Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison between different non-destructive techniques methods to detect and characterize impact damage on composite laminates

This paper aims to investigate the ability of ultrasonic and electronic speckle pattern interferometry to analyse the low-velocity impact internal damage mechanisms on basalt composite laminates and to provide information on the shape and the extent of the delamination in non-destructive way. Basalt/epoxy composites with different thicknesses have been realised and characterised by mechanical tests to investigate both fibre-dominated (tensile and flexural behaviour) and matrix-dominated properties (interlaminar shear strength). Specimens were impacted at penetration and at increasing energy values, to explore the damage onset and propagation. The results showed that the damage was concentrated under the impactor–material contact point and that the composite with intermediate thickness had the best balance between the different kinds of impact damages: delamination and indentation. Further, a good agreement was found between the overall data obtained by the two non-destructive techniques, confirming the capability of both techniques to examine the composite impact damage.
Participatory creativities: developing a research design for children’s pastoral encounters with the natural world

ABSTRACT In this paper, the author discusses the interrelationship between creativity, children’s experiences of the natural world and pastoral education. Based on a research design developed whilst undertaking a professional doctorate in education (EdD), and grounded in a theoretical framework of children’s rights, the author explores the creative uncertainties of collaboratively researching children’s educational experiences with nature. The paper considers the ways in which the research design supports a pastoral care agenda, whilst encouraging the emergence of ‘creative artefacts’, alongside the extent to which the focus of the research, encounters with the natural world, might be deemed pastorally minded in its own right. The children who have participated in the research then draw the paper to a close, sharing what their involvement in the project has meant to them. Images and excerpts of children’s own creative reflections are offered as illustration of the powerful confluence of the Creative and the Pastoral.
Environmental Injustice and Religion: Outdoor Air Pollution Disparities in Metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah

The distributive environmental justice literature has expanded beyond examining only race- and class-based injustices, but no studies have focused on religion’s influence on disparate environmental risks. We address that gap using data from the decennial U.S. Census, American Community Survey, and Environmental Protection Agency for 2010 census tracts to examine a proxy measure of Mormon prevalence, racial and ethnic composition, and socioeconomic status as predictors of seven indicators of outdoor air pollution in metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah. Results from multivariate generalized estimating equation (GEE) analyses show that greater Mormon prevalence and white composition each independently predict lower levels of air pollution; moreover, Mormon prevalence and whiteness are the strongest predictors in the models. Results also demonstrate that greater proportions of Hispanic, black, and Pacific Islander residents predict higher levels of air pollution, suggesting that systemic white privilege oppresses those groups such that they experience air pollution disparities. Mormons are socially privileged in Salt Lake City, and findings indicate that their collective power serves to protect them from air pollution. Exploratory GEE interaction analyses reveal that disparities in exposure to particulate matter based on higher Hispanic composition are attenuated under conditions of high Mormon prevalence. Findings indicate that white privilege or racial oppression and Mormon privilege operate distinctively and, to a lesser degree, interactively as determinants of distributive environmental injustices in Salt Lake City. Although affiliation with a contextually dominant religion (Mormonism) among residents in Salt Lake City shapes neighborhood patterns of environmental inequality, future studies should examine the role of religion in both producing and ameliorating environmental injustice. Key Words: air pollution, environmental justice, race, ethnicity, religion.
Spiritual Struggle within a Faith-Based Institution

During four critical years in college, students ask big questions and form a stronger sense of identity, purpose, and personal conviction. Recent studies in the area of college student spirituality have indicated that, while college students have an increased interest in spirituality, many students experience spiritual struggle during these formative years. These questions and uncertainties about identity and spirituality arise even at faith-based institutions. In fact, some research (Bryant & Astin, 2008) has found that students at faith-based institutions are actually more likely to experience spiritual struggle during the college years than their peers at other institutional types, for reasons not previously researched. The current qualitative study examined factors that contribute to spiritual struggle within a faith-based institution, the experience of students experiencing struggle within a faith-based institution, and the institutional elements that support or challenge students during this developmental “crisis. ” Six themes emerged from the individual interviews conducted at a small, Midwest, faith-based institution. Students experiencing spiritual struggle entered college with strong religious upbringing, which had shaped their spiritual paradigm and framework. Various factors during the college experience created dissonance and led the participants to reexamine a framework that seemed inadequate or incomplete to address new questions and ambiguities. During the time of spiritual struggle, the students experienced frustration towards the religious climate on campus. Students kept their struggle private from most individuals and forums on campus, despite
Preliminary Characterization of Hydrogel Composite Alginate/PVA/r-GO as an Injectable Materials for Medical Applications

