cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Board diversity, audit committee characteristics and audit quality: The moderating role of control-ownership wedge
Creators: name: Mustafa, Aree Saeed
name: Che-Ahmad, Ayoib
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
name: Mustafa, Aree Saeed
name: Che-Ahmad, Ayoib
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Audit quality
subject: board diversity
subject: audit committee
subject: control-ownership wedge
subject: Turkey

description: This study illustrates how control-ownership wedge impacts the monitoring role of the corporate board through the quality of audit services in Turkey. Turkey has made essential amendments in the field of external audit in order to enhance the quality of the financial report and integrate its own capital market with that of the EU. It would be of interest to examine the influence of these changes on clients' demand for high quality audit. The agency theory is integrated with the resource dependence theory to show that boards possess distinct incentives and ability to demand high quality audit to monitor management activities. Logistic regression and feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) were used for regression estimations. The results indicate that board demographics, cognitive and structural diversity of board of directors, audit committee characteristics and audit quality are complementary and control-ownership wedge weakens the relationship between them which is an unfavorable outcome for minority shareholders. Thus, this study proposes that regulators should increase law enforcement to enhance good corporate governance in Turkey to accommodate the unique features of wedge firms and provide a protected environment for minority shareholders.
The incompressible Navier-Stokes for the nonlinear discrete velocity models
Creators: name: Bellouquid, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish the incompressible Navier--Stokes limit for the discrete velocity model of the Boltzmann equation in any dimension of the physical space, for densities which remain in a suitable small neighborhood of the global Maxwellian. Appropriately scaled families solutions of discrete Boltzmann equation are shown to have fluctuations that locally in time converge strongly to a limit governed by a solution of Incompressible Navier--Stokes provided that the initial fluctuation is smooth, and converges to appropriate initial data. As applications of our results, we study the Carleman model and the one-dimensional Broadwell model.
description: arxiv version is already official
1 Million Turtles: empowering communities to save Australian freshwater turtles
Creators: name: Van Dyke, James
name: Thompson, Michael B
name: Bower, Deborah S
name: Santoro, Anthony
name: Connell, Marilyn J
name: McKnight, Donald T
name: Clarke, Sylvia
name: Ortac, Geetha
name: Cirocco, Olly
name: Spencer, Ricky-John
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3109
subject: Zoology

description: ABSTRACT: Australian freshwater turtle populations have declined substantially, with consequent losses to aquatic ecosystem functions. A leading hypothesis is that turtles have declined through lost recruitment caused by high nest predation by invasive foxes. The ‘fox hypothesis’ is supported by experiments showing that nest predation rates exceed 95% in many regions. Furthermore, population surveys have repeatedly found absences of juvenile turtles, and headstarting experiments have successfully replaced those juveniles in some species. We are currently leading a nationwide citizen science program, ‘1 Million Turtles’ (1millionturtles.com), to engage local communities to protect turtles from threats like nest predation using a suite of novel approaches. Our key innovation is to leverage community passion and interest for turtles to create positive conservation impacts via a nationwide support network. We provide a data collection tool and framework (TurtleSAT) and self-guided training in conservation methods. We assist with guidance for gaining licencing and permission, and applying for grants. We are evaluating our approach through both the impacts on turtle populations as well as through surveys of our engaged citizen scientists. Ultimately, we aim to create a science-supported, national grassroots conservation model where community champions can lead their own evidence-based approaches to help wildlife.
Les sciences du sol dans l'enseignement supérieur en Europe - État des lieux et recommandations
Creators: name: Villa Solis, Ana
name: Fahlbeck, Erik
name: Barron, Jennie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Des approches d'enseignement et d'apprentissage plus actives et le passage au numérique sont nécessaires pour résoudre les problèmes complexes de développement durable. La demande d'expertise en science des sols et en gestion des terres augmente.
