Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Effects of Corporate Governance on Enterprise Risk Management and Firm Value : Malaysian Evidence

Corporate governance has been the subject of increasing interest following the 2008 global financial crisis. As a response to the crisis, Enterprise risk management (ERM) was introduced globally. Despite the claim that ERM is the solution for corporate governance deficiency, particularly in risk management practices, the number of empirical research studying this new field is still limited. Therefore, the current study has four research objectives that are; (i) to assess the extent of ERM practices, (ii) to identify corporate governance characteristics that influence ERM implementation (iii) to examine the association between ERM and firm value and (iv) to propose and develop the dimensions that can effectively measure ERM implementation. Eighty-one usable questionnaires were successfully collected and analysed using Partial Least Squares structural equation modeling method (PLS-SEM). The results of this study support that corporate governance characteristics (board size and board expertise) have a positive and significant association with ERM implementation. However, there is no significant evidence on the association between ERM and firm value. Therefore, the findings of this study will enable companies to have better understanding on corporate governance characteristics that influence ERM implementation and its effect towards firm value. The ERM index developed in this study will helps companies and regulators to formulate better corporate governance and ERM practices. JEL Classification: M30, M41,
Ill-posed Cauchy problem for an elliptic equation and the application of the balancing principle in its regularization

In this survey, self-regularization and quasi-reversibility methods for solving ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems are considered. An a posteriori parameter choice rule, the balancing principle is applied to both regularization methods in a parallel way. This adaptive principle selects regularization parameter without a priori quantitative knowledge of either solution smoothness or stability bound estimation and meanwhile allows the best possible order of accuracy. Some numerical examples are provided to illustrate the theoretical results. In particular, an application to the corrosion detection is presented. 13Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Science, Altenbergstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria 2Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore560012, India E-mail: hui.cao@ricam.oeaw. ac.at, hari@math.iisc. ernet.in, sergei.pereverzev@ricam.oeaw. ac.at
PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRIC REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE (INSTRUMENTS AND APPLICATION) H. Weichelt, K. Schmidt, uve Remote Sensing Centre Potsdam, Gennany

H. Weichelt, K. Schmidt, uve Remote Sensing Centre Potsdam, Gennany A. Shutko, E. Reutov, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics Moscow, USSR G. Ijash, Technical University Budapest, Hungary T. Jackson, T. Schmugge, C. Swift, USDA-ARS Hydrology Laboratory Beltsville, USA P. Pampaloni, S. Palos cia, Instituto di Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche CNR. Firenze, Italy K. Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, C.S. R.E. , India
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Scalar-vector bootstrap

We work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a review of which tensor structures make appearances, a construction of the projectors onto the required mixed symmetry representations, and a computation of the conformal blocks for all possible operators which can be exchanged. These blocks are presented as differential operators acting upon the previously known scalar conformal blocks. Finally, we set up the bootstrap equations which implement crossing symmetry. Special attention is given to the case of conserved vectors, where several simplifications occur.
SOURCES OF LONG-TERM AMBIENT OCEAN SOUND NEAR THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

Hydrophone arrays (250–1000 Hz) were deployed within the Bransfield Strait and Scotia Sea (Antarctic Peninsula region) from 2005 to 2009 to study sources of ambient ocean sound. Icequakes, which are broadband, short duration signals derived from fracturing of large free-floating icebergs, are a prominent feature of the ocean soundscape. Icequake activity peaks during austral summer and is minimum during winter, likely following freezethaw cycles. Iceberg grounding and rapid disintegration also releases significant acoustic energy, equivalent to large-scale geophysical events. Overall ambient sound levels can be as much as ~10–20 dB higher in the open, deep ocean of the Scotia Sea compared to the relatively shallow Bransfield Strait. Noise levels become lowest during the low annual temperatures of the austral winter, likely due to freezing of regional sea ice of all scales. Ambient noise levels are highest during austral spring and summer, presumably due to melting and cracking icebergs. Vocalizations of blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales also dominate the long-term spectra records in the 15–28 and 85 Hz bands. Blue whale call energy is a maximum during austral summer-fall in the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait when ambient noise levels are a maximum and sea-ice cover is a minimum. Fin whale vocalizations were also most common during austral summer-early fall months in both the Bransfield Strait and Scotia Sea. The hydrophone data overall do not appear to show sustained anthropogenic sources (e.g. ships), likely due to low coastal populations and the difficult marine conditions of the Southern Ocean. UA2014 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Underwater Acoustics
horisontal, baik di dunia industri maupun pemerintahan. Sementara itu pengembangan smart government mulai dikembangkan dengan merasionalkan ketersediaan teknologi tersebut dalam menyediakan layanan prioritas pemerintah. Pengukuran e-readiness merupakan salah satu hal penting yang dilakukan dalam upa

