Further Evidence on Competition in Nonprofit Donor Markets

This article introduces a novel empirical approach to the nonprofit literature that can measure competition between nonprofit organizations. Our approach provides a framework to determine how the number of organizations may be incorporated into empirical competitive analysis. We then systematically estimate the average population needed to support a given number of nonprofits in a market. We find that, for the 10 nonprofit industries examined, markets reach competitive levels once four or more nonprofits have entered. The results suggest that a relatively small number of nonprofits are needed to ensure robust competition. Our findings demonstrate that donor market competition is both predictive in nonprofit entry decisions and remarkably similar to competitive behavior among for-profit firms. We discuss several implications of these findings, in terms of both policy and future empirical research.

Carrying Capacity of Land in Bali based on Ecological Footprint

In 2000-2010, based on data from the Population Census in Bali, the average population growth rate was 2.15% per year, this value was greater than the average population growth rate at the national level of 1.49% per year. The increasing number of population growth results in increased development. This causes an increase in the need for land to accommodate these development activities. The reduced availability of productive land because it is used for development facilities has resulted in reduced land carrying capacity in Bali. The purpose of this study was to analyze the value of the carrying capacity of land in Bali using the Ecological Footprint analysis approach. The research methodology is quantitative focusing on secondary data analysis, based on the mathematical calculation method developed by the Global Footprint Network, which has the term biocapacity which means supply and ecological footprint which means demand. After comparing biocapacity and ecological footprint, the results show that the carrying capacity of land in Bali is generally in deficit. Things that can be done to increase the carrying capacity of land are to reduce the rate of population growth, increase land productivity by intensifying agricultural land, and be wiser in carrying out land conversion in the future.

Analisis pengaruh PDRB dan jumlah penduduk terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten Kerinci

This study aims to analyze the effect of GRDP and population on Regional Original Income (PAD). The analytical method used is multiple linear regression with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) 2006-2020. The results of this study indicate that the development of Regional Original Income (PAD) in Kerinci Regency has increased except for 2009, 2012, 2017, and 2019 with an average PAD of Rp. Forty-seven thousand two hundred twenty million per year, the development of GRDP in Kerinci Regency has increased continuously except in 2008 with an average GRDP of Rp. 5,907.25 billion per year, and the average population growth in Kerinci Regency is 245,932 people per year. As well as the results of the analysis of factors that affect original regional income in Kerinci Regency, simultaneously the GRDP and population variables have a significant effect on Regional Original Income and partially GRDP is having a considerable impact number of residents has no substantial effect. Keywords: PDRB, Population, PAD

Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan Loyal

The study aims to find out, explain, and analyze a phenomenon about the influence of service quality on customer satisfaction that has an impact on customer loyalty (case study of IndiHome in Karawang district during the Covid-19 pandemic). This research was conducted using descriptive and verification methods, namely knowing, explaining, analyzing and testing hypotheses, as well as making conclusions and suggestions. The sample was carried out using incidental sampling with a sample of 316 respondents from an average population of 1,494 customers each month. The results of this study indicate that the Quality of Service at IndiHome, Karawang Regency, is in good criteria. IndiHome Customer Satisfaction in Karawang Regency is in the satisfied criteria. IndiHome Customer Loyalty in Karawang Regency is in the loyal criteria. There is a direct and significant effect between service quality and customer satisfaction by 64%. There is a direct and significant effect between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty of 68.6%. There is an indirect effect of service quality on customer loyalty through customer satisfaction of 66.24%.

Cultural Properties of Cryopreserved Thymic Multipotent Stromal Cells and Fetal Skin and Muscle-Derived Cells

The paper provides a comparison of properties of cryopreserved fetal murine multipotent stromal cells (MSCs) of skin-muscular origin and those derived from adult thymus in culture in vitro. Fetal MSCs showed a 30% higher number of average population doublings within 24 hrs, and 41% lower average population doubling time. It was found that the fetal MSCs of the 4th passage had a 39% higher clonogenic activity than the adult thymus-derived ones. Fetal MSCs and those derived from adult thymus differentiated in osteogenic and adipogenic lineages with equal efficiency in special culture media. Fetal and thymus-derived MSCs were characterized by almost the same high ability of contact interaction with thymocytes, and the fibroblast-lymphocyte rosette (FLR) formation. They were far less active in FLR formation with lymph node cells. This indicated the presence of membrane affinity for immature lymphoid cells in both MSC subpopulations. The results showed the fetal MSCs to be significantly different from the adult thymus-derived MSCs by more active kinetics of growth and clonogenic potential. However, both cell subpopulations had virtually the same ability for linear differentiation and showed high activity during contact with immature lymphoid cells. Linear differentiation and the ability to interact with lymphocytes were found to be quite stable properties of MSCs, but a proliferative activity and in vitro colony formation distinguished significantly in different types of MSCs. This can be taken into account when choosing the cells for therapy, research and results assessment.

Indirect causal influence of a single bot on opinion dynamics through a simple recommendation algorithm

The ability of social and political bots to influence public opinion is often difficult to estimate. Recent studies found that hyper-partisan accounts often directly interact with already highly polarised users on Twitter and are unlikely to influence the general population's average opinion. In this study, we suggest that social bots, trolls and zealots may affect people’s views not just via a direct interaction (e.g. retweets, at-mentions and likes) and via indirect causal pathways through infiltrating platforms’ content recommendation systems. Using a simple agent-based opinion-dynamics simulation, we isolate the effect of a single bot – representing only 1% of the population – on the average opinion of Bayesian agents when we remove all direct connections between the bot and human agents. We compare this experimental condition with an identical baseline condition where such a bot is absent. We used the same random seed in both simulations so that all other conditions remained identical. Results show that, even in the absence of direct connections, the presence of the bot is sufficient to shift the average population opinion. Furthermore, we observe that the presence of the bot significantly affects the opinion of almost all agents in the population. Overall, these findings indicate that social bots and hyperpartisan accounts can influence average population opinions by changing platforms’ recommendation engines’ internal representations.

Tipe-Tipe Kualitas Perkawinan Orang Yogyakarta

This study aims to explore the types of marital quality. A survey was distributed to 316 participants with the characteristics of having been married for at least five years and identified themselves as people of Yogyakarta, which were obtained purposively. The instrument used marital quality scale which was analyzed quantitatively using cluster analysis. Grouping using cluster analysis was based on indicators of marital quality, namely connectivity, passion, complementarity, mutual respect, mutual acceptance, sharing roles, carrying out the roles with responsibility, harmony, and happiness. The results of the analysis showed that there were three types of marital quality that is happy, functional, and survival type. The happy type is the best quality type that scores above the average population score for all indicators. The second, functional type, has a score below the first type, with variations for each indicator. The third type is the type with the lowest score compared to the other two types.

Familial Mediterranean fever research activity in the Arab World: the need for regional and international collaborations

Background: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory, multisystem disease affecting the populations of the Mediterranean basin. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the research input of Arab countries on FMF between 2004 and 2019. Methods: The Medline database (PubMed) was accessed for FMF-related publications. The number of publications was normalized to average: population size, GDP and number of physicians for every country. VOSViewer was used to create a co-occurrence bibliographic map. Results: Between 2004 and 2019, 69 articles relating to FMF were published in the Arab world, accounting for 0.03% of the total number of publications originating in Arab countries, and 3.60% of all articles relating to FMF worldwide. After normalizing to average population size, GDP and number of physicians, Lebanon ranked first with 4.44, 0.64 and 1.99 publications per million persons respectively. Moderate positive correlations were found between number of publications and average population size (r = 0.385) and average number of physicians (r = 0.513). Half of the articles were published in journals ranked Q1 and Q2. An abundance of keywords relating to genetics hint at a main focus on the genetic aspect of the disease. Conclusion: The low number of publications could be a result of the absence of research funding and the political and military instability in the Arab world. Given that many articles were published in high quality journals, Arab countries should focus on providing a clinical aspect to their studies and working on regional and international collaborations.