Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention of IT Professionals in Japan

This study investigates the IT workplace in Japan in the context of rapidly changing technological innovation and a long-standing collectivist culture in Japanese firms. Particularly, it examines a) the determinants of job satisfaction, such as self-efficacy and friendship networks on the positive side, and work exhaustion and work-home conflict on the negative side; and b) how these factors affect job turnover intention. Results from SEM analysis suggest that both self-efficacy and friendship networks have a positive impact on job satisfaction, while work exhaustion negatively impacts job satisfaction. Comparing workplace-derived factors (self-efficacy and work exhaustion) with collectivism-derived factors (friendship networks and work-home conflict), the former has a greater impact on job satisfaction than the latter. Additionally, this study examines the effect of organizational age on the relationships between the model constructs.
Spatiotemporal changes in aridity of Pakistan during 1901–2016

Abstract. The changing characteristics of aridity over a larger spatiotemporal scale have gained interest in recent years due to climate change. The long-term (1901–2016) changes in spatiotemporal patterns of annual and seasonal aridity during two major crop growing seasons of Pakistan, Kharif and Rabi, are evaluated in this study using gridded precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data. The UNESCO aridity index was used to estimate aridity at each grid point for all the years between 1901 and 2016. The temporal changes in aridity and its associations with precipitation and PET are evaluated by implementing a moving window of 50 years of data with an 11-year interval. The modified Mann–Kendall (MMK) trend test is applied to estimate unidirectional change by eliminating the effect of natural variability of climate, and Pettitt's test is used to detect year of change in aridity. The results revealed that the climate over 60 % of Pakistan (mainly in southern parts) is arid. The spatial patterns of aridity trends show a strong influence of the changes in precipitation on the aridity trend. The increasing trend in aridity (drier) is noticed in the southwest, where precipitation is low during Kharif, while there is a decreasing trend (wetter) in the Rabi season in the region which receives high precipitation due to western disturbances. The annual and Kharif aridity is found to decrease (wetter) at a rate of 0.0001 to 0.0002 per year in the northeast, while Kharif and Rabi aridity are found to increase (drier) at some locations in the south at a rate of −0.0019 to −0.0001 per year. The spatial patterns of aridity changes show a shift from arid to the semi-arid (wetter) climate in annual and Kharif over a large area while showing a shift from arid to hyper-arid (drier) region during Rabi in a small area. Most of the significant changes in precipitation and aridity are observed in the years between 1971 and 1980. Overall, aridity is found to increase (drier) in 0.52 %, 4.44 % and 0.52 % of the area and decrease (wetter) in 11.75 %, 7.57 % and 9.66 % of the area for annual, Rabi and Kharif seasons respectively during 1967–2016 relative to 1901–1950.
Italian Utilities and Public Control: Evidence of Merger Effects

ABSTRACT Increasing competition-induced mergers amongst public utilities may favour in Italy a reduction in public control and an increase in fair value accounting. In this context, conducting a multiple case study characterized by an innovative comprehensive approach, it is investigated how the peculiarities of the sector affect integration and the subsequent accounting representation of the post-merger entity. The findings show, firstly, the persistent will of the public shareholders to maintain control and, secondly, shed light on a form of interconnected ‘accounting levelling out’ that seems ill-suited to represent the economic reality of the most significant post-merger companies, despite New Public Management provisions.
Investment opportunity set, institutional ownership, family ownership and funding policy

Article history: Received: June 5 2019 Received in revised format: July 8 2019 Accepted: July 17, 2019 Available online: July 18, 2019 This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of the Investment Opportunity Set (IOS) on the corporation funding policies and also finds out whether or not the institutional ownership moderates the role of family ownership on IOS and company funding policies. The population includes all gopublic companies listed on the IDX over the period 2008-2016. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling method. The processing data used regression equations with panel data models and Eviews analysis tools. The results show that IOS had a negative effect on the funding policies. This makes the company with a lower debt to equity ratio on its capital structure policy to use the equity financing to reduce the agency problems. Institutional ownership moderates the influence of IOS on the funding policies. This proves that the institutional ownership balances need to replace the role of debt in monitoring the managers and reducing the agency problems in the company. The family ownership does not moderate the influence of IOS on the funding policies because in the ownership, the family tends to take opportunities for the personal interests and form a weak ownership structure so that the agency problems rises and disrupts the company performance. © 2019 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
An investigation of college student-athletes’ mental health stigma, help-seeking attitudes, depression, anxiety, and life stress scores using structural equation modeling

