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Fifth Grade Students’ Disciplinary Literacy using Diverse Primary and Secondary Sources

This study analyzed students’ use of diverse sources for a history-based writing assignment on Abraham Lincoln. Participants includes 41 students in a fifth grade self-contained classroom in rural Illinois. The study was conducted during students’ 30-minute writing period, every day for six weeks. During this time period, students close-read trade books and primary sources to collect research on Lincoln. Students also gathered additional information during their field trip to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Students synthesized their information from the various sources and organized the notes to write an informational, historybased writing piece on Lincoln. Students were required to cite their various sources and corroborate information between sources. Finally, student selected one of three finishing option to share their information with others. The results of the study suggested that students seemed genuinely motivated and intrigued by the assignment, they used close reading to analyze diverse texts effectively but not perfectly, and they engaged in complex forms of writing using nonfiction, history-based curricula. Overall, students were successful in using, citing, and corroborating diverse sources for this complex, history-based writing unit.
Buffer Size Evaluation of OpenFlow Systems in Software-Defined Networks

In this paper, we address the problem of minimum buffer size evaluation of an OpenFlow system in software-defined networks (SDNs), while ensuring optimum packet waiting time. The problem is important, as OpenFlow is one of the popular southbound application programing interfaces, which enables controller–switch interaction. The related existing literature addresses schemes on enhancement and packet flow in an OpenFlow system. However, there is a need to analyze the optimum buffer size of an OpenFlow switch, for ensuring the quality-of-service of SDNs. In this paper, we propose an analytical scheme for buffer bound evaluation of an OpenFlow system, named OPUS. Additionally, we propose a queuing scheme for an OpenFlow system—C-M/M/1/K/$\infty$ queuing model—based on the OpenFlow specification version 1.5. 0. Further, we calculate the minimum buffer size requirement of an OpenFlow switch, theoretically. Simulation-based analysis exhibits that with two times increase in packet processing rate, the packet arrival rate can be increased by 26.15–$\text{30.4}\%$. We infer that for an OpenFlow system, the minimum buffer size is 0.75 million packets with the maximum packet arrival and the minimum processing rate of 0.20–0.25 million packets per second (mpps) and 0.03–0.35 mpps, respectively, and the maximum packet waiting time is 0.173–0.249 s.
Effects of a Science of Learning Course on College Students’ Learning With a Computer

First-year courses have been used to bolster college student success, but empirical evidence on their efficacy is mixed. We investigated whether a first-year science of learning course, focused on self-regulated learning, would benefit first-generation college students. We randomly assigned students to a treatment condition involving enrollment in the course, a comparison condition in which students had access to online course materials only, or a control condition. From this larger study, we recruited 43 students to participate in a laboratory task involving learning about the circulatory system with a computer. We found that treatment and comparison students experienced greater changes in conceptual knowledge than the control group, and we found differences in the enactment of monitoring and strategy use across conditions.
Impact of fiscal policies aimed at increasing aggregate investments on employment and household incomes in Senegal

This study explores the impact of budgetary policies, aimed at an increase in aggregate investments in Senegal on employment and household incomes. The analysis is based on a computable general equilibrium framework, which allows us to capture the multi-faceted microeconomic implications of the chosen macroeconomic policies and uses very interesting recent macro and micro-level data sources. Our results indicate that policy makers in Senegal face serious dilemmas. Reliance on foreign sources of finance tends to improve the welfare of households in the short-to-medium run, but at the expense of further decreasing the international competitiveness of the economy. Drastic reduction of the role of public administration in the economy is a viable alternative that addresses these issues, but only at the expense of deterioration of the incomes of households, especially those involved in the informal sector. Key words: Investments, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, employment.
Parenting Profiles and Children's Social Skills: The Mediating Role of Effortful Control

©The Korean Association of Child Studies This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Corresponding Author: Ja Yeun Koo, Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University, 50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea, 03722 E-mail: smileykoo@gmail.com 어머니의 양육방식 잠재프로파일 유형이 유아의 사회적 기술에 미치는 영향: 유아 의도적 통제의 매개효과
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Perceived Appropriateness of Training and Organizational Commitment Among Korean Police

