Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN TOURISM EDUCATION

Purpose – Digital technology is an undeniable prime mover of society, and the ongoing digital transformation seems to be increasing the challenges within Tourism Education. Thus, this study aims at identifying, in the literature, advantages and constraints it poses to the area. Methodology – This work follows a literature review methodology, focusing on peer-reviewed, open source, recently published research, and the selected papers were analysed though a content analysis. Findings – The results yielded that teachers and students agree that some of the clear advantages of using digital technology in Tourism Education are: i) time and space flexibility, ii) the development of technical/systemic competencies, and iii) the possibilities it opens for authentic/situated teaching and learning. Furthermore, even though the use of digital technology appears to have a positive effect on students’ engagement, there is still some way to go to fully address the development of the students’ and teachers’ digital competence. Contributions – This study makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion around the need to reshape Tourism Education by addressing not only students’ but also faculty members’ needs. It has a dual focus, i.e. on the use of digital technology in teaching and learning; and on the development of digital competence. Even though it concerns Tourism in specific, the results of this paper can be seen as a contribution to the state of the art of upcoming and ongoing projects in the Educational area – e.g. "Future Proof Your Classroom – Teaching Skills 2030” (ref. 2017–1– AT01–KA203-034984).
Fixed Partial Denture Failures: A Clinical Survey for Evaluation of the Factors Responsible

Cooresponding Author: Roopa K Thippanna, Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, CODS, Davangere, Karnataka, India, e-mail: roopakt25@gmail.com ABSTRACT Aim: Most of the time, the failures are conditions that occur during or after appropriately performed fixed prosthodontics treatment procedures. Reasons for failures in fixed prosthodontics can be divided into biological, mechanical and esthetic factors. The present study was conducted to assess biological, mechanical, and esthetic failure factors among fixed partial dentures (FPDs). Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients who reported to the Department of Prosthodontics, College of Dental Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India with complaints about fixed partial denture. A total of 450 fixed partial denture failures in subjects were assessed. The fixed partial denture was examined for the failure factors (biological, mechanical, and esthetic). The selected subjects underwent a clinical examination and set of a questionnaire about the complaint of the fixed partial denture and further detail clinical examination about the failure factor. Results: Out of 450 fixed partial denture failures, 33.3% of it showed the biological failure, 55.1% showed the mechanical failure and 11.5% showed esthetic failure. The most frequent reason for failure was mechanical factors followed by biological and esthetic failure factors. Conclusion: The caries was the most common biological failure factor, the loss of retention was the most common cause of mechanical failure factor and the unacceptable color match was accounted more when compared to other esthetic failure factors. Clinical significance: By knowing the type of failures, we can plan a proper treatment plan so that the abutment will have a long time prognosis.
Do Swedish students differ from each other and the general population in terms of patience and risk taking

Do student samples provide insights that are generalizable to the general public? Could the results be affected by what study area or study year the students are in? Using student samples is an ongoing debate in economic research and we look at this problem in terms of time and risk preferences. Using survey data on students and non-students in Sweden, we study if there are any differences in patience and risk taking between the two samples. We also investigate whether time and risk preferences differ between genders. In addition, we analyze whether what kind of students that are used affects the results which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been studied before. We find no significant differences in time/risk preferences between the two samples and a gender difference is only found in the general sample. Our most important results are that study area and years at university have a significant effect on time and risk preferences which indicates that it is important to consider what type of students are used as subjects. Personal numbers: 951130-3407, 930611-3763 Supervisor: Elina Lampi
From Municipal to Regional Immigrant Integration in a Major Emerging Gateway: Creating a Community to Plan a Welcoming Metro Atlanta

Abstract Welcoming America, a nonprofit organization based in metropolitan Atlanta, has grown a membership network throughout the United States. The network consists of nonprofit organizations and local governments that present their communities as “welcoming” for immigrants and refugees—referred to as “Welcoming Cities. ” In 2018, Welcoming America launched the “One Region Initiative” to cultivate a concept of “welcoming region” to transcend municipal boundaries. The pilot initiative took place in the Atlanta metropolitan area, a major emerging immigrant gateway, and involved community listening sessions and a 56-member steering committee, representing the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The One Region Initiative disseminated recommendations to the public in a regional strategic welcoming plan in August 2018. Through an applied, community-based participatory research framework, this paper examines the process of the One Region Initiative as an example of a diverse and dynamic epistemic community for addressing challenges and opportunities of immigrant integration and receptivity within a major-emerging immigrant gateway.
Six years of MTB MLE: Revisiting Teachers’ Language Attitude towards the Teaching of Chavacano

