Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictors of Social Entrepreneurship Success: A Cross-national Analysis of Antecedent Factors

Abstract Even though the practice of social entrepreneurship has a long history, the field has only begun to gain academic attention in the past few decades. However, most of the literature to date focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, and there continues to be a paucity of empirical work in this discipline. Using the number of social entrepreneurs in a country as a proxy for prevalence of the phenomenon is a strong predictor – the validity of the results was confirmed using two reputable databases of social entrepreneurs, i.e., the Ashoka and Schwab Foundations. Furthermore, the components of national-level attitudes for general entrepreneurship, i.e., perceived opportunity, no fear of failing, and aspirations of new technology, were found to be positively correlated with social entrepreneurship at the country level. Yet, national-level attitudes for networking and opportunities for start-ups, generally correlated with general entrepreneurship, were negatively correlated with social entrepreneurship. We also discuss the implications of our findings and discuss their consequences as well as suggestions for future research.
Early Screening of Diabetes and Hypertension in Primary Care Dental Clinics at King Saud University in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are the leading chronic diseases in Saudi Arabia; 23.1% of the Saudi population are diabetic and 25.5% are hypertensive. This cross-sectional study was made on dental setting to determine the effectiveness of screening of diabetes and hypertension in dental clinics. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was carried out in the primary care dental clinics at the Dental College in King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Before starting any treatment, a face-to-face interview was administered to collect a brief medical history and personal data followed by measurement of body mass index (BMI). After that, blood pressure level reading was obtained using electrical sphygmomanometer. Finally, a glucose level reading was obtained from capillary blood from the patient's third fingertip using glucose reader. RESULTS Our study included 283 participants, 118 of whom were females (41.7%). Our study showed that a significant amount of the participants are at risk of having hypertension (44.8%). In addition, a significant number (10.2%) of the participants are at risk of having diabetes. Furthermore, 35.7% of the sample had obesity as a risk factor for diabetes and hypertension. CONCLUSION The dental team can play an important role in screening of diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic diseases. In Saudi Arabia, public awareness of the chronic diseases is still critically insufficient. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Our study showed the importance of the screening even for patients with negative history of diabetes or hypertension.
Expectations Management and Beatable Targets: How Do Analysts React to Explicit Earnings Guidance?

This study investigates security analysts' reactions to public management guidance and assesses whether managers successfully guide analysts toward beatable earnings targets. We use a panel dataset between 1995 and 2001 to examine the fiscal-quarter-specific determinants of management guidance and the timing, extent, and outcomes of analysts' reactions to this guidance. We find that management guidance is more likely when analysts' initial forecasts are optimistic, and, after controlling for the level of this optimism, when analysts' forecast dispersion is low. Analysts quickly react to management guidance and they are more likely to issue final meetable or beatable earnings targets when management provides public guidance. Our evidence suggests that public management guidance plays an important role in leading analysts toward achievable earnings targets.
Tourism governance and sustainable national development in China: a macro-level synthesis

This paper explores the macro-governance of the growth of China's tourism industry into the world's largest domestic tourist industry and the fourth largest international destination. It explains distinctive aspects of the political and economic changes that have driven China's tourism over the last 30 years. These include a gradualist approach to transition/transformation, the re-birth of entrepreneurship and the market economy, structural change and the retention but evolution of governance by the Chinese Communist Party. It also explains the power of China's 4000-year-old cultural and philosophical heritage that plays a key role in contemporary tourism governance and planning, with a special emphasis on Confucian/Daoist thought, shan shui, feng shui and te-zhi, and the Chinese search for harmony and a middle way. The paper charts the emergence of the concept of sustainable development for the economy as a whole, and since 1995, for tourism development, despite significant tensions between China's drive for “modernization” and “progress” rather than sustainable development. Sustainable tourism development is shown to have had positive influences on transport, wildlife and natural heritage conservation and regional development. The concept of tourism as a “keystone industry”, analogous to ecology's concept of a “keystone species”, is explored.
Information Flow and Liquidity Around Anticipated and Unanticipated Dividend Announcements

We study dividend announcements, conditioning on whether the timing of the announcement is anticipated. We find that liquidity deteriorates before (after) anticipated (unanticipated) announcements. We identify both timing and content effects and also contrast trading volume, price volatility, adverse selection, and price impact separately for anticipated and unanticipated events. Our results generally imply that news announcements reduce information asymmetry. An implication of our analysis is that market reactions around information events differ depending on whether an event's timing is known in advance. Therefore, researchers should consider whether event timing is known ex ante when studying news announcements.
Automatic beam scanning in mode-locked oscillator arrays

A simple technique for producing a monolithic beam-scanning system is presented. This technique applies the principles of mode locking to arrays of coupled antenna/oscillator structures. No phase shifters are required to achieve this beam scanning. In addition, it can be shown that this beam scanning property applies to both the transmit and the receive functions. Using these principles, it may be possible to create very compact and efficient solid-state millimeter-wave radar systems. <<ETX>>
Women's sexual desire: A feminist critique

