Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gender differences in salary in a female‐dominated profession

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the salary and promotion negotiation practices of female and male school psychology practitioners and university instructors of school psychology practitioners in order to determine whether salary differences exist between male and female employees in the field of school psychology, which has become a female‐dominated profession.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 191 female and 115 male faculty members and 148 female and 56 male school psychologists completed a survey regarding salary, negotiation practices, and job satisfaction.Findings – Results suggest that females earn less than male colleagues, controlling for years of experience and degree attainment. No gender differences were found regarding faculty participants' willingness to negotiate for increased salary; however, males were more likely to negotiate for promotion. Likewise, no gender differences were evident in practitioners' salary and promotion negotiation attempts, although none were e.
Publishing, ranking, and the future of heterodox economics

Purpose – The purpose of the “Introduction” is to provide the motivation and context for the articles of this special issue and an overview and summary of the contributions that follow.Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue.Findings – It is argued that heterodoxies had gained a considerable and growing influence on research orientations, methodologies, and critical reflections, also on the mainstream publishing practices, even in the mainstream. This has been widely acknowledged as “hip heterodoxy” recently. Thus, many heterodox economists have developed optimistic expectations for the future of the profession. However, that influence has left the main mechanisms of reproduction of the mainstream untouched. These are mass teaching, public advising, journal policies, and faculty recruitment. Above that, the last decade has seen something like a “counterattack” to safeguard these mainstream reproduction mechanisms. The means used fo.
From submissiveness to agency: An overview of developments in translation studies and some implications for language practice in Africa

Abstract Since the 1980s, discourses about translation have broadened steadily. Beginning with a discussion of the name and content of the discipline, an overview of some translation approaches focusing on the source text, the process of translation, the reception of the translated text, and the culturally and socially bound character of translation are offered. Within translation studies, the pendulum has swung from normative and prescriptive approaches to a descriptive approach. Translation theorists attempt to account not only for textual strategies used to solve translation problems in the translated text, but also for the way in which the translator functions as an agent of cultural mediation in the target cultural system. The move is towards the ways in which translation transcends Eurocentric views and contemporary dominant Western translation practices. This article thus describes some implications of recent developments in translation studies for language practice in Africa.
Differential steady‐state tyrosine phosphorylation of two oligomeric forms of mitochondrial F0F1ATPsynthase: A structural proteomic analysis

We investigated tyrosine phosphorylation of F0F1ATPsynthase using 3‐D blue native (BN)‐SDS‐PAGE, a refinement of the electrophoretic analysis of mitochondrial complexes. Bovine heart mitochondria were detergent‐solubilized and subjected to BN‐PAGE. Bands of ATPsynthase monomer (Vmon) and dimer (Vdim) were excised and submitted to SDS‐PAGE and immunoblotting. One protein corresponding to F1γ subunit was detected by anti‐phosphotyrosine antibody in monomer but not in dimer. This was confirmed by MS peptide mapping. LC‐ESI/MS analysis after 3‐D SDS‐PAGE demonstrated phosphotyrosine in fragment 43–54. NetPhos scores predicted the phosphorylated residue to be Tyr52, in a solvent‐accessible loop at the foot of the F1 central stalk.
Late Glacial 14C Ages from a Floating, 1382-Ring Pine Chronology

We built a floating, 1382-ring pine chronology covering the radiocarbon age interval of 12,000 to 10,650 BP. Based on the strong rise of Δ14C at the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) and wiggle-matching of the decadal-scale Δ14C fluctuations, we can anchor the floating chronology to the Cariaco varve chronology. We observe a marine reservoir correction higher than hitherto assumed for the Cariaco site, of up to 650 yr instead of 400 yr, for the full length of the comparison interval. The tree-ring Δ14C shows several strong fluctuations of short duration (a few decades) at 13,800; 13,600; and 13,350 cal BP. The amplitude of the strong Δ14C rise at the onset of the YD is about 40, whereas in the marine data set the signal appears stronger due to a re-adjustment of the marine mixed-layer Δ14C towards the atmospheric level.
The Structure of Positive and Negative Automatic Cognition

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test hypotheses about the structure of positive and negative automatic cognitions, using the responses of 304 college students to separate questionnaires assessing positive (ATQP; Ingram & Wisnicki, 1988) and negative (ATQ-N; Hollon & Kendall, 1980) automatic thoughts. For each instrument, an oblique version of the four-factor model originally proposed by the developers (ATQ-N: Personal Maladjustment, Negative Expectations, Low Self-esteem, Giving Up/Hopelessness; ATQ-P: Positive Daily Functioning, Positive Self-evaluation, Other's Evaluations of Self, Positive Future Expectations) provided a marginally acceptable fit to the data (median relative-fit indices = .87 and .89, respectively). Whereas the structure of positive automatic cognition was invariant with respect to gender, women's negative automatic cognitions were more complexly interrelated than men's, and different cognitions were diagnostic of negative automatic thinking for males and females. Within.
Financial Constraints and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Capital Market Segmentation

