Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SPEECH AND LEARNING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN WITH SEX CHROMOSOME ABNORMALITIES

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Credit Unions in Britain: A Time for Change

As member-owned, not-for-profit financial institutions, credit unions are an important instrument of public policy, particularly in pushing forward measures to tackle financial and social exclusion. Historically, the credit union movement in Great Britain has been hampered by a number of factors, including a lack of leadership, a cohesive identity and regulatory impediments. Recent legislative review and change has provided credit unions with the opportunity to grow and extend the scale and scope of services they can offer to their members. However, policy-makers should be aware that funding initiatives to support credit union development might undermine their self-help cornerstone and weaken the future development of the movement.
Incorporating Service-Learning into Physical Education Teacher Education Programs

Service-learning is a teaching strategy that provides students with the opportunity to acquire academic, social, career, and personal skills through involvement in community service projects (Cutforth, 2000). It is a method by which students learn through active participation in thoughtfully organized service projects conducted in the community (Lowell Bennion Center, 1999). Service-learning also provides a critical link between institutions ofhigher education and local communities, in an effort to better fulfill campus missions and improve university-community relationships (Bringle & Hatcher, 2000). Service-learning can take many forms within a curriculum, from a single assignment within a particular course to an entire course that centers on community service as the primary means of facilitating student learning (ParkerGwin & Mabry, 1998). Regardless of how the service project is positioned within a course, it is critical that the project actively addresses a need within the community, is integrated with and enhances the academic course content, and includes time for reflection· (Lowell Bennion Center, 1999). Traditional academic areas in which service-learning has been incorporated include, but are not limited to, English, teacher education, medicine, and family and consumer studies. Public awareness regarding the potential for service-learning pedagogy within the HPER professions remains limited,
Market Fundamentals versus Price-Level Bubbles: The First Tests

When current market price depends partly on the expected rate of market price change, it is possible that the market will launch itself onto a price bubble with price being driven by arbitrary, self-fulfilling elements in expectations. The purpose of this paper is to provide some tests of the proposition that bubbles were absent during the German hyperinflation, a proposition we are unable to reject. The test methodology that we propose is general enough to be applied to other historical or contemporary episodes.
Does a Family-Controlled Firm Perform Better in Corporate Venturing?

Family control involves issues of agency costs and nepotism. This study investigated the impacts of family control on stock market reactions to corporate venturing announcements by public firms. Moreover, in this paper we examined whether the monitoring effect of institutional investors influenced the relationship between family control and stock market reactions. In terms of research findings/results, with different measures of family control, the evidence indicated that family control is significantly and negatively associated with the abnormal returns of corporate venturing announcements. Furthermore, we found that the divergence of cash flow and voting rights had a strong negative impact on abnormal returns. Finally, the empirical results suggested that institutional ownership had a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship of family control and stock market reactions. Prior research focused on the influence of private family firms on venturing activities. This study contributes to the literature by highlighting the unique characteristics of family control in public firms. This research suggests that nepotism embedded in public family firms is likely to create agency costs resulting from deviations in cash flow and voting rights. This study further shows that institutional ownership plays an important role in reducing agency costs associated with public family firms. Our findings suggest that family control is an important consideration for investors in evaluating the wealth impacts of corporate venturing. Therefore, a well-established governance system could be a crucial signal of the quality of corporate venturing for family businesses, particularly the outside governance mechanism.
Same reform – different practices?: How regional health enterprises adjust to management control reforms

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the dilemma that exists between the aims of public sector reforms and the ways organisations adjust to the management control reforms.Design/methodology/approach – To study the research purpose, empirical data were collected from Norwegian Regional Hospital Enterprises. The aim was to describe how these institutions have chosen to implement formal and informal mechanisms of control for coordination and management of hospitals.Findings – The results indicated a comprehensive map of the different formal and informal adjustments to radical institutional reform changes. The reform strategies were met with a mixture of intended adjustments, partly realised ambitions and ignorance in the organisations, and the change towards accrual accounting system was found to have reversed effects compared with the original ambitions.Research limitations/implications – This study was based on a small sample of organisations and interviews. The dimensions were somewhat crude,.
Mycotoxin prevention and decontamination : a case study on maize

