Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Strategic Leadership Program as ODI on the Usage Accounting Information System and Financial Performance

This study aimed to examinethe impact of Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) as organization development interventions (ODI) on the Usage Accounting Information System and Financial Performance.Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) designed as intervention programs, implemented to enhance Strategic Leadership Mindset (SLM) in Optics Groups, one of the market leader of eyeglasses industry in Indonesia. In this research the programs consist of four themes to enhance the strategic leadership index. The themes includes: (1) The roles of leadership; (2) Value Chain; (3) Human Capital and (4) Four Types of Cultures. The data analyzed and confirm that the SLP as ODI has succeeded to bring the improvement of SLM of the leaders which created an impacton the level of accounting information system usage and financial performance. Additionally, the monthly survey show concomitand finding on employee satisfaction and competitive advantage indexthat the intervention did not only solve the financial problems but also improve the non-financial performance because of the effect of accounting information system usage.
Characteristics of Male Sexual Dysfunction Subjects from a Sociocultural Perspective : Analysis of 18 Years

Objective: Sociocultural factors may have significant effects on sexual behavior. Research in different cultures may contribute to our understanding of sexuality and sexual dysfunction. The study aims to present the sociodemographic characteristics and clinical symptomatology of male sexual dysfunctions in a Turkish sample. Method: Subjects who were referred to the Sexual Dysfunction Unit in the Psychiatry Department of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Turkey, during September 1986-November 2008 have been included in the study. The subjects’ presenting complaints, diagnostic distribution, and socio-demographic characteristics were analyzed retrospectively. Findings: Out of 1226 cases, 903 males’ data were evaluated. The diagnostic distribution of subjects were as following: Erectile disorder due to psychological factors 60.2%, erectile disorder due to organic factors 18.9%, premature ejaculation 10.7%, sexual desire disorder 3.8%, orgasmic disorder 0.7%, and other disorders 5.7%. On the other hand, the subjects’ presenting complaints were erectile inadequacy 50.1%, erectile failure 26.0%, premature ejaculation 11.7%, low sexual desire 9.2%, and retarded ejaculation 1.0%, other 1.9%. Discussion: In this study the male/female ratio was 7/1, in favor of males which may reflect sociocultural values attributed to sexuality. The incidence of erectile dysfunction was higher, whereas premature ejaculation, orgasmic disorder and sexual desire disorder was lower compared with literature. Conclusion: These findings may be related to cultural effects influencing the acceptance of sexual dysfunctions, and were discussed in the light of sociocultural factors.
PEG-conjugated Hemoglobin Combination with Cisplatin Enforced the Antiangiogeic Effect in a Cervical Tumor Xenograft Model

Angiogenesis, an essential event involved in a tumor's progression and metastasis, is regulated by hypoxia. Hypoxia widely exists in solid tumors due to the abnormal vasculature of tumor tissue and insufficiency of tissue oxygenation. We speculate that hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) can attenuate tissue hypoxia, thereby suppressingthe angiogenesis in solid tumor in the context that HBOCs have the ability to increase tissue oxygenation. In the present study, PEG-conjugated hemoglobin solution (0.3 g/kg i.v. or 0.6 g/kg i.v.) was intravenously administrated to BALB/c nude mice bearing the cervical tumor twice a week with or without the treatment of cisplatin (5mg/kg i.p.) to investigate whether PEG-conjugated hemoglobin has a chemo-sensitization effect though anti-angiogenesis pathway. Tumor volume was measured every three days and tumor hypoxia was detected by immunohistochemistry for Hypoxyprobe™-1. Anti-angiogenic effect was accessed by detection of mRNA and protein levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), the most important angiogenic factor. Our results showed that high concentration of PEG-conjugated hemoglobin solution significantly impeded the growth of tumor when compared with the control group. Moreover, VEGF expression was declined when treated with PEG-conjugated hemoglobin, possibly through the HIF regulation system. Collectively, treatment of PEG-conjugated hemoglobin combination with cisplatin has an antiangiogeic effect, but the underlying mechanism should be further studied.
A fundamental limit on electric fields in air

By modifying the avalanche mode of runaway breakdown to include positive feedback from gamma‐rays and positrons, it is found that enormous bursts of energetic radiation can be produced in strong electric fields in air, with peak fluxes up to one billion times greater than from conventional models. These bursts generate so many runaway electrons that the electric field is very rapidly discharged, resulting in a fundamental upper limit on the electric field strength achievable in air. This limit has important implications for the electrification of thunderstorms and the production of lightning.
Language can boost otherwise unseen objects into visual awareness

