Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antecedents and effects of engaged frontline employees

Purpose – The aim of this study is to examine factors related to employee engagement in frontline jobs in service firms.Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model was developed and tested on a survey in which 279 hospitality frontline employees participated.Findings – The findings show that employee engagement is closely linked to employees' innovative behaviour. Accordingly, the study clearly reveals the value of having an engaged frontline workforce. Moreover, the results show that perceptions of role benefit, job autonomy, and strategic attention were all significantly related to greater employee engagement.Research limitations/implications – This study limits its examination to the antecedents and effects of employee engagement for two types of service organizations.Practical implications – The study has demonstrated the importance for managers of having an engaged workforce. In particular, it is important for managers to notice that engagement is a major driver to innovative behaviour. Conseque.
Study of a Stator Current Excited Vernier Reluctance Machine

This paper deals with the study of a stator current excited Vernier reluctance machine. This structure is well known for operating at low speed and high torque. In the first part of this paper, we introduce an energetic model which yields the conditions on teeth and polarity numbers necessary for the smooth running of such a structure. Then, we give the procedure used to design a prototype. The second part is devoted to a brief look at the two-dimensional numerical approach used to model the machine. Finally, we present, and study, the constructed prototype. Different tests are performed, and the experimental values are compared to the calculated ones. We validate the operating principle of the current excited Vernier reluctance machine, and show its potential for low speed direct driven applications
An Investigation of the Marketing of Butterfat by the Canadian Dairy Industry

This study examines the Canadian Dairy Commission’s marketing of butterfat. Previous studies have concentrated on the evaluation of butterfat by using total kilograms of milk. Measuring milk as kilograms is based the assumption of fixed proportions between kilograms of milk and kilograms of butterfat. However, measuring dairy using kilograms may not be a good proxy for the underlying butterfat. In this study we argue that dairy fat maybe an inferior factor of production, whereas kilograms is a normal factor of production. This means that following kilograms within the marketing system may not track butterfat. In fact, butterfat may respond in an opposite direction to kilograms when prices and incomes change. Assuming that butterfat is an inferior factor may explain some of the marketing practices of the provincial marketing boards that on the surface seems to be neither in the interest of consumers or dairy farmers. If the objective of the supply management is to make dairy producers better off, then basing dairy quota on kilograms of butterfat seems logical since the demand for butterfat has been rising over time. In addition, controlling supply at the retail level using minimum milk price supports also benefits producers, although it may not be in the best interest of consumers due to higher dairy prices and increased butterfat consumption.
In Love and in Business: How Entrepreneurial Couples Are Changing the Rules of Business and Marriage

The book explores how entrepreneurial couples are transforming small businesses into multi-million dollar enterprises, with behind-the-scenes views of the couples who created success stories like Mrs Field's Chocolate Chippery, Mother's Work, Penthouse International, W.L. Gore and Associates, Best Products and many others. It deals with important issues facing every couple in business - from how to divide labor and rewards to coping with business setbacks to bringing up children. The book will be of the greatest interest for every couple who would like to become business partners as well as for those who have already taken the plunge.
A Conceptual Model of Knowledge Acquisition and Utilisation Through Marketing Research in Tourism: Development and an Empirical Assessment

This thesis is concerned with the process of knowledge acquisition and utilisation through marketing research in tourism. Its main objective is to determine the factors that lead to a marketing research orientation in tourism organisations. A conceptual model of antecedents and consequences of marketing research in tourism is constructed within a framework of theories of the sociology of knowledge and the diffusion of innovations. The model is tested using data gained through structured personal interviews with marketing and marketing research executives in a sample of the largest Australian tourism organisations.
An empirical investigation into the accounting, accountability and effectiveness of WAQF management in the State Islamic Religious Councils (SIRCs) in Malaysia

