Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MBA sudents' satisfaction and loyality: state vs. private universities in Turkey

The purpose of this paper is to explore the construct of student satisfaction and analyze its relationship with student loyalty in the context of state and private universities. A 45-item Turkish questionnaire adapted from literature, to which the authors added several items, was administered to MBA students of state- and private, foundation-owned universities located in Istanbul, as the largest city of Turkey. In this study, a two-step confirmative modeling strategy was chosen to test the hypotheses of the theoretical model by using LISREL 8. As the first step of the mentioned approach, a congruent and congeneric measurement model was established for each type of universities; then, in the second stage, hypotheses were tested by analyzing structural models. Research findings show a positive correlation between satisfaction and loyalty. The most important factors of satisfaction for the students attending state-owned universities are academic quality, teaching quality, and appropriateness of career opportunities; however, at private universities teaching quality and supportive services and appropriateness of career opportunities are the most significant factors. Administrative and the quality of library services turned out to be unimportant factors for MBA students both at state and private universities in this study. The distinguishing point of this study, which enhances its originality, was examining the difference between state and private universities separately.
Disaster after September 11, 2001: the Long-term Impact on Responding Medics

changes were created specifically for this natural disaster (with salient anthropogenic elements). Results: Psychological risk characteristics of this event included compounding exposures to: deluging rains that triggered mudslides along steep, deforested terrain; battering hurricane winds (Category 4 winds in the “eyewall” at landfall) converting the built environment into projectile debris; flooding “storm surge” moving ashore and submerging areas along the Tiburon peninsula; and piling wave action destroying infrastructure along the coastline. Many coastal residents were left defenseless to face the ravages of the storm. Hurricane Matthew’s slow forward progress as it remained over superheated ocean waters added to the duration and degree of the devastation. As an overlay to the havoc of the storm itself, the risks for infectious disease transmission were exacerbated, particularly in relation to the ongoing epidemics of cholera and Zika. Conclusion: Hurricane Matthew was a ferocious tropical cyclone whose meteorological characteristics amplified the system’s destructive force during the storm’s encounter with Haiti. TSIG analysis facilitates an accounting of the prominent risks to Haiti’s mental health.
Institutional Presence

We propose an Institutional Presence (IP) measure to capture the latent role of non-owner institutional investors who nevertheless may be observing a firm. We employ this measure to examine whether the ‘presence’ of institutional investors reduces information asymmetry in the market. Firms in areas with high institutional presence experience higher liquidity, faster information<br>incorporation, lower costs of equity capital, and less financing frictions relative to firms in low IP areas. The results hold after controlling for firm and geographical characteristics including institutional ownership and urban locality. Our findings indicate that being in the presence of institutional investors brings tangible benefits.
Örgütsel Sinizm ile İş Performansı Arasındaki İlişki ve Bir Araştırma

Bireylerin calistiklari kuruma karsi sahip olduklari olumsuz tutumlari ve bu tutumlarin bilissel, duygusal ve davranissal boyutlariyla aciga ciktigi bir sureci ifade eden orgutsel sinizm, personelin calisma hayatindaki bir takim faktorleri cesitli yonleriyle etkilemektedir. Bu calismada, orgutsel sinizmin etkilerinin en kritik sonuclar doguracagi faktorlerden bir tanesinin calisanlarin performansi olacagi dusuncesinden yola cikilmis ve bu iki degisken arasindaki iliski duzeyinin belirlenmesi amaciyla, Munzur ve Kafkas Universitesi’nde gorev yapan akademik, idari ve yardimci hizmetler personeli uzerinde bir anket calismasi yapilmistir. Anket sonuclari SPSS programi ile korelasyon analizine tabi tutulmus ve orgutsel sinizm ile is performansi arasindaki iliskiler tespit edilmistir.
llicit use of prescription stimulants in a college student sample : A heory-guided analysis

