bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Fire Needle Acupuncture Regulates Wnt/ERK Multiple Pathways to Promote Neural Stem Cells to Differentiate into Neurons in Rats with Spinal Cord Injury
Authors: Xu Jiachun , Cheng Suli , Jiao Zhaohua , Zhao Zhiheng , Cai Zhimin , Su Nan , Liu Baohong , Zhou Zhen , Li Yan
Published: February 2019

Background & Objective:

NSCs therapy is considered one of the most potential methods
for spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods:

We build the SCI model rats to investigate the therapeutic effect of fire needle acupuncture
in improving the locomotor function of SCI rats and its possible mechanism. BBB scale was used for
the motor ability of rats. The expression of Nestin, NSE, Gal-C, and GFAP was detected by immunohistochemistry.
Wnt, GSK3β, β-catenin, ERK1/2, CyclinD1, and ngn1 were detected by western blot
and PCR. The BBB score of both model group (1.20±0.94, 3.12±0.67, 5.34±1.57, 7.12±1.49) and fire
needle group (1.70±0.58, 4.50±1.63, 7.53±2.41, 9.24±0.63) gradually increased after SCI. Furthermore,
at d10 and d14, the fire needle group showed a significantly high score compared with that in
model group at the same time (P<0.05). Fire needle increased Nestin, NSE, and Gal-C expression inhibited
GFAP expression after SCI. Also, fire needle could up-regulate Wnt3a, GSK3β, β-catenin, and
ngn1, and down-regulate ERK1/2, cyclinD1 gene and protein expression.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, fire needle could improve lower limb locomotor function of SCI rats. Also,
fire needles could promote endogenous NSCs proliferation differentiating into neurons, and the
mechanism might be mediated by promoting the activation of Wnt/β-catenin and inhibiting the overexpression
of ERK.
Nutrition Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Pre and Post Chemoradiotherapy
Authors: Kumar Piyush , Pateneedi Bhavya P , Singh Dharam P , Chauhan Arvind K
Published: February 2019

Introduction: Head and neck cancer patients are frequently
malnourished at the time of diagnosis and prior to the beginning
of treatment. Deterioration of the nutritional status results in an
increase in chemo-radiotherapy (CRT) related toxicity, and this
may increase the prolonged treatment time, which has been
associated with poor clinical outcome. The present study aims
to do a nutritional assessment before and after CRT in head
and neck cancer patients.
Material and Methods: The present study was undertaken at
the Department of Radiation Oncology, Shri Ram Murti Smarak
Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly. In this study, 50 patients
of head and neck tumors were enrolled, and their nutrition was
assessed before and after CRT. Nutrition assessment was
done using different laboratory parameters like hemoglobin,
total leukocyte count, blood urea, serum creatinine, and
serum bilirubin. Anthropometric parameters used are body
mass index, skinfold thickness, and mid-arm circumference.
Nutritional risk indicator and patient-generated subjective global
assessment (PG-SGA) score are measured before and after
CRT. All the parameters were assessed and analyzed using
different statistical tests – Chi-square test, Fisher exact test,
and paired t-test.
Results: Hemoglobin decrease was statistically significant
during treatment (p less than 0.001), and the decrease in total
leukocyte count during treatment was showing a trend towards
significance (p-value -0.056). There was deterioration in other
parameters like blood urea, serum creatinine, and serum
bilirubin but was not statistically significant. Anthropometric
parameters–body mass index (BMI), mid-arm circumference
(MAC), skinfold thickness, and percent body fat showed a
significant change (p less than 0.00001).
Nutritional risk indicator and PG-SGA class have decreased
for the majority of patients during treatment, and the change
is statistically significant (p less than 0.00001 and p = 0.0251),
respectively.
Conclusion: Nutrition has an important role to play in the
management of head and neck cancers by CRT. It helps to
reduce the complications and improve the tolerance of CRT,
thus avoiding treatment breaks, which may lead to failure of
treatment.
The role of good governance in the promotion of investment frameworks in Iraq with a special reference to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for the period (2006 - 2016)
Authors: Ahmed Arshad Mohammed
Published: February 2019

Good governance is one of the most important terms that various local and international organizations have started to call through their various reports. It is important to create an environment conducive to achieving economic growth rates by creating an appropriate investment climate. At the beginning of the 21st century, The markets began to open up and the opportunities became bigger and the responsibilities of governments towards their people and countries increased. This helped to develop and prosper. In contrast, many countries suffered and continue to suffer from poverty, hunger, scientific and economic backwardness, Its ability to adapt to the global system as well as the inability to move forward with the market economy, all of which led to the need to adopt the approach of good governance in the management of the various joints of the State as the best solution to the various political problems, administrative, economic and social, as a participatory system and transparent And this includes the choice of good governance and its role in strengthening the investment frameworks, which aims to identify the indicators of good governance and its role in attracting foreign investment to achieve the economic and social goals that Iraq seeks to achieve in general and reflect On the investment reality in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in particular.
Mobile and Web-Based Apps That Support Self-Management and Transition in Young People With Chronic Illness: Systematic Review (Preprint)
Authors: Virella Pérez Yisselle Ilene , Medlow Sharon , Ho Jane , Steinbeck Katharine
Published: February 2019

