Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The job satisfaction-job performance relationship for creative tasks: An empirical investigation of the role of attitude and behavior in job performance among scientists

The relationship between job satisfaction and job performance has attracted the attention of many organizational researchers in recent decades. However, gaps in the research still remain. Contrary to the common intuitive assumption that happy workers who are satisfied with their jobs will work harder, previous studies have shown few consistent results regarding the correlation between job satisfaction and job performance. After Iaffaldano and Muchinsky (1985) conducted a meta-analysis and concluded that there was little correlation between the two, studies exploring this relationship temporarily declined. Judge et al. (2001) conducted a meta-analysis and reported a higher correlation between job satisfaction and job performance, presenting an average correlation coefficient of 0.30. Encouraged by their findings, research interest in this area began to increase once again. While many empirical examinations exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance have been conducted and have reported a correlation between the two variables, many researchers still hold the Japanese Journal of Administrative Science Volume 26, No.3, 2013, 201-214 経営行動科学第 26 巻第 3号,2013,201-214 Article 原 著
Relationship Between Athletic Performance Tests and Playing Time in Elite College Basketball Players

This study examined the relationship of athletic performance tests, player evaluations, and playing experience relative to playing time in 29 male Div. I college basketball players over 4 years. Performance tests consisted of field tests common to athletic conditioning programs. Regression analysis indicated that the most prominent predictor in each equation was the coach's evaluation of the player. This variable explained 56 to 86% of the playing time variance. The physical fitness components and playing experience explained an additional 6 to 20% of playing time variance. When player evaluation and playing experience were excluded from the regression equation, the performance tests explained 64 to 81% of the playing time variance. This study demonstrated the important relationships between leg strength, vertical jump, speed, and agility on playing time. It also appears that minimum levels of upper body strength and aerobic endurance are important components of a basketball player's preparation. However, levels greater than those of average college players do not appear to offer any further advantages in playing time.
Job Satisfaction of Employees at a Christian University

As part of this quantitative study, a survey questionnaire was mailed out to 835 university employees to measure levels of overall, intrinsic, and extrinsic job satisfaction. The survey included items of the Professional Satisfaction Scale, an instrument developed according to Herzberg's two-factor theory. Responses were measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale in addition to five demographic items. Data were statistically analyzed by using descriptive statistics and analysis of variance. University employees showed moderate levels of job satisfaction, and were most satisfied with their relationships with students and peers. The lowest levels of satisfaction were found with salaries as well as organizational policy and administration. This study revealed that demographic factors, such as occupation, age, and educational level significantly influenced job satisfaction.
Vers un modèle qualité-satisfaction intégrant la confiance?

Cet article a pour but de montrer que la prise en compte de la confiance dans la marque permet de mieux comprendre les liens entre la qualité d'un produit ou d'un service et la satisfaction des consommateurs. La première partie est consacrée à l'étude des liens entre qualité, confiance et satisfaction, aboutissant à la proposition d'un modèle intégrant la confiance. Une recherche dans le domaine de la restauration rapide met en évidence dans la deuxième partie les relations existant entre l'expérience passée avec la marque, la confiance dans la marque, la qualité perçue et la satisfaction des consommateurs.
HOW AGED WOMEN REMEMBER THEIR LIFE-LONG/LIFE-WIDE LEARNING: MAKING THE BEST OF LIFE

ABSTRACT To support the continuing learning of older people, it is essential that we are able to build on their own understandings of learning across the lifespan. This paper uses the life histories of 9 aged Australian women to illustrate how one group of women was able to create a personally meaningful narrative that encompassed learning experiences in formal education settings (life-long learning) and in informal settings (life-wide learning). Exploring the dimensions and language of learning memories enables us to better understand, speak of, and acknowledge learning in all its dimensions.
A Systematic Comparison of Supervised Classifiers

Pattern recognition has been employed in a myriad of industrial, commercial and academic applications. Many techniques have been devised to tackle such a diversity of applications. Despite the long tradition of pattern recognition research, there is no technique that yields the best classification in all scenarios. Therefore, as many techniques as possible should be considered in high accuracy applications. Typical related works either focus on the performance of a given algorithm or compare various classification methods. In many occasions, however, researchers who are not experts in the field of machine learning have to deal with practical classification tasks without an in-depth knowledge about the underlying parameters. Actually, the adequate choice of classifiers and parameters in such practical circumstances constitutes a long-standing problem and is one of the subjects of the current paper. We carried out a performance study of nine well-known classifiers implemented in the Weka framework and compared the influence of the parameter configurations on the accuracy. The default configuration of parameters in Weka was found to provide near optimal performance for most cases, not including methods such as the support vector machine (SVM). In addition, the k-nearest neighbor method frequently allowed the best accuracy. In certain conditions, it was possible to improve the quality of SVM by more than 20% with respect to their default parameter configuration.
Exploring the relationship among affective loyalty, perceived benefits, attitude, and intention to use co‐branded products