This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomédical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are (a) use of the male model as the standard, (b) use of a linear model of sexual response, (c) biological reductionism, (d) depoliticalization, and (e) medicalization of variation. A “New View,” an alternative to the biomédical model, is offered for reconceptualizing women's sexual problems. This analysis concludes with recommendations for feminist‐based biopsychosocial research.
Towards an integrated perspective of strategy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual tool that would help managers to integrate the findings from strategy frameworks such as the value chain, the five forces or the VRIO framework by jointly analyzing the different levers of competitive advantage.Design/methodology/approach – Building on the extant literature the paper develops a strategy framework that integrates the internal and external dimensions of strategy formulation. To illustrate a practical application of the value‐process framework, the paper presents a case study of a project at the German music corporation Sony BMG.Findings – The value‐process framework serves managers as a conceptually unifying analysis tool that contributes to their understanding of the main levers that help to create a sustainable competitive advantage. The framework can be used to visually integrate isolated strategy frameworks by jointly analyzing the different levers of competitive advantage, and to develop consistent and integrated strategies.
Exploring the interactions of communication, computing and caching in cloud RAN under two timescale

There is a trend that the functionalities of communication, computing, and caching (CC&C) are merging together in the future networks. Recently, this mergence is formed by the concept of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with caching as a service (CaaS). In this paper, we dissect the interactions of CC&C in C-RAN with CaaS from two dimensions: physical resource dimension and time dimension. In the physical resource dimension, we identify how to segment the baseband unit (BBU) pool resources (i.e. computational and storage) into different types of virtual machines (VMs). In the time dimension, we address how the long-term resource segmentation in the BBU pool affects the short-term beamforming in the remote radio heads. We formulate the problem as a stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear programming (SMINLP), and then approximate the problem as a global consensus problem. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is utilized to obtain the solution in a distributed fashion. Simulation results demonstrate the that the proposed scheme is more cost saving than that without considering the integration of CC&C.
Efficacy of usual antidepressant dosing regimens of fluoxetine in panic disorder

Background Although serotonin reuptake inhibitors are effective in panic disorder, questions concerning whether doses associated with antidepressant efficacy are also effective for panic disorder remain. Aims To assess the efficacy of the usual antidepressant dose of fluoxetine in treating full panic attacks. Method Patients with panic disorder were randomised to placebo or to fluoxetine initiated at 10 mg daily for I week and then increased to 20 mg daily. The trial lasted 12 weeks, but after 6 weeks patients who had failed to achieve a satisfactory response were eligible for dose escalation to a maximum of 60 mg of fluoxetine daily. Results Fluoxetine was associated with a statistically significantly greater proportion of panic-free patients compared with placebo after 6 weeks and at end-point. Conclusions Fluoxetine at a dose of 20 mg daily is safe and efficacious in reducing symptoms of panic disorder. Patients who fail to obtain a satisfactory response at 20 mg daily may benefit from further dose increases.
Altered T cell development in human thymoma is related to impairment of MHC class II transactivator expression induced by interferon‐gamma (IFN‐γ)

Thymoma is known to contain CD4+CD8+ T cells, indicating that neoplastic epithelial cells of thymoma have a function as thymic cortical epithelium. However, it has been shown that there is an impairment of CD4+ T cell development in thymoma and that IFN‐γ‐induced HLA‐DR expression on cultured thymic epithelial cells (TEC) derived from thymoma is decreased when compared with the normal thymus. MHC class II transactivator (CIITA) is known to play a critical role in IFN‐γ‐induced MHC II expression. In this study, we attempted to elucidate whether CIITA is responsible for the impaired up‐regulation of MHC II molecules in response to IFN‐γ in thymoma TEC. A quantitative reverse transriptase‐polymerase chain reaction examination revealed that the induced level of CIITA was significantly lower in thymoma TEC than in normal TEC. The induced levels of invariant chain (Ii) and HLA‐DR in thymoma TEC were correlated with CIITA expression. The proportion of CD3+ cells in the CD4+CD8− subset in thymoma was also correlated with CIITA expression. A gel mobility shift assay however, revealed translocation of STAT1 to the nucleus in thymoma as well as normal TEC. Intercellular adhesion molecule‐1 was up‐regulated in the thymoma TEC to a level similar to normal TEC in response to IFN‐γ. These results indicate that impaired up‐regulation of HLA‐DR in response to IFN‐γ results from insufficient induction of CIITA, but not from the signal from IFN‐γ receptor to the nucleus. The abnormal regulation of HLA‐DR expression caused by impaired induction of CIITA may affect CD4+ T cell development in thymoma.
A case-control study of the health status of male farmers registered at Ash Tree House Surgery, Kirkham Lancashire