Background: The illicit use of prescription stimulants (IUPS) has emerged as a high-risk behavior of the 21st century college student. As the study of IUPS is relatively new, we aimed to understand (1) characteristics of IUPS (i.e., initiation, administration routes, drug sources, motives, experiences), and (2) theory-guided intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental correlates associated with use. Methods: Using one-stage cluster sampling, 520 students (96.3% response rate) at one Pacific Northwest University completed a paper-based, in-classroom survey on IUPS behaviors and expected correlates. Aim 1 was addressed using descriptive statistics and aim 2 was addressed via three nested logistic regression analyses guided by the Theory of Triadic Influence. Results: The prevalence of ever engaging in IUPS during college was 25.6%. The majority (>50.0%) of users reported initiation during college, oral use, friends as the drug source, academic motives, and experiencing desired outcomes. Intrapersonal correlates associated with use included identifying as White, lower grade point average, diagnoses of attention deficit disorder, and lower avoidance self-efficacy. Interpersonal correlates of use included off-campus residence, varsity sports participation, IUPS perceptions by socializing agents, and greater behavioral norms. Exposure to prescription drug print media, greater prescription stimulant knowledge, and positive attitudes towards prescription stimulants were environmental correlates associated with use. In all models, IUPS intentions were strongly associated with use. Conclusions: IUPS was prevalent on the campus under investigation and factors from the intrapersonal, interpersonal and environmental domains were associated with the behavior. Implications for prevention iscus and future research are d
Plant biomass and production and CO2 exchange in an ombrotrophic bog

1 Above‐ground biomass was measured at bog hummock, bog hollow and poor‐fen sites in Mer Bleue, a large, raised ombrotrophic bog near Ottawa, Ont. , Canada. The average above‐ground biomass was 587 g m−2 in the bog, composed mainly of shrubs and Sphagnum capitula. In the poor fen, the average biomass was 317 g m−2, comprising mainly sedges and herbs and Sphagnum capitula. Vascular plant above‐ground biomass was greater where the water table was lower, with a similar but weaker relationship for Sphagnum capitula and vascular leaf biomass. 2 Below‐ground biomass averaged 2400 g m−2 at the bog hummock site, of which 300 g m−2 was fine roots (< 2 mm diameter), compared with 1400 g m−2 in hollows (fine roots 450 g m−2) and 1200 g m−2 at the poor‐fen site. 3 Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) of CO2 was measured in chambers and used to derive ecosystem respiration and photosynthesis. Under high light flux (PAR of 1500 µmol m−2 s−1), NEE ranged across sites from 0.08 to 0.22 mg m−2 s−1 (a positive value indicates ecosystem uptake) in the spring and summer, but fell to –0.01 to –0.13 mg m−2 s−1 (i.e. a release of CO2) during a late‐summer dry period. 4 There was a general agreement between a combination of literature estimates of photosynthetic capacity for shrubs and mosses and measured biomass and summer‐time CO2 uptake determined by the eddy covariance technique within a bog footprint (0.40 and 0.35–0.40 mg m−2 s−1, respectively). 5 Gross photosynthesis was estimated to be about 530 g m−2 year−1, total respiration 460 g m−2 year−1, and export of DOC, DIC and CH4 10 g m−2 year−1, leaving an annual C sequestration rate of 60 g m−2 year−1. Root production and decomposition are important parts of the C budget of the bog. Root C production was estimated to be 161–176 g m−2 year−1, resulting in fractional turnover rates of 0.2 and 1 year−1 for total and fine roots, respectively.
Racial Attitudes More Diverse Yet Less Tolerant ? How the Increasingly Diverse Racial Landscape Affects White Americans '

Recent Census Bureau projections indicate that racial/ethnic minorities will comprise over 50% of the U.S. population by 2042, effectively creating a so-called “majority–minority” nation. Across four experiments, we explore how presenting information about these changing racial demographics influences White Americans’ racial attitudes. Results reveal that exposure to the changing demographics evokes the expression of greater explicit and implicit racial bias. Specifically, Whites exposed to the racial demographic shift information preferred interactions/settings with their own ethnic group over minority ethnic groups; expressed more negative attitudes toward Latinos, Blacks, and Asian Americans; and expressed more automatic pro-White/ anti-minority bias. Perceived threat to Whites’ societal status mediated the effects of the racial shift information on explicit racial attitudes. These results suggest that rather than ushering in a more tolerant future, the increasing diversity of the nation may instead yield intergroup hostility. Implications for intergroup relations and media framing of the racial shift are discussed.
The First INTEGRAL AGN Catalog

We present the first INTEGRAL AGN catalog, based on observations performed from launch of the mission in 2002 October until 2004 January. The catalog includes 42 AGNs, of which 10 are Seyfert 1, 17 are Seyfert 2, and 9 are intermediate Seyfert 1.5. The fraction of blazars is rather small, with five detected objects, and only one galaxy cluster and no starburst galaxies have been detected so far. A complete subset consists of 32 AGNs with a significance limit of 7 σ in the INTEGRAL ISGRI 20-40 keV data. Although the sample is not flux limited, the distribution of sources shows a ratio of obscured to unobscured AGNs of 1.5-2.0, consistent with luminosity-dependent unified models for AGNs. Only four Compton-thick AGNs are found in the sample. Based on the INTEGRAL data presented here, the Seyfert 2 spectra are slightly harder (Γ = 1.95 ± 0.01) than Seyfert 1.5 (Γ = 2.10 ± 0.02) and Seyfert 1 (Γ = 2.11 ± 0.05).
JHK '-band IOTA interferometry of the circumstellar environment of R CrB

We report the first long-baseline interferometry of the circumstellar dust environment of R CrB. The observations were carried out with the Infrared Optical Telescope Array (IOTA), using our new JHK’ beam combiner which enables us to record fringes in the J, H, and K’ bands simultaneously. The circumstellar dust envelope of R CrB is resolved at a baseline of 21 m along a position angle of ~170°, and the visibilities in the J, H, and K’ bands are 0.97 ± 0.06, 0.78 ± 0.06, and 0.61 ± 0.03, respectively. These observed visibilities, together with the K’-band visibility obtained by speckle interferometry with baselines of up to 6 m, and the spectral energy distribution are compared with predictions from spherical dust shell models which consist of the central star and an optically thin dust shell. The comparison reveals that the observed J- and H-band visibilities are in agreement with those predicted by these models, and the inner radius and inner boundary temperature of the dust shell were derived to be 60–80 R⋆ and 950–1050 K, respectively. However, the predicted K’-band visibilities are found to be ~10% smaller than the one obtained with IOTA. Given the simplifications adopted in our models and the complex nature of the object, this can nevertheless be regarded as rough agreement. As a hypothesis to explain this small discrepancy, we propose that there might be a group of newly formed dust clouds, which may appear as a third visibility component.
O APORTE SEDIMENTAR ÀS PRAIAS DA CIGANA E DO CARDOSO, CABO DE SANTA MARTA, SANTA CATARINA, BRASIL

O Cabo de Santa Marta (Laguna/SC) marca uma brusca mudanca na orientacao do litoral sul do Brasil. O vento NE e predominante ao longo do ano e incide da terra para o mar nas praias ao sul do cabo, o que representa um fator de entrada de sedimentos no sistema praial, juntamente com o aporte pela deriva litorânea e a contribuicao continental da drenagem da regiao. No presente trabalho propoe-se uma analise integrada da dinâmica sedimentar na porcao emersa e submersa das praias da Cigana e do Cardoso, atraves da; (i) caracterizacao do clima de ventos e o potencial de deriva eolica na regiao; (ii) analise das mudancas historicas no campo de dunas e na linha de costa; e (iii) avaliacao do regime de ondas e transporte sedimentar pela deriva litorânea. Os resultados demonstraram uma significativa diminuicao na area de dunas moveis entre 1938 e 2012, devido ao aumento em areas de dunas estabilizadas pela vegetacao, de planicies de deflacao e de areas urbanizadas. Nesse mesmo periodo a linha de costa apresentou uma tendencia geral de retrogradacao com taxas acima de 0,5 m/ano, intensificada a partir de 1978. O processo de estabilizacao das dunas moveis provavelmente ocasionou uma diminuicao do aporte eolico ao sistema praial nas ultimas decadas. Esse processo pode ter alterado o equilibrio sedimentar das praias da Cigana e do Cardoso, tornando-as dependentes principalmente do suprimento da deriva litorânea. O modelo proposto para o transporte longitudinal gerado pelas ondas indicou que ha um limite divergente entre celulas costeiras nesse setor da costa, o que nao propicia o aporte de sedimentos marinhos para as praias de estudo. Dessa forma, alem de ser um local sob influencia de correntes de deriva com sentidos opostos, a presenca do cabo se configura como uma barreira fisica ao transporte de sedimentos provenientes de celulas costeiras ao norte da area.
Adaptive Stratified Sampling for Precision-Recall Estimation

