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Establishing Best Practices for Including Emotional Intelligence in Real Estate Professionals

Competency in emotional intelligence, whether learned and/or improved, is an important skill for those in the field of real estate sales. Evidence from studies in the area of real estate and in the general area of sales have indicated that a correlation exists with individuals who have high emotional intelligence and improved sales performance. A thorough literature review and the delivery of an online survey taken by 31 real estate professionals was conducted. From this research, Swanson, Hamilton, and Zobisch created a list of best practices for incorporating emotional intelligence into the field of real estate professionals
Transnational Student Identity Development through the Cosmopolite Lens: Benefits and Challenges of Straddling Cultures

“Home”: a word and concept very concrete and familiar to some, yet abstract and foreign to many. The meaning of home could vary drastically depending on the interpretation of the individual. Home could refer to one’s “homeland” indicated by a legal document, or a place where one “feels at home” (Storti, 2001, p. 3-4). As the world becomes more internationalized, many individuals do not feel a distinct link to any one place or set of traditions. The concept of home is often described more as an emotional location rather than geographical one (Pascoe, 2000). For many, having a community and home during childhood can be a source of stability and strength. However, for those straddling cultures, the concept of home may be very unclear. For these students, myself included, defining and finding home can be a lifelong journey.
Underground Economy and Tax Administration

Around the world economies, underground economy is a fiscal problem peculiar to the developing countries. But almost all countries, independent of whether developed, developing or transition, face a remarkably large size of the underground economy. Underground economy has two main disadvantages: Not only it cut downs the tax revenues but also it causes the tax equity to worse off and threatens the legitimacy of the tax system. So, it emerges for government interventions like tax policy, direct regulations or institutional arrangements. In this paper, we expand the analysis of underground economy one step further to put forward a remedy for the underground economy: Some efforts must be made to increase tax compliance such as, establishing the simplicity of the tax system, encouraging the compliant motives of the taxpayers, powering different behaviour patterns with respect to different income levels and stipulating efficient administration of the reforms.
Modified R-tree Model Yevgeniy Borodavka

In this paper, the modified model of the R-tree structure was suggested. The main difference between classic R-tree structure and the modified model is rejection of the restriction for amount of descendants for each tree node. In addition, the proposed model supports three types of the relations between objects. Two types of the relations implemented based on hierarchy tree structure and one as reference connection at the same level of the tree hierarchy. The created model is very suitable for CAD systems development, especially for construction field.
The Computational Detection of Functional Nucleotide Sequence Motifs in the Coding Regions of Organisms

A new algorithm has been constructed for finding under- and overrepresented oligonucleotide motifs in the protein coding regions of genomes that have been normalized for G/C content, codon usage, and amino acid order. This Robins-Krasnitz algorithm has been employed to compare the oligonucleotide frequencies between many different prokaryotic genomes. Evidence is presented demonstrating that at least some of these sequence motifs are functionally important and selected for or against during the evolution of these prokaryotes. The applications of this method include the optimization of protein expression for synthetic genes in foreign organisms, identification of novel oligonucleotide signals used by the organism and the examination of evolutionary relationships not dependent upon different gene sequence trees.
Recovery of ponderosa pine ecosystem carbon and water fluxes from thinning and stand‐replacing fire

Carbon uptake by forests is a major sink in the global carbon cycle, helping buffer the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, yet the potential for future carbon uptake by forests is uncertain. Climate warming and drought can reduce forest carbon uptake by reducing photosynthesis, increasing respiration, and by increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires, leading to large releases of stored carbon. Five years of eddy covariance measurements in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)‐dominated ecosystem in northern Arizona showed that an intense wildfire that converted forest into sparse grassland shifted site carbon balance from sink to source for at least 15 years after burning. In contrast, recovery of carbon sink strength after thinning, a management practice used to reduce the likelihood of intense wildfires, was rapid. Comparisons between an undisturbed‐control site and an experimentally thinned site showed that thinning reduced carbon sink strength only for the first two posttreatment years. In the third and fourth posttreatment years, annual carbon sink strength of the thinned site was higher than the undisturbed site because thinning reduced aridity and drought limitation to carbon uptake. As a result, annual maximum gross primary production occurred when temperature was 3 °C higher at the thinned site compared with the undisturbed site. The severe fire consistently reduced annual evapotranspiration (range of 12–30%), whereas effects of thinning were smaller and transient, and could not be detected in the fourth year after thinning. Our results show large and persistent effects of intense fire and minor and short‐lived effects of thinning on southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystem carbon and water exchanges.
Privacy Preserved Encrypted Cloud Data Access

