Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intra Household Labour Supply , Agricultural Shocks and Women ’ s Bargaining

Using a unique household panel data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey complimented by qualitative information drawn from focus group discussions from Rural Ethiopia, this paper examines how different dimensions of bargaining power affect women’s non-farm labour supply. It also investigates whether there are differential responses in men’s and women’s non-farm labor supply to important agricultural shocks. It also examines how different dimensions of women’s bargaining power shape women’s non-farm labour supply responses to agricultural shocks. We find evidence that women’s non-farm labour supply is a consequence of bargaining and that a woman’s bargaining power reduces her participation in off-farm self-employment whereas it increases participation in off-farm wage work. We also provide evidence that negative agricultural shocks increase women’s participation in off-farm self-employment while no significant impact on wage work is observed. This implies that households resort to women’s labor to self-employed work as an important adjustment mechanism in the presence of negative agricultural shocks. Our findings also suggest that bargaining power helps to reverse the impact that negative shocks have on a woman’s participation in off-farm self employment, i.e. women deemed to have higher bargaining power tend to participate less in off-farm self-employment during economic hardships.
Performance analysis of DYMO protocol for IEEE 802.15.4 based WSNs with mobile nodes

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as a new class of large scale networks of embedded systems with limited communication, computation and energy resources. Recently IEEE 802.15. 4 standards are accepted as Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (LR-WPAN) which are most extensively used communication platform for WSNs. Traditional routing in IEEE 802.15. 4 networks is based on Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) which facilitates the building of mesh networks for data dissemination. However, the performance of AODV degrades in terms of throughput for high mobility situations. In this paper, performance analysis of Dynamic MANET On-Demand (DYMO) Routing Protocol is done for various pause time and speed. Simulation is done in QUALNET Network Simulator version 6.1. Performance parameters of DYMO such as Throughput, Total Packets Received and Average End-to-End Delay are obtained and compared.
European Labor Share Dynamics : An Institutional Perspective 1

This paper studies the evolution of the labour share in the EU countries and the US for the period 1960 to 1998. Counter-cyclical movements of the labour share predicted by a dynamic labour demand model with dismissal costs characterise the data. Moreover, there is evidence suggesting that the tighter employment protection legislation in a given country, the higher the variation in the labour share for similar fluctuations in business conditions. An equilibrium relationship between the labour share and a measure of business cycle fluctuations seems to hold during the first two decades of the period studied. In most countries under study, however, we find downward shifts of the equilibrium schedule occurring primarily in the first part of the 1980s. In our interpretation, these shifts probably reflect the sharp reduction in union power that is documented for most European countries during this period.
Gluon Scattering in = 4 Super Yang-Mills at Finite Temperature

We extend the AdS/CFT prescription of Alday and Maldacena to finite temperature T , defining an amplitude for gluon scattering in N = 4 Super Yang-Mills at strong coupling from string theory. It is defined by a lightlike “Wilson loop” living at the horizon of the T-dual to the black hole in AdS space. Unlike the zero temperature case, this is different from the Wilson loop contour defined at the boundary of the AdS black hole metric. Thus at nonzero T there is no relation between gluon scattering amplitudes and the Wilson loop. We calculate a gauge theory observable that can be interpreted as the amplitude at strong coupling for forward scattering of a low energy gluon (E < T ) off a high energy gluon (E T ) in both cutoff and generalized dimensional regularization. The generalized dimensional regularization is defined in string theory as an IR modified dimensional reduction. For this calculation, the corresponding usual Wilson loop of the same boundary shape was argued to be related to the jet quenching parameter of the finite temperature N = 4 SYM plasma, while the gluon scattering amplitude is related to the viscosity coefficient.
The Relations Between Parental Socioeconomic Status, Personality, and Life Outcomes

