Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Adaptation of Romantic Relationship Perfectionism Scale into Turkish Culture

Abstract In current study, the researchers aimed to adapt Romantic Relationship Perfectionism Scale (RRPS) into Turkish. For reliability and validity of scale, four studies were conducted. Turkish and English forms of the Romantic Relationship Perfectionism Scale (RRPS) are administered over a two-week period and the translated version was accepted as equivalent to the original. Sample of the study consisted of university students in a romantic relationship more than 12 months. In analyzing data, confirmatory factor analysis was used and the model revealed acceptable fit indices. Item-total analyses and Cronbach alpha of scale revealed that the scale can be used in a Turkish sample. In criterion-related validity study, RRPS has significant correlations with Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS), Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Lastly, reliability coefficient scores revealed acceptable results. As a result, validity and reliability studies show that the RRPS scale is acceptable for Turkish sample.
The Effect of Capital Structure on Firm Value , The Rate of Return on Equity and Earnings Per Share of Listed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

Decisions about capital structure is one of the most challenging and the most difficult issues facing the company capital structure of a company is a combination of debt and equity. In this study, the effects of capital structure of the company value, the rate of return on equity and earnings per share of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2010-2014 were studied, due to limitations in total, 55 companies, for example, was selected.The data obtained through library research and software Rahavard new collection for this purpose financial leverage (debt ratio) as a variable alternative decisions, capital structure intended to study hypotheses were examined. In order to test the hypothesis of multiple regression analysis and evaluation of the significance of values and model of 95% of F-statistics and t-test were used, the results suggest that the rate of return on equity has a negative impact significantly on financial leverage . Also, the market value of the company's earnings per share significant effect on the financial leverage it. Keywords: financial leverage, the market value of the company, earnings per share, return on equity
The Relevance of Lifelong Learning (LL) in the Economics of Education: Establishing a Research Program *

espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es proporcionar un marco general para un programa de investigacion sobre la formacion a lo largo de la vida (Lifelong Learning -LL), con especial referencia a su relevancia e impacto en las economias europeas. La formacion a lo largo de la vida ha adquirido una gran importancia en las politicas y practicas de un gran numero de agencias internacionales, gobiernos nacionales e instituciones de formacion en anos recientes. Aunque existen numerosos estudios y trabajos en el campo del LL, sin embargo, existe margen de mejora. En este articulo se repasa la bibliografia existente, sus debilidades y se proponen vias de investigacion para mejorar el conocimiento sobre la formacion a lo largo de la vida. EnglishThe objective of this paper is to provide a general framework for a research program on Lifelong Learning, with a special reference to its relevance and impact on European economies. The topic of Lifelong Learning (LL) has assumed great importance in the policies and practices of a number of international agencies, national governments and institutions of learning in recent years. Although there are numerous studies and works in the field of LL, however, there is room for its improvement. In this article we present a summary of the existing literature, its weaknesses and we propose some research lines to improve the knowledge on LL.
Glacier change along West Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land Sector and links to inter-decadal atmosphere–ocean variability

Abstract. Over the past 20 years satellite remote sensing has captured significant downwasting of glaciers that drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean, particularly across the Amundsen Sea Sector. Along the neighbouring Marie Byrd Land Sector, situated west of Thwaites Glacier to Ross Ice Shelf, glaciological change has been only sparsely monitored. Here, we use optical satellite imagery to track grounding-line migration along the Marie Byrd Land Sector between 2003 and 2015, and compare observed changes with ICESat and CryoSat-2-derived surface elevation and thickness change records. During the observational period, 33 % of the grounding line underwent retreat, with no significant advance recorded over the remainder of the ∼ 2200 km long coastline. The greatest retreat rates were observed along the 650 km-long Getz Ice Shelf, further west of which only minor retreat occurred. The relative glaciological stability west of Getz Ice Shelf can be attributed to a divergence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current from the continental-shelf break at 135∘ W, coincident with a transition in the morphology of the continental shelf. Along Getz Ice Shelf, grounding-line retreat reduced by 68 % during the CryoSat-2 era relative to earlier observations. Climate reanalysis data imply that wind-driven upwelling of Circumpolar Deep Water would have been reduced during this later period, suggesting that the observed slowdown was a response to reduced oceanic forcing. However, lack of comprehensive oceanographic and bathymetric information proximal to Getz Ice Shelf's grounding zone make it difficult to assess the role of intrinsic glacier dynamics, or more complex ice-sheet–ocean interactions, in moderating this slowdown. Collectively, our findings underscore the importance of spatial and inter-decadal variability in atmosphere and ocean interactions in moderating glaciological change around Antarctica.
NORGES HANDELSHØYSKOLE BERGEN, SPRING 2012 Master Thesis in the profile of Financial Economics Thesis Advisor: Zuzana Lafférsová HOW DIVIDENDS INFLUENCE VALUATION:

This paper explores the relationship between cash dividends and value for American firms. It follows Fama and French “Taxes, Financing Decisions and Firm Value” (1998). Fama and French found that dividends convey information about profitability that are missed even when they control for variables such as earnings, investments and research and development (R&D), in the time-period 1965-1992. We extend the data-set to see if the effect of dividends is still relevant for the period 1965-2008. Fama and French ran regressions on all firms found in the Compustat database that had the relevant variables, and so do we. In addition, we run a set of regressions only on firms listed on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX to filter effects of low liquidity stocks. Our findings are in line with Fama and French and we are both able to confirm their results for the time-period 1965-1992 and 1965-2008. The slopes of the dividendcoefficients are just as strong when we run regressions on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX only. We also confirm Lintner’s findings on dividend-smoothing and discover tax-effects around large changes in the tax-code in boom-periods.
Asset Allocation as Determinant of Bank Profitability in Nigeria

In the business of banking, banks do not only invest the received deposits to meet future obligations but also to make a profit. The study investigates the effect of asset allocation on profitability Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The study adopted a panel regression model involving five selected commercial banks. The data were obtained from the financial statement and annual reports of the selected banks spanning 2011 to 2015. The explanatory variables of the study are liquid assets, equities, loans, securities. The panel Ordinary Least Square regression was employed for data analyses. The findings have shown that aggregate asset allocation variable significantly explains 54% of changes in bank profits. Further results shows that liquid assets, investments equities have positive but insignificant effect on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria; loan extension of the banks have insignificant negative effect on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria; whereas investments in security have significant positive effect on the profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The study thus concluded that asset allocation is an important financial management tool to enhancing bank profitability, and that investments in securities are veritable channel for banks to improve profitability in Nigeria.
Efficiency of investment in compulsory education: An Overview of Methodological Approaches

The policy discourses often refer to the term "efficiency" for indicating the necessity of reducing resources devoted to interventions and whole sub-sectors, while keeping the output produced constant. In this technical report, we review the theoretical and empirical foundations of efficiency analysis as applicable to the educational policy. After introducing some key concepts and definitions (technical, allocative, spending and scale efficiency), the report illustrates which variables of inputs, outputs and contextual factors are used in applied studies that assess efficiency in compulsory education. Then, an explanation of methods for conducting efficiency studies is proposed; in particular frontier methods such as non-parametric approaches (as Data Envelopment Analysis) and parametric models (as Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and multi-criteria approaches (such as Multi-Objective Optimisation and Discrete Methods) are reviewed. The main objective of this report is to present to the interested reader the main technical tools which can be applied for carrying out real-world efficiency analyses. A tween report presents an application of efficiency analysis for European compulsory education, at country level.
Evaluation of Food Consumption in A Sample of Pregnant Women from Jordan

The aim of this study was to evaluate the food and nutrient intake of Jordanian women and compare the intake with the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) (IOM,2011) . A convenience sample of 103 pregnant women (18–40 years old) was selected from three different rural villages of the Al-Balqa' district of Jordan. Data were collected using the developed and validated self-report Questionnaire . The most frequent source of nutritional advice for pregnant women was medical staff followed by mother and other family members (47.6% and 30.1%, respectively). More than 50% of the respondents reported that they did not eat breakfast, with lack of appetite given as the main cause. The average daily consumption of protein, carbohydrate and fat of pregnant women was 65.2g , 272.6g and 55.9g , respectively. The mean daily intakes obtained by the mothers were lower than references for protein, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K, folic acid and calcium . Mean daily intakes of vitamin E, zinc and magnesium were in excess of the recommended values of the standards . Special educational programs are strongly recommended for pregnant women and integrated strategies should be considered to promote increased intakes to meet nutrient recommendations.
On the origin of critical nematic fluctuations in pnictide superconductors

We employ polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy to study critical nematic fluctuations in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Au$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ superconductors above and across well separated tetragonal to orthorhombic phase transition at temperature $T_S(x)$ and the N\'{e}el transition at $T_N(x)$. The static Raman susceptibility in $XY$ symmetry channel increases upon cooling from room temperature following the Curie-Weiss law, with Weiss temperature $T_{\theta}(x)$ several tens of degrees lower than $T_S(x)$. Data reveals a hidden nematic quantum critical point at $x_{c} = 0.031$ when the system becomes superconducting, indicating a direct connection between quantum critical nematic fluctuations and unconventional superconductivity. We attribute the origin of the nematicity to charge quadrupole fluctuations due to electron transfer between the nearly degenerate $d_{xz}/d_{yz}$ orbitals.
Mining the BioLiterature: towards automatic annotation of genes and proteins

