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Analysing the Determinants of Total Risk in Basel III Transition Era: Evidence from Indian Public and Private Sector Banks
Year: 2018

Banking sector in India has implemented Basel norms since 1998. To comply with Basel norms, Banks in India had to undergo a series of reforms and changes such as technological advancements, balance sheet restructuring, credit quality enhancements and capital raising strategies. From Basel I to Basel III, requirement of maintaining Capital Adequacy Ratio has changed which brought significant changes in portfolio management of Banks in India. With the introduction of Basel III norms, Banks had to revisit and challenge their own old business strategies fundamentally for raising quality capital as prescribed by Basel III norms and maintain profitability at the same time. In this paper, we will focus on impact of Basel III norms on Indian Banks and determine dependent and independent factors of total risk in Basel III transition era. This study aims at investigating the internal and external factors affecting bank's total risk. We applied panel data regression and relevant econometric tests such as unit root test, multicollinearity test, panel data analysis and test of heteroscedasticity and serial correlation for 35 Indian public and private sector banks from 2011 to 2016. We concluded that among internal factors, capital and profitability are statistically significant, whereas size, deposits to total asset ratio, loans to total asset ratio, operating expenses to total asset ratio, interest expense to total asset ratio, and liquid asset to total asset ratio do not show any significant relationship with bank's total risk in India. In addition, total risk does not show any association with macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth rate and inflation rate in our sample. Based on the findings, we proposed solvency model for Indian Banks.
Android Malware Detection Model Based on LightGBM
Venue: Recent Trends in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices
Year: 2019

Android malware detection is an important research area against Android malware apps. In this paper, we propose an Android malware detection model based on LightGBM. The model consists of a new feature selection method, which contains Chi2 and ExtraTrees, and a LightGBM classifier method. A corpus of 2000 malware and equal number of benign samples are prepared to verify the model. Finally, an experiment is designed to test the model accuracy and training time. The results show high model accuracy (about 96.4% and a heavy reduction in training time as compared to existing models.
Blind remote controller
Year: 2013

The utility model provides a blind remote controller which is characterized in that a remote controller shell is internally provided with a main controller which is a single chip microcomputer internally provided with an infrared learning module and an infrared induction module, a main controller connection transmitter, a voice module, a vibration motor, a receiving head and a transmitting head; the surface of the shell is provided with an electric appliance selection key set, a learning key, a switch key set, an electric fan gear key set, a sound and temperature increasing and reducing key set and an air conditioner temperature selection key set; the side face is provided with a searching key for injecting molding of convex braille alphabets on all the keys; each key is connected with each port of the main controller, the shell of which is provided with a transmission lamp, a receiving hole and a loudspeaker; a switch key of an electric appliance controller and the learning key of the blind remote controller are pressed simultaneously, the transmitting head of the electric appliance controller is opposite to the receiving end of the blind remote controller, and then the blind remote controller learns the signals of the electric appliance controller; each key needs to be pressed twice to take effect; when each key is pressed for the first time, a voice prompt is sent; if the same key is pressed for the second time, a vibration prompt is sent; if different key is pressed, the canceling is realized. When the searching key is pressed all the time, a mode of searching the transmitter is carried out; in a receiving range of a remote control electric appliance, the remote controller is vibrated to remind a blind person of using. The blind remote controller has the benefits that the plurality of remote controllers are integrated and the applicable range is wide. The voice prompt can prevent the blind person from pressing wrong keys.
Hypertension management in a population of older adults in rural South Africa
Venue: Journal of hypertension
Year: 2017

Assess awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, as an indication of its management, in rural South Africa, especially regarding modifiers of these variables.  A population representative sample of adults aged at least 40 years residing in the rural Agincourt subdistrict (Mpumalanga Province) covered by a long term health and sociodemographic surveillance system was recruited. In person interviews, physical exams, and dried blood spots were collected. Hypertension awareness, treatment, and control rates were assessed. A regression model was built to identify predictors of those outcomes.  The mean age of the 2884 hypertensive participants was 64.1 12.7 years. Hypertension awareness rate was 64.4% treatment among those aware was 89.3 and 45.8% of those treated were controlled. Considering aware and unaware hypertensives, treatment rate was 49.7% and control 22.8% In the multivariable regression model, awareness was predicted by female sex, age at least 60 years, higher social economic status, prior cardiovascular disease (CVD) nonimmigrant status, literacy, and physical limitation. Improved control among those treated was predicted by age at least 60 years. Blood pressure control among all hypertensive study participants was predicted by female sex, being HIV negative, age at least 60 years, nonimmigrant status, and prior CVD.  High rates of awareness and treatment of hypertension as well as good levels of control were found in this population, probably explained by the long term surveillance program conducted in the area. Considering the predictors of hypertension management, particular attention should be given to men, residents younger than 60 years, immigrants, and study participants without CVD as these characteristics were predictors of poor outcome.
Aging related decline in the induction of Nrf2 regulated antioxidant genes in human bronchial epithelial cells
Venue: Redox biology
Year: 2018

