bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
PENGARUH DANA PIHAK KETIGA, TINGKAT BAGI HASIL DAN NON PERFORMING FINANCING TERHADAP VOLUME DAN PORSI PEMBIAYAAN BERBASIS BAGI HASIL PADA PERBANKAN SYARIAH DI INDONESIA
Authors: Annisa Lintang Nurul , Yaya Rizal 
Published: February 2017

This study aims to examine the impact of the third-party funds (DPK), profit sharing rate and non-performing financing (NPF) of the volume and financing portion of profit sharing based on Islamic banking. The sample of this study is seven Islamic banks with the purpose of research object are quarterly financial statements from June 2010 until September 201. Methods of data analysis are using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that, from the aspect of volume, DPK variable, profit sharing rate and NPF last period has a significant impact on the profit-sharing based on financing volume for the subsequent period. In the proportion aspect, it is found that the only variable level of revenue sharing finance portfolio of last period that significantly influences the results-based financing portion for the next period.
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh dana pihak ketiga (DPK), tingkat bagi hasil dan non-performing financing (NPF) terhadap volume dan porsi pembiayaan berbasis bagi hasil pada perbankan syariah. Sampel yang digunakan adalah tujuh bank umum syariah dengan objek penelitian laporan keuangan triwulan dari Juni 2010 hingga September 2013.Metode analisis data menggunakan analisis regresi linear berganda.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa, dari aspek volume, variabel DPK, tingkat bagi hasil dan NPF periode lalu berpengaruh signifikan terhadap volume pembiayaan berbasis bagi hasil periode berikutnya.Pada aspek proporsi ditemukan bahwa hanya variable tingkat bagi hasil penyaluran pembiayaan periode lalu yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap porsi pembiayaan berbasis bagi hasil periode berikutnya.
DOES MICROFINANCE MODEL DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MICROFINANCE INTERVENTION IN ENHANCING MICROENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE? EVIDENCE FROM BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA
Authors: Hawariyuni Weni , Kassim Salina Hj 
Published: February 2017

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of different microfinance model in enhancing the performance of microenterprises in terms of income, fixed assets, and household expenditures. By focusing on the case of Bank Rakyat Indonesia, one of the most successful commercial microfinance providers in the world, two types of microfinance products, namely KUPEDES and KUR are being compared. The KUPEDES is original product of BRI Unit, while the KUR is a micro-product subsidized by the Indonesian government. Based on the experience of BRI Unit in Medan city, Indonesia, we assess the impact of microfinance intervention on 400 clients. The findings demonstrated that KUPEDES as original microproduct is more successful compared to KUR product in enhancing the performance of microenterprise through income, fixed assets, and household expenditures as successful indicators.
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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi keefektifan beragam model pendanaan mikro dalam meningkatkan performa usaha kecil dari segi pemasukan, aset tetap, dan belanja rumah tangga. Dengan fokus pada kasus Bank Rakyat Indonesia, salah satu pemberi dana mikro paling berhasil di dunia, kajian ini membandingkan dua macam produk pendanaan mikro, yaitu KUPEDES dan KUR. KUPEDES adalah produk original BRI sementara KUR adalah sebuah produk mikro yang disubsisdi oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Berdasarkan pengalaman BRI cabang Medan, Indonesia, penulis menilai dampak campur tangan pendanaan mikro terhadap 400 orang klien. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa KUPEDES sebagai produk mikro original dinilai lebih berhasil dibandingkan dengan KUR dalam meningkatkan performa usaha kecil dengan indikator kesuksesan: pemasukan, asset tetap, dan belanja rumah tangga.
Auditor Reverse-Merger Expertise: Evidence from Chinese Reverse-Merger Companies
Authors: Mao Juan , Yin Qin Jennifer 
Published: February 2017

