Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The OPQ 32i (Occupational Personality Questionnaire 32 Version i) as a predictor of employee theft in a financial institution

The impact of employee theft in organisations is far reaching and includes financial as well as non-financial costs. Nowhere is the reduction of theft more important than in financial institutions. Research has shown that the second best predictor of counterproductive behaviour such as employee theft was integrity. Integrity is a concept that has a long and contentious history. Being a difficult construct to define, it has been subject to much debate. From a business standpoint, there is now considerable interest in linking integrity to organisations as well as individual persons. Research has further shown that various personality dimensions are predictive of counterproductive behaviours such as theft. As such personality measures have been used increasingly as integrity tests to detect such behaviour. The purpose of this study is to examine the ability of the Occupational Personality Questionnaire 32 version i (OPQ 32i) to predict employee theft in a financial institution. Research has shown that individuals with lower levels of integrity are more likely to indulge in counterproductive behaviour which may be manifested in employee theft. Specific dimensions of the OPQ under study are conscientiousness, emotional control, achievement orientation, rule following and conventionality. In line with current research it was expected that these five personality dimensions would differentiate those individuals who commit theft in a financial institution from those who do not. A review of current literature is undertaken, focusing on the concept of integrity, the history and background of integrity testing, the classification of integrity tests, as well as the use of personality dimensions in assessing integrity. The review further includes a discussion of criticisms and controversies that surround the application of Integrity tests, recommendations for the application of integrity testing, employee theft as a criterion, and the impact of employee theft on organisations. This is followed by a discussion of theft as being a result of individual personality traits versus being a result of situational factors. Recommendations are also made to
Labor's Youth Brigade

This paper utilizes archival research, in-depth interviews and par ticipant observation to analyze the founding and organizational history of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute. The author argues that the particular way in which the institution was founded, the conflicting goals and mission of its early supporters, and genera tional and ideological clashes between Institute graduates and the larger labor movement have created conflict and, in some cases, undermined the Institute's founding goals. Additionally, the unre solved nature of these debates—as well as the larger debate regard ing commitment to organizing among Institute affiliates and the AFL-CIO—may undercut organizer success in the field and con tribute to a high level of turnover among Institute graduates.
The Signature 3-O-Sulfo Group of the Anticoagulant Heparin Sequence Is Critical for Heparin Binding to Antithrombin but Is Not Required for Allosteric Activation*

Heparin and heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans allosterically activate the serpin, antithrombin, by binding through a specific pentasaccharide sequence containing a critical 3-O-sulfo group. To elucidate the role of the 3-O-sulfo group in the activation mechanism, we compared the effects of deleting the 3-O-sulfo group or mutating the Lys114 binding partner of this group on antithrombin-pentasaccharide interactions by equilibrium binding and rapid kinetic analyses. Binding studies over a wide range of ionic strength and pH showed that loss of the 3-O-sulfo group caused a massive ∼60% loss in binding energy for the antithrombin-pentasaccharide interaction due to the disruption of a cooperative network of ionic and nonionic interactions. Despite this affinity loss, the 3-O-desulfonated pentasaccharide retained the ability to induce tryptophan fluorescence changes and to enhance factor Xa reactivity in antithrombin, indicative of normal conformational activation. Rapid kinetic studies showed that loss of the 3-O-sulfo group affected both the ability of the pentasaccharide to recognize native antithrombin and its ability to preferentially bind and stabilize activated antithrombin. By contrast, mutation of Lys114 solely affected the preferential interaction of the pentasaccharide with activated antithrombin. These findings demonstrate that the 3-O-sulfo group functions as a key determinant of heparin pentasaccharide activation of antithrombin both by contributing to the Lys114-independent recognition of native antithrombin and by triggering a Lys114-dependent induced fit interaction with activated antithrombin that locks the serpin in the activated state.
Methodological pluralism in international comparative research

This article explores the costs and benefits of combining and integrating different research methods both within and across paradigms in international comparative research. It reviews the reasons for the supposed incompatibility between different epistemologies and associated methodologies. Drawing on examples from international projects, it examines the various ways in which methodological pluralism can be exploited to extend the scope of comparative studies. Although combined methods may not be a panacea in international comparative research, the author suggests that they can provide a fruitful approach for researchers seeking to capture more fully the complexity of the objects under study.
Accessing, Integrating, and Inhibiting Word Meaning in Poor Comprehenders

