Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pre-purchase information search and consumer satisfaction: Replication and extension

In this paper the author examines consumer satisfaction with major household appliances and its determining factors. Hypotheses relating to pre-purchase information search and product satisfaction as well as previous satisfactory store experiences and subsequent repurchase behaviour are proposed and empirically tested using data from 55 consumers who patronized a large eastern Cape hypermarket. Results imply that product satisfaction is more related to market place variables than actual search behaviour. Repeat shopping intentions are associated with previous shopping experiences at the particular store which also contributes to product satisfaction. Marketing implications and future research directions are briefly discussed.
Building loyalty in e-commerce: Impact of business and customer characteristics

Abstract Understanding, building, and predicting customer loyalty in e-commerce are critical activities for long-run profitability. Successfully carrying out these activities is challenging due to the complex mix of both business organization and customer factors that may influence and drive e-loyalty. We demonstrate that business factors, such as credibility, e-satisfaction and site knowledge, and customer factors, such as inertia, innovativeness, and aggressiveness, influence e-loyalty. Our analyses show that business credibility is affected by the reputation of the e-business and its congruence with the customers’ self-image; e-satisfaction by the customers’ value perception, care, and choice; and site knowledge by customer experience, involvement, and expertise. Business factors account for about 75% of the explained variation in e-loyalty and customer factors for the rest. Understanding the controllable business and uncontrollable customer factors that drive customer loyalty should enable e-commerce retailers to continually assess these factors and make appropriate changes in marketing strategy.
Poo Power: Revisiting Biogas Generation Potential on Dairy Farms in Texas

Abstract Biogas created from anaerobic digestion on dairy farms can be used to generate electricity, produce coproducts, and reduce reliance on off-farm inputs. We incorporate risk into simulation models representing dairy farms in Texas and demonstrate the profitability of new anaerobic digester installation. Based on this market, results indicate projects that have low investment costs, receive grant support for construction, utilize coproducts, or have some combination of these factors have higher net present value at the end of the study period; however, even with generous grant support and high electricity prices, projects with average investment costs remain unprofitable.
Why Consider the Lighthouse a Public Good?

Was the lighthouse ever a public good? The lighthouse is presented as the quintessential public good as it was inherently non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Since the work of Ronald Coase (1974) on the lighthouse, economists have debated the extent to which the private provision of public goods is possible. We argue that there is no a priori basis to consider lighthouses are a public good, being both rivalrous and excludable. We highlight recent findings in the history of lighting services (especially private provision of said services) to illustrate why it may be incorrect to consider the lighthouse as a public good for two reasons. First, lighthouses are complements to other maritime services (e.g. pilotage, docking, ballastage). The lighthouse could have been bundled with these complements, which were excludable and rivalrous, in ways that would have permitted its provision. Second, organizations in charge of providing lighthouses were aware of this bundling possibility and lobbied hard to monopolize these other aspects of the trade in ways that limited entrepreneurial opportunities.
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Vegetation in the Yarlung Zangbo River, China during 1998–2014

Spatiotemporal vegetation patterns are of great importance for regional development. As one of the largest transnational rivers in China, the Yarlung Zangbo River in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau was selected as the study site, and the spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation during 1998–2014 were analyzed using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The results show that the NDVI increased with decreasing elevation, and the largest value was observed for the broadleaf forest. The lag time of NDVI to precipitation for most of the vegetation units was distinguished as approximately one month. In the region with an elevation of over 5000 m, the NDVI for the alpine vegetation was negatively correlated with the precipitation. Most NDVI variations were due to precipitation and temperature (approximately 75%). These results could provide a reference for ecological protection at a similar high elevation in the future.
Stem Cells For The Heart

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Mortalita' nei primi due anni di vita in Italia: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome e altre morti inattese

The objective of this report is to describe the mortality rates in the first two years of life during the period 1990- 2001 in Italy. The analysis is based on death certificates which are centrally collected by the ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, the Italian National Institute of Statistics), and on the national registries of newborns and of the resident population. Infant mortality decreased by 41% during the study period: from 81 deaths per 10,000 newborns in 1990-1992, to 48 per 10,000 in 1999-2001. Around 75% of all deaths occurring during the first year of life take place within the first month, and these deaths are mainly associated (71%) to perinatal conditions. A similar decrease in infant mortality was observed in all Italian areas, although Southern regions persist on experiencing higher rates (1.7 greater than North-Eastern regions). During the second year of life mortality has decreased by 33%, reaching 3 deaths per 10,000 infants in 1999-2001. SIDS events represent around 6% of the post-neonatal mortality. In 1999-2001 a rate of around 0.6 deaths per 10,000 newborns was observed. If all unexpected or ill defined deaths are considered the corresponding rate increases to 1.9 deaths per 10,000 newborns.
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: dynamic, processual and multi-layered perspectives

