Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Domain Knowledge and Team Creativity: A Typological View

This study presents a typological view of domain knowledge and creativity from teamwork perspective. With this in mind, the study reviews the literature on team members’ collaboration, role centrality and its implications for team creativity. The study proposes a continuum of team creativity and different combinations of domain expertise possessed by the team members such that teams with more balanced domain expertise are more likely to produce more creative outcome than a team where its members consist imbalanced domain expertise. The study presents interesting avenues for future researchers
EABER WORKING PAPER SERIES PAPER NO . 27 THE ROLE OF MICROECONOMIC POLICY REFORM IN REGIONAL INTEGRATION – ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES

Economic integration should not be an end in itself, but the outcome of domestic reforms that increase the general contestability of markets. The paper finds that for India, comprehensive domestic regulatory reform dominates as an integration strategy, while an ASEAN+6 PTA would fail to deliver gains. Multilateral action is an intermediate strategy, important for delivering trade liberalisation in sensitive sectors and in highly protected economies. The paper then considers what institutional approaches might facilitate further domestic structural reforms. Key to this are mechanisms to review the desirability and performance of all regulations and institutions on an ongoing basis, and in a way that involves all relevant stakeholders. Such policy review institutions can provide technical solutions, helping to identify particular reform options. They can also be part of a strategy to manage the domestic political economy of reform, by providing a forum in which countervailing interests could marshal against vested interests, thus helping to build a coalition in favour of reform. Finally, they can facilitate policy coordination within and across levels of government. The paper considers desirable characteristics of such institutions, and provides examples from around the Asian region. JEL Classification: F13, F15
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui jumlah hasil tangkapan pelagis kecil yang optimal dilihat dari segi ekonomi dengan tetap berdasarkan pada keberlanjutan pemanfaatan perikanan tangkap. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Wilayah Pengelolaan Perikanan Negara Republik Indonesia (WPPNRI) 711 yang kaya 

This research aims to calculate small pelagic optimum explo itation in economic term based on the sustainable use of fisheries. The research conducted in Regional Fisheries Management Republic of Indonesia (WPPNRI) 711 is rich small pelagic and areas that are prone to illegal fishing activities, using primary data and secondary data. Primary data were collected from interviews with local fishermen and marine superintendent using interview technique. While secondary data obtained from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) Republic of Indonesia, the Indonesian Fleet Command Office of the Western Region and the Office of Maritime Security Agency of Indonesia. Data time series of 2005 to 2016 were also analyzed. Bioeconomic analysis using a model for the analysis of Gordon Schaefer and economic benefits using surplus production model developed by Fox in this study. Optimum economic exploitation of small pelagic fishery management in WPPNRI 711 is 5.040 fishing ships effort, 13.560,30 tons per year productions and 225,50 billion rupiahs economic rent per year. Exploitation rate carried out by fishermen either viewed from the business as well as the catch landed indicates the condition is still below the optimum level so that they can be developed with due regard to the principles of prudence in fisheries economic management of the Small Pelagic.
Health Capital and Human Capital as Explanations for Health-Related Wage Disparities

We use a dynamic modeling strategy to evaluate two potential avenues through which health differences generate a wage gap: directly through reductions in health capital and indirectly through employment transitions that reduce human capital (specifically, occupation and employer tenure). Our results suggest that male workers with a moderate disability are 23 percent more likely to change occupations or employers than nondisabled men. Compared to those who do not make a transition, workers with a moderate disability who change occupations and employers experience an immediate $0.30 decline in hourly wages on top of a $0.57 decline associated with the disability onset.
'-Codimension and the vanishing topology of discriminants

Suppose that f : ~" , 0 --* ~v, 0 is finitely ~r with n > p. We define a "Milnor fiber" for the discriminant of f ; it is the discriminant of a "stabilization" of f. We prove that this "discriminant Milnor fiber" has the homotopy type of a wedge of spheres of dimension p 1, whose number we denote by/t~(f) . One of the main theorems of the paper is a "/~ = z" type result: if(n, p) is in the range of nice dimensions in the sense of Mather, then p~(f) > Ne-codim(f), with equality if f is weighted homogeneous. Outside the nice dimensions we obtain analogous formulae with correction terms measuring the presence of unstable but topologically stable germs in the stabilization. These results are further extended to nonlinear sections of free divisors.
Investigating differences in DOAS retrieval codes using MAD-CAT campaign data

