Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of the Bank of Japanâ€™s News Announcements on the Japanese Yen,U.S. Dollar, and the Euro

This article examines the impact of news about the Bank of Japan monetary policy announcements regarding the Japanese yen, U.S. dollar, and the Euro interest rates. Whether or not the announcements from the monetary authorities impact the domestic markets is related to the success of their policies. In Japan, a zero or low interest rate policy has been in effect under severe economic conditions for almost ten years, so there is some possibility that evident changes in interest rates do not occur, contrary to the usual cases. Moreover, an ongoing strange phenomenon is that Japanese yen appreciates greatly in spite of the recession and huge amount of accumulated debt. It should have been quite difficult to establish monetary policies and obtain good performance. However, the empirical results that employ the theory of market efficiency hypothesis show the recent existence of significant impacts of the Bank of Japan announcements on not only domestic interest ratesÂ but also on those of foreign countries. These results have contributed to the recent success of monetary policy in Japan.
Comparative Experimental FWA & FOWA Aggregated VLCSPPs' LUR Estimation for GIS Based VEED

Today, the solar power conversion technologies are the photovoltaics (PV), the concentrated solar power (CSP), and the concentrated photovoltaics (CPV). All of these technologies need sufficient amount of appropriate land. In the Supergrids and the Global Grid, the large sized power plants play the key role, so that this study only focuses on the very large solar power plants (VLSPP). The VLSPPs are defined as the power plants that have the installed power of 1.000 MW (peak in PV) or more in this study. There isn't any solar power plant in this size on the world by 2015. Hence, the solar land use requirements should be studied, analyzed and estimated for each solar power technology. This study investigates only the very large concentrated solar power plants (VLCSPPs). Under the unsharp conditions, a fuzzy weighted average/weight averaging (fuzzy WA) aggregated and an ordered fuzzy weighted average/weight averaging (fuzzy OWA) aggregated solar land use requirement models on worldwide basis are built for the land use requirement (LUR) prediction in the geospatial information system investigation studies (GIS) at the very early engineering design (VEED) phase. These two models are presented in a comparative way. Five experimental criteria (direct normal irradiance: DNI, engineering design year, net installed power, cooling method, storage capacity) are only included in these models. This study and its findings will be a good start to design a VLCSPP in the Supergrids and the Global Grid in the following few years.
Infection of protoplasts from soybean cell culture with southern bean mosaic and cowpea mosaic viruses.

Summary Soybean protoplasts, isolated from liquid suspension culture, were successfully infected with cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) and with southern bean mosaic virus (SBMV). Poly-l-ornithine (PLO) was required for infection with either virus. As detected by fluorescent antibody, 70 to 90% of the protoplasts were infected by CPMV when the inoculation medium contained 0.4 m-sorbitol, 0.5 µg virus/ml, 1.5 µg PLO/ml, 10 mm-potassium phosphate buffer, pH 6.3, and 0.5 mm-CaCl2, and inoculation was performed at 23 °C. This maximum level of infection was decreased sixfold when CaCl2 was omitted. Inoculation at temperatures below 10 °C also decreased infection substantially. With SBMV a maximum of 30 to 35% of the protoplasts were infected when 0.4 m-sorbitol, 2 to 2.5 µg virus/ml, 2 µg PLO/ml, 10 mm-tris-HCl buffer, pH 8.0, 1 mm-MgSO4 and 0.5 mm-CaCl2 were present in the inoculum. Less than 5% of the protoplasts were infected when magnesium and calcium salts were omitted. The major advantage of the use of soybean cell suspension culture for plant virus studies is that it can provide a reliable and continuous source of cells for protoplast isolation. These soybean protoplasts allow synchronous infection and replication under sterile conditions without antibiotics and also a high degree of reproducibility.
Analysis of determinants of gross margin income generated through fishing activity to rural households around Lake Ziway and Langano in Ethiopia