Numerous reviews and publications have summarized the approaches already in use and being developed to minimize mycotoxin contamination of maize (Agricultural Research Service, 1997a and 1997b; CAST, 1989; Robens, 1990; Jackson, DeVries and Bullerman, 1996; Sinha and Bhatnagar, 1998; Scott, 1998). Many of the strategies used for other commodities can generally also be applied to maize (McMullen, Jones and Gallenberg, 1997). In this article, “prevention of mycotoxin production in maize” encompasses prevention of toxin biosynthesis and metabolism in the field (pre-harvest) or in storage (postharvest). “Mycotoxin detoxification” refers only to postharvest treatments designed to remove, destroy (decontaminate) and ultimately reduce the toxic effects of mycotoxins (detoxify). The potential ability of a plant to detoxify mycotoxins in situ is treated as a prevention strategy.
The effect of short interest on the subsequent stock performance in NASDAQ-100 companies

This quantitative paper investigates the relationship between the short interest ratio and abnormal return of an underlying security on a monthly basis. Short interest data for a 36-month period from January 2012 through December 2014 from NASDAQ-100 companies were used to examine the expected negative relationship. The results however do not support the expectations by stating a significant positive relationship following the ‘contrarian view’. An increase of the short interest ratio of 1% leads to a 60 basis points gain in abnormal returns. The relationship becomes even stronger by another 16 basis points after introducing the control variable firm size measured by the market capitalization.
Small Enterprise Default Prediction Modeling through Artificial Neural Networks: An Empirical Analysis of Italian Small Enterprises

Having accurate company default prediction models is vital for both banks and enterprises, especially small enterprises (SEs). These firms represent a vital part in the economy of every country but are also typically more informationally opaque than large corporations. Therefore, these models should be precise but also easily adaptable to suit SE characteristics. Our study applies artificial neural networks (ANNs) to a sample of over 7,000 Italian SEs. Results show that (1) when compared with traditional methods, ANNs can make a better contribution to SE credit‐risk evaluation; and (2) when the model is separately calculated according to size, geographical area, and business sector, ANNs prediction accuracy is markedly higher for the smallest sized firms and for firms operating in entral taly.
Experimental Research on Atrazine Sorption and Degradation in Soils

Sorption and degradation behaviors of atrazine were investigated with both batch experiments and soil column experiments. Batch experiments were performed with large amount of small soil samples to get sorption and degradation parameters. The measured breakthrough curves from columns were fitted with CXTFIT model for the same purpose. The high mobility and long persistence of atrazine indicated by experiment results confirm that atrazine application may cause potential groundwater pollution. It was found that the obtained sorption parameters from the column experiments were quite similar to the means of the values obtained from the batch equilibrium experiments, while the degradation parameters obtained from the column experiments were slightly higher than those of the batch degradation experiments. The minor difference may due to the continuous supply with oxygen-riched solution in the column experiments. These results suggest that sorption and degradation behaviours in both experiments can be in good agreement given the experimental conditions are well controlled.
Assessment of Conditioning-Specific Movement Tasks and Physical Fitness Measures in Talent Identified Under 16-Year-Old Rugby Union Players

Abstract Parsonage, JR, Williams, RS, Rainer, P, McKeown, I, and Williams, MD. Assessment of conditioning-specific movement tasks and physical fitness measures in talent identified under 16-year-old rugby union players. J Strength Cond Res 28(6): 1497–1506, 2014—Preparedness to train was assessed using a battery of conditioning-specific movement tasks (CSMTs) on a group of talent identified rugby union players (n = 156; age = 15 ± 7 years; stature = 176 ± 7 cm; and mass = 74 ± 14 kg). In addition to explore the link between movement competency and performance, a series of standard fitness tests was conducted. Overall the group's CSMTs competency ratings were low, but task dependent. The proportion of competent players ranged from 14% for a single leg squat to 70% for a double to single leg landing. Players were subsequently grouped based on their CSMTs ratings using cluster analysis. This analysis classified players on features of the CSMT battery that distinguished between groups rather than an arbitrary score. Fitness test scores were then compared between the 3 groups identified. The “general low competency” group jumped 9.1 cm lower (p = 0.0218), sprinted slower across 10, 20 and 40 m (range, p = 0.0126–0.0018) and covered 389 m less (p = 0.0105) Yo-Yo intermittent recovery level 1 distance compared with the “squat competent group. ” In summary, at this important time before academy selection, most players could not competently perform the CSMTs that underpin rugby conditioning and may not be prepared for the transition into the “training to compete” stage of the suggested long-term athlete development model. For this sample of players, the athlete development process may therefore be unnecessarily inhibited. Moreover, our observations that competency in some CSMTs may explain better running and jumping performances in some players suggest that a focus on monitoring and addressing movement competencies during the training to train stage of player development should be considered.
Providing Health Care in the Shadow of Violence: Does Emotion Regulation Vary Among Hospital Workers From Different Professions?