Evidence from animal studies suggests that stress induced increases in Nrf2 regulated antioxidant gene expression, a critical mechanism of cellular protection, declines with aging. This study examined whether this also occurs in humans. We measured the basal and inducible levels of Nrf2 regulated antioxidant genes in human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells from subjects of young adult (21 29 years) and older (60 69 years) non smokers, and explored factors affecting expresion. The basal expression of three representative Nrf2 regulated genes, the catalytic and modulator subunits of glutamate cysteine ligase (GCLC and GCLM, respectively) and NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) was higher in cells from the older donors compared with cells from the young adult donors. Upon exposure to the Nrf2 activator, sulforaphane (SF) the expression of these antioxidant genes was increased in cells from both the young adults and the older donors; however, the induction by SF in older donor cells was significantly less than that seen in young adult cells. In addition, the activation of an EpRE driven reporter by SF was lower in cells from older donors compared to cells from young adults. The basal expression of Nrf2 protein was also lower in cells from older donors than cells from young adults. Furthermore, we found that the basal expression of both Bach1 and c Myc, two Nrf2 suppressors, was higher in cells from older adults than from young adult donors. In summary, our data suggest that, as in other species, basal expression of Nrf2 regulated genes increases with aging, while inducibility declines with aging. The increased expression of Nrf2 suppressors such as Bach1 and c Myc may contribute to the impaired inducibility of the Nrf2 regulated antioxidant genes with aging in human bronchial epithelial cells.
Internal Audit in Malaysian Public Sector: Qualitative Approach
Year: 2017

Internal audit is recognized as an important cornerstone in achieving good corporate governance. It should be considered as an integral part of an effective system of corporate governance. Among others, internal auditors play the role in evaluating the risk and monitoring the internal control system, as well as assisting the management in monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations. This paper examines the perception of the public agencies on the work done by their internal audit departments. Their perception on the audit itself, the improvements on operating efficiency after the audit, the effectiveness of the recommendations and the content of the report issued are sought. This study was conducted in one of the important ministries in Malaysia. This is a qualitative study where thirty public servants from ten government agencies were interviewed, ranging from supporting staff to managerial levels. The findings indicate that all the interviewees agree that their internal audit departments have contributed to the improvement of their internal control systems and it is an important department for their agencies. Among others, the internal audit department is seen as the party which encourages preventive actions, improves the transparency and the flow of their work processes and helps to bring positive changes to their agencies. However, they also highlight the constraints that they have to face in order to comply with the recommendations and rules and regulations in their agencies.
Treatment Planning the Edentulous Mandible. Review of Biomechanical and Clinical Considerations: An Update.
Venue: The International journal of oral maxillofacial implants
Year: 2019

This review article evaluated biomechanical studies, finite element analyses, and clinical papers on the prosthetic and surgical principles for the survival of implants when reconstructing the edentulous mandible, including the use of a three implant supported fixed prosthesis.  A comprehensive search of studies published from 1983 to December 2017 listed in the PubMed/MEDLINE databases was performed. Relevant studies were selected according to predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria.  The initial database search yielded 942 titles. After filtering, 157 abstracts were selected, with 68 articles considered relevant and included. Consensus among authors was identified in regard to the number and the distribution of implants; limiting or eliminating distal cantilevers; and the principles of biomechanical loading of a cross arch splinted prosthesis.  The result of this review suggests that reconstruction of the edentulous mandible with a fixed prosthesis using three, four, or six implants is a viable treatment option. However, when using three implants, wider diameter implants are recommended for favorable force control.
Social inequality among elderly individuals caused by climate change: Evidence from the migratory elderly of mainland China.
Venue: Journal of environmental management
Year: 2020

