Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do Graduates from Arts-Related Disciplines have a Higher Impact on Unemployment than Graduates from the Science-Related Disciplines?

There have been several attempts in developing countries to reduce both graduate and overall unemployment; with the majority attempts centered on changes in the education sector. To better understand this avenue, this study intends to comparatively establish the impact of the two broad discipline categories of- Arts and science related disciplines- on the overall unemployment. The study employed the Vector autoregressive (VAR) model to analyse Uganda’s data between 1991 and 2017. The findings of the study showed that the arts/humanities graduates have a slightly higher impact on unemployment than their counterparts from the science/technology disciplines in the short run in Uganda; with both groups of graduates having no significant effect on unemployment in the long run.
Pharmacotherapy A Pathophysiologic Approach

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Exports, Terms of Trade and Economic Growth: Evidence from Countries with Different Level of Openness

: This paper explores the effects of the ratio exports/GDP and the terms of trade on growth among countries with different level of development and openness. These effects vary among subgroups of countries with different openness and per development level. Nonetheless, in general the evidence seems to support the hypothesis stated in this research. In less developed or better endowed for export countries one or both of the explanatory variables mentioned above encourage for economic growth. Specifically, in advanced economies only the ratio exports/GDP is growth promoting when these are open, and have high per capita but small global GDP and/or relative advantages to be growth export-led. In turn, exports or and the terms of trade trends to promote growth in lower middle income countries. Unfortunately, the surprising results came from the poorest countries. They do not are benefited from a more favourable foreign environment. On the contrary, exports are not significant while an improvement in the terms of trade diminishes their growth.
Debt covenant slack, earnings management, and value relevance of accounting information

This study aims to examine the effect of debt covenant slack on the value relevance of accounting information, and whether earnings management works as an intervening variable. A total of 40 non-financial companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2017 were selected as sample. Three hypotheses were tested using partial least square and analyzed via path analysis. This study found that debt covenant slack positively affects the value relevance of accounting information. Possibly, the tendency of small debt covenant slacks in the firms causing the information of firms’ performance to be less relevant for the investor because they believe that the firms will prioritize the debt payments rather than dividends. Furthermore, empirical evidence from this study indicates that debt covenant slack affects investors’ decision in using firms’ performance information. However, no statistically significant effect was found neither on the relationship between debt covenant slack and earnings management nor on the relationship between earnings management and the value relevance of accounting information. Hence, earnings management is not an intervening variable in the effect of debt covenant slack on the value relevance of accounting information.
A macroscopic approach for calibration and validation of a modified social force model for bidirectional pedestrian streams

The original social force model of pedestrians and its variants have been extensively studied in the past. However, little attention has been given to their parameter estimation and validation specifically for the environments with high density and complex phenomena such as self-organization and lane formation. This paper presents a macroscopic framework for calibration and validation of a modified social force model for bidirectional pedestrian streams based on the concept of pedestrian area-wide fundamental diagram, also known as pedestrian Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (p-MFD). Results demonstrate that the proposed calibration process and the modified social force model can reproduce the empirically observed p-MFD with features such as hysteresis while consistently generating microscopic emergent self-organization and lane formation phenomena. Overall, validation and application results suggest that the calibrated model successfully replicates pedestrian traffic patterns and support the future applications of the model for various operations and planning purposes.
Adopted Children’s Behavioral Adjustment Over Time: Pre-Adoption Experiences and Adoptive Parenting

We tested whether adoptive parenting played a role in the association between pre-adoption experiences and children’s adaptive (responsiveness) and maladaptive (internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems, attention and sleep problems) behavioral adjustment over time. Ten-year-old girls, adopted at 13 months from institutional care (n = 50) or foster care (n = 42) in China to the Netherlands, participated 2 months (Time 1, N = 92), 6 months (Time 2, N = 92), and 9 years after adoption (Time 3, N = 87). At Times 1 and 2, the adoptees showed significantly fewer behavioral problems in many areas than non-adopted youth, with medium to large effect sizes. At Time 3, the adoptees showed similar rates of behavioral problems as non-adopted youth, with the exception of somewhat elevated levels of internalizing problems. Pre-adoption experiences were not associated with their behavioral adjustment. Furthermore, adoptive parenting did not moderate the association between pre-adoption experiences and behavioral adjustment over time. Nevertheless, the finding that the adoptees generally did not show above-average levels of behavioral problems illustrates that adoption had a positive impact on their development.
Theories of ICT system implementation and adoption : a critical review

