Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Foreign Investments of U'S' Individual Investors: Causes and Consequences

Using thousands of brokerage accounts of U.S. individual investors, we analyze the motivations and consequences of foreign equity investment. We find that diversification is not the only reason that investors trade foreign securities. While wealthier, more experienced investors enjoy an informational advantage and, thus, are more likely to invest overseas and experience good portfolio performance, other investors appear to venture abroad for the wrong reasons. In particular, behaviorally-biased investors often under-use or misuse foreign equity securities and experience poor portfolio performance. Some investors appear to use foreign securities for speculation or to improve upon poor domestic portfolio performance.
Η άλλη όψη των ευέλικτων μορφών απασχόλησης – Ευρήματα από εμπειρική έρευνα σε ελληνικές επιχειρήσεις εντάσεως γνώσης (The Other Side of Flexible Employment - Evidence from Greek Knowledge Intensive Firms)

<b>Greek Abstract:</b> Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες, επαγγελματικές κατηγορίες εργαζομένων με αυξημένα εκπαιδευτικά προσόντα και δεξιότητες, απασχολούνται όλο και περισσότερο με διάφορες μορφές προσωρινής, «εξωτερικής» εργασίας. Ταυτόχρονα, νέες προσεγγίσεις έχουν αναδυθεί στη διεθνή και ευρωπαϊκή βιβλιογραφία, οι οποίες αναγνωρίζουν αυτούς τους «εξωτερικούς» εργαζόμενους, περισσότερο ως φορείς νέων γνώσεων και ικανοτήτων που τονώνουν το δυναμισμό και την ευελιξία των επιχειρήσεων, παρά ως μέσο διαχείρισης του κόστους εργασίας. Το παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί την ανάδειξη αυτής της νέας, δυναμικής διάστασης των ευέλικτων μορφών απασχόλησης, αλλά και τη διερεύνηση της παρουσίας της στην ελληνική αγορά εργασίας, αξιοποιώντας τα συμπεράσματα εμπειρικής έρευνας σε ενενήντα έξι (96) ελληνικές επιχειρήσεις παροχής υπηρεσιών εντάσεως γνώσης. Η εμφάνιση και στην Ελλάδα πτυχών αυτής της νέας διάστασης της ευέλικτης εργασίας, έστω και αν τούτη συντελείται συχνά στο πλαίσιο ευκαιριακών στρατηγικών διαχείρισης του ανθρώπινου δυναμικού, υποδεικνύει την ανάγκη αναθεώρησης και εμπλουτισμού της αξιολογικής και ερμηνευτικής προσέγγισης των ευέλικτων μορφών απασχόλησης στο σχετικό δημόσιο διάλογο που διεξάγεται και στη χώρα μας. <br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> Over the last few decades, an increasing number of professionals with high educational qualifications and skills are employed under some forms of temporary, external work. At the same time, there have been emerging new approaches that recognize these workers as knowledge repositories for enhancing firms’ flexibility and competitiveness rather than tools for managing the labour cost. This article drawing upon data of 96 Greek firms belonging to knowledge-intensive business services, explores the implementation of these new trends in Greek labour market. The findings propose the enrichment of the interpretative and evaluative context of flexible employment in Greece with new qualitative dimensions and criteria. <br>
A method for quantifying hand-net samples of stream invertebrates

Quantitative sampling using a hand-net can be accomplished by taking three successive catches of invertebrates from the same point on the streambed. This is a form of removal sampling. By plotting the decline in number of individuals in each catch against the total previously caught, the total population at the sampling point can be estimated. From this, the probability of capture in a single catch (p) can be calculated. For Agapetus, other trichopteran, leptophlebiid, caenid and gripopterygid larvae from a site on a tributary of the Acheron River in southern Australia, p varied from 0.66 to 0.81. Additional data for a species of Gammarus from the Credit River in Ontario gave a p value of 0.67. In three successive catches the overall probability of capture exceeded 95% for all taxa, indicating that with this degree of effort most individuals present were caught.
Management of Resource Dependency: Key to Implementation of Health Care Programmes: Insights from India