The sharp distinction drawn between firms rated narrowly above (BBB-) and below (BB+) the investment-grade cutoff provides variation in debt financing availability unrelated to firm fundamentals. We exploit this market segmentation to identify an asymmetric effect of debt capital supply on voluntary disclosure: BB firms step up disclosure in response to high-yield bond mutual fund outflows. This effect is concentrated in periods of large fund outflows and among financially constrained firms. Conditional on greater disclosure, these firms increase equity issuance. Thus, disclosure may alleviate information-based financing frictions, allowing firms to smooth out temporary disruptions to the availability of finance.
Transfer of training: Written self‐guidance to increase self‐efficacy and interviewing performance of job seekers

Subsequent to training IT professionals ( n = 35) in skills for performing effectively in a selection interview, 16 were randomly assigned to a transfer of training intervention, written self-guidance (WSG). This methodology is based on social cognitive and self-persuasion theories. The results showed that WSG resulted in significantly higher ratings from an interviewer than did those in the control group. Self-efficacy for interviewing skill mediated the relationship between WSG and performance. A content analysis of the WSG letters showed that the use of self-affirming and self-relevant statements was positively related to performance in the selection interview. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Frequency of drug resistant Salmonella spp. isolated from poultry samples in Bangladesh

Present study was conducted to determine the levels of Salmonella spp. mediated contamination in samples collected from poultry and poultry environments in Bangladesh and to determine the antibiotic resistance trait in those pathogens. A total of 300 samples were collected from five different sources (cloacal swab, intestinal fluid, egg surface, hand wash of chicken handler and soil of chicken market) and 80 (26.6%) samples were found to be contaminated with Salmonella spp. One hundred and fifty Salmonella strains were isolated among which, 91 were detected as S. enteriditis and 59 as S. typhimurium through morphological, biochemical and serological tests. Susceptibility of the isolates against 13 antimicrobials was tested, and resistance against chloramphenicol (30 ? g), erythromycin (15 ? g), ampicillin (10 ? g), riphampicin (5 ? g), cephalexin (15 ? g), cefixine (5 ? g), penicillin (10 ? g), tetracycline (30 ? g), norfloxacin (10 ? g), nalidixic acid (30 ? g) and ciprofloxacin (10 ? g) was found in 58%, 82%, 88%, 60%, 65%, 50%, 100%, 100%, 20%, 20% and 20% of the strains, consecutively. 76% isolates were found to be sensitive against gentamicin and 70% against streptomycin. Some of the isolates interestingly exhibited multiple-drug resistances against at least 6 to 10 antibiotics. The results indicated the higher resistance of Salmonella spp. against antibiotics which serving as a threat not only to poultry industry of Bangladesh but also possesses a serious threat to public and animal health. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/sjm.v2i1. 15207 Stamford Journal of Microbiology, Vol.2(1) 2012: 15-19
Effect of Olanzapine and Risperidone on Subjective Well-Being and Craving for Cannabis in Patients with Schizophrenia or Related Disorders: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective: To examine whether subjective well-being and craving for cannabis were different in patients with schizophrenia or related disorders treated with either olanzapine or risperidone. Method: A 6-week, double-blind, randomized trial of olanzapine and risperidone was carried out in 128 young adults with recent onset schizophrenia or related disorders. Primary efficacy measures were the mean baseline-to-endpoint change in total scores on the Subjective Well-Being under Neuroleptics scale, the Obsessive–Compulsive Drug Use Scale, the Drug Desire Questionnaire, and the cannabis use self-report. An analysis of covariance was used to test between-group differences. Results: Estimated D2 receptor occupancy did not differ between olanzapine (n = 63) and risperidone (n = 65). Similar improvements in subjective well-being were found in both groups. In the comorbid cannabis-using group (n = 41, 32%), a similar decrease in craving for cannabis was found in both treatment conditions. Conclusions: Both olanzapine and risperidone were associated with improved subjective well-being. No evidence was found for a differential effect of olanzapine or risperidone on subjective experience or on craving for cannabis in dosages leading to comparable dopamine D2 occupancy. Objectif: Examiner si le bien-être subjectif et l'état de manque de cannabis étaient différents chez les patients souffrant de schizophrénie ou de troubles connexes traités à l'olanzapine ou à la rispéridone.
OPTIMAL OBSERVABILITY FOR CONTINUOUS PETRI NETS