Studies have shown that cognitive ability is correlated with parental socioeconomic status (pSES). However, little is known about the correlation between personality and pSES. To better understand this relation, we conducted a meta-analysis of the correlations between pSES and personality traits and temperament dimensions. The correlations were generally very small with the exception of the correlation between pSES and openness to experience. Our results were replicated in a large (N = 2,183,377) data set of self-reported personality scores collected online. Using this data set, we also examined the interaction between pSES and personality on attained education and socioeconomic status. We found evidence for the resource substitution hypothesis, which proposes that personality compensates for background disadvantage.
Content Interoperability of Lexical Resources: Open Issues and “MILE” Perspectives

The paper tackles the issue of content interoperability among lexical resources, by presenting an experiment of mapping differently conceived lexicons, FrameNet and NOMLEX, onto MILE (Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry), a meta-entry for the encoding of multilingual lexical information, acting as a general schema of shared and common lexical objects. The aim is to (i) raise problems and (ii) test the expressive potentialities of MILE as a standard environment for Computational Lexicons.
The wall shear stress produced by the normal impingement of a jet on a flat surface

A method for the theoretical determination of the wall shear stress under impinging jets of various configurations is presented. Axisymmetric and two-dimensional incompressible jets of a wide range of Reynolds numbers and jet heights are considered. Theoretical predictions from this approach are compared with available wall shear stress measurements. These data are critically evaluated based on the method of measurement and its applicability to the boundary layer under consideration. It was found that impingement-region wall shear stress measurements using the electrochemical method in submerged impinging liquid jets provide the greatest accuracy of any indirect method. A unique wall shear stress measurement technique, based on observing the removal of monosized spheres from well-characterized surfaces, was used to confirm the impinging jet analysis presented for gas jets. The technique was also used to determine an empirical relation describing the rise in wall shear stress due to compressibility effects in impinging high-velocity jets.
Overconfidence in investment decisions: An experimental approach

Abstract By experimentally inducing risk aversion, overconfidence in an investment setting is investigated, comparing the evaluation of actual investment decisions with alternative choices. After selecting their own investment, subjects confront three alternative investment choices, including the optimal one, and are asked about their willingness to pay and to substitute their own for alternative choices. Overconfidence is defined as the persistent overevaluation of the own investment decision. Results indicate that overconfidence increases (i) with the absolute deviation from optimal choices, (ii) with task complexity involving the number of risky assets, and (iii) decreases with individual perceived uncertainty.
Inactivation of SMC2 shows a synergistic lethal response in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma cells

The condensin complex is required for chromosome condensation during mitosis; however, the role of this complex during interphase is unclear. Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood, and it is often lethal. In human neuroblastoma, MYCN gene amplification is correlated with poor prognosis. This study demonstrates that the gene encoding the condensin complex subunit SMC2 is transcriptionally regulated by MYCN. SMC2 also transcriptionally regulates DNA damage response genes in cooperation with MYCN. Downregulation of SMC2 induced DNA damage and showed a synergistic lethal response in MYCN-amplified/overexpression cells, leading to apoptosis in human neuroblastoma cells. Finally, this study found that patients bearing MYCN-amplified tumors showed improved survival when SMC2 expression was low. These results identify novel functions of SMC2 in DNA damage response, and we propose that SMC2 (or the condensin complex) is a novel molecular target for the treatment of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma.
Teaching Stress Management in Physical Education: A Quasi-Experimental Study with Vocational Students

ABSTRACT The aim was to develop, implement, and evaluate a physical education-based coping training program for vocational students. Two vocational schools participated in the quasi-experimental pilot study (EPHECT I). One school received the intervention (intervention group: n = 434), while the other school maintained regular physical education classes (control group: n = 430). Repeated measures ANCOVAs were used to examine the effects on coping and perceived stress. Additionally, effects were compared among students who reported low versus elevated life satisfaction. Finally, the implementation rate was considered as a moderating factor. Overall, no significant time by group effects were found between the intervention group and the control group. However, a reduction in maladaptive coping occurred among students of the intervention group who reported low life satisfaction. The implementation rate did not moderate the findings. Despite a relatively low implementation rate, the intervention program reduced maladaptive coping strategies in adolescents with low life satisfaction. Program monitoring needs to be increased in future research.
Hubungan antara resiliensi dengan stres dalam menyusun skripsi pada mahasiswa program studi psikologi fakultas kedokteran Universitas Sebelas Maret

