Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF FIRM PERFORMANCE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE IN ANNUAL REPORTS: A CASE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND

Information disclosure has played an important role in solving information asymmetry problem among administrative team as insider and stakeholder as outsider. Studies concerning on voluntary information disclosure have mostly emphasized on factors determining voluntary information disclosure. Unlike others, this study intends to apply signaling theory in explaining firms signaling strategy through voluntary information disclosure as positive signal for its better performance. According to this hypothesis, high performance firms are more likely to voluntary disclose additional information to public in order to gain advantage from this positive signal. The study employs Random-effects Tobit Models of the listed companies in technology industry during 2009 to 2013 by using return on asset (ROA) and Tobin’s Q as measurement index of performance. The result of the overall information disclosure shows significant effects of firm performance on voluntary disclosure. However, disaggregate analyses by classifying data into strategy information, non-financial information, and financial information, indicate that voluntary disclosure of strategy information and non-financial information are influenced by firm performance while disclosure of financial information is not.
Role of light in the regulation of chloroplast enzymes Annu Rev Plant Physiol 31: 341-374

INTRODUCTION 342 IN VIVO ACTIVATION STUDIES 342 STUDIES WITH INTACT CHLOROPLASTS 344 Light-Dependent Enzyme Activation 344 Effects of Inhibitors 346 Light-Induced Change in Stromal pH 348 Light-Induced Change in Stromal M� Concentration 348 STUDIES WITH ENZYME SYSTEMS 350 Mechanisms of Light Activation 350 Effector-mediated mechanisms 350 lon-mediated mechanisms 353 Protein-mediated mechanisms 353 Mechanisms of Deactivation in the Dark 358 DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS 359 ACTIVATION OF MEMBRANOUS ENZYMES 360 OXIDANT·LINKED ACTIVATION 361
Acute Bioavailability of (Poly)phenolic Content of Different Varieties of Vaccinium spp. in Ovariectomized Rats

Blueberries have a wide range of health promoting activities due to their high levels of (poly)phenols, including anthocyanins, flavonols, and phenolic acids. However, there are 1200 varieties of blueberries and their phenolic content varies greatly. Thus, the goal of this investigation was to characterize the total phenolic content in 9 varieties of Vaccinium spp. berries as well as determine whether there is a difference in their bioavailability after an acute dose in ovariectomized rats.
Contrôle transcriptionnel de l'identité musculaire chez la drosophile : modules cis-régulateurs et gènes cibles directs de Collier

The COE (Collier/Early B cell Factor) family is a metazoan-specific family of transcription factors (TF) that are involved in the control of numerous biological processes, including hematopoiesis, neurogenesis and muscle identity. Mutant analysis of COE TFs across several organisms showed defects in the specification of different cell types, like neuron subtypes or, in mammalians, B lymphocytes and brown adipocytes. However, the COE target genes are mostly unknown. Drosophila (fruit fly) is an excellent model to study the functional diversity of COE TFs. The core of my PhD work was the identification of Collier direct target genes in the DA3 muscle lineage, and the characterization of the corresponding CRM to better understand how COE proteins activate specific target genes in a tissue-dependent manner. I performed chromatin immuno-precipitation on whole embryos followed by systematic sequencing of the immuno-precipitated fragments (ChIPseq). By bio-informatics, I identified Col in vivo binding motif and showed that Col binding in vivo is context-dependent. Several candidate genes were validated by in situ hybridizations and functional analysis of the Col binding CRM. TF are over-represented among these targets. All together, the results reveal an unexpected complexity of gene regulatory networks that control muscle identity in Drosophila and confirm the critical role for Col in several transcription regulatory networks in the embryo. Considering the evolutionary conservation of COE proteins and their in vivo DNA binding properties, these results bring new insight into the complexity of COE function in other organisms, including mammals
STRUKTUR ISLAMIC CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DAN KUALITAS PENGUNGKAPAN LAPORAN KEUANGAN PADA BANK SYARIAH DI INDONESIA: PERSPEKTIF GOVERNANCE DAN FINANCE

