Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The impact of organizational justice on turnover intention of Bankers of KPK, Pakistan: The mediator role of organizational commitment

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating effect of organizational commitment between organizational justice and turnover Intention of bankers, Pakistan. Data were collected through organizational commitment questionnaire, organizational justice questionnaire and turnover Intention questionnaire from 177 bankers of KPK, Pakistan. Results showed that organizational justice had a significant positive relationship with organizational commitment and negative relationship with turnover Intention. It was also found that organizational commitment had a significant negative relationship with turnover Intention. Confirmatory factor analysis explored that the measurement model of organizational justice, organizational commitment and turnover Intention fit the sample data very well. Organizational justice showed a direct impact of -68 on turnover Intention. The impact of organizational justice on turnover Intention came down to -22% when organizational commitment as mediator was included. Organizational commitment mediated the role between organizational justice and turnover Intention. Furthermore, OJ showed a significant impact of 68% on organizational commitment that led to -72% impact on turnover Intention.
Helminths of introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Brazil: does population age affect parasite richness?

Species introductions have altered host and parasite diversity throughout the world. In the case of introduced hosts, population age appears to be a good predictor of parasite richness. Habitat alteration is another variable that may impact host-parasite interactions by affecting the availability of intermediate hosts. The house sparrow (Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)) is a good model to test these predictions. It was introduced in several parts of the world and can be found across rural-urban gradients. A total of 160 house sparrows from Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were necropsied. Thirty house sparrows (19 %) were parasitized with at least one out of five helminth species (Digenea: Tamerlania inopina Freitas, 1951 and Eumegacetes sp.; Eucestoda: Choanotaenia passerina (Fuhrmann, 1907) Fuhrmann, 1932; Nematoda: Dispharynx nasuta (Rudolphi, 1819) Stiles & Hassall, 1920 and Cardiofilaria pavlovskyi Strom, 1937). Overall, there was no difference in prevalence and intensity of infection of any parasite species, parasite richness and community diversity between adult males and females and adults and juveniles. The number of infected sparrows among seasons, the richness of helminths and the abundance of species were also similar between rural and urban landscapes. Only the prevalence of C. passerina varied seasonally (p=0.0007). A decrease in the number of parasite species from the original range of P. domesticus (13) to its port of entrance in Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro (nine), to Porto Alegre (five) is compatible with the hypothesis that host population age is a good predictor of parasite richness.
Protein Progressive MSA Using 2-Opt Method

Gamil Abdel-Azim1,2, Aboubekeur Hamdi-Cherif1,3 Mohamed Ben Othman1,4 and Z.A. Aboeleneen5 1College of Computer, Qassim University 2College of Computer& Informatics, Canal Suez University 3Computer Science Department, Universite Ferhat Abbas, Setif (UFAS) 4The research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication (UTIC) / ESSTT 5College of Computer& Informatics, Zagazig University 1Saudi Arabia 3Algeria 4Tunisia 2,5Egypt
Implementation of the Lindahl Correspondance via Simple Indirect Mechanisms

Our paper proposes an original angle to study the free-rider problem in the provision of public goods when the regulator has no information about agents' preferences. For a given outcome - specifically a Lindahl allocation - we ask what assumptions have to be imposed on simple mechanisms (in a precisely defined sense) that have the ability to Nash-implement it. Our answer lies in two main results: i) transfers necessarily belongs to a class of mechanisms that are linear in individual contributions to the public good, ii) there exists a subset of this class that fully implement Lindahl allocations. This subset encompasses, but does not reduce to, Walker (1981).
Absorbing Aerosols, Possible Implication to Crop Yield - A Comparison between IGB Stations

ABSTRACTThe current study compares black carbon radiative effects at the densely populated plain station, Varanasi and the lesser populated plateau station Ranchi with large forest cover but with numerous open coal mines. While the measured average black carbon mass density (BC) reduces from February to March at Ranchi following an increase in convective mixing, it is observed to increase by 150% from February to March in Varanasi, as transport from northeast forest fires increases. It is observed that absorption due to black carbon of non-fossil fuel origin is prevalent throughout the day, in Varanasi, while this contribution is most significant during post sunset hours in Ranchi. Radiative forcing, estimated hourly using chemical model (to derive BC-aod) and radiative transfer model, indicates that at least 5% of the incoming radiation is always cutoff during any time of the day in Varanasi while this is about 4% in Ranchi. BC effectively causes an apparent delayed sunrise by reducing the incoming radiation on the plains of Indo Gangetic Basin (IGB) by up to 25% at the daybreak. An estimate of crop loss due to cut off in radiation, using an empirical formula for crop yield as a function of radiation, indicates a possible loss of more than a quintal per hectare considering anthesis (February) and maturity (March) periods for the winter wheat in both the IGB stations with consistently higher losses in Varanasi.
Managing Diversity: Experiences Teaching Programming Principles