Although organizational commitment (OC) generates several beneficial outcomes to law enforcement agencies, the policing literature has underexamined OC. Using data gathered from 11,709 Korean police in 2012, this study conducted analyses of structural equation modeling (SEM) in order to examine the relationship between OC and perceived organizational support. In addition, SEM was conducted to determine whether Allen and Meyer’s three components of OC is appropriate. The results indicated that two predictors of perceived appropriateness of training (i.e., perceived support of training and training needs) strongly accounted for OC. However, unlike previous studies, this study found that hypotheses in the model with the subcomponents of OC (affective, continuous, and normative commitments) could not be verified. In sum, for sturdier examinations, future studies should apply the Allen and Meyer model to diverse agencies.
Block Design-Based Key Agreement for Group Data Sharing in Cloud Computing

Data sharing in cloud computing enables multiple participants to freely share the group data, which improves the efficiency of work in cooperative environments and has widespread potential applications. However, how to ensure the security of data sharing within a group and how to efficiently share the outsourced data in a group manner are formidable challenges. Note that key agreement protocols have played a very important role in secure and efficient group data sharing in cloud computing. In this paper, by taking advantage of the symmetric balanced incomplete block design (SBIBD), we present a novel block design-based key agreement protocol that supports multiple participants, which can flexibly extend the number of participants in a cloud environment according to the structure of the block design. Based on the proposed group data sharing model, we present general formulas for generating the common conference key <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {K}$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi mathvariant="script">K</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="xiang-ieq1-2725953.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> for multiple participants. Note that by benefiting from the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(v,k + 1,1)$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>v</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="xiang-ieq2-2725953.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-block design, the computational complexity of the proposed protocol linearly increases with the number of participants and the communication complexity is greatly reduced. In addition, the fault tolerance property of our protocol enables the group data sharing in cloud computing to withstand different key attacks, which is similar to Yi's protocol.
Study on Spatial Characteristics and Spillover Effects of Urban Tourism Efficiency: A Case of Yangtze River Delta

Based on tourism input-output date of 25 tourism alliances cities in Yangtze River Delta from 2004 to 2010,the paper analyzes tourism efficiency,spatial characteristics and spillover effects by use of improved DEA model,ESDA-GIS and spatial econometric model.The results show that:①Overall efficiency of regional urban tourism has presented an increasing trend,mainly due to the enhancement of the tourism scale efficiency. ②Overall efficiency,pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of regional urban tourism have a strong spatial autocorrelation.The hot spots of overall efficiency and pure technical efficiency in urban tourism present shanghai as the centre of spheres spatial structure,and the cold spots are gathering to the north of Jiangxi province and south of Anhui province.The hot spots of scale efficiency in urban tourism are mainly located in the north of Jiangxi province and south of Anhui province,and the cold spots concentrated around Shanghai. ③Overall efficiency of urban tourism exists obvious spatial spillover effects and spatial dependence.The input of fixed assets and labor in urban tourism are the major positive impact factor to overall efficiency.By deepening regional cooperation in tourism,integrating tourism industrial chain and optimizing the proportion of input factors it can effectively promote the sustainable and healthy development of urban tourism in the Yangtze River Delta.
(Il)liquidity Premium in Credit Markets: A Myth?

Across multiple measures of “liquidity” and a variety of methods to control for correlated characteristics of more- (less-) liquid bonds, the authors find only limited evidence of a liquidity premium in the cross section of corporate bonds. Specifically, although illiquid bonds have slightly higher credit spreads and directionally higher average returns, portfolios that tilt toward (away from) less (more) liquid bonds exhibit considerably higher levels of volatility. Economically, the low Sharpe ratios of illiquidity factor–mimicking portfolios are hard to justify for an investor. This is puzzling, as theory suggests investors should demand a risk premium for holding less-liquid assets.
House Prices and Monetary Policy : A Cross-Country Study

This paper examines periods of pronounced rises and falls of real house prices since 1970 in eighteen major industrial countries, with particular focus on the lessons for monetary policy. We find that real house prices are pro-cyclical—co-moving with real GDP, consumption, investment, CPI inflation, budget and current account balances, and output gaps. House price booms are typically preceded by a period of easing monetary policy, but then diminishing slack and rising inflation lead monetary authorities to begin tightening policy before house prices peak. In a careful reading of official reports, speeches, and minutes, we find little evidence that foreign central banks have reacted to past episodes of rising real house prices beyond taking into account their implications for inflation and output growth. However, central bankers have expressed a range of opinions in the more recent policy debate with some willing in certain cases to raise policy rates to try to stem current and future surges in asset prices while others favor moral suasion or a hands-off approach. Finally, we characterize the risks associated with house-price reversals. Although mortgage lenders in some countries have significant exposure to house prices, the balance of evidence suggests that this exposure does not, in and of itself, pose a significant risk to financial stability. Nevertheless, the co-movement of both property prices and default rates with the business cycle means that losses on mortgage lending are likely to be higher when banks’ other lines of business are also performing poorly.
The audiobook circuit in digital publishing: Voicing the silent revolution

