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THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE SOURCES ON INNOVATION CAPABILITIES AMONG RESTAURANTS AND CAFÉ BUSINESSES IN INDONESIA

To conduct innovation, firms absorb and utilise internal and external knowledge. This study examines the effect of internal and external knowledge, in terms of the breadth and depth of knowledge sources, on a firm’s innovation. The breadth of knowledge sources refers to the amount of knowledge sources used within the firm. The depth of knowledge sources is the amount of knowledge sources intensively used by the firm. This study is aimed at answering the following questions. a) What knowledge sources are mainly used? b) What type of innovation is frequently conducted? c) What are the effects of the breadth and the depth of knowledge sources on the innovation capabilities among Indonesian restaurants and cafes? The resource-based view and resource dependency theory are used to understand the role of internal and external knowledge on innovation within a firm. We distributed a semi-structured questionnaire to 101 owners/managers, using a purposive, in several cities in Indonesia, such as Bandung, Denpasar Bogor, Malang, Yogyakarta and other cities in East Java. The results show that the Indonesian restaurants and cafes utilised external knowledge sources more often than internal ones. The firms produce more incremental product innovations than radical ones. The depth of the internal knowledge sources has a positive significant impact on the firms’ innovation capabilities, which supports the previous studies. Meanwhile, the breadth of the internal knowledge sources is found not to have a significant effect on innovation. Additionally, the effects of the breadth and depth of the external knowledge sources on the innovation capabilities are also insignificant.
Sterilization, Capital Mobility and Interest Rate Determination for East Asia

This paper uses a simple open economy interest rate determination model to empirically examine an important aspect of pre-crisis monetary and exchange rate policy. It investigates whether sterilisation of the reserve effects of capital inflows helped keep interest rates sufficiently high that they may have prolonged the inflow of capital. Despite the use of a pre-crisis sample in this study, the issues in this paper have relevance today given the recent trend in foreign capital inflow for Asia. The empirical section is concerned with the effect of reserve flows on the interest rate and is divided into two parts. The first tests for a contemporaneous effect of the basic model using OLS and IV methods. The second generalises the model to assess for lagged effects by way of VAR analysis. The results show that there are some contemporaneous effects of sterilisation on the domestic interest rate though the effects are stronger when estimating the lagged model.
Effects of Long-Term Feeding Flaxseed on Growth and Carcass Parameters,Ovarian Morphology and Egg Production of Pullets

The growth and reproduction performance and egg production parameters in 128 pullet chicks were monitored during 42 days received 5, 7.5 and 10% Flaxseed (FS) in their diet as a treatment. One-dayold Hy-line W-36 pullet chicks were divided into four groups of Control (C) and treatments (T , T and T ) with 1 2 3 32 pieces in each one and 4 replicates. The chicks received ad libitum feed and water from the first day of age to week 22. Birds were individually penned from week 18 to determine time of oviposition and egg weight and quantity. The mean Body Weight (BW) and Feed Intake (FI) were recorded and calculated every 3 weeks. One pullet from each replicate on week 8 and day of oviposition was sacrified. Then, the weight of internal organs as percentage including: femur, FeW; breast, BrW; heart, HW; spleen, SW; liver, LW; gut, GW; fat cavity, FW; oviduct, ovary and Large Yellow Follicles (LYF) and number of LYF were measured. Our results indicated that as the level of FS increases from 5-7.5% and 10%, the BW and FI reduce, thus FCR increases in pullets. The evaluation of internal organs at 8 week and 1 oviposition, revealed no significant differences th th between treatments and control group. Although, in the 1 time, FS treatments increased HW and LW, but st decreased FW; whereas in the 2 time, FeW, BrW and GW induced and SW and LW reduced. Also, nd reproduction parameters showed reduction in weight of oviduct, ovary and LYF and number of LYF in treatment group. In addition, the weight of egg at oviposition, number of days to photo-stimulation and egg production on week 22 in T increased in birds received FS. Overall, the results indicated that feeding 7.5% 2 of FS to pullets may produce more eggs than other treatments.
Habitat distribution models, spatial autocorrelation, functional traits and dispersal capacity of alpine plant species

Abstract We evaluate the potential influence of disturbance on the predictability of alpine plant species distribution from equilibrium-based habitat distribution models. Firstly, abundance data of 71 plant species were correlated with a comprehensive set of environmental variables using ordinal regression models. Subsequently, the residual spatial autocorrelation (at distances of 40 to 320 m) in these models was explored. The additional amount of variance explained by spatial structuring was compared with a set of functional traits assumed to confer advantages in disturbed or undisturbed habitats. We found significant residual spatial autocorrelation in the habitat models of most of the species that were analysed. The amount of this autocorrelation was positively correlated with the dispersal capacity of the species, levelling off with increasing spatial scale. Both trends indicate that dispersal and colonization processes, whose frequency is enhanced by disturbance, influence the distribution of many alpine plant species. Since habitat distribution models commonly ignore such spatial processes they miss an important driver of local- to landscape-scale plant distribution. Nomenclature: Adler et al. (1994). Abbreviation: DEM = Digital elevation model.
A new approach of web directory creation and personalization