Linguistic labels (e.g., “chair”) seem to activate visual properties of the objects to which they refer. Here we investigated whether language-based activation of visual representations can affect the ability to simply detect the presence of an object. We used continuous flash suppression to suppress visual awareness of familiar objects while they were continuously presented to one eye. Participants made simple detection decisions, indicating whether they saw any image. Hearing a verbal label before the simple detection task changed performance relative to an uninformative cue baseline. Valid labels improved performance relative to no-label baseline trials. Invalid labels decreased performance. Labels affected both sensitivity (d′) and response times. In addition, we found that the effectiveness of labels varied predictably as a function of the match between the shape of the stimulus and the shape denoted by the label. Together, the findings suggest that facilitated detection of invisible objects due to language occurs at a perceptual rather than semantic locus. We hypothesize that when information associated with verbal labels matches stimulus-driven activity, language can provide a boost to perception, propelling an otherwise invisible image into awareness.
Post-Traumatic Stress, Mother’s Emotion Regulation, and Parenting in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) are high among female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), and children of parents experiencing PTSS are at heightened risk for a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems. Parenting has significant influence on child adjustment, and although links have been found between parental psychopathology and maladaptive parenting, little is known about the factors that may explain this relation. The current study examines mother’s emotion regulation (ER) as a factor influencing the relation between mother PTSS and parenting around children’s emotions in a study sample of sixty-four female survivors of IPV and their 6- to 12-year-old children. Mothers reported on their own PTSS and their parenting. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was used as a psychophysiological index of mother’s ER. Experiential components of mother’s ER was also measured by observer coding of the Meta-Emotion Interview, a structured assessment that asks parents about their attitudes toward and experiences with emotions, including their regulation of emotions. Mother’s RSA reactivity moderated the relation between PTSS and negative parenting. There was also a significant indirect relation between mothers’ PTSS symptom severity and supportive parenting reactions through mothers’ self-report of ER. Results suggest that mother’s ER abilities represent factors that significantly affect associations between maternal PTSS and parent’s emotion socialization practices. Implications for assessment and intervention with families exposed to the stress of IPV are discussed.
Television Viewing Patterns in 6- to 18-Month-Olds: The Role of Caregiver-Infant Interactional Quality.

The present study examines coviewing of Baby Mozart by 6- to 18-month-old infants and their caregivers under naturalistic conditions. We had two questions. First, extending the method of Barr, Zack, Garcia, and Muentener (Infancy, 13 [2008], 30-56) to a younger population, we asked if age, prior exposure, and caregiver verbal input would predict infant looking to a Baby Mozart video from 6 to 18 months. Second, we asked if caregiver-infant interactional quality, defined as the amount of shared focus and turn taking between infant and caregiver, would be associated with infant looking time. We found that, in addition to the anticipated effect of prior exposure and caregiver verbal input, interactional quality measures were related to infant media-directed looking. Infants who engaged in more shared focus and turn taking looked more to the program than infants who interacted less with their caregivers. These results are discussed in terms of social mediation of coviewing during early infancy.
A New Multi-lingual Knowledge-base Approach to Keyphrase Extraction for the Italian Language

Associating meaningful keyphrases to text documents and Web pages is an activity that can significantly increase the accuracy of Information Retrieval, Personalization and Recommender systems, but the growing amount of text data available is too large for an extensive manual annotation. On the other hand, automatic keyphrase generation can significantly support this activity. This task is already performed with satisfactory results by several systems proposed in the literature, however, most of them focuses solely on the English language which represents approximately more than 50% of Web contents. Only few other languages have been investigated and Italian, despite being the ninth most used language on the Web, is not among them. In order to overcome this shortage, we propose a novel multi-language, unsupervised, knowledge-based approach towards keyphrase generation. To support our claims, we developed DIKpE-G, a prototype system which integrates several kinds of knowledge for selecting and evaluating meaningful keyphrases, ranging from linguistic to statistical, meta/structural, social, and ontological knowledge. DIKpE-G performs well over English and
Human capital and career success of creative entrepreneurs: is guanxi network a missing link?

Entrepreneurial human capital has long been regarded as the determinant of entrepreneurial career success. Guanxi, which embodies Chinese entrepreneurs’ informal networks, is an advantage-seeking behavior prevalent in the emerging industry sectors, such as creative industries. As a rising industry sector which consists of mostly small businesses and start-ups, creative industries are increasingly a theoretical focus in the recent entrepreneurship research. Therefore, we draw upon the guanxi perspective to investigate the relationship between human capital, social capital, and entrepreneurial career success in creative industries. This paper examines a sample of 133 creative entrepreneurs in Taiwan. Results reveal that entrepreneurs’ human capital is related to their guanxi networks, which in turn are associated with new venture performance and entrepreneurial career success. Specifically, both business ties and government ties are found to benefit from the entrepreneurial experience and educational level, whereas prior work experience of entrepreneurs shows no significant effect on improving guanxi networks. Our findings furthermore suggest that entrepreneurs’ family ties, business ties, and government ties are conducive to their social reputation, career achievement, entrepreneurial satisfaction, and firm profitability. Interestingly, our results indicate that community ties may weaken entrepreneurs’ career achievement. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.
The mixed effects of experimental ant removal on seedling distribution, belowground invertebrates, and soil nutrients

