Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Why customers and peer service providers do not participate in collaborative consumption

Technological innovations such as smart mobile devices and mobile applications gave rise to a new business model: collaborative consumption. This business model, which is receiving significant attention from researchers and practitioners, is characterized by an intermediating digital platform that facilitates exchanges between customers and peer service providers. However, many digital platform providers still fail to build a critical mass of demand and supply. Accordingly, the aim of this research is to develop a better understanding of the barriers perceived by both customers and peer service providers. ,This study uses a mixed-method qualitative approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors that explain the rejection of collaborative consumption. In particular, six focus groups and 14 in-depth interviews were conducted, totaling 50 Belgian participants (with a mean age of 33 years). In addition, 375 online critical incidents—retrieved from various sources, such as review websites and social networks—were used for triangulation purposes. All data were analyzed using a thematic analytic approach. ,Customers and peer service providers reject collaborative consumption because of a complex set of multidimensional functional and psychological barriers. In particular, actors may perceive barriers related to complexity, value, risk, compatibility, contamination, image, and responsibility, which prevent them from participating in collaborative consumption. ,This paper builds theory on the reasons why both customers and peer service providers reject collaborative consumption. The research identifies several barriers that were not captured in prior research. Digital platform providers can use the research findings to more fully understand actors' decision-making processes in collaborative consumption.
Opérationnalisation de la Responsabilité Sociétale au travers de la norme ISO 26000 : quel discours 2.0 sur le bien-être ?

La Responsabilite Societale (RS) porte la contribution des organisations au Developpement Durable. Si la RS peine a rassembler les chercheurs autour d'une definition universelle, le concept de bien-etre en est l'element central. L'ISO 26000 porte la RS a l'echelle internationale et soutient son operationnalisation. L'etude s'appuie sur une analyse de contenu pour questionner l'operationnalisation de la RS au travers de l'ISO 26000. Si l'ISO 26000 considere effectivement le bien-etre, ses considerations sont plurielles et desequilibrees. Base sur une observation discursive 2.0, l'ISO 26000 temoigne du concept de bien-etre dans la contextualisation mais pas dans l'operationnalite.
Development of new optimal cloud computing mechanism for data exchange based on link selectivity, link reliability and data exchange efficiency

Reorganization of virtual machines (VM) presents an extraordinary opportunity for parallel, cluster, grid, cloud and distributed computing. Virtualization technology benefits the computing and IT ventures by enabling clients to share expensive by multiplexing virtual machines on a similar arrangement of hardware hosts. With the advantage of higher data-accessing feature, this data sharing approach provides challenges in perceptive to data security and data integrity issues. In this paper, to the selected network, a service level agreement approach for data access resource management is developed. During the exchange of packets over the selected link, it is required that data are to be accessed at a faster rate. The overhead may have serious negative effects on cluster utilization, throughput, and Quality of Service issues. Therefore, the challenge is to develop VMs a control approach, which governs the rate allocation in terms of data access and bandwidth to speed the data exchange performance. The throughput of the network is monitored by the traffic link rate, wherein the processing overhead is observed at the process of quality.
Processing word boundaries in a second language

The online segmentation of running speech requires that the listener employ perceptual strategies to identify where word boundaries lie. One such strategy is the exploitation of non-contrastive acoustic differentiation that occurs at various prosodic boundaries. Nakatani and Dukes (1977) showed for example that listeners can use the presence of word-initial aspirated voiceless plosives to differentiate between potentially ambiguous phonemic content such as loose pills and Lou spills in English. Complicating the processes of speech perception, however, for learners of a second language (L2) is the fact that segmentation strategies vary from language to language. As a consequence, adult learners are thought to be constrained by first language (L1) processing routines in the perception and segmentation of the L2.
Pengaruh Good Corporate Governance Dan Intellectual Capital Terhadap Financial Performance

The purpose of this study is to empirically assess the effect of governance, which includes the board of directors, audit committee, and institutional ownership and intellectual capital on financial performance in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in the 2017-2019 period. This research was conducted with 216 data samples selected by using purposive sampling technique. The data processing of this research is supported by the EVIEWS-10.0 and Microsoft Excel 2019 programs. The results obtained show that the board of directors (BOD), the audit committee (AC), and institutional ownership (IO) have no significant effect on financial performance (ROA), while capital intellectual (VAIC) has a positive influence on financial performance (ROA). The implication of this research is the need for a more significant role of corporate governance and effective and efficient intellectual capital management, so that companies can improve their financial performance.
Deployment Considerations for Information-Centric Networking (ICN)

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is now reaching technological maturity after many years of fundamental research and experimentation. This document provides a number of deployment considerations in the interest of helping the ICN community move forward to the next step of live deployments. First, the major deployment configurations for ICN are described including the key overlay and underlay approaches. Then proposed deployment migration paths are outlined to address major practical issues such as network and application migration. Next, selected ICN trial experiences are summarized. Finally, protocol areas that require further standardization are identified to facilitate future interoperable ICN deployments. This document is a product of the Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG).
Review of algorithms for RNA secondary structure prediction with pseudoknots

REVIEW OF ALGORITHMS FOR RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION WITH PSEUDOKNOTS by Ingrid Helene Nielsen Pseudoknots are structures that are formed from the base pairing of an RNA secondary loop structure with a complementary base which lies somewhere outside of the loop. The result is a structure, which plays a vital role in cell structure rigidity, regulation of protein synthesis, and in the structural organization of RNA complexes. Deciphering RNA folding patterns would begin to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding the cell and its functions and open a new world to scientists. Many algorithms have been written in this quest to predict RNA's secondary structure but not many have been very successful. In this thesis, some of these algorithms are discussed and considered for their strengths and weaknesses. First those algorithms, which exclude pseudoknots and other more complex structures, are presented. The later algorithms include those, which attempt to include some of the more complex structures into their calculations. In the end, all the algorithms are taken into consideration and their strengths and weaknesses compared so as to find some path for future direction. By using the strengths found in these variety of algorithms and avoiding some of the pitfalls encountered by others hopefully new algorithms will be developed in the future that are more successful in deciphering RNA secondary structure. REVIEW OF ALGORITHMS FOR RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION WITH PSEUDOKNOTS by Ingrid Helene Nielsen A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Computational Biology Department of Computer Science
Аdvanced computer-based approaches for food quality evaluation: updated review

From the point of view of their usage biological resources must be managed in a sustainable manner in order to uphold the social, economic and environmental functions and to contribute to the peoples’ livelihoods. Within the food production and processing industry requirements are focused on improvement of quality control of technologies by incorporating them into precise, computer-based, low-cost methods. The present work is a review of different approaches and tools for computer aided methods for food quality evaluation. Powerful techniques based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Aquaphotomics are presented.
Avenços en la preparació d'organosíliques derivades de sals d'imidazoli i de prolinsulfonamides

Durant la ultima decada l'organocatalisi ha suscitat molt d'interes en la comunitat cientifica. Per una banda, els carbens N-heterociclics (NHC) son capacos de catalitzar un ampli ventall de reaccions (condensacions benzoiniques, condensacions creuades d'enals amb aldehids o imines, reaccions de Stetter, transesterificacions, reaccions de polimeritzacio,.). Aquesta recerca s'ha centrat en processos homogenis. La inmmobilitzacio de l'organocatalitzador a un suport polimeric insoluble en permetria una facil separacio per filtracio, possibilitant el seu reciclatge. Representa un repte cientific que reportaria beneficis des del punt de vista economic i medi-ambiental. En aquest treball s'han preparat els monomers sililats 2 i 6 i les organosiliques M1, M2 i M3 pel proces sol-gel, per a ser assajades en un futur com a organocatalitzadors en fase heterogenia. Per una altra banda, les prolinsulfonamides representen la ultima incorporacio a la familia dels derivats de prolina i han mostrat molt bons resultats com a organocatalitzadors quirals en fase homogenia en reaccions aldoliques, addicions de Michael, reaccions de Mannich i d'aza-Diels Alder. Per aquest motiu, i tenint en compte les mateixes raons abans esmentades, en aquest treball es va plantejar la sintesi del monomer sililat 9 per a poder preparar posteriorment la corresponent organosilica mitjancant el proces sol-gel. La preparacio del producte 9 no ha estat possible i s'ha canviat l'estrategia sintetica per tal de sintetitzar un altre monomer sililat, 16, que s'utilitzara per la preparacio del material corresponent. S'ha fet estudis per obtenir un substrat model 17 a fi de trobar les condicions adients de l'acoblament entre N-Cbz-L-prolina i arilsulfonamides.
Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco

Is there any empirical evidence that firms become more efficient after becoming exporters? Do firms that become exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers in their industry or region? In this paper we analyze the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data from three semi-industrialized economies. Representing export market participation and production costs as jointly dependent autoregressive processes, we look for evidence that firms' stochastic cost process shifts when they break into foreign markets. We find that relatively more efficient firms become exporters, and that their costs are not affected by previous export market participation. This implies that self-selection of the more efficient firms into the export market, and not earning-by-exporting, explains the efficiency gap between exporter and non-exporters previously documented in the literature. Further, we find some evidence that exporters reduce the costs of breaking into foreign markets for domestically oriented producers, but do not appear to help these producers become more efficient.
ABSORPTION ELEMENT OF STANDARD MALAY WORD IN IBAN LANGUAGE AND SARAWAK MALAY DIALECT

Absorption patterns that occur in Iban (BI) and Sarawak Dialect (DMS), are taken in by only adjusting sound and spelling as to match the sound and pronunciation of the mother tongue. Most of the original words in BI and DMS are entered through the absorption method. Because of the absorption element, many changes involved in the integration of the Standard Malay word into BI and DMS. Hence, this study aims to identify the factor of the absorption element of the Standard Malay word that facilitates the integration of the source language into the recipient language. This study which applies the framework of language contact theory introduced by Weinreich in 1953, is a complete quantitative study using questionnaires on Malay and Ibantrainee teachers in Sarawak. The data show that 100% (234) of respondents agreed with the language that serves as a symbol of belonging would raise a strong interest among the immigrants to use the standard language. This situation resulted from language absorption that has led to language integration. This finding shows that the absorption element which already listed in the recipient language dictionary, indicating the element has been integrated. In conclusion, the adaptation of the language elements absorbed into the BI and DMS as the recipient language has actually undergone an integration process over a long period of time. As a result of this process, the addition of vocabulary occurs when the insertion of absorption into the recipient language dictionary accepted as the original word.
Permittivity and conductivity parameter estimations using full waveform inversion

Full waveform inversion of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data is a promising strategy to estimate quantitative characteristics of the subsurface such as permittivity and conductivity. In this paper, we propose a methodology that uses Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) in time domain of 2D GPR data to obtain highly resolved images of the permittivity and conductivity parameters of the subsurface. FWI is an iterative method that requires a cost function to measure the misfit between observed and modeled data, a wave propagator to compute the modeled data and an initial velocity model that is updated at each iteration until an acceptable decrease of the cost function is reached. The use of FWI with GPR are expensive computationally because it is based on the computation of the electromagnetic full wave propagation. Also, the commercially available acquisition systems use only one transmitter and one receiver antenna at zero offset, requiring a large number of shots to scan a single line.
Improving efficiency and productivity growth of manufacturing SMEs: Evidence from Vietnam

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Regulatory Impact of Concentration of Ownership on the Relationship between Directorate Performance and Auditing Fee

Due to the high impact of concentration of ownership on the auditing fee the relationship between supervision on the directorate structure and auditing fees is dependent to concentration of ownership and concentration of ownership have a significant role in the relation between monitoring the directorate structure and audit fee and increase and a decrease of concentration of ownership influences the relationship board dimensions and audit fee strongly. This study aims to investigate the impact of concentration of ownership on the relationship between institutional owners to the directorate independence and audit fee accepted companies in the Tehran stock market. In this study with using systematic removal method, a sample of 122 companies was accepted from listed companies in The Tehran stock market during the period from 2011 to 2016. According to variables and theoretical fundamentals of research 3 hypothesis has been raised for the research and test of hypothesis were used to the method of relative economics. The result of the first to third hypothesis test showed that concentration of ownership moderates the relationship between the directorate and audit fee of listed companies in the Tehran stock market.
The impact of virtual water strategy on domestic inter-regional agriculture products trade of China

Faced with increasingly severe pressure on water resources, virtual water and virtual water trade theory provide a feasible solution to improve global water use efficiency for agricultural product and to alleviate the pressure on water resources in water-scarce countries or regions. However, virtual water strategy has not been considered in domestic inter-regional agriculture products trade of China. In this research, we will create scenarios, from two aspects of economy and the allocation and utilization of water resources, to study the impact of virtual water strategy on domestic inter-regional agriculture products trade of China. Two kinds of scenarios will be created. One kind of scenarios does not consider the virtual water strategy, which only consider the economic revenue - net social revenue maximization scenario. The other kind of scenarios considers the virtual water strategy - water resource balance scenario. And we will research the impact of virtual water strategy will be made on domestic interregional agriculture productions trade of China. The result shows that virtual water strategy could make advantage impact on the allocation and utilization of water resources by domestic inter-regional agriculture products trade of China. But domestic inter-regional agricultural products virtual water trade of China considered the virtual water strategy would cause great negative impact on net social revenue.
Visual Aesthetics and Functionality of Web Pages: Where is the Design?.

This study examined the design, aesthetics, and functionality of educational and noneducational Web pages from the perspective of visual literacy. Educational Web pages were subdivided into K-12 and college/university settings, and the non-education categories included commercial, publications and communications, informational and cultural, and personal Web pages. Research also evaluated print and online materials used by professionals and nonprofessionals to create these Web pages. These "how-to" manuals were evaluated for their discussions of: good screen design; the use of graphics and icons as communication; backgrounds; hypertext; linking; and overall understanding of publishing on the World Wide Web. Two evaluation instruments were developed. One contained 21 questions for evaluating online and printed resource materials; a second contained 57 questions that considered both aesthetics and functionality as embedded in the categories of design, graphics, text, and color. Initial data analysis indicated a wide range of quality among all the sites. Evaluation of printed and online materials indicated a strong agreement in the use of how to create in HTML language and the technical aspects of using specific image formats for World Wide Web publishing. School sites tended to use text rather than images to present information; sometimes overuse of backgrounds interfered with the overall message. In general, the noneducational sites reflected similar quality as the educational sites, with the exception of the professionally developed commercial sites which contained animations and sophisticated graphics. Those met the criteria for evaluation, but tended to target a narrow group of people; some of the Web pages were well-designed and met the needs of the general user. The amount of text or graphics used in informational home pages was related to the availability of design resources. (Contains 25 references.) (AEF) Visual Aesthetics and Functionality of Web Pages: Where is the Design?
A new sentiment index for the Islamic stock market

ABSTRACT This study attempts to examine the predictability of Google search volume (GSV) and to construct an appropriate investor sentiment index for Islamic stock markets for seven United States (US) Islamic stock indices. Using principal component analysis, we construct an appropriate investor sentiment index for Islamic stock markets that depicts more persistent and higher R-squared values for all these seven US Islamic stocks indices compared to the original Financial and Economic Attitudes Revealed by Search (FEARS) sentiment index of Da, Engelberg, and Gao (2015). The observed results can be attributed to the construction of our investor sentiment index as we have included keywords active in the Islamic stock markets. The findings of this study provide strong predictability evidence for our new sentiment index in the Islamic stock markets.
Application of profit-based credit scoring models using R

In this study, we applied a profit-based scoring system with using 10 different statistical and machine learning algorithms on a consumer credit data of a Turkish commercial bank. RStudio environment and R packages have been used in data cleaning, feature selection and model implementation processes. The results of the study reveal that artificial neural networks model seems to be superior to other techniques in terms of profit maximization.
Time domain verification of differential transmission line modeling methods

The advantages and limitations of time-domain pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) excitation methods for system identification of individual modes within a multi-conductor transmission system are discussed. We develop the modifications necessary to standard frequency-domain transmission-line models to match time-domain experimental data from several types of transmission systems. We show a variety of experimental results showing very good to excellent agreement with our model’s predictions, up to approximately 10 GHz
Evaluating board effectiveness: A review and framework for evaluation of corporate boards

Board evaluations have emerged as an important tool in public policy and corporate practice for enhancing board effectiveness. This paper reviews the extensive literature on effectiveness and the emerging literature on evaluation to understand how the divide between two purposes of evaluation – improving board performance and creating accountability – interact with the two main methods of evaluation – internal and externally facilitated. It also integrates the literature of effectiveness and evaluation into an analytic framework for board evaluation. We believe this tool will contribute theoretical understanding of boards and their work, provide insights for the practice of boards and evaluators, and help policy formation by pointing out the limitations as well as benefits of various policy options