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A Survey of Human Resource Strategies on Retention of Faculty in Private Universities in Kenya: A Case of Daystar and Pan Africa Christian Universities

There was a growing interest among researchers in education on exploring strategic human resource strategies for faculty retention in universities around the world. A survey of human resource strategies was carried out in private universities in Kenya. It was specifically conducted as a case of Daystar and Pan Africa Christian universities for the purpose of exploring various human resource strategies geared towards retention of full time faculty in these respective universities. The target population was full time faculty, heads of departments and deans in three departments common to both universities, namely, biblical studies, counseling and business; and human resource managers. Data was collected using questionnaire, interview guide and document analysis and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and descriptive narratives. Standard research ethics were observed. The findings revealed that strategic human resource managers in both universities had some strategies in place for retention of faculty. The participants, especially deans, heads of departments and lecturers without administrative tasks, proposed ways of improving the existing strategies to enhance faculty retention, challenges they considered to be faced by SHRM in their efforts to retain faculty and ways to minimize the same. In summary, monetary challenges were more than non- monetary according to opinions of participants. The strategic human resource managers in both universities therefore needed to utilize expressed dissatisfaction, cited ways of improving retention by facing challenges through their professional expertise, suggestions of research participants. Based on research findings, the researcher concluded that; there were differences of opinions among lecturers, heads of departments, academic deans and strategic human resource managers on the best strategies to retain faculty. A dean had expressed the same thing while referring to heavy administrative responsibilities as a challenge to research. It was therefore necessary for the strategic human resource manager to consider hiring more teaching staff to share extra workload so that the university would grow through research, writing and publication. The management needed to provide a climate which would make exchange of views between lecturers and management on the best strategies each university needed to configure in order to retain their valuable faculty.
Improving Translation Memory with Word Alignment Information

This paper describes a generalized translation memory system, which takes advantage of sentence level matching, sub-sentential matching, and pattern-based machine translation technologies. All of the three techniques generate translation suggestions with the assistance of word alignment information. For the sentence level matching, the system generates the translation suggestion by modifying the translations of the most similar example with word alignment information. For sub-sentential matching, the system locates the translation fragments in several examples with word alignment information, and then generates the translation suggestion by combining these translation fragments. For pattern-based machine translation, the system first extracts translation patterns from examples using word alignment information and then generates translation suggestions with pattern matching. This system is compared with a traditional translation memory system without word alignment information in terms of translation efficiency and quality. Evaluation results indicate that our system improves the translation quality and saves about 20% translation time.
Extracting sentiment as a function of discourse structure and topicality

We present an approach to extracting sentiment from texts that makes use of con- textual information. Using two dierent approaches, we extract the most relevant sentences of a text, and calculate semantic orientation weighing those more heavily. The …rst approach makes use of discourse structure via Rhetorical Structure Theory, and extracts nuclei as the relevant parts; the second approach uses a topic classi…er built using support vector machines, which extracts topic sentences from texts. The use of weights on relevant sentences shows an improvement over word-based methods that consider the entire text equally. In the paper, we also describe an enhancement of our previous word-based methods in the treatment of intensi…ers and negation, and the addition of other parts of speech beyond adjectives.
Interagency Working in Child Protection and Domestic Violence

ABSTRACT Integrated responses to domestic violence bring together key related areas such as child protection. This study examined important learning from an established integrated response in Queensland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 members of the integrated response regarding the operation of the model. Progress was evident in the operation of the model, often harnessed by increased collaboration and trust. Challenges remained regarding how differing mandates created inherent tensions, as well as differences in philosophical orientations to domestic violence and child protection. Gaps in understanding and a reliance on informal relationships were most evident amongst front-line workers. Results helped conceptualise a model for measuring integration within inner and outer circles. Social work has a key role in creating a dynamic model that is able to continually critically evolve to meet safety needs of women and children experiencing domestic violence. IMPLICATIONS Leadership and organisational developments allow for closer alignments in philosophy, approaches to, and understandings of domestic violence across integrated response agencies. Integrated responses to domestic violence can critically evolve by unpacking the philosophical positions of member agencies, and through identifying tensions between organisations. Relationships and trust between integrated response member agencies allow interagency information sharing to occur, enhancing safety for women and children.
Computing global structural balance in large-scale signed social networks