Now a day's huge amount of data is available on the internet. Every day the size of this data is increasing. So the accessing this big data is a challenging task in today's era. It causes information overload on the internet. A novel Web directory creation is the solution to this problem. Here we are applying personalization to the web directory and creating our own web directory by clustering process then applying probabilistic theorem. This will help to reduce the narrowing the user search and display of unwanted data contents on the web.
Mutagenic treatment induces high transposon variation in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

With more than 2700 mutant-derived cultivars, mutation techniques belong to the most efficient breeding methods. Despite a relatively good understanding of mutagenesis there is no agreement about the range of genome changes in mutants. Visualizing the gain and the loss of transposon insertion sites in SSAP profiles, the present studies aimed to answer whether or not mutants can be regarded as near isogenic lines with respect to their parent cultivar. Activities of BARE-1 retrotransposon and Tpo1-like DNA transposon from the CACTA superfamily were analysed in ten barley mutants derived by mutagenic treatment of two cultivars, Brenda and Scarlett. A large number and proportion of mutations (on average 21.4 mutations encompassing 19.7% loci) confirm high efficiency of applied mutagens. However, differences exist among both cultivars and transposons. The lack of clear correlation between transposon activities and morphology reflects different mechanisms shaping the mutant architecture. With respect to a transposon type, BARE-1 and Tpo1-like were equally active in inducing mutations. However, their activity differs in that the former was mainly responsible for new insertions while the latter equally for insertions and deletions. An excess of new insertions over recombinational loss suggests a transposon burst as a response to stress caused by chemical mutagens. Low estimations of Nei’s similarities, well within the range of semispecies demonstrate the role of mutagenic factors in diversification of populations. This way mutagenic treatment not only provides rough breeding materials but also can be used as a model in evolutionary studies.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Title Electric Storage in California ' s Commercial Buildings Permalink

Most recent improvements in battery and electric vehicle (EV) technologies, combined with some favorable off-peak charging rates and an enormous PV potential, make California a prime market for electric vehicle as well as stationary storage adoption. However, EVs or plug-in hybrids, which can be seen as a mobile energy storage, connected to different buildings throughout the day, constitute distributed energy resources (DER) markets and can compete with stationary storage, onsite energy production (e.g. fuel cells, PV) at different building sites. Sometimes mobile storage is seen linked to renewable energy generation (e.g. PV) or as resource for the wider macro-grid by providing ancillary services for grid-stabilization. In contrast, this work takes a fundamentally different approach and considers buildings as the main hub for EVs / plug-in hybrids and considers them as additional resources for a building energy management system (EMS) to enable demand response or any other building strategy (e.g. carbon dioxide reduction). To examine the effect of, especially, electric storage technologies on building energy costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a distributed-energy resources adoption problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear program with minimization of annual building energy costs or CO2 emissions. The mixed-integer linear program is applied to a set of 139 different commercial building types in California, and the aggregated economic and environmental benefits are reported. To show the robustness of the results, different scenarios for battery performance parameters are analyzed. The results show that the number of EVs connected to the California commercial buildings depend mostly on the optimization strategy (cost versus CO2) of the building EMS and not on the battery performance parameters. The complexity of the DER interactions at buildings also show that a reduction in stationary battery costs increases the local PV adoption, but can also increase the fossil based onsite electricity generation, making an holistic optimization approach necessary for this kind of analyses.
Monetary Policy Implications of Financial Frictions in the Czech Republic

Having witnessed the consequences of the financial crisis for the real economy, we find it desirable to look back and analyze the Czech economy ex post. We work with a Swedish New Keynesian model of a small open economy which embeds financial frictions in light of the financial accelerator literature. Without explicitly modeling the banking sector, this model serves as a tool for understanding how a negative financial shock may spread to the real economy and how monetary policy may react. We use Bayesian techniques to estimate the model parameters to adjust the model structure closer to the evidence stemming from Czech data. Our attention focuses on a set of experiments in which we generate ex post forecasts of the economy prior to the 2009 crisis and illustrate that the monetary policy response to an upcoming crisis implied by the model with financial frictions is stronger on account of an increasing interest rate spread.
Decision Trees as a Business Online Advertising Strategy Optimization Tool