The majority of university level courses offer a similar experience to all students. However in the teaching of introductory computer programming this practice has become increasingly difficult to justify, due to the widely differing initial experience of students. This paper describes an attempt to provide, at low cost, some level of differing experience depending on the needs of the student. The students were allowed to select for themselves which group to join. The experiment was successful in improving student experience and in demonstrating that the students were capable of selecting appropriate groups.
Atmospheric chemistry in the coastal ocean: A synopsis of processing, scavenging and inputs

The coastal atmosphere provides a complicated chemical environment that can have global implications for climate. For example, the continents transport an array of gases and aerosols, both natural dusts and pollutant species, which can interact with sea-salt and affect coastal clouds and their processing for deposition. Once over the coastal ocean, different mixtures of acids, bases, minerals, sea-salt and water under different solar irradiation can induce a host of heterochemical chemical reactions. Deposition of the products of these reactions can make a significant contribution of nutrient inputs to coastal waters and impact coastal ecosystems. However, the steep gradients and complex physical and chemical processes occurring in this transitional area between terrestrial and marine atmospheric domains complicate the quantification of these inputs. This synopsis considers a group of key processes such as interaction of climatic aerosols that operate to regulate atmospheric scavenging and deposition to the coastal environment.
Turning Followers into Dollars: The Impact of Social Media on a Movie’s Financial Performance

This paper examines the impact of social media, specifically Twitter, on the domestic gross box office revenue of 207 films released in the United States between 2009 and 2011. We find that under two different specifications the impact of Twitter on gross revenue and gross revenue per theater is statistically significant when accounting for several control variables. The models show statistical significance of runtime, and production budget. We also find that a film’s release period, genre, rating received, and whether or not it is based on previous material proved to be statistically significant factors in determining a film's domestic gross.
Effect of Website Quality on Customer Satisfaction andPurchase Intention in Online Travel Ticket BookingWebsites

The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of website quality on customer satisfaction and purchase intention. Due to rapid development in the field of technology, the use of E-commerce has expanded drastically in recent years. In an E-commerce company, website quality is very significant determinant of customer satisfaction. The focus is on online travel ticket booking websites. This study is based on a quantitative survey of website quality with respect to online travel ticket booking websites. SMART PLS was used to analyze the descriptive statistics, reliability, and validity. This study conceptualizes the relation between different factors effecting website quality with the purchase intention of customers. The strongest determinants of website quality are information quality, system quality, service quality, and website design. The results of this study help E-commerce companies to retain their customers, and thus, gain long- term value for the company. In E-commerce companies, the competition is fierce, and thus, it is very important that customers have a pleasant experience and return repeatedly to create value for the company. The findings from this study reveal that information quality and customer satisfaction are important and positive user perceptions towards purchase intention in online ticket booking websites. System quality, service quality, and website design also have positive effect on customer satisfaction, but create less significant effect.
Inhibition of the Microbial Growth in Hake, Megrim and Angler by Storage in an Icing System with Preservative Organic Acids

Natural preservative organic acids (ascorbic, citric and lactic acids) were used to prepare a novel organic acid-flake icing system and evaluated for the preservation of three comercially-relevant marine species during refrigerated storage: hake, Merluccius merluccius, megrim, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis and angler, Lophius piscatorius. The icing system was prepared with fresh water including two different concentrations of a commercial acid mixture-formula containing the three organic acids at 800 ppm and 400 ppm (C-800 and C-400 batches, respectively). Aerobic mesophiles, psychrotrophes, proteolytic bacteria, trimethylamine and pH value were evaluated in fish muscle throughout storage, the results being compared with sensory analysis. Significantly (P<0.05) lower counts of mesophiles were determined for hake and megrim in both C-800 and C-400 batches, as compared with the C-0 control batch. In the case of angler, significantly (P<0.05) lower counts of mesophiles, psycrotrophes and proteolytic microorganisms (P<0.05) were determined as a result of employing the C-800 icing conditions. Both C-400 and C-800 megrim batches exhibited significantly (P<0.05) lower pH values than the C-0 control batch, a result that was also observed in the C-800 angler batch. These results were in agreement with sensory analysis, that revealed a shelf life extension of the three fish species in the C-800 batch. According to the parameters assessed, storage of hake, megrim and angler in the proposed ice system containing natural organic acid preservatives allows a better maintenance of their microbial and sensory quality.
Line-Defect Waveguides in Hexagon-Hole type Photonic Crystal Slabs: Design and Fabrication using Focused Ion Beam Technology

