Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teachers: emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction, between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment, and between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among high‐school English teachers. Furthermore, the study aims to examine the role of gender and age in emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and organizational commitment.Design/methodology/approach – The participants were selected by proportional stratified sampling and simple random selection. This study adopted a survey research design that utilized an ex post facto research type in which the researcher used questionnaires to collect data from the respondents.Findings – The results of the study indicate that there is a positive significant relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction, between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment, and between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It is also found there is no sign.
An Electrochemical Impedance-Based Thermal Flow Sensor for Physiological Fluids

A novel electrochemical-thermal flow sensor was developed for use in physiological liquids. The sensor was constructed out of a platinum resistive heater and platinum sensing electrodes on a Parylene C substrate, rendering it flexible and fully biocompatible. During heating, changes in electrochemical impedance across the sensing electrodes were used to detect changes in temperature, and highly sensitive flow measurements were achieved with overheat temperatures of only 1 °C. The sensor's biocompatibility and low overheat temperature make it an ideal candidate for chronic in vivo applications.
The development of five scales to measure employees’ appraisals of organizational-level stress management interventions

Abstract Organizations and researchers often encounter difficulties when evaluating organizational-level stress management interventions. When interventions fail, often it is unclear whether the intervention itself was ineffective, or whether problems with implementation processes were to blame. In this paper we describe the development of questionnaire items that allow employees to report on their appraisals of aspects of intervention process issues that are frequently thought to be related to intervention outcomes. The study was carried out as part of the evaluation of a teamworking intervention implemented in the elderly care sector in Denmark. Using a combination of information gathered from published intervention research and qualitative data collected from participants involved in an intervention, questionnaire items were developed and their sensitivity, reliability, and validity were tested. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed five independent factors: line manager attitudes and actions, exposure to components of the intended intervention, employee involvement, employee readiness, and intervention history. They all showed significant correlations with post-intervention outcomes (job satisfaction, well-being, and self-efficacy). Line manager attitudes and actions showed particularly strong and unique relationships with outcome measures. We refer to this new group of scales for evaluating employees’ appraisals of an intervention as the Intervention Process Measure (IPM). Our findings indicate that such a measure has the potential to improve the evaluation of interventions.
LMX‐citizenship behavior relationship: justice as a mediator

Purpose – It has been proposed that issues of justice and equity should be incorporated in the dyadic study of leadership (LMX) for predicting subordinate outcomes, as both the theories are based on social exchange. This research had two objectives: to assess the impact of two dimensions of LMX – contribution and affect – on citizenship behavior and to test the mediating impact of the three types of justice – distributive, procedural and interactional – on the LMX‐citizenship relationship.Design/methodology/approach – The study reports responses of 306 professionals from 30 software organizations operating in different parts of India. Data were collected on a structured questionnaire containing standard scales of LMX, citizenship behavior, distributive, procedural and interactional justice. After establishing the psychometric properties of the scales, hypotheses were tested through statistical analysis of the data. Proposed mediation hypotheses were tested using Baron and Kenny's recommendations.Findings .
Biological and Clinical Potential of a Palaeolithic Diet

Purpose: To explore the possibility that a Palaeolithic diet, i.e. one that corresponds to what was available in any of the ecological niches of pre‐agricultural humans (1.5 million–10,000 years bp), is optimal in the prevention of age‐related degenerative disease.Design: Literature review.Materials and Methods: Between 1985 and December 2002, more than 200 scientific journals in medicine, nutrition, biology and anthropology were systematically screened for relevant papers. Computer‐based searches and studies of reference lists in journals and books provided a vast number of additional papers.Results: Increasing evidence suggests that a Palaeolithic diet based on lean meat, fish, vegetables and fruit may be effective in the prevention and treatment of common Western diseases. Avoiding dairy products, margarine, oils, refined sugar and cereals, which provide 70% or more of the dietary intake in northern European populations, may be advisable. Atherosclerosis is highly dependent on dietary manipulation in a.
Emotions help memory for faces: Role of whole and parts

The role of holistic or parts-based processing in face identification has been explored mostly with neutral faces. In the current study, we investigated the nature of processing (holistic vs. parts) in recognition memory for faces with emotional expressions. There were two phases in this experiment: learning phase and test phase. In the learning phase participants learned face–name associations of happy, neutral, and sad faces. The test phase consisted of a two-choice recognition test (whole face, eyes, or mouth) given either immediately or after a 24-hour delay. Results indicate that emotional faces were remembered better than neutral faces and performance was better with whole faces as compared to isolated parts. The performance in immediate and delayed recognition interacted with emotional information. Sad eyes and happy mouth were remembered better in the delayed recognition condition. These results suggest that in addition to holistic processing, specific parts–emotion combinations play a critical role in delayed recognition memory.
Influence of Quality of Life on Urban Growth: A Case Study of Barcelona, Spain