Penelitian ini meneliti tentang pengaruh Islamic Corporate Governance (ICG) melalui strukturnya terhadap kualitas pengungkapan laporan keuangan perusahaan. Struktur ICG yang dimaksud dalam penelitian ini merujuk pada Dewan Komisaris (proporsi komisaris independen dan jumlah meeting Dewan Komisaris), Komite Audit (ukuran Komite Audit dan jumlah meeting Komite Audit) dan Dewan Pengawas Syariah (ukuran Dewan Pengawas Syariah, latar belakang pendidikan Dewan Pengawas Syariah, dan jumlah meeting Dewan Pengawas Syariah) dalam menjalankan tugasnya pada pada bank syariah. Kualitas pengungkapan laporan keuangan perusahaan dalam penelitian ini merujuk pada ketepatan waktu penyampaian laporan perusahaan. signifikan terhadap kualitas pengungkapan laporan keuangan perusahaan. Ukuran Dewan pengawas Syariah tidak berpengaruh pada kualitas pengungkapan laporan keuangan perusahaan.
Analyse fonctionnelle de cytochromes P450 de la famille CYP94 et des amidohydrolases IAR3 et ILL6 dans le catabolisme hormonal des jasmonates chez Arabidopsis thaliana

Jasmonates are plant molecules playing essential roles in response to environmental stresses and in plant development. Jasmonoyl-Isoleucine (JA-Ile) is an active hormonal form of jasmonates so it is crucial for the plant to control its levels. Biochemical, genetic and metabolic studies showed that JA-Ile inactivation after wounding is controlled by two pathways, based on oxidations by cytochromes P450 of the CYP94 family and on cleavage by the amido-hydrolases IAR3 and ILL6. These enzymes also define a pathway for tuberonic acid (12OH-JA) production from JA. CYP94-catalyzed oxidations seem to be a general mechanism to control JA-Ile hormone turnover, jasmonate signaling and responses as it also occurs upon infection by the fungus Botrytis cinerea and in floral development. CYP94s oxidize also the Jasmonoyl-Phenylalanine (JA-Phe) conjugate accumulated in wounded leaves. CYP94s mediated JA-Ile and JA-Phe carboxylation includes an aldehyde intermediate, that of JA-Ile being accumulated in vivo.This work highlights the dynamic metabolism of jasmonate derivatives in a complex branched network involving the concerted action of two enzyme families.
Use of Self Organizing Map to Obtain ECG Data Templates for Its Compression and Reconstruction

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a recording of electrical impulses generated by the electrical activity of the heart and is used as a diagnostic tool to analyze various heart diseases. For economical storage and fast transmission over low-bandwidth channels, ECG data need to be compressed. For the efficient compression of ECG signals, the topology preservation feature of self-organizing maps (SOM) is used. It is observed that a compression ratio up to 1:20 can be achieved with a very low-percentage root-mean-square difference, i.e. below 1.6, by creating templates of ECG patterns in the form of weight vectors of neurons. The templates obtained in this manner are then used to reconstruct the ECG signal. This analysis shows that the reconstructed signal is perfectly matched to the original signal.
The Role of Heterologous Immunity in Viral Co-Infections and Neonatal Immunity: A Dissertation

