Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INFLATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM FOUR SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth for four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). A comparison of empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the IMF International Financial Statistics. The authors find evidence of a long-run positive relationship between GDP growth rate and inflation for all four countries. There are also significant feedbacks between inflation and economic growth. These results have important policy implications. Moderate inflation is helpful to growth, but faster economic growth feeds back into inflation. Thus, these countries are on a knife-edge.
Using YouTube video-stimulated discussion to train more socially-conscious physicists

Working as a physicist today involves significant social and professional challenges. Despite extensive efforts, female participation and recognition in physics, particularly at the highest levels, is still appalling low (Murphy and Whitelegg 2006; Brewe and Sawtelle 2016); for example, there have only ever been two female Nobel laureates in this discipline. Evidence of low public trust in scientists and expert opinion abound (Hmielowski et al, 2014; Leiserowitz et al, 2013) and there is a significant disconnect between ‘scientific discourse and public debate’ (Scheufele, 2013). Since institutional, national and international trends and politics dictate funding priorities, scientists need a strong understanding of the social context of research in order to ensure funding – almost all modern grant applications require justification of the research in terms, say, of its impact on society or its national importance. And this is only the start: Retzbach and Maier (2015) discuss how scientists’ use of uncertainties creates difficulties when they communicate to the public via the media; Spier (2002) discusses the history and problems of the peer-review process; Hirsch (2005) introduces the ubiquitous H-index. It is imperative that a physicist knows about all these issues (and many more), yet they are very rarely addressed in formal physics education programmes. Students are instead left to find out about social and professional challenges mostly through personal experience and/or interaction with more experienced researchers; we are thus missing a huge opportunity to maximise the preparedness of graduating physicists for their forthcoming careers.
THE FAMILY BUSINESS: A UNIQUE PROFILE OF BEHAVIOUR, OR A PROFILE ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF THE FAMILY AND THE MARKET?

This paper helps to theorize the link between family generation and the characteristics, behaviour, management and governance of the firm. The paper also answers the question: to what extent is competitive position affected by each generation? The paper overcomes the limitation of the cross-sectional data, since the investigation is applied to data from Spanish firms during the period 1994 to 2005, which is much more appropriate when discussing developmental models. Our results confirm the greater degree of complexity of the family firm, as the ownership and the running of the business is passed to future generations. However, and contrary to all expectations, family firms in the sample have a high degree of concentration of ownership, regardless of the generation and a greater complexity in the business does not give rise to the incorporation of external partners in the company’s share capital. In fact, third generation companies have no external partners, with 100% capital remaining in the family.
Photoperiod as a Factor for Studying Fluctuations of Seminal

Sheep production is a traditional economic activity that is used for meat and milk production in Iran. One of the most important factors for economical development of sheep industry is lambing in throughout year. Seasonal breeding is a limiting factor in this species. Therefore, it was decided to evaluate the quality of semen in breeding and non-breeding seasons before using artificial insemination in sheep. The Arkharmerino is a breed of sheep obtained by crossbreeding between wild Arkhar rams with ewes of the Novocaucasian Merino, Précoce and Rambouillet breeds (Ernst and Dmitriev, 2007). These two genetic groups were developed through targeting the improvement of local breeds (Baluchi and Moghani) for wool traits. There is no published information on the reproductive traits of Baluchi × Moghani or on Arkharmerino × Moghani genetic groups. In addition to gathering information on reference values for semen characteristics, evaluation of the effects of photoperiod on ram semen characteristics at this latitude was another pursuit for this study, along with the evaluation of putative differences on semen traits between the two geThe main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the photoperiod on the seminal traits of crossbreed wool-producing rams throughout on year period. For the effect of photoperiod two periods were considered: decreasing daylight length (summer and autumn) and increasing daylight length (winter and spring). For the study 5 Baluchi × Moghani (BL×MG) and 5 Arkharmerino × Moghani (AM×MG) rams were used. Semen collection started from first of October 2010 to end of September 2011. After a training period of 2 weeks semen ejaculates were evaluated for volume, total sperm count per ejaculate (TSE), spermatozoa concentration, semen color, wave motion, percentage of progressive motility, percentage of live and abnormal spermatozoa, semen pH, methylene blue reduction time (MBRT) and semen index (semen volume × spermatozoa concentration/mL × live spermatozoa % × progressive motility %). Analysis of the yearlong data showed that semen samples with the best quality were collected in September to November (P<0.05). Significant seasonal variations of semen traits were observed for all of seminal traits except for progressive motility, percentage of live spermatozoa and MBRT. Yet, no statistical differences were found between the two genetic groups (P>0.05). Although there were significant seasonal changes in semen characteristics of the crosses, the fresh semen showed adequate quality to be used for artificial or natural insemination all around the year. Photoperiod was found to influence semen production in two genetic groups at 38 ̊02' N, 46 ̊27' E at an altitude of 1567 m above sea level of Iran. However, these effects should are not detrimental to the use of rams for breeding purposes throughout the year.
Access to Secondary and Tertiary Education for All Refugees: Steps and Challenges to Overcome