Abstract Optimal observability of continuous Petri Nets consists in deciding the places to be measured (considering that all are measurable) such that the net system is observable and a cost function is minimal. Unfortunately this is not a simple covering problem. The results obtained in the paper are used in the implementation of an algorithm to improve the pure combinatorial search.
Subjective and objective evaluation of English to Urdu Machine translation

Machine translation is research based area where evaluation is very important phenomenon for checking the quality of MT output. The work is based on the evaluation of English to Urdu Machine translation. In this research work we have evaluated the translation quality of Urdu language which has been translated by using different Machine Translation systems like Google, Babylon and Ijunoon. The evaluation process is done by using two approaches - Human evaluation and Automatic evaluation. We have worked for both the approaches where in human evaluation emphasis is given to scales and parameters while in automatic evaluation emphasis is given to some automatic metric such as BLEU, GTM, METEOR and ATEC.
Distributed and parallel time series feature extraction for industrial big data applications

The all-relevant problem of feature selection is the identification of all strongly and weakly relevant attributes. This problem is especially hard to solve for time series classification and regression in industrial applications such as predictive maintenance or production line optimization, for which each label or regression target is associated with several time series and meta-information simultaneously. Here, we are proposing an efficient, scalable feature extraction algorithm for time series, which filters the available features in an early stage of the machine learning pipeline with respect to their significance for the classification or regression task, while controlling the expected percentage of selected but irrelevant features. The proposed algorithm combines established feature extraction methods with a feature importance filter. It has a low computational complexity, allows to start on a problem with only limited domain knowledge available, can be trivially parallelized, is highly scalable and based on well studied non-parametric hypothesis tests. We benchmark our proposed algorithm on all binary classification problems of the UCR time series classification archive as well as time series from a production line optimization project and simulated stochastic processes with underlying qualitative change of dynamics.
Circumstellar Disks in the IC 348 Cluster

We report the results of the first sensitive L-band (3.4 μm) imaging survey of the young IC 348 cluster in Perseus. In conjunction with previously acquired JHK (1.25, 1.65, and 2.2 μm) observations, we use L-band data to obtain a census of the circumstellar disk population to mK = mL ≤ 12.0 in the central ∼110 arcmin2 region of the cluster. An analysis of the JHKL colors of 107 sources indicates that 65% ± 8% of the cluster membership possesses (inner) circumstellar disks. This fraction is lower than those (86% ± 8% and 80% ± 7%) obtained from similar JHKL surveys of the younger NGC 2024 and Trapezium clusters, suggesting that the disk fraction in clusters decreases with cluster age. Sources with circumstellar disks in IC 348 have a median age of 0.9 Myr, while the diskless sources have a median age of 1.4 Myr, for a cluster distance of 320 pc. Although the difference in the median ages between the two populations is only marginally significant, our results suggest that over a timescale of ∼2–3 Myr more than a third of the disks in the IC 348 cluster disappear. Moreover, we find that at a very high confidence level the disk fraction is a function of spectral type. All stars earlier than G appear diskless, while stars with spectral types G and later have a disk fraction ranging between 50%–67%, with the latest-type stars having the higher disk fraction. This suggests that the disks around stars with spectral types G and earlier have evolved more rapidly than those with later spectral types. The L-band disk fraction for sources with similar ages in both IC 348 and Taurus is the same within the errors, suggesting that at least in clusters with no O stars the disk lifetime is independent of environment.
An in vitro mechanical comparison of tibial plateau levelling osteotomy plates

Summary An in vitro mechanical study was performed to compare the fatigue properties and the loads to failure of four plate designs that are used to stabilise the tibial plateau levelling osteotomy (TPLO). Seventy-two gapped osteotomy models were created using 3.5 mm versions of the following plates: a standard TPLO plate, a low profile TPLO plate, a locking TPLO plate (LocP), and a broad locking TPLO plate (bLocP). The 18 constructs for each plate design were sub-divided into three identical groups of six. Six constructs were mounted in a materials testing device and subjected to cyclic compressive loading until failure was observed or one-million cycles were achieved. Additionally, six constructs of each plate design were tested in compressive axial loading and six others in four-point bending in a load-to-failure manner. To provide residual strength comparisons, the six constructs undergoing cyclic fatigue compression testing were also tested in axial compressive loading. There were not any significant differences in stiffness between plates tested in axial compressive loading. However, mean loads at failure were higher for the LocP and bLocP constructs. The bLocP had a significantly higher mean stiffness and mean load at failure compared to the other constructs tested in fourpoint bending.
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology the Relationship between Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Information Quality, and Intention to Use E-government

