Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effects of TMT interaction on enterprise performance from the perspective of enterprise culture

The relationship between enterprise culture and enterprise performance and the relationship between top management team (TMT) and enterprise performance have been the hot topics which academy and business circles focused on since Pettigrew put forward the "organizational culture"; Hambrick and Mason proposed the "upper echelons theory". However, previous studies on the relationship between enterprise culture and enterprise performance and the relationship between TMT and enterprise performance were carried out according to two parallel lines, with almost no crossover studies on them. This paper will combine both of them together organically in order to study respectively the relationship between enterprise culture and enterprise performance, the relationship between TMT interaction and enterprise performance as well as the relationship between TMT interaction and enterprise culture and then put forward the research theoretical frameworks on the basis of reviewing previous studies on the enterprise culture, TMT and enterprise performance. Finally, the effect of TMT interaction on enterprise performance from the perspective of enterprises culture will be studied. Key words: Enterprise culture, top management team (TMT), team interaction, enterprise performance.
Education System Reforms in an Unstable Political Situation: The Case of Serbia in the First Decade of the 21st Century

In the present paper, education reform in the Republic of Serbia since 2000 is presented. The focus is on two major reform waves: 2000–2003 and 2004–2005. We analyse why these broad educational interventions failed. After 2005, there was a lull in the reform process, a period with no major changes (2005–2010). A new phase of improving education policy in Serbia commenced with the adoption of Trends in the Development and Upgrading of the Quality of Education and Upbringing 2010–2020 (2010) and the conception and proposal of the Strategy of Education Development in Serbia to 2020+ (2012). The basic innovations in approachand conception in the new “epoch” is outlined.
Analogical effects on linking elements in German compound words

This paper examines whether the selection of linking elements for novel German compounds can be better explained in terms of a single or a dual-route model. Previous studies had focused on the predictability of linking elements by rules. We investigate a single-route model by focusing on the paradigmatic analogical effect of the compounds sharing the left (right) constituent with the target compound, i.e., the left (right) constituent family. A production experiment reveals an effect of the left, but not of the right constituent family. Simulation studies of the responses, using a computational model of paradigmatic analogy, show that the left constituent and its phonological and morphological properties (rime, gender, and inflectional class) simultaneously codetermine the selection of linking elements. We show how these results can be accounted for by a single-route approach, and we outline a symbolic interactive activation model that merges the factors into one psycholinguistically motivated processing mechanism.
Employment Dynamics of Married Women and the Role of Part-time Work: the Case of Korea

I examine employment dynamics of married women with a particular focus on the role of part-time work using panel data from South Korea.Using a dynamic multinomial logit model with random effects, I find that a part-time work alternative substantially reduces the probability of being out of the labor market for mothers of young children and that the probability of moving into full-time employment is highest among all transition probabilities for part-time workers.These results suggest that part-time employment may act as a stepping stone toward full-time work for women who have been out of the labor market.
Vulnerability Among Fishers in Southern Brazil and its Relation to Marine Protected Areas in a Scenario of Declining Fisheries

Vulnerability of small-scale fishers in the north coast of Parana State, Southern Brazil, has been increasing due to a decline in catches and general problems of access to and management of natural resources, associated with biodiversity conservation policies. The predicted effects of climate change will represent an additional source of disturbance on local livelihoods. This study aimed to describe vulnerability of fishers and their adaptation strategies to ongoing reductions in catches, considered an analogue of possible responses to expected effects of climate change, and to evaluate the influence of no-take protected areas on them. Interviews were applied to 213 households, in 9 villages from Guaraquecaba, in the Paranagua Estuarine Complex. Results show that vulnerability varies in different spatial levels, mainly due to differences in the reliance on fisheries as a source of income, and in distribution of physical and social capital. Protected areas, if not adequately managed, can have a double negative effect on more vulnerable households, by restricting their access to mangrove resources in the present, and by limiting the viability of their favoured adaptation strategy for the future. These results are potentially useful for the development of biodiversity conservation and fisheries management actions adequate to the local level, and that contribute to reduce inequality and build resilience of fishers and the coastal ecosystems they rely on, in a scenario of declining fisheries and climate change.
A Fault Diagnosis System for Industry Pipe Manufacturing Process

It can be very costly for a process where an expert system and experience human being needed in certain circumstances. Without an expert system, his/her experience is loss where human is unavailable. This ‘human replacement’ process is certainly a convenient way to be applied. With the expert system, processes or tool that implemented will be standardized and accuracy will be increased comparing to the conventional way. Constrain values for the fault diagnoses are based on design data and experience of the engineer. A case study was conducted to verify the system. The development system helps user to find the best solution for the problems that occurred during the piping manufacturing process. The paper describes the used of expert system shell to develop piping fault diagnosis system in pipe manufacturing industries. The main aim of the research is to diagnose the problem of piping process in pipe manufacturing process.
Developing a presence in a mainstream market with a product perceived as offbeat