The purpose of this paper is to map and examine what theories and models of ICT system implementation and adoption are used in management and business research. The focus is on the most influential theories and models, and how they are applied in the research papers. For this purpose, a comprehensive sample of the articles (N=1303) on this topic published between 1999 and 2010 in high-quality management and business journals was analyzed using citation analysis and qualitative content analysis. The results show that during this time the research field provided theories and models to examine the adoption and acceptance of ICT by individuals. The articles focused on a variety of extensions of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The advantage of focusing on TAM is that it is a simple and parsimonious model, which has encouraged researchers to apply it widely. The weaknesses were that previous studies have not been able to integrate contextual factors into TAM, and the research field applied a single and unnecessarily restrictive methodological approach. Future research might benefit from studies which would focus on the implementation and adoption processes and their consequences by drawing on the learning and change management literatures. Additionally, research could also exploit more qualitative and interpretive approaches generating new and unexpected knowledge.
Using Mobile Technology to Enhance Undergraduate Student Digital Information Literacy Skills: A Canadian Case Study.

Learning essential information literacy skills through the use of mobile phones is an innovative mlearning pilot project that was collaboratively undertaken in a Canadian university college over the course of two academic terms by faculty and the library staff. The research pilot project involved ninety one undergraduate students in five different classes majoring in psychology, social work, education or social development studies in an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using mobile technology to enhance students’ information literacy skills and learning experiences. Pre and post-test measures, and survey questionnaires generated quantitative and qualitative data that was analyzed to determine the degree of changes in frequency of mobile device information literacy access and fluency in digital literacy skills. The article highlights the Mobile Information Literacy innovation and includes the development and design of the mobile lessons, interactive exercises, and its applications. The study’s main results and conclusions are also discussed. Additionally, the successes and challenges of the pilot to support anytime, anywhere student mobile information literacy eLearning training that engages mobile learners and enhances their learning experience are identified and critically reflected upon to improve the innovation for stage two of the project.
Managing conflict and trust as coopetition within alliance partnerships in an emerging economy

Background: Trust and conflict represent the critical foundation characterising the inter-firm relationship of cooperation and competition, and their co-existence as coopetition within an alliance partnership. The literature has often regarded conflict and trust as uni-dimensional variables to clarify their interactive influences. However, few studies has explicitly investigate how these two opposite forces and their sub-dimensions may interact and create synergic effects in alliance partnerships in emerging economies. Objectives: This study applies a coopetition perspective to articulate the complex interactive nature of conflict and trust between partners, aiming at revealing how specific patterns of conflict (task and emotional) and trust (cognitive and affective) interact with each other in impacting the focal firm’s performance within the alliance partnership. Method: Using survey data collected from 490 sampled firms in China, we ran three regression models to test four hypotheses from the interactive matrix between different dimensions of conflict and trust. Results: The results indicate that the coupled pattern (the interaction between emotional conflict and affective trust) and the compatible pattern (the interaction between task conflict and cognitive trust) could improve firm performance, whereas the dysfunctional pattern (the interaction between emotional conflict and cognitive trust) and the mismatched pattern (the interaction between task conflict and affective trust) could harm firm performance within alliance partnerships. Conclusion: The new findings imply diverse ways to combine conflict and trust to achieve the best synergistic effect for allied firms in emerging economies, and thus extend and enrich the literature by providing contextual knowledge regarding ‘conflict and trust as coopetition phenomena’ in relevant fields.
Dispersed leadership predictor of knowledge acquisition

Behavioural and interpersonal skills most often cited as essential for successful knowledge acquisition. Little is known, however, about the roles played by 'dispersed leadership' in the process of knowledge acquisition. A survey of 227 self-managing employees who are, or have been engaged in knowledge acquisition activities was carried out to investigate the relationship between the specific 'dispersed leadership' dimensions and a number of knowledge acquisition attributes. Results indicated that some, but not all; 'dispersed leadership' dimensions are positively related to the skills and traits that are essential for knowledge acquisition.
Turkish Students’ Comprehension Monitoring and Strategic Behaviors While Reading in French: A think-aloud study

