Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Beyond Culture: Success Factors for Transnational Multiparty Collaboration

The complexities of global business require rapid and effective responses across borders. These demand an understanding of factors that influence success with transnational multiparty collaboration. Core issues for collaboration in such settings include: 1) understanding the role that culture and identity play in creating a fused individual and organizational identity; 2) development of strong connectedness between parties; and 3) creation of shared vision. This thesis reports on a mixed methods research study which involved the use of qualitative data gathered through interviews with business professional’s experience on transnational multiparty projects and quantitative data gathered through surveys representing eleven national/cultural sectors. Our findings show: 1) as differences in culture can be a show-stopper, energy must be expended for active management and awareness of cultural differences; 2) collaborative environment is created through empathy and trust that acknowledges Identity (role and individual) and 3) the significance of an inclusive process of creating a shared vision. We apply a systems approach to understand the role of various components that interact in generating a collaborative space. We approach collaboration as an emergent process created when all three elements are present and interact.
Translation initiation factors are differentially regulated in cereals during development and following heat shock

Summary The level of protein synthetic activity varies greatly in plants during development or following many environmental stresses. In order to determine whether these global changes in protein synthesis involve changes in the expression of the translational machinery itself, the expression patterns of the initiation factors (eIFs) during cereal seed development, germination, and in leaves following a heat shock were investigated. The expression patterns of initiation factors during seed development fell into four classes: those whose levels were high during early to mid-development but decreased during late seed development (eIF4 A, eIFiso4E, eIFiso4G, and most eIF3 subunits); those whose levels increased from early to mid-development followed by a decrease during late seed development (eIF4B, eIF4E, eIF2α, eIF2β, and PABP); those whose levels steadily increased throughout seed development (eIF4G); and those whose levels remained constant (the p34 subunit of eIF3). In contrast to these observations, the expression patterns of the factors appeared to be coordinately regulated during early germination although differences were observed at later stages. Following a heat shock, the changes in initiation factor expression in wheat leaves fell into two classes, those whose level increased (eIF4G, eIFiso4G, eIF3, and PABP) and those whose level remained unchanged (eIF4 A, eIF4B, eIF4E, eIFiso4E). These observations reveal the complexity of the expression patterns of the initiation factors during seed development, germination, and following thermal stress and may have mechanistic importance for the selective translation of certain mRNAs under these conditions.
Saudi Aramco and the Oil Market

We present a general equilibrium model of the global oil market, in which the oil price, oil production, and consumption, are jointly determined as outcomes of the optimizing decisions of oil importers and oil exporters. On the supply side the oil market is modelled as a dominant firm – Saudi Aramco – with competitive fringe. We establish that a dominant firm may exist as long as it enjoys a cost advantage over the fringe. We provide an expression for the optimal markup and compute the spare capacity maintained by such a firm. The model produces plausible dynamic in response to oil supply and oil demand shocks. In particular, it reproduces successfully the jump in oil output of Saudi Aramco following the output collapse of Iraq and Kuwait during the first Gulf War, explaining it as the profit-maximizing response of the dominant firm. Oil taxes and subsidies affect the oil price and welfare through their effect on the trade-off between oil production efficiency and oil market competition. JEL Classification: E32, Q43
Effects of elevated salinity of the growing medium on rhizome essential oil yield and fatty acid composition of Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae)

This study was aimed at the examination of the effects of increased salinity of growing medium on the fatty acid composition and yield of rhizome essential oil of Curcuma longa L. The analyses (gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) of the transesterified petroleum ether extract of rhizomes grown under non-saline conditions (0.0 mM NaCl; control) showed that the dominant fatty acids were oleic (48.6%), myristic (15.0%), linoleic (7.9%), palmitic (6.8%) and linolenic (2.4%). Increased growth medium salinity (25.0, 50.0 and 75.0 mM NaCl) provoked significant changes in the relative amounts of some acids. Increase of NaCl concentration caused an increase in the amount of linoleic and linolenic acids, but had the opposite or no effect on myristic and oleic acids quantity. The yield of the essential oil obtained from fresh control rhizome (non-saline conditions) was 1.7%. When C. longa was grown in a low-salinity medium (25.0 mM NaCl), the oil yield remained the same. However, under high salinity conditions the yield reached 2.9% (50.0 mM NaCl), i.e. 3.1% (75.0 mM NaCl). Our results clearly show that the studied plant species is susceptible to high salinity induced stress.
Risk Transmission Beyond Financial Crises: Volatility Spillovers and Spillbacks Between SMICs and the U.S.