Several alternatives exist for storage services with the guarantee of security and availability for data at rest, in motion, and in use. In a cloud context, security can improve due to centralization of data, increased security-forced resources etc. The existing SecureDBaas architecture, integrates cloud database services with data confidentiality and the possibility of executing concurrent operations on encrypted data. This architecture has the further advantage of eliminating intermediate proxies. In this paper, propose architecture by providing security to SecureDBaaS. Here introducing a trusted third party to check whether any corruption occur at the cloud server database data.
Impact of hourly wind power variations on the system operation in the Nordic countries

The variations of wind power production will increase the flexibility needed in the system when significant amounts of load are covered by wind power. When studying the incremental effects that varying wind power production imposes on the power system, it is important to study the system as a whole: only the net imbalances have to be balanced by the system. Large geographical spreading of wind power will reduce variability, increase predictability and decrease the occasions with near zero or peak output. The goal of this work was to estimate the increase in hourly load-following reserve requirements based on real wind power production and synchronous hourly load data in the four Nordic countries. The result is an increasing effect on reserve requirements with increasing wind power penetration. At a 10% penetration level (wind power production of gross demand) this is estimated as 1·5%–4% of installed wind capacity, taking into account that load variations are more predictable than wind power variations. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
THE DAY-OF-THE-WEEK EFFECT ON BUCHAREST STOCK EXCHANGE

This study investigates the presence on Bucharest Stock Exchange of one of the most documented seasonal anomalies of financial assets’ returns: the day-of-the-week effect. We use daily returns for five Romanian official exchange indices and for one MSCI Barra country index during May 2007- March 2013, thereby including both the 2007-2009 financial markets meltdown and the 2009-2012 recovery that followed it. We employed a GARCH-M model with dummy variables for both the mean and the variance equation, but the results obtained don’t offer clear enough and sufficient statistically significant arguments to confirm the presence of the above mentioned effects on all the six indices investigated.
A Case-Control Study on the Risk Factors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Fukuoka, Japan

We carried out a case-control study of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) including 204 patients with HCC and 410 control subjects in Fukuoka prefecture, where HCC risk is among the highest in Japan. The possible risk factors examined were: a) chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, b) alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking, c) a past history of blood transfusion and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Chronic HBV infection was strongly associated with the development of HCC (relative risk, RR = 14.6). Heavy drinkers experienced about a two-fold risk increase, yet a relationship between cigarette smoking and HCC was not evident. Blood recipients showed a significantly increased RR of 3.0. Serum antibodies to HCV (antiHCV) were detected by both enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and recombinant immunoblot assay in 51% of HCCs and 3% of the controls; the RR (and 95% confidence interval) for positive anti-HCV was calculated as 52.3 (23.9-114.3). Among male patients with HCC, the anti-HCV rates were very high in blood recipients (68%), heavy drinkers (62%) and those who had no identifiable risk factors (75%), indicating the possible transmission of HCV via routes other than blood transfusion. We estimated the population attributable risk of HCC at 17% for chronic HBV infection, 13% for heavy drinking, and 49% for HCV infection in Fukuoka. Further investigations are still needed to identify the other infectious routes of HCV besides transfusion.
Energy Efficient Routing Scheme for WSN

: Wireless Sensor Networks are being wildly popular for large number of applications for military healthcare, weather, etc. WSNs have promised to be one of the convincing areas of Research and Development. A variety of applications such as monitoring battlefield, medical, consumer and industrial use, etc have shown its significant contribution in WSN. Routing is one of the fundamental aspects in wired and wireless communication, which permits transfer of data from source to destination. The existing routing scheme is based upon the energy based metric calculation scheme, which carries some drawbacks. Such as, the existing scheme is based upon the energy based metric. The existing model proposes the use of tree-based routing structure. In this paper, we have proposed the use of remaining energy in terms of percentage and remaining lifetime with multiple other factors for the effective and energy efficient routing in the WSNs. The performance of the proposed scheme will be measured using the latency, load, reliability, etc.
Probing a-310 Transitions in a Voltage-Sensing S 4 Helix

The S4 helix of voltage sensor domains (VSDs) transfers its gating charges across the membrane electrical field in response to changes of the membrane potential. Recent studies suggest that this process may occur via the helical conversion of the entire S4 between a and 310 conformations. Here, using LRET and FRET, we tested this hypothesis by measuring dynamic changes in the transmembrane length of S4 from engineered VSDs expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Our results suggest that the native S4 from the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensitive phosphatase (Ci-VSP) does not exhibit extended and long-lived 310 conformations and remains mostly a-helical. Although the S4 of NavAb displays a fully extended 310 conformation in x-ray structures, its transplantation in the Ci-VSP VSD scaffold yielded similar results as the native Ci-VSP S4. Taken together, our study does not support the presence of long-lived extended a-to-310 helical conversions of the S4 in Ci-VSP associated with voltage activation.
A mathematical model of cervical cancer in Kenya

