Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Logistic Regression to Guide Enrollment Management at a Public Regional University

Although numerous studies of college choice for private colleges and research universities have enabled administrators to more effectively manage enrollments, relatively few such efforts have occurred at comprehensive state universities. In college choice studies, student characteristics, institutional characteristics, and college contact variables have all been found to influence students’ enrollment decisions. In this study, logistic regression analysis was used and two choice models were developed and compared to investigate the effects of student characteristics, institutional characteristics, and college influence factors on the decision to enroll at a public regional university for two enrollment years, 1993 and 1995. The second model that included institutional influence variables yielded an Aldrich-Nelson pseudo R 2 value (Aldrich & Nelson, 1984) of . 147 in contrast to a value of . 061 for the first model. Implications for enrollment management in comprehensive state universities are discussed.
A systematic review of outcome tools used to measure lower leg conditions.

BACKGROUND CONTEXT A variety of self-report and physical performance-based outcome measures are commonly used to assess progress and recovery in the lower leg, ankle, and foot. A requisite attribute of any outcome measure is its ability to detect change in a condition, a construct known as "responsiveness". There is a lack of consistency in how responsiveness is defined in all outcome measures. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to review the currently used recovery outcome measures for lower leg, ankle and foot conditions in order to determine and report recommended responsiveness values. METHODS A systematic literature search that included electronic searches of PubMed, CINAHL and SportDiscus as well extensive cross-referencing was performed in January, 2013. Studies were included if each involved: 1) a prospective, longitudinal study of any design; 2) any condition associated with the lower leg, ankle or foot; 3) a measure of responsiveness; and 4) was an acceptable type of outcome measure (eg. self-report, physical performance, or clinician report). The quality of the included articles was assessed by two independent authors using the responsiveness sub-component of the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN). RESULTS Sixteen different studies met the inclusion criteria for this systematic review. The most commonly used outcome measures were the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure and the Lower Extremity Functional Scale. Responsiveness was calculated in a variety of methods including effect size, standardized response mean, minimal clinically important difference/importance, minimal detectable change, and minimal important change. CONCLUSION Based on the findings of this systematic review there is a lack of consistency for reporting responsiveness among recovery measures used in the lower leg, ankle or foot studies. It is possible that the variability of conditions that involve the lower leg, ankle and foot contribute to the discrepancies found in reporting responsiveness values. Further research must be conducted in order to standardize reporting measures for responsiveness. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 2a.
Managing coopetition to create opportunities for small firms

This article investigates how coopetition enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create entrepreneurial opportunities in fast-paced industries. We explore the managerial challenges SMEs face when collaborating with large powerful competitors, and examine how they balance this relationship to create and sustain business opportunities through coopetition. Based on three exploratory case studies in the information technology and telecoms industry, the article develops a theoretical model suggesting that SMEs can manage the liabilities of smallness and newness, and sustain independence in and balance coopetitive relationships with large firms if they develop alliance portfolio managing capabilities. We find that the ability to build legitimacy, enhance agility and create role flexibility plays an important role in balancing and navigating among different coopetitive relationships, thereby creating and sustaining opportunities.
Equilibrium Play in Large Group Market Entry Games

Coordination behavior is studied experimentally in a class of noncooperative market entry games featuring symmetric players, complete information, zero entry costs, and several randomly presented values of the market capacity. Once the market capacity becomes publicly known, each player must decide privately whether to enter the market and receive a payoff, which increases linearly in the difference between the market capacity and the number of entrants, or stay out. Payoffs for staying out are either positive, giving rise to the domain of gains, or negative, giving rise to the domain of losses. The major findings are substantial individual differences that do not diminish with practice, aggregate behavior that is organized extremely well in both the domains of gains and losses by the Nash equilibrium solution, and variations in the population action strategies with repeated play of the stage game that are accounted for by a variant of an adaptive learning model due to Roth and Erev (1995).
Neem leaf preparation induces apoptosis of tumor cells by releasing cytotoxic cytokines from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