Generally when one thinks of Australian wine regions images of the Barossa Valley, the Hunter Valley or Margaret River may be conjured up as they have developed a presence in the mainstream market. Queensland, by contrast, may be perceived as offbeat, despite its similar quality and growing conditions. This study explores the plausibility of Queensland developing a presence in a mainstream market with findings from a survey completed by 347 people. The results indicate that when consumers choose their wine on the basis of terroir that personality, reputation and label design are the most important elements. Positioning wine from Queensland on its personality may hold the key to having an offbeat product compete in a mainstream market.
Assessing Changes in Intercultural Sensitivity among Agricultural Students Exposed to International Experiences

The purpose of this study was to assess changes in intercultural sensitivity among Agriculture college students at a land-grant university who participated in a designated international Icourse or a faculty-led short study abroad program to America, Asia/Oceania, and Europe. Using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). A nonequivalent group design pretest, posttest, with a comparison group, was used for data collection and analysis. One hundred and sixty-two students, clustered into five groups, participated in the study. The data were analyzed using split-plot factorial design 5 x 2. Findings indicated that all five groups were in the Ethnocentric Phase of the developmental continuum for both the pre and posttest, among the groups regarding development of intercultural sensitivity as a result of an international experience or I-course. The authors recommend that course facilitators include facets of intercultural dimensions in the curriculum as a means for assisting students acquire intercultural competence. Interventions should be designed according to individual levels of intercultural sensitivity. Reflexive journaling and group discussions should be used as an integral part of institutional curricular enhancement plans to increase intercultural competence. Institutional, intercultural goals should include moving students toward the acceptance stage of the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS). Further research should identify specific variables related to developing intercultural sensitivity among college students.
Optimum Process Parameters for Activated Carbon Production from Rice Husk for Phenol Adsorption

Aim: The determination of optimum process parameters in the production of activated carbon from rice husk for the uptake of phenol from aqueous solution was the focus of this work. Study Design: The optimization was designed using response surface methodology. Methodology: Central composite design (CCD) was used to generate the design matrix and analyze the result obtained. Carbonization temperature, percentage acid concentration and carbonization time were the factors considered. Tetraoxophosphoric acid (H3PO4) was employed in the activation process. The surface area was determined using the Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET) nitrogen adsorption method. Results: The result indicated the optimum process conditions as carbonization temperature of 575ºC, time of 240 minutes and 45 percentage acid concentration. This gave 96.5% adsorption efficiency of phenol from aqueous solution. There was good agreement between the experimental values and the predicted values. The BET surface area of the activated carbon was 471.1 m2/s. Conclusion: This work has optimized the process conditions for activated carbon production from rice husk for effective adsorption of phenol from wastewater.
In Situ Evaluation of Physiological Activity and Mitochondrial Dysfunction via Novo Label-Free Measures Based on Fluctuation of Image Gray Values

Characteristics of spatiotemporal fluctuation of gray values at a single-pixel level within bright field, label free image of a cell are explored in a variety of physiological and mitochondrial dysfunction states. From these fluctuations, the gray level information entropy (GLIE) is calculated and its derivative measures such as standard deviation, autocorrelation and periodic aspect are analyzed. This is realized by a user-friendly combination of common bright field microscopy and a unique imaging dish, wherein cells are individually held untethered, each within a picoliter volume optical chamber in an array, which allows repeatable spatiotemporal observation before, during and after bio-manipulation in situ, at a single-cell resolution, while in a population. GLIE fluctuation measures were exploited to demonstrate the gradual dying process of serum-deprived cells. Furthermore, these measures were realized in the evaluation of cell response to Phorbol Myristic Acetate (PMA), triiodothyronine (T3) thyroid hormone and mild hypothermia, and three different mitochondrial inhibitors as well: rotenone, carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazine (CCCP) and oligomycin. The GLIE fluctuation-based measures demonstrated the ability to (a) significantly distinguish cellular response to all six mediators, and (b) identify subgroups of cells according to their response to mild hypothermia. On the whole, employment of high contrast microscopy approaches, i.e., Phase Contrast (PC) and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC), for tracing cellular events via the spatiotemporal fluctuation measures, did not show noticeable advantages over simple Bright Field (BF) microscopy.
Assessments of the implementation of the minimum degree ordering algorithms