During situations of displacement, access for refugee youth to secondary educational initiatives is limited at best. However, upon the return of refugees, the national structure of their home country is most often weak and unstable. To ensure the economic, social, and political development of a society that has been severely affected by conflict or disaster, it is imperative that there be a youth population of capable, productive, and educated citizens who may provide an exit strategy from the situation. Future leaders must therefore be given the opportunity to promote the development both of themselves personally, and of their national structures, through learning—notably, secondary, vocational, and tertiary education. This paper underscores the need for and gaps in the provision of secondary educational initiatives, highlighting the many challenges involved in improving refugee youth access to both secondary and vocational education, and highlighting the issues that must be considered by policy and decision makers in order to facilitate and support such access.
ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PROJECT STRATEGY AND IMPACT FACTORS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ANALIZA CORELAÞIEI DINTRE STRATEGIA DE PROIECT aI FACTORII DE IMPACT AI PROIECTELOR DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE

ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PROJECT STRATEGY AND IMPACT FACTORS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ABSTRACT. Due to increasingly higher influences of science and technology in the industrial sector on national economy, national funds were created in different financing programs for research and development (R&D) projects. Many studies were carried out to evaluate performance of such R&D projects. This paper deals with the implementation of project strategy to improve performance of developing a new product in project activity, to analyse the short-, mediumand long-term performance relationship among impact factors of R&D projects in the industrial field. The importance of developing project strategy was one of the major issues both for the industry and for academic fields. In many cases, project strategy is not well developed for large and complex projects. The results of this paper are expected to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of financing through R&D projects, by validating a model to evaluate relationships between implementing project strategy, results of the R&D project and performance of results on the market.
Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte (OATAO)

In this article, we study an alternative process for the conservative drying of wet clay based on combined microwave heating and convective drying. The study is founded on an experimental analysis of the processes that control drying of porous matter in presence of temperature gradients. We show and discuss that process control cannot be reliably based on temperature alone because mass transfer phenomena associated with microwave heating dictate drying kinetics. Essentially, the occurrence of pressure build up and liquid expulsion, dominating mass transfer if microwave heating is uncontrolled or with high power, vitally depend on the moisture content of the clay. As a consequence, the deterioration of clay is problematic if internal evaporation rates are high, thus at the start of drying when also the moisture content is high. Following this, we propose intermittent microwave heating in combination with convective drying periods with the aim to reduce overall drying time (compared to conventional convective drying) and to improve product quality by reduced material shrinkage. Drying experiments indicate that the overall drying time reduction and product quality depend on the frequency and duration of the two subsequent periods of intermittent heating and convective drying. The observations can be explained with the evolution of the pore-scale distribution of liquid and vapor during drying.
ePubWU Institutional Repository

Shrinkage for time-varying parameter (TVP) models is investigated within a Bayesian framework, with the aim to automatically reduce time-varying parameters to static ones, if the model is overfitting. This is achieved through placing the double gamma shrinkage prior on the process variances. An efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme is developed, exploiting boosting based on the ancillarity-sufficiency interweaving strategy. The method is applicable both to TVP models for univariate as well as multivariate time series. Applications include a TVP generalized Phillips curve for EU area inflation modeling and a multivariate TVP Cholesky stochastic volatility model for joint modeling of the returns from the DAX-30 index. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Perspectives and Models

The goal of this research, a work in progress, is to address areas in second/foreign language acquisition prone to cross-linguistic influence, and to examine related cultural factors. More specifically, the authors aim to identify such areas, map available knowledge in this respect using ontological engineering methodology, and devise appropriate teaching strategies and learning scenarios to help overcome crosslinguistic influence with the help of computer-assisted language learning systems. The authors have been working mainly with Japanese-speaking students of English and first-year university English-speaking students of French. In this chapter, the authors describe culture in relation to foreign language learning, cross-linguistic influence, their cultural framework as well as ontological engineering methodology. They demonstrate their work with examples of the use of modals by Japanese students/speakers of English. They further provide an illustration of ontological modeling in addition to a basic simulation of how a CALL system based on an ontology could potentially work. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch027
Changes in balance and neuromuscular performance following Whole bodyvibration and aquatic balance training in elderly subjects