The transformation of information and communication technology (ICT) nowadays is evolving toward digital convergence. This situation has opened up great opportunities for vertical and horizontal integration, both in industry and government. Meanwhile, the development of smart government begin to rationalize the availability of such technology in providing government services. Measuring e-readiness is one of the important things to do in order to achieve smart government’s successfulness. The rapid development of ICTs and the lack of capacity at the local level is the reason why the measurement of e-readiness needs to be done. In this regard, this study will measure the e-readiness of the Gorontalo Provincial Government in relation to the implementation of smart government. This measurement is done by a socio-technical approach where technological factors, human factors and institutional factors are the three main factors that need to measure in this study. The e-readiness assessment tool used in this study is a tool developed by Musa when measuring e-readiness at the local government of Iraq. The data used in this study is quantitatively and qualitatively obtained from the questionnaire distributed to four groups of respondents in the province of Gorontalo. They were 1. The government, 2. The employee 3. The citizen, and 4. The business groups of service providers. The results of the measurements are 74.20 in "B" grade or interpreted as "High" for Gorontalo Provincial Government itself. As for the average e-readiness value which states the readiness PROSIDING SEMINAR NASIONAL GEOTIK 2017. ISSN:2580-8796 177 of Gorontalo Province as a whole is 58.68 in grade "C" or interpreted as at "Medium" of
Histone variant H 3 . 3 stimulates HSP 70 transcription through cooperation with HP 1 c

Histone variant H3.3 and heterochromatin protein 1c (HP1c) are two functional components of chromatin with role in gene transcription. However, the regulations of their dynamics during transcriptional activation and the molecular mechanisms underlying their actions remain poorly understood. Here, we provide evidence that heat shock-induced transcription of the human HSP70 gene is regulated via the coordinated and interdependent action of H3.3 and HP1c. H3.3 and HP1c are rapidly co-enriched at the human HSP70 promoters upon heat shock in a manner that closely parallels the initiation of transcription. Knockdown of H3.3 prevents the stable recruitment of HP1c, inhibits active histone modifications, and attenuates HSP70 promoter activity. Likewise, knockdown of HP1c leads to the decreased levels of H3.3 in the promoter regions and the repression of HSP70 genes. HP1c selectively recognizes particular modification states of H3.3 in the nucleosome for its action. Moreover, HP1c is overexpressed in three representative cancer cell lines, and its knockdown leads to reduction in HSP70 gene transcription and inhibition of cancer cell proliferation. We conclude that the physical and functional interactions between H3.3 and HP1c make a unique contribution to acute HSP70 transcription and cancer development related to the misregulation of this transcrip-
A case report: Stomach foreign object in whaleshark (Rhincodon typus) stranded in Thailand

A dead 5.5 m long female whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ) was brought to shore by fishermen in Samutprakarn, Thailand. A necropsy was subsequently performed. Several isolated hemorrhages with multiple ulcers were observed in the gastric mucosa, extending into the subserosal tissue of the stomach. An extremely hard and stiff plastic drinking straw was found in the gastric lumen. The hardening of the straw was due to the reaction of stomach enzyme to plastic, which became a sharp foreign object inside the stomach. Although putrefaction and autolysis was observed, all other organ systems displayed normal findings and no competing cause of death was in evidence. Cause of death was thus suspected to be attributed to the ingestion of the drinking straw, with subsequent irritation of the stomach mucosa causing wounds and infections and may be not possible to eliminate due to the floating nature of the plastic. Since this is a very rare case, due to the fact that shark could usually eliminate the stomach content, we should not overlook the danger of plastic pollution in the marine environment.
A study on risk factors of dyspepsia

Introduction: Dyspepsia refers to upper abdominal symptoms usually following intake of food, which appear to arise from an abnormality in the upper gastrointestinal tract with a worldwide prevalence ranging from 7 to 40%. Though dyspepsia has been studied extensively the associated risk factors may vary from one region to other depending on various habits, culture and socio economic status. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk factors of dyspepsia in a tertiary care general hospital, Rajahmundry, India. Methods: A cross sectional study was done in a tertiary care general hospital over a period of 2 years from January 2013 to December 2014 in patients aged 20 years and above, attending the casuality, out patient department and wards of General Medicine with complaint of dyspepsia. Results: In our study out of 288 patients 178 are males and 110 are females with mean age 39.28±14.29 years. In our study 82 patients are consuming alcohol, 72 are smokers and 36 using NSAID’s. There was significant association between alcohol consumption, smoking and Gastric lesions such as Gastritis, Gastric erosions, Ulcers and Gastric carcinoma. But there was no significant association found between NSAID’s use and Gastric, Oesophageal and Duodenal lesions. Conclusion: Alcohol and smoking was significantly associated with dyspepsia. The use of NSAIDs was not significantly associated with dyspepsia. These findings emphasize the need of awareness of reducing risk factors associated with dyspepsia.
Peut-on améliorer la prise en charge de la douleur postopératoire des enfants à la maison par leurs parents ?

1Departments of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, and Psychology, Dalhousie University; 2Centre for Pediatric Pain Research, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 3Department of Children’s Nursing, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom Correspondence: Dr Jill Chorney, Centre for Pediatric Pain Research, Eighth Floor (South), PO Box 9700, 5850 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 6R8. Telephone 902-470-7707, fax 902-470-7709, e-mail jill.chorney@iwk.nshealth. ca Thousands of children undergo surgery each year, and a shift toward same-day surgeries and decreased lengths of hospital stays results in parents being increasingly responsible for their child’s postoperative care. Unfortunately, many studies report that children experience moderate to severe levels of pain after common pediatric day surgeries (1-3). Optimal management of acute pain is important because undermanaged pain is associated with a host of maladaptive physiological outcomes (4) including the potential persistence of postoperative pain (5) and sensitization to later procedures (6). Managing children’s postoperative pain at home places significant demands on parents. To manage pain effectively, parents must engage in a set of tasks including accurately assessing their child’s pain, providing adequate analgesic dosing, and encouraging their child to use additional physical and psychological pain management strategies. Previous research suggests there is variability in the degree to which parents are able to engage in these tasks. For example, although a few studies indicate that parents may provide too much analgesia (7,8), most studies show that parents often give less than the prescribed doses of analgesics or use less potent analgesics than recommended (9-11). Parents also may underuse nonpharmacological strategies, particularly deep breathing (12,13). There are numerous barriers to effective parent management of their children’s pain at home. Parents often report misconceptions about adverse side effects of analgesics, fears of addiction and tolerance (10,14,15), and they may doubt postoperative dosing instructions (16,17). Children’s response to pain is variable, as is their perceived need for treatment (ie, pain treatment thresholds); therefore, it is important that parents can recognize these thresholds and modify treatment accordingly (18,19). Parents may also have limited knowledge of the impacts of postoperative pain or may believe that pain is an inevitable result of surgery (15). Parent familiarity with nonpharmacologial strategies may also be limited, particularly with regard to more advanced strategies such as relaxation, and parents may be unprepared to behaviourally manage children’s refusal to take medications (20). In an attempt to improve pain management, there have been studies investigating interventions that are directed toward parents. These interventions have often been designed to increase parental review
Multimodal Biometrics via Discriminant Correlation Analysis on Mobile Devices

Modern mobile devices commonly use single biometric modalities such as faces or fingerprints to identify their users. Prior works, however, have shown that greater identification accuracy can be achieved by using multiple or multimodal biometrics. The majority of existing multimodal techniques focus on combining match scores from different modalities or scorelevel fusion. In this paper, we propose an approach for combining features from different modalities, also known as feature-level fusion, for mobile devices. Although feature-level is associated with greater identification accuracy than score-level fusion, it has not been widely studied in the context of mobile devices in which the degradation of biometric image quality due to uncontrolled conditions and limited computational resources poses unique challenges. We propose a novel feature-level fusion scheme for combining histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs) features from the face with mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) features from the voice using Discriminant Correlation Analysis (DCA). We then compare the identification accuracy and execution times of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Random Forests (RFs), and k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classifiers when classifying the fused feature sets and individual sets of facial and voice features. The multimodal approach significantly outperforms the unimodal approach for all classifiers, with the SVMs achieving the highest improvement of 56.66% and 62.02% compared to unimodal face and voice approaches, respectively, and taking 0.0038 seconds to identify the users of the Samsung Galaxy S7 phone.
ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE’S CONTRIBUTION TOWARD ACADEMIC SERVICE SATISFACTION IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (A STUDY ON PUBLIC VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN PALANGKARAYA)