Σχέσεις των συντρόφων μεταξύ τους και με τους τρίτους από το σύμφωνο συμβίωσης του Ν. 4356/2015
Creators: name: Κολοκοτρώνη, Αρετή Πολυχρόνη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Σύμφωνο συμβίωσης
Έννομες συνέπειες
Σύντροφοι
Civil partnership
Legal consequences
Partners

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας ήταν η παρουσίαση και ανάλυση του θεσμού του συμφώνου συμβίωσης του ν. 4356/2015 και πιο συγκεκριμένα τα δικαιώματα και οι υποχρεώσεις που δημιουργούνται από την σύναψη του συμφώνου. Αρχικώς, παρουσιάστηκαν ορισμένες αναγκαίες επισημάνσεις για την εισαγωγή στον θεσμό. Στη συνέχεια αναλύσαμε πως διαμορφώνονται οι σχέσεις μεταξύ των συντρόφων, τα δικαιώματα και οι υποχρεώσεις που δημιουργούνται μεταξύ τους από την σύναψη. Ακόμη, αναφερθήκαμε αναλυτικά στις σχέσεις που δημιουργούνται ανάμεσα στους συντρόφους και στα τέκνα αυτών. Εξετάσαμε τις σχέσεις των συντρόφων με το Δημόσιο και τους τρίτους, όπως αυτές διαμορφώνονται από την σύναψη του συμφώνου συμβίωσης. Τέλος, παρουσιάστηκαν κάποιες επιμέρους ειδικές έννομες συνέπειες που απορρέουν από την κατάρτιση του συμφώνου συμβίωσης. Η ανάλυση των παραπάνω θεμάτων επικεντρώθηκε στις νέες ρυθμίσεις που εισήχθησαν με τον ν. 4356/2015 σε μια αντιπαραβολή με τις ρυθμίσεις του προγενέστερου ν. 3719/2008 αλλά και των διατάξεων του Α.Κ. που αναφέρονται στους συζύγους, με σκοπό να αναδειχθούν οι διαφορές του συμφώνου σε σχέση με τον γάμο.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the presentation and analysis of the registered civil partnership of law 4356/2015 and more specifically the rights and obligations created by the conclusion of the agreement. Initially, some necessary remarks were presented for the introduction in the institution of the civil partnership. Then, we analyzed how the relations between the partners are formed, the rights and the obligations that are created between them from the conclusion. We also talked in detail about the relationships that are created between the partners and their children. We examined the relations of the partners with the State and the third parties, as they are formed by the entrance into a civil partnership. Finally, some specific legal consequences arising from a registered partnership were presented. The analysis of the above issues focused on the new regulations introduced by Law 4356/2015 in a comparison with the regulations of the previous Law 3719/2008 and the provisions of the Civil Code referring to the married couples, in order to highlight the differences between registered partnership and marriage.
Validity of the handheld dynamometer compared to the Biodex dynamometer in measuring peak hip extension strength
Creators: name: Keep, H.
name: Berson, A.
name: Luu, L.
name: Ivanova, T. D.
name: Garland, S. J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Background: Muscle imbalances at the hip have been linked to a variety of musculoskeletal conditions. To assess these imbalances, a valid, reliable, and cost-effective means of measuring strength is needed. Handheld dynamometers (HHD) are used to obtain objective measures of muscle strength, however, to date there is limited information on the validity of the HHD in measuring peak hip extension strength. Objectives: To establish the minimal detectable change (MDC) for hip extension, to evaluate the validity of the HHD in measuring peak hip extension torque compared to the Biodex dynamometer and to determine the validity of taking single- versus multi-trial measures. Materials & Methods: A convenience sample of 20 healthy adults was recruited. Peak hip extension strength measures were collected in a prone standing position for the HHD and Biodex. The supine position on the Biodex was used also as a comparison. Analysis: MDC was assessed using the standard error of measure. Linear regression analysis was used to compare HHD, Biodex Prone and Biodex Supine peak torque measures for concurrent validity and Pearson product moment correlation coefficients (r) were used to determine the validity of first trial versus three trial average measures. Results: The MDC was 14.8Nm for the HHD, 25.6Nm for Biodex Prone and 41.5Nm for Biodex Supine. The r values were 0.37 (p≤0.05) for HHD vs. Biodex Prone Standing, 0.51 (p≤0.0001) for HHD vs. Biodex Supine and 0.55 (p≤0.0001) for Biodex Prone Standing vs. Supine. High correlations (r = 0.94, p < 0.0001) were observed between trial one compared to three trial averages. Conclusions: The MDC for hip extension strength is smallest using the HHD . The HHD in the prone standing position has moderate concurrent validity in measuring peak hip extension strength in healthy adults aged 20-53. Single trial measures with the HHD have high correlations with three trial average values and therefore may be clinically appropriate.