This study examined three processes crucial to reading comprehension (semantic access, integration, and inhibition) to identify causes of comprehension impairment. Poor comprehenders were compared to chronological-age controls and vocabulary-age (VA) controls. When listening to homonym primes (“bank”) versus unrelated primes, controls were faster to name pictures related to dominant (money) and subordinate (river) meanings at 250 ms interstimulus interval (ISI) but only showed dominant priming at 1,000 ms ISI, whereas poor comprehenders only showed dominant priming. When listening to subordinately biased sentences ending in homonyms (“John fished from the bank”) versus control sentences, all groups showed priming when naming subordinate (appropriate) pictures at 250 ms ISI: VA controls and poor comprehenders also showed priming when naming dominant (inappropriate) pictures. At 1,000 ms ISI, controls showed appropriate priming, whereas poor comprehenders only showed inappropriate priming. These findings suggest that poor comprehenders have difficulties accessing subordinate word meanings, which can manifest as a failure to inhibit irrelevant information.
International Large-Scale Assessment Data

The technical complexities and sheer size of international large-scale assessment (LSA) databases often cause hesitation on the part of the applied researcher interested in analyzing them. Further, inappropriate choice or application of statistical methods is a common problem in applied research using these databases. This article serves as a primer for researchers on the issues and methods necessary for obtaining unbiased results from LSA data. The authors outline the issues surrounding the analysis and reporting of LSA data, with a particular focus on three prominent international surveys. In addition, they make recommendations targeted at applied researchers regarding best analysis and reporting practices when using these databases.
Investigating the Effects of Sensory Integration Therapy in Decreasing Stereotypy

Sensory Integration Therapy (SIT) is a popular treatment for Pervasive Developmental Disorders that involves therapists using various strategies and manipulanda to provide sensory stimulation to improve behavioral dysfunctions. Although SIT is popular, the research literature demonstrates little experimental proof of effectiveness. Many published studies find little to no causal relationship between SIT and improvements in target behaviors. There are numerous internal and external validity threats that preclude confidence in a functional relationship for those studies that report positive changes. The current study attempted to evaluate the impact of different SIT techniques on the behavioral excesses of children diagnosed with autism, while using research designs that adhered to commonly accepted standards for internal and external validity controls. The results showed that there was no causal relationship between the sensory procedures and improvements in the targeted dependent variables. Thus, SIT remains an unproven treatment for autism.
Non-Disciplinary Power and the Network Society

This article addresses Foucault's concept of disciplinary power and asks whether it is an adequate concept for describing the power relations emerging as part of recent developments in information technology. In fact, this article will show that some non-disciplinary forms of power are transforming many areas of social life, allowing for the development of new information-based institutions, different sites of resistance to power, and increasing social divisions based around the access to information. Drawing on Foucault's concept of a `diagram of power', this article will propose a diagram based on the network which better describes the power relations at work in modern information technology than do the concepts of discipline or the sovereign.
Theoretical Convergence in Assessment of Cognition

In surveying the literature on assessment of cognitive abilities in adults and children, it is easy to assume that the proliferation of test batteries and terminology reflects a poverty of unifying models. However, the lack of recognition accorded good models of cognitive abilities may reflect inattention to theoretical development and injudicious use of empirical methods to validate models. In contrast, the studies of Weiss and colleagues in this volume reflect an evaluation of a widely cited model of cognitive abilities, the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model for understanding the construct validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for adults and children. Using the CHC model as the basis for evaluating a test battery provides an excellent example of statistical analysis as theoretical evaluation, an approach long advocated by methodologists. In this commentary several specific aspects of model evaluation and refinement are also discussed.
The pathophysiologic role of the protein kinase Cδ pathway in the intervertebral discs of rabbits and mice: in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies.

OBJECTIVE Protein kinase Cδ (PKCδ) activation has been shown to be a principal rate-limiting step in matrix-degrading enzyme production in human articular chondrocytes. The aim of this study was to assess the role of the PKC pathways, specifically PKCδ, in intervertebral disc tissue homeostasis. METHODS Using in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo techniques, we evaluated the pathophysiologic role of the PKCδ pathway by examining 1) proteoglycan deposition, 2) matrix-degrading enzyme production and activity, 3) downstream signaling pathways regulated by PKCδ, and 4) the effect on in vivo models of disc degeneration in genetically engineered PKCδ-knockout mice. RESULTS Studies of pathway-specific inhibitors revealed a vital role of the PKCδ/MAPK (ERK, p38, JNK) axis and NF-κB in disc homeostasis. Accordingly, in an in vivo model of disc injury, PKCδ-knockout mice were markedly resistant to disc degeneration. CONCLUSION Suppression of the PKCδ pathway may be beneficial in the prevention and/or treatment of disc degeneration. The results of this study provide evidence for a potential therapeutic role of pathway-specific inhibitors of the PKCδ cascade in the future.
Preferences of High- and Low-hope People for Self-referential Input