The present study aims to examine how Turkish students of French monitor their understanding and how they behave strategically when reading a French literary text. Differences between more proficient and less proficient readers are also explored in terms of types and frequencies of strategies used during the global monitoring cycle, which encompasses Evaluation, Action, and Checking phases. The data was collected through think-aloud protocols from eight students who studied French in the Department of Foreign Languages at a Turkish university. The findings reveal that the participants used mostly instrumental strategies from the Action phase to deal with problems at word or sentence level. Furthermore, they show that the more proficient participants in the study used a wider range of strategies from different phases of the monitoring cycle more frequently compared to their less proficient counterparts. However, the only significant difference found between the two proficiency groups relate to the skipping and ignoring a problem strategy.
The Experience of Teaching in Art, Design and Communication.

The aim of this thesis is to explore conceptions of and approaches to teaching situated within the context of practice-based teachers of art, design and communication. This thesis explores conceptions of teaching held by academics in departments of art, design and communication and explores links between those conceptions and the communities of practice associated with the subject context. It also aims to further investigate how approaches to teaching relate to the concept of communities of practice. The qualitatively different ways that teachers of creative practices experience their teaching is explored. The study focuses on teachers of practice-based subjects in art, design or communication. The data is from an interview study of 44 teachers from eight UK Universities and is explored with a phenomenographic approach. The analysis was grouped into three discrete sub-disciplines, media practice (15), fine art (11) and design (18), through which variation in the practice dimensions could also be discerned. The research adopts a second-order perspective on the experience of teaching a practice-based subject in art, design and communication departments. The important feature of this analysis is the community of practice dimension, in particular how teaching is perceived as contributing to engaging with the social practices which constitute the particular creative practice. Following the interviews with art, design and communication teachers, a slightly revised Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI), with the inclusion of skills and communities of practice items, was distributed to teachers in the UK. 73 returned questionnaires were analysed. The results show (a) that the ATI has validity in practice-based areas, and (b) that all teachers aim to develop students' skills, but those with a student-focused approach are more likely to also focus on the practice and the real world problems of the profession. The positive correlation between an emphasis on development for the professions and a student-focused approach to teaching, offers insight for those involved in the further development of teaching practice.
Pengaruh Good Governance, Kompetensi SDM dan Sistem Pengendalian Intern pada Kualitas Laporan Keuangan

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of good governance, HR competencies and internal control systems on the quality of financial reports in the Denpasar City government. The population of the study was 36 Regional Organizations (OPD) of Denpasar City. nonprobability sampling, which is saturated sampling, is a method of selecting samples used, the sample obtained is 108 respondents. Questionnaire is a data collection method used in this study. Respondents to this research questionnaire were to the head of department, head of the sub-section of finance and treasurer. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis techniques. Based on the results of data analysis it was found that good governance, HR competence and internal control systems had a positive influence on the quality of financial statements. Keywords: Financial report quality; good governance; human resource competence; internal control system
Text-oriented research into interpreting - Examples from a case-study

Different methodological tools were applied in a case study on interpretation of read-out speeches: A comparison of the 3 source texts used showed considerable differences between the „objective“ text description using quantifiable parameters and the „subjec-tive“ evaluation of the same speeches by the 12 participating interpreters. Incorrect rendition or omission of proper names/numbers was reduced by the use of the manuscript in the booth, while overall omissions/errors were highly variable between subjects. In a process-oriented approach, the relationship between use of manuscript, timelag and long omissions was studied and resulted in a series of new questions to be investigated. Finally, lexical variability proved surprisingly high with only 6.6% of words being used by all interpreters. Strengths and weaknesses of the different methodological tools will be discussed and proposals made for further research in the field.
Oil Prices and the Global Economy

This paper presents a simple macroeconomic model of the oil market. The model incorporates features of oil supply such as depletion, endogenous oil exploration and extraction, as well as features of oil demand such as the secular increase in demand from emerging-market economies, usage efficiency, and endogenous demand responses. The model provides, inter alia, a useful analytical framework to explore the effects of: a change in world GDP growth; a change in the efficiency of oil usage; and a change in the supply of oil. Notwithstanding that shale oil production today is more responsive to prices than conventional oil, our analysis suggests that an era of prolonged low oil prices is likely to be followed by a period where oil prices overshoot their long-term upward trend.
Filial Piety: From the Perspective of Indonesian Young Adults