Royuela V. , Moreno R. and Vayá E. Influence of quality-of-life on urban growth: a case study of Barcelona, Spain, Regional Studies. There are several determinants that influence household location decisions. More concretely, the recent economic literature assigns an increasingly important role to the variables governing quality-of-life. Nevertheless, the spatial stationarity of the parameters is implicitly assumed in most studies. The paper analyses the role of quality-of-life in urban economics and tests for the spatial stationarity of the relationship between city growth and quality-of-life. Royuela V. , Moreno R. et Vayá E. L'impact de la qualité de la vie sur la croissance urbaine, Regional Studies. Nombreuses sont les déterminants du choix d'emplacement des ménages. Essentiellement, la documentation économique récente accorde un rôle de plus en plus important aux variables qui déterminent la qualité de la vie. Néanmoins, la plupart des études supposent implicitement une géographie stationnaire des paramètres. On cherche à analyser le rôle de la qualité de la vie dans l'économie urbaine et on fait des analyses pour déceler la géographie stationnaire du rapport entre la croissance urbaine et la qualité de la vie. Qualité de la vie Economie urbaine Croissance urbaine Régressions géographiques pondérées Royuela V. , Moreno R. und Vayá E. Der Einfluss der Lebensqualität auf das Wachstum von Städten. Eine Fallstudie von Barcelona, Regional Studies. Die Entscheidung für den Standort von Haushalten wird von mehreren Determinanten beeinflusst. Insbesondere wird in der aktuellen Wirtschaftsliteratur den für die Lebensqualität ausschlaggebenden Variablen ein zunehmend hoher Stellenwert eingeräumt. Allerdings wird in den meisten Studien für diese Parameter implizit eine räumliche Unveränderlichkeit angenommen. In diesem Beitrag analysieren wir die Rolle der Lebensqualität in der Ökonomie von Städten und überprüfen die räumliche Unveränderlichkeit der Beziehung zwischen Stadtwachstum und Lebensqualität. Lebensqualität Ökonomie von Städten Stadtwachstum Geografisch gewichtete Regressionen Royuela V. , Moreno R. y Vayá E. La influencia de la calidad de vida en el crecimiento urbano. Estudio del caso de Barcelona, Regional Studies. La decisión de elegir el lugar de la vivienda depende de varios factores determinantes. En concreto, la reciente literatura económica asigna un papel cada vez más importante a las variables que gobiernan la calidad de vida. Sin embargo, en la mayoría de estudios se supone implícitamente la estacionalidad espacial de los parámetros. Aquí analizamos el papel de la calidad de vida en la economía urbana y comprobamos la estacionalidad espacial de la relación entre el crecimiento de las ciudades y la calidad de vida. Calidad de vida Economía urbana Crecimiento de las ciudades Regresiones ponderadas geográficamente
Global migration and South Korea: foreign workers, foreign brides and the making of a multicultural society

Abstract More than half a million foreigners reportedly resided in South Korea in 2006, with international migrant workers accounting for a majority. Although the country's reliance on imported foreign labour is likely to continue unabated, the country prides itself as being an ethnically homogenous society and insists on an almost zero-immigration policy. However, this paper argues that Korean society is rapidly becoming a multicultural society and that this process is inevitable and irreversible. In support of this argument, the paper examines various social factors that are contributing to the making of a multi-ethnic Korea, including the continuing influx of foreign workers, rapid ageing of the population, low fertility rate and shortage of brides. The paper also assesses the applicability of various theories and trends of migration to the Korean context. The Korean case affirms the globalization and acceleration of international migration, as practically every society is affected by it and as the number of migrants continues to increase.
Group Size and Storybook Reading: Two-Year-Old Children's Verbal and Nonverbal Participation With Books