A neem leaf preparation (NLP) was investigated for its role in the induction of tumor cell apoptosis to elucidate the mechanism of NLP mediated immunoprophylaxis in tumor growth restriction. As NLP did not induce direct apoptosis of human tumor cell lines KB, MCF7 and K562, it was used instead to stimulate human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) for 72 h. The PBMC derived culture supernatant (NLP‐CS) was observed to induce the restriction of tumor cell proliferation as well as apoptosis. An enzyme linked immunosorbant assay revealed the presence of cytotoxic cytokines, IFN‐gamma and TNF‐alpha, in the NLP‐CS. The inhibition of secretion of IFN‐gamma and TNF‐alpha in NLP‐CS caused a significant decrease in tumor cell apoptosis. Furthermore, stimulation of these tumor cells with NLP‐CS resulted in upregulation of the caspase 3 and downregulation of the Bcl 2 and cyclin D1. These observations suggested that NLP could induce tumor cellular apoptosis by releasing cytotoxic cytokines from human PBMC. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Reconciliation of work and family life in Europe: A case study of Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Abstract European Union institutions as well as member states are embracing welfare policies that support reconciliation of work and family life as a means of solving problems of low fertility and gender inequality, and they do so unanimously within a welfare mix approach. Hence, viewing the social policy rhetoric, everything points to a convergence of European welfare models towards a mixed economy of welfare. However, analysing the everyday experiences of families with young children in four European cities leaves the impression of a continuation of past differences. In 1998/1999 no deviation from the traditional welfare and family policy models could be traced in Roskilde (Denmark), Nantes (France), Mannheim (Germany) and York (the United Kingdom).
A new class of self-assembled monolayers on gold using an alkynyl group as a linker

The geometry and energetics for adsorption of ethynylbenzene on Au(111) have been studied using density functional theory. The alkynyl group, following removal of the terminal H atom, adsorbs covalently to the surface in the fee hollow site with a bond energy of about 70 kcal.mol-1. Intermediate adsorption states are also possible via a hydrogen 1,2 shift to form a surface-bound vinylidene, or through the opening of the C-C triple bond without removing the hydrogen atom.
Population Increase and Sex-Biased Parental Investment in Humans: Evidence from 18th-and 19th-Century Germany

female undergraduates living on a coeducational campus. Psychoneuroendocrinology 5:245-52. HENRY, L. I96I. Some data on natural fertility. Eugenics Quarterly 8:8I-9I. HOWIE, P. W. , AND A. S. MCNEILLY. i982. Effect of breastfeeding patterns on human birth intervals. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 65:545-57. JAIN, A. K. I969. Fecundability and its relation to age in a sample of Taiwanese women. Population Studies 23:69-85. JARETT, L. R. I984. Psychosocial and biological influences on menstruation: Synchrony, cycle length, and regularity. Psychoneuroendocrinology 9:21i-28. JOHNSON, P. L. , J. W. WOOD, K. L. CAMPBELL, AND I. A.
On the Possibility of Layered Crystals Application for Solid State Hydrogen Storages - InSe and GaSe Crystals

© 2012 Zhirko et al., licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On the Possibility of Layered Crystals Application for Solid State Hydrogen Storages – InSe and GaSe Crystals
Restoring Rivers One Reach at a Time: Results from a Survey of U.S. River Restoration Practitioners

Despite expenditures of more than 1 billion dollars annually, there is little information available about project motivations, actions, and results for the vast majority of river restoration efforts. We performed confidential telephone interviews with 317 restoration project managers from across the United States with the goals of (1) assessing project motivations and the metrics of project evaluation and (2) estimating the proportion of projects that set and meet criteria for ecologically successful river restoration projects. According to project managers, ecological degradation typically motivated restoration projects, but post‐project appearance and positive public opinion were the most commonly used metrics of success. Less than half of all projects set measurable objectives for their projects, but nearly two‐thirds of all interviewees felt that their projects had been “completely successful. ” Projects that we classified as highly effective were distinct from the full database in that most had significant community involvement and an advisory committee. Interviews revealed that many restoration practitioners are frustrated by the lack of funding for and emphasis on project monitoring. To remedy this, we recommend a national program of strategic monitoring focused on a subset of future projects. Our interviews also suggest that merely conducting and publishing more scientific studies will not lead to significant improvements in restoration practice; direct, collaborative involvement between scientists, managers, and practitioners is required for forward progress in the science and application of river restoration.
Hearing Preservation in Unilateral Acoustic Neuroma Surgery

This paper reviews the principal English literature on hearing preservation in unilateral acoustic neuroma surgery. Seventeen case reports and 13 surgical series are included. In addition, we report ten cases of our own, two with successful hearing preservation. The purpose of this report is to study feasibility, success rate, and associated problems. Previous reports have been compared in terms of criteria that we have selected. A classification system similar to Silverstein's is used. The total number of cases under review is 621, with 221 reported successes. Cases limited to those having a unilateral acoustic neuroma, with valid supportive audiometry, were 394, with 131 successes. The approximate overall rate of success is 33%. There are five cases of hearing preservation with unilateral acoustic neuromas 3 cm or larger when supporting audiometric data are available, the largest being “4–5 centimeters. ” Problems included mixing of unilateral acoustic neuromas with other types of tumors and failure to include comprehensive data, particularly audiometry. We conclude 1) that hearing preservation is a reasonable goal in unilateral acoustic neuroma surgery, although the number of available candidates is relatively small and 2) that intelligent selection of patients and high quality surgical technique are the keys to success.
MixMax Approximation as a Super-Gaussian Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator for Speech Enhancement