BACKGROUND

More adolescents with chronic physical illness are living into adulthood, and they require the development of proficient self-management skills to maintain optimal physical health as they transition into adult care services. It is often during this vulnerable transition period that deterioration in illness control is seen as a result of inadequate self-management skills and understanding of their chronic illness. Mobile technology has been proposed as an innovative opportunity to assist in improving the management of chronic conditions as young people transition to adult care services. Over the past 5 years, there has been a significant increase in research into the use of health-related apps.

OBJECTIVE

This study aimed to evaluate the utility and effectiveness of mobile and Web-based health apps that support self-management and transition in young people with chronic physical health illnesses.

METHODS

We conducted a comprehensive review of the literature in 5 bibliographic databases, using key search terms, considering only articles published from 2013, as we were extending the data from 2 previous systematic reviews. Abstracts were screened for possible inclusion by 2 reviewers. Data extraction and quality assessment tools were used for the evaluation of included studies.

RESULTS

A total of 1737 records were identified from the combined electronic searches, and 854 records were removed as duplicates. A total of 68 full articles were further assessed for eligibility, and 6 articles met our review criteria: 3 pilot studies, 2 randomized controlled trials, and 1 prospective cohort study. Publication years ranged from 2015 to 2018. The apps reported were targeted at type 1 diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, asthma, beta thalassemia major, and sickle cell disease, with a combined sample size of 336. A total of 4 studies included in this review reported being effective in increasing knowledge of the targeted condition and increasing therapy adherence, including increased medication adherence. A total of 2 manuscripts only mentioned the word transition. Participant’s satisfaction was reported for all studies. Heterogeneity of the studies prevented meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS

There remain limited data on the effectiveness and use of mobile and Web-based apps, which might facilitate the transition of adolescents with chronic illnesses from pediatric to adult health care services. This systematic review provides an updated overview of available apps for adolescents with chronic illnesses. This systematic review has been unable to provide evidence for effectiveness of this approach, but it does provide insights into future study design, with reference to the development, evaluation, and efficacy of apps tailored for adolescents with chronic illnesses, including the involvement of adolescents in such designs.
Use of Patient-Reported Data to Match Depression Screening Intervals With Depression Risk Profiles in Primary Care Patients With Diabetes: Development and Validation of Prediction Models for Major Depression (Preprint)
Authors: Jin Haomiao , Wu Shinyi
Published: February 2019

BACKGROUND

Clinical guidelines recommend screening for depression in the general adult population but recognizes that the optimum interval for screening is unknown. Ideal screening intervals should match the patient risk profiles.

OBJECTIVE

This study describes a predictive analytics approach for mining clinical and patient-reported data from a large clinical study for the identification of primary care patients at high risk for depression to match depression screening intervals with patient risk profiles.

METHODS

This paper analyzed data from a large safety-net primary care study for diabetes and depression. A regression-based data mining technique was used to examine 53 demographics, clinical variables, and patient-reported variables to develop three prediction models for major depression at 6, 12, and 18 months from baseline. Predictors with the strongest predictive power that require low information collection efforts were selected to develop the prediction models. Predictive accuracy was measured by the area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC) and was evaluated by 10-fold cross-validation. The effectiveness of the prediction algorithms in supporting clinical decision making for six “typical” types of patients was demonstrated.

RESULTS

The analysis included 923 patients who were nondepressed at the study baseline. Five patient-reported variables were selected in the prediction models to predict major depression at 6, 12, and 18 months: (1) Patient Health Questionnaire 2-item score; (2) the Sheehan Disability Scale; (3) previous problems with depression; (4) the diabetes symptoms scale; and (5) emotional burden of diabetes. All three depression prediction models had an AUROC>0.80, comparable with published depression prediction studies. Among the 6 “typical” types of patients, the algorithms suggest that patients who reported impaired daily functioning by health status are at an elevated risk for depression in all three periods.

CONCLUSIONS

This study demonstrated that leveraging patient-reported data and prediction models can help improve identification of high-risk patients and clinical decisions about the depression screening interval for diabetes patients. Implementation of this approach can be coupled with application of modern technologies such as telehealth and mobile health assessment for collecting patient-reported data to improve privacy, reducing stigma and costs, and promoting a personalized depression screening that matches screening intervals with patient risk profiles.
Sarcasm Detection For Sentiment Analysis in Indonesian Tweets
Authors: Yunitasari Yessi , Musdholifah Aina , Sari Anny Kartika
Published: February 2019

