Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cultural tourism in Malaysia in the perspective of Indian tourists: a study.

Malaysia is one of the economic superpowers in South East Asia, prospering at a fast pace as tourism is becoming one of the most important sectors of its economy. Areas like entertainment; beach and island tourism has become some of the major determinants of Malaysia’s phenomenal progress in tourism in the last few years. Yet one area that seems to get less attention is its cultural resources. Recently, Malaysia has turned out as one of the major destinations for the Indian Outbound Tourism market. This study looks into the situation that prevails in the area of cultural tourism in Malaysia and how are cultural as well as historical attractions of Malaysia viewed from the perspective of international tourists from India. With the help of descriptive analysis the study probes into the significance of Malaysia’s historical tourism and the awareness and perception about it among Indian visitors. Based on the study it is revealed that Malaysia’s cultural tourism resources are not promoted to the extent to which it becomes a significant part of the nation’s destination image. Lack of promotion and information available makes international visitors unaware about the potential of Malaysia as a cultural tourism destination. However, most of the tourists were satisfied with the cultural sites/attractions and think Malaysia is a reasonably good cultural destination.
The Influence of Voltage Flicker for the Wind Generator upon Distribution System

— One of the most important power quality issues is voltage flicker. Nowadays this issue also impacts the power system all over the world. The fact of the matter is that the more and the larger capacity of wind generator has been installed. Under unstable wind power situation, the variation of output current and voltage have caused trouble to voltage flicker. Hence, the major purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of wind generator on voltage flicker of power system. First of all, digital simulation and analysis are carried out based on wind generator operating under various system short circuit capacity, impedance angle, loading, and power factor of load. The simulation results have been confirmed by field measurements.
Three-Wave Interactions of Dispersive Plasma Waves Propagating Parallel to the Magnetic Field

Three-wave interactions of plasma waves propagating parallel to the mean magnetic field at frequencies below the electron cyclotron frequency are considered. We consider Alfv\'en--ion-cyclotron waves, fast-magnetosonic--whistler waves, and ion-sound waves. Especially the weakly turbulent low-beta plasmas like the solar corona are studied, using the cold-plasma dispersion relation for the transverse waves and the fluid-description of the warm plasma for the longitudinal waves. We analyse the resonance conditions for the wave frequencies $\omega$ and wavenumbers $k$, and the interaction rates of the waves for all possible combinations of the three wave modes, and list those reactions that are not forbidden.
A Framework for Multiplatform HPC Applications

This paper proposes a framework for building multi-platform applications in Java for High Performance Computing (HPC). It allows HPC developers to write their programs in Java but dynamically translate part of the programs into C programs using MPI or CUDA so that the translated code can be executed on multi-platforms. The source of the translated code is written in Java but with extensions for MPI and CUDA supports. The implementations for different platforms are switched by object-oriented mechanisms such as dynamic method dispatch. However, object oriented mechanisms are major sources of execution overheads. To reduce these overheads, the proposed framework requires that the translated code is subject to our coding rules, in which object-oriented mechanisms are available only in limited contexts. All objects except arrays must be immutable and most class types must be leaf classes. Only the types of method parameters and instance fields can be non-leaf class types. These restrictions allow our framework to statically determine object types during the code translation while they still enable building a practical class library for HPC with respect to customizability. This paper presents examples of the class libraries built on top of our framework. Their performance is sometime better than the performance of the programs written in C++ with equivalent class libraries since C++ is a general-purpose language and thus its expressiveness does not perfectly fit our problem domain, HPC applications.
The theory of environmental policy: Relevance and the theory of externalities

By bringing to light sources of error in the formulation of both actual and proposed policy, and by helping us to deal with the critical problem of allocative efficiency, externalities theory provides guidance to the practitioner. Part II of this book explores some of the more concrete policy issues to which the analysis can be applied; in doing so, it deals with several topics that have not been the subject of much formal analysis. But before coming to these applications, we first reexamine the theoretical underpinnings of the analysis. We shall argue in Part I that a number of widely held views about the theory of externalities are unfounded. The analysis also points out several (frequently undetected) booby traps that threaten the unwary in the use of the theory and have significant implications for policy. We have not tried in this book to provide a comprehensive review of the externalities literature. Because we are interested primarily in materials relevant to the pressing problems attributable to externalities, we have deliberately avoided some of the theoretical issues that have received a great deal of attention. More will be said about these omissions later in this chapter. Outline of Part I In Chapter 3, we introduce our treatment of externalities with a nontechnical discussion of the issues and a preview of the major results from the formal analysis. We begin with a definition of externalities and then proceed to some important distinctions among various classes of externalities; here, we differentiate between “technological” and “pecuniary” externalities and those of the “public” and “private” varieties.
Stock Characteristics Herded By Foreign Investors With Higher Abnormal Returns In The Taiwan Stock Market