SUMMARY
This study investigates if hiring auditors with Chinese reverse-merger expertise affected 182 Chinese companies that executed reverse mergers with U.S. shell companies from 2003 to 2011 to become U.S. publicly traded companies (Chinese reverse-merger companies, or CRM companies). We find that CRM companies that employ CRM-expert auditors pay higher audit fee premiums, and are more likely to up-list to national exchanges, when they are compared to CRM companies with non-CRM-expert auditors. Additional analyses suggest that clients of CRM experts also are more likely to file annual financial reports on time, but CRM-expert auditors are not associated with fewer misstatements in financial reporting or continued trading on national exchanges. This suggests that CRM-specialist auditors help clients navigate regulatory requirements for up-listing, but they do not achieve improved financial reporting quality.
Standard Galactic Field RR Lyrae. I. Optical to Mid-infrared Phased Photometry
Authors: Monson Andrew J. , Beaton Rachael L. , Scowcroft Victoria , Freedman Wendy L. , Madore Barry F. , Rich Jeffrey A. , Seibert Mark , Kollmeier Juna A. , Clementini Gisella 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
We present a multi-wavelength compilation of new and previously published photometry for 55 Galactic field RR Lyrae variables. Individual studies, spanning a time baseline of up to 30 years, are self-consistently phased to produce light curves in 10 photometric bands covering the wavelength range from 0.4 to 4.5 microns. Data smoothing via the GLOESS technique is described and applied to generate high-fidelity light curves, from which mean magnitudes, amplitudes, rise times, and times of minimum and maximum light are derived. 60,000 observations were acquired using the new robotic Three-hundred MilliMeter Telescope (TMMT), which was first deployed at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA, and is now permanently installed and operating at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. We provide a full description of the TMMT hardware, software, and data reduction pipeline. Archival photometry contributed approximately 31,000 observations. Photometric data are given in the standard Johnson UBV, Kron–Cousins

, 2MASS JHK, and Spitzer [3.6] and [4.5] bandpasses.
Measurements of Solar Differential Rotation and Meridional Circulation from Tracking of Photospheric Magnetic Features
Authors: A. Lamb Derek 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
Long-lived rotational and meridional flows are important ingredients of the solar cycle. Magnetic field images have typically been used to measure these flows on the solar surface by cross-correlating thin longitudinal strips or square patches across sufficiently long time gaps. Here, I use 1 month of SDO/HMI line-of-sight magnetic field observations, combined with the Southwest Automatic Magnetic Identification Suite magnetic feature-tracking code to measure the motion of individual features in these magnetograms. By controlling for perturbations due to short-lived flows and due to false motions from feature interactions, I effectively isolate the long-lived flows traced by the magnetic features. This allows me to produce high-resolution (2° bins) differential rotation measurements with well-characterized variances and covariances of the fit parameters. I find a sidereal rotational profile of (14.296 ± 0.006) + (−1.847 ± 0.056)sin2
b + (−2.615 ± 0.093) sin4
b, with units of deg day−1, and a large covariance σ

BC

2 = −4.87 × 10−3(deg day−1)2. I also produce measurements of the much weaker meridional flow that are broadly consistent with previous results. These measurements exhibit a peak flow of 16.7 ± 0.6 m s−1 at latitude b = 45° but are insufficiently characterized at higher latitudes to ascertain whether the chosen functional form

is appropriate. This work demonstrates that measuring the motions of individual features in photospheric magnetograms can produce high-precision results in relatively short time spans, and suggests that high-resolution non-longitudinally averaged photospheric velocity residual measurements could be produced to compare with coronal results and to provide other diagnostics of the solar dynamo.
More than Mounts the Eye: Coleridge, Byron, De Quincey
Authors: Porée Marc 
Published: February 2017

Le premier pan de cet article est consacré à une lecture de "Hymn Before Sun-rise, in the vale of Chamouni" (1802), de S. T. Coleridge, poème composé non pas d’après nature, comme tant d’autres paysages de montagnes romantiques, mais sur le Scafell, montagne anglaise de la région des Lacs. Gêné par la disproportion trop voyante qui existait entre ses sentiments exaltés et "nos humbles montagnes", Coleridge reniait ces dernières et leur préférait la recréation imaginaire du Mont Blanc sublime. Thomas De Quincey fait le cheminement inverse dans Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (1838-1840), lorsqu’il affirme que ces "humbles montagnes", peuplées de montagnards humbles mais d’une grande force morale, bien qu’ayant la préférence de Wordsworth, méritent toute l’attention critique possible.Les deux parties devraient converger autour de la question suivante: pourquoi les romantiques de la première génération ont-ils dû de façon répétée repousser les accusations de modération et d’esprit de clocher, quand il n’était que trop évident de voir que le rang éminent de leurs productions dépassait de loin la prétendue "humilité" de leur cadre indigène ?
Kingdom Come by Ballard: The Stricken City
Authors: Terrien Nicole 
Published: February 2017

