Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Participatory Action Intervention to Increase Work Engagement in Nursing Staff

This study evaluated whether a participatory action research intervention with nursing staff on acute elderly NHS wards in the UK was effective for increasing work engagement. Mediation analyses between job resources, (social support, influence in decision-making), job demands, work-related needs (autonomy, competence, relatedness), and work engagement explored the presumed psychological mechanisms underlying the intervention. A non-randomised, matched control group, pre-test, post-test design involved three intervention and five control wards. A significant decrease in relatedness, and a borderline significant decrease in competence, was observed in the intervention group compared to the control group (N=45). No effect was observed on work engagement. Work-related needs mediated between resources and work engagement, supporting the Job Demands-Resources model and Self-Determination Theory as an underlying explanatory theory. Intervention implementation was poor, highlighting the need for participant and .
Financialised Capitalism: Crisis and Financial Expropriation

The current crisis is an outcome of the financialisation of contemporary capitalism. It arose in the USA because of the enormous expansion of mortgage lending, including to the poorest layers of the working class. It became general because of the trading of debt by financial institutions. These phenomena are integral to financialisation. During the last three decades large enterprises have turned to open markets to obtain finance, forcing banks to seek alternative sources of profit. One avenue has been provision of financial services to individual workers. This trend has been facilitated by the retreat of public provision from housing, pensions, education, and so on. A further avenue has been to adopt investment banking practices in open financial markets. The extraction of financial profits directly out of personal income constitutes financial expropriation. Combined with investment banking, it has catalysed the current gigantic crisis. More broadly, financialisation has sustained the emergence of new layers of rentiers, defined primarily through their relation to the financial system rather than ownership of loanable capital. Finally, financialisation has posed important questions regarding finance capital and imperialism.
Sundanese Traditional Tone Sensitivity-Based Audiation Model of Salendro Musical Scale

This study is aiming at finding out the audiation model of salendro musical scale and teaching it to the non-Sundanese learners. Treatment done to the learners whose hearing sensitivity has not been familiar with salendro tone during the audiation practice. A method implemented in the study was grounded theory. It was used to explore initial audiation theory from Edwin E. Gordon in Syntax Learning Sequence in Music that was adjusted with learning stages of salendro tone. This study resulted in an audiation model of salendro tone to sharpen hearing sensitivity of non-Sundanese learners who had not been familiar with salendro tone.
Effects of Quality of Work Life (QWL) and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) on Job Performance Among Community Health Centre Paramedics in Bekasi City, Indonesia

The purpose of this research is to empirically study the community health centres staffs perception on the influence of Quality of Work Life (QWL) and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) on Job Satisfaction and its Implication toward Job Performance. The research designed used quantitative approach through research instrument. The population in this study were 499 paramedical staffs of community health centres in Bekasi City, West Java Province, Indonesia. The data was gathered through direct and face to face distribution by the researchers. Proportionate and probability random sampling was used to collect sample of this research. Total respondents of this study were 285 who were selected from 499 paramedical staffs of community health centres. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with AMOS 22.00 version was used to analyse the proposed hypothesis. This empirical research concluded that Quality of Work Life (QWL) and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) have a positive effect on Job Performance. These empirical research findings have also shown the significant positive effect of work satisfaction towards job performance. The last important finding or this empirical research also proven that work satisfaction does not have any mediating roles on the influence of quality of work life (QWL) and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) on job performance among paramedics community health centres. Keywords: Quality of Work Life (QWL), Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB), Job Satisfaction, Job Performance
The Effect of The Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System on Activities of daily living, cognitive function, self-esteem in Stroke

The purpose of this study was to verify the clinical usefulness of the virtual reality rehabilitation system which Academic-Industrial cooperation develop through clinical experiment for recovering the functional abilities in stroke. For this purpose, 24 Stroke(hemorrhage13, infarction11)participated in a clinical experiment. They were randomly assigned to the virtual reality rehabilitation system group(n=13) and conventional rehabilitation training(Activities of daily living, cognition training, motor control) group(n=11). All participant were evaluated with three standardized assessment tools(Functional Independent Measure; FIM, Mini-Mental State Examination for Korean; MMSE-K, Self-esteem scale) before and after the planned intervention sessions. All participant were intensively carried out for 8weeks, 3times a week. The results were as follows. The experimental group showed significant improvements for Activities of daily living, basic cognitive abilities and self-esteem related with life satisfaction after the interventions(p<.05). There were no significant differences between two groups for all assessment tool after interventions. Because of this experimental results, the virtual reality rehabilitation system showed the clinical utility for recovering the function in stroke. Further studies are needed to verify the clinical usefulness on the improvement of various functions in brain injury and dementia.
TRENDS IN RETIREMENT SAVING : EVIDENCE FROM AN ONLINE SURVEY OF ROMANIAN HOUSEHOLDS GURAN ( TEODORESCU ) ILEANA PH