This chapter introduces the use of Text Mining in scientific literature for biological research, with a special focus on automatic gene and protein annotation. This field became recently a major topic in Bioinformatics, motivated by the opportunity brought by tapping the BioLiterature with automatic text processing software. The chapter describes the main approaches adopted and analyzes systems that have been developed for automatically annotating genes or proteins. To illustrate how text-mining tools fit in biological databases curation processes, the chapter presents a tool that assists protein annotation. Besides the promising advances of Text Mining of BioLiterature, many problems need to be addressed. This chapter presents the main open problems in using text-mining tools for automatic annotation of genes and proteins, and discusses how a more efficient integration of existing domain knowledge can improve the performance of these tools.
The convergence of nonequity housing models in Canada: Changes to housing policy since 1990

Abstract This study examines the impact of housing policy convergence on the nonequity housing system in Ontario, Canada. Ontario has four distinct nonequity housing models— public, nonprofit cooperative, municipal nonprofit, and private nonprofit. This article argues that since 1990, housing policy in Canada, and particularly in Ontario, has become increasingly influenced by the neoconservative agenda of downsizing and decentralization of government functions found in the United States. The findings reveal that changes to housing policy have caused the convergence of nonequity housing models in the areas of management and administration. Drawing on the present findings and on an experimental project in tenant management, this article argues that the trend toward convergence will continue and will likely result in one nonequity housing model in Canada. This pattern is interpreted in light of the neoconservative agenda of both countries that emphasizes private sector solutions to housing low‐income families.
Discovering Educational Potential Embedded in Community Question Answering

Community Question Answering (CQA) systems, such as Yahoo! Answers or Quora, are mostly perceived and studied from their primary knowledge sharing perspective. In spite of that, CQA systems have also a potential to become an effective means for people to acquire new knowledge. In the present, we can witness initial efforts on taking advance of this secondary perspective as CQA concepts have been recently applied in several educational applications. However, these educational systems take quite different approaches to the transition of CQA concepts from the open web to organizational and educational environments. One of possible reasons is that it is not clear which aspects of the question answering process have the best potential for knowledge acquisition. Therefore, we performed a study with a dataset obtained from CQA system Stack Overflow, in which we identified three scenarios that positively leads to improvement of XVHUV¶ H[SHUWLVH The results of the study provide us with a better understanding how CQA systems can be applied as nontraditional learning environments.
Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Polymer-Based Roll-to-Roll Microchannel Heat Exchanger

Polymer-based heat exchangers are advantageous for corrosion resistance, light weight, and low costs. Microchannel heat exchangers are promising for material saving and high heat transfer capacity. Curved channels can promote the secondary fluid flow to enhance the effectiveness of heat transfer. Roll to roll technology makes it possible to roll thin-film layers up to form curved channels inside the layers. Combining all the strengths mentioned above, this research comes up with a polymer-based roll-to-roll microchannel heat exchanger with three different designs. Through numerical simulations, this study analyses the heat transfer characteristics of those three heat exchanger designs. Dean numbers and Nusselt numbers are calculated to evaluate the formation of Dean Vortices and the effectiveness of heat transfer. Simulation results demonstrate that the formation of Dean Vortices induced through the roll-to-roll microchannel structure helps to improve the heat transfer compared with equivalent straight-channel heat exchangers. In addition, this study calculates not only the Nusselt numbers but also the Thermal Performance Factors to take into account the high pressure drops in the microchannel. Finally, the efficiencies of heat transfer of the three heat exchanger designs are compared with each other.
NONME-TASTATIC BREAST CANCER : A REVIEW

Breast cancer women complain of cognitive problems after systemic oncological treatments. This has lead to study the effect of these treatments on the cognitive functioning of these patients. Aims and Method: To expose the conclusions obtained about cognitive impairment induced by systemic oncological treatments in breast cancer after reviewing available literature. Results: 24 studies on cognitive impairment associated to chemotherapy and 5 studies on the cognitive impairment associated to hormone therapy have been found. Chemotherapy studies find a subtle and specific cognitive impairment in a variable percentage of patients. Hormone therapy studies do not agree about its negative or neuroproctetive effect. Conclusions: 1) New studies that overcome the methodological limitations of previous studies are needed, and also more variables need to be assessed; 2) Importance to introduce neuroimaging techniques; 3) Importance of the cognitive complaints verbalized by patients; 4) Development of cognitive rehabilitation programmes to alleviate the cognitive deficits.
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Ehrlich and His Critics