Abstract. The differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) method is a well-known remote sensing technique that is nowadays widely used for measurements of atmospheric trace gases, creating the need for harmonization and characterization efforts. In this study, an intercomparison exercise of DOAS retrieval codes from 17 international groups is presented, focusing on NO2 slant columns. The study is based on data collected by one instrument during the Multi-Axis DOAS Comparison campaign for Aerosols and Trace gases (MAD-CAT) in Mainz, Germany, in summer 2013. As data from the same instrument are used by all groups, the results are free of biases due to instrumental differences, which is in contrast to previous intercomparison exercises. While in general an excellent correlation of NO2 slant columns between groups of > 99.98 % (noon reference fits) and > 99.2 % (sequential reference fits) for all elevation angles is found, differences between individual retrievals are as large as 8 % for NO2 slant columns and 100 % for rms residuals in small elevation angles above the horizon. Comprehensive sensitivity studies revealed that absolute slant column differences result predominantly from the choice of the reference spectrum while relative differences originate from the numerical approach for solving the DOAS equation as well as the treatment of the slit function. Furthermore, differences in the implementation of the intensity offset correction were found to produce disagreements for measurements close to sunrise (8–10 % for NO2, 80 % for rms residual). The largest effect of ≈ 8 % difference in NO2 was found to arise from the reference treatment; in particular for fits using a sequential reference. In terms of rms fit residual, the reference treatment has only a minor impact. In contrast, the wavelength calibration as well as the intensity offset correction were found to have the largest impact (up to 80 %) on rms residual while having only a minor impact on retrieved NO2 slant columns.
Supplementation of Forage Sorghum with Meal Concentrate and Leucaena leucocephala on Goat Performance with Particular Reference to Meat Essential Fatty Acid Contents

Forage sorghum, supplemented with meal concentrate or fresh leucaena on goat performance was studied, using 15 male crossbred Anglo-Nubian and Native goats. They were allocated into 3 treatments; Treatment 1: fresh forage sorghum with an amount of 2 % (as fed basis) meal concentrate of animal body weight; Treatment 2: fresh forage sorghum with an amount of 1 % (as fed basis) meal concentrate, and an amount of 1 % fresh leucaena of animal body weight, and Treatment 3: fresh forage sorghum with an amount of 2 % fresh leucaena of animal body weight, under the completely randomized design (CRD). The results showed that total dry matter intake was not significantly different among treatments. However, dry matter intake of forage sorghum was significantly different among treatments (p < 0.05), where the highest intake of roughage was found in treatment 3. Total crude protein intake was significantly different among treatments (p < 0.05), where the highest intake of crude protein was found in Treatment 1, affecting weight gain and average daily gain among treatments with significant difference (p < 0.05). The essential fatty acid contents of linoleic acid (C18:2 n-6; omega 6) and conjugated linoleic acid (C18:2 cis-9, trans-11, CLA) in the Longissimus dorsi muscle of goats were not significantly different while omega 3 fatty acid as linolenic acid (C18:3 n-3; omega 3) was significantly different among treatments (p < 0.05) where the highest amount (0.94 g/100 g fatty acid) was found in Treatment 3.
Professionalisation as a social regularity: The policy process in South Africa's natural science curriculum

Curriculum 2005 (C2005) in 1997 and the Revised National Curriculum Statements (RNCS)in 2002 have bee n two major curriculum policy developments in South Africa. In this study, our aim was to unravel the processes by which they developed as they did, and determine how these policy processes are best researched and understood. In this article we use the concept of professionalisation to analyse the policy process for the two reform periods. In addition we attempt to show how professionalisation acts as a social regularity: professionals brought in to write the policy documents for the two reform periods, through their socialization into the profession, have in many ways worked towards the maintenance of a particular social order, rather than changing the social order. This is evident especially in the concept of 'scientific literacy' that emerged, which is strongly consistent with similar policies in developed countries, even though conditions in South Africa are unique. South African Journal of Education Vol. 26 (4) 2006: pp. 515-528
The Aemulus Project. I. Numerical Simulations for Precision Cosmology

The rapidly growing statistical precision of galaxy surveys has led to a need for ever more precise predictions of the observables used to constrain cosmological and galaxy formation models. The primary avenue through which such predictions will be obtained is suites of numerical simulations. These simulations must span the relevant model parameter spaces, be large enough to obtain the precision demanded by upcoming data, and be thoroughly validated in order to ensure accuracy. In this paper, we present one such suite of simulations, forming the basis for the Aemulus Project, a collaboration devoted to precision emulation of galaxy survey observables. We have run a set of 75 (1.05 h−1 Gpc)3 simulations with mass resolution and force softening of and 20 h−1 kpc, respectively, in 47 different wCDM cosmologies spanning the range of parameter space allowed by the combination of recent cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Type Ia supernova results. We present convergence tests of several observables including spherical overdensity halo mass functions, galaxy projected correlation functions, galaxy clustering in redshift space, and matter and halo correlation functions and power spectra. We show that these statistics are converged to 1% (2%) or to the sample variance of the statistic, whichever is larger, for halos with more than 500 (200) particles, respectively, and scales of r > 200 h−1 kpc in real space or k ∼ 3 h Mpc−1 in harmonic space for z ≤ 1. We find that the dominant source of uncertainty comes from varying the particle loading of the simulations. This leads to large systematic errors for statistics using halos with fewer than 200 particles and scales smaller than k ∼ 4 h Mpc−1. We provide the halo catalogs and snapshots detailed in this work to the community at https://AemulusProject.github. io.
Evaluation of finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] accessions using agro-morphological characters