This article analyzed determinants of gross margin income from fishing to the rural households around Lake Ziway and Langano in Ethiopia. Four districts adjacent to the two lakes were selected purposively from which 179 respondents drawn randomly. Both primary and secondary information comprises of household structure and assets, climate factors and supportive services were organized. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics, budgetary analysis and the Ricardian method. Budgetary analysis showed positive fish gross margin income (GMI) of ETB 3,023.40 to average fisher. The Ricardian analysis made use of the climate only model (Model 1) and comprehensive model (Model 2). Using Model 1, water level raise due to inflow is vital to earn fair income in addition to the rainfall amount in Season 1, which is supported with positive impact of precipitation water level interaction on fish income. Impact of precipitation was positive in Season 3, due to meher rainfall and withdrawal of fishing labor to join agriculture that minimized over fishing. Using Model 2, precipitation water level interaction has positive impact in Season 2 due to better inflow and Meher rainfall. The interaction term was negative in Season 4 attributed to decreased water level, dry weather and less precipitation. The result also showed positive impact of household members participation, participation in the traditional financial arrangement and capacity to finance operating costs. The study highlights problems facing fishing business like: decreased lake size and water volume, lake turbidity and siltation, open access and weak institutional arrangement to guide fishing efforts, wetland farming and expansion of irrigation to the lake side, cost of fishing materials, minimum sales price as well as poor access to the fish market. Hence, strengthening fishery coperatives, awareness creation, off-farm opportunities, integrated conservation works, reduced wetland farming and acquaintance to social networks were suggested.
Biomechanics analysis of human lower limb during walking for exoskeleton design

Human body experiences a long natural evolution to have good movement forms and flexible driving mode, during which process, human muscles have already evolved to a sophisticated bio-actuator, usually used in the bionic design of mechanical structures. The article presents a novel idea for the bionics design of artificial limb or exoskeleton robot, considering the motion level and the driving level of human body simultaneously, i.e. the lower limb segment movement and the muscle activity. Firstly, as the support phase, the most complex process during human walking, we divided it into three sub-phases and studied each other’s variations about the angle and torque by the built motion capture system, which is important for ground reaction force control (GRF control). Secondly, the principal muscles around the knee joint were studied by biomechanical simulation, i.e. the vastus medialis muscle and the biceps femoris muscle, after the data of clinical gait by experiment was imported into the human simulation software. The result showed that the vastus medialis muscle, as Hill three elements model, was the principal muscle during knee’s extension motion, which mainly worked during the support phase and could provide a maximum force of 280 N.m. In contrast, the biceps femoris muscle, as Hill two elements model, was the principal muscle during knee’s flexion motion, which mainly worked during the swing phase and could provide a maximum force of 220 N.m.
Relationship between Attachment and Personality Styles in College Going Students

Attachment is an affectionate tie that one person or animal forms between himself and another specific one – a tie that binds them together in space and endures over time. Noftle and Shaver (2006) found that on average, secure attachment was consistently positively related to extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability and conscientiousness. A high score on negative model of self, which is characteristic of fearful and preoccupied attachment, was on average strongly negatively related to emotional stability. Finally, dismissing attachment was consistently negatively related to extraversion and agreeableness. In line with their findings, we aimed to explore in this study the association between the attachment styles and the personality styles of college going students. For this purpose 100 male and 100 female (total 200) college going (undergraduate) students have been taken, and they were assessed using the Attachment Style Questionnaire (Feeney et al., 1994) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1991). In result it was found that there is a significant positive correlation between Neuroticism and the Preoccupied-Anxious Style of Attachment and there is a significant negative correlation between Extraversion and Avoidant Style of Attachment. And in females, Psychoticism and Neuroticism were significantly negatively correlated to Confidence (a measure of Secure Attachment Style).
Antibiotic self-medication among university medical undergraduates in Northern Nigeria

Self-medication is becoming a common type of self-care behavior among the population of many countries. Many international studies have investigated the prevalence and nature of self-medication practices at the population level. In Nigeria, some workers have also looked at the population prevalence of self-medication in general; however the prevalence of antibiotic self-medication among medical undergraduates has not yet been studied. The interest in studying this practice among this select group is due to the fact that they are the future prescribers and health educators of the population of Nigeria. The study was a cross-sectional pre-tested questionnaire-based study carried out among medical students of the Bayero University, Kano, North-West Nigeria during a two-week period in August 2008. The information from the returned questionnaire were coded, entered and analyzed using SPSS Version 12 statistical software. A total of 183 students filled and returned the questionnaire giving a response rate of 83.2%. Out of these respondents, 120 (65.6%) were males and the mean age of respondents was 23.2 ± 2.5 years (Range 17 to 31). 71 (38.8%) of the medical students admitted to the practice and there was no statistically significant difference among the different levels of medical education (p >0.05). Antibiotics from the penicillin group (ampicillin/cloxacillin, amoxicillin and ampicillin) were the most frequently used. Self-medication with antibiotics is prevalent among medical undergraduates in Northern Nigeria. There is a need for an intervention to address this practice. Key words: Antibiotics, self-medication, medical undergraduates, Nigeria.
ExPRES: an Exoplanetary and Planetary Radio Emissions Simulator