To gauge the success of the mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines is tantamount to examining it in a milieu where its citizens speak a number of languages. Zamboanga City is credibly one of the cities in the country identified to be multilingual where its people speak more or less eight (8) languages, namely: Chavacano, Cebuano-Bisaya, Tausug, Sama, Yakan, Tagalog, Subanen, and Hiligaynon. This study surveys the MTB-MLE program in its sixth year of implementation. Specifically, it attempted to determine the general language attitude of the teacher-respondents in using Chavacano as a language of instruction, and the difficulties they face in the classroom using the mother tongue. The data were gathered through qualitative descriptive method using survey questionnaire and interview questions. Specifically, to identify the challenges encountered by teachers using the mother tongue for instructions, the data were taken predominantly from interviews using semi-structure interview protocol. The data were analyzed employing qualitative content analysis that could be described as a research approach used for ‘the subjective interpretation of the content of text data. The respondents all come from one big public primary school i.e. Don Gregorio Elementary Memorial School (DONGEMS), which is located at the heart of Zamboanga City where the implementation of MTB-MLE was seen to be much difficult because there are eight prevailing languages used by the people within the area. The findings revealed that teachers generally have negative attitude towards the use of Chavacano as language of instruction. Moreover, the respondents maintained that the problems in the initial implementation of the MTB-MLE policy have remained consistent with the difficulties they face at present. Specifically, these are the inadequate books/references written in mother tongue, lack or deficiency in vocabulary, and insufficient teacher training. Keywords: MTB-MLE, Language of Instruction, Language Attitude, Ethnicity
Information Revelation in Decentralized Markets

We measure information percolation in securities markets for a one security – many markets setting. Applications range from over-the-counter dealer markets to trading in multiple electronic venues. The outcome is a network map with markets as vertices and information flows as directional edges. The approach first removes pricing errors due to, for example, liquidity trades. It then measures the information flow from A to B by the strength of B’s immediate response to A. To illustrate, we analyze information percolation in foreign exchange during normal times and after an event where price discovery is suddenly left to the market (Swiss franc crash).
The Use of Pairs Check Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text for Junior High School Students

Makalah ini mendiskusikan bahwa strategi Pairs Check (Pasangan Mengecek) dapat digunakan oleh guru Bahasa Inggris di SMP dalam mengajarkan pemahaman membaca teks naratif Berdasarkan pengalaman penulis dalam mengajarkan bahasa Inggris, siswa mengalami kesulitan dalam membaca, terutama dalam pemahaman membaca. Guru bisa menggunakan strategi Pairs Check dalam proses belajar dan mengajar pemahaman membaca teks naratif. Strategi ini diaplikasikan untuk membantu siswa menyelesaikan permasalahan dalam membaca. Strategi ini memberikan siswa kesempatan untuk saling bertukar pikiran, pendapat dan mengecek pemahamannya satu sama lain dengan pasangan diskusi mereka. Dengan mengaplikasikan strategi ini dalam membaca teks naratif, guru dapat mencapai tujuan dalam mengajarkan membaca teks naratif kepada siswa SMP. Dengan kata lain, strategi ini dapat membantu guru dalam mengajarkan membaca teks naratifkepada siswa.
Calculus-enhanced energy-first curriculum for introductory physics improves student performance locally and in downstream courses

Here we demonstrate the benefits of a new curriculum for introductory calculus-based physics that motivates classical mechanics using a modified version of Hamiltonian mechanics. This curriculum shifts the initial focus of instruction away from forces and the associated vector mathematics, which are known to be problematic for students, to the scalar quantity energy, which is more closely aligned with their previously established intuition, and associated differential and integral calculus. We show that implementation of this calculus-enhanced “energy-first” curriculum resulted in higher normalized gains on the Force Concept Inventory exam for all students and improved performance in downstream engineering courses for students with lower ACT math scores. In other words, the downstream benefits were largest for students with lower math abilities who also pose a larger retention risk. This new curriculum thus has the potential to improve student retention by specifically helping the students who need help the most, including traditionally underserved populations who often have weaker mathematics preparation. We propose future work to investigate whether this new curriculum has lowered the math transference barrier to learning in introductory physics, resulting concomitantly in improvements in student learning of classical mechanics and in student fluency with applied mathematics.
Executive Compensation in Korea: Evidence from a New Mandatory Disclosure