Brand loyalty for domestic and global Brands: A case of Thai fast-moving consumer goods
Creators: name: Sampaothong, Sonthaya
name: Sampaothong, Sonthaya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Сonsumer loyalty
subject: consumer-based brand equity
subject: domestic brands
subject: international brands

description: The purpose of this research was to study potential differences in the formation of brand loyalty for domestic and global brands in Thai consumer groups through brand equity, consumer satisfaction, and country of origin effects. The study compared two well-known brands of a consumer product (shower gel), one of which presented as a local brand and the other of which had global branding. (Both brands are in fact manufactured by the same company and have similar functional and quality characteristics.) A convenience sample of Thai consumers (n = 400) was selected from shopping centers in and around Bangkok for a consumer survey about brand image and perceptions of the two brands. Factors in the formation of brand loyalty were then explored using structural equation modelling. The analysis showed that the effects of brand awareness and brand associations were similar for domestic and global brands. However, domestic brands had higher effects from customer satisfaction than perceived quality, while this relationship was reversed for global brands. The implication of this study is that domestic and global brands may be evaluated differently by consumers in some contexts, even if they are functional substitutes for each other. Consumers placed more emphasis on perceived quality than the brand experience for global brands. This could create problems for domestic brand marketers and those developing new domestic brands. However, this study only included a single product category. These results cannot be generalized across all consumer categories.
Moderating effect of competitive strategies on the relation between financial leverage and firm performance: Evidence from Jordan
Creators: name: Al-Rdaydeh, Mahmoud
name: Almansour, Ammar Yaser
name: Al-Mari, Mohammad Ahmad
name: Al-Rdaydeh, Mahmoud
name: Almansour, Ammar Yaser
name: Al-Mari, Mohammad Ahmad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Financial leverage
subject: firm performance
subject: competitive strategies
subject: industrial firms
subject: Jordan

description: This study examined the moderating role of competitive strategy in the relationship between financial leverage and performance of firms based on a sample of industrial firms in Jordan between 2007 and 2016. The interaction between competitive strategy and financial leverage was revealed to influence the effects of financial leverage towards the performance of firms in terms of return on assets (accounting-based measure) and market-to-book ratio (market-based measure). Conclusively, obtained results are in line with the notion that firms that employ cost leadership strategy experience tax advantages and increased efficiency through debt financing and/or debt covenants. This study extends the overall understanding on the effects of financial leverage towards performance of firms and how this relationship is moderated by competitive strategy among firms in an emerging market such as Jordan.
Dark Energy and the Nature of the Graviton
Creators: name: Zee, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Does the existence of dark energy suggest that there is more to the graviton than we think we know?
description: 4 pages
Mass hierarchy from the flavor symmetry in supersymmetric multi-Higgs doublet model
Creators: name: Hinata, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the supersymmetric standard model with multiple Higgs doublets with gauged $\mathrm{U}(1)_X$ flavor symmetry. When the flavor symmetry is broken by the vacuum expectation value of flavon, the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ symmetry $M_3$ called matter triality remains and it prohibits the baryon number violation up to dimension-5 operators. We study the contribution of the extra-Higgs fields to the anomaly cancellation of flavor symmetry and analyze the mass spectra including the multiple generations of Higgs fields as well as quarks and leptons. We show a series of $\mathrm{U}(1)_X$ charge assignments, which reproduce the observed masses and mixing angles of quark and lepton. We also find that, with such realistic charge assignments, the extra-Higgs fields obtain masses around the intermediate scale and decouple from the electroweak physics because of the holomorphy of superpotential.
description: 23 pages
Additional file 1 of Reducing prescribing of benzodiazepines in older adults: a comparison of four physician-focused interventions by a medical regulatory authority
Creators: name: Ashworth, Nigel
name: Kain, Nicole
name: Wiebe, Delaney
name: Hernandez-Ceron, Nancy
name: Jess, Ed
name: Mazurek, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Calciphylaxis epidemiology, risk factors, treatment and survival among French chronic kidney disease patients: a case-control study
Creators: name: Gaisne, Raphaël
name: Péré, Morgane
name: Menoyo, Victorio
name: Hourmant, Maryvonne
name: Larmet-Burgeot, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Differential diagnosis idendified among eligible patients. Table S2. Univariate logistic regression analysis of risk factors of CUA in dialysis cases compared to matched dialysis controls. Table S3. Univariate conditional logistic regression analysis of survival predictors among Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy cases.