Storybook reading in child care classrooms typically occurs in one large group, a context that does not provide opportunities for each child to talk about the book. Two-year-old children, in particular, need individual support to facilitate their language participation, and they want to touch the book and be close to the teacher. The purpose of the present study was to determine if reducing group size would increase 2-year-old children's engagement and verbal participation during storybook reading, and to describe their nonverbal participation. Fifteen 2-yearold children and six teachers in two classrooms participated. A multiple baseline across settings time-series experimental design was used. Videotapes were transcribed and coded for children's engagement, comments and questions, and nonverbal participation. Observations of book use were conducted during freeplay. The average number of comments and questions per child approximately doubled when reading occurred in small groups. Children participated nonverbally by actions such as pointing, handling books, moving close to the teacher, interacting with peers, and pretending. The results indicate that reducing group size can be an effective method for increasing the verbal participation of 2-year-old children during storybook reading in child care classrooms. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of ecological context, and ways of including small group storybook reading in the daily schedule are suggested.
Postoperative Wound Infection Rates in Dermatologic Surgery

BACKGROUND Multiple factors related to the nature of the surgical procedure can influence the risk of wound infection in dermatologic surgery. Despite that, wound infection rates in dermatologic surgical procedures tire believed to be low. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted: 1) to determine wound infection rates in Mohs and excisional surgery; and 2) to investigate if factors such as lesion type, anatomic location, postoperative defect size, number of Mohs stages required to achieve a tumor‐free plane, and the type of reconstructive procedure influence the rate of surgical wound infections. RESULTS Wound infection rate for 530 Mohs procedures and 517 excisions combined was 2.29%, falling within the predicted range for “clean” surgical procedures. In addition, Mohs procedures performed on the ear as well as large postoperative defects were found to have a higher rate of wound infections. CONCLUSION Dermatologic surgery can be safely performed in an outpatient setting without a significant risk of infection. Certain anatomic sites, such as the ear, as well as size of postoperative defect, are important factors in predicting the risk of postoperative wound infection.
A New Approach for Ranking 'Serious' Offences. The Use of Paired-Comparisons Methodology

The non-consequentialist approach to punishment sentences on the basis of offence-seriousness. However, there has been little theoretical or empirical consideration of the notion of offence-seriousness. Identification of 'serious' offences tends to be commonsensical at best. Further, there is currently no systematic way of measuring changes of seriousness over time. This study is a demonstration project displaying a way to investigate how the judiciary and the magistracy rank offence-seriousness in assessing actual cases. The use of paired-comparisons methodology provides a procedure which overcomes some problems of previous approaches. The method enables an assessment of the performance of judges and magistrates in terms of how they view the seriousness of offences without the artificiality of being involved in hypothesized field experiments.
A biomimetic robot controller based on minimizing the unpredictability of the environment: allostatic control revised

Rodents are optimal real-world foragers that regulate internal states, such as security, arousal, energy, etc., maintaining a dynamic stability with their surroundings. Free exploration is an interesting scenario as rodents display behavioral patterns that are very different from being random, even in the absence of reward. Our aim is to understand foraging behavior by implementing an artificial rat that behaves as real ones do. We depart from the hypothesis that rodents, when performing free exploration, may be minimizing the unpredictability of the environment in terms of internally mapping its structure and discovering all the actions that it can afford. This drive for exploration is counterbalanced by a drive for security. Building from a self-regulation model based on the Distributed Adaptive Control architecture (DAC), we implement a biomimetic control that uses this predictability principle to generate behavior. We validate the controller by solving a benchmark task in which the agent learns to displace a movable obstacle to discover unexplored areas of an arena.
Double-blind multicenter comparison of fluvoxamine versus sertraline in the treatment of depressed outpatients

Fluvoxamine and sertraline, both selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), were compared in a 5-center, 7-week double-blind study in outpatients with major depression diagnosed by DSM-III-R criteria. Ninety-five patients were titrated from 50 to 150 mg/day offluvoxamine (n = 49) or 50 to 200 mg/day of sertraline (n = 46). The mean dose administered in Weeks 3-1 was 123.8 mg/day for fluvoxamine, and 137.1 mg/day for sertraline. Forty-seven percent (47%) of fluvoxamine-treated patients and 30% of sertraline-treated patients were titrated to the maximum permissible dose. Fluvoxamine and sertraline were similarly effective in ameliorating depression as demonstrated by a mean reduction from baseline in the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD) total score of 10.61 ± 7.53 and 10.98 ± 6.08, respectively. Adverse events, mostly mild to moderate in severity, were reported for 93.5% of sertraline patients and 85.7% offluvoxamine patients. The most common events in the sertraline group were insomnia (34.8%), headache (32.6%), diarrhea (23.9%), and ejaculatory difficulty (22.2% of males), and in the fluvoxamine group, nausea (30.6%), headache (26.5%), insomnia (26.5%), and somnolence (24.5%). Significantly more patients reported sexual dysfunction in the sertraline (28%) than in the fluvoxamine (10%) group. An uncharacteristically low dropout rate due to adverse events was observed in the sertraline group (2.2%) compared with the fluvoxamine group (18.4%). The rate of withdrawal due to adverse events in the fluvoxamine group (0–2 patients/center) was comparable to that in the sertraline group (1 patient) for four of the five centers; the fifth center had 4 withdrawals in the fluvoxamine group. The differences in clinical profile of these two SSRIs provide physicians with meaningful choices in antidepressant therapy attuned to individual patient characteristics. Depression 3:163–169 (1995). © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
On the acquisition of syllabic structure in Greek