The dynamics of T cell responses have been extensively studied during single virus infection of naive mice. During a viral infection, viral antigen is presented in the context of MHC class I molecules on the surface of infected cells. Activated CD8 T cells that recognized viral antigens mediate clearance of virus through lysis of these infected cells. We hypothesize that the balance between the replicating speed of the virus and the efficiency at which the T cell response clears the virus is key in determining the disease outcome of the host. Lower T cell efficiency and delayed viral clearance can lead to extensive T cellmediated immunopathology and death in some circumstances. To examine how the efficiency of the immune response would impact immunopathology we studied several viral infection models where T cell responses were predicted to be less than optimal: 1. a model of co-infection with two viruses that contain a crossreactive epitope, 2. a viral infection model where a high dose infection is known to induce clonal exhaustion of the CD8 T cell response, 3. a neonatal virus infection model where the immune system is immature and 4. A model of beneficial heterologous immunity and T cell crossreactivity where mice are immunized as neonates when the T cell pool is still developing. Model 1 . Simultaneous co-infections are common and can occur from mosquito bites, contaminated needle sticks, combination vaccines and the simultaneous administration of multiple vaccines. Using two distantly related arenaviruses, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) and Pichinde virus (PICV), we questioned if immunological T cell memory and subsequent protection would be altered following a simultaneous co-infection, where two immune responses are generated within the same host at the same time. Coinfection with these two viruses, which require CD8 T cell responses to clear, resulted in decreased immune protection and enhanced immunopathology after challenge with either virus. After primary co-infection, each virus-specific immune response impacted the other as they competed within the same host and resulted in several significant differences in the CD8 T cell responses compared to mice infected with a single virus. Co-infected mice had a dramatic decrease in the overall size of the LCMV-specific CD8 T cell response and variability in which virus-specific response dominated, along with skewing in the immunodominance hierarchies from the normal responses found in single virus infected mice. The reduction in the number of LCMV-specific CD8 memory T cells, specifically cells with an effector memory-like phenotype, was associated with higher viral loads and increased liver pathology in co-infected mice upon LCMV challenge. The variability in the immunodominance hierarchies of co-infected mice resulted in an enhanced cross-reactive response in some mice that mediated enhanced immune-mediated fat pad pathology during PICV challenge. In both viral challenge models, an ineffective memory T cell response in…
Impact du microbiote sur la maturation du système immunitaire de l'hôte : analyse des fortes propriétés immunostimulantes de la bactérie segmentée filamenteuse en souris gnotobiotiques

Chez les mammiferes, le developpement du systeme immunitaire intestinal est initie in utero par un programme determine genetiquement. Cependant, le developpement complet de ce systeme immunitaire et sa maturation finale n’ont lieu qu’apres la naissance, sous l’influence des tres nombreuses bacteries qui colonisent alors l’intestin et qui composent le microbiote intestinal. L’utilisation de modeles in vivo originaux de souris axeniques, sans germe, et gnotoxeniques, colonisees avec des bacteries individuelles ou des groupes de bacteries plus ou moins complexes, nous a permis d’identifier le role particulier de la bacterie segmentee filamenteuse (ou SFB) dans la maturation des reponses immunes intestinales adaptatives, IgA et lymphocytaires T. Sa capacite singuliere a adherer a l’epithelium des plaques de Peyer suggere un role important de ces formations lymphoides dans l’initiation des reponses immunes induites par la SFB. Nos resultats renforcent l’idee du role majeur des plaques de Peyer dans l’initiation des reponses IgA intestinales par le microbiote. De facon inattendue, en l’absence de ces structures, la SFB induit dans le chorion des souris, la neogenese de structures lymphoides tertiaires capables d’initier des reponses IgA associees a une forte reponse IL-17 specifique de la SFB. Ces resultats suggerent que les puissantes proprietes immunostimulantes de la SFB sont soutenues par de multiples voies d’induction des reponses immunes qui pourraient etre liees a son adhesion a la muqueuse intestinale
Notes on the ethnobotany of Costa Rica's palms.

190 Twenty-nine genera and 109 species of palms are native to Costa Rica (Grayum 2003). The Costa Rican palm flora consists of a diversity of life-forms, ranging from understory shrubs and lianas (Desmoncus sp.) to canopy and subcanopy trees (Grayum 2003). This plant family is an important structural component of Costa Rican lowland forests. For example, at La Selva Biological Station, palms were found to represent 25.5% of stems over 10 cm in diameter (Lieberman et al. 1985). In Costa Rica, palms also persist at high elevations. Some Notes on the Ethnobotany of Costa Rica’s Palms OLIVIA SYLVESTER*,1,2, GERARDO AVALOS1,3 AND NURIA CHAVEZ FERNANDEZ4 1Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060, San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica
Equipamentos, instalações e protocolos de mensuração de consumo de matéria seca em bovinos