Twitter is one of the social medias that are widely used at the moment. Tweet conversations can be classified according to their sentiments. The existence of sarcasm contained in a tweet sometimes causes incorrect determination of the tweet’s sentiment because sarcasm is difficult to analyze automatically, even by humans. Hence, sarcasm detection needs to be conducted, which is expected to improve the results of sentiment analysis. The effect of sarcasm detection on sentiment analysis can be seen in terms of accuracy, precision and recall. In this paper, detection of sarcasm is applied to Indonesian tweets. The feature extraction of sarcasm detection uses unigram and 4 Boazizi feature sets which consist of sentiment-relate features, punctuation-relate features, lexical and syntactic features, and top word features. Detection of sarcasm uses the Random Forest algorithm. The feature extraction of sentiment analysis uses TF-IDF, while the classification uses Naïve Bayes algorithm. The evaluation shows that sentiment analysis with sarcasm detection improves the  accuracy of sentiment analysis about 5.49%. The accuracy of the model is 80.4%, while the precision is 83.2%, and the recall is 91.3%.
Incidence and Risk Factors of Early Onset Neonatal AKI
Authors: Charlton Jennifer R. , Boohaker Louis , Askenazi David , Brophy Patrick D. , D’Angio Carl , Fuloria Mamta , Gien Jason , Griffin Russell , Hingorani Sangeeta , Ingraham Susan , Mian Ayesa , Ohls Robin K. , Rastogi Shantanu , Rhee Christopher J. , Revenis Mary , Sarkar Subrata , Smith Alexandra , Starr Michelle , Kent Alison L. ,   on behalf of the Neonatal Kidney Collaborative
Published: January 2019

Background and objectives

Neonatal AKI is associated with poor short- and long-term outcomes. The objective of this study was to describe the risk factors and outcomes of neonatal AKI in the first postnatal week.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

The international retrospective observational cohort study, Assessment of Worldwide AKI Epidemiology in Neonates (AWAKEN), included neonates admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit who received at least 48 hours of intravenous fluids. Early AKI was defined by an increase in serum creatinine >0.3 mg/dl or urine output <1 ml/kg per hour on postnatal days 2–7, the neonatal modification of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes criteria. We assessed risk factors for AKI and associations of AKI with death and duration of hospitalization.

Results

Twenty-one percent (449 of 2110) experienced early AKI. Early AKI was associated with higher risk of death (adjusted odds ratio, 2.8; 95% confidence interval, 1.7 to 4.7) and longer duration of hospitalization (parameter estimate: 7.3 days 95% confidence interval, 4.7 to 10.0), adjusting for neonatal and maternal factors along with medication exposures. Factors associated with a higher risk of AKI included: outborn delivery; resuscitation with epinephrine; admission diagnosis of hyperbilirubinemia, inborn errors of metabolism, or surgical need; frequent kidney function surveillance; and admission to a children’s hospital. Those factors that were associated with a lower risk included multiple gestations, cesarean section, and exposures to antimicrobials, methylxanthines, diuretics, and vasopressors. Risk factors varied by gestational age strata.

Conclusions

AKI in the first postnatal week is common and associated with death and longer duration of hospitalization. The AWAKEN study demonstrates a number of specific risk factors that should serve as “red flags” for clinicians at the initiation of the neonatal intensive care unit course.
Reflexões sobre a educação no projeto de aprofundamento do neoliberalismo no Brasil
Authors: Agudo Marcela De Moraes , Tozoni-Reis Marília Freitas de Campos , Teixeira Lucas André
Published: February 2019

O artigo aborda a educação no contexto econômico, político e social que atravessamos atualmente no Brasil. A delimitação metodológica para as discussões tomou como unidade de análise a educação na perspectiva histórico-crítica, interpretando como essa conjuntura se relaciona de forma orgânica com a doutrina neoliberal. Estabelecemos como período de análise o início do primeiro mandato da Presidenta Dilma, passando pela chamada Jornadas de Julho de 2013 e culminando no Projeto Ponte para o Futuro, que vem sendo imposto pelo governo Temer configurado a partir do impeachment da Presidenta Dilma Rousseff e se encontra em curso. Realizamos uma análise da conjuntura sem perder de vista os movimentos orgânicos estruturais, cujos resultados indicam os rumos políticos e econômicos que vem sendo imposto por meio de um projeto reformista para a educação brasileira na conjuntura atual: uma proposta que adeque a educação nos marcos do neoliberalismo.
O que se faz em uma aula de História? Pensar sobre a colonialidade do tempo
Authors: Pereira Nilton Mullet
Published: February 2019

