This research aims to test the influence of Fama & French Three Factor Model and\nCAPM on the stock return of banking companies in Indonesia. The samples used were\n29 companies that were registered in banking sector from January 1st, 2010 to December\n31st, 2013. The period of research is from January 2010 to December 2013. It used\nmultiple linear regression. The result indicates that banking companies in Indonesia can\naccept the CAPM in predicting the stock return. On the other hand, the Fama & French\nThree Factor Model cannot entirely be used in Indonesia. Only excess market return and\nfirm size that can influence the changes in stock return, while book to market equity\ndoes not show any significant influence

This article seeks to consolidate all the known techniques methods, innovations related to the post genetic \"omics\" revolution characterized by the gene expression and pathway based paradigms to outline some ideas for a proposed framework including illustrative workflows) for Systems Biology / Drug Design etc

A total of 108 children, aged between 8-17 years old, (M= 13; DP= 2,7), learners of Portuguese as a L2, belonging to six groups – Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Portuguese-speaking African countries (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa - PALOPs), Latin America, Asia and China - were compared regarding three verbal tasks on verbal reasoning and vocabulary skills. Tasks on semantic association, morphological extraction and vocabulary match were administered to examine nationality group effects on task performance and language proficiency. This study aims to verify whether students from different nationalities and learners of Portuguese as L2 evidence similar difficulty levels in tests on language skills. It is expected that students whose country of origin and culture is further from the Portuguese and European contexts perform poorer in all tests when compared to students who were born in countries geographically and culturally closer to the referred contexts. Results of MANOVA showed that nationality groups differed in a significant manner, in particular, two groups – from South Asia (Meridional) and from Latin America - whose performance was different in all tests. The Asian group evidenced more difficulty in vocabulary decoding and verbal reasoning when compared to other nationality groups. Higher scores were attained by the Latin American group whose language of testing had common features with the home language and therefore showed more overlapping. The influence of the co-variable \"Languages spoken at home\" on the results was also confirmed, which suggests that nationality is a less strong predictor compared to the number of languages spoken at home in regards to performance in Portuguese L2. Linear regression analyses revealed that the most predictive model includes the referred variable, which influences performance in all tasks. Results will be discussed from the point of view of individualized assessment and intervention according to immigrant school groups in European contexts.

The purpose of the investigation was to find out influences of forced admission into higher institutions in Nigeria on the achievement and practice of technology and vocational education. It was focused on industrial technical education, which is an integral part of Technology and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Purposive random sampling technique was used for selecting three universities, one polytechnic and one college of education technical where Industrial TVET courses are taught. All third year and fourth year students in these institutions are sampled. A total of 210 respondents made up of 150 students of and 60 graduates of industrial TVET programme were sampled. Students’ admission records were studied to ensure that only those who met JAMB general admission requirement were captured in this inquiry. Students’ registration records were studied to ascertain dropout rates, while students’ results were studied for academic achievements. A 38 items Likert type five point response questionnaire was used to elicit the interests of the respondents and their level of satisfaction with TVET programme. Test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. A pilot study involving 25 respondents drawn from higher institutions other than those to be used for this study was conducted. The test yielded a correlation coefficient of r = 0.79. The data obtained through the questionnaire were analyzed using mean and frequency counts. Chi square and Analysis of Variance statistical methods were used to test the hypotheses of the study at a 0.05 level of significance. Ninety three percent of those who did not make TVET their choice were not interested in TVET. 35% of the graduates from industrial TVET courses in Nigeria remained in the programme after school. About 94% of this number teaches TVET courses at secondary and post secondary levels and 4.1% work in TVET related government ministries, only 1.2% worked in industries and 0.7% were self employed.

Aim: This study was undertaken to evaluate the influence of lipoic acid (LA) on the inflammatory processes and disease progression in the mouse model of ulcerative colitis.\nMethods: Acute DSS colitis was induced in balb/c male mice by administration of 4% (w/v) DSS in drinking water for 5 days, followed by 2 days of normal drinking water. Mice were treated with LA at a dose of 25 or 50 mg/kg i.p. daily for 14 days (preventive model) or for 7 days (curative model) followed by 5 days of 4% DSS. \nResults: In preventive model of colitis LA significantly decreased total colon damage and improved stool score compared with DSS alone group (p<0.05) and significantly increased serum and tissue IL-17A and IL-23 (p<0.05). In curative model LA significantly reduced total colon damage (p<0.05), increased MPO activity (7.51 ± 2.44 and 6.18 ± 1.18 U/mg tissue for 25 and 50 mg/kg, respectively vs. 2.69 ± 0.52 U/mg tissue for DSS alone, P<0.01), but did not influence IL-17A and IL-23 concentration.\nConclusion: Our study indicates that LA administration improves the macroscopic colon damage score in mice with DSS-induced colitis. However, LA also increases MPO activity, as well as IL-17A and IL-23 levels in the mouse colon. LA may have pro-inflammatory role when used at higher doses, thus further studies on the mechanism of its action are necessary.

The theoretical models of the mixed economic systems /these national economies differentiated with public and private sectors/ which are systematically sustained are based on the principles and the classifications, perceived by the System of the National Accounts (SNA). This way the sectors in the economy, in accordance with SNA, are defined on the base of “institutional unit” (which are two types – juridical people and households). Depending on their individual characteristics /described in three categories – “main functions in the economic process”,”economic attitude” and “methods for financing”/ are spread in five institutional sectors – non-financial companies, financial companies, state management, nonprofit organizations serving the households, home economy.\nThe doctrine based on the differentiation of the institutional unit determines two sectors in the mixed economies – the business sector and the sector with the sector with the public authorities. Weak and unsuccessful attempts have been made to separate the nonprofit organizations in a third sector, but the efforts in this direction have no perspective because there is no methodological or ontological based approach, which can define a sector which contains just one independent subject.\nThis concept also defines the goal of the current research. It premises the striving to defend one new methodological approach, which will help for creating one completely new and not controversial concept for the mixed economic systems. Accordingly the research hypothesis can be reduced to a new definition of the mixed economic systems, as trisected. Based on the precise system of criteria, the subjects and the relations can be determined, which define the three sectors in the models of the mixed economic systems.

Seven strongest earthquakes over 6.3 magnitude have been investigated in Nepal and adjacent area, which have occurred in past 81 years. Presented documents have proven that all have tidal origin. Acquired results are following: Earthquake Nepal 15. January 1934 could be predicted owing to extraordinary tidal parameters: of lunisolar torque -1.07 × 1022 Nm, created by New Moon summarizing action of Moon and Sun, minimum distance in perigee 357245 km, high negative Moon’s declination resulting in maximum tidal torque. high Sun’s torque owing to close position to winter solstice. This earthquake could be predicted and habitants warned. Next four earthquakes: Nepal 20. August 1988, Damxung 6. October 2008, Skkim 18. September 2011 and Gorkha 25. April 2015 show correlation with LODmin as moment prone for earthquake triggering. However outstanding position has the earthquake Gorkha 2015. It was triggered by resonance of earthquake of 5.January 2015 situated exactly on LODmin close to winter solstice, which by its 5th resonance stroke triggered 25. Apri 2015 the second strongest earthquake in Nepal. Small shift from LODmin with earthquake Pithoragarh 29. July 1980 was corrected by the effect of Sun and the earthquake Nepal-India 27. June 1966 was triggered in moment of the change of torques direction from north to the south between extremely large LOD minimums with torques around 1 × 1022 Nm. The paper disproves the myth of unpredictability of earthquakes and casts doubts on statistical investigations of tidal earthquakes origin because every earthquake is triggered by combination of large number of astronomical parameters