Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of Relationship of Environmental Performance and Firm Value

Environmental has been an isuue for Indonesia, which impose threats to sustainable development, such as the impact of climate change and also energy and food crisis. Bank Indonesia as a regulator in banking industry, decided to publish the regulation about Green Banking, as an act to focus on raising awareeness and capacity building for bank, as a financial intermediary which play an important role to change the economic development. This study analyze the relationship between Environmental performance and firm value, which is measured with Tobin’s Q ratio. The sample data is obtained from 41 banks that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchanges (BEI) in the period of 2011 – 2013. The methodolgy conducted in this study is multiple linear regression. The outcome of this study indicates there is a postive relationship between environmental performance and firm value. This result is in line with previous similar studies which were based on data from other sectors in Indonesia.
Chemical diversity and leishmanicidal activity of Manekia obtusa Miq (Piperaceae)

Piperaceae species have long been used for therapeutic purposes, a reason for the great interest in their use as a source of raw material in phytochemical studies. The aim of this work is to investigate the chemical composition and biological potential of Manekia obtusa Miq, a native rare Piperaceae species in Brazil. Phytochemical studies of nonpolar extract from leaves of M. obtusa led to the isolation and characterization of the flavone 7,4'-dimethylapigenine and 2', 6'-dihydroxy-4'-methoxychalcone from the hexane extract. This flavonoid rich fraction was able to inhibit both growth and viability of Leishmania amazonensis in a dose dependent way. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and inhibitory concentration of 50% (IC50) were calculated at 49.25 and 26.03 μg/ml, respectively. The leaves and stems of M. obtusa had their essential oils extracted by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The constituents δ-3-carene (55.3%), α-pinene (5.9%), δ–cadinene (2.9%), β-pinene (2.7%) and α-cadinol (2.5%) were identified as the major components of the leaf essential oil, while in the stems, δ-3-carene (46.2%) was the major constituent followed by safrole (9.3%), α-cadinol (3.5%), b-pinene (3.2%) and α-pinene (3.1%). These results contributed to improving the knowledge of this native species rarely studied in Brazil. All compounds have not been previously been described with respect to this species. Key words: Manekia obtusa, Piperaceae, Manekia, essential oil, flavonoids.
Cloning and gene expression analysis of ascorbic acid biosynthesis enzymes in Moringa oleifera

Moringa (Moringa oleifera), which is a semi-tropical plant, is used as food and for the production of medicines and oil products, because of a large amount of various nutrients including ascorbic acid (AsA). Although Moringa leaf has a high AsA content, the molecular mechanisms of AsA accumulation in Moringa have received little attention. In this study, we isolated Moringa cDNAs for enzymes, belonging to the major AsA biosynthesis pathway (Smirnoff-Wheeler pathway) in higher plants. The predicted amino acid sequences showed 70% or more similarity to those of Arabidopsis. Quantitative RT-PCR indicated that Moringa GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase (GGP) is most highly expressed in Moringa during leaf development and light exposure. A significant high promoter activity of the Moringa GGP gene was detected by promoter assay in Arabidopsis protoplast.
The changing face of the book review

The Internet has drastically changed the process of literary repertoire formation - changing a closed system consisting of a few literary critics and academics to a realm of democratic rating, where each reader can voice online his or her opinions. Gathering opinions on literature from the entire spectrum, from semi-professional critics to ‘ordinary’ readers, and analysing and visualising these will make it possible to gain insights into the internal dynamics of online book discussion and its influences on the formation of the literary canon. With BookPulse we aim at investigating the public’s influence on the canonisation process by aggregating and analysing information from different websites in order to present a more complete picture. This will help us create a personal literary Web barometer. Using as an example online discussions of the work of Dutch novelist Arnon Grunberg, we present a first analysis of the text used on a number of the review sites and analyse Twitter retweet patterns. We discuss challenges and next steps
What Drives Money Market Rates?