This study presents the results of an investigation into the acquisition of phonology of Greek by one child, between the ages 1;10–2;10. Our claim is that these results are relevant to the study of prosodic structure, specifically to syllable structure. We provide evidence that at the early stage of acquisition the child has only the unmarked CV-syllables and that codas are acquired at a later stage in interaction with morphological development. We will also provide an example of constraints that are fully satisfied in child language becoming minimally violable later in development, that is development as constraint reranking.
Phase Locking Induces Scale-Free Topologies in Networks of Coupled Oscillators

An initial unsynchronized ensemble of networking phase oscillators is further subjected to a growing process where a set of forcing oscillators, each one of them following the dynamics of a frequency pacemaker, are added to the pristine graph. Linking rules based on dynamical criteria are followed in the attachment process to force phase locking of the network with the external pacemaker. We show that the eventual locking occurs in correspondence to the arousal of a scale-free degree distribution in the original graph.
‘Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia

Abstract What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings is downplayed by the state and partly by the smallholders themselves. Those smallholdings are not seen as an alternative to industrial agriculture, but subsidiary to it (although superior in terms of sociality and healthy, environmentally friendly produce). As such, ‘quiet food sovereignty’ deviates from the overt struggle frequently associated with food sovereignty. We discuss the prospects of ‘quiet food sovereignty’ to develop into a full food sovereignty movement, and stress the importance of studying implicit everyday forms of food sovereignty.
Working in Special Education: Factors that Enhance Special Educators' Intent to Stay

This article presents findings from a study of factors that lead to special education teacher attrition and retention involving 887 special educators in three large urban school districts. We focus on a path analysis of the relationship between intent to stay in the field and factors such as job satisfaction, commitment to special education teaching, and various aspects of job design. Findings suggest several critical factors to consider in order to increase retention and commitment. A leading negative factor was stress due to job design. Perceived support by principals or other teachers in the school helped alleviate this stress. Another key factor was the sense that special educators were learning on the job, either formally or informally, through collegial networks.
To Map or Not to Map: Assessing the Impact of Crime Maps on Police Officer Perceptions of Crime

An increasingly popular strategy within community oriented and problem oriented policing is to provide patrol officers with crime analysis information in the form of crime maps. The strategy is designed to encourage officers to use maps to determine problem areas within their beats and to modify their patrol strategies accordingly. Despite the promise of crime maps and GIS in general, no research has evaluated the use of crime maps by patrol officers. This paper assesses the effects of crime maps on officers' perceptions of crime patterns and their subsequent patrol activities. Results indicate that simply providing officers with maps of crime distributions will not alone improve their understanding of crime patterns within their jurisdiction. Moreover, in order to have any real impact on officer perception and subsequent police activities, agencies need to invest in training and infrastructure to allow the full capabilities of crime mapping to be realised. In addition to a discussion of the relevant findings, the article also discusses general problems associated with the implementation and use of crime mapping as well as future research aims.
The Political Economy of Ethnic Change

An attempt is made to evaluate two theories of ethnic solidarity and change, one functionalist, the other reactive, in the light of quantitatime evidence concerning England and the Celtic fringe from 1885 to 1966. The conceptualization of ethnicity as a "primordial sentiment" has led to the expectation that class or functional cleavages should come to predominate over cultural distinctions in the politics of industrial societies. Ecological data drawn from British countries do not wholly support this expectation. While this process has substantially occurred in England, it has been retarded in the Celtic fringe. In part, this is a function of the continued salience of culturaldistinctions in the determination of income in Wales and parts of Scotland. On the basis of these findings, it is suggested that ethnic solidarity in complex societies is best seen as a response to patterns of structural discrimination faced by certain groups in the society at large. It is concluded that ethnic solidarity is not usefully conceived as a "primordial sentiment. "