The minimum degree ordering is one of the most widely used algorithms to preorder a symmetric sparse matrix prior to numerical factorization. There are number of variants which try to reduce the computational complexity of the original algorithm while maintaining a reasonable ordering quality. An in-house finite element solver is used to test several minimum degree algorithms to find the most suitable configuration for the use in the Finite Element Method. The results obtained and their assessments are presented along with the minimum degree ordering algorithms overview.
Comparative analysis of bioethanol production by different strains of immobilized marine yeast

Yeasts are well known for bioethanol production. However, marine yeasts are less known for the activity. In the present context of increasing demand for energy and biofuel, the microbial synthesis of ethanol using cellulosic waste materials has gained recent importance. The present study deals with the identification of potential marine yeasts for ethanol production. Ten species of marine yeasts were cultured for 24, 48, 72, and 96 h for bioethanol production. Of the ten species, Candida albicans exhibited the maximum production of ethanol (47.3±3.1 g/L) within 96 h, when glucose was used as carbon source. The ethanol production by this species was found higher when the yeast cells were immobilized in sodium alginate compared to suspension culture. This experiment was also conducted with both immobilized yeast cells and non-immobilized cells. The experiment revealed that the marine yeast C. albicans is efficient in bioethanol production, when it is immobilized. Key words: Bioethanol, marine yeast species, monoclonal antibodies, thermotolerant.
Characterization of lipase bacteria from water in Mahakam river port Samarinda

Lipase is a hydrolase enzyme that is widely used in industry. The waters in Mahakam river port become a conducive place for the growth of bacteria that are able to hydrolyze lipids, so that bacteria are thought to be able to produce lipases. This research was conducted to screen bacteria that produced extracellular lipase and characterize the lipase. Screening of lipase-producing bacteria has been done with solid media containing Rodhamin B and the activity of lipase was conducted by titrimetricly. The characterization of isolated bacteria indicated that this bacteria belongs to Gram positive cocci shaped bacteria. Lipase-producing bacteria was successfully selected from the water taken in Mahakam river port Samarinda. The lipase was produced for 36 h. The optimum working conditions of lipase at 40°C and substrate concentration of 6%. Specific activity of bacterial lipase in Mahakam river water at Samarinda Port is 0.7212 U / mg.
Comparative Statics Effects for Supermarket Oligopoly with Applications to Sales Taxes and Slotting Allowances

Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural EconomicsAssociation Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 29-August 1, 2007Copyright 2007 by Stephen F. Hamilton. All rights reserved. Readers may make ver-batim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, providedthat this copyright notice appears on all such copies.
Extending Typicality for Description Logics

Recent extensions of description logics for dealing with different forms of non-monotonic reasoning don’t take us beyond the case of defeasible subsumption. In this paper we enrich the DL EL⊥ with a (constrained version of) a typicality operator •, the intuition of which is to capture the most typical members of a class, providing us with the DL EL⊥. We argue that EL⊥ is the smallest step one can take to increase the expressivity beyond the case of defeasible subsumption for DLs, while still retaining all the rationality properties an appropriate notion of defeasible subsumption is required to satisfy, and investigate what an appropriate notion of non-monotonic entailment for EL⊥ should look like.
Services, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease

This paper shows how Dutch disease effects may arise solely from a shift in demand following a natural resource discovery. The natural resource wealth increases the demand for non-tradable luxury services due to non-homothetic preferences. Labor that could be used to develop other non-resource tradable sectors is pulled into these service sectors. As a result, manufactures and other tradable goods are more likely to be imported, and learning and productivity improvements accrue to the foreign exporters. However, once the natural resources diminish, there is less income to purchase the services and non-resource tradable goods. Thus, the temporary gain in purchasing power translates into long-term stagnation. As opposed to conventional models where income distribution has no effect on economic outcomes, an unequal distribution of the rents from resource wealth further intensifies the Dutch disease dynamics within this framework.
Adoption of rainfed paddy production technologies among smallholder farmers: A case of Central District- Zanzibar, Tanzania

This study intended to determine factors affecting the adoption of new technologies in rainfed paddy production practiced by smallholder farmers in the Central District-Zanzibar, Tanzania. A crosssectional research design was employed. A structured questionnaire, focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant (KI) interviews were used to explore issues related to rainfed paddy production. 120 respondents who were engaged in rainfed paddy farming were selected from 4 village clusters (30 respondents in each village cluster) from December 2013 to January 2014. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model. Results show that majority of respondents (55%) were female while 45% were male aging 19-59 years. The study revealed that rainfed paddy production technologies that were adopted by smallholder farmers included row planting, fertilizer application (P=.03), weed control and the use of improved paddy seed varieties (p= .04). Descriptive analysis results showed that the adoption level of technologies Original Research Article Haji et al.; ARJA, 8(2): 1-19, 2018; Article no.ARJA. 39172 2 was high. The logistic regression analysis showed that extension services, age, off-farm income and distance from residence to the marketplaces were factors that influenced the decisions of smallholder farmers to adopt technologies (p<.05). Researchers recommend that the government of Zanzibar should continue providing efficient extension services to smallholder farmers in order to ensure sustainability in the adoption of rainfed paddy production technologies in Zanzibar.
Effect of partial inferior turbinectomy operation on pulmonary function tests