ABSTRACT Contemporary research has demonstrated that entrepreneurship is a fundamentally contextualized phenomenon and unfolds differently in different contexts. Despite the extensive coverage of the importance of embeddedness for entrepreneurial activities, the research predominantly relies on somewhat static, single layered, and binary notions of embeddedness. We argue that there is a strong need for studies that problematize embeddedness and the relationship between entrepreneur and context. This call for papers, thus invites contributions that explore embeddedness as dynamic, processual and multi-layered, as well as elaborate on the paradoxes of embeddedness?
The effect of place attachment on visitors’ revisit intentions: evidence from Batam

Abstract The tourism sector is considered a vital economic driver in several countries. Consequently, tourism authorities focus much attention on the factors that could give them a competitive advantage especially in attracting repeat visitations to certain tourist destinations. The current study explores the path, environment → place attachment → revisit intention using the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model. The study obtained 455 responses from visitors to Batam Island in Indonesia using the convenience sampling method. This led to the formulation of hypotheses using the structural equation modeling (SEM). Novel findings are revealed. Atmosphere environment has a high positive correlation with place dependence while low positive correlation with place identity, place dependence, and place social bonding. Furthermore, the cultural environment is unimportant and insignificant in predicting place attachment. Interestingly, place attachment dimensions positively support revisit intentions. Place social binding is the most crucial feature of place attachment in revisit intentions. Thus, the findings obtained from documenting the importance of social interactions in tourism destinations are invaluable to tourism authorities, tourist practitioners, and tourism management in locating and extending tourist centers by reflecting on the physical and service environmental facilities that trigger social bonding-revisit effects. The findings shape new thinking to increase tourists’ repeat visits. 摘要 在一些国家, 旅游业被认为是一个重要的经济驱动力。 因此, 旅游当局非常重视能够使他们具有竞争优势的因素, 特别是在吸引某些旅游目的地的重游方面。 本研究采用刺激-组织-反应(S-O-R)模型, 探索环境→依恋位置→重游意愿的影响路径。 该研究采用便利抽样的方法, 从印尼巴丹岛的游客中获得了455份问卷, 并且使用结构方程模型(SEM)检验了假设。 研究表明, 大气环境与地方依赖呈高度正相关, 而与地方认同、地方依赖、地方社会联系呈低度正相关。 此外, 文化环境在预测地点依恋方面并不显著。 有趣的是, 地方依恋维度正向支持重游意愿。 地点社会联系是地点依恋影响重游意愿的最重要的特征。 因此, 通过记录旅游目的地社会互动的重要性所得到的研究结果, 对于旅游当局、旅游从业者和旅游管理人员反思触发社会纽带-再访效应的物质和服务环境设施, 选址和扩增旅游中心是非常宝贵的。 这些发现为增加游客的重游提供了新的思路。
Towards efficient data collection mechanisms in the vehicular ad hoc networks

Recently, the fast growth of communication technology has led to the design and implementation of different types of networks in different environments. One of these remarkable networks is vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). The ubiquitous connectivity among vehicles is possible through VANET in the absence of fixed infrastructure. Moreover, it provides safety and comfort to people sitting in the vehicles. In this regard, collecting information from vehicles that are moved constantly is an essential challenge. To develop an efficient method for data collection in the VANET, some parameters must be considered such as data aggregation, latency, packet delivery ratio, packet loss, scalability, security, transmission overhead, and vehicle density. Since data collection has a significant importance in the VANET, the aim of this study is to investigate the existing methods and describe the types of important issues and challenging problems that can be addressed in data collection in the VANET. The data collection techniques are investigated in four primary groups, namely, topology‐based, cluster‐based, geocast‐based, and fog‐based. Also, the mentioned parameters are important to compare all of the presented techniques.
Signaling legitimacy across institutional contexts—The intermediary role of corporate social responsibility rating agencies