Mahasiswa yang sedang menyusun skripsi menemui berbagai hambatan yang membuat mahasiswa mengalami stres. Mahasiswa yang mengalami stres perlu penanganan secepatnya, sebab mahasiswa yang mengalami stres saat menyusun skripsi berdampak pada kelulusan mahasiswa tidak tepat waktu. Di sisi lain, resiliensi merupakan salah satu faktor penting bagi mahasiswa yang mengalami stres. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara resiliensi dengan stres dalam menyusun skripsi pada mahasiswa Program Studi Psikologi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sebelas Maret.Populasi penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa angkatan 2008 sampai 2010 di Program Studi Psikologi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sebelas Maret yang sedang mengerjakan skripsi dengan masa studi lebih dari empat tahun. Penelitian ini adalah studi populasi yang melibatkan seluruh populasi yang berjumlah 40 mahasiswa. Alat ukur yang digunakan yaitu skala stres dalam menyusun skripsi dengan daya beda aitem 0,305 - 0,659 dan reliabilitas 0,746, skala resiliensi dengan daya beda aitem 0,300 - 0,653 dan reliabilitas 0,805.Kesimpulan dalam penelitian ini yaitu ada hubungan negatif antara resiliensi dengan stres dalam menyusun skripsi pada mahasiswa Program Studi Psikologi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sebelas Maret. Hubungan tersebut ditunjukkan dari hasil korelasi product moment diperoleh r = -0,427 dan p = 0,006 (p < 0,05). Adanya hubungan negatif tersebut didukung hasil tingkat stres dalam menyusun skripsi responden penelitian termasuk kategori tinggi dan tingkat resiliensi responden penelitian termasuk kategori rendah. Artinya, semakin rendah resiliensi, maka semakin tinggi stres dalam menyusun skripsi. Besarnya sumbangan resiliensi terhadap stres dalam penyusunan skripsi 18,3%. Hal ini berarti masih terdapat beberapa variabel lain yang mempengaruhi stres dalam penyusunan skripsi sebesar 81,7%. Kata kunci : Resiliensi, Stres, Mahasiswa.
Identification Of Variations In Plant Morphology Through Different Methods Of Gypsum Application In Tulsi (Ocimumbasilicum)

Abstract: This study characterized the influence of Gypsum (CaSO42H20) a chemical fertilizer on Tulsi (Ocimum basilicum) plant. The experiment was conducted with five different methods of treatments Viz. Control,Incineration,Broadcasting,Lines and spots and constant 1 ton /hec gypsum applied to the field for observing morphological variability through a randomized completely block design with four replications. Data was recorded on plant height, Plant weight, Stem weight, Leaf weight and Number of leaves. There was a great significance observed in Plant height, Plant weight and Stem weight. Interesting high morphological variability was seen constantly in the Spots treatment. Hence, the results suggest that Spots treatments works best to achieve better growth at 1 ton /hec application of gypsum.
Classroom Error Climate: Teacher Professional Development to Improve Student Motivation

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . v TABLE OF CONTENTS . vi LIST OF FIGURES . ix LIST OF TABLES . x CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 Problem of Practice . 1 Organizational Context . 2 Key Terms and Concepts . 5 Parameters of the Dissertation in Practice . 6 Theoretical Conceptualization of the Problem . 7 Middle School Motivation . 7 Socioeconomic Status . 13 Research on Error Orientation . 15 Error Orientation Practices in U.S. Schools. 28
Associations of psychological distress, sleep, and self-esteem among Kosovar adolescents