The study aimed to synthesize alginate hydrogel-based composites which could be injected for medical purpose and can be cured in situ gelling after the injection process. The effect of reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) addition on Alginate /poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel to physical properties were evaluated. Synthesis of hydrogel Alginate/PVA/r-GO composite was previously performed by production of r-GO using Hummer method. The composition of r-GO used in composite hydrogel was 0.4, 0.8, 1.2 and 1.6% wt. The sample was then characterized using XRD, FTIR, and analyzed perform with its curing time, injectable performance, swelling ratio, and water content.
Intentional Communication by Chimpanzees: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Use of Referential Gestures

This study describes the use of referential gestures with concomitant gaze orienting behavior to both distal food objects and communicative interactants by 115 chimpanzees, ranging from 3 to 56 years of age. Gaze alternation between a banana and an experimenter was significantly associated with vocal and gestural communication. Pointing was the most common gesture elicited; 47 subjects pointed with the whole hand, whereas 6 subjects pointed with index fingers. Thus, communicative pointing is commonly used by laboratory chimpanzees, without explicit training to point, language training, or home rearing. Juveniles exhibited striking decrements in their propensity to communicate with adult male experimenters compared with older chimpanzees. Significantly fewer mother-reared chimpanzees exhibited gaze alternation compared with nursery-reared chimpanzees.
External knowledge, intraorganisational networks and exploratory innovation: an empirical examination

ABSTRACT External sources of knowledge are widely believed to be essential in fostering innovation. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between externally acquired knowledge and organisational innovation are inconsistent. Building on social network research, this study examines how the intraorganisational network structure affects the extent to which organisations can benefit from external knowledge in generating innovation. In particular, we focus on the effect of external knowledge diversity on exploratory innovation. Employing network and patent data collected from high technology companies in Taiwan, we find that the diversity of external knowledge has a positive impact on organisational exploratory innovation. Moreover, intraorganisational network brokerage increases the positive effect of external knowledge diversity on exploratory innovation, while intraorganisational network closure decreases the positive effect of external knowledge diversity on exploratory innovation. The results indicate that the effects of external knowledge on organisational innovation are contingents upon the configuration of intraorganisational networks.
An historico-geographical theory of urban form

ABSTRACT Urban morphology is the study of the physical form of cities and of the agents and processes shaping its transformation over time. One of the most prominent approaches in the urban morphological debate is the historico-geographical approach. While the core of this approach is based on the seminal work that MRG Conzen developed after the late 1950s, it was JWR Whitehand who, mainly after the late 1970s, started structuring an innovative school of urban morphological thought grounded on that invaluable basis. Over the last decades, Whitehand has been a key contributor to the definition of urban morphology as a field of knowledge and, within it, to the establishment of the historico-geographical approach, proposing and refining a number of morphological theories, concepts and methods.
DOES RELIGIOSITY INFLUENCE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL FACTORS AND WORKPLACE DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR

Drawing from social control theory, this study tested a moderating influence of religiosity in which emotional exhaustion and emotional stability as predictors and workplace deviance behavior is the outcome. Using data from 350 employees from the multimedia organization in Malaysia, we conducted Structural Equation Modelling analysis. Results found a positive and significant relationship between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance behavior and negative impact of emotional stability towards workplace deviance behavior. Finally, religiosity moderates the relationship between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance behavior, and religiosity moderates the relationship between emotional stability and workplace deviance behavior. The study makes a significant and unique contribution to the literature by showing the moderating influence of religiosity in the relationship between emotional exhaustion, emotional stability, and workplace deviance behavior. This study suggested that the employee with strong religious, may reduce emotional exhaustion and enhance employee emotional stability, and thus, mitigate employee to engage in workplace deviance behavior. Keywords: religiosity, emotional exhaustion, emotional stability, workplace deviant behavior
Impact of the dedicated infrastructure on bus service quality: an empirical analysis