In the context of the population aging and the demographic crisis throughout Europe and the developed world, the public pension systems will become increasingly strained as the proportion of pensioners to the working population will continue to increase. Empirical evidence shows that individuals fail to save enough for retirement to compensate for the less than optimal level of public pensions, and thus are facing the risk of a decrease in the standard of living in their post-retirement years. This larger context makes the study of retirement saving behavior an important matter. The objective of this paper is to document current trends in retirement saving behavior from the data collected through an online survey of Romanian households. The survey was distributed as an online questionnaire that collected 1285 of responses. The survey’s objective was to document households’ financial situation, as well as other psychological and social factors that might explain saving behavior. The analysis of the survey results indicates that there is a gap between intentions and actions when it comes to retirement saving. This gap and the resulting suboptimal retirement saving rates are explained in behavioral economics literature by anomalies in the inter-temporal choices of individuals, subject to self-control issues. We will see to what extent this gap is due to self-control issues and to what extent it is explained by the current financial situation of individuals. We will also conclude about possible retirement saving behavior influencing factors and motives.
Why public education is unequal: case of Ukrainian rural schools

Ukrainian educational system is not able to provide equal access to the university, regardless of children’s socio-economic background. Despite of the anti-discrimination ideas in legislation and in public discourse (with implementation of transparent mechanism of selection in 2004 External Independent Testing), there are statistically significant differences in the results of EIT (that defines chances to get higher education) between children from rural area and their peers from urban schools (especially from elite ones). The research is based on Bourdieu’s theoretical concept of capitals and seven in-depth interviews with teachers from rural schools in different regions of Ukraine. Based on the findings, the author divides mechanisms of reproduction of educational inequality into four dimensions: economic capital of the school, economic capital of the family, cultural capital of the school and cultural capital of the family. Current educational reforms of secondary and higher education in Ukraine will not improve situation with access to higher education for children from poor social background. Closing of unprofitable universities and schools in rural area, expending the years of studying at school and implementation on funding reallocation based on a competition with financial support only of those, who are more successful, will deepen educational inequality, making accesses to the mechanism of improving socio-economic position even more dependent from socioeconomic background.
Etiology, development and reaction of muskmelon to vine decline under arid conditions of Oman

Muskmelon vine decline is considered the most important factor limiting muskmelon production in Oman. This study was conducted to characterize incidence, development, causal agents and response of muskmelon cultivars to this disease. A survey showed that incidence of the disease ranged from 0 to 15% (mean 5%) in spring 2011, 1 to 80% (mean 18%) in autumn 2011 and 0 to15% (mean 10%) in spring 2012. Isolations from 168 affected plants yielded Pythium aphanidermatum (56% of diseased plants sampled), Fusarium spp. (46%), Monosporascus cannonballus (27%), Rhizoctonia solani (22%) and Macrophomina phaseolina (1%). In pathogenicity tests, R. solani, M. cannonballus and P. aphanidermatum were found to be pathogenic to muskmelon. In another experiment over three seasons, M. cannonballus, P. aphanidermatum and R. solani were consistently isolated from muskmelon plants on a weekly basis from 14 days after sowing until the end of the season. However, symptom development only began with the onset of fruiting, which suggests that fruiting stress may be a factor in vine decline disease development. Field assessment of 11 muskmelon cultivars showed that ‘Shahd F1’ was one of the cultivars least susceptible to vine decline and was relatively high yielding. This is the first record of M. cannonballus as a causal agent of muskmelon vine decline in Oman.
Coral bleaching and associated mortality in Mayotte, Western Indian Ocean

Manta tows in fringing and barrier reef areas, together with observations, were used to estimate the extent of the bleaching and associated coral mortality in Mayotte between 1 and 24 of May 2010. Three areas around the island were surveyed. The results from fringing reefs in the north coast of Mayotte showed that nearly 80 % of coral benthos was either bleached or dead (covered with thin algal overgrowth), while 50 % and 35 % of coral was bleached or dead in the two other surveyed areas, highlighting this as a considerable bleaching event. The observations showed spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the extent of the bleaching and mortality. The most genera most susceptible to bleaching were Pocillopora and tabular Acropora , while Porites seemed to have suffered the least. Our observations of bleached genera were consistent with those of the 1997-1998 bleaching event.
Investigating the Effects of Investigative Interview techniques and Defendant IQ on Mock Jurors’ Judgements based on Confession Evidence.