Photonic-crystal slabs (PCS) patterned with a 2D triangular-lattice having hexagonal holes rotated with respect to their symmetry axis can provide a larger bandgap than similar slabs with circular holes. A step forward towards integrated optical devices is introducing line ‘defects’ in PCS, the goal being the achievement of single-mode waveguiding over a frequency range as large as possible, inside the gap. We present the design for defect waveguides with reduced width and a novel fabrication technique, which is an integration of optical lithography with focused ion beam (FIB) high-resolution etching. This technique allows a good alignment between a line ‘defect’ and conventional ridge waveguides.
Pegging to the dollar and the feasibility of the proposed currency area in the GCC

The aim of this paper is to examine the general progress of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in moving towards economic integration, as part of their proposed currency union in 2010. It also aims at analyzing the expected impact of the new currency in the GCC on the financial markets in the region. It also analyzes the trade-offs associated with the move to the planned currency area with special emphasis on the stability of the banking and financial systems in GCC economies and recommends conditions and specific policy measures that would capitalize on the European experience and provide optimal benefits from the proposed union.
The Relationship Between International Diversification and Business Performance of Chinese Commercial Banks

Chinese banking industry speeds up the process of internationalization as the global economy integrates and Chinese government accelerates the going out strategy. Many Chinese commercial banks explore overseas market by setting up new branches or merge and acquisition. Under the background, this paper uses empirical study to analyze the relationship between the degree of banks’ internationalization and business performance. Firstly, principal component analysis is applied to measure the degree of banks’ internationalization. Then, the paper constructs two models to analyze the panel data of five state-owned commercial banks, the second one with financial crisis as dummy variable. The results indicate that there is a U-shape relationship between the degree of banks’ internationalization and business performance in the first model without dummy variable. In the second model adding dummy variable, the financial crisis not only deteriorates Chinese commercial banks’ performance, but also makes the relationship between degree of internationalization and business performance become negative in 2008 while the degree of internationalization has positive influence on operational performance in years except for 2008.
Influence of normal loads and sliding velocities on friction properties of engineering plastics sliding against rough counterfaces

Friction properties of plastic materials are very important under dry sliding contact conditions for bearing applications. In the present research, friction properties of engineering plastics such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and nylon are investigated under dry sliding contact conditions. In the experiments, PTFE and nylon slide against different rough counterfaces such as mild steel and stainless steel 316 (SS 316). Frictional tests are carried out at low loads 5, 7.5 and 10 N, low sliding velocities 0.5, 0.75 and 1 m/s and relative humidity 70%. The obtained results reveal that friction coefficient of PTFE increases with the increase in normal loads and sliding velocities within the observed range. On the other hand, frictional values of nylon decrease with the increase in normal loads and sliding velocities. It is observed that in general, these polymers show higher frictional values when sliding against SS 316 rather than mild steel. During running-in process, friction coefficient of PTFE and nylon steadily increases with the increase in rubbing time and after certain duration of rubbing, it remains at steady level. At identical operating conditions, the frictional values are significantly different depending on normal load, sliding velocity and material pair. It is also observed that in general, the influence of normal load on the friction properties of PTFE and nylon is greater than that of sliding velocity.
Impact of Hyper Parameter Optimization for Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction

Recently, most studies have considered the default value for hyper parameters of the classification methods used by cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) methods. However, in previous studies for within-project defect prediction (WPDP), researchers found that the optimization for hyper parameter helps to improve the performance of software defect prediction models. Moreover, the default value for some hyper parameters in different machine learning libraries (such as Weka, Scikit-learn) may not be consistent. To the best of our knowledge, we first conduct an in-depth analysis for the influence on the performance of CPDP by using hyper parameter optimization. Based on different classification methods, we consider 5 different instance selection based CPDP methods in total. In our empirical studies, we choose 8 projects in AEEEM and Relink datasets as our evaluation subjects, and we use AUC as our model performance measure. Final results show that among these methods, the influence of hyper parameter optimization for 4 methods is non-negligible. Among the 11 hyper parameters considered by these 5 classification methods, the influence of 8 hyper parameters is non-negligible, and these hyper parameters are mainly distributed in support vector machine and k nearest neighbor classification methods. Meanwhile, by analyzing the actual computational cost of hyper parameter optimization, we find that the spent time is within the acceptable range. These empirical results show that in the future CPDP research, the hyper parameter optimization should be considered in experimental design.
Citizenship and Employment: Comparing Two Cool Countries

Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in both countries, controlling for a range of demographic, human capital, and municipal characteristics such as city and co-ethnic population size. We use data from the 2006 Canadian census and Swedish register data (STATIV) for the year 2006. Both STATIV and the Census, include similar sets of demographic, socio-economic and immigrant specific. We use instrumental variable regression to examine the 'clean' impact of citizenship acquisition and the size of the co-immigrant population on the probability of being employed in both countries. We find that citizenship acquisition has a positive influence on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for many immigrant groups--as the co-ethnic population increases, the probability of being employed also increases.
Hepatoprotective Activity of a Benzopyrone from Tephrosia purpurea Pers.