Waqf and its management in Malaysia have been very much neglected by the relevant authorities for a relatively long period of time. In Malaysia, waqf is managed by State Islamic Religious Councils (SIRCs), which is the sole trustees for waqf resources. The emergence of Islamic economics and the pressing demands for greater countability and better performance in the public sector organisations provided an impetus for the waqf revival in Malaysia. Thus this study empirically investigated the accounting, accountability and effectiveness of the waqf management in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey examining the current practices of the principal management activities including strategic planning, budgeting and budgetary control, performance measurement and financial reporting was distributed to thirteen SIRCs and two semi-autonomous baytulmal institutions, one in Sabah and the other in Sarawak. Furthermore, a series of semi-structured interviews was conducted on the senior and operational officers of SIRCs/baytulmal institutions, the Department of Awqaf, Zakah and Hajj (JAWHAR), the Malaysia Waqf Foundation (MWF) and the National Audit Department (NAD). Essentially, the study revealed a number of noticeable findings with regard to the principal management activities in SIRCs/baytulmal institutions. Firstly, budgeting in SIRCs/baytulmal institutions appeared to function mainly as planning and control tools. The strict approach to budgetary control in these organisations was to ensure the adherence of spending to the budgets while the efficiency and effectiveness of resource consumption were less emphasised. Delegation of authority and responsibility to operational managers was restricted to budgetary control. Secondly, there were evidences of conspicuous discrepancies in the financial reporting practice. This may have been attributed by the absence of specific accounting framework for Islamic assets and funds held by SIRCs/baytulmal institutions. The financial reporting practice in these organisations had less focused on the stewardship/accountability dimension expected of the public sector and non-profit organisations. Thirdly, performance measurement in SIRCs/baytulmal institutions appeared to be focusing on enhancing the administrative capacity of the organisations. Fourthly, the existence of strategic planning in SIRCs/baytulmal institutions was very limited and mainly conditioned on external requirements. Finally, the study also revealed the presence of inherent challenges in the waqf management in SIRCs/baytulmal institutions, namely, financial inadequacy, shortages of manpower, and limited administrative capacity. The present practice of the principal management activities and the inherent challenges had a profound impact on the extent of accountability and effectiveness of the waqf management in Malaysia.
SIMULATED IMPACTS OF EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION ON UNITED STATES WATER RESOURCES 1

ABSTRACT: The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena alter global weather patterns with consequences for fresh water supply. ENSO events impact regions and their natural resource sectors around the globe. For example, in 1997 and 1998, a strong El Nino brought warm ocean temperatures, flooding, and record snowfall to the west coast of the United States. Research on ENSO events has improved long range climate predictions, affording the potential to reduce the damage and economic cost of these weather patterns. Here, using the Hydrologic Unit Model for the United States (HUMUS), we simulate the impacts of four types of ENSO states (Neutral, El Niño, La Niña, and strong El Niño) on water resources in the conterminous United States. The simulations show that La Niña conditions increase water yield across much of the country. We find that water yield increases during El Niño years across the south while declining in much of the rest of the country. However, under strong El Niño conditions, regional water yields are much higher than Neutral, especially along the West Coast. Strong El Niño is not simply an amplification of El Niño; it leads to strikingly different patterns of water resource response.
The Effect of Compensation Design and Corporate Governance on the Transparency of CEO Compensation Disclosures

We investigate the "transparency" (i.e., the level of detail) of CEO compensation disclosures by Australian firms following regulatory changes in July 1998. After controlling for other possible economic determinants of disclosure, we find that transparency is negatively related to the level of size-adjusted compensation. We also find that transparency increases with firm size and (weakly) with performance. There is also evidence of a "persuasion effect", in that disclosures made after the release of regulatory "guidelines" are more transparent. However, we find no evidence of specific corporate governance attributes (i.e., separation of the CEO and chair roles, auditor quality, board composition, the existence and structure of board committees) being associated with more transparent disclosures. Nor do we find any evidence of transparency being associated with the mix of cash and stock-based compensation. Although there is some indirect evidence of a negative relation between blockholder ownership and disclosure transparency, we find no significant relation with insider ownership. Overall, our results are consistent with corporate governance mechanisms having minimal impact on disclosure where there are potential conflicts of interest between the CEO and outside shareholders.
The role of the non-depolarizing drugs in the prevention of suxamethonium bradycardia.

SUMMARY Evidence has been presented to show that a second dose of suxamethonium is capable of producing a severe bradycardia in man. This response may be effectively prevented by the prior administration of certain non-depolarizing muscle relaxants namely tubocurarine, alcuronium, c -toxiferine and pancuronium in quantities of one-quarter or less of their muscle relaxant level. It is suggested that suxamethonium causes altered cardiac rhythm by stimulation of afferent vagal receptors, which action may be blocked by tubocurarine and similar drugs.
High-TV Based CS Framework Using MAP Estimator for SAR Image Enhancement

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have two main problems: Degradation by speckle that causes low-contrast images and misinterpretation, and the large amount of data that makes the computation time an important issue. In addition to denoising, it is necessary to recover the missing data due to errors in the onboard SAR equipment, downlink equipment, and ground data registration. In this paper, we propose a method using high-order total variation (High-TV) denoising in compressive sensing (CS) framework, based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation to simultaneously denoise and recover the large-size, complex-valued SAR images. Experiments on RADARSAT-1 raw data showed that the proposed method, called MAP High-TV, can suppress the speckle effectively without exhibiting a staircase effect on the images, and perfectly recovers the missed data. The performance comparison among the proposed method, MAP-MIDAL (the pioneer CS-based method), and three state of the art filters (NSM, POTDF and FANS), explores the capability of MAP High-TV for both denoising and recovering the complex-valued SAR images.
Financial Sector Tail Risk and Real Economic Activity: Evidence from the Option Market