Digital Internet-distributed audiobooks are a surprising game changer in digital publishing. In recent years, audiobooks have moved from being a peripheral by-product of the printed book into the centre of digital publishing and reading, but are typically still ignored in publishing studies. This article raises the voice of the audiobook by giving it a privileged status in the current transformations of book publishing caused by digitization. We present an original model of the digital audiobook circuit, which is based on interviews and knowledge from the Danish market as part of a global industry, which makes it possible to reflect and adjust according to national variations. The model is framed by theoretical discussions of values and dynamics within the digital audiobook circuit in general.
The Capital Market Consequences of Tenure-Based Voting Rights: Evidence from the Florange Act

We examine the consequences of a regulatory intervention aimed at generalizing tenure voting in French public companies. The 2014 Florange Act departs from the ‘one share one vote’ principle by automatically granting double-voting rights (DVR) to shares held for at least two years. However, firms can opt out through an annual meeting vote. We document three main findings. First, firms that adopt DVR by default experience a decrease in long-term foreign institutional ownership offset by an increase in insider/family ownership. Second, those firms significantly underperform in terms of stock returns after Florange relative to those that reject DVR. Third, their environmental and social performance deteriorates. Collectively, our evidence casts doubt on the merit of regulation-induced tenure voting as a desirable corporate governance mechanism. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, accounting.
Rising start-up costs of voting: political inequality among first-time voters

Abstract Research on voting behaviour stresses that whether citizens become habitual voters depends on the very first elections in their adult life. This article focuses on the increasing participation gap of first-time voters with low and high levels of resources. Looking first at 14 European countries and second at long-term dynamics in Germany, the turnout rate of first-time and older voters over time is compared. It is shown that the turnout gap has increased substantially since the 1980s. In contrast, educational differences in electoral turnout among older citizens are still comparatively small. It is argued and shown that the turnout gap among the young is due to rising ‘start-up’ costs of voting, which affect mainly those who are resource poor.
ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS USING FIRM-LEVEL DATA

JENNIFER S. RHEE: ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS USING FIRM-LEVEL DATA. (Under the direction of Anusha Chari) My dissertation empirically investigates implications of macroeconomic models using firmlevel market and accounting data. As Konchitchki and Patatoukas (2014) states, ”macroeconomics research has evolved independently from accounting research, which is typically conducted at the firm level” and ”the link between accounting earnings and macroeconomy remains relatively unexplored. ” This paper is part of the growing body of literature that attempts to fill this gap by highlighting macroeconomic insights that can be obtained from the micro-level analysis. The first two chapters of my dissertation investigate Lucas Paradox and the neoclassical model, and the last chapter studies Heckscher-Ohlin model of trade. Neoclassical theory predicts that if two countries share the same constant return to scale production function, and trade in capital goods is free and competitive, due to the law of diminishing returns (a) new investment will occur only in capital-scarce countries since (b) the marginal product of capital should be higher in economies with less capital. This statement at the heart of Lucas paradox, implicitly assumes that cross-country marginal products of capital mirror cross-country financial investment returns. In the first chapter, I show using firm-level data that although firms in emerging markets enjoy higher marginal products of capital, financial investment returns are roughly equalized across developed and emerging economies. The finding questions the validity of the standard approach that uses differences in marginal products of capital to explain international capital flows. It further suggests that “there is no prima facie support for the view that international credit frictions play a major role in preventing capital flows from rich to poor countries” (Caselli and Feyrer, 2007). The paper also highlights the importance of cross-country differences in capital
Democratisation in Asia-Pacific Monarchies: Drivers and Impediments