For single-channel speech enhancement, most commonly, the noisy observation is described as the sum of the clean speech signal and the noise signal. For machine learning based enhancement schemes where speech and noise are modeled in the log-spectral domain, however, the log-spectrum of the noisy observation can be described as the maximum of the speech and noise log-spectrum to simplify statistical inference. This approximation is referred to as MixMax model or log-max approximation. In this paper, we show how this approximation can be used in combination with non-trained, blind speech and noise power estimators derived in the spectral domain. Our findings allow to interpret the MixMax based clean speech estimator as a super-Gaussian log-spectral amplitude estimator. This MixMax based estimator is embedded in a pre-trained speech enhancement scheme and compared to a log-spectral amplitude estimator based on an additive mixing model. Instrumental measures indicate that the MixMax based estimator causes less musical tones while it virtually yields the same quality for the enhanced speech signal.
Upgrading in the Global Clothing Industry: The Transformation of Boyner Holding

The authors examine the complexity of the structure and corporate practice of Boyner Holding, a Benetton supplier in Turkey as well as a manufacturer and a retailer in its own right. Their analysis has implications concerning the fluid, intricate and dynamic power relationships within the global clothing industry, as well as concerning the availability of upgrading opportunities for corporations in peripheral places such as Turkey. The analysis also points to the current blurring of the traditional distinctions between production-based and distribution-based firms, between full-package manufacturers and original brand name manufacturers and, in fact, between lead firms and their suppliers.
Practice Brief: Assessing Impact of Inclusive Postsecondary Education Using the Think College Standards.

Increasingly across the United States, institutions of higher education (IHE) are offering a wide array of postsecondary educational (PSE) opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). As more students with ID aspire to college, it is incumbent upon IHEs to engage in rigorous program evaluation to assess student outcomes and identify factors that foster student success. The Think College (TC) Standards, Quality Indicators, and Benchmarks provide a unifying conceptual framework that helps to focus research and program evaluation efforts. In this article we describe use of the TC Standards to evaluate an inclusive PSE program for students with ID at a large, urban university. We report preliminary outcome data and discuss how Standards-based evaluation can both guide local program improvement and contribute to the evidence base of best practices in the field. Using this accumulated knowledge, students and families will be able to make more informed educational choices.
Reform or renaissance? France's 1966 Companies Act and the problem of the ‘professionalisation’ of the auditing profession in France

This paper revisits an episode in the history of the auditing profession in France: the period that saw the ‘professionalisation’ of auditing in the late 1960s, almost 100 years after enactment of the law that had officially created the activity. Despite the existence of practitioners with a reputation for competency and despite the more stringent conditions imposed on the recruitment of these practitioners during the 1930s, certification of accounts had remained a ‘function’ rather than a profession. The reform of France's commercial code in 1966 thus gave auditors a second chance, making them a key component in an ambitious plan to modernise French financial markets. The paper considers this reform from the angle of the problem facing the reformers, that of ‘professionalising the profession’ of auditor. Two aspects of the problems are discussed. The first concerns the need to take into consideration the existence of another profession, the profession of the French chartered accountant (expert-comptable), which in the opinion of its leaders had a legitimate claim to a monopoly on auditing. The second concerns the fate reserved for pre-reform audit practitioners (comissaires de sociétés), not all of whom would be admitted as members of the new auditing profession.
Benefits to faculty involved in medical school learning communities

Abstract Purpose: Job satisfaction plays a large role in enhancing retention and minimizing loss of physicians from careers in academic medicine. The authors explored the effect of learning communities (LCs) on the faculty members’ job satisfaction. Methods: Between October 2011 and May 2012, the authors surveyed 150 academic clinical faculty members serving as LC mentors for students at five US medical schools. Factor analysis was used to explore satisfaction themes and relationships between these themes and other characteristics. Results: Factor analysis revealed two major sources of this satisfaction: a Campus Engagement factor (e.g., feeling happier, improved sense of community, better communication skills, and feeling more productive) and a skills factor (e.g., improved clinical skills, being a better doctor). Higher Campus Engagement factor satisfaction was associated with less desire to leave the learning community (p = 0.01) and more FTE support for role in LC (p = 0.01). Higher skills factor satisfaction was associated with the school that provided more structured faculty development (p = 0.0001). Conclusion: Academic clinical faculty members reported serving as a mentor in an LC was a strong source of job satisfaction. LC may be a tool for retaining clinical faculty members in academic careers.
Supporting communication in semantic dementia: clinical consensus from expert practitioners