The core of the study was focused on the factors which affect service satisfaction, it includes the organizational climate and administrative performance. Based on this matter, the main problem revealed in this research was the measurement of organization climate and school administration performance’s contribution toward the satisfaction of academic service. The results showed: (1) organizational climate, was in the already good category. (2) Administrative performance, was in the high category. (3) The satisfaction of academic service, was in high enough category. (4) The results of relationship analysis showed that both variables have a positive and significant relationship. Recommendations given to schools was to improve the quality of school administration in relation to the quality assurance of academic services at public vocational schools in Palangkaraya.
Pathological Alterations Associated with Radiographically Normal Follicular Tissues in Third Molar Impactions

The tooth formation occurs inside a dental sac or dental follicle (DF) which originates from odontogenic mesenchyme. [1] The DF circumscribes the crown of an unerupted tooth and is involved in the process of odontogenesis. The follicle is also involved in the formation of the periodontal ligament, cementum, and alveolar bone. [2,3] Radiographically, the follicle presents as thin homogenous peri-coronal radiolucency (PR) around the impacted tooth. [4] Histopathologically, it is comprised fibrous connective tissue and remnants of epithelial residues of odontogenesis, which could be the initial point for pathological transformation. [5,6] It is stated that about one-third of the completely or partially unerupted third molars are associated with pathosis. [7] Pericoronal tissues surrounding an impacted tooth may be a source of several odontogenic cyst or tumors. [8] The pathologic processes can be easily identified radiographically when it is associated with the enlargement of the peri-coronal space. However, the decision to remove or to keep an impacted molar becomes more challenging when the patient is asymptomatic. The previous study has reported that PR of 2.5 mm or less as non-pathologic. [9] Moreover, the data quantifying this assumption is limited as most of the follicular tissue is discarded soon after extraction and are not submitted for histopathological investigation. Considering the need of time, the radiographic appearance alone is not a reliable indicator of the absence of pathologies in PF. Henceforth, this study is undertaken to evaluate the incidence of pathologic changes associated with follicular space ≤2.5 mm in peri-coronal tissue and to assess the frequency and type of pathologic conditions associated with ITM. ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pathological Alterations Associated with Radiographically Normal Follicular Tissues in Third Molar Impactions
Circularly polarized integrated filtering antenna with polarization reconfigurability

A new design of circularly polarized (CP) integrated filtering antennas with reconfigurable polarization is proposed in this paper. Two phase-reconfigurable coupled λ/2-resonator pairs have been used to feed the antenna and generate the 2 nd -order filtering response and the circular polarization simultaneously. By switching the PIN diodes inserted in the feeding network, a phase difference of +90° or 90° can be realized at the outputs of the feeding network. This renders the antenna’s capability of switching its polarization from right hand circular polarization (RHCP) to left hand circular polarization (LHCP) or vice versa. The use of the coupled-resonator pairs significantly improves the frequency selectivity and out-of-band rejection of the CP antenna. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report of a multifunctional antenna which has integrated filtering performance, circular polarization and polarization reconfigurability. To verify the design concept, a reconfigurable CP antenna operating at 2.45 GHz is implemented. The simulated and measured results agree well with each other and show that the antenna has an impedance bandwidth of 4.5 %, an average in-band gain of 6.0 dBic (LHCP)/6.1 dBic (RHCP), out-of-band rejections of greater than 10.8 dB, and 3-dB AR bandwidth of 9.4 %/10.5 %.
DISTRIBUTION OF PITCH ACCENTS IN INTONATION GROUPS ACROSS INTONATIONAL STYLES

The current study investigates the relation between prosodic structure and paralinguistic factors. Specifically, the number of pitch accents found in an intonation group is claimed to vary depending on an intonational style in which the speaker chooses to convey a message. It is shown that in formal speech, speakers tend to place three and four accents per intonation group more often than they do in informal speech. Also, the difference in prosodic organisation was noted between read speech and spontaneous speech. In general, it was found that in spontaneous speech, in about 50-60% of all the intonation groups speakers place only one accent per intonation group.