Background: Filial piety refers to expectations for children to respect parents and fulfill care responsibility, including provide direct care and support them in their old age. However, socio-demographic changes might shape how young generation would see and practice the value of filial responsibility in parent’s old age.Purpose: This study aimed to explore the meaning of filial responsibility among young adults within the social context of Indonesia.Methods: Symbolic interactionism formed the framework for this study. The constructivist grounded theory method guided the analysis of the data obtained from in-depth interviews with eight university students. The participants were selected using a purposive and snowball sampling technique with the following criteria: 18 years old or over, currently enrolled as a student and had living parents. Results: The result showed that redefining the meaning of filial responsibility was obtained as the main theme which linked all four categories: ‘I am the one’, ‘not institutional care’, ‘the gendering of caregiving’, and ‘it is okay to do so’. The findings revealed that the value of filial responsibility was still upheld by Indonesian young people. However, their views had been changed somewhat from the traditional practices which were family oriented and highly gendered to a more contemporary form where caregiving was extended to non-family caregivers and supposed to be less gendered in the practice.Conclusion: This study offers an insight into the shifting patterns in elderly caregiving and support in Indonesia. The findings also indicate the need to further promote gender equality in elderly caregiving.
Investigating the Relationship between Metalinguistic Knowledge and L2 writing among Intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL Learners

The present study investigates the nature of metalinguistic knowledge among intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL learners, and the relationship between their metalinguistic knowledge and L2 writing in terms of complexity, accuracy and fluency. The participants of the present study are a total of 78 intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL learners. The data collection instruments of the present study include Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT), Productive Metalinguistic Knowledge Test (PMKT), Receptive Metalinguistic Knowledge Test (RMKT) (adapted from Ellis, 2009) and opinion essays of a smaller group of the participants. The results revealed that intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL learners have moderate to high productive and metalinguistic knowledge. They are better at explaining why a L2 sentence is grammatically incorrect than referring to the exact grammar rule and using technical words for the grammatical features. The results also revealed that there is significant moderate correlation between metalinguistic knowledge and writing accuracy.
It’s Not Just If You See It, It’s How You Process It: Conceptual and Perceptual Fluency Effects for Brand Names

There has been a consistent body of research that has shown that increases in accessibility of an item within memory, often referred to has processing fluency, causes there to be more positive affect toward that item. This relationship has particular importance for advertising and consumer behavior research as one of the outcomes of an advertising campaign is an increase in brand salience. Although there has been interest in investigating the relationship between fluency and attitudes in relation to brands, little research has attempted to distinguish between the two different types of fluency that exist: perceptual and conceptual. Over three studies, this research investigated the extent to which perceptual versus conceptual fluency impacted attitudes toward known brands, with results suggesting that it is conceptual fluency that makes a significant contribution.
Knowledge, Family and Social Support, Self Efficacy and Self-Care Behaviour in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

Tuberculosis is a disease that requires lengthy treatment. Knowledge of tuberculosis as well as family and social support are considered as important components of efficacy decisions. This study was conducted to analyse the relationship between knowledge, family and social support and self-efficacy and self-care behaviour in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The research used a cross sectional design. The population were 77 people and 65 respondents were obtained using a purposive sampling technique. Instruments used were knowledge, family support, social support, self-efficacy and self-care behaviour questionnaires. The data analysis method used was the Spearman rho test with a significance value of ? 0.05. There were significant correlations between knowledge (p=0.003) and family support (p=0.000) and self-efficacy. There was no correlation between social support (p=0.106) and self-efficacy. There was a correlation between knowledge (p=0.048), family support (p=0.036) and social support (p=0.022) and self-care behaviour. There was a relationship between knowledge and family support and self-efficacy, whereas social support had no relationship with self-efficacy. There was a relationship between knowledge, family support and social support and self-care behaviour. Future researchers are expected to be able to design quasi experimental research to determine cultural differences (habits) in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis