Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trauma screening and assessment outcomes in child welfare: a systematic review

ABSTRACT This systematic review analyzes findings from all identified studies measuring traumatic stress in child welfare specific samples in order to explore how the existing literature informs trauma screening and assessment practices in child welfare systems. Most prior research involving measures of traumatic stress in children has been conducted with clinical samples that are not child welfare specific or entirely limited to this population. The aims of this review are to describe the child welfare samples screened for traumatic stress, their reported traumatic stress outcomes, other important variables investigated that could assist with the identification of high risk sub-groups, and to review trauma related implications for child serving systems. Searches of all relevant databases identified 14 studies for the analysis. Implications are provided regarding the mental health and trauma recovery needs of maltreated children, high risk sub-groups within this population, systemic challenges and considerations regarding how the child welfare system might collect and utilize trauma information to enhance decision making.
Relationship between Liquidity Risk and Net Interest Margin of Conventional Banks in Bangladesh

Net interest margin (NIM) of a bank depends on several firm-specific factors. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of liquidity risk on the profitability indicating variable NIM of the conventional banks in Bangladesh. Seven banks were analyzed using the annual reports of the banks for the period of 2011 to 2015. Researchers applied descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis to find out the results. The findings of the study provided evidence that cash to asset (CA) ratio had a negative relationship with NIM but a loan to asset (LA) ratio had a positive effect on the NIM. There was also a significant positive relationship between NIM and loan to deposit (LD) ratio. From the regression analysis it was clear that the LD, CA, and LA were able to explain the changes of NIM of the banks. JEL Classifications: G 21 Handle: http://hdl.handle. net/20.500. 11903/abr.v6n3. 7
Becoming a competent teacher in education for sustainable development

Purpose This paper aims to provide a holistic approach to assessing student teachers’ competence development in education for sustainable development (ESD). This is to provide evidence on which teaching and learning formats help to foster which aspects of ESD-specific professional action competence in teachers. The studied competencies consist of content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and the willingness to actively support and implement ESD. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study design was used on two sequential modules of a university’s teacher education program. A mixed-methods approach was applied that combined surveys, videotaped and PhotoVoice-supported focus groups, as well as pre- and post-assessment tools. Qualitative data analysis was based on the coding paradigm of the qualitative content analysis, whereas quantitative data were interpreted by means of descriptive statistics and paired sample t-tests. Findings The results from this study clearly indicate that the two courses contributed to a shift in students’ non-cognitive dispositions. The study also provides evidence on the students’ competence development and demonstrates how two different learning settings support different dimensions of teachers’ professional action competence in terms of ESD. Originality/value The triangulation of data enabled not only a mere competence assessment but also deeper insights into learning processes, as well as into the drivers of and barriers to competence development. Furthermore, the study introduces an innovative approach to assessing the development of PCK.
Influence of High-Performance Work System on Employee Service Performance and OCB: The Mediating Role of PsyCap

High-performance work system (HPWS) has been viewed as black-box over the last decade and there is a need for better understanding of the mechanism through which employee performance can be enhanced significantly. Based on the 371 samples collected from banking, insurance, airline, telecommunication, and hospitality, this study provides empirical evidence that HPWS positively influence the service performance of employees and PsyCap mediates the relationship of high-performance work system and employee service performance, OCB among service sector employees of Pakistan. The implications of this study conclude the findings in detail.
The Impact of Reference Groups on the Purchase Intentions of Sporting Products: The Case for Spectatorship and Participation

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of reference groups and different types of sports consumers on their purchase intentions for sporting products. Several studies have examined the role of reference groups (private and public) on purchase intentions in the sports marketing area. However, there is a shortage of investigation into the impact of reference groups for each type of sports consumer (spectatorship and participation). Additionally, the effect of strangers on the purchase intentions of sports consumers has been overlooked. After drawing from the social identity theory and conducting experimental research with 593 respondents who have interest in either watching or playing sports, as well as analysing the research with structural equation modelling, the results show that private groups influence the purchase intentions of participation for sporting products. However, public groups and strangers influence the spectatorship purchase intentions of sporting products. This study provides a contribution to the social identity theory by revealing that reference groups provide a diverse effect on purchase intentions for each type of sports consumer.
Religious involvement and dispositional characteristics as predictors of work attitudes and behaviors

