Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Virtual and augmented reality in libraries and the education sector

Purpose Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are technologies gaining more ground, and their uses in libraries and for educational purposes are expanding. Design/methodology/approach Ethical and legal issues in the use of VR and AR are bound to arise in future if the technology is used for less-than-laudable functions. Findings For now, the Western world uses both technologies more, even though it is free and, in some cases, less expensive than before now. Originality/value It superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, providing a composite view. Both technologies aim to make the user feel a sense of being there and experiencing what is being viewed in real time.
Coronial decision-making and the management, classification and conceptualisation of the finding of ‘suicide’

ABSTRACT This paper addresses some of the results from a large-scale-funded research project into the coronial conceptualisation and adjudgement of suicide, founded upon an ongoing dissatisfaction with the validity of suicide data. The research is based upon in-depth interviews with 32 coroners from all but one Australian jurisdiction and focuses upon the administrative, epistemological and ontological categorisation of suicide as a type of death. The coroners express a range of concerns over the options available to them in order to produce more defensible statistics. First, coroners generally expressed a dissatisfaction with the fundamental binary finding of ‘suicide/not suicide’, but see little point in expanding the administrative categories available to them Second, epistemologically, coroners are open to the introduction of a classification of ‘sub-intentional suicide/self-manslaughter’ as a way of dealing with the issue of intent. Finally, those coroners who have significant experience with Indigenous suicide– propose the abandonment/replacement of the category of suicide altogether, due to its ontological incoherence, and its cultural flexibility. The central conclusion is that, if more valid statistics of self-inflicted death are to be produced, at very least, coroners need more choices of finding than are currently available.
Three Essays on Quote Stuffing, Dealer Liquidity and Stub Quoting

This study examines the impact intense episodic spikes in quoting activity (frequently referred to as “quote stuffing”) has on market conditions. We find that quote stuffing is pervasive with several hundred events occurring each trading day and that over 92% of NYSE and NASDAQ listed securities experience at least one episode during 2010. Our results also suggest that in periods of intense quoting activity stocks experience decreased liquidity, higher trading cost, and increased short term volatility. The Evolving Role of the Nasdaq Market Makers, Dissertation Essay #2, with B. Van Ness, and R. Van Ness. Abstract: We examine the role of the NASDAQ market marker in the modern trading environment. Specifically we study the liquidity providing behavior of market marketer in the trading environment of today compared to market maker’s behaviors in a prior period. This includes analysis of how frequently market makers are at the inside quote, the level of depth that market markers provides, and what market and stock specific factors influence market We examine the role of the NASDAQ market marker in the modern trading environment. Specifically we study the liquidity providing behavior of market marketer in the trading environment of today compared to market maker’s behaviors in a prior period. This includes analysis of how frequently market makers are at the inside quote, the level of depth that market markers provides, and what market and stock specific factors influence market
Ability of organizational commitment and emotional intelligence moderating effect of role stress on turnover intention

This research was conducted to obtain empirical evidence of the influence of role stress on turnover intentions of tax consultants in Tax Consultant Offices in Bali Province with organizational commitment and emotional intelligence as moderating variables. This research was conducted at 35 Tax Consultant Offices in Bali Province. The research sample was determined by purposive sampling method and based on the specified criteria obtained a total sample of 185 respondents. Data collection is done using the questionnaire method. The hypothesis is tested using simple regression analysis techniques and the Moderating Regression Analysis (MRA). The results showed that role stress had a significant positive effect on turnover intentions. Organizational commitment and emotional intelligence show weakening the positive influence of role stress on turnover intentions.
What Happens to Trading Volume When the Regulator Bans Voluntary Disclosure?

Abstract This paper exploits a unique natural experiment in which a regulator limited voluntary disclosure of oil and gas firms. We examine the implications of this disclosure rule on unexplained trading volume and market liquidity. Relying on the theoretical framework of Kim and Verrecchia ([1994]. Market liquidity and volume around earnings announcements. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 17(1–2), 41–67), the analysis assumes that the rule is an exogenous shock that increased the precision of disclosed information. Based on a sample of current filings, we find indications that on average, after the new regulation came into effect, filings of oil and gas firms generated less unexplained trading volume than they had prior to the regulation. A possible interpretation of these findings is a decline in investor disagreement following the rule. We also find that liquidity around current filings of oil and gas firms increased following the disclosure rule. Moreover, some results indicate that differences in unexplained trading volume associated with the characteristics of the filing firm or of the filing itself prior to the rule were moderated after it came into effect.
Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition

We develop a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. We show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply different predictions about the effects of the export of goods and the offshoring of tasks. Trade in goods is unambiguously welfare increasing since domestic resources are reallocated to large firms with high productivity, and firms with low productivities exit the market thereby reducing the monopsony distortion present in autarky. Offshoring on the other hand gives firms additional scope for exercising monopsony power by reducing their domestic size and therefore can lead to welfare losses.
Az egyházi fenntartású iskolák és a szelekció, szegregáció kapcsolata

2010 óta jelentősen megnőtt mind az egyházi fenntartású iskolák, mind az egyházi fenntartású iskolák tanulóinak aránya, így az egyházi fenntartók iskolapolitikája képes hatást gyakorolni az oktatási rendszer egészére. Ugyanebben az időszakban a kormányzat részéről egyértelműen azonosítható az egyházi fenntartókat preferáló viselkedés (pl. kommunikáció, finanszírozás, diszkrecionális jogosultságok biztosítása). Figyelembe véve e két folyamatot, illetve a magyar oktatási rendszert jellemző szélsőséges, szociokulturális, szocioökonómiai alapú szelektivitást, indokolt az egyháziiskola-hatás vizsgálata. A kutatás azoknak a 2, 3 és 4 iskolás településeknek vizsgálta a szelekciós struktúráját, ahol a legnagyobb hatáspotenciállal rendelkező felekezeteknek (katolikus, református, evangélikus, görögkatolikus) volt 2016-ban iskolájuk. A 2010 és 2016 között az Országos Kompetenciamérés 8. évfolyamos adatbázisainak három mutatója – családiháttér-index (CSHI), halmozottan hátrányos helyzetű (HHH) és roma tanulók aránya – segítségével követhető a tanulók településeken belüli eloszlása és ennek változása. Az elemzés a 2010-es évben is nagymértékű szelekciót talált a vizsgált településeken. Az egyházi iskolák tanulóinak CSHI-átlaga az esetek döntő többségben a települési átlag felett van. A HHH tanulók az egyházi iskoláknak közel feléből teljességgel hiányoznak. A roma tanulók tekintetében 2016-ra a települések egyötödén az egyházi iskolák megvalósították a teljes etnikai szelekciót. Ezzel összefüggésben a gettósodó és gettóintézmények száma és aránya extrém mértékben megnőtt. Külön vizsgálva azokat a településeket, ahol a kiinduló évben nem volt egyházi fenntartó – és azokat, ahol szélsőséges roma tanulói koncentráció sem –, az látható, hogy a települési szelekciós iskolastruktúrákban az egyházi iskolák belépése egyértelműen egy durván polarizált tanulói eloszlást eredményezett a társadalmi hátrányok mentén. A vizsgálatban szereplő felekezeti fenntartók mindegyikéről megállapítható, hogy a beiskolázás szempontjából mindig a relatíve magas státuszú családok gyermekeit (nem HHH, nem roma) részesítik előnyben.
Productivity Analysis of Coal-fired Thermal Power Plants in India Using Malmquist Index Approach

The sustainable socio-economic growth of any country depends on the availability of adequate and reliable power at reasonable rates. This is even true in case of a rapidly developing country like India where coal-based power plants account for the majority of electricity generation. Making use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Malmquist productivity index (MPI), this study analyses the productivity change of coal-fired power plants during 2002–2012. Productivity change is further decomposed into technical efficiency change (EFFCH), technological change (TECHCH), scale efficiency change (SECH), pure technical change (PECH) and total factor productivity change (TFPCH). The study revealed that 0.70 per cent of average annual total factor productivity (TFP) growth was witnessed from 2002–2003 to 2011–2012 indicating overall progress. The contribution of TECHCH in TFP growth is positive, that is, 1.3 per cent per annum. It demonstrates that expansion of the efficient frontier. However, there was a decrease in technical EFFCH of −0.6 per cent per year, indicating the adverse sign of progress. Plants in the central sector achieved maximum growth of 4.6 per cent annually. A total of 54.05 per cent of plants have recorded negative TFP growth. Power plants between 500 and 999 MW achieved the highest operational performances in all indices except SECH.
Research-based teaching or teaching-based research

Purpose The relationship between research and teaching – sometimes referred to as the research–teaching nexus – is an important issue in education literature. However, although it is acknowledged that this question is specific to each discipline, it is rarely addressed in the management accounting (MA) literature. Outside MA, the literature focuses on the influence of research on teaching but rarely touches on the influence of teaching on research. This paper has two aims: to enhance the understanding of the research–teaching link in MA and to analyse the link from teaching into research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a reflexive analysis of a case in which the content of a management control course progressively changed over a period of 15 years. The authors structure their description of the case using Dewey’s concept of inquiry. Findings This paper first shows that designing the content of this course was a form of research and it produced knowledge. This analysis also suggests that the influence of research on teaching can take other forms than introducing research results or methods into teaching; designing teaching content is nurtured by not only scientific considerations but also pedagogical considerations and lecturers’ values; and linking research and teaching raises different issues dependent on the stance adopted by MA scholars in their research. Research limitations/implications The academic community should seriously consider that knowledge can be produced in a teaching context, through the design of a teaching content. Originality/value This paper contributes to an inquiry process by documenting how course content is actually designed, which has not yet been done in the MA literature.
KEJENUHAN KERJA (BURNOUT) PADA GURU HONORER DI KOTA MAKASSAR

BSTRAK Guru honorer memiliki berbagai permasalahan baik psikis maupun fisik yang berdampak pada munculnya burnout. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran burnout pada guru honorer di kota Makassar yang meliputi; (1) tingkat burnout, (2) tingkat burnout ditinjau dari aspek demografi, (3) faktor-faktor penyebab burnout. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode gabungan antara penelitian kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan open ended quesionare dan skala MBI terhadap 165 orang guru honorer di Kota Makassar yang dipilih melalui teknik purposive sampling, dengan kriteria subjek memiliki masa kerja minimal satu tahun. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa burnout pada guru honorer di kota Makassar berada pada kategori tinggi. Terdapat perbedaan tingkat burnout ditinjau dari data demografi meliputi: tingkat pendidikan, tingkat pendapatan, dan status instansi. Selain itu, sejumlah faktor yang terindentifikasi menyebabkan burnout meliputi: beban kerja, masalah pribadi, diskriminasi, permasalahan dengan relasi di tempat kerja, lingkungan kerja, dan kerjaan monoton. Hasil penelitian ini dapat menjadi dasar dalam merumuskan program intervensi burnout pada guru honorer di kota Makassar. Kata kunci: Burnout, Faktor penyebab burnout, Guru honorer.
A test of Wagner’s hypothesis for the Ghanaian economy

Abstract The economy of Ghana profiles a trajectory of increasing government expenditure at the backdrop of an inconsistent growth in real GDP. Thus, this study explores the causal relationship between real economic growth and real government expenditure in Ghana between the period 1960 to 2017. The Johansen (1991, 1995) cointegration method, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds test approach and the Toda-Yamamoto non-Granger causality test are employed in this study. The findings are that the variables are cointegrated, and there is no Granger causality from real economic growth to real government expenditure. In effect, the causality shows that the Wagner’s hypothesis does not hold in the case of the Ghanaian economy and that the Keynesian theoretical standpoint that public expenditure is an exogenous factor is not deflated in this case.
Non-fluent aphasia in a polysynthetic language: five case studies

ABSTRACT Background Polysynthetic languages can be roughly defined as languages which have an extreme morphological complexity. They present a range of challenges to linguistic and neurolinguistics theories that are based on standard average European languages. Yet, no studies exist on aphasia in such languages, and the communities that speak them have little or no access to assessment and language therapy. Aims The aim of this paper is to provide a first attempt at a characterisation of aphasia in a polysynthetic language, West Greenlandic. Methods and procedures We recorded semi-spontaneous speech from five participants with aphasia and compared their speech on several parameters with that of matched non-brain-damaged control participants. These parameters included standard production measures, measures of morphological complexity, and measures of syntactic complexity. Outcomes and results Our findings indicate that non-fluent aphasia in West Greenlandic is not associated with morphological impairment; instead, participants with aphasia produce shorter utterances, and there are trends indicating lower complexity across measures of syntax. Conclusions While somewhat surprising from the point of view of research on aphasia in standard average European languages, our findings align well with findings from other languages with complex morphology such as Finnish, Turkish, and Japanese. Our study highlights the need for a diverse range of crosslinguistic studies to inform linguistic and neurolinguistic theories.
Macro Governance and Profitability around the World: A Methodological Improvement

There is a multitude of country studies between 2000-2018 that focus upon the relationship between corporate governance and profitability, with mixed results because studies have generally focused upon historic book value ratio measures of profitability such as Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE), rather than based on market values. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of macro governance environments upon aggregate dividend yield and earnings per share for developed and emerging stock markets as measures of profitability and to provide a useful methodology for correctly incorporating risk measures in a more controlled manner than many current papers undertake. Using an augmented version of the dividend growth model and allowing for the control of risk factors, we find that macro governance environments have a significant influence upon dividend yield and earnings per share. The results have policy implications for government policy setters as improvements to governance environments may induce portfolio equity inflow, which is increasingly seen as a driving force for economic growth. Future research papers should use our methodology to better model firm profitability and corporate governance within a market value context and recognise the limitations of ROE and ROA as they rely upon less relevant book market values. Further, studies need to better capture interaction effects between macro (country-specific) and micro (firm-specific) governance.
The Level Of Using Alternative Assessment Strategies Among English Language Teachers In The Preparatory Stage In Governmenl Schools In Gaza

This study aims at investigating the level of using alternative assessment strategies among English language teachers in the preparatory stage in governmenl schools in Gaza. The study used the descriptive analytical approach, through designing a questionnaire that consisted of (6) domains and (30) items. The questionnaire was distributed to (90) English teacherseof preparatory stage. The study also used semi-structured interviews, which werehconducted with (25) English teachers of the same stage. The study revealed that the use of alternative assessment strategies among the teachers was moderate; it with a (54.24%). The study found that there were no statistically significant differences at (α ≤ 0.05) in the level of using alternative assessment strategies among English language teachers due to their gender and experience. The study recommends that the Ministry of education should conduct workshops to train ELTs to use alternative assessment strategies.
Labor market sorting on personality traits and the gender wage gap

ABSTRACT Gender sorting in the labor market can explain a major part of the gender wage gap. This paper documents the association between the gender wage gap and labor market sorting into jobs characterized by their requirements to personality traits. Two thirds of the Danish gender wage gap from 2008 to 2015 explained by occupational sorting can be explained by characterizing occupations by their requirements to personality traits. This amounts to around a quarter of the gender wage gap explained by these nonpecuniary occupational characteristics. In particular, men are awarded for working in jobs that require higher levels of disagreeableness
Prospective Teachers' Sense of Efficacy and Beliefs About Control

We examined the structure and meaning of efficacy for a sample of 182 prospective teachers and related efficacy to beliefs about control and motivation. The two independent dimensions of teaching efficacy (TE) and personal efficacy (PE) usually identified in studies of experienced teachers were also found for these prospective teachers. Both TE and PE were significantly correlated with bureaucratic orientation, but in opposite directions. Neither TE nor PE was related to motivational style; only TE was related to pupil control ideology. Canonical correlations, however, revealed more complex relationships. Personal efficacy was positively related to a control orientation that rejects teacher control of students but accepts the schools' control of teachers. The interaction of TE and PE made unique contributions to the prediction of pupil control ideology and bureaucratic orientation.
Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts

This monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of what the authors call property concept sentences (1), after Dixon (1982) and Thompson (1989), particularly focusing on the cross-linguistic variation that arises from expressing such property concepts. More speciﬁcally, property concept sentences refer to cross-linguistic parallels of English copu-lar sentences in which a property concept expressed by an adjective is predicated of some entity, as in (1a). In addition, property concept lexemes refer to lexemes from which property concepts are derived, i.e. intelligent in (1a). Although in English property concepts are generally expressed non-verbally (1a) by means of a copula, other languages express them by means of possessive sentences as the English equivalent in (1b), this being the default mechanism if not the only one in these languages. semantics
Effect of Mindfulness on Gratitude and Psychological Wellbeing

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . iv LIST OF TABLES . viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . ix CHAPTER I BACKGROUND . 1 Effect of Mindfulness on Gratitude, Psychological Flexibility, and Psychological Wellbeing . 1 Psychological Flexibility . 3 Gratitude . 5 Psychological Wellbeing . 8 Mindfulness and Gratitude . 11 Proposed Study and Hypotheses . 14 CHAPTER II – METHOD. 17 Participants . 17 Materials . 18 Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale . 18 Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test (GRAT) . 19 Gratitude Adjective Checklist (GAC) . 20 Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scales (RPWS) – 42-Item Version . 20 vi Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) . 21 Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ) . 22 Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21) . 23 Headspace . 23 Procedure . 24 CHAPTER III RESULTS . 26 Statistical Analysis . 26 Correlations of Trait Mindfulness with Dependent Variables . 28 Demographic Differences Across Dependent Variables . 32 Drop-Out Analysis . 36 Omnibus Test of Mindfulness Intervention Effects . 36 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Trait Mindfulness Change Scores . 38 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Gratitude Scores . 38 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Gratitude Adjective Checklist Change Scores 38 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Ryff’s Tests of Psychological Wellbeing . 39 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Acceptance and Action Questionnaire Change Scores . 39 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on Satisfaction with Life Change Scores . 39 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on DASS-21 Depression Change Scores . 39 Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on DASS-21 Anxiety Change Scores. 40 vii Effect of Mindfulness Intervention on DASS-21 Stress Change Scores . 40 Intention-to-treat Analysis . 41 Mediational Analysis of Gratitude and Psychological Flexibility . 42 Results of Mediational Analysis . 44 CHAPTER IV – DISCUSSION. 46 Limitations . 56 Future Directions . 59 Conclusions . 61 APPENDIX A – Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale . 63 APPENDIX B – (GRAT) Opinion Questionnaire – R . 65 APPENDIX C – Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scales (PWB), 42 Item Version . 69 APPENDIX D – The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ) . 72 APPENDIX E – Satisfaction with Life Scale . 74 APPENDIX F – IRB Approval Letter . 75 REFERENCES . 76