Research Summary Good corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings can increase a firm's legitimacy and reduce its default risk. Yet, the interpretation of CSR varies between different countries. We investigate whether CSR ratings have a risk‐mitigating effect across different institutional contexts. We find that good CSR ratings have a general risk‐mitigating effect. Yet, we also find that the effect decreases when the rating agency is embedded in the institutional context of its home country and the rated firm operates in a country with a different culture or regulatory system. This suggests that a rating agency's country of origin and its embeddedness in that country's context play an important role in the relationship between CSR ratings and default risk. Managerial Summary In this article, we investigate to what extent CSR rating agencies signal organizational legitimacy across institutional contexts. Specifically, we evaluate how institutional distance between the rating agency and the rated firm moderates the negative effect of the CSR rating on the firm's default risk. We compare two CSR rating agencies, OEKOM, which is strongly embedded in its institutional context, and ASSET4, which operates across diverse institutional contexts. Based on a panel of 604 firms in 13 countries from 2011 to 2016, we show that CSR ratings from both rating agencies have a risk‐mitigating main effect. Yet, only in the case of OEKOM is the effect negatively moderated by regulatory and cultural distance. Thus, the legitimating effect of institutionally embedded CSR rating agencies decreases with institutional distance.
Fintech and Banking: What Do We Know?

This paper is a review of fintech and its interaction with banking. Included in fintech are innovations in payment systems (including cryptocurrencies), credit markets (including P2P lending), and insurance, with blockchain-assisted smart contract playing a role. The paper provides a definition of fintech, examines some statistics and stylized facts, and then reviews the theoretical and empirical literature. The review is organized around four main research questions. That paper summarizes our knowledge on these questions and concludes with questions for future research.
Successional changes in vegetation and litter structure in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests

ABSTRACT The Lacandon Maya is an indigenous group who live in Chiapas, Mexico. Their traditional lifeways involve swidden, sequential agroforestry management that mimics ecological disturbance and modifies succession. Lacandon farmers use fire to clear small plots for polyculture milpa agroforests, which they subsequently fallow. They actively manage all stages of their agroforests to provide ecosystem services and facilitate site recovery. However, it is unclear whether or how quickly the ecosystem structure of Lacandon agroforests matches that of a mature forest. Therefore, this study quantified canopy cover, basal area, ground cover, and litter layers and depth to empirically evaluate successional trends in vegetation and litter structure. Our results show that the Lacandon agroforest structure typically recovers to mature forest levels, but the speed and nature of this recovery vary by metric. They also indicate Lacandon traditional agroforestry is predicated on nuanced understanding of tropical forest successional dynamics, as illustrated by Lacandon farmers’ recognition of successional stages that correspond to patterns in vegetation and leaf litter structure. As such, Lacandon ecological knowledge has the potential to facilitate the restoration of degraded tropical forests in Chiapas, Mexico. However, our findings also demonstrate that shortening fallow periods will undermine the ecological integrity of this traditional agricultural system.
Mechanism of Continuance Usage of a Mobile Terminal: Perspective of Individual Behavior Nature and Social Influence

The goal of this study is to integrate individual behavior related to both reasoned action and unconscious behavior with social influence to form a theoretical model to explore continuance usage of a mobile terminal (CUMT). This study advances a model of CUMT which considers individual factors and social factors based on TRA. Perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU) and habit are introduced as independent variables and social network relationships (SNR) are introduced as a moderator into the research model. 221 respondents collected in China are used to examine the hypotheses with PLS-SEM method. The results indicate that PU, PEU and habit are the determinants of CUMT, and both PU and PEU are the antecedents of habit. Moreover, the findings demonstrate that SNR has a negative moderating effect on the PEU-CUMT relationship. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the behavior of CUMT. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are also discussed.
The Relationship between Corporate Sustainability Disclosure and Firm Financial Performance in Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Listed Mining Companies

Whether corporate sustainability disclosure (CSD) affects profitability remains indistinct to many firms. This paper examines the relationship between corporate sustainability disclosure and return on investment. The sample of this study consisted of ten Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed mining companies, and the data was extracted from sustainability reports for a period of five years from 2010 to 2014. In this regard, data collection was undertaken by the adoption of a content analysis approach. A multi-regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between environmental disclosure and return on investment. The same statistical mechanism was employed to determine the association involving social disclosure and return on investment. Results show that there is a negative relationship between environmental disclosure and return on investment. On the other hand, the research reveals that there is also a positive association between social disclosure and return on investment. This implies that an increase in corporate reporting of social issues results in heightened financial performance through an increase in return on investment. This study recommends the adoption of corporate social disclosure as it will encourage firms to be socially responsible, while also generating financial benefits. Further studies can be conducted about the change from voluntary corporate social disclosure to mandatory disclosure.
Algorithms for Biomedical Image Reconstruction