O presente artigo apresenta uma discussão teórica sobre as relações entre a aula de História, o ensino de História e a colonialidade do tempo. Propõe o debate acerca do papel do tempo na aula e no ensino de História, a partir da problematização do pensamento decolonial, especificamente do pensador Anibal Quijano, em diálogo com autores da filosofia da diferença, como Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze e Foucault. Tal problematização permitiu a criação do conceito de colonialidade do tempo, para a partir dele, pensar o que se faz no ensino de História e o que se faz em uma aula de História, na perspectiva de propor repensar esses dois espaços, o primeiro tomado como lugar de produção conceitual e criação de formas expressivas para os conceitos históricos e a segunda como o Caos genético, por onde desfilam diferentes saberes e temporalidades. Desse modo, o rompimento com a colonialidade do tempo está relacionado a pensar a hesitação e a abertura como formas de criar experiências com o outro, sem reduzi-lo a uma narrativa que estabelece os limites sobre como medir, representar e experienciar o tempo.
Ansiedad y pensamiento constructivo en estudiantes
Authors: Aragón Borja Laura Edna , Contreras Gutiérrez Ofelia , Tron Álvarez Rocío
Published: January 2019

El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar la relación que existe entre ansiedad, pensamiento constructivo (PC) y pensamiento no constructivo (PNC), en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios.Los resultados mostraron que 14% de los estudiantes presentó ansiedad en alto grado, encontrándose una diferencia significativa a favor de las mujeres en ansiedad fisiológica. En cuanto a PC,encontramos una diferencia significativa en afrontamiento conductual también a favor de las mujeres. Al correlacionar ansiedad y PC, como se esperaba, todas las escalas y subescalas de PC correlacionaron 3 negativa y significativamente con las cuatro modalidades de ansiedad; es decir, cuanto mejor es el pensamiento constructivo, tanto menores índices de ansiedad se presentan. Sin embargo, en PNC sólo fueron significativas las correlaciones entre pensamiento rígido con ansiedad cognitiva, motora y con el total de ansiedad. Se concluye que una alternativa para reducir la ansiedad en los estudiantes universitarios ante las demandas académicas sería enseñarles a pensar de una manera más constructiva.
On the classification of two-qubit group orbits and the use of coarse-grained 'shape' as a superselection property
Authors: Hebdige Thomas , Jennings David
Published: February 2019

Recently a complete set of entropic conditions has been derived for the interconversion structure of states under quantum operations that respect a specified symmetry action, however the core structure of these conditions is still only partially understood. Here we develop a coarse-grained description with the aim of shedding light on both the structure and the complexity of this general problem. Specifically, we consider the degree to which one can associate a basic `shape' property to a quantum state or channel that captures coarse-grained data either for state interconversion or for the use of a state within a simulation protocol. We provide a complete solution for the two-qubit case under the rotation group, give analysis for the more general case and discuss possible extensions of the approach.
The role of an audit committee in bank solvency: An emerging market case
Authors: Salia Hussein , Addo Emmanuel Budu , Adoboe-Mensah Nicholas
Published: February 2019

Recent discourse on corporate failures gives prominence to the impact of weak corporate governance systems in most corporate entities, hence reasons for investors and creditors pessimism. This literature review article seeks to articulate how audit committee could strengthen corporate governance in organizations. The paper reviews the guidelines developed by the Bank of Ghana to curb the degeneration of the Banking sector in Ghana following the collapse of seven indigenous banks between 2017 and 2018. The objective of this paper is to underscore the effective functioning of audit committees as a panacea to the corporate governance weaknesses in Ghana. The paper observes that albeit the Bank of Ghana, as a regulatory body, underscored weak corporate governance systems – it failed to emphasize mechanisms for strengthening audit committees in its guidelines to regulate the sector. The paper, therefore, promotes the presence and effective functioning of the audit committees as an additional layer to strengthen the monitoring and supervisory functions within corporate bodies. It recommends that the Bank of Ghana must emphasize the establishment of audit committees as a core part of corporate governance systems of all banks to ensure that the interest of all stakeholders is protected adequately through the oversight role of the audit committees.
Gauging the Effectiveness of Six-week Internship Duration in Business Education in Pakistan: Implications for Policy and Practice
Authors: Nauman Sarwat , Hussain Nasreen
Published: January 2019

This small scale research was conducted to understand whether the duration of six-week internship which has been set by Higher Education Commission Pakistan is enough for interns to fulfill their desired objectives or not. To understand the issue at hand, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 interns who had completed their internship, regarding their views on time period of six-weeks. It was revealed that even though the majority of the interns thought that a six-week time period was not enough for them to achieve their learning objectives, the review of the literature and intern interviews discovered that the internships were not designed effectively and therefore could not deliver the desired results in the specified time.

 Keywords: interns, internships, HEC Pakistan.

 

 
Occupational Stress among Secondary School Heads: A Gender Based Comparative Study
Authors: Hussain Ishtiaq , Jumani Nabi Bux , Suleman Qaiser
Published: January 2019

The purpose of the study was to examine and compare the occupational stress of male and female secondary-school-heads in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. All the male and female secondary school heads working in pubic secondary schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted the population of the study. A total of 402 secondary school heads were selected as sample through multistage sampling technique in which 260 were males and 142 were females. Descriptive and quantitative survey research design was used. To seek the responses from the participants, a standardized tool i.e., “Occupational Stress Index (OSI)” was used. For statistical analysis, proper descriptive statistics i.e., mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics i.e., independent samples t-test were employed through SPSS. The findings revealed that both male and female secondary school heads were found occupationally stressful with respect to role overload, role conflict, strenuous working condition, unreasonable group & political pressure, under participation, and unprofitability. Comparatively, there was no significant difference between the overall occupational stress of male and female secondary school heads. Based on findings, it was recommended that Elementary & Secondary Education Department should have a collaboration with policymakers to develop comprehensive strategies for stress reduction for secondary school heads so that they may perform their duties effectively.

Keywords: comparative study, gender based study, occupational stress, secondary school heads
PERFIL EPIDEMIOLÓGICO DOS CASOS DE SEPSE EM PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA NO PERÍODO DE 2011 A 2016
Authors: Fonseca Marcio Fernandes , Braz Walencio Arruda , Silva Leticia Auxiliadora
Published: February 2019

Sepse é uma disfunção orgânica ameaçadora à vida secundária a uma resposta desregulada do hospedeiro a uma infecção. Considerada um problema de saúde mundial, afeta todas as idades e estão entre as dez maiores causas de óbitos. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, de abordagem quantitativa, cujo objetivo é identificar o perfil epidemiológico dos casos de sepse no município de Porto Velho, Rondônia no período de 2011 a 2016, utilizando fontes secundárias, através do banco de dados do Departamento de Informação do Sistema Único de Saúde (DATASUS) e registradas no Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do SUS (SIH/SUS). No período do estudo foram confirmados 3490 casos de sepse por todas as formas clínicas, com uma média de 290,8 casos/ano. Os resultados apontaram que 48,42% eram neonatos, 23,69% idosos, acima de sessenta anos, 58,40% sexo masculino, e 31,58%, de cor parda. No entanto a maior parte, 64,87%, sem informações quanto à raça. Verificou-se uma maior prevalência de sepse, 208,91/100 mil hab. no ano de 2015, quando comparado ao ano de 2012, 33,65/100 mil hab. Em 2016 observou-se uma taxa de letalidade de 22,6% e a maior ocorrência de óbitos foi registado no Hospital e Pronto Socorro João Paulo II.
Weed biomass and productivity of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L)Moench) as influenced by spacing and pendimethalin-based weed management
Authors: Imoloame Emmanuel , Usman Muinat
Published: January 2019

Field trials were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Kwara
State University, Malete, Nigeria, to determine the effect of plant spacing
and weed control methods on weed infestation, growth and yield of okra
during the 2016 and 2017 cropping seasons. The experiment consisted of
twelve treatments comprising six weed control methods and two plant
spacings. The method of weed control consisted of pre-emergence application
of pendimethalin at 1.0 kg a.i. ha-1, pendimethalin at 2.0 kg a.i. ha-1,
pendimathalin at 1.0 kg a.i. ha-1 + one supplementary hoe weeding (SHW) at 6
weeks after sowing (WAS), two hoe weedings at 3 and 6 weeks after sowing
(WAS), weeding at 4 and 8 weeks after sowing (WAS) and a weedy check. The
plant spacings were 60cm x 30cm and 60cm x 50cm. These treatments were laid
out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with split plot
arrangements and three replications. Weed control and plant spacing
treatments were allocated to the subplots and the main plot respectively.
Results showed that a plant spacing of 60cm x 30cm minimized weed
infestation and resulted in a higher total number of pods/plot and okra
fresh weight, while pendimethalin at 1.0 kg a.i. ha-1 + one supplementary
hoe weeding at 6 WAS minimized weed infestation in the plots, and led to the
highest total number of pods and yield of okra. This combination also
promoted higher economic returns.
Constructing a toolkit to evaluate quality of state and local administrative data
Authors: Seeskin Zachary H. , Ugarte Gabriel , Datta A. Rupa
Published: January 2019

In the United States, state and local agencies administering government assistance programs have in their administrative data a powerful resource for policy analysis to inform evaluation and guide improvement of their programs. Understanding different aspects of their administrative data quality is critical for agencies to conduct such analyses and to improve their data for future use. However, state and local agencies often lack the resources and training for staff to conduct rigorous evaluations of data quality. We describe our efforts in developing tools that can be used to assess data quality as well as the challenges encountered in constructing these tools. The toolkit focuses on critical dimensions of quality for analyzing an administrative dataset, including checks on data accuracy, the completeness of the records, and the comparability of the data over time and among subgroups of interest. State and local administrative databases often include a longitudinal component which our toolkit also aims to exploit to help evaluate data quality. In addition, we incorporate data visualization to draw attention to sets of records or variables that contain outliers or for which quality may be a concern. While we seek to develop general tools for common data quality analyses, most administrative datasets have particularities that can benefit from a customized analysis building on our toolkit.
ELEMEN INTANGIBLE ORGANISASI DAN KINERJA ORGANISASI: KAJIAN EMPIRIS RESOURCE BASED VIEWS PADA ORGANISASI PEMERINTAHAN DAERAH
Authors: M. Irhas Effendi M. Irhas Effendi
Published: February 2019

