Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town

findings indicate true differences, or whether they are due to variability in Denver and Chicago in the definition of neighborhood units, the rules used to select them, the operationalization of social composition, the measurement of proximal contexts (e.g., family dysfunction), the definition of success indicators or to random variation. Moreover, the most “unsuccessful” youth – incarcerated, institutionalized (in drug treatment or other facilities), or killed in gang wars – would be unavailable to participate in this study. Does their absence challenge any conclusions about growing up in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods? The MacArthur Network collaborators have carried out a most ambitious, path-breaking study. Convincing evidence supports their conclusion that neighborhood variation in healthy youth development is attributable to their distinct social organization and culture. They show that multiple social contexts explain individual differences in success outcomes. The findings of this research will be of great interest to sociologists, psychologists and other developmental scientists, as well as to youth policy-makers and designers of intervention programs. The authors emphasize that if such efforts are to be effective, they must be multi-contextual in scope.
Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Straits of Johore by Using Transplanted Caged Mussel, Perna viridis

In this study, a polluted site at Kg. Pasir Puteh was assessed for heavy metal pollution by using transplanted caged mussel (Perna viridis) from a relatively clean population, Sg. Melayu; both are located in the Strait of Johore. For control purposes, the P. viridis from Kg. Pasir Puteh were also simultaneously transplanted in Sg. Melayu at the same time. It was found that Zn was the metal which got accumulated fastest in the transplanted mussel while Cd was the slowest. This study indicated that the byssus of Perna viridis was most effective for biomonitoring of Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn, while the shell could be used for the biomonitoring of Cu, Ni and Pb and the total soft tissue for the biomonitoring of Ni since they were able to accumulate and eliminate the respective metals well. By using mussel as a biomonitor, the present study found that Kg. Pasir Puteh, which is located in the eastern part of the Strait of Johore, had significantly higher contamination and bioavailabilities of Cd, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn. Therefore, the use of the transplanted caged mussels is very useful for heavy metal assessment purposes since it can increase the validity of data interpretation by minimizing ecological factors.
An Investigation of Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurs’ Innovativeness on Business Performance: A Study of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Lagos State, Nigeria

Emotional intelligence and entrepreneurs’ innovativeness is an intricate necessity for any business entity to grow and survive. Nevertheless, the interrelationship among emotional intelligence, entrepreneurs’ innovativeness and business performance in the context of small and medium scale enterprises have been scarcely studied in Nigeria. This study examined the effect of emotional intelligence and entrepreneurs’ innovativeness on business performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Lagos state, Nigeria. To achieve the objective, cross sectional survey research design was used. Multistage sampling consisting of participative and convenience sampling techniques was used in drawing sample for the study. Information was collected from the respondents with the aid of a structured questionnaire. The finding of the study indicates positive and significant relationship among emotional intelligence, entrepreneurs’ innovativeness, and business performance. Similarly, both emotional intelligence and entrepreneurs’ innovativeness individually and collectively influence business performance of small and medium scale enterprises. In addition, emotional intelligence was found to be insignificantly different among male and female entrepreneurs. The study concludes that for small and medium scale entrepreneurs’ to thrive and develop emotional intelligence and innovativeness are critical. The study therefore, recommended that business entrepreneurs’ should develop the necessary emotional intelligence and innovativeness competence to prosper. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Emotional Intelligence, entrepreneurs’ innovativeness, business performance, and small and medium scale industry.
Mediation Effects of Firm Leverage in Malaysia: Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling

In theory, capital structure determinant is a cause-effect model. We investigate the simultaneously of cause-effect framework on the impact of specific attributes on firm’s financial performance through leverage which acts as a mediation variable. We use the partial least squares - structural equation modeling that capable of providing a greater understanding of the prediction for the construct relationship among each other with simultaneous techniques with only one time process (Chin, 1998). We endeavor to examine in a complex model that consists with 14 construct (LVs) and 33 indicators in Malaysia for the period from 1990 to 2010. The implication is that the Malaysian firms could attempt to choose less risky route, as Malaysia is recognized as a “market-based oriented. ” In addition, we find that some attributes could influence the relationship to firm’s financial performance by indirect effect (leverage). Thus, firms tend to act with partial action on their capital structure, which believe to attain a sustainable performance.
Political Parties and Labor-Market Outcomes: Evidence from US States