This paper addresses the question of which fundamentals are the determining factors underlying the price discovery process of money market rates in the euro area (EURIBOR futures). I shed light on how the monetary policy decisions and the external communication of the recently created European Central Bank are actually conveyed to the European money market. The impacts of macroeconomic surprises both in the euro area and in the US are also analysed. I find that both the ECB's monetary policy surprises and macroeconomic releases significantly affect both the level and the volatility of futures returns, and that the adjustment in the conditional variance is more gradual than in the conditional mean. Jumps in the level point to a clear connection between money market rates and fundamentals. The slower adjustment in volatility can be rationalised by the fact that some uncertainty remains in the market after the arrival of new information, and, consequently, traders need some time to find a new consensus. Interestingly, macroeconomic releases in the US have a greater impact than European ones. I also show that the external communication of the ECB mainly impacts on the price variability rather than the level of returns, and that the tone of the ECB's statements is of great importance. This provides clear evidence for the supposition that central bank talk does matter. I also extend the analysis to money market rates across the maturity spectrum, and the model employed provides an accurate specification both for the level and the volatility pattern. I show that realised volatility outperforms the GARCH model based measure of the daily price volatility. Finally, a detailed description of the EURIBOR futures market is given, complemented by a statistical analysis of the data.
Initial Development of Surface Fuel Models for The Netherlands

Estimating the spread of wildland fire is growing concern in the Netherlands, where fire events at the wildland urban interface is a growing concern with a changing climate. A multi-year project was initiated in 2012 to obtain field-based fuel measurements to be used to estimate wildland fire spread for surface fire. The overall objective was to develop either custom fuel models or utilize existing Northern American fuel models to fuel conditions in some of the hazardous vegetation in the Netherlands. Over a four-year period, 96 plots were established, a wide variety of fuel parameters measured, and ANOVA (p ≤ 0.1) and Duncan’s MRT used to place these into 56 different vegetation communities. Following multiple permutations in Behaveplus, the 56 communities were consolidated into 28 different fuel models. It was then attempted to use these fuel models as input variables in a Dutch-developed wildland fire spread model. Some fuel models produced similar fire spread, and since they were within relatively similar communities, were combined, resulting in 21 working fuel models. The results of this project will provide land managers, fire brigades and landowners more accurate wildland fire spread estimations, improving safety of the public in this densely populated country. The results of this project will contribute to more accurate and detailed calculations of the NBVM (Dutch wildfire spreadmodel). The NBVM will provide necessary information, to be able to reduce the risk on uncontrollable wildfires, via wildfire prevention measurements and during an incident, to support decision making.
Competitive effects of state aid in oligopoly

Competitive effects of state aid are analysed in an oligopoly with differentiated goods. In period 1, firms invest in vertical product improvement. In period 2, they compete. State aid may then harm competitors even if it does not affect pricing directly. Since investments are strategic substitutes, aid that reduces the cost of capital will allow the recipient to increase investment at the cost of its rivals. It may then sell more at a higher price while the rivals sell less at a lower price. The recipient becomes dominant. Aid could be predatory if given in large amounts. Sequential investment has the same eff ect as state aid and so ap eriod of protected existence may be considered state aid.
Disgust, Shame, and Soapy Water: Tests of Novel Interventions to Promote Safe Water and Hygiene

Lack of access to clean water is among the most pressing environmental problems in developing countries, where diarrheal disease kills nearly 700,000 children per year. While inexpensive and effective practices such as chlorination and hand washing with soap exist, efforts to motivate their use by emphasizing health benefits have seen only limited success. This paper measures the effect of messages appealing to negative emotions (disgust at consumption of human feces) and social pressure (shame at being seen consuming human feces) on hand-washing behavior and use of and willingness to pay for water chlorination among residents of slum compounds in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Neither the traditional, health-based message nor the new disgust-and-shame message led to high levels of chlorination during a free trial, nor to high willingness to pay for the chlorine at the end of the free trial. Provision of low-cost hand-washing facilities did increase hand washing, although the effect size is modest.
Cultural values and management ethics: A 10-nation study

There is currently a lack of empirical work on cross-cultural differences in ethical attitudes towards day-to-day management decision-making in organizations. Work that currently exists in the area of management ethics also lacks cultural explanations of differences. The present study tries to overcome these deficiencies by providing a model of ethical decision-making that is based on cultural antecedents, which may explain differences in judgements of ethicality, and consequential ethical attitudes or professed behaviour. This article reports a 10-nation empirical study that focuses on ethical 'grey areas' that form part of the day-to-day decision-making in organizations across the globe. Countries were selected to represent variation along two cultural dimensions of 'collectivism-individualism', and 'uncertainty avoidance'. These dimensions were then used to explain national cultural differences in judgements of ethicality of decision items concerned with relations with external stakeholders, with the corporation and with the group. Results generally confirm that these dimensions, once elaborated to consider more recent detailed research, provide explanations for differences in ethical attitudes among national groups. This study points the way to further investigations based on cultural explanations of differences in managers' ethical attitudes and behaviour.
Methods for Aggregating Descriptive Assessment Data Prior to Conducting a Matching Analysis

Data collected from descriptive assessments of children’s behavior and caregiver responses can be summarized according to matching theory, which states that relative rates of responding match relative rates of reinforcement. The extent to which matching applies to descriptive assessment data can be evaluated by application of the generalized matching equation (GME). However, three limitations exist in previous applications of the GME: (a) the most appropriate method of aggregating the data is unclear, (b) consequences must be manipulated in order to determine reinforcement, and (c) individual differences in sensitivity can influence the results. This Capstone project addressed those three issues by comparing the results of a descriptive assessment and an experimental analysis for two children. The results showed that aggregating data into 2.5 min bins prior to applying the GME provided the closest approximation to matching under experimental conditions. Furthermore, the descriptive data were more variable than the experimental data. Lastly, the results of this study support use of the GME to detect individual differences in matching. © (Mary-Jo Robinson, April 2013)
Performance Evaluation of Resource Usage for Unicast Video Streaming over IEEE 802.11 WLAN Networks

Multimedia streaming applications are a demanding and challenging service to deliver over wireless networks. Such services have a large impact on the resource requirements of the WLAN. However, there are many variables involved in video streaming, such as the video content being streamed, how the video is encoded and how it is sent. This makes the role of radio resource management and the provision of QoS guarantees extremely difficult. In this paper we investigate the network resource requirements for unicast video streaming in a WLAN environment. We investigate the resource requirements for three scenarios: a single unicast video streaming session; multiple unicast video streaming sessions and finally multiple unicast streaming sessions in the presence of background traffic. We present several key findings: We show the effect that the hint track MTU values has on the access and load requirements of the WLAN. We show that the WLAN becomes saturated when the offered load reaches a certain threshold that is related to the hint track MTU setting. Finally we present some preliminary results that show how the access and load requirements of the WLAN are affected when there is background traffic contending for access to the medium.
The wave-particle duality of light: A demonstration experiment

The wave-particle duality of light plays a fundamental role in introductory courses on quantum mechanics. Traditionally the wave and particle aspects of light are demonstrated in separate experiments which makes it difficult for students to understand their complementary nature. We present an experiment using a single apparatus that demonstrates the wave aspect, the particle aspect, and most importantly, their coexistence. The apparatus is based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which a light beam is attenuated so that at each instant there is only a single photon in the interferometer. In this way the observation of single photon interference becomes possible. By integrating the single photon events in a storage oscilloscope the evolution toward classical interference fringes can be shown in real time. A second strong laser beam, derived from the same pointer, but slightly displaced, traverses the interferometer at the same time, allowing the simultaneous demonstration of wave aspects. Special features of the setup are low cost, simplicity, didactical power and suitability for presentations in large lecture halls using both multimedia projections and audible signals.
BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CANNABIS CONSUMPTION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders are major health issues with particular implications for both the individual and the medical system. Epidemiological data show a more frequent consumption of drugs in schizophrenic patients when compared to the general population. Studies have shown that the abuse of substances is the most common comorbidity associated with schizophrenia. Among illicit substances, cannabis is the most commonly encountered among patients with schizophrenia. Similar clinical features of schizophrenia and cannabis consumption could be explained by some common neurobiological implications. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor stimulation is associated with psychotic-type phenomena and schizophrenia and NMDA receptors are involved in the clinical effects of cannabis consumption. Thus, the CB1 receptors that are spread mainly at the level of the NMDA secretory neurons are activated by tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis. Moreover, cannabis abuse in association with other factors may contribute in triggering schizophrenia. Therefore, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia that abuse substances such as cannabis could represent a special category of patients that require a complex therapeutic approach, especially considering the multiple problems implicated, such as reduced compliance with treatment, unfavorable evolution and prognosis with multiple relapses and frequent hospitalizations.
The dark GRB080207 in an extremely red host and the implications for gamma-ray bursts in highly obscured environments

[Abridged] We present comprehensive X-ray, optical, near- and mid-infrared, and sub-mm observations of GRB 080207 and its host galaxy. The afterglow was undetected in the optical and near-IR, implying an optical to X-ray index 2 are at lower metallicity than the sub-mm galaxy population, offering a likely explanation for the dearth of sub-mm detected GRB hosts. However, we also show that the dark GRB hosts are systematically more massive than those hosting optically bright events, perhaps implying that previous host samples are severely biased by the exclusion of dark events.
Symptomless Carriers of the Causal Agent of Tomato Wilt Pathogen