The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically examine the effects of (1) religious involvement on job attitudes, (2) dispositions on job attitudes, and (3) religious involvement on workplace behaviors. This study also assessed whether job attitudes mediated the effect of religious involvement on workplace behaviors or the interaction effect of religious involvement and dispositional characteristics on workplace behaviors. Higher levels of religious involvement were hypothesized to lead to more positive work attitudes and behaviors. Conservative and self-transcendent values along with positive well-being were expected to lead to positive attitudes at work. The effect of religious involvement on work behaviors and the interactive effect of religious involvement and dispositions on work behaviors were hypothesized to be mediated by job attitudes. The sample for this dissertation was drawn from two organizations including a rehabilitation hospital and an automotive parts distributor. Employee and supervisor
Heritage and mainstream acculturation's association with sexual response in young Chinese men and women in Canada

Abstract:Previous research on Chinese individuals in Canada showed that mainstream acculturation (i.e., adoption of the customs and values of mainstream Canadian culture) was consistently associated with more permissive and less restrictive patterns in sexual attitudes, response, and behaviours. However, the role of heritage acculturation (i.e., retention of the customs and values of heritage Chinese culture) was not strongly linked to sexuality variables and remained poorly understood. The current study sought to examine the role of heritage and mainstream acculturation in a new sample of men and women. Undergraduate samples of men (n = 364) and women (n = 467) completed questionnaires on acculturation, and sexual attitudes, experience, fantasy, excitation, inhibition, desire, arousability, sexual anxiety, and sociosexual orientation. Mainstream acculturation was consistently associated with more permissive and less restrictive patterns in the sexuality variables. Heritage acculturation was positively correlated with mainstream acculturation and had some associations with more permissiveness and less restrictiveness among sexuality variables for heterosexual individuals, but the relationship was more complex in non-heterosexual individuals. There were significant interaction effects between mainstream and heritage acculturation observed in heterosexual men. The results replicated past findings with regards to mainstream acculturation, and suggested a potentially subtle and complex role for heritage acculturation. Limitations, theoretical aspects, and clinical implications were discussed.
Music while you work: the effect of music on typing performance and experience

Over many years, and in a variety of contexts, researchers have shown that music affects human behaviour and emotion. In this thesis, I explore how music affects people when undertaking mundane work related computing tasks by performing a series of experiments investigating how various dimensions of music affect transcription typing performance and experience. Some results were inconclusive with significant interactions followed by non-significant post hoc analyses, but nevertheless interesting themes emerged. Generally, music containing vocals compromised typing performance because it was more distracting than instrumental music. However, when played at a low volume performance was better with vocals in the music. This surprising result could be because vocals bring lower volume music to the attention of the typists so any effects caused by the rest of the music dominate, leading to overall performance improvements. Typing performance without music was similar to performance when accompanied by ambient music, possibly because the ambient music could fade into the background. In contrast, classical and rock music were more intrusive and rhythmically challenging, and negatively affected both performance and experience. Fast tempo 3/4 time music reduced typing accuracy when compared to almost all the other tempo and time signature manipulations. The frequency of the emphasized beats in this music was considerably higher than in the other conditions, which may explain why performance was particularly affected by this variation. The findings from these experiments may influence experiment design in this field. This thesis shows music is a complex, multifaceted stimulus which should be considered as multidimensional experiential gestalt. The approach of reducing music to isolated dimensions for manipulation is inappropriate. Further, the work has shown that manipulating tempo alone may be insufficient as the combination of time signature and tempo affects frequency of the emphasized beats, which can be important.
The Discount Rate for Discounted Cash Flow Valuations of Intangible Assets

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine the required return of intangible assets for eight different business sectors by means of an empirical study of companies from the US Standard & Poor's 500 index. The resulting required return is subsequently compared with proxies for the required return on intangible assets used in practice, such as the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Design/methodology/approach - To determine the discount rate of the intangible assets the paper applies the weighted average return on assets method (weighted average return on assets (WARA) method). The paper finds the return on intangible assets ( Findings - For all the identified sectors, the Practical implications - The paper shows how the required return on intangible assets can be estimated. The required return is needed for discounted cash flow valuations of intangible assets. Originality/value - This paper adjusts the WARA method applied by Smith and Parr. In contrast to Smith and Parr, the tax shield is included as a separate asset in the model. Consequently, the WACC before tax is used instead of the WACC after tax.
Development of measures to improve milk quality and safety during production