Structural balance theory affirms that signed social networks (i.e., graphs whose signed edges represent friendly/hostile interactions among individuals) tend to be organized so as to avoid conflictual situations, corresponding to cycles of negative parity. Using an algorithm for ground-state calculation in large-scale Ising spin glasses, in this paper we compute the global level of balance of very large online social networks and verify that currently available networks are indeed extremely balanced. This property is explainable in terms of the high degree of skewness of the sign distributions on the nodes of the graph. In particular, individuals linked by a large majority of negative edges create mostly “apparent disorder,” rather than true “frustration. ”
Longitudinal analysis of the trajectories of academic and social motivation across the transition from elementary to middle school

Abstract School transitions are important phases in students’ educational experiences. The current study aimed to explore the trajectories of academic and social motivation across the transition from elementary to middle school. Participants (N = 415) were sampled from six elementary schools; 55% transitioned after sixth grade (transition) and 45% remained at the same school (no-transition). The students reported academic and social goals and perceived teacher goal emphasis at four time points over two successive years. A growth curve analysis revealed that students who transitioned reported a greater decline in mastery goals and an increase in performance-approach goals. Students from no-transition schools reported higher initial levels for all social goals, with a steeper decline in seventh grade. Perceived teacher goal emphasis was associated with social development goals over time. Practitioners should be aware that school transitions may influence academic motivation but may not similarly influence social motivation.
Competition in Mobile Telephony in France and Germany

This paper analyses the development of mobile telephony in France and Germany in 1998–2002. We conduct this analysis in relation to the antitrust investigation initiated by the French competition authority in 2002 due to exchange of strategic information and a share-fixing agreement between network operators. The results suggest a significant difference between price elasticities of demand in these two countries. Moreover, consumers perceive mobile telephony as a substitute for fixed-line connection in France and as a complement in Germany. In the time period of the share-fixing agreement among French network operators there were no adverse shifts in the levels of prices and subscriptions.
Validation of the Subjective Well-Being in Couple Relationship Scale (SWCR)

ABSTRACT This article presents the Subjective Well-being in Couple Relationship Scale (SWCR), aiming to develop a useful instrument for professional practice which contains the main dimensions to assess in a couple relationship. The sample was composed of 620 participants from Spain. 48.4% were between 18–31 years old and 51.6% 32 or older. Most of them were single (54%), lived with their partner (66.1%) and had no children (57.9%). To study the factorial structure of the scale, the sample was divided into three subsamples: an exploratory factor analysis was performed on the first subsample; a confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the second subsample, correlating measurement errors and applying the resulting model on the third subsample to perform a cross-validation. Results provide a 19-item scale with good reliability (α = .84) and validity made up of six factors with appropriate reliability indices.
Short-Term Psychological Effects of Interactive Video Game Technology Exercise on Mood and Attention

Recent interest in interactive video game technology (IVGT) has spurred the notion that exercise from this technology may have meaningful physiological and psychological benefits for children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term psychological effects of interactive video game exercise in young adults and whether IVGT participation was capable of improving mood as has been shown for traditional forms of exercise. In addition, we were interested in comparing both actual physical exercise output and perceived exertion of that output across the exercise conditions. One-hundred and sixty-eight college students were assigned to one of three 30-minute conditions: (1) interactive video game cycle ergometer exercise, (2) regular cycle ergometer exercise, or (3) a video game-only control condition. Positive and negative mood (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988) was assessed before and twice-after experimental conditions, and measures of actual and perceived physical exertion were collected at five-minute intervals across exercise conditions. Participants in the video-game control had higher post-activity negative affect immediately and 10- minutes post activity than either exercise group. In addition, exercise condition participants had higher positive mood at 10-minutes post activity compared to the video game control participants. Results do not support IVGT mood benefits over other forms of exercise, but do support immediate affective benefits of exercise compared to sedentary activity. It is concluded that while there is potential for interactive video-game based applications to elicit affective benefits, there is a need to examine circumstances under which these benefits are most likely to occur.
Racial differences in hepatitis C treatment eligibility