The study was conducted at village level in-situ center, Jawhar block of Palghar district of Maharashtra during the year 2017 and 2018 to characterize 20 accessions of finger millet. Data was collected on morphology, plant growth and yield contributing characters. Traits like erect growth habit (80 percent); semi-compact ear (60 percent); partially enclosed seeds by glumes (60 percent) and light brown colour of seed (75 percent) was found dominant among studied accessions. The results indicated that studied landraces exhibited variability in finger number (6 to 14), finger length (7 to 16 cm) and maturity days (85 to 117). The results of study also showed that productive tiller number was most varied trait (29.37 percent), followed by ear head length (21.98 percent) and finger number (19.42 percent). Among the studied traits, finger width showed the lowest variation (7.65 percent). Analysis of variance showed that all the characters were highly significant among the accessions. This potential gene pool needs to be conserved and may be explored for crop improvement in future.
Singin' in the Rain: A Study of Social Pressure on the Soccer Field

Although social pressure may affect the behavior of individuals, it is very hard to evaluate empirically. A soccer field is an attractive testing ground in the sense that both performance and social pressure by spectators are measurable. The drawback is that the number of spectators is an endogenous variable. To solve this problem, I use pre-game precipitation as an instrument for the number of spectators at Swedish soccer games as it reduces attendance but not relative performance on the field. I find that organized home supporters manage to generate home wins. Highly skilled athletes are consequently influenced by social pressure, which can also help explain the well-known home field advantage.
Optimal Monetary Policy with a Convex Phillips Curve

This paper shows that convexity of the short-run Phillips curve is a source of positive inflation bias even when policymakers target the natural unemployment rate, that is when they operate with prudent discretion, and their loss function is symmetric. Optimal monetary policy also induces positive co-movement between average inflation, average unemployment and inflation variability---suggesting a new motive for inflation stabilization policy---and positively skewed unemployment distributions. The reduced form model is applied to the post-disinflation period (1986-2006) in developed countries and its properties are illustrated numerically for the United States.
Antibacterial and antifungal activities of extracts of Convolvulus leiocalycinus and Haloxylon griffithii of Balochistan, Pakistan

Different medicinal plants have the potential of antibacterial and antifungal activities. Therefore, this research was executed to assess the antibacterial and antifungal activities of different fractions i.e. water (H2O), chloroform (CHCl3), n-hexane (C6H14) and ethyl acetate (C4H8O2) of Convolvulus leiocalycinus and Haloxylon griffithii by applying Agar well diffusion method. Bacterial strains of four types i.e., 3 gram-negative and 1 gram-positive namely Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a fungal strain like PBF-1 were used to investigate the antibacterial and antifungal activities in the selected plant extracts. The water, chloroform, ethyl acetate and nhexane fractions of C. leiocalycinus exhibited antibacterial activities of 7, 7, 7 and 6mm zone of inhibition respectively against S. aureus bacteria. Consequently, the same four fractions of H. griffithii displayed antibacterial activities against S. aureus 8, 8, 9 and zero mm zone of inhibition respectively. Considering the antifungal activity, the ethyl acetate fraction of C. leiocalycinus showed strong inhibition i.e., ++. But in H. grifithii, only the n-hexane fraction gave partial inhibition in antifungal activity. These results indicated that the ethyl acetate fraction of C. leiocalycinus exhibited strong antifungal activity as compared with the same fraction of H. griffithii showing that C. leiocalycinus is more potent as compared to H. griffithii. This justifies the usage of both plants in traditional medicines in future. It is also suggested that the use of entire extract of both the plants in foods can improve their shelf life.
Assessing the antibacterial activity and phytochemical screening of Capsicum varieties from Côte d'Ivoire.