In this tutorial, we provide a unified introduction to biomedical image reconstruction, including system modeling and reconstruction via direct, variational, and learning-based methods. Imaging is a critical tool in biological research and medicine, and most imaging systems necessarily use an image-reconstruction algorithm to create an image. While these algorithms have been developed since at least the 1960s, the field has not converged to a single, universally-accepted approach to image reconstruction. In fact, algorithms both old and new have practical applications, and new algorithms often make use of old ones in surprising ways. So, while our introduction to this topic is organized chronologically, our goal is not to provide history; rather, we aim to introduce a toolbox of ideas and algorithms that are useful for working on modern image reconstruction problems.
Interacciones cognitivo-motoras: el papel de la representación motora

Introduccion. En la ultima decada, los estudios en neurociencia cognitiva han permitido avanzar considerablemente en el conocimiento de las interacciones entre la cognicion y la accion. En particular, la representacion motora aparece como uno de los procesos cognitivos implicados en la produccion del movimiento. Esta representacion motora se dedujo a partir de la comparacion entre procesos cognitivos (p. ej., imaginacion motora) y motores (p. ej., ejecucion motora). Sin embargo, las interacciones entre dicha representacion y otros procesos cognitivo-motores como la planificacion motora ocultan la importancia de la funcion de la representacion motora en la accion. Ademas, esta situacion genera muchas veces una confusion en la interpretacion de la funcion de la representacion motora. En consecuencia, su rol exacto en la produccion del movimiento no esta bien establecido. Desarrollo. Para aclarar este papel, analizamos la imaginacion, la preparacion, la planificacion, la ejecucion motora, las affordances y los movimientos automatizados. A la vez, proponemos un esquema hipotetico del funcionamiento de la representacion motora durante la ejecucion de un movimiento y de una accion. Conclusion. La representacion motora puede considerarse como un componente activo de ciertos procesos cognitivo-motores que permite la actualizacion on line de la respuesta motora, asi como la optimizacion y la adquisicion de nuevas habilidades motoras.
A Study of Factors of Internet Addiction and Its Impact on Online Compulsive Buying Behaviour: Indian Millennial Perspective

Compulsive Buying occurs when a person indulges in excessive purchasing overcome by social pressures and negative emotions. The main objective in this study is to garner insights into this issue from a marketing perspective and also to understand whether the millennial’s preference to avoid social contact physically but to crave for it in a virtual space has an impact. Conducted over a seven-month period with data collected and analyzed from 202 respondents in Bangalore, the study revealed that emotions like loneliness, depression, low self-esteem and anxiety encourage the respondents to go ahead and maintain relationships in a virtual space rather than engage in face-to-face interactions. Furthermore, it was realized that the growing Internet Addiction can also be positively related to online Compulsive Buying. This study is of high significance as it allows marketers to reach out and capture that segment of elusive customers who are always online and are guaranteed to make a purchase. Therefore, allowing companies can align their marketing strategies accordingly develop products and services, resulting in better sales revenues and repeat purchases.
Forecasting index and stock returns by considering the effect of Indonesia pre-presidential election 2019 using ARIMAX and VARX approches

Election is a national event that can create significant impact on many sectors in a country. One of the affected sectors is finance. The upcoming Presidential election in Indonesia has two strong candidates who are rival since the late presidential election in 2014. The effect of this election is expected to have a big influence in the capital market, especially for Indonesian Index (IDX composite). Moreover, the stock owned by the candidate or the candidate relative is also expected to behave unusual. Therefore, this study aims to predict the return of those stock and index with the influence of Indonesia Pre-Presidential Election 2019. The stock of interest is the stock of PT. Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk (SRTG). The method used in study is defined into two categories. The index and stock are analyzed individually by univariate method—Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average with Exogenous variable. Multivariate method is also conducted to examine the relation among these stock and index. The used approach is Vector Autoregressive with Exogenous variable. The exogenous variable in this study is the dummy variable of Indonesia pre-Presidential Election. The results show that pre-election vibe does not significantly affect the return of the index and stock.
Growth Opportunities and Earnings Quality from Emerging Economies

We examined the causality between growth opportunities and earnings quality of the emerging economies. We develop an argument that growth opportunities should lead to high-quality earnings of the developing economies against the prior studies from developed economies which posit that growth opportunities result in a lower quality of earnings. The findings revealed that Growth Opportunities had a positive significant effect on Earnings Quality (EQ). Thus, the study concluded that growth opportunities are useful in determining the earnings quality of firms. The study recommends that managers should take advantage of their firms' growth opportunities to provide quality accounting information which will directly provide expanded opportunities for business growth. Though literature confirms that generally, earnings management might not be necessarily bad in business operational practice, managers are advised to avoid extreme aggressiveness in managing earnings as this may culminate in the negative manipulation of accounting information.