Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing oracy: Chasing the teachers’ unspoken oracy construct across disciplines in the landscape between policy and freedom

The aim is to capture teachers’ implicit oracy construct across disciplines through surveying 495 teachers on a high-stakes oral national exam in the 10th grade. The survey and the results were interpreted with concepts and ideas from rhetorical theory and tradition. The results of the study show that teachers value a complex oracy construct. The teachers’ genre expectancy for oracy seem to be a balance between the three modes of persuasion: logos (i.e., subject specific content), ethos (the ability to display character), and pathos (the ability to have an emotional influence on the audience). The constructs have specific discipline characteristics as well as features that are consistent within disciplines. For teachers, a pattern of a unified oracy construct is developed from, and embedded in, their collective everyday practices, cul- ture, and traditions. The discussion raises issues related to future curriculum development and educational sustainability.
新・堕落論 : 我欲と天罰

１章 平和の毒（敗戦の光景；「堕落論」と戦後；「牙を抜かれた怪物」；忘れられた江戸の成熟；垂直な価値の基軸 ほか） ２章 仮想と虚妄（首都の不安；「一番豊かで、一番あわれな子供たち」；正統な青春、透明な閉塞；ルネサンス以来の文学の主題とは；「太陽の季節」とその時代 ほか）
Incentives and the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda

We present results of a randomized evaluation that assesses the effects of different incentives for diffusion of agricultural knowledge by smallholders in northern Uganda. Randomly-selected disseminating farmers (DFs) from a large sample of villages are assigned to one of three experimental arms: (a) training about climate smart agriculture, (b) training plus a material reward for knowledge diffusion, and (c) training plus a reputational gain for knowledge diffusion. We find that leveraging somebody’s reputation (or social recognition) has a positive impact on DFs’ experimentation and diffusion effort. This impact is stronger than that measured in the private material rewards treatment.
Materialistic values and green apparel purchase intention among young Vietnamese consumers

Nowadays, the issues related to pro-environmental, sustainable and green consumption behaviors are attracting significant attention from both scholars and practitioners. However, in the context of emerging countries, less research effort has been invested in this topic, especially in investigating young consumer purchase behavior. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors driving young adult Vietnamese consumers’ purchase intention toward green apparel products with emphasis on the role of materialistic values. ,In this research, a conceptual framework is proposed integrating the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model with an important consumer value, materialism. To test the research model and hypotheses, a survey of a sample of 245 young adults (under 25 years old) was conducted in Hanoi, the capital city and one of the two most populous cities in Vietnam. All the scales used in this study were established in the literature, and the scales’ reliability and validity were assessed through Cronbach’s alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. The structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the proposed model and hypotheses. ,In this study, six hypotheses were tested and five out of six received support from the data. Specifically, the results of SEM showed that all three antecedents from the TPB model (i.e. attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control) were positive contributors to green apparel purchase intention, of which subjective norms were found to be the most influential predictor of purchase intention. With regard to the roles of the three components of materialism, the findings provided empirical evidence for supporting the positive impact of “success” and the negative impact of “centrality” on the attitude toward green apparel purchase, while “happiness” component was not found to have a significant impact on attitude. In this study, income as a control variable was found to be positively related to purchase intention toward green apparel products. ,There is a little research on the relationship between specific values and environment-friendly behaviors, especially in the context of emerging economies such as Vietnam. In addition, it has been suggested that the relationship between materialistic values and green purchase behavior is still unclear. Thus, it is important to have a deeper understanding of the role of materialistic values in green apparel purchase among young adult consumers in the context of Vietnam, an Asian emerging country where only modest research effort has been given to explore this important topic.
Chinese Parental Involvement and Children’s School Readiness: The Moderating Role of Parenting Style