Besides the use of pepper as a food ingredient, many developing countries use it as in indigenous medicine. This study was undertaken to investigate the antibacterial activities of extracts isolated from Capsicum annum L. and Capsicum frutescens fruits and to identify active compounds responsible for this activity. Three Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis) and four Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio cholerae and Salmonella typhimurium) were tested. Phytochemical screening was performed by sample adsorption on silica gels, thin-layer chromatography and compounds were identified using a standard staining procedure. The highest amount of extract and percentage of dry material were from C. frutescens var ‘Attie’ (51 ± 3 mg; 10.26%) with acetone in a direct extraction method while for an exhaustive extraction method, methanol extracted the highest dry mass from C. annuum var ‘Jaune’ (1994 ± 35 mg; 39.88%). Extracts tested in vitro against bacterial pathogens showed some antibacterial activities based on inhibition diameters: 10 to 28 mm for Gram bacteria and 10 to 20 mm for Gram. The exception was C. frutescens var ‘Doux’, which showed no activity against E. coli and P. aeruginosa. Phytochemical screening revealed the presence of some active compounds such as alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, polyphenols, sterols and quinines. The activity and presence of compounds known to be biologically active are a validation for the use of Capsicum as a food ingredient and as a therapeutic element of traditional medicine. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collinearity in ecological niche modeling: Confusions and challenges

Abstract Ecological niche models are widely used in ecology and biogeography. Maxent is one of the most frequently used niche modeling tools, and many studies have aimed to optimize its performance. However, scholars have conflicting views on the treatment of predictor collinearity in Maxent modeling. Despite this lack of consensus, quantitative examinations of the effects of collinearity on Maxent modeling, especially in model transfer scenarios, are lacking. To address this knowledge gap, here we quantify the effects of collinearity under different scenarios of Maxent model training and projection. We separately examine the effects of predictor collinearity, collinearity shifts between training and testing data, and environmental novelty on model performance. We demonstrate that excluding highly correlated predictor variables does not significantly influence model performance. However, we find that collinearity shift and environmental novelty have significant negative effects on the performance of model transfer. We thus conclude that (a) Maxent is robust to predictor collinearity in model training; (b) the strategy of excluding highly correlated variables has little impact because Maxent accounts for redundant variables; and (c) collinearity shift and environmental novelty can negatively affect Maxent model transferability. We therefore recommend to quantify and report collinearity shift and environmental novelty to better infer model accuracy when models are spatially and/or temporally transferred.
Dinámica poblacional de insectos homópteros en cultivos de lechuga y brócoli, identificación de parasitoides asociados y evaluación de alternativas físicas de control

En la presente Tesis se han comparado tres tipos de trampas para evaluar su efectividad en la captura de pulgones alados vectores de virus que afectan a cultivos de lechuga y brocoli. Se ha estudiado la dinamica poblacional de insectos homopteros vectores de virus en lechuga y broculi: pulgones (Hemiptera, Aphididae), cicadelidos (hemiptera, Cicadellidae) y mosca blanca (Hemiptera, Aleirodidae), en dos regiones productoras de Madrid y Navarra, respectivamente. Por otro lado se ha determinado la dinamica poblacional de pulgones colonizantes de lechuga a lo largo de los ciclos de cultivo de primavera y otono en la Comunidad de Madrid. Tambien se han identificado las principales especies de himenopteros parasitoides que aparecen regulando la poblacion de homopteros de lechuga y cruciferas en Madrid y Navarra, respectivamente. Por ultimo se ha evaluado el grado de eficacia de un tipo de barrera fisica, las cubiertas agrotextiles, en el control de mosca blanca, pulgones y virus en cultivos de lechuga y broculi.
The Three Faces of Business Model Innovation: Challenges for Established Firms

OVERVIEW: Business model innovation represents a significant opportunity for established firms, as demonstrated by the considerable success of Apple's iPod/iTunes franchise. However, it also represents a challenge, as evidenced by Kodak's failed attempt to dominate the digital photography market and Microsoft's difficulty gaining share in the gaming market, despite both companies' huge financial investments. We developed a business model innovation typology to better explain the complex set of factors that distinguishes three types of business model innovations and their associated challenges.
Implementation Of Open Innovation Practices In Swedish Manufacturing Industry

We are witnessing a shift towards more "open innovation" approaches and practices where firms cooperate and to a higher degree rely on external sources in their innovative work, and where the aim is to enhance innovation both inside and outside the boarders of the firm. However, there is a lack on studies on this research topic. Thus, the main purpose of the study is to get a deeper understanding of how can large firms implement open innovation practices. This purpose will be achieved by first, understanding the current innovation process and second, focus on critical aspects such as, partners, capabilities, and role of SMEs which can be important for implementing open innovation practices. The study is based on qualitative data from two companies from Swedish manufacturing industry. The results show that both companies don't clearly practice open innovation. However, several lesions can be learned regarding important aspects related with open innovation implementation.