Ants are ubiquitous members of most forest communities, where they disperse seeds, prey on other species, and influence the flow of nutrients. Their effects are often described as substantial, but few studies to date have simultaneously examined how the presence of ants affects both above and belowground processes. In this study, we experimentally reduced ant abundance in a suite of deciduous forest plots in northern Georgia, USA to assess the effects of ants on the spatial distribution of a common understory plant species, Hexastlylis arifolia, the structure of soil mesofaunal communities, and soil nitrogen dynamics. Over the course of several years, the removal of ants led to significant spatial aggregation of H. arifolia seedlings near the parent plant, most likely due to the absence of the keystone seed dispersal species, Aphaenogaster rudis. Seedling emergence was higher in ant removal plots, but seedling aggregation did not affect first or second year seedling mortality. Ammonium concentrations were 10× higher in ant removal plots relative to control plots where ants were present in the first year of the study, but this increase disappeared in the second and third years of the study. The effects of ant removal on the soil mesofauna were mixed: removal of ants apparently did not affect the abundance of Collembola, but the abundance of oribatid mites was significantly higher in ant removal plots by year two of the study. Taken together, these results provide some of the first experimental evidence of the diverse direct and indirect effects of ants on both above and belowground processes in forest ecosystems and demonstrate the potential consequences of losing an important seed dispersing ant species for the plants they disperse.
Influence of water concentration on the etching aggressiveness of self-etch primers to ground primary enamel.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of water concentration in self-etch primers on their etching aggressiveness to ground primary human enamel. METHODS Five hydroxylethyl methacrylate/glycerol dimethacrylate phosphate-based experimental self-etch primers with the same pH (1.1) and different water concentrations (0%, 5%, 10%, 20%, or 40%) were formulated. The enamel of primary molars was flattened, and the primers were applied vigorously for 30 seconds. The etching morphology was assessed via scanning electron microscopy. Thirty-seven percent phosphoric acid gel was tested as a positive control. RESULTS Increasing etching aggressiveness was associated with increased water content. The etching potential of the anhydrous primer was marginal to none. Primers with 5% and 10% water concentration showed similar etching potentials, producing slight enamel demineralization. The primer with 20% water concentration produced removal of crystals within and around the enamel prisms, with the outline of the prisms being clearly visible. The aggressiveness of the primer with 40% water concentration was more pronounced, with generalized porosity involving the center and periphery of the prisms, with vast surface irregularity. The etching pattern of the phosphoric acid gel was more pronounced than the primer with 20% water concentration, but less aggressive than the primer with 40% water concentration. CONCLUSION Water content has a significant role on the aggressiveness of self-etch primers applied to the ground primary enamel.
Ultraviolet filters in stomatopod crustaceans: diversity, ecology and evolution

ABSTRACT Stomatopod crustaceans employ unique ultraviolet (UV) optical filters in order to tune the spectral sensitivities of their UV-sensitive photoreceptors. In the stomatopod species Neogonodactylus oerstedii, we previously found four filter types, produced by five distinct mycosporine-like amino acid pigments in the crystalline cones of their specialized midband ommatidial facets. This UV-spectral tuning array produces receptors with at least six distinct spectral sensitivities, despite expressing only two visual pigments. Here, we present a broad survey of these UV filters across the stomatopod order, examining their spectral absorption properties in 21 species from seven families in four superfamilies. We found that UV filters are present in three of the four superfamilies, and evolutionary character reconstruction implies that at least one class of UV filter was present in the ancestor of all modern stomatopods. Additionally, postlarval stomatopods were observed to produce the UV filters simultaneously alongside development of the adult eye. The absorbance properties of the filters are consistent within a species; however, between species we found a great deal of diversity, both in the number of filters and in their spectral absorbance characteristics. This diversity correlates with the habitat depth ranges of these species, suggesting that species living in shallow, UV-rich environments may tune their UV spectral sensitivities more aggressively. We also found additional, previously unrecognized UV filter types in the crystalline cones of the peripheral eye regions of some species, indicating the possibility for even greater stomatopod visual complexity than previously thought. Summary: A broad survey of mantis shrimp reveals variability in ocular UV-filters, suggesting a complex evolutionary history for these pigments, and even greater visual complexity than previously appreciated in this group.
Laser-induced magnetization dynamics and reversal in ferrimagnetic alloys