This paper analyses the types of stocks herded by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) with higher positive abnormal returns in the emerging stock markets. Using a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model, we demonstrate that the positive price impact of the herd buying patterns of FIIs in Taiwan depends on preferences for higher-turnover stocks, and larger-size stocks. Furthermore, the price impact of FIIs herd buying behavior influenced by stock characteristics is different during bullish and bearish periods. Investors in the emerging market can follow FIIs and purchase stocks that the latter have overbought to improve the portfolio performance.
The Political Economy of Financing Scottish Government: Considering a New Constitutional Settlement for Scotland

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Searching for a Politically and Economically Rational Public Funding Model for Scotland 3. Economic Case for Fiscal Devolution 4. Objectives of an Effective Fiscal Federal System 5. Fiscal Federalism: A Scottish Perspective 6. The Case for Scottish Fiscal Autonomy 7. A Restatement of the Case for Fiscal Autonomy 8. Fiscal Devolution in Some Other Countries 9. Empirical Evidence: Tax Devolution and Prosperity 10. A Separate Currency for Scotland? 11. Conclusions
Robust Method of Age Dependent Face Recognition

This paper details our approach to building an automatic age determination algorithm based on age grouping. Face recognition has a variety of potential applications in public security, law enforcement and commerce such as identity authentication for credit card or driver license, access control, information security, and video surveillance, etc. A good feature extraction will increase performance of face recognition system. This approach is based on the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Eigen face approach is used for both age prediction and face recognition. The age prediction is carried out by projecting a new face image into this face space and then comparing its position in the face space with those of known faces. It will be reduced the time complexity using this approach. The proposed method preserves the identity of the subject while enforcing a realistic recognition effects on adult facial images between 15 to 60 years old and divided into 11 classes with 5 years old range. The accuracy of the system is analyzed by the variation on the range of the age groups. The efficiency of the system can be confirmed through the experimental results. The experiment results have confirmed the benefits of the association geometric feature based method and PCA method in facial feature extraction.
Immunology and Immunodiagnosis of Cystic Echinococcosis: An Update

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a cosmopolitan zoonosis caused by the larval cystic stage of the dog tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This complex multicellular pathogen produces various antigens which modulate the host immune response and promote parasite survival and development. The recent application of modern molecular and immunological approaches has revealed novel insights on the nature of the immune responses generated during the course of a hydatid infection, although many aspects of the Echinococcus-host interplay remain unexplored. This paper summarizes recent developments in our understanding of the immunology and diagnosis of echinococcosis, indicates areas where information is lacking, and suggests possible new strategies to improve serodiagnosis for practical application.
TRIM6 interacts with Myc and maintains the pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem cells

The proto-oncogene product Myc is a master regulator of cell proliferation through its specific binding to the E-box motif in genomic DNA. It has been reported that Myc has an important role in the proliferation and maintenance of the pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells and that the transcriptional activity of Myc is regulated by several post-translational modifications, including ubiquitination. In this study, we showed that tripartite motif containing 6 (TRIM6), one of the TRIM family ubiquitin ligases, was selectively expressed in ES cells and interacted with Myc followed by attenuation of the transcriptional activity of Myc. Knockdown of TRIM6 in ES cells enhanced the transcriptional activity of Myc and repressed expression of NANOG, resulting in the promotion of ES cell differentiation. These findings indicate that TRIM6 regulates the transcriptional activity of Myc during the maintenance of ES cell pluripotency, suggesting that TRIM6 functions as a novel regulator for Myc-mediated transcription in ES cells.
Host Cell Factors in HIV Replication: Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Studies

We have analyzed host cell genes linked to HIV replication that were identified in nine genome-wide studies, including three independent siRNA screens. Overlaps among the siRNA screens were very modest (<7% for any pairwise combination), and similarly, only modest overlaps were seen in pairwise comparisons with other types of genome-wide studies. Combining all genes from the genome-wide studies together with genes reported in the literature to affect HIV yields 2,410 protein-coding genes, or fully 9.5% of all human genes (though of course some of these are false positive calls). Here we report an “encyclopedia” of all overlaps between studies (available at http://www.hostpathogen.org), which yielded a more extensively corroborated set of host factors assisting HIV replication. We used these genes to calculate refined networks that specify cellular subsystems recruited by HIV to assist in replication, and present additional analysis specifying host cell genes that are attractive as potential therapeutic targets.
Introducing smart drivers A Way to conceive smart data sensing in wireless sensor networks