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the directional relationship between student-athletes’ (N = 621) degree of mental health stigma, help-seeking attitudes, and levels of depression, anxiety, and life stress. The results of the structural equation model (SEM) analyses identified that student-athletes’ amount of mental health stigma contributed to help-seeking attitudes (25.6% of the variance), but not levels of depression (.16% of the variance), anxiety (.09% of the variance), or life stress (.81% of the variance). Specifically, student-athletes’ mental health stigma shared a strong negative relationship with attitudes towards seeking psychological help (β = −.506, p < .001) and the mediation models identified that personal stigma mediates the relationship between public stigma and help-seeking attitudes. Implications purport the need to address the stigma of mental health at the societal level in order to mitigate personal stigma and promote a positive sport culture surrounding mental health and health help-seeking within athletes.
Microstructural and Hardness Evolution of New Developed OPH Steels

Nowadays, by increase in using structural materials, the high temperature properties of these materials are became an important issue within different aspects of engineering. The new Oxide Precipitation Hardened (OPH) steel generated by the authors based on Fe-Al-O matrix which prepared by mechanical alloying and hot consolidation. These new OPH steels showed a better oxidation resistant and creep, compare to similar ones. In order to investigate the thermomechanical and microstructure of these materials, a series of different tests were performed on three different OPH steels variant which developed and manufactured by the authors. The results show that the heating temperature has a significant influence on these properties while almost total recrystallization of grains and subgrains were observed during the investigation.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RESEARCH-BASED TEACHING METHOD IN THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC WRITING COURSE

Writing has been regarded as the most difficult language skills since students in Indonesia were not familiar with this skill in the early and middle education level. On the other hand, in higher education level the students should produce a thesis to complete their study. Facilitating the students to ready for the thesis writing, English for Academic Writing course was delivered to the students. Research-based teaching method was implemented in the course in order to help the students improved their writing skills. The purpose of this research was to investigate the implementation of the research-based teaching method in the English for Academic Writing course. Case study was implemented to reach the conclusion. Thirty seven (37) Global Class students majoring in Information Technology were observed to gain the data. Questionnaire result was also used to support the observation data. The result showed that the students had improvement in writing skills after implementing the research-based teaching-learning method, especially the skills in citation, referencing, quoting, and paraphrasing. Besides, the feedback from the lecturer had a significant role in the implementation of research-based teaching method. This method also could facilitate the students to gain the knowledge and skills related to their field of study, in this case in the information technology field. This method also helped the students to improve and implement the 21st century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, information literacy, technology literacy, initiative, and productivity.
Exposure of Developing Male Rats to One or Multiple Noise Sessions and Different Housing Conditions: Hippocampal Thioredoxin Changes and Behavioral Alterations

Exposure of developing rats to noise has shown to induce hippocampal-related behavioral alterations that were prevented after a week of housing in an enriched environment. However, neither the effect of repeated exposures nor its impact on key endogenous antioxidants had been studied yet. Thus, the aim of the present work was to reveal novel data about hippocampal oxidative state through the measurement of possible age-related differences in the levels of hippocampal thioredoxins in rats exposed to noise at different developmental ages and subjected to different schemes and housing conditions. In addition, the possibility that oxidative changes could underlie hippocampal-related behavioral changes was also analyzed. Developing male Wistar rats were exposed to noise for 2 h, either once or for 5 days. Upon weaning, some animals were transferred to an enriched cage for 1 week, whereas others were kept in standard cages. One week later, auditory and behavioral assessments, as well as measurement of hippocampal thioredoxin, were performed. Whereas no changes in the auditory function were observed, significant behavioral differences were found, that varied according to the age, scheme of exposure and housing condition. In addition, a significant increase in Trx-1 levels was found in all noise-exposed groups housed in standard cages. Housing animals in an enriched environment for 1 week was effective in preventing most of these changes. These findings suggest that animals become less susceptible to undergo behavioral alterations after repeated exposure to an environmental challenge, probably due to the ability of adaptation to an unfavorable condition. Moreover, it could be hypothesized that damage to younger individuals could be more easily prevented by a housing manipulation.
Mediating Effect of Smartphone Addiction Predisposition on the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Health-Promoting Lifestyle in University Students