A population's health is a critical input for its economic growth. Although improvements in medical technology and spread of education have resulted in improvement in health indices, disparities in their distribution are starkly prevalent. These inequalities, result of poor utilisation of available interventions, need to be addressed as they impede economic growth. This would necessitate a persistent focus on management of implementation of health care interventions, aided by a dominant operational framework. Implementation literature is handicapped by lack of such a dominant framework and aggregated theory which could have guided practioners towards effective implementation. This paper attempts to address this felt need. Using a multiple embedded case processual study with interlinked multiple units of analysis; it studies the implementation of four national health programmes in three states of India. Positioned in the rural health context, it identifies effective implementation to be a function of management of resource dependency of a programme and cumulatively of the health system. Management of resource dependency is driven by identification of “Key resources�? critical for service delivery under a programme. Effective implementation is achieved by the attention of the top management in identifying these Key resources, directing the system processes to generate, distribute and position resources and finally governance of the service delivery actions. Thus implementation is a function of attention, direction and governance. This operational framework, based on observable actions in the field, has significant implications for both practioners and researchers alike. It gives a framework to facilitate better implementation of health care interventions and hence address issues of health disparities. For researchers it generates a tentative mid range theory to act as a base for future research.
Cytotoxicity Study of Some Ketone Schiff Bases and Heterocyclic Compounds

The cytotoxicity of 11 synthesized ketone Schiff bases and 16 heterocyclic compounds was evaluated by the brine shrimp lethality bioassay. It was observed that all the synthesized compounds showed significant cytotoxic activity with LC50 of 1.05-2.45 µg/ml against brine shrimp nauplii. Key words: Schiff base, Heterocyclic compounds, Cytotoxicity, Brine shrimp. Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. Vol.4(1) 2005 The full text is of this article is available at the Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. website
Why Do Banks Fail? - The Explanation from Text Analytics Technique

This study investigates the material loss review published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on the U.S. failed banks from 2008 to 2015. These reports focus on explaining the causes of failure and material loss of each bank. Unlike traditional methods that provide suggestions on financial ratios, our study focuses on phrases extracted from the reports by using text mining technique. Pre-processing steps are used in this study to ‘clean’ the text. Bag of words technique is used for collecting the most frequent words. Topic modelling and document hierarches clustering are used for classifying these reports into groups. Our results suggest that to prevent from being the failure, banks should significantly be aware of: loan, board management, the supervisory process, the concentration of ADC (Acquisition, Development and Construction) and CRE (Commercial real estate). In addition, we find the main reasons that US banks went failure from 2008 to 2015 are covered by two main topics: Loan and Management.
The effect of genotype and sex on the patterns of protein accretion in pigs

Protein accretion curves were derived using food intake, growth and body composition data from a total of 320 pigs, which comprised castrated males and gilts from five genotypes. The 32 pigs from each genotype/sex subclass were offered ad libitum a series of isoenergetic diets (13·8 MJ metabolizable energy per kg) designed to provide a non-limiting intake of nutrients and to allow maximum protein deposition rates. Four pigs from each subclass weren slaughtered at each of the live weights (kg) 25, 44, 65, 85, 100, 115, 130 and 150. Daily food intake (dF/dt) was described as an increasing exponential function of age (t), live weight (W) as an increasing exponential function of cumulative food consumed (F), and protein weight (Pr) as an allometric function of live weight (W). The rate of protein accretion in the body of pigs [d(Pr)/dt] was calculated as d(Pr)/dt = (dF/dt). (dW/dF). (dPr)/dW). Bootstrap procedures were used to estimate standard errors for the food intake, growth and compositional parameters and to obtain the confidence bands for the dependent variables (dF/dt, W, Pr and d(Pt)/dt). Protein accretion rate as a function of live weight was curvilinear, increasing to a maximum, then decreasing with increasing live weight. There were significant differences between subclasses in the maximum rate of protein accretion, although there was no relationship between this rate and the live weight, stage of maturity, or age at which maximum protein accretion occurred. Describing protein accretion as a multiplicative function of food intake, food efficiency and the partitioning of nutrients in the body allowed changes in the magnitude and shape of the protein accretion curve to be ascribed to one, or a combination, of the above mechanisms.
Preliminary results of the in vivo studies on ovarian resorption in carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)