Research into violence against health care staff by patients and their families within the health care services shows a rising frequency of incidents. The potentially damaging effects on health care staff are extensive, including diverse negative psychological and physical symptoms. The aim of this qualitative study was to examine how hospital workers from different professions reacted to patients’ and visitors’ violence against them or their colleagues, and how they regulated their emotional reactions during those incidents. The research question was as follows: How do different types of hospital workers regulate the range of their emotional reactions during and after violent events? Participants were 34 hospital workers, representing several professional sectors. Data were collected through in-depth semistructured interviews, which were later transcribed and thematically content analyzed. Five themes were revealed, demonstrating several tactics that hospital workers used to regulate their emotions during incidents of violent outbursts by patients or visitors: (1) Inability to Manage Emotion Regulation, (2) Emotion Regulation by Distancing and Disengagement Tactics, (3) Emotion Regulation Using Rationalization and Splitting Tactics, (4) Emotion Regulation via the Use of Organizational Resources, and (5) Controlling Emotions by Suppression. Hospital workers who experienced dissonance between their professional expectations and their emotional reactions to patients’ violence reported using various emotion regulation tactics, consequently managing to fulfill their duty competently. Workers who did not experience such dissonance felt in full control of their emotions and did not manifest responses of emotion regulation. Others, however, experienced intense emotional flooding and failed to regulate their emotions. We recommend developing health care staff’s awareness of possible emotional implications of violent incidents, for themselves as people and for their intact functioning at work. In addition, we recommend further development of health care staff training programs for coping with violent patients and enhancement of formal and informal organizational support.
Levels of adiponectin, C-reactive protein and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist are associated with the relative change in body mass index between childhood and adulthood

Obesity has been related to subclinical inflammation and decreased levels of adiponectin. We examined the relationship between inflammatory markers and adiponectin and the change in body mass index (BMI) between childhood and adulthood. Our study included 368 subjects (176 men and 192 women) from a population-based cohort whose weight and height had been recorded at the age of seven years. They participated in this study as adults (with a mean age of 46 years); levels of adiponectin, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1 Ra) and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) were measured. The relative change of BMI from childhood to adulthood was significantly associated with levels of IL-1 Ra (men: r=0.27 [95% CI: 0.12 to 0.40] and women: 0.64 [0.55 to 0.72]), hs-CRP (r=0.15 and 0.52, respectively) and adiponectin (r=−0.13 and −0.29, respectively) in both genders. Decreased levels of adiponectin and elevated levels of IL-1 Ra and hs-CRP at adulthood appear to be related to the change in BMI between childhood and adulthood.
A selective deficit in the production of exact musical intervals following right‐hemisphere damage

In this study we focused our attention on the production of music in its vocal form. To our knowledge this is the first detailed description of a dissociation between encoding and retrieval of melodic intervals in music. We describe the case of a 55‐year‐old high‐level amateur musician, IP, who had suffered a right‐hemisphere stroke. While the patient performs well in music recognition and discrimination tasks, he is selectively impaired at singing correct intervals. More precisely, IP's performance relative to the rhythm and the contour retrieval of musical patterns is preserved; his impairment is limited to precise pitch retrieval and it is highly correlated to the degree of dissonance of the intervals he is required to sing. These findings are discussed relative to previous works in neuropsychology of music with regard to both functional models and brain function localisation. An extended version of the model proposed by Peretz (1993b) is presented.
Climate Change Policy Capacity at the Sub-National Government Level

