bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia
Authors: Herkes Ellen , Redden Guy 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the professional chef remains almost exclusively male. Despite its rhetoric of inclusivity, MCA does little to challenge norms of the professional gastronomic field that have devalued women’s cooking while valorising “hard” masculinized culinary cultures led by men.
Postsecular Instruments of Acculturation. Czesław Miłosz’s Works from the Second American Stay
Authors: Jarzyńska Karina 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as a springboard for innovative, creative work and as a tool of self-improvement. Czesław Miłosz’s selected works from his second stay in the United States (1961-1980) are analysed from the postsecular perspective which recognises religion as a full-fledged actor in the process of modern transformations that may broaden the field of artistic choice but remains vulnerable to artistic resemantizations or even profanations (Agamben). Such an analysis allows us to interpret the poem From the Rising of the Sun as a form of reconciliation of Miłosz’s American and Lithuanian experience (as well as of maturity and childhood, centre and periphery, modern and pre-modern cultural formation) through textual practices inspired by his private Liturgy of the Hours. In this light, the translations of the Books of the Bible on which Miłosz worked, his novel The Mountains of Parnassus, as well as his essays from Visions from San Francisco Bay emerge as instruments of shaping the communal identity with the use of pre-existing rituals, which are, nonetheless, also negotiated in the act of writing.
Reinsurance and Performance of the Ceding Companies: The Nigerian Insurance Industry Experience
Authors: Aduloju Sunday Adekunle , Ajemunigbohun Sunday Stephen 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between ceding office gross premium income, underwriting profit and financial stability. The study made use of primary and secondary data. The primary data were obtained from 246 respondents selected from those companies through the use of structured questionnaire. The secondary data obtained from the 2014 and 2015 published financials of the selected ten companies were used to determine the Reinsurance Ceded Ratio (RCR), Return on Asset (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) as well as the Ratio of Reinsurance Recoverables to Policyholders Surplus (RRPHS). A descriptive research design was employed. The sampling technique adopted was purposive in nature. The study population comprises 56 insurance companies in Nigeria. More so, data collected was analysed using correlation analytical method. The results of this study are quite in line with previous studies and show that reinsurance purchase increases significantly the insurers’ premium income. It is also shown that profitability of the firm is sensitive to change in reinsurance utilisation and has a positive relationship with it. It was established in the study that purchasing reinsurance reduces insurers’ insolvency risk by stabilizing loss experience and increasing capacity. Recommendations were made.
Moderating Role of Environmental Settings in Relationship Between Product Innovativeness and Its Performance During the Launch
Authors: Brazauskaitė Indrė , Auruškevičienė Viltė 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe current research depicts the relationship between new product innovativeness and its performance, which was addressed in previous studies; yet the results remain contradictive with little focus on environmental settings. The paper aims to reveal the role of commercial environment towards new product performance, which allows forecasting the performance on the basis of expected settings and exploring the link between new product innovativeness and its performance in a more detailed way. In the study, moderating environmental settings are defined as a set of marketplace characteristics on market level, company commercial characteristics, and a set of sales channel characteristics on retailer’s category level. Research contributes to the following areas: reveals the role of environment towards performance and allows forecasting new product performance on the basis of expected settings.
Assumptions of Customer Knowledge Enablement in the Open Innovation Process
Authors: Jokubauskienė Raminta , Vaitkienė Rimgailė 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In the scientific literature, open innovation is one of the most effective means to innovate and gain a competitive advantage. In practice, there is a variety of open innovation activities, but, nevertheless, customers stand as the cornerstone in this area, since the customers’ knowledge is one of the most important sources of new knowledge and ideas. Evaluating the context where are the interactions of open innovation and customer knowledge enablement, it is necessary to take into account the importance of customer knowledge management. Increasingly it is highlighted that customers’ knowledge management facilitates the creation of innovations. However, it should be an examination of other factors that influence the open innovation, and, at the same time, customers’ knowledge management. This article presents a theoretical model, which reveals the assumptions of open innovation process and the impact on the firm’s performance.
The Influence of It Innovation Mechanisms on Healthcare Project Management Strategies
Authors: Amedzro St-Hilaire Walter , De La Robertie Catherine 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Healthcare projects with apparent productivity gaps require all available IT innovation mechanisms. The objective of this study is to investigate the predictors of the development of IT innovation mechanisms to improving healthcare business. This includes the utilization of the panel data in healthcare projects and the analysis of the relationship between IT innovation mechanisms and operational decision-making. The paper indicates that the implementation of innovative IT technology has a significant positive effect on the healthcare project productivity in Canadian hospitals.