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain consensus regarding the clinical priorities and tasks required in supporting communication needs in those living with semantic dementia and their families, by specialist speech and language therapists (SLTs), working in clinical practice within dementia care settings in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A nominal group technique was used, followed by further exploration and refinement of issues using a modified Delphi technique with a group of six SLTs who specialised in dementia care and who had experience of working with individuals with semantic dementia and their families. Findings The findings in the study demonstrate a broader scope of practice than is evident within the research literature with this client group. Therapists identified a range of psychosocial issues for both the person with semantic dementia and their family, in particular finding ways to support activity and participation in conversation and explore barriers and facilitators within the communication environment. Originality/value This represents the first study to explore everyday practice in this rarer dementia and the information gathered here will be of use to a variety of health and social care professions interested in supporting those with semantic dementia and their families.
Innovation in Livestock Genetic Improvement

The application of genetic selection technologies in livestock breeding offers unique opportunities to enhance the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of the livestock industry. However, there is a concern that the uptake of these technologies has been slower in the sheep and beef sectors in comparison to the dairy, pig and poultry sectors. This article discusses how an agricultural innovation systems perspective can help identify the dynamics of technology uptake in the livestock sector using the adoption of Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) in sheep production in Scotland as a case study. Five major (systemic) challenges were identified: a weakly integrated sheep supply chain (market structure failure); the presence of a powerful faction antagonistic towards EBVs (network failure); a challenging policy environment (hard institutional failure); a dismantled and weak advisory service with regard to EBVs (capabilities failure); and an outdated and inflexible data management system (infrastructure failure). Whilst efforts are being made to address the barriers individually it is argued that a more holistic approach is needed to innovation. The findings are shown to have wider implications for innovation within the agricultural sector of the European Union.
Institutional Shareholders’ Investment Horizons and Tax Avoidance

ABSTRACT: We investigate whether the level of ownership by institutional shareholders with a long-term horizon is associated with firms' tax avoidance activities. In theory, tax avoidance increases firm value through tax savings; however, institutions with long-term investment horizons are likely to discourage tax avoidance activities if such activities encourage managerial opportunism and reduce transparency. Using a sample of firms with institutional ownership data from 1995–2008, we find less tax avoidance in firms held by long-term institutional shareholders. Probing further, we find these results are generally driven by poorly governed firms. Overall, our results highlight the role of certain types of institutional shareholders in affecting a firm's tax avoidance behavior.
Health Care in the United States: Why is Supply so Price Insensitive?

"Health spending as a percentage of gross domestic product in the U.S. economy is growing, from 5% in 1960 to about 16% in the current period, and it is predicted to grow to as much as 30% in 2050. Then why is the supply of health care in the United States so insensitive to steeply rising prices? This paper conducts an econometric study to show that high health-care costs have an adverse impact on labor productivity, causing a negative production externality in all industries. So, can the rising cost of health-care affect the U.S. comparative advantage? The paper seeks answers to these questions in a general equilibrium model and finds that the labor productivity shock is responsible for the sluggish or declining supply of health care. Consumers are able to afford less health care due to a possible decline in real wages. U.S. comparative advantage becomes a nonissue, provided that the equilibrium is stable in spite of a negatively sloped health-care supply curve. Negative externality, leading to market failure, may be addressed in two alternative ways". ("JEL" F11, I11, I12, I18) Copyright (c) 2009 Western Economic Association International.
The audit expectation gap: evidence from Lebanon

Purpose – The audit expectation gap has been examined in many regions of the world, but the extent of such a gap has not been investigated in many Middle‐Eastern countries. This study attempts to assess the possible existence of an expectation gap between accountants and non‐accountants in Lebanon.Design/methodology/approach – Survey research was conducted on a sample of accountants and non‐accountants and comparisons made.Findings – A significant “reasonableness gap” was uncovered. There is a gap between the auditors' understanding of their profession compared with the perceptions of others. There is a significant difference in perceptions of the role of the auditor in respect of fraud detection. Neither group had a strong image of the Lebanon profession compared with worldwide audit practices or with the technical qualifications of the auditors.Research limitations/implications – This research can be extended through assessing whether there are differences between different non‐accountants (judges, lawy.