Abstract The capacity of large bureaucratic organizations to address climate change issues is an area that many consider to be important yet there is very little empirical evidence available. This article employs a structural equation model (LISREL) from survey data of mid-level public servants in the Province of Alberta, Canada and considers such factors as the extent that they work with climate change information, the use of risk-based tools, risk perception, and broader organizational factors. The results suggest that policy-based staff is more engaged in climate change issues than researchers and are also more likely to employ risk-based tools and techniques. We conclude that structural equation modeling can provide valuable indicators of policy capacity to decision makers who are charged with developing climate change policies.
Effective ex vivo neutralization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in plasma by recombinant immunoglobulin molecules

We tested the ability of human monoclonal antibodies (immunoglobulin G1b12 [IgG1b12] and 19b) and CD4-based molecules (CD4-IgG2 and soluble CD4 [sCD4]) to neutralize human immunodeficiency virus type 1 directly from the plasma of seropositive donors in an ex vivo neutralization assay. IgG1b12 and CD4-IgG2, at concentrations from 1 to 25 micrograms/ml, were found to be effective at reducing the HIV-1 titer in most plasma samples. When viruses recovered from plasma samples were expanded to produce virus stocks, no correlation between the neutralization sensitivities to IgG1b12 and CD4-IgG2 of the in vitro passaged stocks and those of the ex vivo neutralizations performed directly on the plasma was observed. These differences could be due to changes in neutralization sensitivity that occur after one passage of the virus in vitro, or they could be related to the presence of complement or antibodies in the plasma. Furthermore, differences in expression of adhesion molecules on plasma-derived and phytohemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood mononuclear cell-derived viruses could be involved. These studies suggest that IgG1b12 and CD4-IgG2 have broad and potent neutralizing activity in both in vitro and ex vivo neutralization assays and should be considered for use as potential immunoprophylactic or therapeutic agents.
Generating Equality? Equal Pay, Decentralization and the Electricity Supply Industry

Despite the existence of effective equal pay legislation in the UK since 1975 aimed at eradicating pay discrimination, women are still in receipt of only 79.5 per cent of the hourly earnings received by men (EOR 1994b). Whitehouse (1992) claims that a centralized collective bargaining model is more likely to lead to equality for women in the labour market than a liberalized individualistic model. The model was tested at an aggregated level for 13 OECD countries. This article provides a case study which charts a trade union claim for equal pay over a period often years (1984–94), which may be seen as an examination of the Whitehouse proposition at a disaggregated level. The paper highlights the barriers to equality bargaining and analyses the case study to identify the criteria necessary for achieving equality.
An Investigation into the Socio-psychological Determinants of Farmers' Conservation Decisions: Method and Implications for Policy, Extension and Research

Abstract Purpose: The aim of this article is to present and apply a method to investigate farmers' socio-psychological determinants of conservation practice adoption, as an aid in extension, policy and conservation practice design. Design/methodology/approach: We use a sequential mixed method, starting with qualitative semi-structured interviews (n = 24), that serve as the basis for a quantitative survey (n = 138). The survey uses the expectancy value method to unravel the foundations of farmers' socio-psychological determinants. Findings: Some of the main findings are that non-adopters exhibit rational behaviour, given their own point of view of potential consequences of conservation practice adoption. Further, the majority of farmers are mainly under social influence by parties that are generally not involved in conservation practice promotion. Practical implications: Extension approaches should be targeted towards a broader range of issues and should involve local governments and rural dwellers. The results also suggest the value of co-learning and co-development in a combined farmer-researcher approach to design conservation practices such that the potential negative impact is reduced. Originality/value: The study has empirically proven that non-adopters in fact behave rationally, given their expectation about the broad range of issues they consider when thinking about conservation practice adoption. Its value is the introduction to agriculture of an approach that has proven its usefulness in general environmental psychology.
Handbook of Monetary Economics

Money, Other Assets, and Economic Activity. Consumption and investment (A.B. Abel). Why does money affect output? A survey (O.J. Blanchard). Credit rationing (D. Jaffee, J. Stiglitz). The macroeconomics of government finance (M. Haliassos, J. Tobin). Money, Inflation and Welfare. Inflation: Theory and evidence (B.T. McCallum). Costs of inflation (J. Driffill, G.E. Mizon, A.M. Ulph). The optimum quantity of money (M. Woodford). Monetary Policy. Rules versus discretion in monetary policy (S. Fischer). Targets and instruments of monetary policy (B.M. Friedman). Monetary policy in the open economy (R. Dornbusch, A. Giovannini).