Black Americans are disproportionally infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are less likely than whites to respond to treatment with peginterferon (PEG‐IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV). The impact of race on HCV treatment eligibility is unknown. We therefore performed a retrospective analysis of a phase 3B multicenter clinical trial conducted at 118 United States community and academic medical centers to evaluate the rates of and reasons for HCV treatment ineligibility according to self‐reported race. In all, 4,469 patients were screened, of whom 1,038 (23.2%) were treatment ineligible. Although blacks represented 19% of treated patients, they were more likely not to be treated due to ineligibility and/or failure to complete required evaluations (40.2%) than were nonblack patients (28.5%; P < 0.001). After the exclusion of persons not treated due to undetectable HCV RNA or nongenotype 1 infection, blacks were 65% less likely than nonblacks to be eligible for treatment (28.1% > 17.0%; relative risk, 1.65; 95% confidence interval, 1.46‐1.87; P < 0.001). Blacks were more likely to be ineligible due to neutropenia (14% versus 3%, P < 0.001), anemia (7% versus 4%, P = 0.02), elevated glucose (8% versus 3%, P < 0.001), and elevated creatinine (5% versus 1%, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Largely due to a higher prevalence of neutropenia and uncontrolled medical conditions, blacks were significantly less likely to be eligible for HCV treatment. Increased access to treatment may be facilitated by less conservative neutrophil requirements and more effective care for chronic diseases, namely, diabetes and renal insufficiency. (HEPATOLOGY 2011;)
The Influence of Gender-Based Relationship Efficacy on Attitudes Toward School

The goal was to assess the role of children’s social cognitions about peers in attitudes toward school. Because of gender segregation, we differentiated children’s cognitions about same-gender and other-gender peers. We examined the influence of gender-based relationship efficacy for both own-gender and other-gender peers (GBRE-Own and GBRE-Other) on school-related outcomes while controlling for other peer relationship variables. Students ( N = 206, fourth grade) reported on relationship efficacy, peer relationships, and school outcomes in Year 1 and again 1 year later. Results indicated that efficacy beliefs were positively related to school outcomes. Moreover, a developmental pattern emerged: GBRE-Own consistently predicted school outcomes in fourth grade but not fifth, and GBRE-Other consistently predicted school outcomes in fifth grade but not fourth. As interest in other-gender relationships becomes more prominent in late childhood, efficacy about other-gender interactions appears to exert influence in mixed-gender contexts (e.g., classrooms). Implications are discussed for improving peer interactions and school attitudes.
Exploring Involuntary Presidential Turnover in American Higher Education

ABSTRACT University presidents face a variety of competing demands and pressures to successfully lead their institutions. We sought to better understand these issues by studying unsuccessful presidencies ending in an involuntary turnover. We collected data on 1,029 presidential terms across 256 institutions with Division I athletics from 1988 to 2016. Our findings revealed 7 causes of involuntary turnover including athletics controversy, financial controversy, loss of board confidence, loss of faculty confidence, loss of system confidence, poor judgment, and poor fit. In addition to identifying trends in presidential involuntary turnover, we propose a presidential turnover framework to explain the causes of presidential turnover.
Impact of D-Dimer for Prediction of Incident Occult Cancer in Patients with Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism

Background Unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) is related to a higher incidence of occult cancer. D-dimer is clinically used for screening VTE, and has often been shown to be present in patients with malignancy. We explored the predictive value of D-dimer for detecting occult cancer in patients with unprovoked VTE. Methods We retrospectively examined data from 824 patients diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary thromboembolism. Of these, 169 (20.5%) patients diagnosed with unprovoked VTE were selected to participate in this study. D-dimer was categorized into three groups as: <2,000, 2,000–4,000, and >4,000 ng/ml. Cox regression analysis was employed to estimate the odds of occult cancer and metastatic state of cancer according to D-dimer categories. Results During a median 5.3 (interquartile range: 3.4–6.7) years of follow-up, 24 (14%) patients with unprovoked VTE were diagnosed with cancer. Of these patients, 16 (67%) were identified as having been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Log transformed D-dimer levels were significantly higher in those with occult cancer as compared with patients without diagnosis of occult cancer (3.5±0.5 vs. 3.2±0.5, P-value = 0.009, respectively). D-dimer levels >4,000 ng/ml was independently associated with occult cancer (HR: 4.12, 95% CI: 1.54–11.04, P-value = 0.005) when compared with D-dimer levels <2,000 ng/ml, even after adjusting for age, gender, and type of VTE (e.g., deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary thromboembolism). D-dimer levels >4000 ng/ml were also associated with a higher likelihood of metastatic cancer (HR: 9.55, 95% CI: 2.46–37.17, P-value <0.001). Conclusion Elevated D-dimer concentrations >4000 ng/ml are independently associated with the likelihood of occult cancer among patients with unprovoked VTE.
Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two‐dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermochemical convection