The purpose of this convergence study was to examine whether smartphone addiction predisposition mediated the relationship between perceived stress and health-promoting lifestyle in university students. A total of 332 subjects, recruited from a university in Seoul, participated by completing a survey which included questions about perceived stress, health-promoting lifestyle and smartphone addiction predisposition. As are result of the analysis, perceived stress had a significant positive effect on smartphone addiction predisposition. Perceived stress and smartphone addiction predisposition had significant negative effect on health-promoting lifestyle. Therefore, smartphone addiction predisposition had a mediating effect within the relationship of perceived stress and health-promoting lifestyle. Based on these results, we discussed the necessity of managing the stress and smartphone addiction to improve the health-promoting lifestyle of university students.
Internal Corporate Social Responsibility Practices and Employees’ Job Satisfaction in a Malaysian Banking Company

ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the relationship between internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and job satisfaction of employees in a Malaysian banking company. The study utilised Carroll’s revised pyramid of global CSR and performance model with the selected CSR dimensions developed by Mohd Hasan (2013), consisting of the best global and local CSR practices. Multistage sampling, simple random sampling and convenient sampling was used. This study employed a quantitative (survey) method, wherein questionnaires were distributed to 342 bank staff (managerial and non-managerial), but only 174 valid responses were received. The data were analysed using Pearson-Product Moment Correlation test and Multiple Regression test through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0. The findings of multiple regression analysis revealed that human rights, labour rights and compliance with certified international standards pertaining to ethical and legal aspects of internal CSR were significant predictors of job satisfaction in the current context. Conclusion, limitations, implications of the findings, and suggestions for future study are also discussed. Keywords: Banking company; business ethics; employees; internal corporate social responsibility; job satisfaction ABSTRAK Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji hubungan antara amalan tanggungjawab sosial korporat (TSK) dalaman dengan kepuasan kerja staf di sebuah syarikat perbankan di Malaysia. Kajian ini menggunakan model piramid TSK global dan prestasi yang dibina oleh Carroll dengan dimensi TSK terpilih yang dicadangkan oleh Mohd Hasan (2013) yang terdiri daripada amalan-amalan terbaik TSK global dan tempatan. Pensampelan berbilang, iaitu pensampelan rawak mudah dan pensampelan mudah telah diguna dalam kajian ini. Reka bentuk kajian ini ialah kuantitatif dengan menggunakan kaedah tinjauan. Borang soal selidik telah diedarkan kepada 342 staf bank (pengurusan dan bukan pengurusan), walau bagaimanapun, penyelidik hanya menerima sebanyak 174 respons. Data kemudiannya dianalisis dengan menggunakan ujian Korelasi Pearson dan ujian regresi berganda melalui Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 22.0. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa hak asasi manusia, hak pekerja dan pematuhan terhadap piawaian antarabangsa yang dikategori di bawah dimensi etika dan dimensi perundangan merupakan faktor peramal bagi meningkatkan kepuasan kerja staf. Kesimpulan, batasan kajian, implikasi dapatan dan cadangan untuk kajian masa depan juga dibincangkan. Kata kunci: Syarikat perbankan; etika perniagaan; pekerja; amalan tanggungjawab sosial korporat dalaman, kepuasan kerja
Cycles of Identity Formation in Interorganizational Collaborations

In this article we consider how issues of identity may have relevance to the management of interorganizational collaborations, and the establishment and disestablishment on trust in such settings. The focus is on the forces for and against consistency and disruption of identity in collaborative settings and the process by which identities are formed and assigned to self and others. On the basis of emergent theorizing using data from a collaborative setting concerned with health promotion, we build up a picture of a complex, interwoven, and tangled mêlée of cycles of interaction in which the actions of participants are (consciously or subconsciously) at least partly determined by the identities that those participants assign to themselves and others and in which the identities are partly determined by the actions. The picture portrays identities as generally made up of a combination of social categories with different categories to the fore at any one time, so that any single actor might give a quite different sense of identity of any other single actor (or of self) on different occasions. The picture suggests that identities will be continually shifting but that sometimes identities will become crystallized for periods of time. These identities may become so deep rooted that they are seriously difficult to change, should that be deemed helpful to the progress of the collaboration. We argue that the processes of identity formation will affect almost every aspect of the nurturing that is the essence of productive collaborative practice.
Testing the effects of certain versus hypothetical language in health risk messages

ABSTRACT This paper tests how certainty conveyed through language can be harnessed to enhance the effectiveness of health risk messages. We conducted experiments with low-income, adult smokers (n = 317) and middle schoolers (n = 321) on pictorial cigarette warning labels. We manipulated hypotheticality of risk through verb modality: present tense, may, can, and will. For adult smokers, present tense led to greater health risk beliefs, compared to hypothetical, among adult males but not females. For youth, contrary to what might seem intuitive, the hypothetical may verb was more effective than the present tense language in promoting health risk beliefs, which was associated with reduced susceptibility to use cigarettes. We discuss the findings in relation applications of construal level theory to health communication.
EFFECT THE SHAPE OF GRAVEL ON IMPROVING CBR AND COMPACTION BEHAVIOUR OF CLAYEY SOIL