The relative health status of 74 male working farmers registered at Ash Tree House Surgery, Kirkham, Lancashire, was compared with a control group taken from the same surgery. Medical records over a five-year period were analysed to reveal differences in the health status of the two groups. Overall more farmers visited the surgery for acute consultations with the General Practitioner (GP) and significantly (using the chi-squared test for significance) less for health promotion (P<0.05) than the control group. When visits were classified by disease type, more farmers were found to have visited the surgery with infections (P<0.05); disorders of the nervous system (P<0.01); disorders of the skin (P<0.05) and external causes of injury (P<0.01). The finding that farmers visit the surgery more often for acute consultations and less for health promotion, coupled with the finding that there are significant differences in the pattern of ill health between the two groups suggest that there is a need for health promotion among the farming community of Kirkham, Lancashire.
Turn-taking in English and Japanese: Projectability in Grammar, Intonation, and Semantics

Acknowledgments Dedication Table of Contents List of Charts, Figures, and Tables Transcription Conventions and Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Literature Review 3: Turn-taking in English Conversation 4: Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation 5: Turn-taking in U.S. Political News Interviews 6: Turn-taking in Japanese Political News Interviews 7: Completion Points 8: Speaker Changes 9: Completion Points and Speaker Changes 10: Turn-taking in English and Japanese 11: Conversation and Political News Interviews 12: Conclusion References
Reinterpreting the Historicity of the Nordic Model

In conventional images of the so-called Nordic model, the strong state is opposed to markets or civil society and co-operation is opposed to conflict. These opposites appear problematic if one takes seriously the Nordic market- and interest-centered language used for the practices of social regulation, including the stubborn use of “labor market parties” instead of the EU concept “social partners”. Applying an approach sensitive to the historical and political aspects of language and concepts, the paper argues that a particular notion of social citizenship developed in the Nordic countries, in which interests rather than rights were put into the center. Such a notion of social citizenship was associated with two intertwined ideas, important in the development of the Nordic pattern of social reform: the idea of symmetry between workers and employers and the idea of a virtuous circle between divergent interests. With these ideas democracy and citizenship were combined with paid work and conflicting interests. This combination has been questioned by the projects for competitive national (and European) communities, responding to globalized and financialized capitalism. The vigorous comparisons of “models”, and the popularity of the concept of “the Nordic model”, can be seen as an aspect of this current transformation.
MED19 and MED26 Are Synergistic Functional Targets of the RE1 Silencing Transcription Factor in Epigenetic Silencing of Neuronal Gene Expression*

A key hub for the orchestration of epigenetic modifications necessary to restrict neuronal gene expression to the nervous system is the RE1 silencing transcription factor (REST; also known as neuron restrictive silencer factor, NRSF). REST suppresses the nonspecific and premature expression of neuronal genes in non-neuronal and neural progenitor cells, respectively, via recruitment of enzymatically diverse corepressors, including G9a histone methyltransferase (HMTase) that catalyzes di-methylation of histone 3-lysine 9 (H3K9me2). Recently, we identified the RNA polymerase II transcriptional Mediator to be an essential link between RE1-bound REST and G9a in epigenetic suppression of neuronal genes in non-neuronal cells. However, the means by which REST recruits Mediator to facilitate G9a-dependent extra-neuronal gene silencing remains to be elucidated. Here, we identify the MED19 and MED26 subunits in Mediator as direct physical and synergistic functional targets of REST. We show that although REST independently binds to both MED19 and MED26 in isolation, combined depletion of both subunits is required to disrupt the association of REST with Mediator. Furthermore, combined, but not individual, depletion of MED19/MED26 impairs REST-directed recruitment to RE1 elements of Mediator and G9a, leading to a reversal of G9a-dependent H3K9me2 and de-repression of REST-target gene expression. Together, these findings identify MED19/MED26 as a probable composite REST interface in Mediator and further clarify the mechanistic basis by which Mediator facilitates REST-imposed epigenetic restrictions on neuronal gene expression.
Endeks Kapsamında Olmanın Hisse Senedi Getirilerine Etkisi: BIST Temettü 25 Endeksi Üzerine Bir Uygulama

Hisse senedi fiyat endeksleri, yatirimcilara onemli bir sinyal niteligini tasimaktadir. Belli bir endeks kapsaminda olmak, endeks icin tanimlanan, belli niteliklere sahip olmak anlamindadir. Bu nedenle hisse senedi yatirimcilari belli endekslerde yer alan hisse senetleriyle ilgilenirler. Borsa Istanbul tarafindan, Temmuz 2011’den bu yana hesaplamakta olan BIST Temettu 25 Endeksi, hem temettu verimliligi hem de likidite acisindan one cikan hisse senetlerini kapsamaktadir. Calismamiz, BIST Temettu 25 Endeksine dâhil olmanin hisse senedi fiyat performansina etkisinin olup olmadigini, olay calismasi yontemini kullanarak incelemeyi amaclamaktadir. Boylece Turkiye hisse senedi piyasasinda temettu konusuna yeterince onem verilip verilmediginin de belirlenmesi mumkun olabilecektir.
An Economic Model of Moral Motivation