The number of somatic cells in cow milk affects its quality indicators, grade and safety. The level of somatic cells in milk depends on the state of the udder in animals. That is why it is important to diagnose sub-clinical mastitis of cows and prevent its occurrence. The performed studies made it possible to determine the histological spectrum of somatic cells in cows of the Ukrainian black-speckled dairy breed. It was experimentally proved that the microorganisms, selected from the cow udder skin are identical to the microflora, which causes sub-clinical mastitis disease in cows. As a result of the conducted research, the way of passing pathogens of mastitis infection through the rubber of milk glasses of milking equipment was identified. In addition, the spectrum of the pathogens of sub-clinical mastitis was determined and the scheme for disease prevention and its spreading among the herd of dairy cows was developed. The experimental researches proved the efficiency of using rapid mastitis test that makes it possible to remove from herds the cows with poor quality milk in due time. The emergence of ketone bodies in milk increases its acidity and reduces the milk quality. Acidity index characterizes the nutritional value of milk and is controlled when milk is accepted to a dairy factory. In this case, an enterprise loses money due to milk grade lowering. The method for prevention and treatment of ketosis in cows based on chelates of metals due to the improvement of metabolic processes in cows’ rumen was experimentally developed. The performed studies revealed the interrelation between the state of the rumen microflora and emergence of acetonemia in cows. Thus, the suggested measures provide an opportunity to enhance the quality and safety of cow milk by reducing the number of animals with symptoms of mastitis and ketosis in a herd.
Happiness at Workplace

Entering the 21st century, the company no longer focuses on the expertise that employees have, but rather on optimizing the quality and function, as well as the positive work experience that employees have. This current situation shows that happiness is one of the important issues that need to be considered especially in the world environment. Happiness in the work place refers to employee satisfaction with their works and lives (Wesarat, Sharif & Majid, 2015). Employees who feel the happiness at work tend to focus more on their work and increase their productivities. Happiness at work is influenced by job satisfaction, job engagement, workplace security, managing stress and self-confidence. Furthermore, this paper will have a review of definitions, factors that influence happiness, the importance of happiness in the workplace and exposure to some of the results of previous research both outside and in Indonesia so that it can be an input for further research, remembering happiness is an important domain especially in life in the work environment.
Bashed at first sight: the experiences and coping strategies of reality-TV stars confronted with celebrity bashing

ABSTRACT Reality-TV stars are oftentimes confronted with harsh and insulting comments, a phenomenon known as online celebrity bashing. Existing research on celebrity bashing focused especially on bystanders and perpetrators of this phenomenon and not on the victims. This study aimed to enrich the knowledge on celebrity bashing by interviewing reality-TV stars about their experience and coping with this practise. A total of 13 interviews (N = 13) were conducted among the contestants and experts (participants’ guides through the experiment) across three seasons of a popular Flemish reality-TV programme. The results indicated that all participants had been confronted with bashing comments from the audience during and after broadcasting, with some of them facing quite intense experiences. The participants pointed to the responsibility of the production team, journalists and society in general, for stimulating such bashing comments. Online celebrity bashing generated negative and uncomfortable feelings. Nearly all participants avoided responding to the comments, but mostly opted for cognitive coping strategies, such as relativizing the situation. The results of this study are relevant for prevention and intervention strategies aimed to reduce celebrity bashing practices.
An Exploration of Youth–Parent–Mentor Relationship Dynamics in a Youth-Initiated Mentoring Intervention to Prevent Out-of-Home Placement

This qualitative study explores the youth-initiated mentoring (YIM) approach for youth at risk for out-of-home placement. In this approach, a youth nominates someone from within their social network, and positions this person as a YIM to function as an ally for the youth and as a partner for parents and professional caregivers. Through interviews with six youth, six YIMs, and seven parents (N = 19), we examined the positioning of a YIM and sustainability. The results indicated that attitudes from participants toward asking someone or being asked to become a YIM varied from enthusiastic to cautious. Participants reported increased contact intensity and relationship quality. Two parents did not experience YIM as beneficial. Most participants expected that the YIM–mentee relationship lasts after professional care terminates. The results reveal that YIM is experienced as an ally, but it also has the potential to increase relational conflicts between social network members.
Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys

Although it is hoped that this chapter has brought attention to the possible complexities of working with survey data, the reader is not expected to have obtained enough information to immediately analyze complex sample data appropriately. The following recommendations and suggestions for reading are intended to point the reader in the direction of becoming more familiar with the issues and options for estimation.
Evaluating the effectiveness of REBOOT Combat Recovery: A faith-based combat trauma resiliency program

ABSTRACT Evidence-based intervention programs attuned to the spiritual needs of service members, Veterans, and their families are needed to help them deal with the potentially debilitating consequences of combat trauma. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a faith-based, peer-led combat trauma resiliency program called REBOOT Combat Recovery. Participants were 254 adults who reported on 8 aspects of physical, mental, and social well-being during the 3rd week and the 12th week of the program. Findings indicated improvement for pain interference, fatigue, sleep disturbance, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and social participation. Improvement was uniform except that Veterans benefited more than currently serving military personnel with respect to anxiety symptoms. These results suggest the program may be effective for coping with the aftermath of combat trauma.
The gender pay gap in European executive boards: the role of executives’ pathway into the board