Oocyte resorption in the ovaries of sexually mature carp, which did not spawn, was investigated using a method of sampling ovaries in vivo. A 2-year study revealed that a portion of the oocytes had undergone a slow resorption while the basic mass of the ovaries, throughout the experiment, consisted of the oocytes similar to those of stage IV of sexual maturity. At the same time no growth of the oocytes of the earlier maturation stages was found. The condition of the ovaries in the females studied indicated their complete infertility, at least for three successive spawning periods.
Sexual segregation and density-related changes in habitat use in male and female Red deer (Cerrus elaphus)

Sex differences in diet and habitat use in Red deer occur in several areas of Scotland. In some cases, they are a consequence of differences in the altjtude levels used but, on Rhum, both sexes use the same levels, concentrating in different areas of the same plant communities. Segregation between the sexes is most pronounced for animals feeding on short grasslands and increases in winter and at high population density. These results support the hypothesis that stags are less tolerant of low plant biomasses than hinds and can be excluded from mutually preferred communities by indirect competition
The morphology, reproduction and small-subunit rRNA gene sequence of Cephalocystis (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new genus based on Cordylecladia furcellata J. Agardh from Australia

Abstract The southeastern Australian endemic species Cordylecladia furcellata J. Agardh differs in habit, minor anatomical, and significant small-subunit rRNA-sequence details from the European type species of the genus, Cordylecladia erecta (Greville) J. Agardh. Particularly conspicuous in C. furcellata are the colourless, apical, pod-like structures to which all reproductive stages are confined, in contrast to C. erecta in which spermatangia and tetrasporangia occur in linear, subterminal swellings and cystocarps form in dense aggregates along otherwise unmodified axes. The new genus Cephalocystis is proposed to include, as type species, C. furcellata (J. Agardh) comb. nov., plus an undescribed New South Wales species, C. leucobotrys sp. nov. The latter differs mainly in the position of the cystocarps, which occur in subterminal clusters on major axes rather than in terminal hyaline pods. Given the similarity of habit, vegetative anatomy and cystocarp position in the European type species of Cordyleclad.
Are PIPEs a Bet on Growth Options?

In this paper we explore the possibility that the presence of uncertain growth opportunities contribute to the use of PIPE financing. We conjecture that the existence of information asymmetry induces the firm to undertake a private placement and that the characteristics of the firm’s investment opportunity set influences the choice to issue common stock PIPEs. In particular, common stock PIPE issuers have not yet achieved measurable milestones in their operations, facing high uncertainty about future cash flows. We find that in the presence of high information asymmetry, firms choosing to issue common stock PIPEs rather than SEOs are smaller research and development intensive firms, investing heavily but with negative cash flow. Consistent with PIPE issuers being at an earlier stage of development and facing high payoff uncertainty; the likelihood of undertaking a PIPE issue decreases with sales, profitability and capital expenditure, and increases with patents. Further, they exhibit a relatively low likelihood of default and positive returns prior to the issue. Finally, consistent with the existence of profitable growth opportunities, we find that the return distribution of common stock PIPEs have large positive extreme values.
Gauge Invariant Lattice Quantum Field Theory: Implications for Statistical Properties in High Frequency Financial Markets

We report on initial studies of a quantum field theory defined on a lattice with multi-ladder geometry and the dilation group as a local gauge symmetry. The model is relevant in the cross-disciplinary area of econophysics. A corresponding proposal by Ilinski aimed at gauge modeling in non-equilibrium pricing is implemented in a numerical simulation. We arrive at a probability distribution of relative gains which matches the high frequency historical data of the NASDAQ stock exchange index.
Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account?