Context. Earth and outer planets are known to produce intense non-thermal radio emissions through a mechanism known as cyclotron maser instability (CMI), requiring the presence of accelerated electrons generally arising from magnetospheric current systems. In return, radio emissions are a good probe of these current systems and acceleration processes. The CMI generates highly anisotropic emissions and leads to important visibility effects, which have to be taken into account when interpreting the data. Several studies have shown that modelling the radio source anisotropic beaming pattern can reveal a wealth of physical information about the planetary or exoplanetary magnetospheres that produce these emissions. Aims. We present a numerical tool, called ExPRES (Exoplanetary and Planetary Radio Emission Simulator), which is able to reproduce the occurrence in a time-frequency plane of R−X CMI-generated radio emissions from planetary magnetospheres, exoplanets, or star–planet interacting systems. Special attention is given to the computation of the radio emission beaming at and near its source. Methods. We explain what physical information about the system can be drawn from such radio observations, and how it is obtained. This information may include the location and dynamics of the radio sources, the type of current system leading to electron acceleration and their energy, and, for exoplanetary systems, the orbital period of the emitting body and the strength, rotation period, tilt, and the offset of the planetary magnetic field. Most of these parameters can only be remotely measured via radio observations. Results. The ExPRES code provides the proper framework of analysis and interpretation for past, current, and future observations of planetary radio emissions, as well as for future detection of radio emissions from exoplanetary systems (or magnetic, white dwarf–planet or white dwarf–brown dwarf systems). Our methodology can be easily adapted to simulate specific observations once effective detection is achieved.
Intra-molecular and Intermolecular Proteolysis Activity of p67

The cellular glycoprotein, p67 binds directly to eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2) and extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) and regulates their levels of phosphorylation. The cDNA sequences for p67 homologs were cloned from various species such as yeast, insects, plants, mouse, rat, and human. The rat cDNA was extensively characterized by detailed mutagenesis accompanied with a series of biochemical analysis in in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo assays. These assays identified a series of functional domains/motifs that play important roles in p67’s multi-faceted activities such as blocking phosphorylation of eIF2, ERK1/2, and possibly other unknown kinases and intra-molecular (auto-proteolysis) and intermolecular proteolysis activity. Auto-proteolysis of rat and human p67 generates several peptide fragments. The most stable fragments are p26 that covers N-terminal 1-107 amino acid residues and p52 that covers downstream 108-480 amino acid residues. The p26 segment seems to be the business end of the molecule, whose activity is regulated by the p52 segment. In the p52 segment there are at least five conserved amino acid residues – D251, D262, H331, E364, and E459. These amino acids after folding juxtapose together to create a shallow groove, which serves as the substrate-binding pocket and the nearby H231 residue serves as the catalytic site for p67’s intraand/or inter-molecular activities to cleave peptide bonds. The target for intra-molecular proteolysis is p67 itself, whereas the inter-molecular targets are cell cycle regulatory proteins, certain cyclins and Cdks, and p21; cell growth, cytoskeleton dynamics, migration, and motility regulatory proteins, PKC, MARCKS, FAK, Cdc42, PAK1, and Akt1/2 (or PKB); eIF2-specific kinase, PERK; and possibly several other unidentified kinases and phosphor-proteins that are involved in cell signaling. By proteolytic cleaving various proteins/kinases p67 is involved in the regulation of different cellular processes. Abbreviations Used: eIF2, eukaryotic initiation factor 2; eIF2, the smallest -subunit of eIF2; p67, an eIF2-associated glycoprotein; ERK1/2, extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2; GST, glutathione-Stransferase; SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate – polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; HRI, heme-regulated inhibitor; p26, the N-terminal 1-107 amino acid segment of p67; p52, the downstream 108-480 amino acid segment of p67; MARCKS, myristoyl alanine-rich C kinase substrate; PKC, protein kinase C, FAK, focal adhesion kinase, Pak1, p21-activating kinase, Cdc42, a Rho GTPase; p21, a cell cycle inhibitor; Cdks, cyclindependent kinases; and PERK, an eIF2-specific kinase activated in response to endoplasmic reticulum stress.
The Effects of Policies Changes on Return and Volatility in Vietnamese Stock Market

