Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Consumer Purchase Intention toward Crowdfunding Products/Services: A Cost–Benefit Perspective

With the popularity of crowdfunding, many small- and medium-sized ventures and startups which have insufficient funds advertise and sell their services or products in reward-based crowdfunding markets. The success of crowdfunding projects for sale purposes is therefore beneficial to the sustainable development of these growing enterprises. Based upon goal attainment theory, a research model based on a cost–benefit framework is proposed to analyze consumer purchase intention in reward-based crowdfunding markets. The research model is empirically tested with data collected from 398 participants in China. A structural equation modeling analysis reveal that perceived benefits (price concession and perceived innovation) exert a significant positive impact on perceived net goal attainment (PNGA), whereas perceived costs (transaction cost and performance risk) have a weak negative effect on PNGA. The results also indicate that satisfaction mediates between PNGA and purchase intention. Furthermore, we use an artificial neural network analysis to weigh the relative importance of the antecedents of PNGA. The results suggest that perceived innovation is more important than price concession, which is consistent with the structural equation modeling analysis. These results might deepen our understanding of how consumers trade off costs and benefits in the purchase of crowdfunding products/services.
Teacher’s Engagement at Work: The Role of Future Time Perspective and Challenge Demands

This study aims to examine challenge demands as the mediator in the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and work engagement. Based on the Conservation of Resources (CoR) theory, we expected that personal resource as manifested by FTP would increase challenge demands, which in turn would increase work engagement. Data were collected from convenience samples of middle school teachers (N = 200) and were tested using regression analysis. Results showed that challenge demands mediated the relation between FTP and work engagement (β= .39, SE= .08, 95% CI [.24; .55]). Specifically, teachers with high FTP perceived their workload and responsibility as challenging, which increased their engagement in their work. Our findings contribute to the literature by showing that demands can turn into positive outcomes if they are considered as challenges, and that challenge demand serves as an underlying mechanism of the association between FTP and work engagement.
Assessing financial capability among people with disabilities

Summary People with disabilities are five times more likely to experience poverty than the general population, yet very little is known about how financial capability can help increase their financial well-being. Using secondary data from the 2015 National Financial Capabilities Study, this study used path analysis to test Sherraden’s theoretical model of building financial capability on a nationally representative sample of people with disabilities. This included assessing how variables of ability (i.e., financial literacy) and variables of opportunity (i.e., financial inclusion) combine to improve one’s financial well-being and stability. Findings Multiple fit indices suggested that the data fit the path model well: χ2 = 37.73 (14), p = . 001, RMSEA = 0.04 (90% CI: 0.03–0.05), TLI = 0.97, CFI = 0.99. Findings indicate that financial literacy and financial access both impact the financial well-being in this sample of people with disabilities (N = 1232). Also, access to financial products moderated financial literacy to increase its impact. This study empirically substantiated the selected financial capability framework. Applications Implications of this study are targeted toward social work researchers and practitioners. There have been very few empirical studies on building financial capability among people with disabilities, so this article serves as a foundation for much needed research in this area while also filling a gap in the extant literature. Additionally, disability case managers will find this research useful, as it provides evidence for practical steps they can take to help their clients work toward achieving financial well-being.
Adolescents’ Coping Strategies Influence Their Psychosocial Well-Being

Aims: Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by many physical, psychological and social transformations, eliciting experiences of emotional arousal that might increase psychopathology risk (e.g. affective and behavioral disorders). The study tested adolescents' use of coping strategies and their psychosocial well-being. Methods: Participants (N 1060) were Italian students, 14 to 21 years old, attending senior high school or first years of university, who completed a survey. Psychosocial well-being, and its relation to coping strategy use, was assessed by measuring subjective health perception, life satisfaction, positive and negative felt affect, emotional and social loneliness. Results: Adolescents were found to use the healthier strategies of Seeking social support, Problem Orientation, and Positive attitude more than the less functional strategy of Avoidance; a Transcending Orientation was also not much reported. Preferences for strategy type formed a coherent pattern - e.g., Problem Orientation was positively associated with Positive attitude. Preferences for strategy type were significantly associated to well-being levels in the expected direction. Avoidance was found to be the most important coping strategy, negatively associated with most well-being indicators, e.g. predicting greater Emotional loneliness, and lower perceived Health; vice versa, Seeking social support and Problem solving were associated with lesser Social loneliness and higher levels of Positive affect and Life satisfaction. Although result patterns were quite similar across age groups and sex, some differences were observed. Conclusion: Preferences for more or less functional coping strategies impact on well-being, suggesting that a better understanding of these processes in adolescence and early adulthood may help us understand individual differences in mental health and adjustment.
Female and Male Entrepreneurship During the Economic Crisis: An Institutional Tale of European countries