This paper estimates the causal impact of the party allegiance (Republican or Democratic) of US governors on labor-market outcomes. I match gubernatorial elections with March Current Population Survey (CPS) data for income years 1977 to 2008. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that Democratic governors cause an increase in the annual hours worked by blacks relative to whites, which leads to a reduction in the racial earnings gap between black and white workers. The results are consistent and robust to using a wide range of models, controls, and specifications. (JEL D72, J15, J22, J31, R23) P oliticians and political parties play a crucial role in the US economy. The common perception is that Democrats favor pro-labor policies, and are more averse to income inequality than Republicans. This paper evaluates the veracity of such claims at the US state level by estimating the causal impact of the party affiliation of US governors (Republican versus Democratic) on several labor-market outcomes. Recent work provides evidence that political allegiance plays a role in determining politicians’ policy choices and voting behavior at the US state level. Besley and Case (1995) find that Democratic governors are more likely to raise taxes, while Republican governors are less likely to increase the minimum wage. They also find that when Democrats have a majority in the state upper and lower houses and occupy the governor’s office, there is a significant impact on tax revenue, spending, family assistance, and workers’ compensation
AN X-RAY-SELECTED SAMPLE OF CANDIDATE BLACK HOLES IN DWARF GALAXIES

We present a sample of hard X-ray-selected candidate black holes (BHs) in 19 dwarf galaxies. BH candidates are identified by cross-matching a parent sample of ∼44,000 local dwarf galaxies ( M ⋆ ≤ 3 × 10 9 ? > M ⊙ ? > , z < 0.055 ? > ) with the Chandra Source Catalog and subsequently analyzing the original X-ray data products for matched sources. Of the 19 dwarf galaxies in our sample, eight have X-ray detections reported here for the first time. We find a total of 43 point-like hard X-ray sources with individual luminosities L 2 − 10 keV ∼ 10 37 – 10 40 ? > erg s−1. Hard X-ray luminosities in this range can be attained by stellar-mass X-ray binaries (XRBs) and by massive BHs accreting at low Eddington ratio. We place an upper limit of 53% (10/19) on the fraction of galaxies in our sample hosting a detectable hard X-ray source consistent with the optical nucleus, although the galaxy center is poorly defined in many of our objects. We also find that 42% (8/19) of the galaxies in our sample exhibit statistically significant enhanced hard X-ray emission relative to the expected galaxy-wide contribution from low-mass and high-mass XRBs, based on the L 2 − 10 keV XRB − M ⋆ − ? > star formation rate relation defined by more massive and luminous systems. For the majority of these X-ray-enhanced dwarf galaxies, the excess emission is consistent with (but not necessarily due to) a nuclear X-ray source. Follow-up observations are necessary to distinguish between stellar-mass XRBs and active galactic nuclei powered by more massive BHs. In any case, our results support the notion that X-ray-emitting BHs in low-mass dwarf galaxies may have had an appreciable impact on reionization in the early universe.
Examining the Validity of Accelerometry for Measuring Arm Movements in Children

2017 A goal of rehabilitation for children with hemiparesis is improved arm use during daily life. However, paediatric outcome measures do not objectively measure arm use in natural environments. Accelerometers, which quantitatively measure movement, may provide some missing information. This thesis examines the criterion, convergent and discriminative validity of accelerometry as a measure of paediatric arm movement. The results from a sample of 26 typically-developing (TD) participants and 13 participants with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) indicate arm-accelerometry has: i) criterion validity, based on its sensitivity, specificity (Youden’s Index, J > .63) and agreement (> 84%), with reference to video-based observations; ii) moderate convergent validity, based on the correlation between arm ratios and QUEST scores (rs = 0.662, p = .026); and iii) discriminative validity, based on differences in arm ratios (p < 0.02) between 9 matched pairs with and without CP. These findings warrant ongoing research on arm-accelerometry’s psychometric properties in children.
On the number of paths of length 5 in a graph

n this paper, we obtain an explicit formula for the total number of paths of length 5 in a simple graph G. We also determine some formulae for the number of paths of length 5 each of which starts from a specific vertex \(v_{i}\) and for the number of \(v_{i}-v_{j}\) paths of length 5 in a simple graph G, in terms of the adjacency matrix and with the help of combinatorics.
Hybrid constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment: A worldwide review

The utilization of environmentally friendly and eco-safe wastewater treatment plan is nowadays widespread. This study aimed to assess the potentiality of hybrid constructed wetlands for treating of landfill leachate, river polluted water, domestic, industrial, hospital, runoff and agricultural wastewaters in lab-scale, pilot-scale and full-scale with various configurations. The results revealed that the hybrid constructed wetlands are effective to remove organic matter (BOD5, COD) and suspended solid, while in terms of nutrient removal such as N and P components, the removal efficiencies were depending to system properties and operational condition. Additionally it is very useful system to remove the heavy metals and pharmaceuticals pollutants from different wastewaters. Combination of constructed wetlands enhances pollutants removal efficiency as hybrid constructed wetlands could cover the limitation of each single constructed wetlands. It could be concluded that the hybrid constructed wetlands ensure a more stable removal rate of pollutants from various wastewaters in comparison with other wastewaters treatment plans.
COLLECTIVE EFFICACY MANIPULATION 1 Running Head : COLLECTIVE EFFICACY MANIPULATION Observation as a Method to Enhance Collective Efficacy : An Integrative