ABSTRACT Research Findings: This study examined the moderating role of parenting style in the relations between different dimensions of parental involvement and their children’s school readiness. A total of 311 Chinese parents (Mean age = 35.74, SD = 4.61) and their kindergarten children (Mean age = 5.53, SD = .50) participated in this study. Parents completed questionnaires about their demographic information, parenting styles and parental involvement practices and teachers rated children’s school readiness levels. Results indicated that parents’ home-based, school-based and home-school conferencing involvement were all positively related to children’s school readiness. Home-based involvement showed stronger relationship to children’s school readiness than the other two types of parental involvement. In addition, authoritative parenting moderated the effects of both school-based involvement and home-school conferencing on children’s school readiness. The effect of school-based involvement was enhanced in the context of high authoritative parenting style. In contrast, the effect of home-school conferencing was decreased in the context of low authoritative parenting style. Practice or Policy. The results suggest that programs designed for enhancing parents’ involvement in children’s school readiness need to consider the emotional context that parents create through their parenting style. Implications for practice and suggestions for further research are offered.
Study on Technology and Learning

The purpose of this research thesis is to investigate technologies effects on learning. Specifically the researchers studied the usability of intelligent personal assistant-enabled devices for learning assistance. It is assumed that using technology in educational context helps both students and educators because there is a positive effect on engagement which increases learning curves. Although, this is not always the case. The present study yielded results that were not consistent with the assumption that using any type of technology as an aid for learning has a positive effect. Further research will seek to investigate other intelligent personal assistant devices for classroom use.
Work-life balance practices and turnover intention: The mediating role of person-organization fit

The higher educational institutions in Pakistan are facing challenges to reduce the turnover of their faculty members. To date, research has failed to explore the antecedents of faculty members’ turnover intention, especially in the context of Pakistan. The purpose of this study was to investigate work-life balance practices and person-organization fit as antecedents of faculty members’ turnover intention. This study hypothesized that work-life balance practices and person-organization fit are negatively related to intention to leave the job. Furthermore, the study proposed that person-organization fit mediates the negative relationship between work-life balance practices and intention to leave the job. This study adopted a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach. The data was collected from a total of 250 faculty members from the public sector colleges in Baluchistan, Pakistan, through self-administered questionnaires. This study used partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for the analysis of measurement and structural model. The results revealed that work-life balance practices and person-organization fit had a direct negative and significant effect on employees' intention to leave the job. Furthermore, the results also showed that person-organization fit mediated the relationship between work-life balance practices and intention to leave the job. This study contributes to work-life balance practices and person-organization fit literature by examining the mediating processes through which work-life balance practices and intention to leave are linked. These findings provide important implications for human resource professionals to reduce the turnover of faculty members. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
The influence of supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee bottom-line mentality on leader-member exchange and subsequent employee performance

Are supervisors who care more about profits than employee well-being seen by employees as being good exchange partners? How do employees perceive and respond to supervisors who treat the bottom line as more important than anything else? Supervisors who hold a bottom-line mentality (BLM) neglect competing priorities such as employee well-being and ethical practices to focus on securing bottom-line success. We find high-BLM supervisors serve as low-quality exchange partners with their employees, resulting in employee perceptions of low-quality leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships. In turn, employees reciprocate by withholding the very thing the supervisor desires—performance—in order to maintain balance in the exchange relationship. As such, supervisors who possess a BLM could actually be negatively impacting the organization’s bottom line through the harmful social exchange relationships they engender with their employees and their impact on employee task performance. We also examine the moderating role of employee BLM on these relationships. When employee BLM is low, we observe a greater negative effect on employee value judgments of the supervisor (i.e. reduced LMX perceptions) and lower employee performance. We test and find support for all of our hypotheses in two multi-source (i.e. employee-supervisor dyads), time-lagged field studies (N = 189 and N = 244).
Modes of Belonging: Debating School Demographics in Gentrifying New York

This article examines the frameworks that stakeholders bring to debates about diversifying schools in gentrifying areas of New York City. Using critical ethnographic methods, I explore stakeholders’ hopes and fears about the effects of shifting school demographics and the relationships between student demographics and school quality. I find that stakeholders use racialized discourses of belonging to discuss whether, why, and how student demographics matter. These discourses of belonging overlap with perceptions of demographic change as opportunities for integration, fears of gentrification, and threats to individual property. Complicating celebrations of “diversity,” I explore the ways in which race is implicated in considerations of who belongs in a school and to whom a school belongs.
Leaf wax n-alkane pattern and compound-specific δ13C of plants and topsoils from semi-arid Mongolia