This paper documents that option-implied tail risk in the U.S. financial sector predicts real economic activity. The predictability is found to be incremental to the information content in a stock price-based measure of financial sector tail risk. This finding holds both in- and out-of-sample and is not driven by the 2007 to 2009 sub-prime crisis. The predictability can instead be attributed to the option market's ability to anticipate a rising funding cost differential between small and large banks which has a detrimental effect on real economic activity. The results have implications for the real-time monitoring of financial sector tail risk.
Individual Psychological Ownership: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications for Research in Marketing

Psychological ownership has emerged as an important predictor of workplace motivations, attitudes, and behaviors. While components of psychological ownership theory have been recently adapted to marketing contexts as well, much remains to be done. With a more comprehensive application and use of psychological ownership theory in marketing, additional understanding and explanation could be provided for many of the key phenomena, such as customer satisfaction, loyalty, word-of-mouth, and willingness to pay. In this article, we focus on individual psychological ownership–associated concepts and evidence with implications for research in marketing. Our work offers multiple avenues for future research focused on, but not limited to, marketing contexts.
EFFECT ON COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DISCLOSURES IN CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT OF CONSUMPTION LISTED IN INDONESIA STOCK EXCHANGE

Keywords: Corporate, Stock, Exchange ABSTRACT Social impact of companies depending on the type or operating characteristics. Companies operating characteristics that generate high social impact will demand the fulfillment of social responsibility is higher. Implementation of social responsibility will be communicated to the public one of them through social disclosures in annual reports. The aim of this research is to determine how the image of disclosures of social responsibility and how the influence of corporate characteristics on disclosure of corporate social responsibility, consumer goods listed in the Stock Exchange from 2006 to 2008 period. The data used are secunder data like annual reports 2006-2008 and ICMD 2007-2009, from consumer goods companies the sample of 18 companies over three years is 2006-2008 with a total of 54 samples. From this research we can conclude that the description of disclosures of social responsibility is still low, amounting to 0.5554 or 55.54%. Simultaneously, the four independent variables (Ln Size, ROA, LEV and AGE) significantly influenced by the Sig . 000 while partially only three independent variables that significantly affect the disclosure of corporate social responsibility, namely consumer goods Ln Size, ROA and AGE. While LEV did not have a significant.
The Role of Audit Committee as a Supportive Tool of Corporate Governance on Enhancing the Quality of Financial Reports An Applied Study on Egyptian Pharmaceutical Corporations

This study aims at exploring the role of audit committee on enhancing the financial reports in Egypt. This was accomplished through reviewing the literature and previous studies related to corporate governance, audit committee and financial reports, then analyze the relationship between the characteristics of the audit committees at the Pharmaceutical corporations listed in the Egyptian Exchange and the possibility of the Company receiving an unqualified auditors' report as a measure of the quality of financial reports. The study finds a positive relationship between the independence of the audit committee members, the size of the audit committee, and the financial experience of its members on the external auditor's report. On the other hand, there was no effect of the numbers of meeting of the audit committee on the quality of the financial reports. Finally, the study emphasized the importance of the characteristics that should be required in the members of the audit committee and to maintain their independency, and the existence of financial and accounting experience in most of the members of the audit committee.
Thermodynamics of Vitreoretinal Surgery

ABSTRACT Purpose: To report in vivo the temperature variations occurring continuously inside the human eye during vitreoretinal surgery. Methods: Intraocular temperature was monitored during the entire surgical time in 14 eyes of 14 patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy. A custom made 23-gauge thermoprobe was inserted through a sclerotomy at 3.5 mm from the limbus. Temperature in the anterior chamber and on the retinal surface was measured at one time point, whilst the temperature in the vitreous cavity was monitored throughout the entire surgery. Time points of particular interest in the vitreous cavity were: at baseline (inflow off – outflow off), at the beginning of the vitrectomy (inflow off – outflow on), at the end of vitrectomy (inflow on – outflow on), during the epiretinal procedures (inflow on – outflow off), under air infusion, under oil and under endolaser treatment ongoing. Results: The mean temperature in the anterior chamber and on the nasal retinal side was 23.6°C (SD 1.8)and 32.3°C (SD 1.1), respectively. The mean vitreous temperature at baseline, before opening the infusion, was 33.6°C (SD 1.4). The mean temperature at the beginning and the end of the vitrectomy was 26.8°C (SD 1.0) and 24.8°C (SD 0.8), respectively. During the epiretinal procedures, the mean temperature was 27.4°C (SD 0.7). Under air infusion, the mean temperature increased to 29.2°C (SD 1.2). The fluctuations in temperature were statistically different between the time points during the vitrectomy (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Vitreoretinal surgery induces measurable changes in temperature in the human eye, with significant fluctuations. In particular, the temperature in the vitreous cavity decreases when both the inflow and the outflow fluid lines are open, whilst it increases under air infusion.
Challenging behaviour: the perceptions of teachers of children and young people with severe learning disabilities

This paper reports the findings of a study which aimed to elicit teachers’ perceptions of pupils’ challenging behaviour. Teachers were asked to indicate: which aspects of challenging behaviour concerned them; their responses to it; which strategies they found effective; what they believed to be the causes of it; how stressed they felt; and how effective they felt when dealing with it. They were also asked to identify sources of information, advice and help and to rate different types of challenging behaviour in terms of severity of challenge. Results indicate that teachers are concerned about challenging behaviour and find it stressful. Whilst considering themselves to be effective in dealing with it, a proportion report feeling frustrated by it, angry, upset and/or at a loss. The most frequently cited challenging behaviour was aggression, although self-injury was found to be the most challenging. Whilst recognising the communicative basis of many forms of challenging behaviour teachers nevertheless tended to select strategies which were concerned with diffusion rather than prevention. The most likely source of information, advice and help was other teachers. Some differences in responses were noted according to experience and whether or not additional qualifications were held.
Would You Like to Be a Prosumer ? Information Revelation , Personalization and Price Discrimination in Electronic Markets

Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of information revealed, we analyse how his decision interacts with the pricing strategy of a monopolist who may abuse the information to obtain a larger share of total surplus. We consider two scenarios, one where consumers have different tastes but identical willingness to pay and another with high and low valuation customers. In both cases full revelation may only result if the monopolist can commit to a maximum price before consumers decide about disclosure. JEL–code: D82, D42, L14
The chemical composition of the human body.

Zinc 2 . 3 0 . 0033 Rubidium 0 . 32 0 . 00046 Strontium 0 . 32 0 . 00046 Bromine 0 . 20 0 . 00029 Lead 0 . 12 0 . 00017 Copper 0 . 072 0 . 00010 Aluminum 0 . 061 0 . 00009 Cadmium 0 . 050 0 . 00007 Boron <0 . 048 0 . 00007 Barium 0 . 022 0 . 00003 Tin <0 . 017 0 . 00002 Manganese 0 . 012 0 . 00002 Iodine 0 . 013 0 . 00002 Nickel 0 . 010 0 . 00001 Gold <0 . 010 0 . 00001 Molybdenum <0 . 0093 0 . 00001 Chromium <0 . 0018 0 . 000003 Cesium 0 . 0015 0 . 000002 Cobalt 0 . 0015 0 . 000002 Uranium 0 . 00009 0 . 0000001 Beryllium 0 . 000036 Radium 3 . 1⋅10–11
Environmental contamination and industrial real estate market: an application of hedonic price method in Italy

Using the hedonic pricing approach, this paper investigates how contamination and environmental remediation of contaminated sites affects the value of nearby commercial and industrial real estate properties in Italy. In Italy, prices and other relevant information for the study of industrial and commercial real estate market are not easily and publicly available, limiting knowledge and understanding of market dynamics in urban areas, where contaminated properties are widespread and constitute a burden for prospective urban regeneration and economic development. This research, by collecting and analyzing real estate transactions in one of the most well known and large contaminated site in Italy, offers the first attempt to model and estimate the functioning of industrial and commercial real market, offering useful hints for planning purpose and policy design. We collected and analyzed the real estate market transactions realized in the last 12 years (1997-2008) in the National Priority List (NPL) site of Porto Marghera. The estimated coefficients of hedonic models are the implicit prices for each one of the considered characteristics or attributes. Therefore, results of our estimation provide evidence that environmental remediation does increase the sale price and that the effect of the distance from sites in which permanent safety measures are implemented has a positive effect on the price of nearby properties. Significant and positive effects on prices are also determined by the localization in a recent revitalized neighbourhood of Mestre and the economic trend of the area represented by the industrial cost construction investment rates. Finally, our model shows that larger properties are associated with higher property prices, the variable measuring lot size relates positively to property prices and is statistically significant.