Utilizing VAR-DCC-MVGARCH model and volatility spillover index, we examine international spillovers and spillbacks between SMICs and the U.S. Results show that SMICs and the U.S. present dynamic and asymmetric volatility spillovers and spillbacks during and beyond financial crisis. The effects of previous long-term spillovers on the dynamics of current conditional variances are stronger than previous short-term innovations. Volatility spillbacks from China, South Africa and Mexico vary greatly, being more significant in the post global financial crisis. Furthermore, India and China present significant net spillovers to the other SMICs, whilst South Africa shows more net volatility transmission to Brazil and Mexico.
Effect of Shrimp Stocking Density on Size‐fractionated Phytoplankton and Ecological Groups of Ciliated Protozoa within Zero‐water Exchange Shrimp Culture Systems

Zero-water exchange shrimp culture systems are being investigated to reduce water and pathogens input and effluent output. The relative abundance and diversity of ciliates have been used as indicators of water quality and ecosystem dynamics in natural systems; however, their occurrence and role in shrimp production systems have not been investigated. The objectives of this research were to describe the succession of the ciliate community in a shrimp grow out system, to investigate the impact of increasing shrimp stocking density on the characteristics of the ciliated protozoa community, and to correlate this with shrimp performance. A growth trial with Litopenaeus vannamei was conducted outdoors with zero-water exchange and three stocking densities (50, 75 and 100 shrimp/m2). In all treatments, free-swimming ciliates were dominant in the early weeks, while substrate-associated ciliates appeared later. The 100 shrimp/m2 treatment exhibited a lower abundance of free-swimming ciliates but higher abundance of hypotrichous ciliates in the second half of production and higher shrimp mortality and lower shrimp growth in the last 2 wk. These results provide a preliminary examination of the role of ciliates in shrimp culture systems and direction for future work in determining the role of protozoa as indicators of water quality.
Évaluation d'indicateurs fécaux pour prédire la digestibilité et les quantités ingérées de Dichanthium sp par des bovins créoles

Un essai de digestibilite a ete realise en continu pendant 53 jours avec six taurillons creoles a l'auge, afin d'etablir pour Dichanthium sp des equations de prediction de la digestibilite de la matiere organique (dMO) et des quantites de matiere organique ingerees (MOI), a partir de la composition chimique des feces. Les constituants qui ont permis de predire la dMO avec la plus grande precision sont les matieres azotees totales (MATf, % MO) que ce soit avec une equation de type lineaire, quadratique ou hyperbolique (dMO = 0,983 - 4,002/MATf, ETR = 0,023). Les constituants parietaux des feces ont ete des covariables moins precises que MATf. La quantite de MAT (en g) excretee dans les feces a ete l'indicateur le plus precis pour predire MOI (ETR = 240 g de MO). Les equations etablies ont ensuite ete utilisees pour estimer la digestibilite et les quantites ingerees par des genisses creoles au pâturage sur des prairies a Dichanthium sp au cours de trois essais caracterises par des croissances journalieres des animaux tres differentes (740, 430 et 140 g). C'est l'equation hyperbolique qui a conduit a des estimations de la digestibilite et des quantites de MOI les plus coherentes avec la croissance et les besoins en energie calcules des animaux dans les trois situations alors que les modeles lineaires et quadratiques ont conduit a des biais non negligeables.
A revision of the genus Anaphalioides (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae)