Abstract. n-Alkane pattern and their compound-specific δ13C signatures are valuable proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. So far, their potential has not been investigated in semi-arid to arid regions. We have therefore analysed the leaf wax n-alkanes and their compound-specific δ13C of five plant species (Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Artemisia spp., Caragana spp. and Larix sp.), and topsoils (0–5 cm) along two transects in central and southern Mongolia. Grasses depict a distinct dominance of the n-C31 homologue, whereas Caragana spp. and Artemisia spp. are dominated by n-C29. Larix sp. is characterized by the mid-chain n-alkanes n-C23 and n-C25. From plant to soil, n-alkane homologue pattern show the potential to differentiate between grass covered sites from those covered by Caragana spp. n-Alkane concentrations and OEP values of the topsoils are distinctly influenced by mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and aridity, likely reflecting the degree of n-alkane degradation and biomass production. In contrast, the n-alkane average chain-length and the n-alkane ratio (n-C31 / n-C29 + n-C31) are not affected by climatic parameters. The compound-specific δ13C signatures are strongly corelated to climate, showing a significant enrichment with increasing aridity, indicating the effect of water use efficiency. Our calibration results suggest that long-chain n-alkanes and their compound-specific δ13C signatures have great potential to reconstruct paleoenvironmental and -climatic conditions when used in sediment archives from Mongolia.
Generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents in Ghana: Examination of the psychometric properties of the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 scale

The Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) is a self-report scale used to assess general anxiety symptoms. Although the GAD-7 has been found to be a valid scale among adults, studies examining its psychometric properties among adolescents in high-income countries are notably limited and particularly non-existent in low- and middle-income countries. The current study addresses this lacuna by investigating the factorial validity, construct validity, internal consistency and discriminant accuracy of the GAD-7. Data were collected from 553 adolescents (boys = 231; average age = 16.85) recruited from a senior high school in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African country, using cross-sectional self-report methodology. The result supports a unidimensional structure of the GAD-7 that was invariant across gender. The GAD-7 correlates significantly with measures of anxiety, suicidal tendencies and mental well-being, suggesting construct validity. The internal consistency of the GAD-7, based on the mean inter-item correlation value of 0.24 and Cronbach’s a = 0.69, is adequate. The GAD-7 similarly discriminated between individuals at high risk of suicidal tendencies and depression from those with low or no risk, with area under curve values of 0.71 and 0.70, respectively. The GAD-7 is a reliable and valid measure to screen for generalised anxiety disorder among adolescents in Ghana.
The Effects of Managers’ Purposeful Performance Information Use on American Hospital Performance

Abstract There is a growing body of research on the impact of purposeful performance information (PPI) use on organizational performance (Kroll, 2015a), but questions remain about how a top manager’s operating context may affect the relationship between PPI use and performance. In this study, we examine the relationship between top managers’ PPI use and performance, and cross-sector differences in the relationship between PPI use and performance. We test our hypotheses by combining survey data of nearly 1,000 top managers from public, private, and nonprofit American hospitals with indirect (client satisfaction), direct (patient readmission rates), and perceptual (managers’ self-assessment) performance measures, while controlling for task. We move beyond overall performance information use by exploring the relationship between PPI use and performance in four specific decision areas. We observe a fair amount of homogeneity across the three sectors but also find salient differences regarding how PPI use is linked to different performance indicators. While public hospitals primarily use PPI to meet community needs, nonprofit and for-profit hospitals use PPI to improve patient outcomes. The article concludes with a discussion of the findings within the performance management and cross-sector differences literatures.
Bedside healthcare rationing dilemmas: a survey from Croatia