High-hope and low-hope research participants (males and females), as preselected on the basis of a dispositional self-report scale, choose freely between brief audiotaped messages that varied in depressive content. In the first experiment, the messages were of either positive or negative content. Highhope as compared to low-hope persons preferred listening to the positive tapes (no differences related to Gender), and this Hope main effect remained after the shared variance related to depression and positive and negative affectivity were removed. In a modified replication, the contents of the tapes were comprised of successful or unsuccessful goal-attainment statements related to hopeful thinking. High-hope as compared to low-hope persons again preferred to listen to the successful goal pursuit messages (no differences related to Gender), and this Hope main effect on listening choices remained after the shared variances related to depression, positive and negative affectivity, and self-esteem were removed.
Crime: Effects of Media Exposure and Personal Experience on Issue Salience

b Media coverage of crime and its relation to what actually occurs “in the real world” and public perceptions of crime has been an issue of interest for some time. Evidence from past research, although mixed, appears to favor a match between crime news coverage and public perceptions of crime rather than one between crime news coverage and objective indicators, or between public perceptions and objective indicators. If the amount or nature of crime news does not correspond to objective or social indicators of crime what possible effect could this media coverage have on perceived public importance about crime as an issue and an individual’s fear of victimization? And how is this relationship mediated by personal experience? These are the major questions investigated in the present study. As early as 1952, Davis offered evidence
Distinguishing and Improving Mouse Behavior With Educational Computer Games in Young Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Executive Function‐Based Interpretation

In this exploratory multiple case study, it is examined how a computer game focused on improving ineffective learning behavior can be used as a tool to assess, improve, and study real-time mouse behavior (MB) in different types of children: 18 children (3.86.3 years) with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or comorbid ASD and ADHD, and 5 effectively learning (EL) children (3.53.8 years). The children's MB processes, for example Errors and Reaction times, were interpreted in terms of executive functions (EFs). Trajectories of averaged MB were compared among the groups of ASD, ADHD, comorbid, and EL children. Clinical groups showed differences in their MB, which were similar to the expected differences based on EF tests. In addition, a case study of a typical ASD, ADHD, and EL child was included in order to demonstrate typical individual MB patterns across time. MB processes might therefore provide a window into the processes of EF (dys)functioning.
Fantasy and Sexual Arousal in College Women: An Empirical Investigation

Reports regarding response to intercourse were collected from fifty-six female undergraduates. These women also read three stories, one erotic, one romantic, and one containing a mixture of romantic and erotic components. Women rated their arousal and ability to visualize each story. They also reported the content of their fantasies in terms of romantic, erotic or mixed components, in four situations: daydreaming, foreplay, intercourse, and masturbation. It was hypothesized that women who reported a high percentage of intercourse related fantasies during masturbation would be more likely to experience orgasm during intercourse. This hypothesis was supported. Other predictions were not supported. Explanations for this pattern of results and future research are discussed.
Comparing and Unifying Search-Based and Similarity-Based Approaches to Semi-Supervised Clustering

Semi-supervised clustering employs a small amount of labeled data to aid unsupervised learning. Previous work in the area has employed one of two approaches: 1) Searchbased methods that utilize supervised data to guide the search for the best clustering, and 2) Similarity-based methods that use supervised data to adapt the underlying similarity metric used by the clustering algorithm. This paper presents a unifled approach based on the K-Means clustering algorithm that incorporates both of these techniques. Experimental results demonstrate that the combined approach generally produces better clusters than either of the individual approaches.
HIV infection and AIDS in newborn babies of mothers positive for HIV antibody.