Entrepreneurial Causation vs. Effectuation in a Business Incubation Context: Implications for Recruiting Policy and Management
Authors: Høvig Øystein , Pettersen Inger Beate , Aarstad Jarle 
Published: September 2017

AbstractMany business incubators aim to provide network resources and to stimulate the sharing of ideas, but previous research has shown that limited knowledge exchange takes place between incubated firms. In this paper, we examine if an entrepreneurial approach of causation vs. effectuation is associated with the proclivity to share ideas between firms and the perceived value of such inter-tenant network resources. A causation approach implies that entrepreneurs focus on a predefined goal and then aim to find the means to reach this goal. An effectuation approach implies that entrepreneurs focus on the means at hand, which they aim to materialize into one or more goals that were not necessarily predefined. We carry out a multiple case study of start-ups in a business incubator and find that entrepreneurs taking an effectuation approach have a proclivity to share ideas and they perceive such network resources as having a high value. Entrepreneurs taking a causation approach, on the other hand, have limited proclivity to share ideas with other incubator firms and they perceive such network resources as having a relatively low value. The findings are striking since many incubators implicitly or explicitly tend to recruit firms taking a causation approach by selecting candidates with a rigorous and predefined business plan. We discuss the findings’ implications for incubator recruiting policy and management.
Catalytic performance of Ag, Au and Ag-Au nanoparticles synthesized by lichen extract
Authors: Çıplak Zafer , Gökalp Ceren , Getiren Bengü , Yıldız Atila , Yıldız Nuray 
Published: September 2017

AbstractIn the present study, the green chemistry approach for the biosynthesis of Ag, Au and Ag-Au bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) was applied using lichen extract [Cetraria islandica(L.) Ach.]. The lichen extract acts both as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The monometallic and bimetallic NPs were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The results showed that NPs were successfully synthesized and the prepared structures were generally spherical. The synthesized nanostructures exhibited excellent catalytic activities towards reduction of nitrophenols (4-nitrophenol; 4-NP) to aminophenols (4-aminophenol; 4-AP) with sodium borohydride (NaBH4). It was determined that bimetallic NPs exhibit more effective catalytic activity than monometallic Ag and Au nanostructures. This is the first report on 4-NP reduction with Ag, Au and Au-Ag NP catalysts prepared by lichen extract.
Preparation of 1H-pyrazolo[1,2-b]phthalazine-5,10-diones using ZrO2 nanoparticles as a catalyst under solvent-free conditions
Authors: Piltan Mohammad 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Zirconium oxide nanoparticles are an efficient catalyst for the preparation of 1H-pyrazolo[1,2-b]phthalazine-5,10-diones via a three-component reaction of phthalhydrazide, aromatic aldehydes and malononitrile under solvent-free conditions.
Optimization Models Type Box-Behnken in the Obtaining of Biodiesel from Waste Frying Oil using a Large-acidity Carbonaceous Catalyst
Authors: Medina-Valtierra Jorge , Sánchez-Olmos Luis A. , Carrasco-Marin Francisco , Sánchez-Cárdenas Manuel 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe trans-esterification and esterification of waste vegetable oil mainly under sub-critical temperature of methanol in the presence of sulfonated char were achieved. The carbonaceous materials were analyzed by means of various physical and chemical techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry, temperature programmed desorption and X-ray photoelectrons spectroscopy. The carbon-based large-acidity catalyst showed good chemical and thermal properties and a high performance in the production of methyl esters from waste vegetable oil, which was easily separated from the liquid mixture. A temperature of 210°C, reaction time of 20 min and a catalyst amount of 0.03 g were the optimal experimental conditions for the trans-esterification of the vegetable oil with methanol giving a conversion to triglycerides of 96.5% according to the response surface methodology. The design of experiments type Box-Behnken was successfully applied to study effects of the parameters in the production of biodiesel and it presented optimal conditions for maximum performance with values near to those experimentally found. The catalyst was recovered from the final mixture by filtration and reused without regeneration showing a catalytic activity stable up to 4 or more reaction cycles.
Expression and Activity of Lysozyme in Apis Mellifera Carnica Brood Infested with Varroa Destructor
Authors: Zaobidna Ewa A. , Żółtowska Krystyna , Łopieńska-Biernat Elżbieta 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Varroa destructor is a parasitic mite that attacks the honey bee, and previous studies have suggested that parasitosis caused by this mite is accompanied by immunosuppresion in the host. In this study, the effect of mite infestation on the expression of the lysozyme-1 (lys-1) gene and lysozyme activity in Apis mellifera carnica was determined. The experiment was carried out on the five developmental stages of honey bee workers and drones. Developmental and gender-related differences in gene expression and lysozyme activity were observed in a Varroa destructor-infested brood. The relative expression of the lys-1 gene increased in a infested worker brood and decreased in a drone brood except for P3 pupae. In the final stage of development, the lys-1 gene expression was significantly lower in infested newly emerged workers and drones. Changes in the relative expression of the lys-1 gene in infested individuals was poorly manifested at the level of enzyme activity, whereas at the two final stages of development (P5 and I) there was a positive correlation between relative lys-1 expression and lysozyme activity in infested bees of both genders (r=0.988, r=0.999, respectively). The results of this study indicate that V. destructor influences the lysozyme-linked immune response in bees.