A study was carried out to determine whether naturally-occurring weeds and other cultivated plants in tomato growing regions could act as symptomless reservoirs of infection to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. A numher of F. oxysporum isolates from weeds and oubergines were used in this investigation. A susceptible tomato cultivar was used for comparison. The plants were artificially inoculated at the five to six leaf stage by root dip method. Only tomato showed wilt symptoms and died three weeks after inoculation. These isolates were identified as F. o. f. sp. lycopersici. Weeds including Amaranthus retroflexus, Amaranthus. sp. , Chenopodium album, and aubergines were colonized to various degrees and determined as symptomless carriers. Therefore, in infested areas, aubergines should not be rotated consecutively with tomatoes and proper measures should be adopted to control the weeds.
Modelling of autoresonant control of ultrasonic transducer for machining applications

A computer model of a non-linear ultrasonic vibrating system with the possibility of autoresonant control is presented in this paper. The system controlled consists of two modules, the first of which is an electromechanical model of an ultrasonic transducer comprising a piezoelectric transducer and a step concentrator. The second module simulates an influence from the machining process. Coefficients of the electromechanical model and its validity were estimated through an identification process based on the experiments with a real ultrasonic transducer. Further, a numerical model of the autoresonant control of this system has been developed. The autoresonant control maintains the resonant regime of oscillation by means of positive feedback, which provides transformation and amplification of the control signal. The model allows the use and comparison of three control strategies depending on the different electrical and mechanical feedback control signals. The results from simulation and from real machining experiments under different control strategies are compared and discussed.
A New Diagnosis Method on Insulators with Measuring Contact Angles

Compared to other methods, insulator's contact angles detection can obtain more precise and more accurate hydrophobicity in parts of insulator, getting in-depth information like hydrophobicity of shed material, migration of the hydrophobicity after polluted insulator, attenuation and recovery characteristics of the insulation performance under certain conditions, all of which are its particular advantages. A new detection method of insulator's performance is proposed in this paper with measuring contact angles. With this method, the boundary curve of water drop on insulator's surface was extracted with image processing, then the polynomial fitting was deployed to fit the boundary curve, and contact angles of water drop were calculated by differentiate the polynomial deduced from the polynomial fitting. So the performance of the insulator can be detected and the process doesn't need manual intervention which makes the detect result accurate and objective. Experiments show that the root mean square error of the measurement is below 2%.
Cervical cytology by pap smear in reproductive population

Worldwide cervical cancer comprises approximately 12% of all cancers in women with an incidence of five lakh new cases reported each year of which almost one fourth of it occurs in India. About 1,22,844 new cervical cancer cases are diagnosed annually in India and 67,477 cervical cancer deaths have been reported annually in India. It is the second most common cancer in women worldwide but the commonest in developing countries like India. It accounts for 80% of deaths in developing countries like India. Cervical screening is currently acknowledged as the most effective approach for cervical cancer control. The dramatic reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer in developed countries is because of widespread use of an effective cytological screening test which can identify the premalignant and malignant lesions of the uterine cervix, which cannot be detected or even suspected by history and clinical examination. Early detection of cervical abnormality at prompt time is the early need for the gynecologist, so as to prevent its progression to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and invasive cancer thereafter. The factors like easy accessibility of cervix, propensity of cervical epithelial cells to exfoliate, rapid turnover of epithelial cells, evidence of wide spectrum of histological changes ABSTRACT
PHYSICS TO FISH: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY ON A VARIETY OF SCALES

PHYSICAL PROCESSES are of major importance to marine ecosystems because marine plants have neither root nor branch. Unlike their terrestrial counterparts, they cannot use stems or branches to position themselves favorably in the sunlight, nor roots to tap the wealth of nutrients that lie below the ocean nutricline. Instead it is physical processes that provide the nutrient and light environments that shape marine ecosystems from their base in primary production. The important physical processes act at all scales. At the largest spatial scales (Fig. 1), wind-driven upwelling positions the nutricline quite close to the euphotic zone in subpolar gyres. Although such gyres are consequently rich in nutrients, primary production can be light-limited at least part of the year at these high latitudes. In contrast, light levels are higher and more constant throughout the year in subtropical gyres, but the nutrient supply is meager, because downwelling places the nutricline well below the euphotic zone. Whether the nutricline is shallow or deep, the actual vertical transport of nutrients up into the euphoric zone occurs through the action of small-scale physical processes, generally lumped together under the word "turbulence. " Over the past two decades, physical oceanographers have become increasingly able to measure such processes in the upper ocean, using various fields measured from freefall microscale profilers, supplemented more recently by a variety of innovative new techniques involving acoustics (Gargett, 1997a and the article by Farmer in this issue--Observing the Ocean Side of the Air-Sea Interface). Depending on the relative location of the