espanolEste estudio evalua la influencia de las instituciones en la probabilidad que tienen mujeres y hombres de ser emprendedores durante la reciente crisis economica europea. Nos aproximamos a aquellas instituciones que afectan las decisiones emprendedoras a traves del valor post-materialista, el nivel educativo y la tasa de desempleo. Usando datos del World Values Survey (WVS) y World Development Indicators (WDI) en el periodo 2011-2013, mostramos a traves de modelos Logit que las instituciones (nivel educativo y la tasa de desempleo) ejercen un efecto en la probabilidad de que mujeres y hombres se conviertan en emprendedores. Regresiones similares se realizaron para aquellos individuos en paises de Europa Central y Oriental. Esta distincion podria sugerir que estos ultimos pueden que no sean empujados por el desempleo, mientras que los primero si. Diferentes politicas de apoyo son discutidas. EnglishThis study evaluates the influence of institutions on the probability to become a woman and man entrepreneur during the recent European economic crisis. We approach institutional factors affecting entrepreneurial decisions through a post-materialist value, educational level and unemployment rate. Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and World Development Indicators (WDI) in the period 2011-2013, we show through Logit models that institutions (educational level and unemployment rate) exert an effect on the probability of women and men becoming entrepreneurs. Similar regressions were performed for those individuals in Central versus Eastern European countries. This distinction might suggest that the latter might not be pushed by unemployment, while the former do. Different supportive policies are discussed.
Classification of Power Quality Disturbances via Deep Learning

ABSTRACT In this paper, a deep learning-based method is introduced into the classification of power quality disturbances (PQDs). Stacked autoencoder, as a deep learning framework, is employed to extract high-level features of PQDs for classification. In this context, a previously unsolved issue regarding optimal features’ selection for PQDs can be addressed. Besides, variances of signals and a particle swarm optimization algorithm are applied to assist classification of the PQDs. To sufficiently validate the effectiveness of the proposed classification scheme, a 10-fold cross-validation has been done. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach is robust against noise and reaches a desirable classification accuracy rate.
Differential Sensitivity of Mindfulness Questionnaires to Change With Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

In support of the construct validity of mindfulness questionnaires, meta-analytic reviews have reported that scores increase in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). However, several studies have also found increased mindfulness scores in interventions with no explicit mindfulness training, raising a question about differential sensitivity to change with treatment. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 37 randomized controlled trials in which mindfulness questionnaires were administered before and after an evidence-based MBI and a nonmindfulness-based active control condition. The central question was whether increases in mindfulness scores would be greater in the MBI than in the comparison group. On average, participants in MBIs showed significantly greater pre–post changes in mindfulness scores than were seen in active control conditions with no explicit mindfulness elements, with a small overall effect size. This effect was moderated by which mindfulness questionnaire was used, by the type of active control condition, and by whether the MBI and control were matched for amount of session time. When mindfulness facet scores were analyzed separately, MBIs showed significantly greater pre–post increases than active controls in observing, nonjudging, and nonreactivity but not in describing or acting with awareness. Although findings provide partial support for the differential sensitivity of mindfulness questionnaires to change with treatment, the nonsignificant difference in pre–post change when the MBI and control were matched for session time highlights the need to clarify how mindfulness skills are acquired in MBIs and in other interventions and whether revisions to mindfulness questionnaires would increase their specificity to changes in mindfulness skills.
Context Recognition Methods using Audio Signals for Human-Machine Interaction

Audio signals, such as speech and ambient sounds convey rich information pertaining to a user’s activity, mood or intent. Enabling machines to understand this contextual information is necessary to bridge the gap in human-machine interaction. This is challenging due to its subjective nature, hence, requiring sophisticated techniques. This dissertation presents a set of computational methods, that generalize well across different conditions, for speech-based applications involving emotion recognition and keyword detection, and ambient sounds-based applications such as lifelogging. The expression and perception of emotions varies across speakers and cultures, thus, determining features and classification methods that generalize well to different conditions is strongly desired. A latent topic models-based method is proposed to learn supra-segmental features from low-level acoustic descriptors. The derived features outperform state-of-the-art approaches over multiple databases. Cross-corpus studies are conducted to determine the ability of these features to generalize well across different databases. The proposed method is also applied to derive features from facial expressions; a multi-modal fusion overcomes the deficiencies of a speechonly approach and further improves the recognition performance. Besides affecting the acoustic properties of speech, emotions have a strong influence over speech articulation kinematics. A learning approach, which constrains a classifier trained over acoustic descriptors, to also model articulatory data is proposed here. This method requires articulatory information only during the training stage, thus overcoming the challenges inherent to large-scale data collection, while simultaneously exploiting the correlations between articulation kinematics and acoustic descriptors to improve the accuracy of emotion recognition systems. Identifying context from ambient sounds in a lifelogging scenario requires feature extraction, segmentation and annotation techniques capable of efficiently handling
Measurement of knowledge absorptive capacity: an estimated indicator for the manufacturing and service sector in Colombia