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among affective loyalty, perceived benefits, attitude towards co‐branded products and the intention to use such products.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 433 valid responses were collected from active bank/department store co‐branded credit card holders, from four major Chinese cities. Regression and t‐test analyses were used to test the hypotheses.Findings – The findings revealed that affective loyalty to the bank and the department store, as well as perceived credit card benefits, all positively influence consumers' attitude toward bank/department store co‐branded credit cards. Additionally, results showed a positive relationship between attitude and intention. Moreover, gender differences were also found to be significant in affective loyalty to the bank and the department store, as well as with the intention to use co‐branded credit cards.Originality/value – The paper contributes to the co‐branding literature by gaining a better.
Smn, the spinal muscular atrophy–determining gene product, modulates axon growth and localization of β-actin mRNA in growth cones of motoneurons

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a common autosomal recessive form of motoneuron disease in infants and young adults, is caused by mutations in the survival motoneuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The corresponding gene product is part of a multiprotein complex involved in the assembly of spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complexes. It is still not understood why reduced levels of the ubiquitously expressed SMN protein specifically cause motoneuron degeneration. Here, we show that motoneurons isolated from an SMA mouse model exhibit normal survival, but reduced axon growth. Overexpression of Smn or its binding partner, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) R, promotes neurite growth in differentiating PC12 cells. Reduced axon growth in Smn-deficient motoneurons correlates with reduced β-actin protein and mRNA staining in distal axons and growth cones. We also show that hnRNP R associates with the 3′ UTR of β-actin mRNA. Together, these data suggest that a complex of Smn with its binding partner hnRNP R interacts with β-actin mRNA and translocates to axons and growth cones of motoneurons.
On Thinking First and Responding Fast: Flexibility in Social Inference Processes

Numerous models of the social inference process have been proposed, but research has not specifically investigated the order in which dispositional and situational information is considered. A paradigm was developed to investigate when people think dispositionally and when they think situationally. Three investigations assessed perceivers' reaction times to answer dispositional, situational, and behavior interpretation questions about an individual behaving in an anxious or a sad manner. Participants were instructed to diagnose either the individual's disposition (dispositional-focus condition) or the individual's situation (situational-focus condition). The results indicate that perceivers are flexible in their inference processes in that they are able to draw either dispositional or situational inferences initially. Implications are discussed.
Contactless Energy Transfer System With FPGA-Controlled Resonant Converter

Power supply based on an inductive coupled contactless energy transfer system is presented in this paper. The energy is transferred using a rotatable transformer and a power electronic converter. To minimize total losses of the system, a series resonant compensation circuit is applied assuring zero-current switching condition for insulated-gate bipolar transistors. The analytical expression of the transfer dc voltage gain is presented and discussed. The novelty of the system lies in the application of a fully digital field-programmable-gate-array-based controller and a protection system. The resonant frequency is adjusted by a primary peak current regulator. Some simulation and experimental results illustrating the operation of the developed 3-kW 60-kHz laboratory prototype are given. Although the presented power supply with a rotatable transformer is constructed mainly for robotics and manipulators, the described design and control methodology has general validity and can be applied for a wide class of contactless power supply with core or coreless transformers.
Peace Building and Participation in Northern Ireland: Local Social Movements and the Policy Process since the “Good Friday” Agreement

Abstract Civil society organizations in Northern Ireland played an important role in the peace process during the 1990s under the Peace I program sponsored by the European Union. Their impact on government decision making declined after 1999 under the influence of Peace II, even though civil society organizations remained dynamic and active. This challenges a central claim in theories that assert strong social capital, related to a dynamic civil society sector, is necessary for effective democratic governance. Whether a strong civil society sector is implicated in processes of government decision making is an empirical question. Theory must treat the relationship as problematic.
Checkpoint Arrest Signaling in Response to UV Damage Is Independent of Nucleotide Excision Repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae *

The recognition of DNA double-stranded breaks or single-stranded DNA gaps as a precondition for cell cycle checkpoint arrest has been well established. However, how bulky base damage such as UV-induced pyrimidine dimers elicits a checkpoint response has remained elusive. Nucleotide excision repair represents the main pathway for UV dimer removal that results in strand interruptions. However, we demonstrate here that Rad53p hyperphosphorylation, an early event of checkpoint signaling inSaccharomyces cerevisiae, is independent of nucleotide excision repair (NER), even if replication as a source of secondary DNA damage is excluded. Thus, our data hint at primary base damage or at UV damage (primary or secondary) that does not need to be processed by NER as the relevant substrate of damage-sensing checkpoint proteins.
Big five personality factors and travel curiosity: are they related?