This paper presents a power-management infrastructure, referred to as Smart Drivers, devised for efficiently managing the data sensing phase in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The key idea is that the data sensing phase can be logically decoupled from data processing, which can be in turn decoupled from data transmission, the last being already done in classical approaches of data aggregation. By decoupling data sensing from data processing, applications can delegate the Smart Driver infrastructure to collect a certain number of samples from the sensors in a power-efficient mode and to wake up the system in full-active mode once a given number of measures have been collected, so that the process that required the bunch of measures can analyze them and eventually transmit the result of the analysis. Results show that, since data sensing periods in WSN applications are typically much longer than processing period, the smart driver paradigm strongly reduce the overall energy consumption of the system.
The Ever-Changing Landscape of Modern Macroeconomics

Although the birth of modern macroeconomics can be traced back to the publication of Keynes's (1936) General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, I will start my overview of the ever-changing landscape of modem macroeconomics, with respect to the debate over the role and conduct of stabilisation policy, in 1969. The reason for choosing this date is that in October 1969 I went to Liverpool University to study economics as an undergraduate. In 1969 the prevailing macroeconomic orthodoxy in the United Kingdom was Keynesian economics. In line with Modigliani (1977) the Keynesian approach is underpinned by the belief in the need for stabilisation policy, the view that the authorities can, and therefore should, use discretionary fiscal and monetary policy to stabilise output and employment at, or near, their full employment levels. The need for stabilisation policy stems from the Keynesian belief that capitalist economies are inherently unstable and are subject to frequent demand-side shocks which cause significant fluctuations in output and employment. Once subjected to such shocks Keynesians argue that the economy will not rapidly equilibrate and may remain in recession for a prolonged period. In the Keynesian view the authorities can help maintain output and employment at, or near, their full employment levels through aggregate demand management. In consequence in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s Keynesians advocated that the authorities should be given the discretion to fine-tune their economies. Having graduated in the summer of 1972, I subsequently started work at Liverpool John Moores University in September 1973. During the 1970s the orthodox Keynesian approach, which had formed the bedrock of my undergraduate studies, increasingly came under attack and was subjected to the force of two counter-revolutionary approaches, namely monetarism and new classical macroeconomics. Both of these approaches are underpinned by the belief that there is no need for stabilisation policy, the view that the
Survey of Routing Techniques in Opportunistic Networks

Opportunistic networks are one of the most interesting evolutions of MANETs. In opportunistic networks, route connecting to the mobile nodes never exits, mobile nodes communicate with each other when they got opportunity to communicate. Furthermore, nodes are not supposed to possess or acquire any knowledge about the network topology. Routes are built dynamically, while messages are route between the source and the destination, and any possible node can opportunistically be used as next hop, provided it is likely to bring the message closer to the final destination. These requirements make opportunistic networks a challenging and promising research field.
The quality of reported numbers by the management

Purpose – The present article aims to test the fairness of reported numbers by the management and examine the magnitude of earnings management in Indian corporate enterprises by testing the Beneish profit model. This paper contributes by further verifying the results of the Beneish model by applying the concept of “quality of earnings and revenue” to the sample units. Quality of reported numbers by the management has always been a concern for a common shareholder on account of the underlying proposition of earnings management. There are numerous models available to test the quality of these numbers, i.e. presence of earnings management. Most of these models are accrual based which have been subject to significant criticism due to estimate-based approach. The Beneish profit model, which combines accruals and financial ratios and/or indexes, is one such alternative to the accruals approach. Design/methodology/approach – A “case-based” research approach has been followed here for analyzing Indian corporate e.
Contrasting Roles of Corticosteroid Receptors in Hippocampal Plasticity

Elevated levels of corticosteroid hormones, presumably occupying both mineralocorticoid receptors (MRs) and glucocorticoid receptors (GRs), have been reported to impair synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus as well as the acquisition of hippocampus-dependent memories. In contrast, recent evidence suggests that activation of MRs enhance cognitive functions. To clarify the roles of different steroid receptors in hippocampal plasticity, young adult rats were injected with the GR antagonist RU38486 (mifepristone) or the MR antagonist Spironolactone before the exposure to an acute swim stress. Hippocampal responses to perforant path stimulation were then recorded in anesthetized rats. Stress combined with RU38486 produced a striking facilitation of LTP. Spironolactone enabled only short-term potentiation that reversed to long-term depression (LTD) in the stressed animals. Finally, the blockade of both MRs and GRs led to impairment of long-term potentiation. These findings indicate that MRs and GRs assume opposite roles in regulation of synaptic plasticity after acute exposure to stressors.
Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities

1. Risk Communication, Culture, and Ethnicity Risk Communication in Environmental Hazard Management Risk Communication, Ethnicity, and Culture 2. Theoretical Bases of Risk Communication Social Influence Theories of Behavioral Evaluation and Choice Theories That Integrate Social and Cognitive Processes The Protective Action Decision Model 3. Disaster Warnings as Risk Communication Protective Action Decisions Situational Influences on Disaster Response Warning Compliance and Spontaneous Response Warning Multiethnic Communities 4. Hazard Awareness as Risk Communication Household Hazard Adjustment Decisions Situtational Influences on Hazard Adjustment 5. Approaches to Influencing Hazard Adjustment Adoption The Context of Evnironmental Risk Communication Risk Communication During the Continuing Hazard Phase Risk Communication During an Escalating Crisis or Emergency Response References Index About the Authors
Calendar Effects in Stock Markets : Critique of Previous Methodologies And Recent Evidence in European Countries 1

This paper examines day of the week and month of the year effects in seventeen European stock market indexes in the period 1994-2007. We discuss the shortcomings of model specifications and tests used in previous work, and propose a simpler specification, usable for detecting all types of calendar effects. Recognizing that returns are non-normally distributed, autocorrelated and that the residuals of linear regressions are variant over time, we use statically robust estimation methodologies, including bootstrapping and GARCH modeling. Although returns tend to be lower in the months of August and September, we do not find strong evidence of across-the-board calendar effects, as the most favorable evidence is only country-specific. Additionally, using rolling windows regressions, we find that the stronger country-specific calendar effects are not stable over the whole sample period, casting additional doubt on the economic significance of calendar effects. We conclude that our results are not immune to the critique that calendar effects may only be a “chimera” delivered by intensive data mining. JEL codes: G10, G14, G15
Tubular early endosomal networks in AtT20 and other cells

Using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as a fluid-phase endocytic tracer, we observed through the electron microscope numerous tubular endosomes with a diameter of 30-50 nm and lengths of greater than 2 microns in thick sections (0.2-0.5 microns) of AtT20 cells. These tubular endosomes are multibranching and form local networks but not a single reticulum throughout the cytoplasm. They are sometimes in continuity with vesicular endosomal structures but have not been observed in continuity with AtT20 cell late endosomes. Tubular endosomal networks are not uniformly distributed throughout the cytoplasm, but are particularly abundant in growth cones, in patches below the plasma membrane of the cell body, and surrounding the centrioles and microtubule organizing center (MTOC). Tubular endosomes at all these locations receive HRP within the first 5 min of endocytosis but approximately 30 min of endocytosis are required to load the tubular endosomal networks with HRP so that their full extent can be visualized in the electron microscope. After 10 min of endocytosis, complete unloading occurs within 30 min of chase, but between 30 and 60 min are required to chase out all the tracer from the tubular endosomes loaded to steady state during 60 min endocytosis of 10 mg/ml HRP. In interphase cells, neither the loading nor unloading of tubular endosomes depends on microtubules but in cells blocked in mitosis by depolymerization of the mitotic spindle with nocodazole, HRP does not chase out of tubular endosomes. The thread-like shape of tubular endosomes is not dependent on microtubules. Furthermore, HRP is delivered to AtT20 tubular endosomes at 20 degrees C. All these properties indicate that AtT20 cell tubular endosomes are an early endocytic compartment distinct from late endosomes. Tubular endosomes like those in AtT20 cells have been seen in cells of the following lines: PC12, HeLa, Hep2, Vero, MDCK I and II, CCL64, RK13, and NRK; they are particularly abundant in the first three lines. In contrast, tubular endosomes are sparse in 3T3 and BHK21 cells. The tubular endosomes we have observed appear to be identical to the endosomal reticulum observed in the living Hep2 cells by Hopkins, C. R. , A. Gibson, H. Shipman, and K. Miller. 1990.
Detecting Earnings Management Using Accrual-Based Models: An Empirical Study with Reference to Coal India Ltd.

This paper analyzes the use of different accrual-based models, viz., Healy model, DeAngelo model, Jones model and extended modified Jones model, in detecting earnings management with reference to Coal India Ltd. by using financial data obtained from Capitaline Database. It focuses on the application of all these models. The results confirm that two of the above models are effective in detecting earnings management in the context of Coal India Ltd.