Que votre règne arrive de J. G. Ballard continue la tradition de la dystopie mise en place par Huxley puis Orwell. Le schéma de la quête d’un héros perdu dans un paysage urbain sert à faire parcourir au lecteur un itinéraire initiatique où détails réalistes et transformations littéraires soulignent l’émergence d’une nouvelle culture, dans laquelle l’individu perd ses repères. Saturé de références à l’histoire et à la littérature des années trente, le texte transforme la perception immédiate du réel et se pose en espace de réflexion sur les débats refusés par les instances politiques officielles. L’esthétique de la violence ne définit pas seulement l’ordre politique dénoncé, mais caractérise aussi le mode opératoire du roman qui, à travers les mises en scènes de moments disjoints et le choix d’un vocabulaire décalé, oblige le lecteur à s’interroger sur l’espace dans lequel il vit. Tel un microscope, le roman donne à voir l’espace de la banlieue comme un gigantesque "incubateur" de nouveaux pathogènes, observés à dessein par les pouvoirs politiques qui se croient à l’abri de la contagion. La multiplication des voix couvre le silence des masses agissantes : la dénonciation politique est rendue effective par la constante adéquation entre fond et forme qui donne à ce roman la force des grands textes.
Benang by Kim Scott: from Divergence to Convergence?
Authors: Selles Colette 
Published: February 2017

Dans Benang, Kim Scott met en scène Harley, son protagoniste blanc de peau mais d’origine aborigène, dans sa tentative de se positionner par rapport à son double héritage. Le roman retrace la reconstruction d’une continuité avec la culture aborigène, en même temps qu’une déconstruction de la politique raciste caractérisée par la violation des droits des autochtones, par l’élimination des populations aborigènes, notamment par leur assimilation biologique et culturelle dans la société australienne blanche. Les mesures d’absorption sont traitées avec inventivité: ainsi, le processus d’élévation sociale des Aborigènes est évoqué par des images de dérive et de lévitation. La fin du roman offre un signe d’espoir pour l’avenir : un espoir de convergence entre Australiens aborigènes et non aborigènes, dans un avenir qui se démarque d’un passé d’oppression et de souffrance.
Marge’s Private Conflict in The Simpsons : A Linguistic Analysis
Authors: Virdis Daniela Francesca 
Published: February 2017

L’identité féminine de Marge Simpson, un des personnages principaux de la série télévisée d’animation américaine Les Simpson, est construite sur un conflit privé : elle souffre de l’opposition entre deux situations simultanées mais incompatibles, c’est-à-dire entre son désir d’incarner une femme au foyer, épouse et mère idéale d’un côté, et de l’autre la nature et le comportement bizarres de son mari, de ses enfants et de ses voisins. Dans cet article, j’analyse l’épisode pilote (1989) de la série télévisée, en particulier la scène où Marge écrit une lettre de vœux pour Noël aux amis de la famille, et où son conflit privé est le plus remarquable ; mon étude se fonde sur les cadres théoriques et les méthodologies de la linguistique féministe et des études féministes sur les médias. Bien que la construction linguistique d’une famille modèle que Marge propose dans le texte de sa lettre soit démentie au niveau visuel et au niveau du discours dans la scène, son autoreprésentation linguistique comme un personnage féminin traditionnel n’est pas complètement niée par les signaux paralinguistiques et non linguistiques dans la même scène. En effet, bien qu’ils soient stéréotypiques, et bien qu’ils soient aussi parodiés dans la série télévisée, les traits de caractère de Marge contribuent à représenter la femme non pas comme le chef d’une famille parfaite, mais comme un personnage féminin positif et constructif.
Nevada’s Non-Anglo European Immigrants And Their Interpreters In Contemporary American Fiction
Authors: Rio David 
Published: February 2017