In the December issue, the Journal published a statistical debate on the deterrent effect of capital punishment between Professor Isaac Ehrlich and two sets of critics, Messrs. Baldus and Cole and Bowers and Pierce. Professor Ehrlich's original study of capital punishment, published last spring in the American Economic Review, used sophisticated statistical techniques to arrive at conclusions very different from earlier research in the field.4 Using regression analysis and economic theory, Ehrlich formulated and tested a model of the determinants of the murder rate, and found a significant deterrent effect associated with the use of the death penalty in the United States over the period from 1935 to 1969. The earlier research of Thorsten Sellin and others had consistently found no evidence of a deterrent effect. The issue of deterrence-in particular the technical merits of the Ehrlich study-has been raised in cases pending before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment.b In their critiques in the previous issue of the Journal, Baldus and Cole argue that Ehrlich's approach is less appropriate for testing the deterrent effect of capital punishment than are the less complex techniques used in
African Diplostomum (sensu Dubois 1961): Minireview on taxonomy and biology

Freshwater fisheries has a significant contribution to development as an important source of human proteins as well as in sport fishing and aquarium. Despite their importance, both wild and aquaculture fish suffer from a problem of parasitism, notably Diplostomum species, causing fish mortalities particularly in fingerlings. Although a considerable effort in understanding Diplostomum species taxonomy, biology and control of fish parasites has been well developed in the northern hemisphere, the knowledge of these aspects in Africa is not clearly known.
MACROECONOMIC FACTORS AND PAKISTANI EQUITY MARKET

This paper analyzes long-term equilibrium relationships between a group of macroeconomic variables and the Karachi Stock Exchange Index. The macroeconomic variables are represented by the industrial production index, the consumer price index, M1, and the value of an investment earning the money market rate. We employ a vector error correction model to explore such relationships during 1973:1 to 2004:4. We found that these five variables are cointegrated and two long-term equilibrium relationships exist among these variables. Our results indicated a "causal" relationship between the stock market and the economy. Analysis of our results indicates that industrial production is the largest positive determinant of Pakistani stock prices, while inflation is the largest negative determinant of stock prices in Pakistan. We found that while macroeconomic variables Granger-caused stock price movements, the reverse causality was observed in case of industrial production and stock prices. Furthermore, we found that statistically significant lag lengths between fluctuations in the stock market and changes in the real economy are relatively short.
Ricci flow with surgery on manifolds with positive isotropic
 curvature

We study the Ricci flow for initial metrics with positive isotropic curvature (strictly PIC for short). In the first part of this paper, we prove new curvature pinching estimates which ensure that blow-up limits are uniformly PIC in all dimensions. Moreover, in dimension $n \geq 12$, we show that blow-up limits are weakly PIC2. This can be viewed as a higher-dimensional version of the fundamental Hamilton-Ivey pinching estimate in dimension $3$. In the second part, we develop a theory of ancient solutions which have bounded curvature; are $\kappa$-noncollapsed; are weakly PIC2; and are uniformly PIC. This is an extension of Perelman's work; the additional ingredients needed in the higher dimensional setting are the differential Harnack inequality for solutions to the Ricci flow satisfying the PIC2 condition, and a rigidity result due to Brendle-Huisken-Sinestrari for ancient solutions that are uniformly PIC1. In the third part of this paper, we prove a Canonical Neighborhood Theorem for the Ricci flow with initial data with positive isotropic curvature, which holds in dimension $n \geq 12$. This relies on the curvature pinching estimates together with the structure theory for ancient solutions. This allows us to adapt Perelman's surgery procedure to this situation. As a corollary, we obtain a topological classification of all compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature of dimension $n \geq 12$ which do not contain non-trivial incompressible $(n-1)$-dimensional space forms.
Alteration of Major Insulin Signaling Molecules by Chronic Ethanol in Hypertensive Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells of Rats

Insulin resistance is an important risk factor in the development of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and atherosclerosis. However, despite its importance, the specific role of insulin resistance in the etiology of these diseases is poorly understood. At the same time, ethanol (ETOH) is a potent vasoconstrictor that primarily induces down regulation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) which could exacerbate insulin resistance and possibly lead to cardiovascular diseases. This article describes how chronic ETOH exposure interferes with insulin signaling in hypertensive vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMCs) which leads to the alteration of MAPKs, the major signaling molecules. Elevated (50 - 800 mM) chronic exposure (24 hr) of HVSMCS to ETOH prior to insulin stimulation decreased insulin-induced ERK 1/2 (MAPKs) and AKT expression. Similar experiments were conducted using normotensive cells from rat. These cells showed reductions in insulin-induced ERK 1/2 phosphorylation as well, but only at higher concentrations of ETOH (400 - 800 mM). These alterations in insulin signaling could provide an alternative molecular mechanism that may increase the risk of insulin resistance, thus increasing the possibility of cardiovascular diseases.