In the first decade of the 21st century, Bhutan and Tonga enacted reforms which took executive power away from the monarch and placed it the hands of an elected government. Conversely, Thailand and Nepal have faltered in their trajectory towards democracy. Thailand is stuck in a cycle of repression, popular protest, limited democracy, renewed military takeover, and constitutional revision to allow a controlled “democracy. ” Nepal has broken out of a similar cycle (although without military rule), at the cost of abolishing its monarchy. This thesis looks at factors, including the monarchy’s role, which contributed to the different outcomes. The study questions Huntington’s theory of the modernising monarch’s dilemma (fear that reform would do the monarch out of a job), and suggests that, on the contrary, a democratising monarch is more likely to retain the throne, albeit with reduced power. This comparative qualitative study is based on research into primary and secondary sources, plus interviews. The thesis found that in Bhutan and Tonga strong leadership of democratisation by Kings Jigme Singye and George V greatly favoured a successful democratic transition. In both Thailand and Nepal, monarchs Bhumibol and Gyanendra resisted a democratic bargain, seeking instead to retain or regain political power, in a context where popular mobilisation and the role of the military were significant in both countries, but with considerable differences. Contrary to Huntington’s theory, monarchs in Thailand and Nepal, in seeking to avoid loss of political ascendancy suffered the opposite, although to differing degrees (one monarchy was disestablished while the other first gained ground but ultimately ceded ground to the military, reversing a pattern of monarchical dominance in the partnership). The thesis concluded that, against a historical background of special status for the monarch as symbol of national unity, and even in the face of unpromising structural conditions, monarchs who used their charisma to promote and lead a move to democracy were a critical factor in whether a transition would be successful, while securing the future of the monarchy for their heirs. Conversely, monarchs who formed strategic alliances with elite groups seeking to preserve their ascendancy, including the military, provided an excuse to autocratic groups for resisting democracy and risked either a reversion to (or retention of) autocratic rule or a transition to a democracy that did not include a place for the monarchy.
Instructors’ Awareness of the Syntactic and Morphological Differences between British and American English

This study explores Turkish English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors’ awareness of the syntactic and morphological variation in British English (BrE) and American English (AmE). The data were collected through a survey which was administered to 38 EFL instructors working at preparatory schools of different universities. The participants were asked to analyze 49 sentence-pairs in the survey to decide whether given sentences were correct or incorrect. The results indicated a) that the participants were better at recognizing the morphology and syntax of BrE than AmE, b) that of all the participants, the ones who were exposed to both varieties were better at recognizing the different uses of the syntactic and morphological forms in BrE and AmE than the ones exposing to the forms only in one variety, c) that the departments the participants graduated from did not have an impact on the recognition of the differences between BrE and AmE in syntax and morphology.
Empirical Analysis of Global Oil Price Determinants at the Disaggregated Level Over the Last Two Decades

While until the mid-1990s the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries played a key role in oil pricing, during recent decades, rapid economic growth in developing economies has boosted the demand for oil, making oil prices vulnerable to a wider range of factors. We examine the impacts of oil supply and demand factors on Brent crude oil prices by developing an oil aggregate demand–aggregate supply model and empirically estimating using a vector autoregressive approach and monthly time series data from 1999 to 2017. We disaggregate global oil demand into demand from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India to measure the scale of their contributions to global oil price movements. We consider the industrial production (IP) index as a determinant of the oil demand side. We find that among these three, the OECD and the PRC’s IP had a positive impact on oil prices during the estimated period. Moreover, among the factors included in the model, an appreciation of the US dollar exchange rate had a significant negative impact on oil prices over the last 2 decades. We also examine the equilibrium of the oil market during the estimated period and show that oil prices were adjusting instantly, confirming the existence of the equilibrium.
Information Extraction from TV Series Scripts for Uptake Prediction

The script of a movie, or of an episode of a television series, describes the setting, the storyline, and the scene changes. It also details the movement, actions, non-oral expression, and dialogues of the characters. The script is assessed by potential investors. If it is considered to be qualified, a decision is made to arrange funds and other resources to create the real product, i.e. a movie or a television series. This action of approving the project is known as green-lighting. Many studies have been conducted on building models to predict the success of movies. However, the majority of these studies exploit factors which only become known after the decision of green-lighting, or after the release of the products. Only a few studies have focused on predictive models based on pre-greenlighting factors, which are available before the decision of green-lighting. In comparison, there are even less models that forecast the performance of television series exploiting pre-greenlighting factors. This study aims to extract features from scripts of pilot episodes, which are the first episodes of television series. These features will be exploited to construct predictive models for uptake of the television series. Three data sources were employed, including the IMDB, the OpenSubtitles2016