This review discusses the recent studies of magnetization dynamics and the role of angular momentum in thin films of ferrimagnetic rare-earth–transition metal (RE–TM) alloys, e.g. GdFeCo, where both magnetization and angular momenta are temperature dependent. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the magnetization can be manipulated and even reversed by a single 40 fs laser pulse, without any applied magnetic field. This switching is found to follow a novel reversal pathway, that is shown however to depend crucially on the net angular momentum, reflecting the balance of the two opposite sublattices. In particular, optical excitation of ferrimagnetic GdFeCo on a time scale pertinent to the characteristic time of the exchange interaction between the RE and TM spins, i.e. on the time scale of tens of femtoseconds, pushes the spin dynamics into a yet unexplored regime, where the two exchange-coupled magnetic sublattices demonstrate substantially different dynamics. As a result, the reversal of spins appears to proceed via a novel transient state characterized by a ferromagnetic alignment of the Gd and Fe magnetic moments, despite their ground-state antiferromagnetic coupling. Thus, optical manipulation of magnetic order by femtosecond laser pulses has developed into an exciting and still expanding research field that keeps being fueled by a continuous stream of new and sometimes counterintuitive results. Considering the progress in the development of plasmonic antennas and compact ultrafast lasers, optical control of magnetic order may also potentially revolutionize data storage and information processing technologies.
Biological pretreatment enhances biogas production in the anaerobic digestion of pulp and paper sludge

High efficient resource recovery from pulp and paper sludge (PPS) has been the focus of attention. The objective of this research was to develop a bio-pretreatment process prior to anaerobic digestion of PPS to improve the methane productivity. Active and inactive mushroom compost extracts (MCE) were used for pretreating PPS, followed by anaerobic digestion with monosodium glutamate waste liquor (MGWL). Laboratory-scale experiments were carried out in completely mixed bioreactors, 1-L capacity with 700 ml useful capacity. Optimal amount of active MCE for organics’ solubilization in the step of pretreatment was 250 A.U. /gVS sludge. Under this condition, the PPS floc structure was well disrupted, resulting in void rate and fibre size diminishment after pretreatment. In addition, SCOD and VS removal were found to be 56% and 43.6%, respectively, after anaerobic digestion, being the peak value of VFA concentration determined as 1198 mg acetic acid L-1. The anaerobic digestion efficiency of PPS with and without pretreatment was evaluated. The highest methane yield under optimal pretreatment conditions was 0.23 m3 CH 4/kgVSadd, being 134.2% of the control. The results indicated that MCE bio-pretreatment could be a cost-effective and environmentally sound method for producing methane from PPS.
On-line condition monitoring system for in-service circuit breaker

This work describes the experience obtained in the Circuit Breaker System Monitoring project executed for two Brazilian electric utilities, one of transmission and another of distribution. The project had as main characteristic the use of market available equipment and standardized communication protocols, inside of an open and flexible architecture, that allows its application to circuit breakers with different technologies and with different operating mechanisms and insulation systems.
Institutional investors and home bias in Europe’s Capital Markets Union

Integrated capital markets facilitate risk sharing across countries. Lower home bias in financial investments is an indicator of risk sharing. We highlight that existing indicators of equity home bias in the literature suffer from incomplete coverage because they consider only listed equities. We also consider unlisted equites and show that equity home bias is much higher than previous studies perceived. We also analyse home bias in debt securities holdings, and euro area bias. We conclude that European Union membership may foster financial integration and reduce information barriers, which sometimes limit cross-country diversification. We calculate home bias indicators for the aggregate of the euro area as if the euro area was a single country and report remarkable similarity between the euro area and the United States in terms of equity home bias, while there is a higher level of debt home bias in the United States than in the euro area as a whole. We develop a new pension fund foreign investment restrictions index to control for the impact of prudential regulations on the ability of institutional investors to diversify geographically across borders. Our panel regression estimates for 25 advanced and emerging countries in 2001-14 provide strong support for the hypothesis that the larger the assets managed by institutional investors (defined as pension funds, insurance companies and investment funds), the smaller the home bias and thereby the greater the scope for risk sharing.
Factors influencing successor selection in China: an empirical analysis

Eight factors were analyzed by using logistic regressions to find whether they affect family business owners to choose their children to take over the business. Of the eight factors, the number of business owners’ children, the scale of enterprise’s fixed assets, the type of the industries and the shares hold by the business owner do not have significant effect, so they are deleted from the model. Two factors, the owner’s age and the form of company are consistent with our assumptions. Owner’s age has a positive impact and the form of company plays a negative role to choose the children as the successors. However, the level of owner’s education and the number of the employees become the protective factors, which are inconsistent with our assumptions.