Purpose-The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate empirically the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived information quality, and intention to use e-government to gather information and conduct transactions by Jordanian citizens. Motivations-The motivations for conducting this study are: this work has never been done in the Jordanian e-government context; there is a significant part of e-government literature that investigates various factors that determine intention to use e-government in developed countries, however, there is a dearth of studies that investigate intention to use e-government for gathering information and conducting transactions in developing countries; and finally, it is an empirical research where important findings emerge and as a result, relevant managerial implications are provided. Design/methodology/approach-A questionnaire survey was developed based on the related literature. The original version of the questionnaire was in English then translated into Arabic. The questionnaire was circulated to a selected sample of Jordanian citizens who are aware of e-government services. Findings-The results of data analysis have revealed that Jordanian citizens perceive that e-government system is useful, easy to use, and to some extent has a high level of information quality. The results have also showed that there is a significant positive relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived information quality and intention to use e-government for gathering information and conducting transactions. Finally, the results suggest that citizens' gender and level of education make some differences in terms of using e-government for gathering information rather than for conducting transactions. Research limitations-This research has not taken into consideration all the contextual factors that may determine intention to use e-government for gathering information or conducting transactions. Also, it did not take into account the possibility of any intervening, mediating, and moderating variables that may strengthen the hypothesized relationships in the research model. Practical implications-As this research focuses on perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived information quality and tries to link those with intention to use, as result; it will encourage the use of e-government for gathering information and conducting transactions. It also raises the policy and decision makers' awareness of how Jordanian citizens are going to use e-government services. Finally, it gives e-government project national team an idea of how to design e-government strategy according to citizens' needs.
Strider Typo-Patrol: Discovery and Analysis of Systematic Typo-Squatting

Typo-squatting refers to the practice of registering domain names that are typo variations of popular websites. We propose a new approach, called Strider Typo-Patrol, to discover large-scale, systematic typo-squatters. We show that a large number of typo-squatting domains are active and a large percentage of them are parked with a handful of major domain parking services, which serve syndicated advertisements on these domains. We also describe the Strider URL Tracer, a tool that we have released to allow website owners to systematically monitor typo-squatting domains of their sites.
Fractal Frequency-Selective Surface Embedded Thin Broadband Microwave Absorber Coatings Using Heterogeneous Composites

The development of thin microwave absorber coatings that operates for a wide range of frequencies is still a challenging task. This work presents a technique of blending a fractal frequency selective surface (FSS) with single- and double-layer coatings. These coatings are comprised of well-optimized micrometer-sized (80-90 μm) and nano-sized (20-30 nm) Ti particles based Fe3O4 (80-100 nm) composites. The main objective of this study is to achieve good absorption with wide bandwidth corresponding to reflection loss (RL) ≤ 10 dB for less coating thickness ( ≤ 1.5 mm). Waveguide measurements are carried out to obtain the effective complex dielectric permittivity ( ε r = ε r<sup>'</sup>- jε r<sup>''</sup>) and effective complex magnetic permeability ( μ r = μ r<sup>'</sup>- j μ r<sup>''</sup>) values of Fe3 O4-Ti based heterogeneous composites. The measured ε r<sup>'</sup>, ε r<sup>''</sup>, μ r<sup>'</sup>, and μ r<sup>''</sup> values are used for the designing of double-layer composite absorbers, where the suitable composite selection, layer preferences, as well as thickness of layers are optimized using a genetic algorithm. The fractal geometry based FSSs have been designed using an iterated function system, which are embedded with single- and double-layer composite absorbers to examine their effect on absorption. A double-layer composite coating with a Sierpinski gasket fractal FSS shows a strong RL of 35.57 dB at 9.5 GHz with broad bandwidth of 4.2 GHz in the range from 8.2 to 12.4 GHz. The total coating thickness is only 1.4 mm. Findings provide an effective and feasible way to develop thin and broadband absorber coatings for various practical applications.
Experience of Induction in One Local Education Authority

From September 1999 the UK government's arrangements for induction of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) would be supported formally by experienced colleagues throughout their first year in teaching. The competence and progress of new teachers was to be monitored, supported and assessed against induction standards, with reports being prepared and sent to the Local Education Authority (LEA) at three points during the year. Should an NQT fail to meet the expectations described in the induction standards at the end of their first year then these new colleagues would be unable to continue teaching. The Teacher Training Agency, following details supplied by the DfEE, offered guidance on the ways in which this process should be carried through. This article examines the support provided by experienced teachers in one local authority to consider if it offers an initiation into the teaching profession, a socialisation into the current practices of particular schools or a check on basic classroom competence. It raises issues about the current focus on the practicalities of teaching and suggests new recruits may need a more robust induction to their professional role.