Tetracritical behavior in strongly interacting theories
Creators: name: Sannino, Francesco
name: Tuominen, Kimmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a tetracritical fixed point to naturally occur in strongly interacting theories. As a fundamental example we analyze the temperature--quark chemical potential phase diagram of QCD with fermions in the adjoint representation of the gauge group (i.e. adjoint QCD). Here we show that such a non trivial multicritical point exists and is due to the interplay between the spontaneous breaking of a global U(1) symmetry and the center group symmetry associated to confinement. Our results demonstrate that taking confinement into account is essential for understanding the critical behavior as well as the full structure of the phase diagram of adjoint QCD. This is in contrast to ordinary QCD where the center group symmetry associated to confinement is explicitly broken when the quarks are part of the theory.
description: RevTex, 5 figures. Final version to appear in PRD
Exploiting solar visible-range observations by inversion techniques: from flows in the solar subsurface to a flaring atmosphere
Creators: name: Švanda, Michal
name: Jurčák, Jan
name: Korda, David
name: Kašparová, Jana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the Sun in the visible spectral range belong to standard measurements obtained by instruments both on the ground and in the space. Nowadays, both nearly continuous full-disc observations with medium resolution and dedicated campaigns of high spatial, spectral and/or temporal resolution constitute a holy grail for studies that can capture (both) the long- and short-term changes in the dynamics and energetics of the solar atmosphere. Observations of photospheric spectral lines allow us to estimate not only the intensity at small regions, but also various derived data products, such as the Doppler velocity and/or the components of the magnetic field vector. We show that these measurements contain not only direct information about the dynamics of solar plasmas at the surface of the Sun but also imprints of regions below and above it. Here, we discuss two examples: First, the local time-distance helioseismology as a tool for plasma dynamic diagnostics in the near subsurface and second, the determination of the solar atmosphere structure during flares. The methodology in both cases involves the technique of inverse modelling.
description: 29 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in the book "Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics: From Space Debris to Cosmology" (eds Kabath, Jones and Skarka; publisher Springer Nature) funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant "Per Aspera Ad Astra Simul" 2017-1-CZ01-KA203-035562
Additional file 2 of Aligning implementation and user-centered design strategies to enhance the impact of health services: results from a concept mapping study
Creators: name: Dopp, Alex
name: Parisi, Kathryn
name: Munson, Sean
name: Lyon, Aaron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Alternate cluster map for clusters dominated by user-centered design (UCD) strategies.
Additional file 1 of A paradigmatic autistic phenotype associated with loss of PCDH11Y and NLGN4Y genes
Creators: name: Nardello, Rosaria
name: Antona, Vincenzo
name: Mangano, Giuseppe Donato
name: Salpietro, Vincenzo
name: Mangano, Salvatore
name: Fontana, Antonina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Detailed information about genetic tests.
Additional file 1 of Improving the validity, relevance and feasibility of the continuum of care framework for maternal health in South Africa: a thematic analysis of expertsâ€™ perspectives
Creators: name: Mamothena Mothupi
name: Knight, Lucia
name: Hanani Tabana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide.
LSND Constraints on the Higgs Portal
Creators: name: Foroughi-Abari, Saeid
name: Ritz, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-luminosity fixed target experiments provide impressive sensitivity to new light weakly coupled degrees of freedom. We revisit the minimal case of a scalar singlet $S$ coupled to the Standard Model through the Higgs portal, that decays visibly to leptons for scalar masses below the di-pion threshold. The dataset from the LSND experiment is found to impose the leading constraints within two mass windows between $m_S \sim 100$ and 350 MeV. In the process, we analyze a number of scalar production channels in the target, finding that proton bremsstrahlung provides the dominant channel at LSND beam energies.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; v2: references and KOTO contour added
The influence of quantum field fluctuations on chaotic dynamics of Yang--Mills system
Creators: name: Kuvshinov, V. I.
name: Kuzmin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On example of the model field system we demonstrate that quantum fluctuations of non-abelian gauge fields leading to radiative corrections to Higgs potential and spontaneous symmetry breaking can generate order region in phase space of inherently chaotic classical field system. We demonstrate on the example of another model field system that quantum fluctuations do not influence on the chaotic dynamics of non-abelian Yang--Mills fields if the ratio of bare coupling constants of Yang--Mills and Higgs fields is larger then some critical value. This critical value is estimated.