2/3 of the reported cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in children have no risk factor except a mother belonging to a group with an increased prevalence of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There is evidence of transplacental passage of the virus during early and late gestation, but the incidence of fetal and neonatal infection in newborn babies of seropositive mothers has not yet been determined. This article presents the clinical and serological outcome of 24 babies aged 6 months born to mothers who were drug addicts and positive for HIV antibodies. At 6 months 12 babies were seropositive and 12 seronegative. 1 seropositive baby died of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 4 months, and another was diagnosed as suffering from AIDS related complex at the age of 3 months. All the other babies thrived, the results of their follow up being entirely normal. These 2 cases indicate that early morbidity and mortality are a severe problem, but their incidence seems to be restricted to about 10% of the offspring. Unfortunately, nothing can yet be said about long term morbidity and mortality. Cesarean section does not seem to protect the fetus from infection. These data may be helpful in counselling seropositive women before or in early gestation, as they suggest that the risk of fetal infection and severe postnatal morbidity is high. Unfavorable perinatal outcome, usually associated with drug addiction, was similar in seropositive and seronegative women: a detrimental effect of the virus in this regard was not evident.
Perceptions and perplexities of the faculty‐librarian partnership: an Australian perspective

Many Australian universities have identified information literacy as a required graduate quality. As the scope of resources on which student learning is based expands, the definition of educator is broadening and requires the involvement of a range of non‐academic professional staff in the educational process. Information literacy‐related activities largely define the educative role of the librarian and forge faculty‐librarian partnerships. The paper is based on the premise that collaboration between librarians and other educators is the key to the integration of information literacy within the total educational process. The author draws on both personal experience and that of Australian colleagues to examine the faculty‐librarian relationship, explore the contentious territories of professional credibility and identity, and analyze changes in Australian higher education that impact on the educative role of librarians.
Towards culturally competent practice in child and adolescent mental health

English The mental health needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children and adolescents are failing to be addressed. This article evaluates evidence from studies designed to address this omission, and describes a contemporary culturally competent model based on holistic, psycho-social principles of social work practice. French Les besoins en santé mentale des enfants et adolescents réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile ne sont pas pris en compte. A partir d'études examinant ces omissions, le présent article en évalue l'évidence et commence à décrire un modèle de pratique sociale contemporain culturellement compétent fondé sur des principes psychosociaux holistiques. Spanish Las necesidades de salud mental de los niños y adolescentes que buscan refugio y asilo están siendo dejadas de lado. Este artículo evalúa las evidencias de estudios diseñados para salvar esta omisión, y empieza describiendo un modelo competente y contemporáneo basado en principios psicosociales holísticos de la práctica del trabajo social.
Family Caregiving and Employment Among Parents of Children with Disabilities on SSI

Parental and family inputs are particularly important for children with disabilities receiving benefits from the Sup- plemental Security Income (SSI) program. These children often need disability or health-related care, and nonfamily sources provide only limited access. This is the first study to analyze family and nonfamily caregiving for these children with disabilities based on nationally representative quantitative data from the National Survey of SSI Children and Families (NSCF), a survey focusing on SSI recipient children with disabilities. The data suggests substantial variability in the need for caregiving among children on SSI. We find that there is also substantial variation in family inputs related to parental education, living arrangements, the presence of other children of preschool age and other factors that affect the quality and quantity of caregiving. Our analysis confirms that family caregiving is much more substantial for these children than nonfamily caregiving, and that caregiving from both sources is associated with various indicators of the nature and extent of disabilities. We find some - but weaker - evidence of an association between the child's disabilities and parental employment. Overall, while there is some substitution between parental employment and caregiving there appears to be a substantial net burden on the family arising from the child's needs for caregiving. We also find that there are significant predictors of family caregiving and parental employment that are unrelated to the child's disabilities. Most of these show opposite relationships to caregiving and parental employment - negative for one, positive for the other or vice versa. However, better parental education substantially increases the odds of both caregiving and parental employment. Parental disability sharply reduces the odds of parental employment and somewhat increases the odds of reported family caregiving. Overall, the challenges are especially substantial for single mothers who cannot share the extra burden of raising a child with severe disabilities with a spouse.
When thinking hurts: Attachment, rumination, and postrelationship adjustment

The current study used an attachment framework to explore postrelationship rumination and adjustment. Young adults (N= 231) involved in a romantic relationship that (a) was of 3 months duration or longer and (b) ended in the last 12 months participated in the study. The study assessed rumination generally (brooding, regret, and reflection), and specifically concerning the ended relationship (relationship preoccupation and romantic regret). At the general level, brooding and regret were associated with more negative adjustment, whereas reflection was associated with more positive adjustment. At the relationship level, both relationship preoccupation and romantic regret were associated with more negative adjustment. Models tested indicated that rumination largely mediated the association between attachment anxiety and adjustment.