Despite propositions relating the Big Five Factors of personality and travel curiosity, empirical evidence is lacking. This study examined the relationship between these two constructs within tourism settings. A survey strategy was employed in data collection that yielded 360 usable questionnaires. Findings indicate openness to experience to have a significant positive influence on the interest-type travel curiosity, while neuroticism and agreeableness to have a significant positive impact on the deprivation-type travel curiosity. Extraversion and conscientiousness had no significant effects on either of the two types of curiosity. The study affirms the applicability of openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeableness in relating to travel curiosity. Destination marketers can thus use travel curiosity in their marketing communications to cater to different personalities.
PEX11 family members are membrane elongation factors that coordinate peroxisome proliferation and maintenance

Dynamic changes of membrane structure are intrinsic to organelle morphogenesis and homeostasis. Ectopic expression of proteins of the PEX11 family from yeast, plant or human lead to the formation of juxtaposed elongated peroxisomes (JEPs),which is evocative of an evolutionary conserved function of these proteins in membrane tubulation. Microscopic examinations reveal that JEPs are composed of independent elongated peroxisomes with heterogeneous distribution of matrix proteins. We established the homo- and heterodimerization properties of the human PEX11 proteins and their interaction with the fission factor hFis1, which is known to recruit the GTPase DRP1 to the peroxisomal membrane. We show that excess of hFis1 but not of DRP1 is sufficient to fragment JEPs into normal round-shaped organelles, and illustrate the requirement of microtubules for JEP formation. Our results demonstrate that PEX11-induced JEPs represent intermediates in the process of peroxisome membrane proliferation and that hFis1 is the limiting factor for progression. Hence, we propose a model for a conserved role of PEX11 proteins in peroxisome maintenance through peroxisome polarization, membrane elongation and segregation.
Community Archaeology in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the public is and has always been quite interested in archaeology. Dutch archaeologists primarily answer this interest by inviting the audience to experience archaeology via open days, exhibitions, books, and so on. There is, however, little inclusion and active participation of the public in the actual fieldwork and in knowledge production. There are no community archaeology projects as they exist in, for instance, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, in which (part of) the control in fieldwork lies in the hands of the participants and in which multiple voices are included in research planning, design, and interpretation. Our engagement with the public only allows for passive engagement. It is mainly about informing, educating, and entertaining people, it has little to do with concepts like inclusiveness, empowerment, multivocality, or with the democratization of knowledge production. Even though there are both practical and historic reasons for th.
Different nature of process-induced and stress-induced defects in thin SiO2 layers

High-temperature anneal in hydrogen ambient is performed at the end of a CMOS manufacturing process to recover the process-induced defects. The authors focus on the recovery and wearout of thin gate oxides (3.3 nm) during repetitive stress-anneal-stress cycles. Thermal annealing at 450 /spl deg/C leads to detrapping phenomena and to the complete recovering of electrically induced defects. On the other hand, the same thermal annealing is not capable of fully recovering the process-induced damage. The kinetic of defect recovering (and not the number of defects annealed out) strongly depends on the amount of latent damage.
Reliable Model-based Kinematics Analysis System for Articulated Fingers

The kinematical measurement is regarded as the major indicator of the kinetic functions. In this study, we focused on developing a novel measurement method for kinematics of articulated finger in motion by using biomechanical model prediction and real-time video-based image analysis technique. In contrast to the marker-based system, the proposed 3D model provides more information, appearing on multiple projected 2D images, to estimate more reliable finger kinematics. The proposed method is compact, fast, and can be operated with X-ray fluoroscopy simultaneously. It means that the system provides the capability of synchronous validation between motion video and X-ray fluoroscopy. The proposed system was implemented on a personal computer and can be a new tool in diagnosis and rehabilitation for hand diseases.
Stiffness estimation of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine

This paper presents a simple yet comprehensive approach that enables the stiffness of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine to be quickly estimated. The approach can be implemented by two steps. In the first step, the machine structure is decomposed into two substructures associated with the machine frame and the parallel mechanism. The stiffness model of each substructure is formulated by assuming that the components in the other substructure are rigid. This is followed by the second step that enables the stiffness model of the machine structure to be achieved by linear superposition. A 3D representation of the stiffness distributions within the usable workspace are depicted with comparison to those obtained through the finite element analysis.
A situational touch: How touch affects people's decision behavior

While the majority of previous findings have shown that interpersonal touch positively affects human interactions (e.g., cooperation), it is unclear whether touch truly is only positively rather than negatively received, and which situations might influence this differential effect. The present research argued and demonstrated that in a competitive situation touch negatively affects cooperative interactions between the persons involved. Specifically, we showed that in a competitive rather than a supportive environment interpersonal touch on the shoulder will reduce helping behavior towards the person invoking the touch. The first author is a doctoral fellow of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). This work was supported by STRT1/10/013TBA from the Research Fund of the KULeuven.
The early development of the kidney and implications for future health

The kidney is a relative newcomer among the organ systems for which relevance of the developmental origins hypothesis has been explored. Nephrology is a young discipline, to which epidemiologic principles have only been recently applied, and although the availability of renal replacement therapy in westernized countries has created a large group of people with end stage renal disease who can be studied in retrospect, attention has only recently focused on the vastly greater numbers of people with earlier stages of chronic kidney disease, and their accentuated cardiovascular risk. Development of the human kidney is influenced by genetic and epigenetic factors, by maternal nutritional status, maternal stature and the intrauterine environment, the length of gestation, the neonatal course and by postnatal nutrition. Many factors that influence kidney development also influence other developing organ systems. This paper summarizes some of the current knowledge and the implications of kidney development for future health, much of which have also been described in other recent reviews.
Conditional Risk Premia in Currency Markets and Other Asset Classes

The downside risk CAPM (DR-CAPM) can price the cross section of currency returns. The market-beta differential between high and low interest rate currencies is higher conditional on bad market returns, when the market price of risk is also high, than it is conditional on good market returns. Correctly accounting for this variation is crucial for the empirical performance of the model. The DR-CAPM can jointly explain the cross section of equity, commodity, sovereign bond and currency returns, thus offering a unified risk view of these asset classes. In contrast, popular models that have been developed for a specific asset class fail to jointly price other asset classes.
Essential Role of Hydration in Aggregation of Misfolded Prion Proteins: Quantification by Molecular Theory of Solvation

A statistical-mechanical, three-dimensional molecular theory of solvation (also know as 3D-RISM) and molecular mechanics were used to study the thermodynamics of aggregation of misfolded prion proteins, based on the theoretical molecular models proposed so far. These include the β-helical prion trimer (BPT) model of Govaerts et al. (2004), the domain-swapped trimeric prion (DSTP) model of Yang et al. (2005), and the model built after the spiral model of DeMarco and Daggett (2004). It is shown that the solvation contribution to the association free energy can overcome the gain in the internal energy upon association of the proteins. The solvation entropic contribution is as important as the energetic term in the total association free energy. Our calculations show that the spiral-like model is thermodynamically less stable, compared to the DSTP and BPT models. Among the latter two models, the DSTP model is more favorable to association. Quantitative assessment of the solvation effects on the association thermodynamics of prion proteins is provided, and explicitly shows that the solvation contribution is a driving force of the association, in particular, for the existing theoretical models of misfolded prion proteins.
Interculturalism in Italian primary schools with a high concentration of immigrant students

The present article focuses on quantitative research carried out on a statistically representative sample of Italian primary schools with a high concentration of immigrant students. Research data show that schools with a higher number of immigrant students offer a greater number and a wider variety of intercultural initiatives. The presence of immigrant students serves as an effective stimulus in enhancing intercultural approaches. Furthermore, the opinions of head teachers about the proposal of ‘separate classes’ for immigrant students and the proposed ‘limit of 30% on the presence’ of immigrant students are negative. These judgements do not change in a statistically significant manner in relation to concentration of immigrant students: in particular, higher rates of immigrant students are not related to more positive opinions. Continuing education on intercultural issues is widely adopted, mainly on behalf of teachers and less often on behalf of head teachers and other school personnel. Finally, activities by ‘linguistic facilitators’ and ‘linguistic and cultural mediators’ are not significantly related to a decrease in perceived concern regarding problematic situations.