To realize good governance during the era of autonomy from local government, better performance by the local government is crucially required. In order to achieve better performance, a strategic plan is needed taking into account all available resources. Important resources which gain a little attention in practice and research on public sectors are intangible resources. This research is aimed to examine of the impact of five intangible organization resources elements, independently and interactions among them on organizational performance in public sectors. The data is collected from 82 samples of a local government institution authorities of echelons III in Yogyakarta. Multiple Regression and moderating multiple regression are used to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that all intangible organization elements (managerial capabilities, human capital, internal auditing, labor relations, and organizational culture) have a positive impact on organizational performance. The results examining the interaction among intangible organization elements have a positive impact on organization performance in different dimensions. The findings implicate that intangible organization elements are important to support public organization performance.
THE EFFECT OF NEGATIVE EARNINGS TOWARDS VALUE RELEVANCE OF ACCOUNTING NUMBERS
Authors: Nugraheni B. Linggar Yekti
Published: February 2019

This study investigates the volatility in the value-relevance of earnings and book values of equity over the last 10 years in Indonesia. The study uses statistical association between stock prices and accounting numbers represented by earnings and book values of equity. This study addresses 3 main questions. First, how is the value relevance of the earnings and book value of equity. Second, how is the volatility pattern of value relevance of earnings and book value of equity. Third, how is the effect of negative earnings towards value relevance of the earnings and book value of equity. The sample used in this research are public companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The samples generated during the observation periods are 1860 companies listed in IDX. This study reports five primary findings. First, earnings and book value of equity, jointly and individually, have significant explanatory power for securities prices over the last 10 years. Second, the combined value-relevance of earnings and book values has increased over time. Third, the incremental value-relevance of book value of equity has increased over time while that of earnings has declined. Fourth, for companies which report negative earnings, book value of equity was not evidenced to have greater value relevance compared to earnings. Fifth, the frequencies of negative earnings is associated with the change of value relevance of earnings and book value of equity.
THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP STYLE AND EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY TOWARD ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH ASSOCIATION TO THE EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER POINT OF VIEW
Authors: Amar M. Yunus
Published: February 2019

The objectives of the researces are to observe : (1) The impact of leadership style upon the employees’ productivity; (2). The impact of leadership style and employees’ productivity upon the company’s financial performance; (3). The correlation between financial performance and satisfaction level of each company’s external stakeholder ( the supplier, customers, and activist groupsj.The research is conducted in the companies that operate base metal industries in Sulawesi The methode in use is the census, and the data collection is carried out by using questionares. The collected data is data population, and they are analysed by using statistical methodes, namely : (1) Path Analysis to observe the impact of leadership style upon employees’ productivity and the impact of leadership style plus employees’ productivity upon the company’s financial performance. (2). Product Moment Perason Correlation to observe the correlation between finacial performance and the satisfaction level of of each company’s external stakeholder ( the suppliers, customers, and activist groups). After conducting the tests upon the hypotheses, the researcer indicates that (1) The leadership style has positive impact upon the employees’ productivity. (2). The leadership style together with the employees’ productivity give positive impact upon the company’s financial performance, and (3) The company’s financial performance has positive correlation with the satisfaction level of each company’s external stakeholder (the suppliers, customers, and activist groups )
THE INFLUENCE OF PEOPLE SATISFACTION ON SERVICES ORGANIZATION PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF VILLAGE DISTRICTS IN SOUTH OF TANGERANG
Authors: Surapto Deni
Published: February 2019

A lack of bureaucracy community satisfaction in public service at the level of service and villages was the stigma impression of government apparatus received from the community for urban village. The residents’ satisfaction against public services from village influenced factor by responsiveness, credibility and empathy. Communities are satisfied with the services provided by officials in urban village, in providing services to the community. The method used in this research descriptive explanatory, are outlining and explaining the service, satisfaction toward society. The research survey used 200 respondents from 7 urban villages purposive through sampling methods and the kind of data supporting by primary and secondary data. Secondary data obtained and was gathered from various literature, book, a journal, the thesis and data from the internet that are considered relevant While the primary data was obtained through a method of surveying, namely by giving the research questionnaire in south of Tangerang. Instrument used in the analysis is spss and shem lisrel. Measurement of data done in this research used 1-5 likert scale. The results of this research proves that people feel that the officers being disciplined in providing services (x25), officers will always be in place to provide services (x26), in addition they felt easy to contact officers (x29). Some people feel the counter complaints service in the form of suggestions box just a display there have been no a follow-up (x33). The first hypothesis is: the impact on service satisfaction (accepted; 2.31>1,96). They felt the officers have to work in accordance with discipline time (x34). The target completion of conformity work received after the resident complained (x36) dependability and residents see the officers in (x39) does the work, in addition the officers can work together with colleagues (x40), and also has the initiative in work (x41). But, on the other hand, in carrying out the work, residents still seeing officers has not been fully worked with neat and minutely (x35). From this research, it can be concluded that the performance impact on the satisfaction of (the second hypothesis is accepted; 3,21> & gt; 1,96). The employees of services provided include the urban population and civil registration (Dukcapil) in south of tangerang, the people are satisfied with the services provided by employees urban village.
THE EFFECT OF PRODUCT INNOVATION, ENDORSEMENTS AND REPUTATION RELATION WITH BRAND IMAGE AND BRAND AWARENESS TOWARD AFFIRMATIVE OF PURCHASE DECISION
Authors: Udayana Ida Bagus Nyoman
Published: February 2019