Cet article étudie, dans le contexte de l’état du Nevada, l’importance grandissante des immigrants d’origine non anglo-européenne à l’intérieur de la fiction américaine contemporaine : il faut y lire une conscience accrue de la condition multiculturelle de l’Ouest. En effet, la plupart des œuvres de fiction récentes situées dans le Nevada décrivent avec succès les formes hybrides interculturelles et multilingues qu’adopte le nouvel Ouest américain, tel qu’il apparaît spécifiquement dans les romans et les nouvelles écrits par des auteurs d’origine ethnique. Nous nous attacherons particulièrement aux écrivains américains d’origine basque qui sont les principaux acteurs dans la remarquable explosion des fictions ethniques au Nevada au cours des soixante dernières années. Nous montrerons que Robert Laxalt, Monique Urza et Frank Bergon complexifient les notions traditionnelles d’altérité, de centre et de marginalité dans la littérature de l’Ouest américain.
Validación de un cuestionario sobre hábitos de trabajo y aprendizaje para futuros profesionales: Explorar los Entornos personales de Aprendizaje
Authors: Prendes-Espinosa Maria Paz , Castañeda-Quintero Linda , Solano-Fernández Isabel María , Roig-Vila Rosabel , Aguiar-Perera Mª Victoria , Serrano-Sánchez José Luis 
Published: February 2017

Este artículo describe el proceso completo de validación del instrumento de recogida de información del proyecto CAPPLE. La validación del instrumento –un cuestionario online- pretende garantizar la fiabilidad, validez, pertinencia y la funcionalidad del proceso de recogida. Se ha optado por un método de validación basado en tres procedimientos sucesivos y complementarios: 1) un juicio de expertos realizado por 8 profesionales en tres rondas consecutivas; 2) una ronda de entrevistas cognitivas a 24 sujetos con 10 ítems cruciales; y 3) una prueba piloto con una muestra invitada de 400 sujetos, de los que 224 se consideran muestra productora de datos. Tras la realización de los tres procedimientos se ha conseguido un instrumento conformado por cuatro dimensiones básicas (autopercepción, gestión de la información, gestión del proceso de aprendizaje y comunicación) y que resulta de gran utilidad en el estudio de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje de los estudiantes de Educación Superior.
Orthogonal superimposed training design for doubly selective channel estimation using basis expansion models
Authors: Dou Gaoqi , He Xianwen , Deng Ren , Li Lihua , Gao Jun 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we consider channel estimation for single‐carrier block transmission over doubly selective fading channel, where basis expansion models are used to describe the time‐varying channel. The affine precoding model is used as the transmission strategy, wherein the training sequence is added on the top of the precoded data prior to transmission. By enforcing a special form of orthogonality between training sequence and precoded matrix, we propose orthogonal superimposed training design for doubly selective channel that makes channel estimation decouple from symbol detection, and then the affine precoding model based on orthogonal polyphase sequence set is designed under the orthogonal conditions. To further improve the estimation performance, we exploited a joint iterative approach is used, where the detected symbols, to enhance the estimation performance. Simulations results show that the proposed scheme can yield better detection performance than the data‐dependent superimposed training and can be competitive with time‐multiplexed training scheme with higher bandwidth efficiency.
Technical and clinical validation of the Allergen BioCube® for timothy grass
Authors: Angjeli Endri , Gomes Paul , Lane Keith J. , Stein Linda , Abelson Mark B. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIntroductionField studies for allergic rhinitis (AR) commonly have inconsistent allergen concentrations and subject exposure patterns due to varying environmental conditions and subject behaviors. A technical and clinical validation study was conducted for the Allergen BioCube® using timothy grass to confirm uniform allergen concentration and clinically relevant subject symptom responses.MethodsAllergen concentrations were verified by laser particle counts. Subjects (N = 14) with positive skin test reactions and no symptoms at screening received four 3‐h timothy grass exposures in the BioCube over consecutive days. Subjects evaluated nasal itching, sneezing, rhinorrhea, and nasal congestion while in the BioCube; Total Nasal Symptom Score (TNSS) was computed. Peak Nasal Inspiratory Flow (PNIF), Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR), sIgE blood tests, and Nasal Inflammation Score (NIS) were assessed. A correlation analysis was conducted for mean sIgE, skin test, and TNSS.ResultsUniform timothy grass concentrations were achieved in the BioCube, both spatially and temporally, at all subject positions. Mean TNSS increased substantially from pre‐exposure levels (0.36 ± 0.74 to 1.86 ± 2.14) to maximums of 7.07 ± 2.76 at 1.5 h and 6.71 ± 2.70 at 3 h BioCube exposure. Twelve (86%) subjects had TNSS increases ≥6 units. PNIF decreased 12–24% from baseline at 3‐h BioCube exposure. NIS increased (baseline = 0) to 3.7 (maximum score = 4). A low/moderate correlation (r = 0.485) occurred between mean sIgE blood levels and mean skin tests; neither sIgE or skin tests correlated with mean TNSS. However, subjects with high skin test scores or positive blood IgE tended to also have higher TNSS.ConclusionsThe Allergen BioCube achieved technical and clinical validation for uniform timothy grass concentration and clinically meaningful AR sign and symptom responses. The Allergen BioCube can be used to assess the efficacy of therapies for reduction of AR signs and symptoms resulting from grass exposure.
Behaviour of bentazon as influenced by water and tillage management in rice‐growing conditions
Authors: López‐Piñeiro Antonio , Peña David , Albarrán Ángel , Sánchez‐Llerena Javier , Rato‐Nunes José Manuel , Rozas María Ángeles 
Published: February 2017