Abstract Mental health among children and adolescents is considered a global public health challenge worldwide. The purpose of this paper was to examine the correlates of psychological distress among adolescents living in Kosovo. A sample of 200 adolescents (M = 10.8; SD = .44) were assessed using a variety of measures, including psychological distress, sleep behaviors, and self-esteem. The research findings indicate significant correlations between electronic use, bedtime fears/worries and insomnia, and higher levels of psychological distress among the study sample. The research results show positive correlations between self-esteem and lower levels of psychological distress. An examination of gender differences revealed that females tended to report higher levels of sleep, whereas males reported higher levels of electronic use and psychological distress. The results are discussed within the context of general health, mental health, and wellbeing among Kosovar children.
Know thy enemies: knowledge of rivals' types and its effect on auctions

We study auctions in which bidders may know the types of some rival bidders but not others. This asymmetry in bidders’ knowledge about rivals’ types has different effects on the two standard auction formats. In a second-price auction, it is weakly dominant to bid one’s valuation, so the knowledge of rivals’ types has no effect, and the good is allocated efficiently. In a first-price auction, bidders refine their bidding strategies based on their knowledge of rivals’ types, which yields an inefficient allocation. We show that the inefficient allocation in the first-price auction translates into a poor revenue performance. Given a standard regularity condition, the seller earns higher expected revenue from the second-price auction than from the first-price auction, whereas the bidders are better off from the latter. ∗This paper was circulated under the title, “Standard Auctions with Shared Information. ” We thank Phil Haile, Don Hausch, Phil Reny and Larry Samuelson, and the seminar participants at University of Wisconsin for helpful comments. †Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin ‡Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin
Development of a mobile app for family members of Veterans with PTSD: identifying needs and modifiable factors associated with burden, depression, and anxiety

ABSTRACT Family members of Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face high levels of burden that are poorly addressed by existing mental health services. Widely distributed mobile interventions could play a role in addressing these unmet needs. The purpose of this study was to characterize caregiver burden in those seeking a mobile app for self-management of stress symptoms and to develop a model to guide mobile interventions for family members. Those living with a Veteran with PTSD (n = 212) and interested in using a mobile intervention agreed to participate. The majority reported moderate-to-severe levels of depression (60%) and/or caregiver burden (59%). Relationship quality, communication, and self-efficacy for caregiving were the strongest predictors of negative outcomes (p’s < .001), and qualitative results identified several additional unmet needs (e.g. relationship concerns, safety concerns). This study identifies potential mechanisms by which a mobile app could improve family functioning in the context of PTSD.
Capital in the twenty-first century: a multidimensional approach to the history of capital and social classes.

I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such an impressive set of review papers about my book. I am very honoured by the very thoughtful essays written by such a distinguished group of scholars coming from sociology, political science, anthropology, history, geography and economics. I warmly thank all participants for their time and attention to my work. I would like to view my book more as work of social science than one of economics or history. It seems to me that we often loose a lot of time in the social sciences because of little disputes about disciplinary boundaries. I could not dream of a better recognition for my work than the stimulating collection of interdisciplinary essays that the British Journal of Sociology is now publishing. I am very fortunate to have so many great readers. There is no way I can do justice to the richness of each review and address the many stimulating points that they raise. I would like however to take this opportunity to briefly clarify a number of issues.
Sec66-Dependent Regulation of Yeast Spindle-Pole Body Duplication Through Pom152