Objectives: This review provides an integrative argument for the use of observation as an intervention to manipulate individual collective efficacy beliefs in sports teams. Design: An exploration of the conceptual and empirical evidence underpinning observationbased interventions for increasing collective efficacy. Method: A presentation of reflections on the following. First, we reflect on existing techniques used to increase selfand collective efficacy beliefs. Second, we consider collective efficacy in the context of observational learning and the various modeling techniques employed in the sports and motor performance literature. Third, we highlight relevant literature from neuroscience, outlining the analogous neural pathways evident for social cognition (i.e., collective efficacy) and observation. Results: This review presents a case for the use of observation interventions to manipulate collective efficacy, drawing upon social psychological frameworks of human behavior, the observation-based literature, and contemporary understanding of brain and behavior. Conclusions: Observation-based interventions are suited for collective efficacy manipulation in sport. There is a need to advance understanding of this relationship in order to maximize improvements in collective efficacy across group contexts.
How Public Transport Strengthens the City Effect on Car Ownership

With the improvement of living standards, private cars are becoming more affordable for most people; however, the increasing level of car holdings and usages by households would cause serious problems such as traffic congestion, road accidents and air pollution (Bhat & Sen, 2006; Eakins, 2013). Car ownership has been studied in many fields such as economics, demographics, transport, and geography. By using a data of 166,937 respondents from OViN and CROW-KpVV in the Netherlands in 2013, this paper uses a Linear Probability Model to investigate the determinants of car ownership. By focusing on the built environment effect and the interaction effect between public transport accessibility and built environment (city effect), the paper also controls the household characteristics including household size, household income, and number of children within a household. By defining urban differently, the paper also builds up different models by studying car ownership from different perspectives: (1) households with car(s) or without car; and (2) households with one car or more than one cars. When interaction effect is not included, results show that all the variables studied are of highly significance. After including the interaction effect between built environment and public transport, the built environment (city effect) is still highly significant, moreover, it is found to be largely strengthened. This result is especially valuable for urban policy makers, that improving public transport accessibility of a city would strongly decrease the likelihood for those households to own (more) cars.
Monetary Policy, Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and External Habits: An International Comparison

This paper extends the standard New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to agents who cannot smooth consumption (i.e. spenders) and are affected by external consumption habits. Although these assumptions are not new, their joint consideration strongly affects some theoretical and empirical results addressed by the recent literature. By deriving closed-form solutions, we identify different demand regimes and show that they are characterized by specific features regarding dynamic stability and monetary policy effectiveness. We also evaluate our model by stochastic simulations obtained from the Bayesian parameters estimates for the G7 economies. From posterior impulse response we address the empirical relevance of the different regimes and provide comparative evidence on the asymmetric effects of monetary policy, resulting from the heterogeneity of the estimated model structures.
Connected Process Design for Hot Working of a Creep-Resistant Mg–4Al–2Ba–2Ca Alloy (ABaX422)

With a view to design connected processing steps for the manufacturing of components, the hot working behavior of the ABaX422 alloy has been characterized for the as-cast and extruded conditions. In the as-cast condition, the alloy has a limited workability, due to the presence of a large volume of intermetallic phases at the grain boundaries, and is not suitable to process at high speeds. A connected processing step has been designed on the basis of the results of the processing map for the as-cast alloy, and this step involves the extrusion of the cast billet to obtain a 12 mm diameter rod product at a billet temperature of 390 ◦C and at a ram speed of 1 mm s−1. The microstructure of the extruded rod has a finer grain size, with redistributed fine particles of the intermetallic phases. The processing map of the extruded rod exhibited two new domains, and the one in the temperature range 360–420 ◦C and strain rate range 0.2–10 s−1 is useful for manufacturing at high speeds, while the lower temperature develops a finer grain size in the product to improve the room temperature strength and ductility. The area of the flow instability is also reduced by the extrusion step, widening the workability window.
Organic carbon determination in histosols and soil horizons with high organic matter content from Brazil

Soil taxonomy systems distinguish mineral soils from organic soils based on the amount of soil organic carbon. Procedures adopted in soil surveys for organic carbon measurement are therefore of major importance to classify the soils, and to correlate their properties with data from other studies. To evaluate different methods for measuring organic carbon and organic matter content in Histosols and soils with histic horizons, from different regions of Brazil, 53 soil samples were comparatively analyzed by the methods of Walkley & Black (modified), Embrapa, Yeomans & Bremner, modified Yeomans & Bremner, muffle furnace, and CHN. The modified Walkley & Black (C-W & B md) and the combustion of organic matter in the muffle furnace (OM-Muffle) were the most suitable for the samples with high organic carbon content. Based on regression analysis data, the OM-muffle may be estimated from C-W & B md by applying a factor that ranges from 2.00 to 2.19 with 95% of probability. The factor 2.10, the average value, is suggested to convert results obtained by these methods.
Case studies in context: an examination of research influences

The significance of the context in terms of the wider environment of a single case study has been acknowledged by IS researchers. However, there are few clearly explained techniques and methods for taking into account the macro external forces in any given situation. A methodology is discussed that details a number of research influences including dialectic hermeneutics and critical realism as well as methodological techniques for data collection and analysis. When these are combined they go some way to helping the researcher consider the wider context of a case study.
Actinocerid Cephalopods from the Ordovician of Myanmar, and their Paleobiogeographic Implications for Northern Gondwana

Abstract. This paper describes a new actinocerid cephalopod fauna from the western part of the Shan Plateau in Myanmar (Sibumasu Block), and discusses its significance. The cephalopod fossils are preserved in shallow marine limestones of the Wunbye Formation (Pindaya Group) and its equivalent strata. The fauna consists of Ordosoceras theini sp. nov. (Floian or Dapingian, late Early or early Middle Ordovician age), Armenoceras myanmarense sp. nov. (Darriwilian, late Middle Ordovician), Paratunkuskoceras sp. (Darriwilian), and Wutinoceras moeseini (Floian, late Early Ordovician). The presence of Ordosoceras, which was previously known only in the North China Block, and specific characters in the actinocerid fauna of Sibumasu indicate a strong linkage with that of North China during Early—Middle Ordovician time; in contrast, Sibumasu's affinity to the coeval Australian fauna is less definable. It is possible that an actinocerid faunal exchange took place between North China and Sibumasu over the shelf sea environment open to the Prototethys Ocean but this did not happen to the inland seas of Australian Gondwana during the period.
The Effect of Using Socio-Scientific Issues Approach in Teaching Environmental Issues on Improving the Students' Ability of Making Appropriate Decisions Towards These Issues

This study aimed to identify nature of students’ decisions patterns towards environmental issues and the possibility to improve these decisions during teaching process using Socio-Scientific Issues Approach. And to achieve this, the researcher prepared and developed tools of the study represented by a test of open questions focused on socio-scientific issues in environmental subjects and a school unit about environmental issues according to Socio-Scientific Issues Approach. Validity and reliability of the study were asserted using the appropriate ways. The population of the study, which consisted of the students of Educational Sciences department in Educational Sciences Faculty in World Islamic Sciences and Education University in Jordan in the first semester in 2012/2013, was 576 male and female students. The sample of the study, which consisted of (40) male and female student, was selected purposefully. Results of the study showed using Socio-Scientific Issues approach enhanced students’ ability in improving their decisions towards environmental issues and the results showed existence of four patterns of students’ decisions: decisions based on wrong understanding of scientific concepts and their applications, logical linear (formal) decisions taking into account few limited dimensions, decisions on a limited level of controversy. Issuing decisions include scientific thinking takes into account the integrated comprehensive dimension. In light of these results, the researcher recommended paying attention to Socio-Scientific Issues Approach (SSI) as an axis to teach the scientific concepts and issues at the university level and to train the teachers on using it.
CAN BIOFORTIFICATION OF ZINC IMPROVE THE ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY AND NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF BEANS

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of zinc biofortification on the antioxidant capacity and nutritional quality of green bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) under greenhouse conditions. Zinc was applied using two forms (ZnSO4 and Zn-DTPA) at four doses of application (0, 25, 50 and 100 µmol) added under a hydroponic system, and were tested over a period of 40 days. The antioxidant capacity was assessed in seeds, as well as the nutritional quality. The results indicate that biofortification with Zn improves antioxidant capacity and nutritional quality of beans, considered the main attributes bean quality and consumer health. The highest antioxidant capacity was obtained with the dose of 25 µmol Zn chelate compared to the form of sulphate; while in the nutritional value of beans both forms of Zn chelate and sulfate content had similar doses of 25 to 50 µmol. Finally, we conclude that it is feasible to implement a program biofortification Zn bean, as this nutrient is more concentrated in the seeds (edible part of the plant), allowing improve its nutritional quality and antioxidant capacity.