AbstractBentazon is a widely used herbicide in rice agroecosystems that has commonly been found in water resources. To assess how tillage and water regimes affect sorption/desorption, dissipation and leaching of bentazon in Mediterranean rice‐growing conditions, field experiments were carried out using tillage and flooding (TF), tillage and sprinkler irrigation (TS), no‐tillage and sprinkler irrigation (NTS) and long‐term no‐tillage and sprinkler irrigation (NTS7). After 3 years, the Kd values in TS were 2.3, 1.6 and 1.7 times lower than the values in NTS7, NTS and TF respectively. Greater sorption of bentazon was related to higher contents in total organic carbon and, although to a lesser extent, in humic acids and dissolved organic carbon. The persistence of bentazon was significantly greater under anaerobic (half‐life DT50 = 94.1–135 days) than under aerobic (DT50 = 42.4–91.3 days) incubation conditions for all management regimes. Leaching losses of bentazon were reduced from 78 and 74% in TS and TF to 61 and 62% in NTS7 and NTS respectively. The mid‐ and long‐term implementation of sprinkler irrigation in combination with no‐tillage could be considered a management system that is effective at reducing water contamination by bentazon in Mediterranean rice‐growing agroecosystems. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
Postoperative mortality in inflammatory bowel disease patients
Authors: Ropelato Renato Vismara , Kotze Paulo Gustavo , Froehner Junior Ilário , Dadan Danieli D. , Miranda Eron Fábio 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
Introduction Since the 1960s, mortality in Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis patients had a significant decrease due to advances in medical and surgical therapy. An important proportion of these patients are submitted to surgical procedures during their disease course, with postoperative mortality between 4 and 10%.
Methods 157 inflammatory bowel disease patients submitted to surgical therapy were retrospectively identified and allocated in 2 groups (Crohn's and colitis). Deaths were individually discriminated in detail.
Results 281 surgical procedures were performed. In the colitis group, 43 operations were performed in 24 patients; in the abdominal Crohn's subgroup, 127 procedures in 90 patients and in the perineal Crohn's subgroup, 115 in 64 patients, respectively. Nine postoperative deaths were observed (3 in the colitis and 6 in the Crohn's groups). Overall postoperative mortality was 5.7% (4.5% for Crohn's; 6.6% in abdominal Crohn's and 12.5% for Colitis). Most of deaths were related to emergency procedures and previous use of corticosteroids. The cause of death in all patients was sepsis.
Conclusions Overall postoperative mortality in inflammatory bowel disease was 5.7%, and it was attributed to the severity of the cases referred.
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Agriculture and Food Security
Authors: Verschuuren Jonathan 
Published: February 2017

In the coming few decades, the world is facing three related problems.First, agriculture contributes to climate change to a considerable extent. In its Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC's Working Group III concludes that the AFOLU sector (agriculture, forestry and other land use) is responsible for just under a quarter (∼10 – 12 GtCO2eq/yr) of anthropogenic GHG emissions. Usually, a distinction is made between non-CO2 emissions, in particular methane (NH4) emitted by livestock and rice cultivation, and nitrous oxide (N2O) caused by the use of synthetic fertilizers and the application of manure on soils and pasture. Methane and Nitrous oxide have 25 times and 300 times stronger impact on the climate than CO2 respectively. CO2 emissions from agriculture are mainly caused by deforestation and peatland drainage. Emissions from agriculture have been rising on a yearly basis since 1990, although with important regional differences (they went down in Europe and up in Asia).