An adaptive finite element procedure is presented for improving the quality of solutions to convection‐dominated problems in geodynamics. The method adapts the mesh automatically around regions of high solution gradient, yielding enhanced resolution of the associated flow features. The approach requires the coupling of an automatic mesh generator, a finite element flow solver, and an error estimator. In this study, the procedure is implemented in conjunction with the well‐known geodynamical finite element code ConMan. An unstructured quadrilateral mesh generator is utilized, with mesh adaptation accomplished through regeneration. This regeneration employs information provided by an interpolation‐based local error estimator, obtained from the computed solution on an existing mesh. The technique is validated by solving thermal and thermochemical problems with well‐established benchmark solutions. In a purely thermal context, results illustrate that the method is highly successful, improving solution accuracy while increasing computational efficiency. For thermochemical simulations the same conclusions can be drawn. However, results also demonstrate that the grid‐based methods employed for simulating the compositional field are not competitive with the other methods (tracer particle and marker chain) currently employed in this field, even at the higher spatial resolutions allowed by the adaptive grid strategies.
Human detection based on integral Histograms of Oriented Gradients and SVM

This paper presents a method for human detection in video sequence. The Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) descriptors show experimentally significantly out-performs existing feature sets for human detection. Because of HOG computation influence on performance, we finally choose a more better HOG descriptor to extract human feature from visible spectrum images based on OpenCv and MS VC++. We realized an image descriptor based on Integral Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG), associated with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and evaluate its efficiency.
Multilingual immigrants’ French and English acquisition in Grade 6 French immersion: evidence as means to improve access

ABSTRACT This study seeks to examine the success of voluntary immigrants in Grade 6 French immersion with a double comparison to Canadian-born (a) Anglophones and (b) multilingual students (children of voluntary immigrants). The findings, that show the immigrant students to outperform the other two groups in French and English, are explored through a cultural–ecological lens suggesting that voluntary immigrants to Canada are positive about education in general and, despite experiencing discrimination, are positive about official language bilingualism in particular, thereby having a positive impact on their results where more traditionally examined influential variables did not (e.g. metalinguistic awareness). Cette étude cherche à examiner le succès des immigrants volontaires en immersion française en 6e année avec une comparaison avec: (a) les anglophones et (b) les élèves multilingues nés au Canada (enfants d’immigrants volontaires). J’explore les résultats, qui montrent que les élèves immigrants surpassent les deux autres groupes en français et en anglais, d’une perspective culturelle-écologique, ce qui suggère que les immigrants volontaires au Canada sont positifs: à l’égard de l’éducation en général et malgré les expériences discriminations, en ce qui concerne le bilinguisme des langues officielles en particulier, ce qui a eu un impact positif sur leurs résultats où les variables influentes traditionnellement examinées ne l’ont pas eu (par exemple, la connaissance métalinguistique).
Analytical Cytology

The Boyden monograph should be available to every anatomist, thoracic surgeon, and diagnostician. It has occurred to this reviewer that a condensed version of the text, including only those sections concerned with surface anatomy and bronchial patterns, would be of great practical value to otolaryngologists and radiologists who are less frequently concerned with the finer anatomical details of the pulmonary vasculature.
Projective and object space geometry for monocular building extraction

Knowledge about the imaging geometry and acquisition parameters provides useful geometric constraints for the analysis and extraction of man-made features in aerial imagery, particularly in oblique views. We discuss the identification of horizontal and vertical lines in the scene, using image orientation information and vanishing point calculations, and the calculation of their dimensions. The vertical and horizontal attributions are used to constrain the set of possible building hypotheses, and vertical lines are extracted at corners to estimate structure height and permit the generation of three-dimensional building models from monocular views. Results of these techniques are presented for nadir and oblique imagery and evaluated against manually generated 3D ground truth building models. <<ETX>>
The Role of Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development against Neglected Tropical Diseases

Endemic in 149 tropical and subtropical countries, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion people annually, including 875 million children in developing economies. These diseases are also responsible for over 500,000 deaths per year and are characterized by long-term disability and severe pain. The impact of the combined NTDs closely rivals that of malaria and tuberculosis. Current treatment options are associated with various limitations including widespread drug resistance, severe adverse effects, lengthy treatment duration, unfavorable toxicity profiles, and complicated drug administration procedures. Natural products have been a valuable source of drug regimens that form the cornerstone of modern pharmaceutical care. In this review, we highlight the potential that remains untapped in natural products as drug leads for NTDs. We cover natural products from plant, marine, and microbial sources including natural-product-inspired semi-synthetic derivatives which have been evaluated against the various causative agents of NTDs. Our coverage is limited to four major NTDs which include human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis.