Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gut Feminism, new materialisms and sportwomen’s embodied health: the case of RED-S in endurance athletes

ABSTRACT This paper critically explores the potential of feminist new materialist approaches to develop new understandings of the complex entanglements of the biological and socio-cultural dimensions of women athletes’ embodied health experiences. In particular, we draw upon Elizabeth Wilson’s (2015) Gut Feminism to ask ‘what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory is not so instinctively antibiological’? (1). Drawing upon two phases of interviews with 12 elite endurance sports-women involved in triathlon and Ironman events, we explore meanings of leanness, and the ‘ideal’ sporting body, as dynamically produced through socio-material-biological processes. Focusing particularly on their experiences of Low Energy Availability (LEA) and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), we illustrate some of the ways that the unique sporting culture presses upon women’s bodies, and how, for some women, their responses to physiological data evokes further biological ramifications. In so doing, we highlight biology as more dynamic, nonconsilient and less deterministic than many sport feminists have presumed. Ultimately, this paper signals the need to address the antibiologism in the sociology of sport such that we can not only advance more multidimensional understandings of the bio-sociality of women’s moving bodies, but also find new ways to press back upon the sciences to rethink their approaches to understanding, diagnosing and treating complex health phenomena.
Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? Evaluation Brief. NCEE 2019-4005.

The charter school sector plays an important role in efforts to reform the education system and better serve the nation’s public school students. To help understand this role, more than a decade ago the National Evaluation of Charter Middle Schools examined how admission to about 30 charter middle schools affected students’ achievement. On average, there were no significant effects. However, some charter middle schools in the study were successful in improving achievement, including those in urban areas and serving economically disadvantaged students – features of many charter schools today. This brief examines if the charter middle schools included in the National Evaluation affected students’ college enrollment and completion and the relationship between each school’s earlier achievement results and these important longer-term outcomes.
Acceptance of ICTs for health and/or Physical Activity Monitoring in Patients with Chronic Diseases

Physical activity (PA) is a cornerstone of medical treatment in chronic patients but difficult to maintain over the long term. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer new possibilities to provide support for patients and to monitor PA. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge about, the use of and the interest in ICTs for health and PA monitoring, and to evaluate the influence of gender, age and socio-professional category on ICT acceptance. A survey on ICT’s knowledge, use and acceptance was specifically elaborated for this study. Patients participating in a supervised PA training program completed this survey during a face-to-face visit. Seventy-eight patients between 45 and 79 years old were surveyed. Most of them had access to the Internet (92%) and owned a smartphone (69%). Age was the major factor influencing access to and technical knowledge about ICTs. Half of the patients were in favor of using ICTs for health and PA monitoring. The factors that conditioned this acceptance were to be young, highly educated, and to have already used ICTs. The other half of the patients were opposed to ICTs because of the complexity and constraints of these technologies, and because they worried about the lack of data security. These results emphasize the need to know more about the profile of the patients in order to propose the relevant personalized PA support.
Visual and Affective Grounding in Language and Mind

One of the main limitations in natural language-based approaches to meaning is that they are not grounded. In this study, we evaluate how well different kinds of models account for people’s representations of both concrete and abstract concepts. The models are both unimodal (language-based only) models and multimodal distributional semantic models (which additionallyincorporate perceptual and/or affective information). The language-based models include both external (based on text corpora) and internal (derived from word associations) language. We present two new studies and a re-analysis of a series of previous studies demonstrating that the unimodal performance is substantially higher for internal models, especially when comparisons at the basiclevel are considered. For multimodal models, our findings suggest that additional visual and affective features lead to only slightly more accurate mental representations of word meaning than what is already encoded in internal language models; however, for abstract concepts, visual andaffective features improve the predictions of external text-based models. Our work presents new evidence that the grounding problem includes abstract words as well and is therefore more widespread than previously suggested. Implications for both embodied and distributional views arediscussed.
Teaching Reading of Narrative Text Through Think Pair Share Technique at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Banjar Margo

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan dalam kemampuan pemahaman membaca setelah belajar dengan menggunakan teknik “think pair share”. Penelitian ini adalah desain kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian ini sebanyak 30 siswa. Tes membaca digunaan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik pada kemampuan pemahaman membaca siswa dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.00<0.05. Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunaan teknik “think pair share” dapat membantu siswa untuk menemukan informasi pada teks dengan mudah.The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant improvement of students' reading comprehension ability after they were taught through “think pair share” technique. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 30 students. The reading test was administrated as the instrument of this research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students' reading comprehension ability at the significant level 0.00<0.05. This suggests that reading through “think pair share” technique facilitates the students to find information of the text easily.
The Effect of Voluntary Clawback Adoptions on Corporate Tax Policy

Companies are adopting executive compensation recoupment (“clawback”) policies to discourage aggressive financial reporting choices. Recent research suggests clawback policies encourage other means of meeting earnings expectations. We suggest that reducing income tax expense is a means of meeting earnings expectations. We find that effective tax rates are lower after clawback adoption due to increased investments in tax planning. We identify three tax planning activities that clawback companies invest in to lower effective tax rates: purchases of auditor-provided tax services, increased connections to other low-tax companies, and use of tax havens. We provide evidence that effective tax rate decreases do not result from use of opportunistic income tax accruals, and that decreases are stronger among companies that adopt robust clawback policies. Additional tests indicate lower tax outcome volatility and longer, more readable tax footnotes following clawback adoption. Our results suggest a positive spillover effect of clawback adoption on corporate tax policy.
The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation on High Technology Product Imports In Asean 6

Current technological development changes the people's lifestyle becoming progressively modern. Technological development encourages the rapid digitalization that occurs in all countries. The incapability of a country to meet domestic demand for digital products that are closely related to high technology content drives the import of high technology products. On the other hand, the development of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is essential in order to support the development of domestic technology of a country due to its spillover effects. ASEAN 6 is a highly attractive for foreign investors as it has strategic location, large market share and abundant resources. This study examines the influence of FDI and innovation on imported high technology products in ASEAN 6. This research employed the panel data analysis from six ASEAN countries during the period of 2007 to 2016. The results of this study indicated that FDI and innovation have a positive effect on imports of high products technology in ASEAN 6.
On-screen point-of-regard estimation under natural head movement for a computer with integrated webcam

Recent developments in the field of eye-gaze tracking by vidoeoculography indicate a growing interest towards unobtrusive tracking in real-life scenarios, a new paradigm referred to as pervasive eye-gaze tracking. Among the challenges associated with this paradigm, the capability of a tracking platform to integrate well into devices with in-built imaging hardware and to permit natural head movement during tracking is of importance in less constrained scenarios. The work presented in this paper builds on our earlier work, which addressed the problem of estimating on-screen point-of-regard from iris center movements captured by an integrated camera inside a notebook computer, by proposing a method to approximate the head movements in conjunction with the iris movements in order to alleviate the requirement for a stationary head pose. Following iris localization by an appearance-based method, linear mapping functions for the iris and head movement are computed during a brief calibration procedure permitting the image information to be mapped to a point-of-regard on the monitor screen. Following the calculation of the point-of-regard as a function of the iris and head movement, separate Kalman filters improve upon the noisy point-of-regard estimates to smoothen the trajectory of the mouse cursor on the monitor screen. Quantitative and qualitative results obtained from two validation procedures reveal an improvement in the estimation accuracy under natural head movement, over our previous results achieved from earlier work. Keywords–Point-of-regard estimation; Eye-gaze tracking; Iris center localization; Head movement tracking; Integrated webcam.
Determinants of transnational social capital: opportunity–investment–ability perspective

Abstract This study suggests that it is critical for executives to develop transnational social capital (TSC), or professional relationships and ties that span national borders. We first provide a conceptual framework and careful operationalization of TSC that differentiates between bonding and bridging forms of social capital. We then examine the effect of three key determinants—opportunity, investment and ability—on the TSC of executives. Using detailed survey data on 227 executives, our analysis suggests that international experience, investment in communicating with cross-border ties and cosmopolitan ability have direct effects on overall TSC. We further demonstrate that international experience and cosmopolitan ability affect both bridging and bonding, but that investment in cross-border communication only affects bridging social capital. The study proposes that social capital is becoming more and more transnational as connections, interactions and transactions increasingly span national borders, which has implications for international business and human resource management. Given our findings, it would make sense for global organizations to pay more attention to these, if they would like their members to develop this resource. We point out benefits to organizations and individuals.
ScholarWorks @ UVM ScholarWorks @ UVM Effects of Voluntary Exercise on Prefrontal-Dependent Set-Shifting Effects of Voluntary Exercise on Prefrontal-Dependent Set-Shifting in Adolescent Rats in Adolescent Rats

Physical exercise has been shown to have positive impacts on executive functioning (working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility) in humans of all ages. Rodent studies provide further insight into how exercise may impact the extent of the cognitive benefits for adult versus adolescent rodents. Preliminary data from our laboratory suggest that exercise may improve cognitive flexibility in adolescent rats. In the current experiment, we directly compare exercising versus non-exercising adolescent and young adult rats in cognitive flexibility. We hypothesized that adolescent rats with access to a home cage running wheel would perform best in a maze-based cognitive flexibility task. We also examined whether or not these hypothesized benefits remain after exercise stops. We did not find support for our hypothesis; exercise had no detectable effect on cognitive flexibility in adolescent or young adult rats. We discuss some reasons why we might not have observed exercise-related effects in the current study, such as low running distances seen in the exercising rats when compared to prior studies.
Does corporate social responsibility affect earnings management? Evidence from family firms

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the effect of corporate social responsibility performance on earnings management. We also examine the moderating role of family ownership on the association between earnings management and socially responsible performance. Based on an international sample of 6,442 firm-year observations from 2006 to 2014, we use several validated analysis and panel-data regression models. We find that social and environmental performance is positively related with earnings management; firms with a greater socially responsible performance show a higher discretionary behavior by promoting actions that mask the real financial and economic performance of the firm. However, we find that this positive relation is lower – moderated - in family-owned firms, mainly because of the fact that family firms show a greater socially responsible behavior aimed to preserve their socioemotional endowments and are negatively associated with earnings management practices. ; El objetivo de este artículo es intentar aclarar el efecto de la responsabilidad social corporativa en la manipulación de información. También examinamos el efecto moderador de la familia en la relación entre manipulación de información y responsabilidad corporativa. Basados en una muestra internacional de 6,442 observaciones empresa-año durante los años 2006-2014, usamos análisis de validez y modelos de regresión para datos de panel. Hemos concluido que el desarrollo social y ambiental está positivamente relacionado con la manipulación de información; las empresas con una mayor actividad de responsabilidad social muestran un mayor comportamiento de manipulación a través de la promoción de acciones que enmascaran la realidad financiera y económica de la sociedad. Igualmente, encontramos que esta relación positiva es moderada a la baja en empresas familiares, principalmente porque las empresas familiares muestran una mayor responsabilidad social pues están centradas en conservar sus legados emocionales y así mismo están negativamente asociadas con prácticas relativas a la manipulación de información.
English proficiency and learner individual differences: A study of pre-service EFL student-teachers

This study examines the relationship between individual factors such as age, learning opportunities, and motivation and English language proficiency of pre-service EFL student-teachers. A background questionnaire and an English proficiency test were given to 121 student-teachers. The results revealed that the majority of participants have a low English proficiency which is not likely to improve at the end of the teaching program and that third language learning as well as integrative motivation are strong predictors of language proficiency. Qualitatively, respondents described their reasons for having English language difficulties and for their integrative and instrumental motivation, which complemented the quantitative data. Suggestions for pedagogical practice that might improve the situation are given.
Management Connectedness and Corporate Investment

Abstract In response to the mixed views about the appointment-based connectedness between CEO and subordinate C-level executives, we systematically analyze the net effect of top management team (TMT) connectedness in the context of real corporate investment activities. We document a robust negative association between TMT connectedness and corporate investments, driven by the reduction in corporate R&D spending and acquisitions. Further tests show investment inefficiency in firms with closely connected managers, suggesting an average weak governance effect of TMT connectedness. To explain such an effect, we find that connected executives tend to avoid risky investments and shirk investment responsibilities when facing little career concerns. Interestingly, the agency cost and coordination benefit of interconnected TMT are not mutually exclusive. The adverse investment effect of TMT connectedness tempers in firms facing financial constraints and even reverses during the Global Financial Crisis when financial constraints are most likely binding.
Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Job Satisfaction Among the Female Teachers in the Higher Education Sector

A remarkable growth of female participation has been observed in the job market of Bangladesh over the past few years. The number of female employees and their contribution is likely to increase further with the pace of the country’s development in terms of the literacy rate and employment scope. Among the several thriving sectors of the country, the significance of the education sector especially in the tertiary level is highlighted by the noble contribution they make to the economy. Due the rapid increase in the number of private universities over the past few years in the country, quite a large number of women have chosen to embark on this field with the hopes of establishing themselves as academicians. However, one of the existing impediments which obstructs several women to reach their zenith professionally is rigid company policies specifically lack of flexibility. The importance of Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) has recently gained the attention of academicians as well as practitioners to improve employee performance. Since participation of women in a noble sector like education is highly desired; hence, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA), Employee Job satisfaction and Work-life Balance of the female teachers in the higher education sector of the country. Based on the analysis of diverse literature from the secondary data, hypotheses were developed and in order to test those, primary data had been collected, responses from 203 female teachers were analyzed through SPSS. The findings have confirmed that FWA have positive and significant impact both on Employee Job Satisfaction and Work-life Balance as well as Work-life Balance has a positive impact on Job Satisfaction. However, one of the elements of FWA, namely, Compressed Workweek, is found to have values lower than the significance level after performing regression analysis. Keywords: Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA), Work-life Balance, Job Satisfaction, Female employees and Education Sector DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-18-11 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Does Civility as a Nurse Characteristic Predict Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay

Summary: This session will describe a multi-site study that tested the effect of civility on RN job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Findings indicate that civility as a self-reported characteristic is a significant independent predictor of intent-to-stay and is mediated by RN satisfaction, supporting the Cowden & Cummings (2012) theoretical model.
Accruals Quality, Analysts Forecasts and Idiosyncratic Return Volatility: UK Evidence

We investigate if accruals quality is useful for stock market investors as an indicator of earnings quality, by examining its association with idiosyncratic return volatility, for a sample of UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange. Using panel data, we find that poor accruals quality is statistically associated with higher firm-specific return volatility. This association also holds for other measures used for the quality of the information environment: dispersion in analysts’ forecasts, the innate component of accruals quality, which reflects the uncertainty about the nature of the firm’s business and the discretionary component of accruals quality, which is related to managerial discretionary choices. More specifically, we find that adding the dispersion in analysts’ forecasts increases the explanatory power for idiosyncratic volatility of the remaining measures of the quality of the information environment. Our results are consistent with the noise-based approach of idiosyncratic volatility. These findings are likely to contribute to the debate on whether idiosyncratic return volatility captures more firm-specific information being impounded into stock prices or essentially reflects noise. JEL Classification: G12, G14, M40
Understanding the Practice, Application, and Limitations of Meta-Analysis

This article discusses the basic assumptions and practices for meta-analysis as well as describing options and innovations for implementing this tool. Meta-analysis represents a family of techniques with different assumptions and procedures. I discuss some of the ongoing debates and limitations of the methods that continue to receive attention. In an era of “evidence-based” applications and educational material, meta-analysis (in all the forms) represents the best way to reduce Type II error and identify Type I error. Use of the technique provides facilitates the formulation and evaluation theoretical arguments as well as identifying the means to optimally generate future research efforts. The process of meta-analysis takes the scientist back to the future by reminding the community of the original premises that guided the formation of the statistical process.
Capital budgeting techniques in SMEs: A litterature review

This paper provides a systematic literature review of research in the field of capital budgeting techniques (CBT) among small- and medium- sized firms. In total, 26 studies published between 1964 and 2017 were reviewed. It covers three areas: the type of CBT that have been used across sizes and locations; determinants associated with the choice of CBT; and the methods and analysis techniques used in previous studies. SWOT analysis was done to systematise the findings and to identify the shortcoming and strengths in existing literature. For each area, potential areas of research to further the field are suggested.