Faced with severe and growing social inequality among elderly individuals, a more complete understanding of the interconnection between the seasonal migration of the elderly and climate change is clearly needed. This paper tries to clarify the relation between the seasonal migration of the elderly and climate change from a multidimensional perspective. Our study adds to the research on population aging against the background of climate change. This study shows that climate change has a significant impact on regional population aging and that there are significant internal differences between the distribution and scale of the migratory elderly stemming from unequal environmental conditions. Advanced economic conditions and relatively comfortable environments have put some pressure on social endowment services in the three provinces of Northeast China, especially Liaoning Province. With their complex migration mechanism, the fate of the elderly in mainland China is closely intertwined with climatic factors, individual and socioeconomic conditions, traditional cultural backgrounds, etc. A comparatively advanced economy, well developed endowment resources, and a comfortable environment will help in the development of regional aging resources. Regional inequality and the pursuit of a meaningful life have created different categories of migratory elderly.
Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension
Venue: *SEMEVAL
Year: 2019

We introduce a set of nine challenge tasks that test for the understanding of function words. These tasks are created by structurally mutating sentences from existing datasets to target the comprehension of specific types of function words (e.g. prepositions, wh words) Using these probing tasks, we explore the effects of various pretraining objectives for sentence encoders (e.g. language modeling, CCG supertagging and natural language inference (NLI) on the learned representations. Our results show that pretraining on CCG our most syntactic objective performs the best on average across our probing tasks, suggesting that syntactic knowledge helps function word comprehension. Language modeling also shows strong performance, supporting its widespread use for pretraining state of the art NLP models. Overall, no pretraining objective dominates across the board, and our function word probing tasks highlight several intuitive differences between pretraining objectives, e.g. that NLI helps the comprehension of negation.
Trade Unions and Relations with Black and Minority Ethnic Community Groups in the United Kingdom: The Development of New Alliances?
Year: 2009

The paper argues that the role of voluntary sector bodies in black and minority ethnic (BME) communities is a missing factor in much of mainstream industrial relations and race and ethnicity debates. There are gaps between trade unions and organised community groups within BME communities. These are significant issues, which question some of the more optimistic analyses of the subject of union renewal in terms of community unionism. The space of BME representation is much more complex and diverse than that discussed in terms of individual worker needs. Questions of representation need to be addressed not solely in terms of formal representation but also of broader understandings of relations and perceptions between actors. This dovetails with the debate on the role of other actors in relation to representation within industrial relations. The paper ends with a discussion of how linkages between traditional and new industrial relations actors such as BME community groups and trade unions are constructed in a variety of unanticipated ways which require an understanding of the politics of BME groups, their regional dynamics and the way industrial relations is viewed. The paper is focused on the experiences of the United Kingdom.
The study approaches as the predictors of academic self efficacy and teacher efficacy: A study in pedagogical formation students
Year: 2018

This study aims to determine study approaches of students taking pedagogical formation from different departments, examine academic and teacher self efficacy beliefs, find out the role of these factors in academic achievement and compare students in physical education and sport and students in the different field.  515 pedagogical formation students studying in the departments of physical education and sport, history, mathematics, graphic, philosophy, painting, music, business, contemporary Turkish dialects, Turkish philology, food and beverage management, biology, nutrition and dietetics, aquaculture, physics, nursing, English philology, hospitality management and sociology participated in this study. Academic self efficacy scale, developed by Jerusalem and Schwarzer (1981) adapted to Turkish by Yilmaz, Gurcay and Ekinci (2007) was used to determine academic self efficacy beliefs. Study Process Questionnaire, developed by Biggs, Kember, and Leung (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Yilmaz and Orhan (2011) was used to determine study approaches. Ohio Teacher Self Efficacy Scale, developed by Tschannen Moran Woolfolk Hoy adapted to Turkish by Baloglu and Karadag (2008) was used to determine teacher self efficacy beliefs. Collected data was analyzed in SPSS, path analysis in AMOS.  Significant differences were found between genders regarding surface approach (SA) and surface motivation (SM) A significant difference was found between genders regarding academic self efficacy. A significant difference was found between students according to their general academic averages (GAA) regarding academic self efficacy (ASE) teacher self efficacy (TSE) and study approaches (SA) Moreover, positive correlations were found between GAA, deep approach (DA) and TSE while a negative correlation was found between surface approach (SA) and TSE, DA, GAA. Students in physical education and sports department reported higher scores than the others regarding surface approach.  The analysis related to the hypothesized model showed that study approaches had an impact on general academic average that had a role in increasing academic self efficacy, correspondingly teacher self efficacy beliefs increased.
Unsupervised Feature Selection Algorithm via Local Structure Learning and Kernel Function
Year: 2018