This paper finds some stylized facts about executive pay in South Korea. Using aggregate data of the listed companies since 2002, we find that 1) the director’s remuneration has risen faster than the employee compensation, thus, the pay ratio of executive and employee has escalated from 3.0 to 4.5; 2) the executive compensation for large business group fluctuates more widely than that for small and medium enterprises does, hence the pay ratio for large firms changes widely too; 3) the median pay ratio has not grown monotonically but it rather rises to remain still around year 2011, which is accounted for mostly by small and medium enterprises. New information on executive compensation by compulsory disclosure starting from 2013 made further analysis of CEO compensation attainable. Based on the conventional regression analysis for 2013-2017, we find that 1) the elasticity of CEO pay with respect to firm value is about 0.18; 2) the volatility of stock return is negatively related to CEO pay; 3) contemporaneous stock return is positively associated with the pay; 4) there is insufficient evidence that large business groups pay their CEOs more than small and medium enterprises do. These results are robust under various model specifications.
Formation of a Product Promotion Strategy Based on the Analysis of the Behavior of Network Users Through the Bruno de Finetti Paradox

The formation of a product promotion strategy in the modern turbulent conditions of the business environment is faced with the multifactorial task of searching for the target audience. Under these conditions, it is important to consider categories such as capital. The paradox of Bruno de Finetti at one time was used to study the ability of insurance companies to conduct business under uncertainty. In modern conditions of a turbulent environment for entrepreneurship, simple farms fall under this category, which makes one think about the inevitability of bankruptcy of enterprises, which was previously proved mathematically. Many different business models are ready to adapt to modern conditions, but not many are ready for such transformations.
Association of Brachial Artery Measures with Estimated GFR>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 in a Cross-Sectional Study of the Community-Based Women

Objective: The purpose of this study is to estimate whether early decline in kidney disease is correlated with brachial artery measures as surrogate markers of the endothelial function in community-based women. Methods: We studied 36 women with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 in community-based population women were enrolled in this study. Brachial artery measures including Flow-Mediated Vasodilation (FMD), Nitroglycerin-Mediated Vasodilation (NMD), Brachial Artery Diameter (BAD), FMD/NMD ratio and Post-Nitroglycerin Brachial Artery Diameter (P-NTGD) examinations were measured in all subjects by using brachial artery ultrasonography. The eGFR was calculated using the Japanese GFR inference formula, which was developed by the Japanese Society of Nephrology. Results: There was significantly positive correlation between eGFR and FMD (r=0.348, p=0.041), positive correlation between eGFR and FMD/NMD ratio (r=0.471, p=0.004) and negative correlation between eGFR and P-NTGD (r=-0.405, p=0.016) were recognized. Negative correlation between Serum Uric Acid (SUA) and eGFR (r=-0.335, p=0.049) and negative correlation between FMD and SUA (r=-0.34, p=0.045) were also demonstrated. Conclusion: Mild renal dysfunction with eGFR>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 was associated with endothelial dysfunction in women. The cardio-renal interrelationship may be also suggested under mild renal dysfunction. It can be suggested that mild renal dysfunction might be a cardiovascular risk factor in women. Though it should not be distinctly stated just based on the results of the study. Keywords: Estimated glomerular filtration rate; Flow-mediated vasodilation; Endothelial dysfunction; Cardio-renal interrelationship; Mild renal dysfunction
Ambivalent Emotional Experiences of Everyday Visual and Musical Objects

Art brings rich, pleasurable experiences to our daily lives. However, many theories of art and aesthetics focus on specific strong experiences—in the contexts of museums, galleries, and concert halls and the aesthetic perception of canonized arts—disregarding the impact of daily experiences. Furthermore, pleasure is often treated as a simplistic concept of merely positive affective character, yet recent psychological research has revealed the experience of pleasure is far more complicated. This study explored the nature of pleasure evoked by everyday aesthetic objects. A mixture of statistical and qualitative methods was applied in the analysis of the data collected through a semi-structured online survey (N = 464). The result asserts the experience of emotional ambivalence occurred and was composed of a variety of nuanced emotions and related association, rather than just a combination of contradicting emotions. Such paradoxical pleasure is defined as a self-conscious hedonic exposure to negative emotions in art reception. The study also depicted four types of attitudinal ambivalence: loss, diversity, socio-ideology, and distance, reflecting contextual elements intertwined into experience, and the connection between ambivalence and intense emotional experience.
Essays in Financial Intermediation

This dissertation contains three essays on how differences among financial intermediaries affect the provision of financial services. The first essay, "Bank Consolidation and Financial Inclusion," focuses on deposit-taking and identifies the adverse effects of bank consolidation on lower-income depositors through the higher deposit account fees larger banks charge. In the second essay, "Large Banks and Small Firm Lending," Victoria Ivashina, Ryan D. Taliaferro and I examine the large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small businesses following the housing market crash in 2007. In the third essay, "Risk, Lending, and Organizational Form," I focus on mortgage lending and investigate how differences in organizational form drive both risk-taking during the real estate boom and subsequent performance after the real estate market crash.
A comparative study of single versus multiple instillations of intravaginal PGE2 gel for induction of labour

Introduction: The aim of induction is to achieve successful vaginal delivery where continuation of pregnancy is not desirable. Unfavourable cervix is one of the main causes of failed induction. Introduction of prostaglandins has revolutionised the scenario of cervical ripening. More than one dose of Prosta glandin E2 (PGE2) gel may be necessary to facilitate cervical ripening and increase the chances of vaginal delivery. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was done to find the efficacy of multiple instillations of intravaginal Prostaglandin E2 gel and to compare the maternal and fetal outcome between the single instillation group and multiple instillation group. The women who went into labour or achieved cervical ripening with a single instillation of Prostaglandin E2 gel forms Group A. Those who required more than one instillation of prostaglandin E2 gel forms Group B. Both groups were compared for specific parameters. Results: Primigravidas required multiple instillations. Postdated pregnancy was the most common indication for Induction of Labour. 45.2% of primis had only single dose and 54.8% required multiple doses. About two third (77.8%) of multipara required only one dose and a third of multipara needed multiple doses. In Group A 90.7% had vaginal delivery, 9.3% had Caesarean section. Group B 95.7% had vaginal delivery and 4.3% had Caesarean section. Conclusion: Though PGE2 0.5mg gel is recommended to be used intracervically, it is equally effective intravaginally. Three doses of intravaginal PGE2 can be safely used without the risk of uterine hyperstimulation. There is no increased fetal risk with multiple instillations of intravaginal PGE2 gel. Keywords: Prostaglandin E2, Bishops score, Induction of Labour, Hyperstimulation.
Nature-inspired Optimal Tuning of Scaling Factors of Mamdani Fuzzy Model for Intelligent Feed Dispensing System

The increasing trends in intelligent control systems design has provide means for engineers to evolve robust and flexible means of adapting them to diverse applications. This tendency would reduce the challenges and complexity in bringing about the appropriate controllers to effect stability and efficient operations of industrial systems. This paper investigates the effect of two nature inspired algorithms, Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), on PID controller for optimum tuning of a Fuzzy Logic Controller for Poultry Feed Dispensing Systems (PFDS). The Fuzzy Logic Controller was used to obtain a desired control speed for the conceptualized intelligent PFDS model. Both GA and PSO were compared to investigate which of the two algorithms could permit dynamic PFDS model to minimize feed wastage and reduce the alarming human involvement in dispensing poultry feeds majorly in the tropics. The modelling and simulation results obtained from the study using discrete event simulator and computational programming environment showed that PSO gave a much desired results for the optimally tuned FLC-PID, for stable intelligent PFDS with fast system response, rise time, and settling time compared to GA.
Gambaran Umum Kesejahteraan Psikologis Mahasiswa

This study aims to determine the condition of psychological well-being for college studentsin the accounting education study program at Indonesia University of Education. The instrument usedin this research is the scale of psychological well-being. The subjects in this research is 79 collegestudents in the 2018/2019 accounting education study program. The results showed that 38% of collegestudents had low psychological well-being, 46% of college students had medium psychological wellbeing and 16% of the college students had hidgh psychological well-being. The results of this researchcan be used by counselors to improve psychological well-being with guidance or counseling technique.
RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL CORPORATIVA E GERENCIAMENTO DE RESULTADOS POR ACCRUALS

The study aimed to evaluate the relationship between investments disclosed in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the practices of accruals earnings management (EM) in Brazilian companies. For this, a descriptive, documental and quantitative research was carried out in the period from 2011 to 2015. The sample included 122 companies, which had the necessary information to carry out the study. The results indicate that CSR is related to EM, and that companies with higher levels of CSR practice more EM when it focus on increasing profits. For companies that aim to reduce profits through EM, CSR has shown to be negatively related, ie, the more investments disclosed in CSR, the lower the EM level. Thus, we can conclude that CSR practices can configure an additional aspect about factors related to EM in emerging countries such as Brazil, which is in line with part of the literature in developed countries. This result can contribute to regulators, auditors, and other stakeholders in the quality of accounting information, as it exposes a possible use of CSR by Brazilian companies to mask a profit inflation through the management of accruals.
Measuring economic competence of secondary school students in Germany

Abstract The authors introduce a test of economic competence for German-speaking secondary school students and provide evidence from a large-scale assessment with 6,230 students from grades 7 to 10. They present the development and psychometric properties of the scale, along with an investigation of predictors of economic competence. They find evidence of a gender gap favoring male students, lower scores for students with a migration background, and parents’ socioeconomic background being a predictor of test performance. Additionally, the authors document sizeable differences between tracks, as well as gains in economic competence across grades in the order of magnitude of 0.06 to 0.20 standard deviation per year. The article concludes with perspectives on an impact evaluation of a curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education in secondary school.