Should central banks take more account of ethical distributional and environmental concerns in the design and implementation of the wider monetary policy toolkit they have been using in the past decade? Although the scope to influence a range of objectives is more limited than is often supposed, and while it is vital to not derail monetary policy from its core purposes, central bank mandates justify paying more attention to such broad issues, especially if policy choices have a significant potential impact. Carefully managed steps in this direction could actually strengthen central bank independence while making some contribution to improving the effectiveness of public policy on these matters.
Social Status and Charitable Giving in Pakistan: The Role of Gratitude, Reciprocity Beliefs, and Behaviors

This examination explores the impact of economic wellbeing on altruistic giving by people. We proposed a theoretical framework thereby slightly modifying model, asserting that social status and Charitable Giving are complemented by gratitude and Reciprocity Behaviors, both positive and negative. These behaviors are in turn got affected by Reciprocity Beliefs. Hence these three psychological instruments, i.e., positive and negative correspondence conviction as well as appreciation estimation, are proposed to clarify the relationship between economic wellbeing and charitable giving. Three aspects of reciprocity: positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and beliefs in reciprocity were adopted from. Data was collected from 217 respondents residing in Pakistan through a close end questionnaire and was analyzed using Confirmatory factor analysis and Structural equation modeling. Members were approached to review the nature of their cash giving as it typically happens crosswise over various kinds of gifts. They likewise revealed their financial status, level of reciprocity conviction, and level of appreciation. Results demonstrated that economic well-being signiﬁcantly anticipates charitable giving by people. As anticipated, high-status members gave more cash when they held a more grounded confidence in reciprocity while the result showed no significant relationship between gratitude and charitable giving.
Do Disclosures and Governance Practices Reduce Bank Risk? Evidence from Bangladesh

The scenario of the banking sector is articulated by the theoretical background backed up by practical evidences relying on panel data of thirty-two (32) commercial banks for the period of 2006-2016. The study addressed the problem of endogeneity, heterokedasticity and auto-correlation by selecting the two-stage-least-square (2SLS) method in data analysis. In fact, the study explores its area of concentration in the banking sector and developed models based on bank risk, disclosures, and corporate governance in the developing country context. It is true that good governance can ensure bank transparency and market stability. The study revealed that banks disclosures and corporate governance have a significant effect on bank risk-taking behavior and also found a reciprocal effect in the case of disclosure model and governance model.
Time Lags in the Pass-Through of Crude-Oil Prices – Big Data Evidence from the German Gasoline Market

This note investigates the pass-through of global Brent oil notations to fuel prices across the oligopoly of retail majors in Germany. We assemble a high-frequency panel data set that encompasses millions of price observations and allows us to distinguish effects by brand. Upon establishing a cointegrating relationship between fuel and crude-oil prices using daily data, we estimate an error-correction model (ECM) and find that (1) the pass-through of oil prices critically depends on the number of time lags included in the ECM, (2) strict adherence to classical information criteria for determining lag length yields extremely long pass-through durations, and (3) the estimated impulse response functions are virtually identical across brands, irrespective of the lag count, suggesting a high degree of competition among brands.
Amplification and Molecular Characterization of DREB1A Transcription Factor Fragment From Finger Millet [(Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn]

Studies have shown that several plant species posses DREB1A and DREB2A (Dehydration-Responsive Element Binding Protein) orthologs. DREB transcription factors, also called C-repeat binding factors (CBFs), are the transacting elements/ transcription factors first identified in Arabidopsis which bind to low-temperature and dehydration responsive element (LTRE/DRE) found in several dehydrin (Dhn) promoters as well as in promoters of other cold and drought responsive genes and involved in dehydration-, cold-, and salinity-regulated gene expression. In this study, a fragment of DREB1A ortholog named EcDREB1A has been amplified from finger millet (Eleusine coracana), an important drought-tolerant grain crop with a rich genetic diversity grown in semi-arid tropics. In the current study, a systematic approach has been taken to predict a theoretical primer for EcDREB1A based on the cloned Arabidopsis thaliana AtDREB1A and other DREB genes for orthologous gene identification from finger millet. Sixteen different but related nucleotide sequences based on AtDREB1A gene were retrieved from different databases. A highly conserved region of 287 bp was detected on multiple sequence alignments through claustalw2 program and a set of primers (forward and reverse) was predicted using Primer3plus and Net software on the basis of this conserved region, assuming ideal conditions for primer length, GC content, formation of primer-dimers, hairpin-loops etc. The amplified genomic fragment of EcDREB1A was found to be 536 bp long, with possible introns as per translational analysis. Longest detected ORF in the amplified EcDREB1A fragment encodes a putative protein of 84 amino acids rich in serine (13.10%) with a predicted molecular mass of 9.29 kDa. Multiple sequence alignment of this EcDREB1A fragment with other DREB genes revealed presence of 9 highly conserved amino acids. Allele mining of EcDREB1A gene fragment across selected 5 finger millet cultivars revealed no variations on nucleotide, probably due to narrow genetic base in the test materials. Identification of novel regulatory genes involved in abiotic stress tolerance and allele mining in a manner similar to this presented herein might lead to a better and quicker solution for improving stress tolerance in crop plants.
The Relation between Bank Credit Growth and the Expected Returns of Bank Stocks