The aim of this study was to determine changes in balance and neuromuscular performance following Whole body vibration training (WBVT) and aquatic balance training (ABT) in elderly subjects. Forty five adult male subjects voluntarily participated in study and assigned in to WBVT, ABT and control group (CG) (n = 15 per groups). Timed Up & Go and 5-Chair stand tests were taken as pre-test and post-test and also after four, six, and eight weeks of detraining. Neuromuscular performance and walking ability improved significantly for two trained groups. Significant differences observed between post-test and six and eight week detraining period in WBVT group, while no significant differences seen in these parameters in ABT group. Due to results, ABT are more persistent than WBVT and reduce the risk for falling in male able-bodied elderly individuals. However, WBVT can be recommended as an additional exercise besides ABT.
A Study of Food Enterprises’ Awareness and Behaviors for Social Responsibility

Abstract This study is undertaken to evaluate and promote the Chinese food enterprises’ awareness and behaviors for social responsibility. In the survey, the researcher releases 500 copies of questionnaire to the senior managers in Chinese food enterprises. After excluding invalid respondents, the researcher gets 376 valid copies. Then the researcher conducts a descriptive statistical and factor analysis to the copies of questionnaire. The result shows that: firstly, Chinese food enterprises’ awareness of social responsibility is relatively poor; secondly, the majority of food enterprises fulfill their social responsibility passively. Based on the above conclusions, this paper proposes four paths to promote Chinese food enterprises to fulfill social responsibility better, i.e. establish the belief in social responsibility, expand the intensification of food business, make best use of the industrial association and strengthen the government supervision and regulation.
‘Kingdom of Ends’ as Economic Model: Whether Transition is Possible?

Abstract The article considers the connection between ethics, in particular Kant’s practical philosophy, and economics. The author examines historical reasons for Kant’s ethic not to have become part of the economic discourse and interprets modern business processes from Kant’s perspective. The article aims to demonstrate the possibilities of applying the philosophical instruments of Kant’s morals to concrete economic issues.
Effects of degree of hydrolysis on physicochemical properties of Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) frame hydrolysate.

The effect of degree of hydrolysis (DH) on the physicochemical properties of cobia frame hydrolysate was determined. Three levels of degree of hydrolysis of cobia frame hydrolysate were studied, which were 53%, 71% and 96%. After enzymatic hydrolysis using Alcalase®, the samples were spray-dried. Cobia hydrolysate powder samples were analyzed for their proximate analysis and physicochemical properties. The proximate analysis showed significant differences in fat and ash content only. DH96 hydrolysate showed desirable essential amino acid profile for human requirement except for methionine and isoleucine. The study found that cobia frame hydrolysate had good colour, emulsifying capacity and excellent foaming properties. However, there were no significant differences in water-holding capacity, oil-holding capacity and peptide solubility among the hydrolysate samples. This study suggested that cobia frame hydrolysate is a potential ingredient and foaming agent for food industry.
The performance response of scavenging chickens to nutrient intake from scavengeable resources and from supplementation with energy and protein

An experiment conducted under farm conditions and management determined the daily supplemental intake, performance and nutrient specifications of scavenging chickens supplemented with energy and protein either alone separately or in cafeteria. Supplementing scavenging chickens with protein and energy (soyabean meal together with maize meal) in cafeteria (ScSM) resulted in 64.86 g/bird /day intake of supplemental feed which was 105.6 and 64.24% higher than protein alone (ScS) and energy alone (ScM) supplemented separately respectively. Gain, feed conversion ratio, and mean egg weights, egg mass and percent production was significantly higher for ScSM compared with other treatments. The calculated dry matter, crude protein, lysine, tryptophan, methionine + cystine, crude fibre, crude fat starch, sugar and energy of supplements consumed daily in ScSM were 56.7, 21.2, 0.91, 0.34, 0.57, 2.91, 2.71, 35.78, 1.73% and 196.4 Kcal respectively and for all nutrients were significantly higher compared to corresponding maize meal alone and soyabean meal alone treatments. The proportion of soyabean meal intake to that of maize meal intake from ScSM was 1.33:1. It is concluded that supplementing scavenging chickens with protein (soyabean meal) and energy (maize meal) in a cafeteria had the highest level of intake, egg production, body weight, rather than offering these supplements separately despite the two supplements offered separately increasing productivity compared to the corresponding scavenging only groups of birds. Scavenging indigenous chickens need to be supplied with 64.6 grams of scavenging balancer with nutrient specification of 21.2% CP, 0.91% Try, 0.34% M+C, and 3044 Kcal/kg or maize meal and soyabean meal to reach a level of 21.2 % protein in the overall diet. Key word: egg production, indigenous chicken, scavenging, supplementation, weight gain
Research of particle size identification based on blind source separation