This study uses the stock index data of financial sector spanned from January 2, 2009 to December 31, 2014 in order to examine the effects of some policies on stock returns and volatility in Vietnamese stock market. EGARCH model is applied to detect the empirical results. It reveals that the M&A variable has a significantly positive impact on stock returns but does not represent any effects on stock volatility. Whereas, the variable of regulatory reform significantly decreases stock return but there is no impact on stock volatility. In the opposite direction, VAMC shows no effect on stock return but demonstrates a negative impact on stock volatility.
A THEORETICAL / EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SLAMMING PRESSURES ON FAST MONOHULL VESSELS

This paper is addressed to the characterisation of slamming loads acting on fast monohull vessels, gathering the results of several years of research in numerical simulation, model-scale and full-scale measurements. As a case study attention was focused on a large fast ferry designed and built by Fincantieri. Extensive model-tests were carried out by MARIN within the framework of the BE III Project SEAWORTH. In the first year of service of the ship a monitoring campaign was further performed by CETENA collecting full-scale data on ship motions, stresses and slamming pressures.
Customer Satisfaction as an Influence Mediation of Service Quality, Financial Considerations, Convenience Toward Switching Behavior (Study on Customer of PT. Bank Central Asia Tbk, Branch Malang)

This research has discussed switching behavior problem mediated by customer satisfaction. The aims of this research are to understand customer satisfaction dimension which are consist of service quality, financial considerations, and convenience in its influence towards switching behavior, by using survey of 200 inactive customer to verify research hypothesis. Data analysis using Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis methods toward customer of PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk branch Malang. This result research has shown that service quality significantly influence to switching behavior financial consideration significantly influence to switching behavior in term of low savings rate dimension, but insignificant to administration fee and loan interest, convenience insignificantly influence to switching behavior in terms of ATM and service hours. New findings that convenience is also involve provided parking lot, almost in every branch office of BCA in Malang complaining the same thing.
A bias bound approach to nonparametric inference

The traditional approach to obtain valid con? dence intervals for nonparametric quantities is to select a smoothing parameter such that the bias of the estimator is negligible relative to its standard deviation. While this approach is apparently simple, it has two drawbacks: First, the question of optimal bandwidth selection is no longer well-de? ned, as it is not clear what ratio of bias to standard deviation should be considered negligible. Second, since the bandwidth choice necessarily deviates from the optimal (mean squares-minimizing) bandwidth, such a con? dence interval is very inefficient. To address these issues, we construct valid con? dence intervals that account for the presence of a nonnegligible bias and thus make it possible to perform inference with optimal mean squared error minimizing bandwidths. The key difficulty in achieving this involves ? nding a strict, yet feasible, bound on the bias of a nonparametric estimator. It is well-known that it is not possible to consistently estimate the point-wise bias of an optimal nonparametric estimator (for otherwise, one could subtract it and obtain a faster convergence rate violating Stone's bounds on optimal convergence rate). Nevertheless, we ? nd that, under minimal primitive assumptions, it is possible to consistently estimate an upper bound on the magnitude of the bias, which is su? cient to deliver a valid con? dence interval whose length decreases at the optimal rate and which does not contradict Stone’s results.
Industrial Compensation Gap, Family Ownership, and Risk Preferences

This study aimed to provide empirical evidence about the effect of industry’s gap compensation and family firm on risk preferences. This research observed 1282 data from 299 companies sample from Indonesia Stock exchange (BEI) over 2011-2015. The results show that industry’s gap compensation and family firm has negative effect on risk preferences. Empirical results not show that family firm weakens negative relationship between industry’s gap compensation and risk preferences. Implication of this research is the importance of standard amount of compensation to directors based on task and responsibility that is given to them. It will prevent opportunistic behavior of directors in risk-taking policies. Type of paper: Empirical
Teacher education admission criteria as measure of preparedness for teaching

This study investigated the relationship between commonly used admission criteria, found in a one-year, post Bachelor's degree, initial, teacher education program, and the preparedness of teacher candidates in mathematics for independent teaching. The admission criteria used in this study were grade point average (GPA) and a written profile. The profile was not significantly related with either the assessment of practice teaching or preparedness. However, entering GPAs predicted only between five and 12 per cent of variance in course instructors' judgements of teacher candidates' preparedness in three of five areas: Promote Student Learning, Critical Thinking, and Use of Technology. Ratings of preparedness by instructors, associate teachers, and the teacher candidates themselves suggested that teacher candidates were adequately to well-prepared in all areas. This finding is possibly due to the restriction of range of GPA and overall success for all teacher candidates. Further research is needed utilizing unique approaches to draw substantive conclusions that entering GPA or ratings of applicants responses to a written profile have predictive value for successful student teaching performance. Implications for initial teacher education program admissions are discussed.