Data of dry matter intake (DMI) individually measured in animals are critical to the feed efficiency (FE) indexes. This information guide the decisions made in breeding programs. Here, the objective was describes the technologies and protocols available to measure the DMI in cattle and the use of these information on genetic evaluations. The electronic identification by radio frequency when coupled with weighing bunks (plus storage of data) can be used for monitoring the DMI throughout the day. When performed at individual pens, the cattle feedlot may change the behavior, performance and, consequently, the FE. Thus, the relevance of data at these housing types can be questioned. Calan-gate is an alternative system for collective pens, however, dominant animals can get access to food of subordinates. In the GrowSafe System it is possible obtained data of DMI plus the time (duration) and frequency (bunk attendance). Studies indicate that changes in DMI are due to interactions and behavior of animals in collective pens. In the context of genetic evaluation, although individual pens (IP) are useful for measuring DMI, this condition is not representative. Data from IP can negatively impact on estimates of heritability for DMI and FE. Several studies have shown that there is moderate to strong genetic correlation between the DMI data and FE indexes, showing considerable variation exists among animals. Thus, genetic selection using these features greatly increase profitability in the beef cattle production system. Additionally, the accuracy and precision in the measurement of DMI are critical in this process.
Chickpea – nutritional quality and role in alleviation of global malnourishment

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) constitute a well-balanced source of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals essential to combat malnourishment in human populations. The various seed constituents show large variations in abundance between genotypes, which allow selection of lines for both calorie-rich and calorie-reduced diets. Chickpea with a high protein content combined with high digestibility is preferred in diets where food is scarce. In diets of affluent cultures, chickpeas with good vitamin, fatty acid and mineral balance combined with low digestibility would have a preference. The major challenges in chickpea improvement are development of region-specific genotypes with reduced content of anti-nutritional constituents such as the raffinose family of oligosaccharides. This improvement would encourage a wider use of chickpea-based diets around the world.
Az onlinejáték-típusok motivációs háttere

A Bíráló Bizottság tagjai: Elnök: Prof. Dr. Rácz József, DSc, egyetemi tanár, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Bírálók: Dr. Szabó Éva, habil. egyetemi docens, Szegedi Tudományegyetem Dr. Ujhelyi Adrienn, egyetemi adjunktus, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Titkár: Dr. Kende Anna, habil. egyetemi docens, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Tagok: Prof. Dr. Csabai Márta, egyetemi tanár, Szegedi Tudományegyetem Dr. Szabó Mónika, egyetemi adjunktus, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Dr. Balog Piroska, egyetemi adjunktus, Semmelweis Egyetem Dr. Nguyen Luu Lan Anh, habil. egyetemi docens, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Gonadal Steroids: Functions and Patterns of Change

With the decline in the world fish stocks, our knowledge of fish reproduction has become fundamental. Reproduction is an essential commitment to future generation. It is also a continuous development process throughout ontogeny, requiring energetic, ecological, physiological, anatomical, biochemical, and endocrinological adaptations. The first chapters highlight important issues affecting fish normal ways of reproductive development; details would focus on species living in opposite environments, such as tropical and polar fishes; far related, as teleosts and cartilaginous fishes; and finally, fish having different reproductive strategies. Thereafter, since many fishes live in detrimental environments. mainly induced by the continuous input of xenobiotic substances into waterways, the author found it highly pertinent to include this topic. Herein, the authors fix their attention on the factors and mechanisms that may well affect reproduction related hormonal systems as also on known consequences for fish living in polluted environments. Finally, the interplay of modern concepts of fish reproduction in aquaculture is reviewed.
Spatial genetic structure of dusky dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus, along the argentine coast: preserve what scale?

The dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) represents one of the most abundant species of small cetacean in Argentine waters. During the 1980s and 1990s, high levels of incidental mortality in purse and trawl fisheries were documented, and in recent decades tourism activities have been added as a potential source of disturbance. The study objectives were to identify spatial genetic structure and regional genetic patterns of dusky dolphins along the Argentine coast. The variation of 413bp of the control region of 119 individuals over six locations spread along 2800 km (38°40'S to 54°30'S) was examined. Spatial genetic analyses, SAMOVA, genetic landscape shapes and autocorrelation analyses were conducted. The most probable configuration was K=2, island population vs. continental populations (FCT = 0.774) and the spatial autocorrelation analysis showed a strong regional genetic structure, defining an operational unit at < 50 km. The results provide valuable information that should be taken into account in the development of conservation strategies and management of the species; making the efforts focus on conserving vulnerable dusky dolphin groups by protecting their preferred coastal shallow habitat and by monitoring and regulating the dolphin watching and fishing activities, acting upon local populations along the Argentine coast. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sorry, We're Closed: Loan Conditions When Bank Branches Close and Firms Transfer to Another Bank