In closed mitotic systems such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nuclear envelope (NE) does not break down during mitosis, so microtubule-organizing centers such as the spindle-pole body (SPB) must be inserted into the NE to facilitate bipolar spindle formation and chromosome segregation. The mechanism of SPB insertion has been linked to NE insertion of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) through a series of genetic and physical interactions between NPCs and SPB components. To identify new genes involved in SPB duplication and NE insertion, we carried out genome-wide screens for suppressors of deletion alleles of SPB components, including Mps3 and Mps2. In addition to the nucleoporins POM152 and POM34, we found that elimination of SEC66/SEC71/KAR7 suppressed lethality of cells lacking MPS2 or MPS3. Sec66 is a nonessential subunit of the Sec63 complex that functions together with the Sec61 complex in import of proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Cells lacking Sec66 have reduced levels of Pom152 protein but not Pom34 or Ndc1, a shared component of the NPC and SPB. The fact that Sec66 but not other subunits of the ER translocon bypass deletion mutants in SPB genes suggests a specific role for Sec66 in the control of Pom152 levels. Based on the observation that sec66∆ does not affect the distribution of Ndc1 on the NE or Ndc1 binding to the SPB, we propose that Sec66-mediated regulation of Pom152 plays an NPC-independent role in the control of SPB duplication.
Modeling, optimization and control of rotary traveling-wave oscillator

Rotary traveling-wave oscillator (RTWO) is a recently proposed transmission-line approach for multi-gigahertz rate clock generation. RTWO has the characteristics of both conventional LC tank oscillator and ring oscillator. Thus, it is difficult to be analyzed by a general-purpose method. This paper presents a systematic and efficient method for RTWO modeling and optimization. Equations for frequency, power dissipation, die area, loop gain and phase noise are formulated in posynomial forms. The resulting optimization problem is relaxed to be a Geometric Programming (GP) and can be efficiently solved with a convex optimization solver. A novel scheme to control the rotation direction is also suggested for skew control. Experimental results show that our method can rapidly compute the globally optimal trade-off and reduce the power by up to 85% for a 11.8 GHz RTWO design. Compared to a recently reported low-power methodology, the proposed design scheme can save about 50% of die area and achieve lower power dissipation as well as faster rise/fall time.
Neoadjuvant chemoradiation versus perioperative chemotherapy followed by surgery in resectable adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction: A retrospective single center analysis

The current study presents a retrospective comparison, performed at a single academic center, of preoperative chemoradiation (CRT) and perioperative chemotherapy (CT) in addition to surgery in locally advanced but resectable adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG). A total of 29 consecutive patients with locally advanced AEGs were retrospectively analyzed. Treatment consisted of preoperative CRT (mean dose, 45.0 Gy) plus two cycles of CT with cisplatin and 5-FU or perioperative CT with epirubicin, cisplatin and capecitabine (three cycles preoperatively and postoperatively). Within four to six weeks following preoperative treatment, surgical therapy was performed. Median overall survival was 21.0 months in the perioperative CT group versus 41.7 months in the CRT group [P=0.36; hazard ratio (HR), 1.50; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.58–3.84]. Three-year survival rates were 55 and 38%, respectively, in favor of the CRT group, and progression-free survival was 20.0 months in the CT group compared with 24.1 months in the CRT group (P=0.71; HR, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.46–3.05). The total number of major surgical complications was almost equal in the two groups. Margin-free resections were achieved in all patients of the CRT group, but only 76.9% of the CT group (P=0.05). In addition, significantly higher R0 resection rates and an increased number of pathological complete remissions were demonstrated in the CRT group compared with those of the CT group. These results appear to indicate a trend for improved progression-free and overall survival for the CRT group. As postoperative morbidity and mortality rates were similar in the two groups, the results support the use of CRT for patients with advanced AEG tumors.
Social Virtual Objects in the Edge Cloud

The social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm, in which objects establish social-like relationships, presents several interesting features to improve network navigability, object trustworthiness, and interactions between elements across IoT platforms. Implementations of the SIoT model envision cyber counterparts of physical objects--social virtual objects--virtualized in the cloud. Such an approach has several advantages but suffers from a few major problems. In fact, objects might be located far from the datacenter hosting the cloud, resulting in long delays and inefficient use of communication resources. This article investigates how to address these issues by exploiting the computing resources at the edge of the network to host the virtual objects of the SIoT and provides early experimental results.