?

The diversity of gender and income conservatism has been intriguing topics over the last decade. The effect of women who are more likely to be financially conservative than men will bring impact on the practices of conservative accounting, particularly when determining revenues for corporate governance. Therefore, we investigate the effects of women leaders in corporate business and their impacts on earnings management. The population of the study includes companies indexed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange, except for banking corporates. By using purposive sampling, 341 companies were selected for observation within six years. Total population sampling is 2046 data (firm-years). Hypothesis testing employed the multiple regression model on panel data with the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) approach. The estimation result of the Jones Model indicates women in top supervisory have no significant effect on earnings management while women in top management have a negative significant effect on earnings management. In addition, the hypothesis testing with the Kothari model demonstrates a negative significant effect of both women in top supervisory and women in top management toward earnings management. Therefore, we justify that women in top supervisory and women in top management bring prominent contributions to corporate business mainly in the financial sector, particularly in the improvement of financial reports by reducing the likelihood of earnings management practices. JEL Classification : D22, J16, G34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/jkdp.v23i4. 3439
Hook plate versus tightrope for acute grade III acromioclavicular dislocation

Introduction The different surgical techniques described to treat type III acromioclavicular (AC) dislocation illustrate the fact that the ideal surgery remains controversial. This study aims at comparing two familiar different methods of stabilization of this injury. Patients and methods Between May 2013 and February 2015, 20 patients with acute Rockwood type III AC dislocation were divided into two groups, to compare the functional outcome after using either hook plate or tightrope stabilization. Patients were evaluated using the University of California Los Angeles Shoulder Scoring System. Results Nine patients in the hook plate group were reoperated to remove the device, except one who refused to be reoperated. Only one patient in the tightrope group had revision because of rupture of the tightrope in the fourth week with successful and good outcome. The patients of the hook plate group showed significantly higher incidence of complication in comparison with the tightrope group (40 vs. 10%, respectively). Two (20%) cases in the hook plate group suffered from superficial infection and another two (20%) cases showed signs of osteolysis in 1-year follow-up plain radiographs. There was insignificant difference between both groups regarding severity of pain. The majority (70%) of the tightrope patients regained their normal functional activities, whereas only 40% of the hook plate patients did (P<0.001). About half (50%) of the tightrope group in comparison with 30% of hook plate group had active forward flexion more than 150° (P<0.01). Both groups showed no significant differences regarding the degree of muscle strength, patients’ satisfaction, and total outcome of the University of California Los Angeles score (P>0.05). Conclusion Open reduction and stabilization with either hook plate or tightrope in type III AC dislocations are effective techniques regarding the objective outcome scores, with no significant differences between the two groups. However, tightrope fixation provides a low rate of failure and complications and avoids the need for second surgery to remove the implant.
Enhanced Localization with Adaptive Normal Distribution Transform Monte Carlo Localization for Map Based Navigation Robot

Map-based navigation is the common navigation method used among the mobile robotic application. The localization plays an important role in the navigation where it estimates the robot position in an environment. Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) is found as the widely used estimation algorithm due to it non-linear characteristic. There are classifications of MCL such as Adaptive MCL (AMCL), Normal Distribution Transform MCL (NDT-MCL) which can perform better than the MCL. However, AMCL is adaptive to particles but the position estimation accuracy is not optimized. NDT-MCL has good position estimation but it requires higher number of particles which results in higher computational effort. The objective of the research is to design and develop a localization algorithm which can achieve better performance in term of position estimation and computational effort. The new MCL algorithm which is named as Adaptive Normal Distribution Transform Monte Carlo Localization (ANDT-MCL) is then designed and developed. It integrates Kullback–Leibler divergence, Normal Distribution Transform and Systematic Resampling into the algorithm. Three experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of proposed ANDT-MCL in simulated environment. These experiments include evaluating the performance of ANDT-MCL with different path shape, distance and velocity. In the end of the research work, the proposed ANDT-MCL is successfully developed. It is adaptive to the number of particles used, higher position estimation and lower computational effort than existing algorithms. The algorithm can produce better position estimation with less computational effort in any kind paths and is consistent in long journey as well as can outperform in high speed navigation.
Much of a Muchness? The Role of Gender Similarity in a Relationship between LMX and OCB

The current study, contextualizes in the higher education context of Pakistan, adopts a gender lens for the relationship of gender similarity with LMX (Leader Member Exchange) and OCB (Organizational Citizenship Behaviors). Also, the study attempts investigation of the moderating effects of gender similarity in the relationship of LMX with OCB. The study adopts a quantitative approach with a crosssectional survey design. Multistage proportionate stratified random sampling is employed for the sample of 1008 full-time faculty from 7 Public and 7 Private, HEC recognized universities across Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Standardized 12-item LMXMDM and 12-item OCB scales are employed. Statistical analysis include descriptive statistics, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and moderated linear regression. The study ends in equivocal findings regarding the moderating role of gender similarity in a relationship of LMX with OCB across the sample public and private sector universities. The study also yields mixed findings regarding the relationship of gender similarity with LMX. Further the findings of the study do not support the proposition of relationship of gender similarity with OCB.