We study loan conditions when bank branches close and firms subsequently transfer to a branch of another bank in the vicinity. Such transfer loans allow us for the first time to observe the conditions granted when banks pool-price new applicants. Consistent with recent theoretical work on hold up in bank-firm relationships we find that transfer loans do not receive the discount in loan rates that prevails when firms otherwise switch banks. We hereby critically augment recent empirical evidence on dynamic cycles in loan rates.
Charakterystyka białek wirusa Epsteina-Barr - ich udział w zakażeniu latentnym i powiązanie z procesami nowotworzenia

Although the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of the human population, the infection can have a broad range of health consequences. =e primary infection usually occurs during childhood, without any symptoms or with a mild illness. During adolescent infection mononucleosis occurs in around 50% of individuals. =is most extensively studied gammaherpesvirus is also associated with various human malignancies such as Hodgkin`s and non-Hodgkin`s lymphomas, Burkitt`s lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, AIDS-related lymphoproliferative disorders and X-linked lymphoproliferative disorder (Duncan`s disease). All these tumors are associated with the EBV latency cycle. Latently infected lymphocytes express the six nuclear antigens (EBNA-1, -2, -3A, -3B, -3C and -LP), three latent membrane proteins (LMP-1, -2A and -2B) and small, non-polyadenylated RNAs (EBER-1 and EBER-2). EBV can transform and immortalise resting B-cells in cultures, which suggests that it may have oncogenic specificity. EBV has broad spectrum of proteins, which mimic cellular proteins regulating cell cycle (BCRF-1, BDLF-2, BARF-1 and BHRF-1). =ese proteins interact with or exhibit homology to a wide variety of antiapoptotic molecules, cytokines and signal transducers, hence promoting EBV infection, immortalization and transformation.
Any discontinuous PWA function is optimal solution to a parametric linear programming problem

Recent studies have investigated the continuous functions in terms of inverse optimality. The continuity is a primordial structural property which is exploited in order to link a given piecewise affine (PWA) function to an optimization problem. The aim of this work is to deepen the study of the PWA functions in the inverse optimality context and specifically deal with the presence of discontinuities. First, it will be shown that a solution to the inverse optimality problem exists via a constructive argument. The loss of continuity will have an implication on the structure of the optimization problem which, albeit convex, turns to have a set-valued optimal solution. As a consequence, the original PWA function will represent an optimal solution but the uniqueness is lost. From the numerical point of view, we introduce an algorithm to construct an optimization problem that admits a given discontinuous PWA function as an optimal solution. This construction is shown to rely on convex liftings. A numerical example is considered to illustrate the proposal.
Testing and maintenance of graphical user interfaces

Software testing techniques have been developed to find errors in code. Software quality criteria and measurement techniques have also been assessed to detect error-prone code. In this thesis, we argue that the same attention has to be investigated on the quality and reliability of GUIs, from a software engineering point of view. We specifically make two contributions on this topic. First, GUIs can be affected by errors stemming from development mistakes. The first contribution of this thesis is a fault model that identifies and classifies GUI faults. We show that GUI faults are diverse and imply different testing techniques to be detected. Second, like any code artifact GUI code should be analyzed statically to detect implementation defects and design smells. As for the second contribution, we focus on design smells that can affect GUIs specifically. We identify and characterize a new type of design smell, called Blob listener. It occurs when a GUI listener, that gathers events to treat and transform as commands, can produce more than one command. We propose a systematic static code analysis procedure that searches for Blob listener that we implement in a tool called InspectorGuidget. Experiments we conducted exhibits positive results regarding the ability of InspectorGuidget in detecting Blob listeners. To counteract the use of Blob listeners, we propose good coding practices regarding the development of GUI listeners.