Mitochondrial DNA Characterization of High Royal Jellyproducing Honeybees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in China
Authors: Cao Lian Fei , Zheng Huo Qing , Shu Qi Yan , Hu Fu Liang , Xu Zi Wei 
Published: September 2017

AbstractChina is the largest producer and exporter of royal jelly in the world. The high production of royal jelly in China is mainly attributed to a high royal jelly-producing lineage of honeybees (Apis mellifera) (HRJB). However, few studies have been conducted on the genetic characterization of HRJB. In this study, the mitochondrial DNA intergenic region between cytochrome oxidase I and II (COI-COII) and the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequences (ND2) were determined for 90 HRJB colonies, collected from the regions of China where HRJB originated, and 25 unimproved A. m. ligustica colonies from China. COI-COII sequence analysis revealed two mitotypes (C1 and C2d) in HRJB colonies and one mitotype (C1) in unimproved A. m. ligustica colonies. The main mitotype (C1) in HRJB accounted for 93% of the colonies. Based on ND2 sequences, four and two mitotypes were found in HRJB and unimproved A. m. ligustica colonies, respectively. Sequence alignment showed that nucleotides in three positions of the ND2 sequence were different between the main mitotype of HRJB and that of unimproved A. m. ligustica. Our study suggested that HRJB was bred from A. m. ligustica and possibly had genetic characteristics different from unimproved A. m. ligustica.
ФункциональНо-Коммуникативная Типология Амбивалентности Как Прагматической Стратегии Иронии
Authors: Гнатюк Любомира 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The research of ambivalence is an actual problem of modern linguistics because of active promotion of Strategic Ambiguity as one of the major pragmatic categories in order to understand the complexity of the speaker’s communicative intentions. The investigation of implicitness as the core of the Strategic Ambiguity is the current research issue because of the growth of interest in the modern linguistics to the effectiveness of interpersonal interaction. The purpose of investigation is to determine the qualifying and classifying features of strategic ambivalence in order to demonstrate much significance of it in the interpersonal interactions in comparison with the true ambivalence. The main task of the article is to analyse different types of strategic ambivalence in the ironic utterances as well as the mechanisms of optimization of interpersonal interaction on the factual material of English language and propose a model for determining the strategically ambiguous communication. New prospects of the proposed investigation deal with a number of national and cultural peculiarities of implicit discourse on the descriptive material of related and non-related languages in order to increase efficiency of cross-cultural interpersonal communication.
Nowcasting: Identifying German Cyclical Turning Points
Authors: Kovacs Kevin , Boulier Bryan , Stekler Herman 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Historically, forecasters have failed to predict cyclical turning points and the forecasting record in this regard has not improved. This suggests that we should focus on what should be an easier task, recognizing recessions as they occur. We present a new approach that will enable us to determine in real-time when there is a significant deviation from an economy’s dynamic growth path. This approach uses a CUSUM-like methodology and requires us to construct an index,that we call the Economic News Index, from real-time data that shows how the economy is functioning. We apply this approach to German data to nowcast the recessions that began in 2008 and 2012.
Money and the Quality of Life
Authors: Luburić Radoica , Fabris Nikola 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This paper deals with the influence of money on the quality of life, in the light of the major importance it has on all aspects of our lives. Bearing in mind that money is an everyday, inseperable and unavoidable companion, with all its advantages and power, as well as its numerous challenges, risks and temptations, it inevitably affects all segments of the quality of life. The relation between money and quality of life, therefore, can be viewed not only theoretically, but also at a practical level. In the times we live in, which have been labelled the digital age, with ever increasing change, the key questions which arise are whether and to what extent do people really manage their money, and to what extent does money manage people and their lives, do people own money or does money own people? Although it sounds paradoxical, money causes people financial worries, whether they have it or whether they do not and so can significantly influence their quality of life. Standard macro-economic indicators, traditionally used as measures of the well-being of society, do not always give a real and complete picture of the quality of life, as this encompasses the way of life, as well as the standard of living. The quality of life includes the whole spectrum of factors, not only economic, but also many others which lead to satisfaction, both material and spiritual. These can include financial and material living conditions, employment, health, education, leisure time and social activities, economic and physical safety, human rights and freedoms, protection of the environment and overall life satisfaction. This paper analyses the direct and indirect connections between effective and efficient money management and the aforementioned factors which are decisive in forming the quality of life.