Investigating the effect of adding various types and shapes of materials on the behaviour of engineering properties of clayey soil is very important. In this study, various shapes of gravels have been used with different ratios (from 0 to 50% with 10% intervals) to show their effect on improving the mechanical properties of clayey soil. Many tests have been conducted on clayey and clayeygravel soil mixtures. Modified compaction tests showed that by increasing percentages of gravel, amount of maximum unit weight (MUW) increased and optimum moisture content (OMC) decreased especially when rounded gravel was added. The increasing in amount of MUW of the clayey soil was about 10.32% after adding 50% of rounded gravel and it was about 8.98% after increasing same amount of crushed one. Values of California Bearing Ratio (CBR) increased after adding more amounts of gravel with more extent during adding crushed gravel. The addition of 50% gravel by weight to clayey soil resulted in 101.47% increase in the maximum CBR value for rounded gravel and 198.53% for crushed gravel. The swelling ratio decreased from 4.5% for the clayey soil to 0.2% after adding 40% of rounded gravel while it decreased to 0.56% after adding same ratio of crushed one. After adding 50% of both shapes gravel, a slight change in swelling ratio was appeared by increasing from 0.2% to 0.45% for rounded gravel and from 0.56% to 0.87% for crushed one.
Impact of Nonfullerene Acceptor Side Chain Variation on Transistor Mobility

Organic photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies exceeding 14% can largely be attributed to the development of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). Many of these molecules are structural derivatives of IDTBR and ITIC, two common NFAs. By modifying the chemical structure of the acceptor, the optical absorption, energy levels, and bulk heterojunction morphology can be tuned. However, the effect of structural modifications on NFA charge transport properties has not yet been fully explored. In this work, the relationship between chemical structure, molecular packing, and charge transport, as measured in organic thin‐film transistors (OTFTs), is investigated for two high performance NFAs, namely O‐IDTBR and ITIC, along with their structural derivatives EH‐IDTBR and ITIC‐Th. O‐IDTBR exhibits a higher n‐type saturation field effect mobility of 0.12 cm2 V−1 s−1 compared with the other acceptors investigated. This can be attributed to the linear side chains of O‐IDTBR which direct an interdigitated columnar packing motif. The study provides insight into the transport properties and molecular packing of NFAs, thereby contributing to understanding the relationship between chemical structure, material properties, and device performance for these materials. The high electron mobility achieved by O‐IDTBR also suggests its applications can be extended to use as an n‐type semiconductor in OTFTs.
Twitter: A Tool for Communities of Practice.

This study explores an online chat to determine how the dimensions of communities of practices (CoP) are reflected in participants’ interactions on Twitter. The educational discussions, or Twitter chats, take place in an online microblogging platform. The CoP framework offers an approach to understanding the dimensions of mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire, which can be found in constructivist learning environments among educators (Wenger, 1998). A content analysis was conducted on a sample of archived educational Twitter chats to determine how often the attributes associated with CoP dimension(s) were present in the sampled chats. The findings from this study indicate Twitter chats exhibit elements of CoPs and benefit teacher professional development.
Influence of microbial geo-technology in the stabilization of dredged soils

ABSTRACT Concern over environmental effects of dredging, disposal and the increasing unavailability of suitable disposal sites, has put pressure on engineers to improve dredged soils which are weak, have low bearing capacity and undergo excessive settlements over time. This study deals with improvement of such soils generated by dredging of the flood spill channel of River Jhelum, passing through world-renowned wetland, Hokersar. A recent introduction to the ground improvement techniques that utilizes microbes is known as microbial geo-technology. Both natural processes and laboratory investigations have shown that microorganisms can be used to improve the mechanical properties of soil. In this study, dredged soil is treated with microbes (Bacillus Subtilis) at different optical densities (1 and 1.3) and then supplemented with cementing agent solution of urea and calcium chloride at different molarities (0.25M and 1M). The samples are treated for a period of 48 h and then tested for shear strength. Curing for a period of 7 and 28 days is done in a temperature-controlled chamber (25–28°C). With increasing the optical density and molarity of cementing solution there is an increase in calcium carbonate precipitate which increases the strength parameters, the results are in-turn supported by SEM and XRD analysis. Treated dredged soil can be utilized in bulk as a resource for various engineering applications for eco-friendly and sustainable development of the environment.