bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Optimal Banking and Other Financial Business for the Economic Growth of Serbia
Authors: Milojević Nenad 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
The analysis of the banking / financial business impact on economic growth is a topic present in the world economy for centuries. In recent years, this topic has gained on importance in international economic circles. Actuality of the aforementioned impact particularly sparked the global economic crisis. In the focus of this paper is the impact of the level and speed of the financial development, particularly banking, on the economic growth in Serbia. Within the overall financial development, the focus is primarily dedicated to the banking business, which is still highly dominant segment of the financial sector in Serbia. We have conducted an analysis of the most important elements that have marked recent years` banking impact on the economic growth in Serbia. Actual characteristics of the aforementioned impact are also presented. Possible predictions of the banking / financial business movement in the future, as well as its impact on economic growth are presented in the paper. The focus is on determination of the optimal banking business volume for achieving sustainable economic growth in Serbia. The analysis presented in the paper indicate that there is significant potential for moderate and balanced growth of the banking / financial business in the medium term, which could make a significant contribution to the achievement of sustainable economic growth in Serbia, while providing financial stability. However, for the realization of this important and demanding goal, it is necessary to meet a significant number of factors and creation of the adequate conditions at the micro and macro level, essential for achieving the above mentioned aim.
Stress Testing of the Montenegrin Banking System with Aggregated and Bank-Specific Data
Authors: Vuković Sanja 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
There are many different approaches to the process of stress testing and two of them will be investigated in this paper. The first one is a stress test performed on aggregated data i.e. the banking system as a whole. The variable of interest in both exercises is the Loan Loss Provision ratio (hereinafter: the LLP). The main goal of the thesis is to find an answer to the following question: what are the macroeconomic variables that influence LLP the most and how will LLP, as a variable of interest, behave in a situation when all these variables were to experience negative performance at the same time? The resilience of the banking system to such scenario will be tested through the capital adequacy ratio. In order to find out more about the management practices of banks, microlevel data on banks were also used in the analysis. The focus was to see which of the variables are able to explain the LLP ratio for each bank individually and how is this information helpful for possible improvements in the banking sector. The relations between these variables will be able to explain some of the banks’ losses and some of the banks’ practices regarding credit activities. The analysis there will provide for some recommendations for the banks but also for the Central Bank and its way to influence the practices in the banking sector.
Application of nanomaterials in microbial-cell biosensor constructions
Authors: Šefčovičová Jana , Tkac Jan 
Published: June 2014

AbstractMicrobial cell biosensors, where cells are in direct connection with a transducer enabling quantitative and qualitative detection of an analyte, are very promising analytical tools applied mainly for assays in the environmental field, food industry or biomedicine. Microbial cell biosensors are an excellent alternative to conventional analytical methods due to their specificity, rapid detection and low cost of analysis. Nowadays, nanomaterials are often used in the construction of biosensors to improve their sensitivity and stability. In this review, the combination of microbial and other individual cells with different nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, gold nanoparticles, etc.) for the construction of biosensors is described and their applications are provided as well.
An assessment of deep hot-water drilling as a means to undertake direct measurement and sampling of Antarctic subglacial lakes: experience and lessons learned from the Lake Ellsworth field season 2012/13
Authors: Siegert Martin J. , Makinson Keith , Blake David , Mowlem Matt , Ross Neil 
Published: June 2014

AbstractIn the early hours of 25 December 2012, an attempt to explore Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica, using a specially designed hot-water drill, was halted. This UK project, involving several universities, the British Antarctic Survey and the National Oceanography Centre, had been in planning for 10 years. The project developed a full blueprint for subglacial lakes research, involving access to the subglacial environment through deep drilling, direct measurement and sampling of water and sediment by the construction of a probe and sediment corer, and environmental protocols to ensure cleanliness in line with international agreements on stewardship and protection of subglacial systems. Drilling was ceased after the main borehole failed to link with a subsurface cavity of water, built up over ∽40 hours. Without this link, insufficient water was available to continue drilling downwards to the lake, ∽3000 m beneath the surface. On return to the UK, an external review of the programme was undertaken to formally assess the reasons for the fieldwork failure, and to make recommendations on the modifications necessary for success. From this review, the Lake Ellsworth programme formulated a pathway along which a second attempt to explore the lake can be developed. Here details of the Lake Ellsworth field experiment, the circumstances that led to its failure and the corrections required are presented. Hot-water drilling is still regarded as the only feasible scheme for assuring clean access to the subglacial environment. The lessons learned from the Lake Ellsworth experience are substantial, however, and demonstrate that considerable technological and methodological advances are necessary for successful future research on subglacial lakes beneath thick (>2 km) ice.
Characterization of microsatellites in Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Araceae) and cross‐amplification in related species
Authors: Cathebras Chloe , Traore Renan , Malapa Roger , Risterucci Ange‐Marie , Chaïr Hana 
Published: June 2014

• Premise of the study: To investigate the genetic diversity of a root crop, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, and to facilitate germplasm conservation, microsatellite loci were developed and characterized by genotyping 39 accessions from different geographic origins.• Methods and Results: Using a microsatellite‐enriched library approach, 17 polymorphic microsatellite markers were identified and characterized. The number of alleles for each locus ranged from two to six. Observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.00 to 0.97 and from 0.09 to 0.78, respectively. Additionally, cross‐amplification of these microsatellite markers was tested successfully in other species of Xanthosoma and Caladium, with rates varying from 23.5% to 100%.• Conclusions: These results indicate the effectiveness of microsatellite loci developed for the characterization of X. sagittifolium genetic diversity. They are crucial for the future investigation of population dynamics and clonal identification and, therefore, for prioritizing germplasm conservation. They should also enable research on other related species.
Stratégie féministe et révolution
Authors: von Redecker Eva , Heinen Jacqueline , Pfefferkorn Roland 
Published: May 2014

À une époque où peu de choses s’avèrent stables, la théorie critique dispose de très peu de ressources conceptuelles pour parler de changement social radical. Selon Wendy Brown, elle n’a même pas entrepris le travail de deuil nécessaire pour admettre la perte du concept de révolution dans son acception marxiste classique. L’article commence par analyser en quoi une vision des plus étroites et androcentriques des schémas traditionnels de la révolution engendre des scénarios inconsistants sur la transition entre lutte révolutionnaire et utopie projetée. Il montre ensuite que, a contrario , le mot d’ordre du deuxième mouvement des femmes consistant à refuser d’attendre la révolution et de commencer pas à pas le travail relatif à l’utopie constitue une approche plus convaincante du changement — lequel ne doit ni se présenter comme « uniquement » réformiste, ni se limiter à des questions identitaires.
La « Société des rédacteurs » du Mercurio Peruano (1790-1795) ou les premiers pas du journalisme « professionnel »
Authors: Clément Jean-Pierre 
Published: May 2014

S’appuyant sur une structure de type « Société économique d’amis du Pays », la Sociedad Académica de Lima a mis en place une organisation très efficace pour la confection (rédaction, impression et administration) de son organe de presse, le bi-hebdomadaire Mercurio Peruano. Tout particulièrement intéressante est la rédaction de ce journal, depuis le choix des sujets et leur répartition pour traitement entre les membres jusqu’à leur contrôle par des « chefs de service » et leur examen dans de véritables « conseils de rédaction ». Outre la nécessité d’une structure hiérarchisée de l’entreprise, ce système novateur entraîne aussi l’existence d’un nombre élevé d’auteurs, à l’inverse du système en vigueur à l’époque (auteur unique ou tandem, et seul maître à bord). Ces amateurs éclairés ont été les précurseurs qui ont ouvert la voie au journalisme professionnel contemporain.
Parentalité partagée à distance : rôles parentaux et rapports conjugaux face à l’enfermement
Authors: Touraut Caroline 
Published: May 2014

Lorsque survient l’incarcération, l’exercice de la parentalité des hommes détenus et de leur compagne à l’extérieur est bouleversé. Les rôles des mères qui élèvent leur(s) enfant(s) avec un compagnon emprisonné se redéfinissent. Plus largement, l’épreuve, par la place essentielle qu’elle donne aux femmes, n’apparaît-elle pas comme une occasion de faire basculer les rapports genrés dans lesquels elles sont habituellement prises ? En effet, l’analyse de la parentalité enfermée apparait particulièrement propice pour aborder les modes spécifiques de gestion de la distance conjugale et pour appréhender les dimensions genrées de la paternité et de la maternité. À travers ces questionnements, c’est aussi une autre dimension de l’incarcération, un de ses effets encore peu traité que l’article met au jour.
Children as Protectors: The Conditions of Parenthood in a Political Prison in Iran
Authors: Talebi Shahla 
Published: May 2014

Cet article décrit les relations enfants/parents à Evin, l’une des prisons politiques les plus célèbres de la République islamique d'Iran. On propose un bref compte rendu des événements et des facteurs ayant conduit à une répression politique sévère durant les années 1980 et, après la révolution, aux huit années sanglantes du conflit avec l'Irak. Entre 1981 et 1988, arrestations massives, torture systématique, emprisonnements de longue durée et exécutions sommaires ont créé un paysage sombre et violent en Iran, contrairement au bref "Printemps de la liberté" qui avait suivi la révolution de 1979. L’article combine des travaux de recherche et ma propre expérience de prisonnière politique durant plus de huit ans, dans une approche qu’ailleurs j’ai qualifiée d’ethnographie rétrospective ou d’anthropologie de l’après. Mon analyse des formes non-conventionnelles de maternités (ou de rapports « familiaux ») en prison s'appuie sur les histoires des quelques enfants avec lesquels j'ai vécu une partie de mon emprisonnement et de leurs relations avec les adultes, parents, autres détenus et personnel pénitentiaire. Mettant en avant le rôle performatif du langage, je montre non seulement comment la langue, les jeux des enfants – eux-mêmes une forme de langage -, mais aussi le comportement des parents envers leurs enfants et la vie au quotidien telle que nous l'avons vécue, ont tous été influencés par la condition en prison et la dynamique socio-politique de l'époque. J'illustre également le difficile travail requis pour établir une apparence de normalité et construire des liens familiaux dans ces circonstances si particulières. Enfin, en situant une réflexion sur ma propre vie, je montre le travail de mémoire et le retour du passé au «présent», à la fois comme un don et comme une temporalité complexe, capables d'influencer et d’influer sur ma vie présente. Ces réflexions montrent l’inséparable relation entre souvenirs, langues et formes de vie, tels qu’ils voyagent à travers le temps et l'espace.
Kaarel Robert Pusta, d’un ministère à l’autre (1920-1924)
Authors: Le Calloc’h Bernard 
Published: May 2014

Cet article est consacré à une période chaotique de l’histoire estonienne : celle de la naissance de l’État estonien, où le pays est parvenu à échapper à l’emprise de deux grandes puissances européennes, l’Allemagne et la Russie. C’est dans ce contexte qu’émerge la personnalité de Kaarel Robert Pusta, qui assuma la tâche ingrate de faire connaître son petit pays et d’en obtenir la reconnaissance, malgré les doutes de la France, alliée de la Russie, sur une indépendance qui affaiblissait l’empire face à l’Allemagne. L’auteur y examine les relations entre l’Estonie et les Alliés, depuis la déclaration d’indépendance jusqu’au traité de paix de Tartu, qui a permis à l’Estonie d’entrer de plein droit dans le concert des nations, ainsi que les débuts de la diplomatie estonienne.
Does Capital Structure Influences Working Capital Intensity and Growth Opportunity of a Firm: An Evidence From Tanzanian Firms
Authors: Bundala Ntogwa Ng'habi 
Published: May 2014

The study was based on determination of influences of capital structure on the working capital and growth opportunity of the listed companies in Tanzania. The study targeted to meet three objectives. These objectives are to investigate on how Tanzanian listed companies behave in their capital structure, working capital intensity and growth opportunity, to examine the influence of the capital structure on working capital intensity and growth opportunity of Tanzanian listed companies and to examine the potency of working capital (current asset) in advocacy of growth opportunity of Tanzanian listed companies. The study used descriptive study strategy on ten listed companies at Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange as per October, 2012. The documentary analysis and website survey used to collect the secondary data. The multivariate multiples regression model used to analyses data. The findings of the study lay that the listed companies of Tanzania are unleveraged and growing fast and are illiquidity. It is found that there is no significant relation of capital structure, working capital and growth opportunity of Tanzanian listed companies. The potency of current asset to generate sales of companies is averaged at 0.555 Tanzanian shillings per one shilling of sales. It is recommended that companies aiming for growing should adhere to investment opportunity available in their companies and should prefer internal financing to external financing.
Professionalism of the Regional General Elections Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum Daerah or KPUD) and the Regional Elections Monitoring Agency (Badan Pengawas Pemilihan Umum Daerah or Bawaslu Daerah) in Realizing Quality District Head's Elections
Authors: Tjiptabudy Jantje 
Published: May 2014

District head's elections as implementation realization of sovereignty of the people undertaken in democratic system, for sure, shall subject to principles and concept of district head's elections. KPUD and Regional Bawaslu as the district head's elections organizers are obliged to execute professional and quality district head's elections based on the 4 (four) conceptual elements of district head's elections as follows: (1) as a means of sovereignty of the people, (2) it is conducted in a direct, general, free and secret as well as honest and fair manner, (3) it is conducted in Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, and (4) it is based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Implementation of district head's elections, in reality, is full of various violations, especially for the number of votes obtained by foul manner such as vote distension. This condition is obviously seen by the people showing that KPUD and Regional Bawaslu are not capable in performing their duties as the agency of district head's elections. Definitely, it affects quality of district head's elections or legitimation of the elected district head. In fact, lots of factors affect professionalism of KPUD and Regional Bawaslu such as capability of human resources, low alimony rate compared to their responsibility load, and also integrity of KPUD and Regional Bawaslu. Other factor which has escaped attention is morality of the members of KPUD and Regional Bawaslu.
Addendum to “Relationships between Authentic Leadership, Moral Courage, and Ethical and Pro-Social Behaviors”
Authors: Hannah Sean T. , Avolio Bruce J. , Walumbwa Fred O. 
Published: June 2014

ABSTRACT:The authors provide this addendum to the following article to provide corrections to the results reported and further explanation of the structural equation modeling techniques utilized: Sean T. Hannah, Bruce J. Avolio, and Fred O. Walumbwa, “The Relationships between Authentic Leadership, Moral Courage, and Ethical and Pro-Social Behaviors,” Business Ethics Quarterly 21:4 (October 2011): 555–78.
Value Investing: Bridging Theory and Practice
Authors: Lee Charles M. C. 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
Value investing refers to the buying or selling of stocks on the basis of a perceived gap between their current market price and their fundamental value – commonly defined as the present value of the expected future payoffs to shareholders. This style of investing is predicated upon two observations about publicly listed companies and their stock prices: (1) a share of stock is merely a fractional claim on the futures cash flows of an operating business, and that claim is the basis of its long-run value; (2) over shorter horizons, prices can deviate substantially from the long-run value of the stock. Value investors buy stocks that appear to be cheap relative to their intrinsic value and sell (even sell short) stocks that seem expensive.
LLFRP: An Energy Efficient Variant of LLF with Reduced Pre-emptions for Real – Time Systems
Authors: Baid Prashasti , Prashanth S , Raveendran Biju 
Published: May 2014

AbstractEnergy efficiency without performance degradation is a challenge in battery operated real-time systems. One way to achieve this is by optimizing scheduling parameters like preemptions and cache activities. In this work, we present an energy efficient variant of Least Laxity First scheduler – Least Laxity First with Reduced Preemptions – that reduces the number of preemptions in a schedule. We prove that our scheduler offers the same feasibility as LLF. We present extensive analysis through experimental results to show that our variant significantly reduces the number of preemptions. Our results also show that the number of preemptions in the schedule output by this algorithm is close to the minimum possible number. Our analysis addresses the following metrics: preemptions, cache impacts, decision points, response time, response time jitter, latency, time complexity and energy consumption. In this work the proposed algorithm is compared with dynamic priority scheduling algorithms like RM, EDF, nonstrict LLF and strict-LLF. The result shows that the proposed algorithm offers 4.25% of energy saving in comparison with EDF, RM and non-strict LLF and it offers 7% energy saving in comparison with strict-LLF. The result also shows that the proposed algorithm increases the scheduling utilization by 4% in comparison with EDF, RM and non-strict LLF and it increases scheduling utilization by 6% in comparison with strict-LLF.
Temporal and spatial scales of a high‐flux electron disturbance in the cusp region: Cluster observations
Authors: Shi Jiankui , Zhang Ziying , Torkar Klaus , Dunlop Malcolm , Fazakerley Andrew , Cheng Zhengwei , Liu Zhenxing 
Published: May 2014

AbstractUsing the Cluster multispacecraft observations, we analyze a long‐duration field‐aligned high‐flux electron disturbance in the cusp region on 30 September 2001. All four Cluster spacecraft observed the same disturbance in which both the upward and downward electrons are observed and the electron flux was 1 order of magnitude higher than usual in the cusp. The temporal scale of the field‐aligned electron disturbance was at least 50 min. The spatial scale was about 540 km in the direction along the orbit and at least 1800 km in local time extent in the midaltitude cusp region. It was the longest duration and the largest spatial scale of any field‐aligned electron disturbance observed in the polar region up to date, and its observation would not have been possible with a single satellite. Both upward and downward electrons are the main contributors to the field‐aligned currents in the electron disturbance. During this electron disturbance, the solar wind dynamic pressure increased, and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) kept being southward. It is likely that the field‐aligned high‐flux electron disturbance with its long temporal and large spatial scales was caused by high dynamic pressure of the solar wind during a permanently southward IMF. This enables us to learn more about electron disturbances in the cusp and is important to understand the physical mechanism, especially for the solar wind‐magnetosphere‐ionosphere coupling.
Ionospheric response to the geomagnetic storm of 15 May 2005 over midlatitudes in the day and night sectors simultaneously
Authors: Galav Praveen , Rao S. S. , Sharma Shweta , Gordiyenko G. , Pandey Rajesh 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThe ionospheric response to the geomagnetic storm of 15 May 2005 has been studied over midlatitude stations in the dayside and nightside, simultaneously. In the day side the ionospheric response has been studied using the ground‐based GPS and ionosonde measurements from the stations POL2 and Alma‐Ata, respectively. The dayside total electron content (TEC) and foF2 variations are characterized by two well‐separated enhancements. Of which the first enhancement in both the parameters is attributed to the episode of prompt penetration electric field caused by the sudden southward turning of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) Bz around 0600 UT. The second enhancement which was also superposed by wave like modulations has been attributed to the storm‐induced winds. The maximum peak‐to‐peak amplitude of modulation in TEC is found to be 5 TECU (total electron content unit, 1 TECU = 1016 el m−2). The enhanced plasma density observed during the daytime at midlatitudes is found to be locally produced and not transported from the equatorial ionization anomaly region because the time of enhanced plasma density at midlatitude is earlier than that observed at low latitudes. During the storm main phase, the nightside GPS observations from the midlatitude station ALGO (Algonquin Park, Canada) show moderate to large TEC fluctuations and short duration depletions that occur in a narrow latitude zone. These fluctuations and depletions in TEC have been attributed to the combined effect of storm‐induced equatorward movement of the midlatitude ionospheric trough due to the expansion of auroral oval and the storm time‐enhanced density. The maximum amplitude of the TEC depletions is found to be of the order of 20 TECU. Rate of TEC Index is also found to be high with a maximum value of 2.