Abstract We provide cross-country evidence on the gender pay gap on executive boards in large European companies and show that the pathway into the board – internal promotion versus external recruitment – matters for the size of the gap. We find evidence that among executives, women are paid less than men – especially when they were recruited from outside. Since for external candidates, gender stereotyping, and discrimination might be more pronounced than for internal candidates, our results support a power-and-discrimination-based view rather than a market-based view. Our empirical analysis is based on individual pay data for 359 executive board members in 75 firms in six countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland) from 2011 to 2014. We find an unadjusted pay penalty for women of around 17% and an estimated adjusted gender pay gap of around 11%. The size of the adjusted gender pay gap crucially depends on the executives’ pathway into the board: Among the executives who were recruited from outside the firm, women receive an estimated 19% less than men. Our article suggests that the pathway into the board matters for women’s bargaining position and should be explored in future studies.
News as Sources of Jumps in Stock Returns: Evidence From 21 Million News Articles for 9000 Companies

Stock prices exhibit large, discrete movements, typically labelled as "jumps'". A potential important source of jumps in stock returns can be material news events. In this paper, we collect 21 million news articles associated with more than 9000 publicly-traded companies from the Factiva database and use textual analysis to derive measures summarizing those news, including news frequency, tone and uncertainty. We find that these measures of news flow content are significantly related to nonparametric measures of jump intensity and jump size distributions and explain an important fraction of variations in the jumps across individual companies. Further, those nonparametric analyzes provide input for our time-series modelling of firm-level news processes. By modelling the observable news process explicitly and jointly with a latent jump process, we find that news are important drivers of the jumps in stock returns. Consequently, we are able to enrich the economic content of the widely-used econometric models of jumps used for applications such as option pricing and risk management where stock return jump models are frequently used.
DIAGNÓSTICO DEL NIVEL DE ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y EL SENDERISMO EN SANGOLQUÍ: ESTUDIO POR RANGO ETARIO

Introduccion: La actividad fisica es el movimiento corporal que hace trabajar al sistema musculo-esqueletico, el movimiento sistematico implica calidad de vida, y el senderismo como actividad deportiva o turistica puede facilitar la calidad de vida en rangos etarios que viven en entornos geograficos asequibles. Objetivo: Se determina el nivel de actividad fisica en general y el senderismo en particular en el uso del tiempo libre de la poblacion de Sangolqui, teniendo presente dos rangos etarios fundamentales. Metodos: Se estudia una muestra representativa de la poblacion de Sangolqui, en Quito Ecuador (447 sujetos), dividido en cuatro estratos por sexo y rango etario (25-40 y 41-55 anos). Se aplica dos cuestionarios, el primero basado en un muestreo aleatorio simple y relacionado con el nivel de actividad fisica (Frecuencia de actividad fisica, actividades realizadas en el tiempo libre y tipo de turismo), el segundo se baso en un muestreo por juicio discrecional (37 sujetos) practicantes o no del senderismo, adaptando el sistema IPAQ y Minnesota al objetivo perseguido en la investigacion. Resultados: A medida que aumenta el rango etario disminuye el nivel de frecuencia de actividad fisica, tanto en hombres (p=0,0253) como en mujeres (p=0,0049), presentado las mujeres mayores actividades sociales y de descanso. En hombres se valora un incremento no significativo en actividades fisicas al aumentar la edad (p=0,0706). Los hombres de 25-40 anos prefieren el turismo de aventura (41,12%), aspecto recurrente para la region geografica estudiada, disminuyendo significativamente al aumentar la edad (p=0,0011), las mujeres de 25-40 tienden a elegir el turismo de aventura (28,18%) y disminuyen significativamente al aumentar la edad (p=0,0002). El turismo activo de aventura preferido, tanto mujeres como hombres de 25-40 anos fue el rafting, pero mujeres y hombres de 41-55 anos prefieren la caminata y el senderismo, existiendo un incremento significativo al aumentar la edad de eleccion en el sexo femenino (p=0,000). Los practicantes de senderismo reconocen que su condicion fisica se mantiene (55%) e incluso mejora (45%) con la edad, siendo esta significativamente mejor que el otro grupo que realiza otras actividades (CPMI: p=0,0031). Conclusiones: Al incrementarse la edad se demuestra una disminucion de la actividad fisica y cambios en las preferencias para el uso del tiempo libre. Los practicantes de senderismo aumentan porcentualmente a mayor edad, valorando su condicion fisica de mejor manera. Se recomienda potenciar el senderismo a la poblacion de la sierra ecuatoriana.