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Croatian views about issues regarding bedside rationing decisions. Design/methodology/approach An online questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 243 Croatian citizens. In a context of hypothetical scenarios involving priority setting decisions taking by physicians, the present study elicits Croatian respondents’ views concerning: the ethical principles that should guide patients prioritization; the parties that should make prioritization decisions; and the likelihood of healthcare rationing becoming a reality. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis and parametric and non-parametric tests were performed. Findings Findings suggest that Croatian respondents: support multiple substantive rationing criteria, with an incident in favoring the worst-off, reducing inequalities in health, translated in the fair-innings argument and efficiency achievement; appoint health professionals as rationing decision makers; and do not seem to believe in the possibility of patient selection becoming a reality. Practical implications Favoring the worst-off, equalizing life time health and the pursuit of efficiency seem to be the criteria most preferred by Croatian respondents to guide rationing policy at the micro level. Originality/value This study is the first attempt to elicit Croatian opinions concerning several rationing criteria inherent in healthcare micro allocation decisions. Healthcare rationing is a serious challenge to Croatian policy makers and so it would be useful for the public’s perceptions and beliefs to be considered.
Numerical investigation of the potential of tailored inclusions as noise reduction measures

The reduction of noise and vibrations is an important task in automotive and aircraft industry. Various applications require slender or adjustable reduction measures. Metamaterials formed by a periodic assembly of unit cells consisting of non-homogeneous material decomposition and having topology dependent favorable absorption properties can meet this need. The absorption efficiency of different types of metamaterials has already been proven by various authors. Thereby metamaterials formed by a periodic assembly of tuned mass dampers on plate-like structures or porous layers with rigid inclusions have been investigated. Beyond that, we suggest to design metamaterials consisting of inclusions containing appropriately tuned mass dampers embedded in a material layer and to examine their noise reduction potential. It is investigated, whether besides absorbing energy by exciting the damping device, the orientation of the tuned mass damper is active by purposefully deflecting waves inside the structure. The analysis is carried out applying the Wave Finite Element Method. Using the inverse approach of the Wave Finite Element Method, stop bands, i.e. frequencies for which no free wave propagation is observed, are detected. In a parameter study, the influence of the characteristics of the inclusion on the absorption behavior of the metamaterial is determined.
Characterization of Unplanned Metropolitan Wireless Networks

Mobile Internet penetration has grown steadily over the last few years. Although most of today’s users have access through their 3G Mobile Operators, there are still regions that are under-covered for various reasons. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) can play an important role by providing the means to fully cover those underserved regions. Due to their intrinsic nature, WMN require a critical mass of nodes belonging to the mesh in order to be effective. In this paper we present a study conducted in Aveiro, Portugal which intends to draw some conclusions on the feasibility of deploying a WMN in small to medium cities based on the cooperation of its inhabitants and on off-the-shelf wireless equipment.
Effect of lemon peel extract on the oxidative stability and storage quality of Tabak-Maz, traditional fried mutton ribs

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility of utilization of lemon peel extract as a natural antioxidant source in muscle foods. The products incorporated with lemon peel extract were assessed for various oxidative stability and storage quality parameters. Design/methodology/approach – The study was designed to evaluate the effect of lemon peel extract on the oxidative stability and storage quality of Tabak-Maz, a popular traditional meat product. The products were prepared and treated with different concentrations of lemon peel extract (0.5, 1, 1.5 per cent) and were aerobically packaged in low-density polyethylene pouches and assessed for lipid stability and storage quality parameters under refrigerated (4 ± 1°C) conditions. Findings – Lemon peel extract showed a significant (p < 0.05) effect on the lipid stability of the products as the treated products exhibited significantly (p < 0.05) lower thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) (mg malonaldehyde/kg) and free fatty ac.
Hedge Fund Stock Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Hedge funds significantly reduced their equity holdings during the recent financial crisis. In 2008Q3-Q4, hedge funds sold about 29% of their aggregate portfolio. Redemptions and margin calls were the primary drivers of selloffs. Consistent with forced deleveraging, the selloffs took place in volatile and liquid stocks. In comparison, redemptions and stock sales for mutual funds were not as severe. We show that hedge fund investors withdraw capital three times as intensely as mutual fund investors do in response to poor returns. We relate this stronger sensitivity to losses to share liquidity restrictions and institutional ownership in hedge funds.