Objective: To study hepatoprotective activity of a new benzopyrone derivative (TP) isolated from the alcoholic extract of aerial parts of Tephrosia purpurea Pers. Materials and methods: Compound TP was isolated from alcoholic extract of T. purpurea by normal phase column chromatography using toluene: ethyl acetate (70:30) as mobile phase and structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Hepatoprotective activity of TP and the alcoholic extract was evaluated using carbon tetrachloride, paracetamol and rifampicin as toxicants. The potency of TP (100 mg/kg) and the alcoholic extract of aerial parts (200 mg/kg), was compared with silymarin (100 mg/kg). The SGOT, SGPT, total and direct bilirubin levels of blood were measured spectrophotometrically. Results: Compound TP was found to be 3-hydroxy, 6-methoxy, 2-oxy (3-butanone), 7 (dioxolane-4-one), 2, 3,-dihydrobenzopyrone. The alcoholic extract and TP caused significant fall in the enzyme levels in serum in rats. Conclusion: Alcoholic extract of T. purpurea and TP have shown significant hepatoprotective activity in rats against all the toxicants that were studied.
Study of the Enhancement of Cell Performance of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Sensitized With Nephelium lappaceum (F: Sapindaceae)

We have studied the performance of dye sensitized solar cells sensitized with pigments extracted from the fruit sheath of Nephelium lappaceum (F: Sapindaceae). The pH of the pigment solution used for impregnation was controlled by adding concentrated HCl (50:0.2 v/v). The UV-Vis spectroscopic results revealed that the extract consists of the pigment of Anthocyanin, with an additional absorption peak appearing around 540nm at a lower pH of the pigment solution. Also the band gap of the pigment was reduced by 1eV at low pH conditions. The solar cells fabricated with pigment extracted from the fruit sheath of Nephelium lappaceum showed photo-response with the conversion efficiency of 0.26%, with an open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 453mV, short-circuit current density (ISC) of 1.17mA cm � 2 , and fill factor (ff) of 0.48. The conversion efficiency was significantly enhanced when pH of the pigment solution was lowered by adding concentrated HCl. The conversion efficiency of the dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) sensitized after HCl treatment of the pigment was increased to 0.56%, with an open-circuit voltage (VOC )o f 404mV, short-circuit current density (ISC) of 2.71mA cm � 2 , and fill factor (ff) of 0.35. The HOMO level of the pigment at low pH was shown to be shifted towards more positive values with respect to vacuum level, giving rise to an enhanced DSSC efficiency. The overall efficiency enhancement of the low pH pigment was due to the combined effect of increased UV-Vis absorption and efficient adsorption of dye molecules onto the TiO2 semiconductor surface. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4023877]
Cyclones and pelagic seabird movements

Records of Fulmar Fulmams glacialis, Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus, Gannet Sula bassana and Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, off Kullen in south Sweden, in the decade 1970 to 1979 have been analyzed with respect to meteorological conditions. A causal model describing the occurrence of flap-gliding pelagic seabirds off Kullen is proposed, based upon evidence of (1) close association of these birds with eastward travelling deeper cyclones; (2) restrictions of bird movements due to certain wind directions and velocities; (3) absence of documented cyclonic centre passages south of Latitude 58ON at Longitude 10Â° in connection with observations of birds; (4) earlier flight behaviour studies. A clockwise movement of birds in the Kattegat is ascribed to the interaction of (a) prevailing wind conditions in cyclones, (b) inertia of wave topography, (c) the birds' flight technique. The apparent conformity between the successive clockwise coastal pattern of movement of flap-gliding pelagic seabirds in the Kattegat and the North Sea is considered.
Multi-weighted boundedness for multilinear rough fractional integrals and maximal operators

In this article, several sufficient conditions on the weights ( v,u) are given such that the multilinear rough fractional integrals I Ω,α and the rough multi-sublinear fractional maximal operators M Ω,α are bounded from the product spaces L p1 v1 (R n)×L2 v2 (Rn)×···×Lm vm (Rn) to the space Lu(Rn) . The weak multi-weighted boundedness has also been derived. These results will extend the early and recent works in this direction.