Confession Evidence is one of the most valuable forms of evidence to jurors (Leo and Cutler, 2016). Research has shown that the risk of obtaining a false confession is increased when coercive interviewing techniques are used with a defendant with low IQ (Garrett, 2008). This research aimed to investigate whether mock jurors are aware of coercive interviewing techniques and the risks of these when used with a potentially vulnerable suspect. Questionnaires were used to study the effects of ‘Interview Technique’ and ‘Defendant IQ’ on mock jurors’ ‘Perceptions of Confession Evidence’ and ‘Judgements of Guilt’. 172 participants were presented with a police interview extract and an ‘Offender Profile’, in order to manipulate the independent variables ‘Interview technique’ and ‘Defendant IQ’, before filling out a questionnaire. A 2x2 independent MANOVA was conducted to analyse data. Results indicated that participants in the US condition were more likely to perceive the confession as false but gave higher ratings of guilt compared to UK conditions. Defendant IQ did not seem to effect mock jurors’ perceptions of confession evidence but they gave higher ratings of guilt for ‘Average IQ’ defendants compared to ‘Low IQ’ defendant conditions. Results revealed that ‘Interview technique’ and ‘Defendant IQ’ are important factors involved in mock jurors’ judgements. Further study is required to gain a comprehensive understanding of all potential factors involved in the process of juror judgement-making.
Phytochemical Constituents and Synergistic Activity of Olea Europaea Plant Extracts against some Human Disease Causing Species

The search for alternative antimicrobial compounds is an urgent area of biomedical research and extracts derived from plants have long held interest as potential sources of new therapeutic agents. The medicinal use of plants is probably as old as mankind. Plants have continued to be a valuable source of natural products for maintaining human health. Various Abstract: Medicinal plants are extensively used for the cure of different infectious diseases. Infectious diseases caused by bacteria have a large impact on public health. This study aimed to determine the in vitro antibacterial activity of the medicinal plants Olea europaea against the bacterial strains associated with infectious diseases. Extracts of Olea europaea were tested for their antibacterial activity against three bacterial species includes gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) using the microdilution method. In the present study we found that methanolic extract of O. europaea in combination of ampicillin shows higher zone of inhibition and lesser MIC values as compared to methanolic extract of leaves of O. europaea or ampicillin when used alone. Synergistic antimicrobial activity was found when methanolic extract of leaves of O. europaea was used in combination with ampicillin against against E.coli and P. aeroginosa (FIC ≤ 0.5). Partial Synergistic antimicrobial activity was observed against S. aureus. Methanolic extract of stem and roots of O. europaea in combination with ampicillin gave indifferent antimicrobial results (FIC = 1.0 4.0). Benzene extract of the leaf, stem and root of O. europaea in combination with ampicillin showed indifferent antimicrobial results (FIC = 1.0 4.0). Aqueous extract of leaves of O. europaea in combination with ampicillin showed Partial Synergistic antimicrobial activity against E. coli, P. aeroginosa and S. aureus. (FIC = 0.5 – 1.0). Aqueous extract of the stem and root of O. europaea in combination with ampicillin showed indifferent antimicrobial results (FIC = 1.0 4.0). This study indicates clear evidence supporting the traditional use of Olea europaea in treating infectious diseases related to bacteria.
Geostatistical Analyst for Deciding Optimal Interpolation Strategies for Delineating Compact Zones

Variability maps of Hydraulic conductivity (K) were generated by using geo statistical analyst extension of ARC GIS for delineating compact zones in a farm. In the initial exploratory spatial data analysis, K data for 0 - 15 and 15 - 30 cm soil layers showed spatial dependence, anisotropy, normality on log transformation and linear trend. Outliers present in both layers were also removed. In the next step, cross validation statistics of different combinations of kriging (Ordinary, simple and universal), data transformations (none and logarithmic) and trends (none and linear) were compared. Combination of no data transformation and linear trend removal was the best choice as it resulted in more accurate and unbiased prediction. It thus, confirmed that for generating prediction maps by kriging, data need not be normal. Ordinary kriging is appropriate when trend is linear. Among various available anisotropic semivariogram models, spherical model for 0 - 15 cm and tetra spherical model for 15 - 30 cm were found to be the best with major and minor ranges between 273 - 410 m and 98 - 213 m. The kriging was superior to other interpolation techniques as the slope of the best fit line of scatter plot of predicted vs. measured data points was more (0.76) in kriging than in inverse distance weighted interpolation (0.61) and global polynomial interpolation (0.56). In the generated prediction maps, areas where K was <12 cm? day–1 were delineated as compact zone. Hence, it can be concluded that geostatistical analyst is a complete package for preprocessing of data and for choosing the optimal interpolation strategies.
Annual and size dependent variation of growth rates and ion concentrations in boreal forest

Number size distributions of particles and ions were measured with a differential mobility particle sizer and two different ion spectrometers at the SMEAR II station in southern Finland during April 2003-April 2004. Cluster ion (diameter < 1.6 nm) concentrations varied between 200 and 1500 cm -1 , while the concentrations of intermediated ions (1.6-6.3 nm) remained usually below 200 cm -3 . During the 70 observed nucleation event days, particle growth rates were strongly dependent on their size. The median diameter growth rates of particles in size classes 7-20 nm, 3-7 nm and 1.3-3 nm were 4-5 nm h -1 , 2-4 nm h -1 and < 2 nm h -1 , respectively. The growth rates of the smallest ions/particles were almost independent of the season having a minimum during the summer, whereas the growth rates of larger particles had a clear annual cycle with the highest values during the summer and lowest values during the winter. The results indicate that in addition to sulphuric acid, compounds related to photosynthesis participate in the particle growth, especially in the size class 7-20 nm.
Estimating the selectivity of unpaired trawl data: a case study with a pelagic gear

Most selectivity experiments employ either the covered codend or paired gear methods. It is not always possible, however, to use these methods. Owing to operational, biological and/or environmental considerations, there may be no obvious way or it may be inappropriate to pair the test and control data. Hence, it will not be possible to estimate the selectivity of the gear and its uncertainty using standard statistical methods. This study presents a methodology for analysing the selectivity of fishing gears from unpaired test and control data. The uncertainty in the control and test population structures is accounted for by using a double bootstrapping procedure that takes into account both between-haul and within-haul variation. This bootstrapping approach is used to assess the selectivity of two different devices, a 139.5 mm T90 codend and a 135.9 mm codend with 140.9 mm lateral exit windows, in the Barents Sea pelagic cod trawl fishery. The purpose of the experiment was to test and compare the performance of the two devices in pelagic trawl fisheries, where high densities of fish can be encountered. Significant differences were detected between the T90 codend and the codend with the exit windows but only for sizes of cod between 55 and 76 cm.
Constraints on glacier flow from temperature-depth profiles in the ice. Application to EPICA Dome C.

Abstract. A one-dimensional (1-D) ice flow and heat conduction model is used to calculate the temperature and heat flux profiles in the ice and to constrain the parameters characterizing the ice flow and the thermal boundary conditions at the Dome C drilling site in East Antarctica. We use the reconstructions of ice accumulation, glacier height and air surface temperature histories as boundary conditions to calculate the ice temperature profile. The temperature profile also depends on a set of poorly known parameters, the ice velocity profile and magnitude, basal heat flux, and air-ice surfaces temperature coupling. We use Monte Carlo methods to search the parameters' space of the model, compare the model output with the temperature data, and find probability distributions for the unknown parameters. We could not determine the sliding ratio because it has no effect on the thermal profile, but we could constrain the flux function parameter p that determines the velocity profile. We determined the basal heat flux qb = 49.0 p 2.7 (2σ)m W m−2, almost equal to the apparent value. We found an ice surface velocity of vsur = 2.6 p 1.9 (2σ)m y−1 and an air-ice temperature coupling of 0.8 p 1.0(2σ)K. Our study confirms that the heat flux is low and does not destabilize the ice sheet in east Antarctica.
Propensity to Join the Royal Canadian Navy

Recruiting is an essential component of successful human resources management and is used to influence individuals to apply to organizations (Barber, 1998). As such, it has been an important focus of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). In 2008, the Canadian Federal Government announced a new defence strategy, which included increasing the size of the CAF to 70,000 Regular Force (Reg F) and 30,000 Reserve Force (Res F) personnel. In order to meet the increased personnel requirements, the CAF implemented a new recruiting and advertising campaign, which included initiatives such as more outreach activities to schools and job fairs, the revamping of the CAF recruiting website, and the development of new commercials ; all of which helped showcase the present role and focus of the CAF. While the new initiatives were quite successful with regard to recruiting Canadian Army (CA) personnel, 1 the recruitment of Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) personnel, particularly in certain occupations, had remained an area of concern, leading to issues such as undermanning on ships. To counteract this, the RCN engaged in a number of specific marketing and attraction strategies designed to increase awareness of the RCN, as well as promote it as a preferred career choice. This included the Great Lakes Deployment tour (tours of Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships [HMC Ships] to the cities bearing their names), the development of commercials prominently featuring RCN operations, and a host of activities to highlight the Canadian Naval Centennial, whose theme was “Bring the Navy to Canadians” (Canadian Naval Centennial, nd). In conjunction with this, Director Naval Personnel (D Nav Pers) engaged the research unit of the Department of National Defence (DND) to conduct an extensive study into the reasons why individuals join the Royal Canadian Navy. Although that research covered a wide spectrum of attraction and recruiting factors, the current study is focussed on a subset of these. Specifically, this study aimed to capture the reasons why recruits applied to the RCN in particular, and whether the influence of others or recruits’ prior familiarity with the RCN impacted their decision to apply.