Does Concentration Matter for Bank Stability? Evidence from the Albanian Banking Sector
Authors: Shijaku Gerti 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Motivated by the debate on the concentration-stability nexus, this paper studies the impact of bank concentration on the likelihood of a country suffering systemic bank fragility. For this reason, we followed a new approach using on-site bank balance sheet information to construct our proxy that represents each bank stability condition and uses a variety of internal and external factors to estimate a balance panel dynamic two-step General Method of Moments (GMM) approach for the period 2008 - 2015. First, results provide supportive evidence consistent with the concentration-fragility view. Second, macroeconomic variables seem to have a significant effect on bank stability, which is not found for the sovereignty primary risk. By contrast, the bank-specific variables have also a significant effect on bank stability conditions. Finally, non-systemic banks are found to be more sensitive to macroeconomic condition and market concentration, while the better capitalised banks are less sensitive to fragility at the expense of lower operation efficiency.
Institutional Design, Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and Implications for the Financial Sector in the UK
Authors: Nasir Muhammad Ali , Yagob Milton , Solimanc Alaa , Wud Junjie 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThis study has analysed the implications of institutional design of macroeconomic policy making institutions for the macroeconomic policy interaction and financial sector in the United Kingdom. Employing a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model and using monthly data from January 1985 to August 2008 we found that the changes in institutional arrangement and design of policy making authorities appeared to be a major contributing factor in dynamics of association between policy coordination/combination and financial sector. It was also found that the independence of the Bank of England (BoE) and withdrawal from the Exchange Rate Mechanism led to the increase in macroeconomic policy maker’s ability to coordinate and restore financial stability. The results imply that although institutional autonomy in the form of instrument independence (monetary policy decisions) could bring financial stability, there is a strong necessity for coordination, even in Post-MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) and the BoE independence.
Revival of Legacy of Tooke and Gibson: Further Evidence and Implications for Monetary Policy
Authors: Atiq-ur-Rehman  
Published: September 2017

AbstractTraditional economics assumes that interest rate effects inflation by changing the aggregate demand (Barth and Ramay, 2002). On the other hand, many economists in recent years have explored the cost side effects of monetary transmission and found very strong evidences in favour of cost channel. One of such studies is that by Rehman (2015) which explores the relationship between interest rate and inflation for a large data set comprising various measures of interest rate and inflation from countries around the globe. Rehman (2015) computes the correlation between two variables and he finds that the correlation between two variables is either positive or insignificant. Rehman argues that the finding is quite robust and does not change with a change in measure of interest rate and/or inflation. If the correlation between interest rate and inflation is positive then using interest rate to control inflation would be counterproductive. Thus it will endorse the warning of Wright Patman, a US congressman and Chairman of Joint Economic Committee who argues that “senseless of trying to fight inflation by raising interest rate, throwing the gasoline on fire to put out the flames would be as logical”. Findings of Rehman (2015) are based on correlation coefficients. The correlation without having control variables could only provide a clue and could be subject to serious missing variable bias. However, Rehman (2015) argues that thousands of similar clues from the entire globe collectively become very strong evidence. However, given the importance of the topic, it is necessary to do a more careful analysis and summarize the relationship between two variables which is not subject to missing variable bias. Therefore, this paper applies more sophisticated econometric techniques including Granger Causality and Static Long Run Solution to find the impact of interest rate and inflation.
Some Innovative Types of Fuzzy Ideals in AG-Groupoids
Authors: Khan Faiz Muhammad , Khan Hidayat Ullah , Mukhtar Safyan , Khan Asghar , Sarmin Nor Haniza 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
AG-groupoids (non-associative structure) are basic structures in Flocks theory. This theory mainly focuses on distance optimization, motion replication, and leadership maintenance with a wide range of applications in physics and biology. In this paper, we define some new types of fuzzy ideals of AG-groupoids called (α, β)-fuzzy bi-ideals, (α, β)-fuzzy interior ideals, (β̄, ᾱ)-fuzzy bi-ideals, and (β̄, ᾱ)-fuzzy interior ideals, where α, β∈{∈γ, qδ, ∈γ∨qδ, ∈γ∧qδ} and ᾱ, β̄∈{⋶γ, q̄δ, ⋶γ∨q̄δ, ⋶γ∧q̄δ}, with α≠∈γ∧qδ and β̄≠⋶γ∧q̄δ. An important milestone achieved by this paper is providing the connection between classical algebraic structures (ordinary bi-ideals, interior ideals) and new types of fuzzy algebraic structures [(∈γ, ∈γ∨qδ)-fuzzy bi-ideals, (∈γ, ∈γ∨qδ)-fuzzy interior ideals]. Special attention is given to (∈γ, ∈γ∨qδ)-fuzzy bi-ideals and (⋶γ, ⋶γ∨q̄δ) -fuzzy bi-ideals.