Abstract Evidence from floral morphology, cytology, and hybridism is used to establish the monophyly and limits of the genus Anaphalioides. A key and descriptions of seven species (five in New Zealand, two in New Guinea) making up the genus are given. New combinations made are Anaphalioides alpina and A. bellidioides (both in New Zealand) and A. mariae and A. papuana (both in New Guinea). A. keriensis and A. trinervis are treated as a single variable species. Other New Zealand species are A. subrigida and A. hookeri.
Managerial Activism

We look at managerial activism through collective action in the corporate sector. Activist managers spend considerable resources on lobbying, lawsuits and public statements to pursue pro-business as well as pro-manager issues. While managerial activism is valuable in following pro-business policies and strategies, pro-manager agendas may exacerbate agency problems. We find evidence more towards the pro-business role of managerial activism. Specifically, firm performance improves with managerial activism, and this improvement is observed primarily in firms that are government dependent, produce differentiated products, operate in concentrated industries or have more intangible assets. While corporate governance and corporate social responsibility of firms with activist managers is mostly comparable to other firms, firms with activist managers have better diversity in their workforce and boards. Overall, managerial activism adds value to firms, especially when information dissemination is more essential due to firm characteristics.
Net Health Benefits: A New Framework for the Analysis of Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to the development of statistical methods for the analysis of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis, with a focus on situations in which the analyst has patient-level data on the costs and health effects of alternative interventions. To date, discussions have focused almost exclusively on addressing the practical challenges involved in estimating confidence intervals for CE ratios. However, the general approach of using confidence intervals to convey information about uncertainty around CE ratio estimates suffers from theoretical limitations that render it inappropriate in many situations. We present an alternative framework for analyzing uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health interventions (termed the net health benefits' approach) that is more broadly applicable and that avoids some problems of prior methods. This approach offers several practical and theoretical advantages over the analysis of CE ratios, is straightforward to apply, and highlights some important principles in the theoretical underpinnings of CEA.
The Effect of Motivation and Leadership Behavior on the Performance of Employees of the Industry and Trade Service in Makassar City

This study aims to determine the effect of motivation and leadership behavior on the performance of employees at the Department of Industry and Trade of Makassar City. In hopes of contributing to the improvement of agency performance, through the application of leadership motivation and behavior at the Office of Industry and Trade of Makassar City. The population in this study were all employees of the Department of Industry and Trade of Makassar city as many as 100 people. The number of samples used was 68 civil servants using saturated sampling techniques. Data collection is done using observation and questionnaire methods. The data analysis technique used is multiple regression analysis using the Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) program. The results showed that partially the motivation variable had a positive but not significant effect and leadership behavior had a positive and significant effect. Simultaneously motivation and leadership behavior have a significant effect on the performance of employees in the Department of Industry and Trade of Makassar City. The determination coefficient is 0.553 which indicates that the ability of the independent variable to predict the dependent variable is 55.3%. 44.7% are influenced by other factors not examined.
Isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica from ready-to-eat foods and pork by a simple two step procedure

Abstract Out of 119 ready-to-eat food samples and pork processed for isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica, 15 samples (12·6%) were positive for the presence of Y. enterocolitica by a two step procedure in a modified trypticase soy broth containing 0·25% yeast extract, 0·2% bile salts and 4 μg ml-1 Irgasan at pH 7·6 and upon incubating at 10°C and 22°C for 6 days. Only five samples (4·2%) were positive by cold enrichment in trypticase soy broth containing 0·2% yeast extract, incubated at 4°C for 14 days. Four strains of Y. enterocolitica and one strain of Y. intermedia were isolated from pork samples processed by cold enrichment. Out of 15 strains of Y. enterocolitica isolated from pork (four strains) and ready-to-eat food samples (10 strains) by two step procedure only three strains belonged to pathogenic serotype O:3 and which were isolated only from pork samples. Overall recovery of Y. enterocolitica was much better by the two step procedure as compared to cold enrichment (P
Learning and Optimization for Patient-Physician Matching in Specialty Care