We propose a new algorithm for computing a constant-factor approximation of precisionrecall (PR) curves for massive noisy datasets produced by generative models. Assessing validity of items in such datasets requires human annotation, which is costly and must be minimized. Our algorithm, ADASTRAT, is the first data-aware method for this task. It chooses the next point to query on the PR curve adaptively, based on previous observations. It then selects specific items to annotate using stratified sampling. Under a mild monotonicity assumption, ADASTRAT outputs a guaranteed approximation of the underlying precision function, while using a number of annotations that scales very slowly with N , the dataset size. For example, when the minimum precision is bounded by a constant, it issues only log logN precision queries. In general, it has a regret of no more than log logN w.r. t. an oracle that issues queries at data-dependent (unknown) optimal points. On a scaled-up NLP dataset of 3.5M items, ADASTRAT achieves a remarkably close approximation of the true precision function using only 18 precision queries, 13x fewer than best previous approaches.
An evaluation of smartphone driver support systems for young drivers - acceptance, efficacy, and driver distraction

xii List of Tables . xiv List of Figures . xvi List of Appendices . xviii List of Abbreviations . xix Preface . xxi Background . xxi Thesis Overview . xxii Overview Section A Context . xxiv Overview Section B Acceptance. xxiv Overview Section C Efficacy . xxiv Overview Section D Distraction . xxiv Overview Section E Discussion . xxiv Section A Context: Why, and how, should young driver SDSS use be evaluated? 1 Chapter 1 Section A1: Young Driver Risk, Associated Factors and Mitigation Strategies. 2 A1.
Perfil PERMA en una muesta de jóvenes voluntarios colombianos

Las investigaciones en temas positivos se incrementan a diario, ya sea por demanda popular o por un interes en la validacion cientifica de las nuevas propuestas teoricas que van surgiendo. El modelo PERMA (por sus siglas en ingles) propuesto por el padre de la Psicologia Positiva, Martin Seligman, en el 2011, proporciona un metodo sencillo para la identificacion de los niveles de bienestar y satisfaccion con la vida enmarcados dentro del cumplimiento de cinco componentes, a saber: Emociones Positivas (P, por Positive Emotions, en ingles), Compromiso (E, de Engagement, en ingles), Relaciones Positivas (R, de Relationship, en ingles), Significado (M, de Meaning, en ingles) y Logro (A, de Accomplishment, en ingles), siempre teniendo en cuenta el enfoque psicologico de crecimiento y mejoramiento personal. Una poblacion clave que ha aportado constantemente a la transformacion de Colombia han sido los voluntarios y dada su naturaleza, altruista, propia del voluntariado, supone la existencia de una serie de caracteristicas personales positivas que bien podrian enmarcarse en el perfil PERMA (Kern, 2015). Por lo anterior, la finalidad de esta investigacion de tipo descriptivo fue identificar el nivel de florecimiento a traves del perfil PERMA en un grupo de jovenes voluntarios colombianos entre las edades de 18 y 30 anos de la organizacion no gubernamental AIESEC de Colombia, y validar este perfil mediante la comparacion con un grupo de jovenes universitarios no voluntarios de la ciudad de Neiva. Los resultados indicaron que el grupo de voluntarios obtuvo mayores puntajes en cuatro de los cinco componentes del PERMA: Emociones Positivas (P), Compromiso (E), Significado (M) y Logro (A) a comparacion de los no voluntarios. Entre los dos grupos no se observaron diferencias significativas en el componente de Relaciones Positivas (R).
Tigers Blood: Haematological and Biochemical Studies

Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population in their historic ranges is critically endangered owing to habitat destructions, ruthless poaching and retaliatory killing. The tiger population now remains in few thousands located in about 150 fragments in 13 countries (Karanth and Gopal, 2005). However, declination is also associated with health related problems such as nutritional deficiencies and infectious diseases (Prater, 2005). Therefore, health monitoring and scientific health management, disease diagnosis and treatment should be made mandatory for conservation of wildlife as the tiger is a key stone species and important member of forest ecology (Shrivastav, 2001).
Neueinstellungen im Jahr 2015: Stellen werden häufig über persönliche Kontakte besetzt