In order to reduce dimensionality of high dimensional data, a series of feature selection algorithms have been proposed. But these algorithms have the following disadvantages: (1) they do not fully consider the nonlinear relationship between data features (2) they do not consider the similarity between data features. To solve the above two problems, we propose an unsupervised feature selection algorithm based on local structure learning and kernel function. First, through the kernel function, we map each feature of the data to the kernel space, so that the nonlinear relationship of the data features can be fully exploited. Secondly, we apply the theory of local structure learning to the features of data, so that the similarity of data features is considered. Then we added a low rank constraint to consider the global information of the data. Finally, we add sparse learning to make feature selection. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better results than the comparison methods.
Projecting Global Mortality Due to Non Optimal Temperature From 2020 to 2100: A Global Burden of Disease Forecasting Study
Year: 2020

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019) estimated that approximately 2 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 1*7 2*3) deaths and 37*8 million (32*2 47*6) DALYs were attributable to non optimal temperature in 2019. Globally, most of this burden was attributed to low temperatures, but high heat attributable mortality rates were observed in warmer regions such as south Asia, north Africa and the Middle East, and sub Saharan Africa. The impact of increases in global temperatures and demographic trends on future temperature related mortality is unclear.  We linked cause specific temperature mortality risk curves to daily temperature forecasts from the NEX GDDP dataset. The NEX GDDP data set comprises 21 individual General Circulation Models (GCM) that were spatially downscaled for two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. For each pixel, day, and cause, we estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) based on the risk of cause specific mortality at a given temperature relative to the theoretical minimum risk exposure level (TMREL) we then estimated temperature attributable deaths by multiplying these PAFs with location specific mortality estimates for the reference period from 1990 to 2020 and for the forecasted period from 2020 to 2100. Other upstream drivers in the model, including the Socio demographic Index and air pollution levels, were held constant.  Globally, we estimate increases in the number and rate of deaths attributable to non optimal temperature, with 3.27 (2.11 4.70) million and 4.08 (2.67 5.86) million annual deaths by the end of the century, for RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. These increases are driven largely by heat attributable burden, with smaller and more variable changes in cold attributable deaths. Warm, low latitude regions will be disproportionally affected, with the largest increases in temperature attributable mortality expected in sub Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. As our study accounts for adaptation and does not extrapolate relative risks beyond the exposure currently experienced, these estimates are likely conservative.  Globally increasing temperatures are projected to substantially increase the mortality burden attributable to non optimal temperature. Higher global temperatures only lead to minor decreases in cold related mortality which do not offset increases in heat related mortality.  Bill Melinda Gates Foundation  None to declare.
Hoya somadeeae sp. nov. (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) Thailand and lectotypification of Hoya wrayi
Year: 2012

A new species from evergreen montane forests of Thailand, Hoya somadeeae Rodda Simonsson is here described and illustrated. The new species may be superficially confused with the Peninsular Malaysia endemic H. wrayi King Gamble, but is clearly separated from it by the very elongated peduncles, up to 20 cm long, the revolute corollas, and outer processes of corona lobes with a membranaceous basal appendage. Morphological affinities between the new species and other Hoya species from Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar and Peninsular Malaysia are discussed.
The Impact of Merger and Acquisition on Firm Performance in East Africa
Year: 2017

The purpose of this study was to establish the impact of merger and acquisition (M&A) on firm performance in East Africa.  We employed an event study to calculate the cumulative abnormal returns to evaluate M&A performance and shareholder wealth. We also used accounting ratio Return on Equity to evaluate firm performance. Our dataset consists of 330 observations of 234 M&A deals that occurred in a period of 2005 to 2015, using secondary data of publicly listed firms on the various East African States stock exchange markets. All the data used was obtained from Zephyr for the deals and the stock values data was from Thomson one database (DataStream)  We find that mergers and acquisitions are significantly associated with firm performance. Results further indicate that M &A announcements generate significant abnormal returns to the firm's shareholders and also, there is a positive relationship between the domestic M&A deals and firm performance. Further, there is a positive relationship between cross boarder M A deals and firm performance and domestic merger and acquisition deals perform better than the cross border M&A deals in improving firm performance.  The research gives an insight on how domestic Merger and Acquisition deals perform relative to cross border M&A deals in East Africa and how merger and acquisition can improve firm performance. The East African region has recently had some of the fastest growing M&A activities on the African continent. Thus, this study contributes to the existing literature on the effect of merger and acquisition on firm performance using evidence from the entire East African region. Further, this study is of value to the East African Community in regards to evaluating its objectives on regional economic growth through M&A influence and also driving positive business and logical decisions on M&A activities in the East African region.