It is extremely difficult for a patient without medical knowledge and education to select a ‘capable’ physician in specialty care. Motivated by this existing patient-physician matching problem, this paper presents an improved multi-disease pre-diagnosing Bayesian network framework to match patients’ symptoms with physicians’ specialties through pre-diagnosed diseases, which is learnt by a tabu search algorithm embedded with expert knowledge. Specifically, we define a novel physician matching index (PMI) based on the symptom-specialty relationship, which can be further integrated with patient preference. A first-come first-serve rule based greedy heuristic is proposed to recommend physician under patient preference and physician capacity constraints. Its performance is evaluated by its upper bound by solving a 0-1 knapsack model. A case study of patient-physician matching problem in ear, nose and throat (ENT) department is conducted. The experimental results show that the proposed matching framework increases the physician matching accuracy under different patient preferences. Moreover, we analyze the effect of weight of primary disease and comorbidity, the physician’s specialty distribution, and the patient preference. We find that the embedded PMI matching mechanism enhances the diagnosing accuracy and patient satisfaction.
Reproductive Ecology of Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus in a Virginia Stream

Abstract In North Anna River, Virginia, redbreast sunfish Lepomis auritus began spawning in late May, 1992, when water temperatures exceeded 20°C. Spawning occurred in pool habitat with low velocities (<0.10 m/s) and water deeper than 0.5 m, consistent with previous reports. Nest densities declined into the summer and variation in nest density was explained by a single predictor (log degree-days). All nests constructed in May were destroyed by high flow, whereas 30 of 51 nests built later were successful in producing swim-up fry. Overall nest success was 33%. Multivariate separation (MANOVA) with 21 habitat-related variables was not significant, suggesting that reproductive success during periods of stable flow was not related to variables measured and may be influenced by biotic factors, such as predation.
Product Design and the Choice of Green Degree

In the green market, there is no “one size ﬁts all” product strategy. Consumers’ environmental awareness may motivate enterprise to adopt green technology and eco-friendly materials, and then bring the enterprise more proﬁt and market share in some cases. Consumer environmental awareness is always characterized by the willingness to pay for a product in some papers. In this paper, we discuss one enterprise’s product strategy, when to produce two alternative products with different green degree considering all the possible technological parameter and the willingness to pay. We address the optimal decisions of the enterprise on the optimal green degree and price. Meanwhile, we also show the effect of eco-friendly materials on enterprise’s proﬁt and environmental impact while environmental impact is the weighted green degree of products. Moreover, we investigate how to increase the beneﬁcial effect or decrease the adverse effect on proﬁt and environmental impact from the respective of enterprise and the government, respectively, in terms of using eco-friendly materials with the willingness to pay to vary. Numerical analysis is conducted to show the aforementioned relative results.
Stock Splits and Attracting Attention: Are Investors Buying Abnormally More Around Stock Split Announcements?

In this research I study whether stock splits attract market’s attention by exploring how investors are trading around event announcement dates. By employing high frequency intraday trading data from NYSE Trades and Quotes (TAQ) database I compute net abnormal buying around split announcements. The empirical tests on a matched pair sample of splitting and matching firms show that stock splits serve as attention attracting tool and investors are buying abnormally more around the announcements. Additional analysis confirms this finding – abnormal buying is significantly higher for larger splits. Furthermore, investors are more attracted to the splits that deliver higher subsequent long run stock performance.
Debtor-Creditor Relationship and Corporate Tax Planning: Evidence from Initiation of Credit Default Swaps Trading

This study investigates the effect of the debtor–creditor relationship on firms’ tax planning decisions. We explore the initiation of credit default swaps (CDS) as a shock to the debtor–creditor relationship that attenuates the concavity of creditors’ payoff function and reduces their incentives to closely monitor debtors and to protect their claims. As a result, debtors engage in more tax avoidance. Less price protection by creditors also reduces debtors’ marginal cost of tax avoidance and thus increases debtors’ level of tax avoidance. Using a differences-in-differences regression, we find that borrowing firms significantly increase their level of tax avoidance when there are CDS trading on their debts. This effect is more pronounced when the debtor–creditor relationship is characterized by continuous monitoring prior to CDS trade initiation, when creditors suffer lower reputation losses if they reduce monitoring post-CDS, and when the CDS market is more liquid.
Comparison of QTLs mapped in RILs and their test-cross progenies of tropical maize for insect resistance and agronomic traits

QuantItatIve traIt lOCI (QTL) affectlllg resIstance to south-western corn borer Dzatraea grandzosella (SWCB) and sugarcane borer Dzatraea saccharalzs (SCB) have been Identmed prevIOusly III F 23 lInes and recomblllant Illbred lInes (RILs) of tropIcal maJ.Ze uSlllg restnctlOn fragment length polymorphIsm (RFLP) analyses. Our 0 bJectlve was to detenrune whether QTLs IdentIfied III these generatIOns are also expressed III testcrosses (TC) of RILs A population of 166 TC progemes was developed by crosslllg RILs from the cross CML131 (susceptIble) x CML67 (resIstant) WIth the unrelated, susceptIble tester lIne CML216. ReSIstance to first-generatIOn SWCB, measured as leaf-feedmg damage (LFD) under artIfiCIal mfestatlOn, and other agronomIc traIts were evaluated m two envIronments for the TC progemes and three enVIronments for 183 RILs The correlatIon between Ime per se and TC performance was low for LFD and mtermeruate for most agronormc traIts EstImates of the genotYPIc vanance and hentabllItIes were smaller m the TC progemes than m the RILs for all traIts QuantItatIve traIt lOCI were IdentIfied usmg an RFLP Imkage map WIth 136 lOCI For LFD, four QTLs were detected m the TC progemes, of whIch two were m common WIth nme QTLs preVIously mapped m the RILs Few QTLs for agronolillc traits were common to the two types of progeny, because of the low consIstency of QTL pOSItIons for all traIts m RIL and TC progemes, the use of TC progemes should be conSIdered m QTL mappmg sturues as the first step for marker-assIsted selectIOn m hybnd breedmg
Organic and siliceous protistan scales in north-east Atlantic abyssal sediments

We report the occurrence of a high diversity of minute (∼1 μm diameter) organic and siliceous protistan scales in small samples (total volume ∼35 μl) of superficial sediment from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), north-east Atlantic (4850 m water depth). Many exhibit characters by which they can be identified to species. The organic scales belong to the haptophyte genera Chrysochromulina (8–9 species), Chrysocampanula and Dolichomastix (1 species each). The siliceous scales belong to the chrysophytes Paraphysomonas vestita and Meringosphaera sp. and to the heterotrophic flagellate genus Thaumatomastix (T. dybsoeana, T. formosa, Thaumatomastix sp.). As far as we are aware, this is the first time that non-calcareous protistan scales have been observed in deep-sea sediments (although siliceous skeletal plates and cysts are reported). All scales probably originated from the upper water column and were delivered to the deep-sea floor on rapidly sinking detrital aggregates. However, naked heterotrophic flagellates are known to thrive in abyssal sediment habitats and so the possibility that some scale-bearing protists also live in benthic deep-sea environments cannot be eliminated. Many species identified at the PAP site are common in coastal marine waters around Europe; some occur as far afield as Tasmania and New Zealand. Five Chrysochromulina species are known from central oceanic areas, including parts of the North Atlantic, while another species, C. pringsheimii, is reported from a British freshwater lake. We retrieved ∼15% of the 55 named Chrysochromulina species (∼8% of the estimated total number of species in this diverse group) in the ∼35 μl of abyssal sediment. Because the scales can persist and be identified after cell death, they may provide useful time- and space-averaged information about the distribution of protist species in marine habitats. The long-term fate of the scales on the sea-floor is unknown. It is possible that at least some of the organic scales are preserved as microfossils in deep-sea sediments.