espanolEn este articulo se propone un indicador para medir el nivel de capacidad de absorcion del conocimiento en Colombia sobre la base de una revision teorica del concepto y los diferentes tipos de mediciones empiricamente validadas. Se presenta una definicion de la capacidad de absorcion y sus dimensiones, que se valido mediante el indicador propuesto como una combinacion lineal de estas dimensiones. Las estimaciones se han realizado utilizando la Encuesta de Innovacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico (EDIT por sus siglas en espanol) con datos para el sector de manufactura y la EDIT para el sector de servicios en Colombia. Llegamos a la conclusion que en general en ambos sectores existen niveles bajos de capacidad de absorcion, con excepciones notables en la manufactura de productos quimicos , los electrodomesticos, los subsectors de la educacion superior y centros investigacion y desarrollo. EnglishThis article proposes an indicator to measure the level of Knowledge Absorptive Capacity in Colombia based on a theoretical review of the concept and different types of empirically validated measurements. We present a definition of Absorptive Capacity and its dimensions, which is validated using the proposed indicator as a linear combination of these dimensions. The estimates have been conducted using the Innovation and Technological Development Survey (EDIT by its initials in Spanish) data for the manufacturing sector and the EDIT for the service sector in Colombia. We conclude that, in general, both sectors have low levels of Absorptive Capacity, with noteworthy exceptions being the chemical products manufacturing, domestic appliances, higher education and research and development center subsectors. portuguesEste artigo propoe um indicador para medir o nivel da capacidade de absorcao do conhecimento na Colombia, sobre a base de uma revisao teorica do conceito e diferentes tipos de medidas validadas empiricamente. Apresentamos uma definicao da capacidade de absorcao e as suas dimensoes, validada usando o indicador proposto como uma combinacao linear destas dimensoes. As estimativas levaram-se a cabo mediante os dados obtidos do Inquerito de Desenvolvimento e Inovacao Tecnologica (EDIT) para o setor manufatureiro e a EDIT para o setor de servicos na Colombia. Podemos concluir que, em geral, ambos os setores tem baixos niveis de capacidade de absorcao, com excecoes notaveis nos subsetores do fabrico de produtos quimicos, os eletrodomesticos, a educacao superior e os centros de investigacao e desenvolvimento.
Are SME’s Product and Local Government Programs (OVOP)Coherent?

In the developing countries, the government has a vital role in supporting the development of SME’s as one of economic pillars. There are studies which state that the government has played an active role in supporting the development of SME’s, either from policy or implementation, but several studies argue that government failure in supporting and creating business climate has caused business stagnation for SME’s. This study aims to analyze the coherence between government policy through Regional Superior Products development (under OVOP) program with SME’s main product choice in Central Java province. The analysis using analytic hierarchy process (AHP), on the data collected through focus group discussion (FGD), questionnaire, and secondary data. The result of this study shows weak evidence that there is coherence between government program and SME’s/ SME’s main product choice, there are only 6 districts/cities that have coherence SME’s: Grobogan district, Blora, Rembang, Magelang (city), Brebes, and Banjarnegara, while the rest districts/cities have no coherence between SME’s and government policy. Supply side policy, volume orientation, partial support, and several other factors are the cause of in-coherence. The implication of this finding is that there is a need of evaluation, downstream policy, business link (including education field) that support SME’s will develop.
Examining how dependence on smartphones at work relates to Chinese employees’ workplace social capital, job performance, and smartphone addiction

This research examines how dependence on smartphones for various goals at work, such as understanding, orientation, and communication, relates to employees’ job performance, workplace social capital, and smartphone addiction. Data were collected from a survey of 527 workers in urban China. Regression results indicated that dependence on smartphones for understanding and communication at work has no influence on individuals’ job performance. Only dependence on smartphones for orientation was positively associated with their job performance. Dependence on smartphones for communication has positive association with employees’ workplace social capital. Most interestingly, we found that dependence on smartphones for understanding and orientation was positively associated with smartphone addiction; however, dependence on smartphones for communication has no influence on smartphone addiction. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Managerial ability and stock price crash risk

