Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Entrepreneurial inference in the high-technology start-up : a model for optimised decision making and principled praxis

This study investigates antecedents to inquiry and creative decision making in situations characterised by unpredictable, rapid technological change; focussing on the kind of change witnessed since the advent of massively interconnected ‘Web2.0’ technologies. How agents of business creation interact with such technologies are viewed through the lenses of traditional theory, systems theory and process theory; each of which leads to novel theoretical and practical conclusions relating to change and agency. The ‘high-tech’ entrepreneur operating in the technologically dynamic setting of the technology start-up was chosen as the agent of analysis. Grounded theory was used to effect a textual analysis of interview narratives provided by fifteen such entrepreneurial respondents, each of whom responded to three research questions relating to change, decision making and creativity. Three conceptually dominant core categories - sensemaking, structured inquiry and principled praxis - emerged as analysis of the data advanced, suggesting a three-tiered, progressive structure to the inquiry. Sensemaking centred around foundational concepts relating to the generation and early formation of enterprise building such as narrative, structure-agency, and habitus; and in so doing exhibited synergy with a number of existing sociological theories concerning group and individual action in organizational settings. Structured inquiry focussed on concepts relating to individual and group inquiry and modes of learning in high-velocity, technological settings; and Principled praxis emerged as a consolidated ‘master conceptual category’, premised upon an aggregate/idealised mode of praxis where sense had been made and inquiry was well-defined. The concept of Principled praxis therefore represented the cumulative emergent outcome of the research endeavour, from which a theoretical construct of the ideal entrepreneurial mindset could be advanced. The construct was applied towards the formulation of a set of best-practice decision-making heuristics. Informed by a critical systems approach to the analysis, elements of practical reasoning as well as ethical components guided by the philosophies of Kant and the pragmatism of Peirce contributed to the philosophical justification of the emergent theory. An adaptive form of ‘entrepreneurial inference’ for the new ‘information’ economy is hereby proposed; the aim of which is to encourage ethically sound decision making according to a critically informed set of best-practice heuristics.
Examining Self-Monitoring and Neuroticism as Predictors and Self-Efficacy as an Outcome of Authentic Leadership

ABSTRACT The present study explores the role of personality traits of neuroticism and self-monitoring as determinants of authentic leadership, and self-efficacy as an outcome using a sample of 300 employees from automobile and heavy engineering companies in India. Support for the study hypotheses was mixed. Although the effect of neuroticism on authentic leadership was negative, the relationship was not significant. The trait of self-monitoring showed significant positive association with the ratings of authentic leadership. With regard to the outcomes of authentic leadership, the results provided support for the positive relationship between authentic leadership and self-efficacy. The study makes significant contribution to the positive leadership theory building by exploring the linkage of personality with authentic leadership perceptions and establishing the importance of authentic leadership for developing positive psychological capacities among the followers.
Context for a carnyx: excavation of a long-lived ritual site at Leitchestown, Deskford, Moray, north-east Scotland

ABSTRACT Excavations at the findspot of the Deskford carnyx, a major piece of Iron Age decorated metalwork found in a bog in the early nineteenth century, revealed a special location with a long history. Early Neolithic activity on the adjacent ridge consisted of massive postholes and pits, suggesting a ceremonial site. An Early Bronze Age cremation became the focus for a feasting event in the Middle Bronze Age. Around this time, peat began to form in the valley, with vessels of pot and wood smashed and deposited there; these activities on ridge and bog may be connected. Activity in the bog intensified in the later Iron Age, when offerings included quartz pebbles, the dismantled carnyx head, and two unusual animal bone deposits. The ridge was cut off at this period by a complex enclosure system. This Iron Age activity is interpreted as communal rituals at a time of increasing social tension. The site’s significance in this period may stem from its unusual landscape character, with flowing water to one side and a bog to the other. The area saw occasional activity in the Early Medieval period, but its significance had waned.
Job and tool group scheduling for a machining center

Abstract This paper seeks to determine a dynamic method for machining center scheduling based on two criteria simultaneously: a setup expenditure criterion and an average orders utility criterion. Each job has to be completed before a given due date. Adjusting the center for a job includes setting up a necessary fixture and tool switches in the magazine with limited capacity. Automatic technological grouping of jobs assures low setup time for transition from one job to another within a group. In this method, the concept of production intensity as a dynamic production process parameter is used. A software package allows scheduling for a medium quantity of jobs. The algorithm makes it possible to save those tools in the magazine that are used often, and to substitute tools that are seldom used. The result of software application is a set of non-dominant (non-improved) versions proposed to a user for making a final choice.
‘Sometimes labels need to exist’: exploring how young adults with Asperger’s syndrome perceive its removal from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition

Abstract The study aimed to ascertain opinions of young adults with Asperger’s syndrome (AS) regarding removal of the diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM-5). Structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with nine male participants diagnosed with AS before the age of 14. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Three main themes emerged – ‘The AS diagnosis: “a lot of positives”’; ‘DSM-5: a step backwards’; and ‘“What they’re doing is stupid as hell”: fear, anger, and confusion’ – and also several subthemes. Participants broadly rejected the DSM-5 changes and expressed concern about support for people like themselves in the future. Participants also worried about a threat to the ‘Aspie’ identity that they felt engendered a strong sense of belonging and had been particularly helpful to them on their personal journeys. The findings indicate that the more generalised nature of the new diagnostic criteria is an area of concern.
Towards a comprehensive understanding of reading

Reading is an activity in which humans routinely engage in on an everyday basis. It is thus not surprising that the question of how we identify and process words has been one of the central interests of psycholinguistic research in the past decades. Indeed, the science of reading has progressed enormously in this time, and we have gained important insights into visual word identification. However, our current understanding of word identification is difficult to extend to text reading—both experiments and theories focus primarily, if not exclusively, on out-of-context individual words. Instead, text reading has been extensively explored through the models of eye movement control in reading. However, their focus lies primarily on the decision of when to move the eyes to the next word and the nature of attention allocation, while they tend to stay clear of the lexical dynamics, described in models of single word processing. While both these fields importantly advanced our knowledge, the entire complexity of reading process surely cannot be addressed while they are kept in isolation. Recently, a shift towards a more integrated approach, joining the findings of both fields, has started to emerge. At the same time, the constant development of new techniques now allows us to address reading under more integrated and natural experimental conditions. We make use of these in the present thesis, where we follow the path from the study of words in isolation towards more ecologically valid study of word processing during sentence reading. Throughout the present work, we approach the reading research in three steps. We start from the individual word processing—in chapter 2, we introduce a masked morphological priming study, in which we address the question of existence of stem and inflectional suffix priming. Following, we move on towards a more integrated approach of visual word identification and text reading—in chapter 3, we study cross-word semantic and morphological priming within sentences in a natural reading, eye tracking experiment. Finally, we try to apply this integrated approach to the study of neural signatures during natural reading—in chapter 4, we use the same cross-word semantic and morphological priming paradigm as in
Online Robot Task Switching Under Diminishing Returns

We investigate the task switching problem of a robot maximizing its long-term average rate of return on work performed. We propose an online method to maximize the average gain rate based on only past experience. For that we alter the formulation from optimal foraging theory and recursively include estimates of global task qualities. We demonstrate and analyze our method on a puck-foraging example. In simulation experiments under a variety of conditions we show that our method performs well compared to results obtained by brute force method using post-processed foraging data.
Exploring the use of combined action observation and motor imagery for improving eye-hand coordination in children with developmental coordination disorder

This thesis documents a series of studies that are the first to demonstrate the efficacy of combined action observation and motor imagery (AOMI) for improving eye-hand coordination and task performance in individuals with and without developmental coordination disorder (DCD). First, a comparison of the effectiveness of AOMI, observing to imitate, and passive observation training interventions is reported. The results indicated that, in comparison to a control group, AOMI training produced a statistically significant increase in both task performance and eye-hand coordination, but no such improvements were found following observing to imitate or passive observation instructions. These findings suggest that AOMI facilitated the development of proactive eye movements that enhanced task performance. Second, the eye-hand coordination and task performance of children with and without DCD on a novel visuomotor task was explored. The findings from this study, in accordance with similar studies, indicated that the novel visuomotor task used in the study might have lacked the necessary complexity required to find significant differences in visuomotor performance between children with and without DCD. Third, the development of a new visuomotor task of higher complexity and suitable for use in an AOMI training intervention for children with DCD is reported. Analysis indicated a higher number of trials were required before performance plateaued and the best task performers adopted a distinct movement pattern. These results confirmed that the new task required a longer period of adaptation and supported the application of this task with DCD children in an AOMI training intervention. In the final study, the effects of an AOMI training intervention upon eye-hand coordination and performance in children with DCD are reported. Analysis of the data revealed that the AOMI training produced significant improvements in completion time and gaze control. It was concluded that children with DCD may benefit from AOMI training as the technique may aid their ability to update internal models of movement. This series of studies was the first to explore the effectiveness of AOMI training for improving eye-hand coordination and extend those findings to a clinical population. The results of these studies describe a conclusion that AOMI facilitates the development of proactive gaze, which in turn assists performance.
The importance of parental socialization and Early Maladaptive Schemas in the development and maintenance of psychological symptoms in young adults