 Je höher die geforderte Qualifikation ist, desto länger dauert die Personalsuche. Während vom Beginn der Suche bis zum tatsächlichen Arbeitsbeginn bei Ungelernten durchschnittlich 53 Tage vergehen, dauert die Besetzung einer Akademikerposition im Durchschnitt 107 Tage. Die positive Entwicklung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hält weiter an: Erwerbstätigenzahlen und Arbeitsvolumen zeigen für das Jahr 2015 Rekordwerte. Welche Rekrutierungsstrategien verfolgen Betriebe in Zeiten stetiger Beschäftigungszunahme, um neues Personal zu gewinnen? Wie lange benötigen sie für die Stellenbesetzung? Antworten darauf liefern die aktuellen Ergebnisse der IAB-Stellenerhebung.
Statisches und dynamisches Verhalten von aussteifenden Wandscheiben in Brettstapelbauweise

Verbindungen und aussteifende Wandscheiben in Brettstapelbauweise wurden experimentell untersucht und abschliesend beurteilt. Anhand eines nichtlinearen dynamischen Gebaudemodells, dessen Eingabeparameter auf Ergebnissen von zyklischen Wandscheibenversuchen beruhen, wurde das allgemeine Erdbebenverhalten untersucht und erste Aussagen zum Verhaltensbeiwert q getroffen.
Overall , both patients with diabetes and primary family caregivers demonstrated poor knowledge of diabetes as measured by the DKQ . DM KNOWLEDGE : LATINO PATIENTS / CAREGIVERS

Methods: The 24-item Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire (DKQ) was administered to a convenience sample of 291 primarily Latino adults in the emergency department who either had diabetes or who identified themselves as a caregiver for an immediate family member with diabetes. Participants with diabetes provided additional information on specific characteristics hypothesized to be associated with level of diabetes knowledge.
Sector-Zoned Titanaugites : Morphology , Crystal Chemistry , and Growth

Chemical zoning in several titanaugites in alkali-rich rocks occurs from core to rim and in distinct sec tors . The {100} , [10 ] ,and {010} sec torsareenr iched inA l ,T i ,andFe,wh i le the {111}sec tors are enriched in Si and Mg. Observed geometric configurations of sectors and hourglass structures can be related to a l? -pyramid morphological model. The growth ofclinopyroxenes is discussed in reference to the crystal structure and the distribution of M sites in particular. A model is presented using constitutional supercooling and diffusion mechanisms in an attempt to explain sectoral fractionation of the elements during rapid disequilibrium crystallization.
Ensemble based unsupervised anomaly detection

A methodology as well as a suggested solution to the problem of unsupervised anomaly detection for contextual anomalies is presented. Using a combination of statistical and clustering approaches, an ensemble of algorithms provide automatic anomaly detection in an Application-to-person networking environment which can be scaled to different domains using hierarchical time series data. The aim of this thesis is to further advance the field of anomaly detection and to provide conclusions with regards to the usability, maintainability and trustworthiness of unsupervised anomaly detection frameworks. Applications in the domain of unsupervised anomaly detection are hard to evaluate, thus methods as well as future work, which can be used to further create unmitigated assertions about any data set, is investigated. An introduction to the concepts underlying anomaly detection as well as an implementation of the concepts are presented. Principles of machine learning are applied using static thresholds and assumptions about the data set being monitored. No active learning or dynamic adjustments of the anomaly detection framework is applied with the drawback of limiting the resulting classification but still providing clear and robust insights into the analyzed data. It is shown that purely statistical or naive probabilistic assumptions about any data monitored is inconclusive in producing a fair estimation of anomalies. For a setting where the utility of an anomaly detection framework are not adamant to the survival of a monitoring system, the proposed solution works adequately. Since the results have not been validated, no conclusions can be drawn with regards to recall and precision metrics.
Financial Information Fraud Risk Warning for Manufacturing Industry - Using Logistic Regression and Neural Network

This study aims to use financial variables, corporate governance variables, and cash flow variables to construct financial information fraud warning models for the manufacturing industry, and applies logistics regression and back propagation neural network (BPNN) to determine the accuracy rate of identifying normal company samples and fraudulent company samples. In a ratio of ‘1:2’, this study collects the data of 96 fraudulent company samples and 192 normal company samples, over a period of 3 years (a total of 288 samples) for prediction. The results indicate that debt ratio and shareholding ratio of board directors are two important financial variables for the identification of manufacturing industry frauds. Logistic regression has better identification capacity than BPNN in both cases of normal and fraudulent company samples. This study provides a set of correct and real-time financial information fraud warning models for the manufacturing industry, which can predict financial information frauds by observing the changes of various financial variables and shareholding ratio of the board directors in real-time. These findings can serve as a reference to financiers and the manufacturing industry for establishing credit policies.