In this paper, we present an economic model of moral motivation. Consumers prefer regarding themselves as socially responsible individuals. Voluntary contributions to public goods are motivated by this preference. The self-image as socially responsible is determined by a comparison of one's actual behavior against an endogenous moral ideal. Public policy influences voluntary contributions through its effects on relative prices and budget or time constraints, but also indirectly through the policy's effect on the moral ideal. This implies that economic incentives may have adverse effects on contributions. We present survey data on recycling behavior and voluntary community work, which is consistent with the model predictions.
Toward a history of accounting histories

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the marked national differences in approaches to accounting. What is less clearly appreciated is how accounting historiography is also fragmented into different national traditions,with diverse patterns and frameworks for reconstructing and interpreting accounting's evolution. The prominence given to accounting theory and practice may vary in different historical periods, not least in terms of the emphasis given to the contribution of different scholars and schools of thought in the evolution of accounting theory. This article concentrates on the Italian tradition of accounting from the time of Paciolo, and on how Italian accounting historiography has depicted the evolution of this tradition; it critically questions the periodization generally adopted, the interpretations made of the relative roles played by non-Italians and Italians in the evolution of accounting ideas down to the mid-nineteenth century, and the ways in which the contribution of mo.
SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL PROPERTIES OF THE ULTRA-LUMINOUS X-RAY PULSAR IN M82 FROM 15 YEARS OF CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS OF THE PULSED EMISSION USING NuSTAR

The recent discovery by Bachetti et al. of a pulsar in M82 that can reach luminosities of up to 1040 erg s−1, a factor of ∼100 times the Eddington luminosity for a 1.4 M⊙ compact object, poses a challenge for accretion physics. In order to better understand the nature of this source and its duty cycle, and in light of several physical models that have been subsequently published, we conduct a spectral and temporal analysis of the 0.5–8 keV X-ray emission from this source from 15 years of Chandra observations. We analyze 19 ACIS observations where the point-spread function (PSF) of the pulsar is not contaminated by nearby sources. We fit the Chandra spectra of the pulsar with a power-law model and a disk blackbody model, subjected to interstellar absorption in M82. We carefully assess for the effect of pile-up in our observations, where four observations have a pile-up fraction of >10%, which we account for during spectral modeling with a convolution model. When fitted with a power-law model, the average photon index when the source is at high luminosity (LX > 1039 erg s−1) is Γ = 1.33 ± 0.15. For the disk blackbody model, the average temperature is Tin = 3.24 ± 0.65 keV, the spectral shape being consistent with other luminous X-ray pulsars. We also investigated the inclusion of a soft excess component and spectral break, finding that the spectra are also consistent with these features common to luminous X-ray pulsars. In addition, we present spectral analysis from NuSTAR over the 3–50 keV range where we have isolated the pulsed component. We find that the pulsed emission in this band is best fit by a power-law with a high-energy cutoff, where Γ = 0.6 ± 0.3 and E C = 14 − 3 + 5 ? > keV. While the pulsar has previously been identified as a transient, we find from our longer-baseline study that it has been remarkably active over the 15-year period, where for 9/19 (47%) observations that we analyzed, the pulsar appears to be emitting at a luminosity in excess of 1039 erg s−1, greater than 10 times its Eddington limit.
Histopathology of community acquired chronic hepatitis C. The Sentinel Counties Chronic Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis Study Team.

As part of a study of community-acquired non-A, non-B hepatitis, liver biopsy specimens of 29 anti-HCV positive and four anti-HCV negative patients were evaluated in order to characterize the histopathologic changes of chronic hepatitis C. Liver biopsies were performed 6 to 46 mo after onset of the disease and repeat biopsies were obtained in 10 anti-HCV positive patients. The histologic diagnoses were chronic persistent hepatitis (45%), chronic active hepatitis (35%), and chronic lobular hepatitis (21%). Irrespective of the tissue diagnosis, the majority of the patients showed characteristic histologic abnormalities in the liver, particularly damage of the small and medium-sized bile ducts (76%), lymphoid aggregates in portal tracts (45%), enlarged macrophages (48%), and steatosis (31%). In 59% of the patients, two or more of these histologic abnormalities were combined. Similar histologic changes have previously been observed in non-A, non-B hepatitis, but only uncommonly in hepatitis A or hepatitis B. We conclude that the histopathologic findings in chronic hepatitis C are highly characteristic, although not pathognomonic. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)