Cognitive theory of emotional disorders suggests that negative schemas leads to the development of a variety of emotional disorders. A.T. Beck (1967) called this maladaptive pattern of thinking, the cognitive triad, including distorted attitudes about oneself, the world, and the future. Chronic toxic parent/child interactions lead to the development of cognitive schemas which are presumed to lead to symptoms of depression and anxiety. The current study explored the relationship between recollections of parenting, Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS) described by J.T. Young (1994), and symptoms of depression and anxiety in a sample of undergraduate students (N = 232). The EMS of Defectiveness/Shame, Dependent/Incompetence, and Vulnerability were associated with perceptions of parental psychological control and symptoms of depression. Further, the schema domains of Disconnection/Rejection, Impaired Autonomy/Performance, and Other Directedness were also associated with perceptions of parenting and symptoms of depression. Consistent with prior research (Harris & Curtain, 2002), the EMS of Defectiveness/Shame, Insufficient
The COS CGM Compendium. II. Metallicities of the Partial and Lyman Limit Systems at z ≲ 1

We present the results from our COS circumgalactic medium (CGM) compendium (CCC), a survey of the CGM at z ≲ 1 using H i-selected absorbers with 15 < < 19. We focus here on 82 partial Lyman limit systems (pLLSs, 16.2 ≤ < 17.2) and 29 LLSs (17.2 ≤ < 19). Using Bayesian techniques and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of a grid of photoionization models, we derive the posterior probability distribution functions (PDFs) for the metallicity of each absorber in CCC. We show that the combined pLLS metallicity PDF at z ≲ 1 has two main peaks at ≃ −1.7 and −0.4, with a strong dip at ≃ −1. The metallicity PDF of the LLSs might be more complicated than a unimodal or bimodal distribution. The pLLSs and LLSs probe a similar range of metallicities −3 ≲ ≲ +0.4, but the fraction of very metal-poor absorbers with ≲ −1.4 is much larger for the pLLSs than the LLSs. In contrast, absorbers with ≥ 19 have mostly −1 ≲ ≲ 0 at z ≲ 1. The metal-enriched gas probed by pLLSs and LLSs confirms that galaxies that have been enriching their CGM over billions of years. Surprisingly, despite this enrichment, there is also abundant metal-poor CGM gas (41%–59% of the pLLSs have ≲ −1.4), representing a reservoir of near-pristine gas around z ≲ 1 galaxies. We compare our empirical results to recent cosmological zoom simulations, finding some discrepancies, including an overabundance of metal-enriched CGM gas in simulations.
Housing attributes and relative house prices in Ghana

Purpose The study of house prices has become more relevant in recent times after the global financial crisis. Using a housing data set from three regions of Ghana (collated from real estate agents), the purpose of this paper is to estimate the relative importance of housing attributes to house prices. Design/methodology/approach The hedonic regression analysis conducted indicates that location is the most powerful determinant of house prices. Other relevant factors are the number of bedrooms, the number of floors, the total floor area, land size, age of the house and luxury finishing. Findings The implications of these results are many. Policy wise, the study provides an evidence-based empirical study that supports the need for better urban planning to improve communities, which in turn is associated with house price appreciations. Homeowners, investors and creditors, particularly mortgage lenders could be the immediate beneficiaries. Drawing on this, improved urban planning could mitigate strategic defaults that results from house prices falling below mortgage loan balances. This is important for financial market stability. Originality/value The paper provides a comprehensive and unique understanding of the hedonic determinants of house prices in Ghana. Future studies could examine the effect of location upon mortgage lending in Ghana.
The Role of Brand Image in Mediating the Effect of Electronic Word of Mouth on Brand Attitude of Shopee Fashion E-Commerce in Denpasar

The aim of this study was to explain how electronic word of mouth affect brand attitude through mediating role of brand image on Shopee fashion e-commerce in Denpasar. A survey-based questionnaire was conducted with 100 respondents using purposive sampling method. Path analysis and Sobel test was applied to analyzed the data collected. The result established that electronic word of mouth influence brand image positive and significantly, each electronic word of mouth and brand image have positive and significant effect on brand attitude and there significant role of brand image in strengthen the influence of electronic word of mouth on brand attitude. It is importance for e-commerce to provide electronic word of mouth section in their website and encourage consumer to give their reviews in order to enhance consumer trust in online shopping so it will affect brand image and consumer attitude toward Shopee. Keywords: electronic word of mouth, brand image, brand attitude DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-18-10 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Hollowness in 
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The proton-proton and proton-antiproton inelasticity profiles in the impact parameter display very interesting and sensitive features which cannot be deduced solely from the current large body of high-energy scattering data. In particular, phenomenological studies exhibit a link between the ratio of the real to imaginary parts of the elastic scattering amplitude at a finite momentum transfer, and the corresponding change of character of the inelastic processes from central to peripheral collisions. We describe how a theoretical model, accommodating the existing data, based on the Regge hypothesis including both the Pomeron and odderon as double poles, and $\omega$ and $f$ mesons as single poles in the complex-$J$ plane, generates a hollow in the inelasticity at low impact parameters. The hollowness effect, which generally may be sensitive to model details, does unequivocally take place both for $pp$ and $p \bar p$ collisions within the applied Regge framework, indicating inapplicability of inelasticity-folding geometric approaches.
EFIKASI DIRI DALAM MEMBUAT KEPUTUSAN KARIER PADA MAHASISWA

Efikasi diri dalam membuat keputusan karier (Career Decision Making Self Efficacy/CDMSE) merupakan keyakinan individu bahwa dirinya dapat secara sukses melakukan tugas-tugas yang berkaitan dengan pengambilan keputusan karier. Fenomena yang terjadi saat ini masih banyak mahasiswa yang bingung dengan pekerjaan yang akan dipilihnya. Tidak sedikit yang kesulitan untuk membuat keputusan terhadap pilihan karier kedepannya. Hal ini tentu akan menghambat dalam mencapai tugas perkembangan karier mereka. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana gambaran efikasi diri mahasiswa dalam membuat keputusan karier. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif deskriptif. Data diperoleh dari 824 orang mahasiswa Universitas Andalas dengan menggunakan alat ukur CDMSE-Short Form (Betz, Klein & Taylor, 1996). Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa sebanyak 576 orang mahasiwa (69.90%) memiliki efikasi diri kategori sedang dalam membuat keputusan karier. Selanjutnya efikasi diri dalam membuat keputusan karier pada kategori tinggi dan rendah memiliki persentase yang hampir sama yaitu sebesar 14.93% dan 15.17%. Lebih lanjut hasil penelitian akan dibahas dalam diskusi penelitian.
SPINAL INJURIES: Experience of a local Neurosurgical Centre

Objectives: To find out the pattern of traumatic spinal injuries and their management in patients admitted to a neurosurgical unit of a tertiary care hospital in a developing country. Methodology: All patients admitted with spinal injuries between July, 2003 and June, 2007, in the Department of Neurosurgery, Civil Hospital, Karachi, were included. Information was recorded and analysed with respect to demographic data, mechanism of injury, level of bony injury, neurological degree (complete, incomplete and intact), duration between injury and admission, associated injuries, management, hospital stay and outcome. Results: A total of 214 patients were admitted. These included 189 males (88.3%) and 25 females (11.7%). Most affected patients (72/214 - 33.6%) were in their third decade of life, followed by second and fourth decades, 38 /214 (17.7%) in each decade. The commonest cause of injury was fall from height in 122 patients, (57.0%), followed by fall while carrying weight in 23 (10.7%), road accidents in 50 (23.4%) and gunshot injuries in 10 (4.7%) cases. Cervical spine was affected in the majority 101 (47.2%) cases followed by thoracic spinal injury, 64 cases and lumbar spine with 59 cases (27.6%). Seventy seven patients (36%) had complete neurological loss, 119 (55.6%) had partial deficit while 18 patients (8.4%) were neurologically intact. Surgery (decompression and fixation) was performed in 50 cases. Long bone fracture was the commonest associated injury. The average time between injury and admission was 6.2 days (range 0–60). Mean hospital stay was 8.4±7.6 days. Twenty three (10.7%) patients died during hospitalization. Conclusion: This study shows that young adults, predominantly males in their most productive years of life, are especially prone to spinal cord injury. Fall from height is the most common preventable cause of spinal injury. Recognizing the pattern of spinal injury helps to identify high-risk groups which will then help us to design more appropriate preventive measures.
SCALABLE AND SECURE SHARING OF PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Personal Health Record (PHR) is an electronic application used by the patients to maintain and manage their health information in a private, secure and confidential environment. In cloud computing, cloud providers act as a third party for information exchange of personal health records. Though this technology facilitates for efficient management and sharing of patient's personal health record, there are wide privacy concerns such as exposure and accessibility of sensitive health information to unauthorized users. In order to provide security and privacy it is necessary to encrypt the data before outsourcing and only authorized users with valid attributes must be allowed to access the data. Hiding the users’ information is also important while accessing data over the network. More over to reduce the key management complexity of data owners, personal health records are classified into multiple security domains. To hide the user information, anonymous authentication through Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) technique and fine-grained data access control through AES, are adopted. This combination provides a high degree of privacy and security for the PHR file. This scheme enables dynamic modification of access policies or file attributes and on-demand user revocation. Extensive experimental and performance analysis show that the proposed scheme is efficient in terms of security and privacy.