ABSTRACT An econometric analysis is conducted to quantify the impact of different variables on the service quality of the Santiago, Chile bus system. The indicators tested as measures of service quality are the average bus speed, the bus trip time coefficient of variation and the bus headway coefficient of variation. The analysis uses peak hour data obtained for all the routes served by the system’s various concessionaire operators. A separate multiple linear regression model is estimated for each indicator, with the latter as the explained variable. The main explanatory variables are a series of design factors representing different types of dedicated route infrastructure and the incorporation in some routes of segments of urban motorway. The results of the models show that the existence of dedicated bus route infrastructure positively impacts all three service quality indicators. The use of motorway segments in particular has a major positive effect on average speed. The model estimates also reveal that the main explanatory factor in headway variability at the end of a route is the headway variability at the start of it, the latter factor determined by operator management decisions regarding bus despatches.
Drawing is Integrating: An Examination of Students’ Graphic Representations of Multiple Texts

In this study, integration, or students’ connection formation across texts, was examined across two tasks: when undergraduates were asked to complete a writing assignment and a novel, diagram construction task. While the writing assignment asked students to compose an argument based on multiple texts, the diagram construction task asked students to visually represent a set of eight conflicting texts and the relations among them. The Documents Model Framework (DM) was used to code undergraduates’ written responses and diagrams for the type of multiple text representations they featured (i.e., mush models, separate representations models, and documents models of multiple texts). Moreover, written responses and diagrams were coded for the specificity at which they integrated texts, corresponding to the formation of evidentiary, thematic, and contextual relations. Limited associations were found between college students’ written responses and the diagrams constructed. Implications for understanding multiple text integration are discussed.
Types of iconicity and combinatorial strategies distinguish semantic categories in silent gesture across cultures

abstract In this study we explore whether different types of iconic gestures (i.e., acting, drawing, representing) and their combinations are used systematically to distinguish between different semantic categories in production and comprehension. In Study 1, we elicited silent gestures from Mexican and Dutch participants to represent concepts from three semantic categories: actions, manipulable objects, and non-manipulable objects. Both groups favoured the acting strategy to represent actions and manipulable objects; while non-manipulable objects were represented through the drawing strategy. Actions elicited primarily single gestures whereas objects elicited combinations of different types of iconic gestures as well as pointing. In Study 2, a different group of participants were shown gestures from Study 1 and were asked to guess their meaning. Single-gesture depictions for actions were more accurately guessed than for objects. Objects represented through two-gesture combinations (e.g., acting + drawing) were more accurately guessed than objects represented with a single gesture. We suggest iconicity is exploited to make direct links with a referent, but when it lends itself to ambiguity, individuals resort to combinatorial structures to clarify the intended referent. Iconicity and the need to communicate a clear signal shape the structure of silent gestures and this in turn supports comprehension.
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON SHORT TERM AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF CRUDE OIL ON ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF INDONESIA BY APPLYING AUTOREGRESSIVE DISTRIBUTED LAG MODEL

Oil has been one of the primary wellsprings of Indonesia's revenue, either from government spending plan or balance of payments purpose of perspectives. Because of supply and demand of oil on the planet market, prices of oil, either ICP, Brent UK, or WTI, had been decay of late. Oil prices and economic wellbeing are essential markers to see the achievement of Indonesia's improvement execution. The utilization of oil as the world's fundamental energy source when all is said in done and Indonesia specifically is driven by industrialization. The more ventures, the more prominent the energy resources required. In a similar setting, economic wellbeing will likewise expand oil demand. Oil has a strategic nature and is a vital ware that influences the world economy. Both oil exporters and merchants are probably going to feel the impacts of oil price advancements. Oil prices dropped pointedly since June 2014 finishing a four – year time of relative price strength. The size and speed of decay has been noteworthy yet not remarkable. This exploration plans to analyze the impact of crude oil prices on economic wellbeing in Indonesia. Data on crude oil prices and economic growth are yearly time series data stretching from 1987 to 2016. The aftereffects of co-integration tests demonstrate that there is no long-term connection between crude oil prices and economic wellbeing. In any case, the estimation of the autoregressive distributed lag (5.0) model demonstrates that in the short term, there is the impact of crude oil prices toward economic wellbeing.
The Strategic Use of Fear Appeals in Political Communication

Fear appeals constitute a frequent theme of populist rhetoric. One potential motive for this is that they decrease people’s reliance on partisan habits and increase openness to new information. Political actors can use this effect to attract more ideologically distant groups of voters, but not without drawbacks. This paper analyses the strategic use of fear appeals in the framework of the Bounded-Confidence model. It is shown that attracting undecided voters between two opinion clusters is decisive for the success of a party’s fear appeal strategy. Hence, fear appeals can increase a party’s reach for new supporters, yet only if the party manages to clearly differentiate itself form ideological competitors.
Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Historical, Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

This study follows a reversal of the Wagner Hypothesis as Government expenditure is used as a function of Economic Growth and adopts the ex-post facto research design. The datasets used in this work are annualized time series and purely secondary data drawn from World Bank databank. It covers a 35year period, 1981 to 2015. In addition to the classical linear regression analyses, diagnostics tests were done to ensure validity and reliability of the results. Descriptive statistics, correlational analyses were employed in addition to the traditional unit root tests which confirmed the stationarity properties of the series under study and also determine the model form adopted. The result shows that Economic growth is a significant function of capital expenditure as By way of policy implication, it is recommended that public expenditure should be directed in a manner that engineers economic growth given the functional relationship discovered in this study.
Modelling the role of brand community on brand features through Mediation of brand attachment

The purpose of this study was modelling the role of brand community on brand attributes through Mediation of brand attachment. The statistical population of the study consisted of customers of Iranian sports brands (Daei and Majid) and foreign (Adidas and Leaning) at Shiraz sport shops. According to Morgan's table, 388 people were selected randomly. A 29-item questionnaire was used in a five-point Likert scale. After a semi-structured snowball interview with 15 elites and experts, and using Delphi technique to qualify the questionnaire and confirm its formal and content validity By professors and its internal reliability using Cronbach's alpha test. The statistical methods of factor analysis and structural equation modelling test were used. The findings of the research showed that fitting indices are desirable and indicate confirmation of the model. Therefore, it can be said that the brand community directly and significantly affects the brand's identification and brand identity and attachment with the brand through brand mediation on increasing commitment to the brand community. However, due to the effect of commitment to brand community on brand attachment and, indirectly, their high impact on brand commitment, as well as the identification and identification of brand identity and on commitment to brand community, we can deduce Demonstrating that brand identity has a direct impact on brand commitment and through brand attachment to brand commitment.
Origin of lunar fragmental matrix breccias—Highly siderophile element constraints

Ejecta at North Ray crater (Apollo 16) sampled a unique section of the lunar highlands not accessible at most other landing sites and provide important constraints on the composition of late accreted materials. New data on multiple aliquots of four fragmental matrix breccias and a fragment‐laden melt breccia from this site display a variety of highly siderophile element patterns which may represent the signatures of volatile element‐depleted carbonaceous chondrite‐like material, primitive achondrite, differentiated metal, and an impactor component that cannot be related to known meteoritic material. The latter component is prevalent in these rocks besides characterized by depletions in Re and Os compared to Ir, Ru and Pt, chondritic Re/Os, and a gradual depletion of Pd and Au. The observed characteristics are more consistent with fractionations by nebular processes, like incomplete condensation or evaporation, than with lunar crustal processes, like partial melting or volatilization. The impactor signature preserved in these breccias may stem from primitive meteorites with a refractory element composition moderately different from known chondrites. The presence of distinct impactor components within the North Ray crater breccias together with observed correlations of characteristic element ratios (e.g., Re/Os, Ru/Pt, Pd/Ir) in different impact lithologies of four Apollo landing sites constrains physical mixing processes ranging from the scale of gram‐sized samples to the area covered by the Apollo missions.
Journey or toolbox? Integrated reporting and processes of organisational change

Purpose Motivated by Morgan’s (1997) analysis of the “paradoxical” role of metaphors in understanding and managing organisations, the purpose of this paper is to assess in what respects organisations using integrated reporting (IR) are on a “journey” of organisational change. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses IR practitioner literature to interpret the IR journey metaphor more precisely. The authors then use in-depth interviews to assess the extent to which this metaphor captures how six early adopter organisations in Australia implement IR, and what changes result, over four years. Findings The journey metaphor implies substantive and holistic organisational change. By contrast, the authors find organisations use IR in contextual, instrumental and piecemeal ways. The authors propose a “toolbox” metaphor to help (re)present how organisations adapt their reporting to fit decisions already made, and challenges presented, through ordinary and ongoing strategic management. Research limitations/implications Morgan (1997) stresses metaphors are invariably used to both describe and manage organisations. The authors’ analysis identifies specific ways the IR journey metaphor is descriptively misleading. The authors’ “toolbox” metaphor suggests different ways organisations are, or could, manage IR to create value. Originality/value This is the first paper to provide a systematic analysis of the IR journey metaphors, and to assess in what respects this metaphor captures actual organisational practice. The findings also challenge the broader notion in academic research that reporting frameworks can lead organisational change.