Aiming at effectively identifying the different particle sizes of single particles of the same kind and eliminating the interference of redundant and noise components in the light scattering signals, this paper puts forward a single particle size detection method by processing the light scattering signals of particles with blind source separation. As shown in the test results, the research object, a single-spherical PTFE pellet (4μm in particle size), contains noise and redundant angular intensity scattering signals. The scattering signals are decomposed into by empirical mode 8 components, which respectively serve as the virtual multi-source signals for blind source separation. The redundant noises in different channels are removed by the ICA algorithm to produce the noiseless and non-redundant light scattering signals. Such signals bear the information on the type of particles, and provide a reliable signal source for further, accurate measurement of particle size. It is demonstrated in the simulation experiment and the engineering example that the blind source separation method not only applies to identification of signal source, but also reduces the noise, improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the signal, and suppresses the interference in the light scattering signals from redundant and nose components.
1 Dynamic Capabilities and Organisational Performance

This paper presents a conceptual framework for the dynamic capabilities – organisational performance relationship. It implies that the organisational resource-base (e.g. marketing and research and development capabilities) mediates the relationship between dynamic capabilities and organisational performance. Furthermore, marketing strategic orientation plays an important role in the development and deployment of dynamic capabilities and consequently affects organisational performance indirectly. This research area is relevant to both marketing managers and academics alike as environmental turbulence calls for control and adjustment of the organisational resource base in order to maintain or increase organisational performance.
Endogenous market structure and the gains from foreign direct investment

This paper discusses the gains from liberalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) in a two country setting with endogenous market structures. Two different scenarios are investigated. In the first scenario, headquarters are run in the domestic country only and the FDI regime is compared to the intersectoral trade case. If multinational and national firms coexist, market concentration occurs and FDI is welfare improving for the foreign country, but welfare declining for the domestic country. In the second scenario, headquarters are run in both countries and the FDI regime is compared to the intraindustry trade case. This regime switch leads to mutual welfare gains, irrespective of market structure effects.
Factors that impact on the ability of biofumigants to suppress fungal pathogens and weeds of strawberry

This research aimed at identifying factors that improve the efficacy of biofumigants for soil disinfestation against strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) pathogens and weeds. In laboratory bioassays, volatiles released from the macerated roots of a Brassica rapa/ Brassica napus biofumigant crop were six times more effective at suppressing the growth of the strawberry pathogen Rhizoctonia fragariae than shoots. Furthermore, the toxicity of the volatiles from the biofumigant crop to R. fragariae increased as plant developmental stage progressed. These results related to the release of higher quantities and greater diversity of isothiocyanates (ITCs) from the roots of mature biofumigant plants than from their shoots. Separate bioassays showed that volatiles from the biofumigant crop suppressed the growth of six different soil-borne pathogens (Alternaria alternata, Colletotrichum dematium, Cylindrocarpon destructans, Fusarium oxysporum, Pythium ultimum, Phytophthora cactorum, and R. fragariae) of strawberry and seven Trifolium spp. (clover) weeds. The suppression of Trifolium spp. by biofumigant volatiles did not relate to their seed size, but might relate to their hard-seededness or genotype. In the field, rotary incorporation of the biofumigant crop did not produce detectable levels of ITCs in soil; reduce the survival of the strawberry pathogens, P. cactorum and C. destructans; or affect populations of culturable soil microflora. Yet, it suppressed the growth of emerging weeds by 40% and the growth of P. cactorum by 20%. We hypothesise that allelochemicals other than ITCs, such as nitriles, or other biological mechanisms might also play a role in biofumigation. A key to improving the efficacy of biofumigation in the field seems to lie in the development of application technologies that can macerate and incorporate biofumigants evenly in soils, in addition to incorporating biofumigants under optimal edaphic conditions for release of ITCs. r 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.