description: arxiv version is already official
Economic impact of the change in tax rate on small enterprises of manufacturing and construction sectors: Evidence from Russia 2006-2014
Creators: name: Tumanyants, Karen
name: Tumanyants, Karen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Small business
subject: entrepreneurship
subject: tax rate
subject: construction
subject: manufacturing
subject: fiscal stimulus
subject: fixed effects model
subject: the simplified system of taxation
subject: the object of "net income"
subject: employment
subject: revenue
subject: turnover

description: The hypothesis about positive influence of lower tax rate was tested on the Russian small businesses of construction and manufacturing sectors. The period from 2006 to 2014 includes the three-year gap, during which the net income tax rate was the same for all Russian regions, and the six-year interval of regionally differentiated tax rates. Quantitative estimates of the consequences of tax change without time lag, with time lags 1 and 2 year were made on the basis of double logarithmic regressions with fixed effects. Positive effect of lower tax rate was documented. The number of enterprises was the indicator, which was influenced most. A regional tax rate decrease by 1 per cent results in an increase of the number of small enterprises by 0.1-0.2%. This effect becomes evident in the first year of regional tax rate change and remains on the same level during the following two years. 1% decrease in tax rate led to 0.1% increase in the turnover of the company. Tax stimulus led to an increase of employment in manufacturing industry (the coefficient of elasticity is 0.1), while the impact on employment in construction sector was not identified. There is a potential for expanding tax revenues to the Russian budget system by increasing the taxation base with the help of the positive effect from tax rate reduction.
The interaction between a superconducting vortex and an out-of-plane magnetized ferromagnetic disk: influence of the magnet geometry
Creators: name: Milosevic, M. V.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between a superconducting vortex in a type II superconducting film (SC) and a ferromagnet (FM) with out-of-plane magnetization is investigated theoretically within the London approximation. The dependence of the interaction energy on the FM-vortex distance, film thickness and different geometries of the magnetic structures: disk, annulus(ring), square and triangle are calculated. Analytic expressions and vectorplots of the current induced in the SC due to the presence of the FM are presented. For a FM disk with a cavity, we show that different local minima for the vortex position are possible, enabling the system to be suitable to act as a qubit. For FMs with sharp edges, like e.g. for squares and triangles, the vortex prefers to enter its equilibrium position along the corners of the magnet.
description: Preprint, 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Internal factors of bank profitability in the republic of Serbia
Internal factors of bank profitability in the republic of Serbia
Creators: name: Domanovic, Violeta
name: Todorovic, Violeta
name: Savovic, Sladjana
name: Domanovic, Violeta
name: Todorovic, Violeta
name: Savovic, Sladjana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Internal factors of profitability
subject: external factors of profitability
subject: banks
subject: transition economies

description: For adequate profitability management, it is important to identify all the factors that lead to its rise or fall, as well as to determine the intensity of correlation between relevant factors and profitability. This is to take timely and adequate measures to eliminate deviations arising from the expected profitability and improve it in the future period. The research subject is bank profitability in the Republic of Serbia in the period 2012-2015. The research objective is to outline the possible factors of bank profitability, with particular reference to internal factors of banking sector profitability in the Republic of Serbia. Research results show a high degree of correlation between the ROA and ROE profitability ratios, both statically and dynamically; dynamics of profitability ratios is in inverse correlation with capital adequacy ratio; there is a link between bank size and profitability and a link between the change of bank ownership and profitability, but it does not necessarily mean that foreign banks are more profitable than domestic banks.
Genetic Gain and Inbreeding in Different Simulated Genomic Selection Schemes for Grain Yield and Oil Content in Safflower
Creators: name: Zhao, Huanhuan
name: Khansefid, Majid
name: Lin, Zibei
name: Hayden, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production
classificationCode: 3008
subject: Horticultural production
classificationCode: 300105
subject: Genetically modified field crops and pasture
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics

description: Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a multipurpose minor crop consumed by developed and developing nations around the world with limited research funding and genetic resources. Genomic selection (GS) is an effective modern breeding tool that can help to fast-track the genetic diversity preserved in genebank collections to facilitate rapid and efficient germplasm improvement and variety development. In the present study, we simulated four GS strategies to compare genetic gains and inbreeding during breeding cycles in a safflower recurrent selection breeding program targeting grain yield (GY) and seed oil content (OL). We observed positive genetic gains over cycles in all four GS strategies, where the first cycle delivered the largest genetic gain. Single-trait GS strategies had the greatest gain for the target trait but had very limited genetic improvement for the other trait. Simultaneous selection for GY and OL via indices indicated higher gains for both traits than crossing between the two single-trait independent culling strategies. The multi-trait GS strategy with mating relationship control (GS_GY + OL + Rel) resulted in a lower inbreeding coefficeint but a similar gain compared to that of the GS_GY + OL (without inbreeding control) strategy after a few cycles. Our findings lay the foundation for future safflower GS breeding.
Additional file 1 of From novice to expert: methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills to improve healthcare delivery
Creators: name: Ritchie, Mona J.
name: Parker, Louise E.
name: Kirchner, JoAnn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1:. Skills transfer techniques and processes identified in mentoring, coaching, and cognitive apprenticeship literature. Description: This file contains a table of the skills transfer techniques and processes found in mentoring, coaching, and cognitive apprenticeship literature which informed the development of the qualitative code list applied in the study.
Additional file 2 of Change in dietary inflammatory index score is associated with control of long-term rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in a Japanese cohort: the TOMORROW study
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Yoshinari
name: Nitin Shivappa
name: Sugioka, Yuko
name: Tada, Masahiro
name: Okano, Tadashi
name: Mamoto, Kenji
name: Inui, Kentaro
name: Habu, Daiki
name: Hebert, James R.
name: Koike, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2.
Inflationary effects of fiscal and monetary policies in Indonesia
Creators: name: Sriyana, Jaka
name: Sriyana, Jaka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Inflation
subject: fiscal
subject: monetary
subject: shock
subject: exchange rate

description: This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal and monetary policies on inflation rate in Indonesia. This research uses the error correction model for estimating the empirical model of inflation rate for annual data 1970-2017. The results present the significant effects of fiscal and monetary variables on the inflation rate. These findings reveal the inflationary effects of fiscal and monetary policies in the country. This research also finds the impact of output and exchange rate on inflation rate. Therefore, this paper supports the theory of demand-pull inflation as well as the proposition of imported inflation. The other uniqueness of this research is the inclusion of shock variables in the empirical model. This study asserts the significant role of inflation shock and unanticipated exchange rate on the domestic price level. It implies that domestic inflation is closely related to the international financial sector.
Unified equations of state for cold non-accreting neutron stars with Brussels-Montreal functionals. II. Pasta phases in semi-classical approximation
Creators: name: Pearson, J. M.
name: Chamel, N.
name: Potekhin, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize our earlier work on neutron stars (arXiv:1903.04981), which assumed spherical Wigner-Seitz cells in the inner crust, to admit the possibility of pasta phases, i.e., non-spherical cell shapes. Full fourth-order extended Thomas-Fermi calculations using the density functional BSk24 are performed for cylindrical and plate-like cells. Unlike in our spherical-cell calculations, we do not include shell and pairing corrections, but there are grounds for expecting these corrections for pasta to be significantly smaller. It is therefore meaningful to compare the ETF pasta results with the full spherical-cell results, i.e., with shell and pairing corrections included. However, in view of the many previous studies in which shell and pairing corrections were omitted entirely, it is of interest to compare our pasta results with the ETF part of the corresponding spherical calculations. Making this latter comparison we find that as the density increases the cell shapes pass through the usual sequence sphere $\to$ cylinder $\to$ plate before the transition to the homogeneous core. The filling fractions found at the phase transitions are in close agreement with expectations based on the liquid-drop model. On the other hand, when we compare with the full spherical-cell results, we find the sequence to be sphere $\to$ cylinder $\to$ sphere $\to$ cylinder $\to$ plate. In neither case do any "inverted", i.e., bubble-like, configurations appear. We provide accurate fitting formulas to all our essential numerical results for each of the three phases, designed especially for the density range where the nonspherical shapes are expected, which enable one to capture not only the general behavior of the fitted functions, but also the differences between them in different phases.
description: 16 pages, 14 tables, 8 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. C
Outsider vs insider: Does firm governance matter?
Creators: name: Absullahi, Yahya Uthman
name: Ishak, Rokiah
name: Sawandi, Norfaiezah
name: Absullahi, Yahya Uthman
name: Ishak, Rokiah
name: Sawandi, Norfaiezah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Blockholder
subject: CEO selection
subject: performance
subject: gender diversity
subject: religiosity

description: As CEO turnover occurs, the company may select an insider or outsider as a successor. This study attempts to ascertain whether firm performance, female directors, board religiosity and blockholder ownership influence the decision to appoint an internal or external candidate. Results from logistic regression analysis on 72 succession events over a five-year period (2011 to 2015) reveal that firms which are controlled by blockholders and those with females on their boards tend to select an outsider as the successor. Meanwhile, firms that have Muslims on their boards are more likely to select insiders as successors. This study implies that poor firm performance does not necessarily lead to outside CEO selection choice. On the overall, the findings indicate that block holder ownership and gender diversity in the boardroom matter in the Nigerian corporate landscape.
Breather lattice and its stabilization for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation
Creators: name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Khare, Avinash
name: Saxena, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an exact solution for the breather lattice solution of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation. Numerical simulation of the breather lattice demonstrates its instability due to the breather-breather interaction. However, such multi-breather structures can be stabilized through the concurrent application of ac driving and viscous damping terms.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. E (in press)
Simulations for Teacher Transitions to Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Australian Schools
Creators: name: Sacrez, Aime
name: Schutt, Stefan
name: Murphy, Steven
name: Miles-Keogh, Rebecca
name: Staples, Adam
name: O'Connor, Andrea
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: No description supplied
Global 21-cm Signal Extraction from Foreground and Instrumental Effects II: Efficient and Self-Consistent Technique for Constraining Nonlinear Signal Models
Creators: name: Rapetti, David
name: Tauscher, Keith
name: Mirocha, Jordan
name: Burns, Jack O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the completion of a data analysis pipeline that self-consistently separates global 21-cm signals from large systematics using a pattern recognition technique. In the first paper of this series, we obtain optimal basis vectors from signal and foreground training sets to linearly fit both components with the minimal number of terms that best extracts the signal given its overlap with the foreground. In this second paper, we utilize the spectral constraints derived in the first paper to calculate the full posterior probability distribution of any signal parameter space of choice. The spectral fit provides the starting point for a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) engine that samples the signal without traversing the foreground parameter space. At each MCMC step, we marginalize over the weights of all linear foreground modes and suppress those with unimportant variations by applying priors gleaned from the training set. This method drastically reduces the number of MCMC parameters, augmenting the efficiency of exploration, circumvents the need for selecting a minimal number of foreground modes, and allows the complexity of the foreground model to be greatly increased to simultaneously describe many observed spectra without requiring extra MCMC parameters. Using two nonlinear signal models, one based on EDGES observations and the other on phenomenological frequencies and temperatures of theoretically expected extrema, we demonstrate the success of this methodology by recovering the input parameters from multiple randomly simulated signals at low radio frequencies (10-200 MHz), while rigorously accounting for realistically modeled beam-weighted foregrounds.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to ApJ. Code available at https://bitbucket.org/ktausch/pylinex
Planting seeds : a journey of returning to holism within adult learning
Creators: name: Kneeland, Dayna
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This paper explores my process of integrating my spirituality and commitment towards living holistically within my practices of teaching, learning, and writing. The focus of this paper was inspired through a process of recognizing shifts in spiritual growth that were deeply impacting my educational experiences. These experiences moved me to explore the notions of holism and spirituality within adult learning through my personal understanding of awareness, acceptance, and interconnectivity with self, others, and the world. There is increasing awareness in the field of adult education surrounding the importance of addressing the spiritual domain and a holistic approach to learning. This paper examines diverse bodies of literature and explores holistic process as a means to contribute to these conversations. This research is rooted in the qualitative methodology of poetic inquiry. Through this paper, I reflect my story and learning process through the medium of concrete and visual poetry, utilizing shape, image, and metaphor as a means to deepen my understanding of a holistic approach to learning. In sharing my process of creating concrete and visual poems, or what I term “seed prayers”, I share my experiences of spiritual growth within the spheres of teaching, learning, and writing, and my journey of engaging in research as contemplative practice, holistic learning process, and an act of prayer.
Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors With Integrated Ohmic Contacts and High-k Gate Dielectrics
Creators: name: Javey, Ali
name: Guo, Jing
name: Farmer, Damon B.
name: Wang, Qian
name: Wang, Dunwei
name: Gordon, Roy G.
name: Lundstrom, Mark
name: Dai, Hongjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High performance enhancement mode semiconducting carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) are obtained by combining ohmic metal-tube contacts, high dielectric constant HfO2 films as gate insulators, and electrostatically doped nanotube segments as source/drain electrodes. The combination of these elements affords high ON currents, subthreshold swings of ~ 70-80 mV/decade, and allows for low OFF currents and suppressed ambipolar conduction. The doped source and drain approach resembles that of MOSFETs and can impart excellent OFF states to nanotube FETs under aggressive vertical scaling. This presents an important advantage over devices with metal source/drain, or devices commonly referred to as Schottky barrier FETs.
Socialization: An important factor of redenomination success in Indonesia
Creators: name: Prabawani, Bulan
name: Musfirowati, Ita Hanika
name: Riandhita, Eri Werdani
name: Prabawani, Bulan
name: Musfirowati, Ita Hanika
name: Riandhita, Eri Werdani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Redenomination
subject: socialization
subject: geographical
subject: demographical
subject: psychographic

description: Redenomination discourse has become a concern, again, in line with the instructions of the Indonesian President to the Finance Minister to re-socialize the program to the society. Socialization is important given the Indonesian society is geographical, demographical, and psychographic heterogeneous. The heterogeneous society is potential to have a low understanding level of what and how redenomination would be applied, while the ignorance would trigger rush and hyperinflation. Hence, a research is needed to acknowledge the people understanding about redenomination. This is a door knocking survey which involved 600 respondents in Semarang, Kudus, and Banjarnegara as representatives of Indonesian society with diverse backgrounds. The data were processed using Cramer's V Test and Crosstab. The results show that Indonesians' understanding of redenomination is low, especially the people living far from the government centers. In addition, educational factors and occupations are the main factors that determine the level of understanding on redenomination. There is an indication that the higher the education, the higher the public understanding of redenomination. Similarly, people with the Teachers/Lecturers profession, working in the formal sector, and have managerial positions, have a better understanding of redenomination, than people who are not working or working in the informal sector.
China's Grain Industry : Situations and Prospects
Creators: name: Choi, Seikyun
name: Choi, Seikyun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The objectives of this paper are to review the situation and prospects of Chinese grain industry and to assess the effects of China's WTO affiliation on Korean grain industry. There exist various views on whether China can attain self-sufficiency of grain after joining the WTO. However, there exists a common view on increasing unstability in the world grain market due to the fall in grain stocks in China. There will be a little direct effect of China's WTO affiliation on Korean grain industry in the short run. Grain import from China will remain stable until China's agriculture experiences major structural change due to the market opening, e.g. resources move from grain to horticulture etc. Rice import from China will increase even in the short run.
Will the subprocesses $ρ(770,1450)^0\to K^+K^-$ contribute large branching fractions for $B^\pm \to π^\pm K^+K^-$ decays?
Creators: name: Wang, Wen-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the quasi-two-body decays $B^+\toπ^+ρ(770,1450)^0 \toπ^+ K^+K^-$ in the perturbative QCD approach. The results in this work do not support that large branching fractions contributed by the resonances $ρ(770,1450)^0$ in the $B^\pm \to π^\pm K^+K^-$ decays. The virtual contribution for $K^+K^-$ from the tail of the resonance $ρ(770)^0$ which has been ignored in the experimental studies is about $1.5$ times of the $ρ(1450)^0 \to K^+K^-$ contribution, with the predicted branching fractions ${\mathcal B}_v=(1.31\pm0.27)\times10^{-7}$ and ${\mathcal B}=(8.96\pm2.61)\times10^{-8}$, respectively, for these two subprocesses in the $B^\pm \to π^\pm K^+K^-$ decays. The absence of $ρ(770)^0\to K^+K^-$ for the decay amplitude of a three-body hadronic $B$ decay involving charged kaon pair could probably result in a larger proportion for the contribution from the resonance $ρ(1450)^0$ in the experimental analysis.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D (Rapid Communication)
Additional file 1 of The cost-effectiveness of Cochlear implants in Swedish adults
Creators: name: Mutsa Gumbie
name: Olin, Emma
name: Parkinson, Bonny
name: Bowman, Ross
name: Cutler, Henry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Resource use and unit costs
Additional file 1 of Aligning implementation and user-centered design strategies to enhance the impact of health services: results from a concept mapping study
Creators: name: Dopp, Alex
name: Parisi, Kathryn
name: Munson, Sean
name: Lyon, Aaron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Reporting guidelinesÂ checklist for this study.