The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of product innovation, endorsements and brand image related to brand awareness and reputation for affirmative purchasing decisions on Solo Medicinal Products Fountain. Data were collected using random sampling. Sample size is 200, and 165 questionnaires were returned. The results showed that product innovation and reputation and a significant positive effect on brand image, reputation and endorsement and significant positive effect on brand awareness, brand image and brand awareness positivelyeffect to purchase intentions, purchase intentions positive and significant effect on the stability of the purchasing decision.Findings: The updates of this research are the research model in terms of purchase intention is then forwarded to the stability variable purchase decision. Usually during this study only stop on purchase intentions on steadiness or stop buying decision but did not begin with the intention ofbuying. Though stability begins with the decision to buy should purchase intention.
THE FACTORS THAT AFFECTING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN BANK
Authors: Dewi Putri Ayu Arista , . Yusuf , Ali Arbia , . Chamariyah
Published: February 2019

The important of strong and healthy banking sector is really needed for economical development continuance in Indonesia which of course begins from districts to central. This condition encourages the parties involved in it to do appraisal on bank financial performance. This research is done to 10 Bank Perkreditan Rakyat in Southeast Sulawesi with the aims for knowing and analyzing the effect of CAR, LDR, BOPO and PPAP on Bank Perkreditan Rakyat financial performace (ROA) in Southeast Sulawesi. This research result shows that the improvement of CAR and BOPO will push the reduction of ROA, meanwhile LDR is not proven able to increase ROA even tended to become the cause of enhancement of ROA. Meanwhile increase of PPAP is proven to boost of ROA.
STORE LOYALTY ON ONLINE STORE CUSTOMERS IN INDONESIA
Authors: Dewi Rossyta , Anandya Dudi
Published: February 2019

Nowadays, online retailing in Indonesia had flourished and estimated to be one of the most prominent foundation to boost Indonesia’s economic growth. Aiming to anticipate the trend, this research is written in order to gain a deeper understanding about the loyalty behavior among online store customers in Indonesia by investigating the influence of store image and perceived value towards online store loyalty. Data in this research were collected from online questioner sent troughout online forum and social media. Structural Equation Modelling method is used here along with software Lisrel 8.80. Past studies found that online store image, perceived utilitarian value and perceived hedonic value positively influences one of several dimensions of loyalty, repurchase intention. This research proves that online store image directly influences perceived utilitarian value, perceived hedonic value and online store loyalty while neither perceived utilitarian value nor perceived hedonic value directly influences online store loyalty. This research also found that ease of use and trustworthiness as the most reliable and influential dimensions in online store image.
ANALISIS PERILAKU KOMPLAIN KONSUMEN PADA KOLOM "REDAKSI YTH" SURAT KABAR KOMPAS PERIODE 1-31 MARET 2004
Authors: Rahayu Siti
Published: February 2019

Every consumers that have problems need a solution, so companies should deliver a valuable product and minimize the problems. Some companies did not realize the importance of customer complain handling to deliver customer satisfaction. This study attemp to describe one of the customer complain "form" which is newspaper public complain to third party. This form of complain has a lot of information for companies, although not all of company notice. This study also shown that consumer complain is the result of accumulative disappointment to the product/company that has not been resolve.
TEST OF FISHER EFFECT IN A CASE OF INDONESIA: FURTHER EVIDENCE
Authors: . Suyanto
Published: February 2019

Studi ini merupakan kelanjutan dari studi tentang efek Fisher yang dilakukan oleh Purwandaya dan Suyanto (2000). Studi ini menggunakan data periode Januari 1991 sampai dengan Mei 2002. Dikarenakan adanya masalah endogeneity dalam model, estimasi OLS menjadi tidak konsisten lagi. Estimator variabel instrument kemudian digunakan untuk mendapatkan estimasi yang konsisten. Hasil estimasi dengan variabel instrument memperlihatkan bahwa koefisien variabel inflasi tidak sama dengan satu. Karena itu, belum bisa disimpulkan bahwa hipotesis Fisher terjadi di Indonesia.
PEMBIAYAAN MURABAHAH DALAM PERBANKAN SYARIAH
Authors: . Nasrulloh
Published: February 2019