Online advertising services such as Google AdWords provide their customers with statistics on the performance of their ads. Based on this data, each company could optimize its ads. In the work presented, the potentials of using decision trees for classification in the field of online advertising are outlined by solving a problem from practice. A subsequent analysis shows which actions the company could take to optimize its online advertising strategy. The algorithm proposed could be used for other data in a similar situation.
Control of the actuator with pneumatic artificial muscles in antagonistic connection

Aktuator na baze pneumatických umelých svalov v antagonistickom zapojeni bol navrhnutý a zrealizovaný na pracovisku autorov. Pneumaticke umele svaly posobia proti sebe, pricom výsledna poloha aktuatora je dana rovnovahou ich ťahových sil v zavislosti na roznych tlakoch vo svaloch. Tlaky vo svaloch (a tým aj kontrakcia svalov) su riadene pomocou styroch solenoidových ventilov (dva pre plnenie svalov a dva pre vyprazdňovanie svalov). Na zaklade teoretických východisk a realizovaných experimentov bola navrhnuta blokova schema riadenia polohy ramena aktuatora (s možnosťou podriadenej rýchlostnej slucky). Taktiež bol navrhnutý nový algoritmus riadenia aktuatora založený na sucasnom riadeni tlaku iba v jednom svale. Tento algoritmus znižuje naroky na riadenie takehoto aktuatora.
Joint modeling of primary and secondary action in database marketing

In this paper we discuss the issue of primary and secondary actions to direct mail offers. Primary action refers to the first responses consumers make toward a direct offer or solicitation. It might represent an order for a product, a request for a catalog or credit card, or a pledge to donate to a charity. As little money changes hands on primary actions, companies are also interested in secondary actions, i.e., bad debts, returns, or payments. A company concentrating solely on the prediction of primary actions might lose money on customers who do not ultimately pay. We present a model which jointly models primary and secondary action and incorporates the correlation between the two action probabilities. We also show how optimal selection should take place incorporating predicted primary and secondary action jointly. In an empirical study, the new joint model yields superior profits when compared to a split model assuming the independence of primary and secondary actions.
THE THIOL REDOX SYSTEM IN OXLDL-INDUCED MACROPHAGE INJURY

OF THESIS THE THIOL REDOX SYSTEM IN OXLDL-INDUCED MACROPHAGE INJURY Macrophage death is likely to contribute to the transformation of fatty streaks into advanced atherosclerotic lesions. Previous work in the laboratory showed that OxLDL promotes cell death in human macrophages by a mechanism involving intracellular peroxide formation. Here we show that glutathione depletion induced by OxLDL occurs independent of peroxyl radical formation. Our data suggest that the depletion of glutathione is the fundamental defect that renders macrophages susceptible to OxLDL-induced cell injury, but alone is not sufficient to kill macrophages. We indicate that increased protein-Sglutathionylation is involved in OxLDL-induced macrophage death. A potentiation of OxLDL toxicity was observed in macrophages transfected with siRNA directed against either glutathione reductase or glutaredoxin. Our data suggests that OxLDL-induced cell injury in human macrophage is mediated by the depletion of GSH, a decreased in the GSH/GSSG ratio and peroxyl radical formation. All three signals are required for OxLDL-induced macrophage death. Our results also show that the glutathione reductase/glutaredoxin system protects macrophages from OxLDL-induced cell death.
Inbreeding depression level of post-larvae freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) from several hatcheries in Java, Indonesia

Binur R, Pancoro A. 2017. Inbreeding depression level of post-larvae freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) from several hatcheries in Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 18: 609-618. Inbreeding accumulation will tend to reduce genetic variation or depressed of the prawn fry produced. This problem has caused a decrease in production and quality of prawns culture in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to measure the level of inbreeding depression prawn fry generated from several hatcheries in Java by microsatellite markers. There is four microsatellite locus to be used i.e Prk9A/T1, Prk4G/T1, TGFP16, and Mr8-88. The amplification of fourth locus using PCR with 6-carboxy-fluorescine (6-FAM) label. The number of alleles (Na) from fourth locus is Mr8-88 (11 alleles), TGFP16 (10 alleles), Prk4G/T1 (9 alleles), dan Prk9A/T1 (5 alleles), respectively. The level of polymorphism locus from highest to lowest is locus Prk4G/T1 (0.703), Prk9A/T1 (0.507), TGFP16 (0.410), and Mr8-88 (0.370), respectively. Inbreeding depression level of postlarvae (PL) M. rosenbergii tend to moderate with BBI Ciamis (He 0.444), BBUG Samas (He 0.514), LRPTBPAT Sukamandi (He 0.519), and UPBL Probolinggo (He 0.530), respectively. AMOVA analysis showed about 8.0% genetic variation among populations. From these results, it can be concluded that the PL produced indicated have been depressed. Post-larvae prawns produced from fourth hatcheries is not recommended to be a broodstock but can be used for cultivation for farmers.
CHAPTER 357 FAESIBILITY TESTS OF NEW PENDULAR-TYPE WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION APPARATUS