Higher bank credit growth implies that excess returns of bank stocks over the next one year are lower by nearly 3%. Credit growth tracks bank stock returns over the business cycle and explains nearly 14% of the variation in bank stock returns over a 1&#8208;year horizon. I argue that the predictive variation in returns reflects investors' rational response to a small time&#8208;varying probability of a tail event that impacts banks and bank&#8208;dependent firms. Consistent with this hypothesis, the predictive power, as measured by the absolute magnitude of the coefficient on credit growth and the adjusted&#8208;R2 at the 1&#8208;year horizon, depend systematically on variables that regulate exposure to tail risk.
Reaction of six Musa genotypes to root-parasitic nematodes

The reaction of six Musa genotypes to root-parasitic nematodes was evaluated under field conditions, together with the horizontal, and vertical distributions of the neomatodes within the soil profile. The numbers of Radopholus similis, Helicotylenchus spp. , Meloidogyne spp. and of all nematodes in the excavated soil quadrant varied with Musa genotype. All genotypes were very susceptible to at least one nematode. Yangambi km5, Pisang Jari Buaya and FHIA-23 supported the lowest number of R. similis and Pisang Jari Buaya, the lowest number of Helicotylenchus spp. These three cultivars supported high numbers of Meloidogyne spp. Furthermore, FHIA-23 supported high numbers of Helicotylenchus spp. The horizontal and vertical distributions of R. similis in the root system of Valery, Gros Michel and FHIA-18 were very similar. By constrast, the distributions of Helicotylenchus spp. , Meloidogyne spp. and the number of all nematodes varied slightly among the genotypes. Because Musa genotypes susceptible to a particular nematode showed a similar horizontal and vertical nematode distribution with populations concentrated in the vicinity of the plant base (0–30 cm horizontal distance and 30 cm depth), sampling at this site would be sufficient for the identification of the Musa plant reaction.
Fatty acids profile of milk from cows fed different maize silage levels and extruded soybeans

Objetivou-se com este trabalho avaliar os efeitos de dois teores de silagem de milho e da suplementacao com soja extrusada sobre o perfil de acidos graxos na gordura do leite. Oito vacas da raca Holandesa foram distribuidas em um quadrado latino duplo 4 x 4, em arranjo fatorial. Os tratamentos foram: alta silagem de milho e baixo lipidio, alta silagem de milho e alto lipidio, baixa silagem de milho e baixo lipidio e baixa silagem de milho e alto lipidio. Os periodos experimentais tiveram duracao de 21 dias cada. As amostras de leite foram coletadas nos dias 18 e 19 de cada periodo experimental. O aumento dos teores de lipidios nos dois niveis de silagem diminuiu as concentracoes de acidos graxos de cadeia curta (C4:0 - C12:0). O teor de acido linoleico conjugado (cis-9 trans-11 C18:2) aumentou de 3,72 para 4,85, e de 4,60 para 5,89mg/g, quando a soja extrusada foi utilizada em dietas com alto e baixo nivel de silagem de milho, respectivamente. O aumento no teor de lipidios na dieta resultou em maior concentracao de trans-11 C18:1. O acido graxo trans-10 C18:1 tendeu a aumentar com a elevacao do teor de lipidios na dieta. Houve correlacao significativa entre trans-10, cis-12 C18:2 e percentual de gordura do leite. A suplementacao com soja extrusada diminuiu os acidos graxos de cadeia curta e o acido palmitico no leite. Alem disso, esta oleaginosa aumentou a concentracao de acido linoleico conjugado (C18:2 cis-9 trans-11) e vacenico, com o aumento da qualidade do leite para o consumo humano.