Background: In this paper dynamic models for cervical cancer among women with diagnosed and undiagnosed cervical cancer have been constructed. Methods: Differential equations for the population of women in each stage of diagnosed and undiagnosed cervical cancer were developed. The year 2010 was used as the base year. The equations were run through Matlab and results are presented in graphs. Results and Discussion: The growth patterns for both diagnosed and undiagnosed status in the population were identical. However, the only difference between the two has been observed as the initial values that are estimated from the WHO/ICO report taking 2010 as the base year for the respective stages. This was with assumption of no change in detection process.
Ten Myths of Performance Evaluation of Mutual Funds: a Snapshot View

There are numerous studies conducted to examine the performance of mutual funds of the developed capital markets based on age-old models. This paper is intended to examine the trends in modeling dimensions of measuring performance of mutual funds during last 50 years. This paper is intended to examine some basic myths about performance evaluation of mutual funds. There are several studies on this issue. It is observed that the opinions of scholars are deviating and not correlating with the results. For instance, persistence of performance is not confidently proved by the scholars. There are various reasons which are exhaustive and to mention a few like: market fluctuations, market timing ability, and competition in the industry.
Anti-Plasmodial and Larvicidal Effects of Surface Exudates of Gardenia ternifolia Aerial Parts

Various parts of Gardenia ternifolia (leaves, roots and stem bark) have been reported by traditional healers as a remedy against malaria fever. The aerial parts are coated with shiny materials rich in flavonoid aglycones. The crude acetone wash of the aerial parts showed anti-plasmodial activity of IC50 values 1.06 and 0.94 μg mL -1 against chloroquine-resistant (W2) and chloroquine-sensitive (D6) strains of Plasmodium falciparum, respectively. Bioassay guided chromatographic separation of the crude extracts afforded five flavonoids; (naringenin-7-O-methylether, quercetin-4, 7-O-dimethylether, kaempferol-7-O-methylether, 4, 5-Dihydroxy-6, 7-dimethoxyflavanone, naringenin-4, 7-O-dimethyl-ether) and two steroids; (stigmasterol, β-sitosterol). The same crude acetone surface extract as well as the pure isolates showed moderate larvicidal effects against 2nd instar Ae. aegypti larvae. Naringenin-7-O-methyl-ether was the most potent principle.
China’s GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times

Our article is a critical survey of the concepts and data utilized by economists and economic historians that purport to measure relative levels and long term trends in GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to Communist times. We favour attempts to extend macro-economic analysis and its associated quantification to China’s long imperial history, but have concluded that estimates calibrated in international dollars for 1900, or 2005 or 2011 are not fit for that purpose. Furthermore, and after surveying recent endeavours to reconstruct the published secondary and official statistical sources available for the measurement of primary production for Ming and Qing China (1368-1911), we reluctantly suggest that Kuznetian paradigms for empirical economics are probably not viable, either for the measurement of the empire’s growth over time or for reciprocal comparisons with European economies. This is because on both conceptual and statistical grounds the concept and associated metric for GDP per capita does not travel easily and securely between the fiscal systems of China and the West (Yun-Casallila and O’Brien 2012).
Multilocus Sequence Analysis and Bacterial Species Phylogeny Estimation

This chapter presents a review of critical factors that have to be considered and evaluated in multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) in order to make robust estimates of bacterial species phylogenies. The theoretical arguments in favour of the conditional data combination will be presented. I will briefly review criteria for marker selection, and will provide practical advice on the computational aspects, potential pitfalls, and software choices available for each step in a MLSA. For this purpose, a detailed case study using atpD, glnII, recA and rpoB sequences of symbiotic root nodule bacteria of the genus Bradyrhizobium will be presented. I will discuss and illustrate the use of phylogenetic congruence analysis, and a strategy to evaluate the additivity of the phylogenetic signals in the different partitions. The importance of using multiple isolates per species/ lineage, proper model selection and thorough tree searches to get a good estimate of a multispecies phylogeny will be emphasized. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogeny estimation using supermatrices are thoroughly discussed and critically compared with the new, concatenationindependent, Bayesian Estimation of Species Trees (BEST) algorithm, which is based on the multispecies coalescent. Introduction Multilocus sequence analysis in the broader context of molecular
Men's knowledge and beliefs about prostate cancer: education, race, and screening status.