Today, Islamic Bank, or better known as Muamalat Bank has been an interesting phenomenon. The Islamic Bank has It's own system, including the financing system. This financing system is known as "Murabahah". This paper describe about murabahah, start from its definition, legal aspect, murabahah mechanism, and law protection mechanism.The Author use example to improve the explanation. At the End the author analyze and summarize this financing system.
BIAYA KUALITAS DAN KOMPQNENNYA PADA BAD AN USAHA PERAIH ISO 9000 DI KAWASAN INDUSTRI SIER DAN PIER
Authors: Subali Stefanus Budy Widjaja , Feliana Yie Ke
Published: February 2019

Quality has become an important competitive dimension for all organization. Recently, -the emphasis on quality has shifted from a source of strategic advantage to a compepetive necessity As the companies implement quality-improvement programs,one of those is. ISO 9000, a need arises to monitor and report on the progress of these programs. Managers r need to know about the quality costs and the component of quality costs. The component of quality costs include prevention, appraisal, internal failure and external failure costs. This article describes how the companies that were awarded ISO 9000 define the quality costs, what items to be included in the each component of quality costs and how the composition of each component of quality activity cost driver is.
ANALISIS PORTOFOLIO SAHAM SYARIAH PADA JAKARTA ISLAMIC INDEKS PADA BURSA EFEK JAKARTA
Authors: . Poerwanto , Sylvanata Heru
Published: February 2019

Commonstock portfolio analysis was important contributing to determine a good investment in the capital market. There was a way to know the optimal expected risk and return of the stock.    The purpose of this research for knowing level of commonstock Beta that listed in Jakarta Islamic Index and for guidance diversification process and find the optimal portfolio for the member of this combination.Based on analysis of commonstock historical data, we obtain 5 stocks with highest beta and above security market line, therefore this stocks place as portfolio member. We combine these five stocks with combination equation and resulting in 26 combinations. By using indifferent curve tools, we obtain 4 efficient portfolios.The result of this study were 4 optimal portfolio, which are: (1) Combination of 2 stocks, UNTR and BRPT, that give 12,72222 return and 19,999994 risk, (2) Combination of  3 stocks, UNTR, BRPT, PTBA, that give 9,3586% return and 12,4609% risk, (3) Combination of 3 stocks SMGR, UNTR, and BRPT that give 3,930% return and 6,325% risk, (4) Combination of 3 stocks, SMGR, AALI, and UNTR, that give 3,930 % return and 6,325% risk.This research can be used as reference for investor or potential investor in syariah stock exchange regarding of less information about stocks in the market today.
KINERJA SAHAM MENGGUNAKAN MEAN-VARIANCE ANALYSIS DALAM SIKLUS PEMULIHAN EKONOMI DI INDONESIA
Authors: Samsul Mohamad
Published: February 2019

This study tried to know the performance difference that result from Treynor model, Sharpe model, Jensen model, and Treynor & Black model during the Indonesia's recovery period. The study takes 331 stock that listed in Jakarta Stock Exchange in last 2004. The data used are montly data of individual stock price index every end of the month from December 2002 till September 2005. The rate of SBI in normal condition was 1% per month used as risk free rate.Mean Variance Analysis used in this study, regarding to the 4 models above. Monthly average return calculated for each stock, then averaging for 33 months. The formula of the 4 models adjusted from mutual fund study to individual stock study. The hypothesis is there is difference of stock performance between Treynor model, Sharpe model, Jensen model, and Treynor and Black model in Indonesia's recovery period.The result shows that Treynor model and Sharpe model gives 148 or 45% stocks have average 3% return, and this is above the market return. Jensen and Treynor and Black model gives 138 or 42% stocks have return above the market. Treynor model and Sharpe model give 225 or 68 % stocks are undervalued, wether the Jensen model and Treynor and Black resulting 169 and 170 or 51% stocks are undervalued. Monthly return rate each stock is 6,1% (Treynor model and Sharpe model) and 7,3% (Jensen and Treynor and Black model). The statistics show that the return from these model are not significantly different (in 5%o error) for all undervalued stocks. But if performance measurement use return base on stock's preferencial in each model, then Jensen model has significant higher return in the same sample (equal or less than 75 sample). The benefit of these 4 model are to make stock's rating and then choose which stocks are the portofolio.
INSENTIF PASAR MODAL UNTUK MANAJEMEN LABA
Authors: Lasdi Lodovicus
Published: February 2019

Regulator and practitioner believe that earning management have pervasive and problematic in nature, while research academics not yet indicated that the earning management have the great influence to reported earning, or warn the investor for the attention to earning management. To obtain the same perception between academician, practitioner and regulator and also answer the question addressed to regulator, hence needed a clearer definition about earning management, and capital market incentive for earning management. Without a clear definition, hence identify the earning management can only conducted hereafter the happening of. Academic researcher better more amount giving its attention at capital market incentive for earning management. The increasing of assessment on stocks market, making sensitive manager progressively by level of company stock price and its relation with the accounting number (profit). As a result, manager has an incentive to manage the profit to maintain and improve the stock valuation.