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of managerial ability on firms’ stock price crash risk. Using a large sample of U.S. firms, we find that high-ability managers are associated with a higher likelihood of future crashes. The positive relation is more pronounced when managers have larger career concerns, possess better knowledge of operational information and engage in more risk-taking activities. In addition, we show that bad news hoarding and overinvestment are two possible channels through which managerial ability increases crash risk. Overall, our findings indicate that managerial ability may be costly as more capable managers may lead to greater crash risk.
PENGARUH STRUKTUR SISTEM PENGENDALIAN MANAJEMEN, PROSES SISTEM PENGENDALIAN MANAJEMEN DAN SISTEM PENGHARGAAN TERHADAP KINERJA MANAJERIAL (STUDI PADA RSUD SULAWESI UTARA)

Increasing managerial performance is important for an organization so that the goals of an organization can be achieved. Performance is the work of someone in the organization in carrying out the duties and responsibilities that apply in an organization. Several factors that influence managerial performance include the management control system structure, the management control system process and the reward system. This study aims to determine the effect of the structure of the management control system, the process of management control systems and the reward system on managerial performance in the general hospitals of North Sulawesi. The sample used was 40 respondents. The results of the first hypothesis testing obtained t-count value of 14.066> 2.028 and a significance value of 0.000 <0.05. Thus the hypothesis of the structure of the management control system has a significant positive effect on managerial performance received in accordance with the results of the partial hypothesis test (t test). This shows that North Sulawesi Hospital has implemented a management control system structure that can improve hospital managerial performance. The second hypothesis is obtained by the t-count value of 2.185> 2.028 and the significance value of 0.035 <0.05. Thus the hypothesis of the management control system process has a significant positive effect on managerial performance received in accordance with the results of the partial hypothesis test (t test). This shows that the better the implementation of the management control system process, the managerial performance will increase. The third hypothesis is obtained that the t-count value is 2.021 <2.028 and the significance value is 0.051> 0.05. Thus the reward system hypothesis influences managerial performance is rejected in accordance with the results of the partial hypothesis test (t test). This shows that the reward system applied by the hospital does not affect managerial performance. And the fourth hypothesis is obtained F-count value of 84.200> 2.86 and a significance value of 0.000 <0.05. Thus the hypothesis of the structure of the management control system, the management control system process and the reward system are accepted in accordance with the results of simultaneous hypothesis testing (F test). Keywords: Structure of Management Control Systems, Process of Management Control Systems, Reward Systems, Managerial Performance.
5587 SANS investigation of polyether block copolymer micelle structure in mixed solvents of water and formamide, ethanol, or glycerol

The solution structure of a representative polyether block copolymer (Pluronic P105: EO37PO58EO37, where EO and PO denote ethylene oxide and propylene oxide segments, respectively) has been investigated in mixed solvents (selective for the PEO block) consisting of water and one of the following polar cosolvents: formamide, ethanol, and glycerol. EO37PO58EO37 self-assembles to form micelles in all the cosolvent−water mixed solvents examined, above a certain concentration (cmc) and temperature (cmt) which depend on the cosolvent type and content. Micelle structural parameters were obtained as a function of the cosolvent−water ratio, solution temperature, and block copolymer concentration by fitting a core−corona form factor and a hard-sphere interaction structure factor to small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) data. The micelle radii, micelle core radii, micelle association numbers, and polymer volume fractions in the micelle core and corona decreased with increasing cosolvent−water ratio in the mixed sol.
Culture and nomophobia: The role of vertical versus horizontal collectivism in predicting nomophobia

This study aims at contributing to literature by investigating the role of espoused culture in influencing nomophobia. In the present study, the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) and Individualism-Collectivism (INDCOL) Scale were used to measure nomophobia and horizontal/vertical collectivism. The psychometric properties of the scales were examined against the data collected from 485 undergraduate students in Turkey (Mean age = 22.11, SD = 3.84). A structural equation modeling approach was used to test the hypothesized relationships. Results suggested that the relationship between vertical collectivism and nomophobia was significant and positive (.31), while the relationship between horizontal collectivism and nomophobia was not significant (and negative; -.15). The points raised in the present study should be taken into account when designing treatment and prevention programs in dealing with nomophobia.