In order to utilize natural energy,it is essential to develop a fully compatible system, instead of conventional powergenerating systems. The authors proposed a new pendular-type wave power generation device. Design criteria for a new rotary vane pump systems (NRVP) was studied for several years and a 5-kW-model test plant with a large displacement of 45.9 1/rev pump was established. This simplified pendular system was considered to limit the investment costs. This paper describes the new pendular-type converter and its components, and presents observation data obtained in field tests conducted at sea.
Some New Robust Pseudo Forward and Rotation Gaits for the Snakeboard

The goal of this paper is to introduce some new robust gaits of the snakeboard. This is achieved by de ning two parameters; the ratios of the frequencies and amplitudes of the snakeboard's sinusoidal shape variable dynamics, and properly adjusting their variations. The gaits are produced via stable and/or moving limit cycles. The highly symmetric patterns generated by these gaits, besides their inherent beauty and coherency, exemplify the rich information content of the underlying nonlinear system.
Exploring the Impacts of Urbanization and Aquatic Pollutants on Northern Leopard Frog (Lithobates pipiens) Populations in Southeastern Wisconsin

Amphibians are crucial pieces of the aquatic ecosystem, shuttling nutrients to higher trophic levels and providing energy to other species. However, in light of global amphibian decline and climate change, many amphibian species are disappearing. The northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) is one of these species. The purpose of this study was to better understand the impacts that urbanization may be having on L. pipiens, especially where water quality and aquatic pollutants are concerned. Human population density per km 2 was used to represent the degree of urbanization while nutrient pollutants (phosphates and nitrates), specific conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and pH were used to analyze the impact that urbanization may be having on L. pipiens populations. Throughout the course of this study, L. pipiens was only identified at 1 of 5 sample locations. Thus, the results indicate that although L. pipiens is sensitive to degrading water quality, the species may be more sensitive to habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and the resulting population growth of the green frog (Lithobates clamitans), a generalist species and common predator of L. pipiens. ______________________
Quantitative Analysis of Automation and Manual Testing

Testing is a major activity in software development process to find the defect in the software. Testing can be conducted manually as well as automated. Various types of metrics are collected during software development process and software testing process. These metrics provide quantitative approach to analyze any process of software engineering. This paper presents the concept of automation and manual testing and problem with manual testing and benefit of automatic testing. This paper also represents the analysis of automation and manual testing based on some testing metrics. The main objective of this research paper is to focus on, effectiveness and importance of automation testing.
Antimicrobial activity of Gotukola leaves and Neem leaves-A Comparative invitro study

Aim : The study was done to assess and compare the antimicrobial activity of gotukola leaves and neem leaves using different solvents against test pathogens. Materials and method: An experimental invitro study was conducted to assess antimicrobial activity of gotukola leaves and neem leaves. Test pathogens used in this study are Streptococcus mutans, Lactobacillus acidophillus and Candida albicans . Fresh gotu kola leaves and neem leaves were collected. The leaves were dried and powdered. 25gms of powdered neem leaves and gotu kola leaves were dissolved in 75ml of the solvents (i.e., Hexane, Ethyl acetate and Acetone) separately. The bottles were kept in the orbital shaking incubator at 37 0 c for about 3 days. On the 4th day, solvents were filtered and evaporate. The weighed extract was dissolved in 3 ml of dimethyl sulphoxide. Agar-well diffusion method was employed for microbiological analysis and the zone of inhibition of the growth was measured. ANOVA was used for statistical analysis. Results: Both neem leaves and gotukola leaves had an effect against Steptococcus mutans with neem leaves having more effect than gotukola leaves. Gotukola leaves had much better effect against Lactobacillus acidophillus than neem leaves with hexane as a solvent and showing no effect with ethyl acetate as a solvent. Gotukola leaves also showed mild effect against Candida albicans whereas neem leaves showed no effect. Conclusion: It can be concluded from the study that gotu kola leaves had an better effect than neem leaves against Lactobacillus acidophillus with hexane as a solvent and it was statistically significant (P<0.05). Gotu kola leaves also have mild effect against Candida albicans with acetone, hexane and ethyl acetate as a solvent. Key words: Neem leaves, gotu kola leaves, Streptococcus mutans, Lactobacillus acidophillus and Candida albicans.