OBJECTIVE African American men die from prostate cancer at higher rates than do White men, a health disparity that may result from differences in knowledge and beliefs about prostate cancer and screening. Studies conflict on whether race or socioeconomic status affects knowledge of prostate cancer and screening. This study compared education, race, and screening status to determine how each factor shapes men's knowledge of prostate cancer and screening. METHODS In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 African American and White men, aged 40-64 years, with diverse educational backgrounds. RESULTS Education, not race or screening status, was associated with knowledge about the prostate gland, prostate cancer symptoms and screening tests, and fear of prostate cancer. The exception was knowledge about the prostate-specific antigen blood test, which was associated with education and screening status. CONCLUSION This study suggests that education may be associated with prostate cancer and screening knowledge. Interventions should focus on all men with low education to correct their misconceptions about prostate cancer and to engage them in shared decision-making about screening.
Quantum shot noise

In this chapter we review recent developments in both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum shot noise. We discuss the properties of shot noise in systems of various sizes from mesoscopic, ballistic, systems to classical diffusive conductors. In particular we consider the effect of the elctron's Fermi statistics on shot noise. In addision, we discuss shot noise as a tool for charge measurements. The Fractional Quantum Hall system which gives rise to an appearance of new elementary excitations which carry a smaller charge, hence resulting in a suppressed shot noise.
The importance of static and dynamic signs of non-verbal communication with central nervous system of impaired children during the kinesitherapy treatment

Aim To investigate the importance of physiotherapist’s static and dynamic signs of nonverbal communication in order to influence such protocol in the quality of interaction between a physiotherapist and a central nervous system of an impaired child, which can ultimately improve outcomes of kinesitherapy treatment. Methods During a three-month period, an internally created protocol was implemented. The group consisted of six patients aged 11 months to 4 years of age, with multiple congenital sensory-motor deficiency of central nervous system. The Protocol included the implementation of eight precisely defined nonverbal physical therapist behaviors in kinesitherapy treatment. The evaluation was made by a questionnaire. Results Subsequent to the application of internal protocol, parameters such as occurrence of crying at the beginning of the treatment, occurrence of crying during the treatment and mean value of three treatments in the last week taken after three months from the beginning of the Protocol application, show significant improvements. Conclusion The influence of nonverbal communication on the interaction between a physiotherapist and a child and the outcomes of kynesitherapy treatment, can be a base for further research in a multidisciplinary team.
Out-of-Sample Forecasting Performance of a Robust Neural Exchange Rate Model of RON/USD

This paper aims to explore the forecasting accuracy of RON/USD exchange rate structural models with monetary fundamentals. I used robust regression approach for constructing robust neural models less sensitive to contamination with outliers and I studied its predictability on 1 to 6-month horizon against nonrobust linear and nonlinear regressions and, especially, random walk. The results show that robust model with low breakdown point improve the forecast accuracy of RW and AR models on 1- and 4-month horizon and performs better than RW at all time horizons.
Italy 2011: A Year of Sufferance

The Italian version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2007513.This study examines the quarterly evolution of Italy's sovereign debt and its rating in comparison to the Eurozone countries, its stock of government bonds, official reserves, GDP and balance of trade, inflation and unemployment.Please see also: Mazziero, Maurizio, Italia 3 Trim 2011: Pil, Debito & Co (Italy 3q2011: GDP, Debt & Co) (December 13, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972366; Mazziero, Maurizio, Italia: L’Economia al Giro di Boa del 2011 (Italy: The Economy Halfway Through 2011) (August 16, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1911942; Mazziero, Maurizio, Italia 1q2011: Pil, Debito & Co. (Italy 1q2011: GDP, Debt & Co.) (May 17, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1854888; Mazziero, Maurizio, 2010: Un Altro Anno a Debito per l’Italia (2010: Another Year of Debt for Italy) (April 10, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1806482.
1 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Technology and Cardiomyocyte generation : progress , 2 uncertainties and challenges in the biological features and clinical applications . 3 4

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are reprogrammed cells that have 14 hallmarks similar to embryonic stem cells including the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation 15 into cardiac myocytes. The improvements in reprogramming and differentiating methods achieved 16 in the past 10 years widened the use of hiPSCs, especially in cardiac research. hiPSC-derived cardiac 17 myocytes (CMs) recapitulate phenotypic differences caused by genetic variations, making them 18 human attractive disease models and useful tools for drug discovery and toxicology testing. In 19 addition, hiPSCs can be used as source cells for cardiac regeneration in animal models. Here, we 20 review the advances in the genetic and epigenetic control of cardiomyogenesis that underlies the 21 significant improvement of the induced reprogramming of somatic cells to CMs. We also cover the 22 phenotypic characteristics of the hiPSCs derived CMs, their ability to rescue injured CMs through 23 paracrine effects, the novel approaches in tissue engineering for hiPSC-derived cardiac tissue 24 generation, and finally, their potential use in biomedical applications. 25