Background: Nasal obstruction due to persistent hypertrophy of inferior turbinates is very common affecting respiration and daily activity. Partial inferior turbinectomy is a very safe and effective operation overcoming the nasal obstruction and nasal resistance caused by hypertrophied turbinates. Methods: In this prospective descriptive study, we tried to evaluate the effect of the operation on pulmonary functions and daily activity objectively by using spirometry and 6-minutes walking test before and after the operation. Thirty patients were included in this study. Results: Significant improvement after the operation. Also, we use a subjective VAS score which revealed the same results, proving that, the pulmonary function tests improved significantly after partial inferior turbinectomy operation. Conclusions: Partial inferior turbinectomy is a very effective operation in the management of nasal obstruction caused by persistent hypertrophy of inferior turbinates resulting in improvement of the pulmonary function tests and daily activity after the operation without marked complications.
Hydrodynamic tails and a fluctuation bound on the bulk viscosity

We study the small frequency behavior of the bulk viscosity spectral function using stochastic fluid dynamics. We obtain a number of model independent results, including the long-time tail of the bulk stress correlation function, and the leading non-analyticity of the spectral function at small frequency. We also establish a lower bound on the bulk viscosity which is weakly dependent on assumptions regarding the range of applicability of fluid dynamics. The bound on the bulk viscosity $\zeta$ scales as $\zeta_{\it min} \sim (P-\frac{2}{3}{\cal E})^2 \sum_i D_i^{-2}$, where $D_i$ are the diffusion constants for energy and momentum, and $P-\frac{2}{3}{\cal E}$, where $P$ is the pressure and ${\cal E}$ is the energy density, is a measure of scale breaking. Applied to the cold Fermi gas near unitarity, $|\lambda/a_s|\geq 1$ where $\lambda$ is the thermal de Broglie wave length and $a_s$ is the $s$-wave scattering length, this bound implies that the ratio of bulk viscosity to entropy density satisfies $\zeta/s \geq 0.1\hbar/k_B$. Here, $\hbar$ is Planck's constant and $k_B$ is Boltzmann's constant.
Spatial-temporal analysis of seismicity before the 2012 Varzeghan, Iran, Mw 6.5 earthquake

In this work, the spatial and temporal variations of seismicity in northwestern Iran have been evaluated with a special focus on seismic precursors of the 11 August 2012 Mw 6.5 Varzeghan earthquake. The precursors are defined by the z-value test and the generalized fractal dimensions of earthquake epicenters. The investigation applies earthquakes that have occurred since 2006 in a region that includes the main shock and collected by the Iranian Seismological Center. In order to eliminate the effect of explosions in the processing, we removed the explosion from the used catalog by using the normalized ratio analysis of daytime to nighttime events. Having done the preprocessing procedures, we removed the events with magnitudes of less than 2.5. As a result of our analysis, a period of seismic quiescence has been identified, which started about 3 years before the Varzeghan main shock. In a nice coincidence with these results, significant changes have been observed in the generalized fractal dimensions and the related spectra prior to the occurrence of the Varzeghan earthquake. The changes indicate that the seismic activities of the studied area have had increasingly dense clustering in space since about mid-2009, which suggests the regional preparedness for the occurrence of the main quake. Furthermore, the analysis did not exhibit any significant seismic quiescence anomaly at the beginning of 2013.
The value of focus group discussions for understanding barriers to agriculture-tourism linkages in developing regions.

The value of focus group research is becoming more evident throughout the social sciences, as academicians and practitioners alike search for better ways to investigate and analyze human interactions, beliefs and attitudes in all kinds of business and social situations and contexts. The study of international agricultural development is no exception to this trend. In particular, as agriculture in developing countries evolves and as markets in those countries become affected by industrialization, focus groups provide a credible way for researchers to examine barriers as well as new possibilities regarding relationships between agriculture and new industries. This article demonstrates how focus groups were used to gather information in the U.S. Virgin Islands that helped stakeholders to identify and characterize barriers to developing a stronger relationship between the agriculture industry and the tourism and hospitality industry. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Mr. Carlos Robles and Mr. Dale Morton who organized and conducted the focus group meetings.