Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biological evaluation of the effects of Hyaluronic acid on Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) based Electrospun Nanocomposite scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering application

ABSTRACT This study aimed to develop a nanocomposite scaffold using electrospinning of Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), Chitosan (Cs), Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs), and different concentrations of Hyaluronic Acid (HA). The results showed that an increasing in HA concentration from 0 to 15%wt significantly increased the nanofibers diameter and hydrophilicity and insignificantly decreased the porosity and tensile strength of the nanocomposite scaffolds. The bioactivity and biodegradation assessment showed that PHB-Cs-MWNTs-HA 15% scaffold has proper bioactivity and biodegradability. These findings indicated that the incorporation of HA increased the hydrophilicity, and subsequently enhanced the biodegradation and the bioactivity of the nanocomposite scaffolds. In vitro cell culture studies showed that chondrocytes were able to attach onto the surface of electrospun scaffolds. These results clearly implied that the fabricated nanofibers can be effectively used as the cartilage tissue engineering and HA has positive effects on the biological properties of the nanocomposite scaffolds.
A Qualitative Inter-Relation Between Drop Impacts on a Solid Surface and the Interaction of a Droplet Placed Inside a Superheated Pool

The phenomenon of drop impacts on a solid surface and the interaction of a cold droplet with a superheated liquid pool are both of great relevance in many practical and engineering situations. Most of the reported research in the literature on these phenomena focus on the impact of a droplet on a solid surface or a liquid surface and there are hardly any study on the interaction of a stationary cold droplet inside a hot pool of liquid, a phenomenon observed quite often. This study reports high speed flow visualization of a drop impact on a Teflon-coated solid surface at different liquid properties and impact Reynolds number. Simultaneously, high speed imaging of the interaction of a cold droplet with the superheated olive oil pool has also been carried out. The images show a striking resemblance between the flow dynamics of the two phenomena. A comparison between the two phenomena is made and suggestions are made for the possible underlying physics.
The Economic Determinants of the 'Cultural Backlash': Globalization and Attitudes in Western Europe

We investigate the impact of globalization on people’s attitudes in fifteen Western European countries, over 1988-2008. We employ data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and the European Values Study (EVS). We compute a time-varying regionspecific measure of exposure to Chinese imports, based on the historical industry specialization of each region. We attribute to each individual the import shock in the region of residence in the years prior to the survey. To identify the causal impact of the import shock, we instrument imports to Europe using Chinese imports to the United States. We find that respondents residing in regions that received stronger globalization shocks are systematically less supportive of democracy and liberal values, more in favor of unconstrained strong leaders, and particularly concerned with immigration, especially with the cultural threat posed by it. These results are robust to controlling for the initial average attitudes of each region, computed from the oldest available survey for each country.
Partisan-Electoral Cycles in Public Employment: Evidence from Developed Democracies

According to both early empirical findings and theoretical expectations of partisan preferences, left-wing parties in government ought to prefer higher levels of public employment for both ideological and opportunistic reasons. In contrast, using country-fixed effects in a panel of 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, this article finds no evidence of left-wing governments systematically increasing public employment. However, there is evidence that left-wing governments increase public employment in election years, which gives rise to an opportunistic, partisan-electoral cycle in public employment. In line with the logic of core-voter targeting and political budget cycles, incumbent left-wing parties seem to increase the number of their potential core voters when they are needed most.
Accessibility of Technical And Vocational Training Among Disabled People: Survey Of TVET Institutions In North Rift Region, Kenya

People with disabilities face particular challenges in education and training. Most of them are deprived of access to basic literacy and numeracy skills. They also face barriers that affect access to Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions some of them arising from the surrounding socio-economic environment and from mainstream TVET institutions. The main purpose of this paper was to assess barriers to accessibility of TVET institutions by disabled people in Kenya. The study was carried out in the North Rift Region of Kenya. The target population of the study consisted of the lectures and students with disabilities in 5 public TVET Institutions. Semi Structured Questionnaires were used as the main instruments for data collection. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics with the aid of SPSS IBM version 20. One of the most striking findings was that disabled students in TVET institutions are discriminated and isolated. Findings also indicated that the disabled students cannot access some of the school buildings; they are also barred from enrolling in TVET due to policies that provide cut off point marks or entry behavior to courses they desire to enroll in. It was also found that teachers had positive attitude toward the disabled students, contrary to the fact that students considered teachers to be unfriendly to them. Therefore, the paper recommended that skills training and instructional mechanisms must consider specific needs of youth with different types of disabilities before putting them together in regular class. Better coordination between the government and service providers could anticipate and mitigate this barrier. There is also the need for specialized training institutions to be upgraded and modernized, and mainstream training institutions be adjusted to include training of persons with disabilities. Keywords: TVET, Disabled Students, Accessibility, Skills, PWD
A comparative study between flipped classroom and traditional lecture-based classroom in first year medical students

Introduction: Flipped classroom is a new pedagogical model in which students are provided with study resource material to develop a basic understanding of the topic before class, and in-class precious time is used for learner-centric activities. Accordingly the study objectives were to compare the effect of flipped and traditional classroom teaching method and to determine the student’s perception of flipped and traditional teaching method.Method: This was a non-randomized experimental study. A detailed multiple choice question based test was used to assess the knowledge gain. Another structured questionnaire on students’ perception on flipped classroom teaching and traditional teaching technique was used for both the groups.Results: A total of 112 students participated in this study. The mean assessment scores in the flipped and traditional classroom were not statistically significant. We observed in the current study that the qualitative response was better as compared to quantitative response.Conclusion: As per our qualitative observation, a hybrid of both traditional and flipped classroom teaching method can be used in the transition period until the acceptance for new innovative methods increase. Long term learning gain may be attained by improving motivation and engagement of students in learning process.
Compensation Justice and Psychological Contract as Antecedent for Engineer’s Turnover Intention

Turnover intention rate among Indonesian engineer is relatively high. The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of organizational justice and psychological contract toward turnover intention. There are some antecedents of turnover intention in this research. They are distributive justice, procedural justice, psychological contract and job satisfaction. 139 engineers from 5 companies are involved as respondent. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results show that distributive justice in compensation and psychological contract have positive effect on turnover intention, while procedural justice does not influence job satisfaction and turnover intention. Another result also shows that job satisfaction does not have influence turnover intention. Therefore, job satisfaction is not considered as mediating variable Citation: Tjahjono HK, Ekaputranto ES (2018) Compensation Justice and Psychological Contract as Antecedent for Engineer’s Turnover Intention. Arabian J Bus Manag Review 8: 360.
Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy)

The interrelations between cities, inland areas, connecting road networks, urban, and political polarities have evolved, thereby determining economic, social, and place-based impacts. Thus, via a case study of Sardinia island (Italy), this study analyses regional transport data to evaluate the interrelations and mobility issues between the main cities and the settlement geographies of internal areas with a predominantly agricultural vocation. First, it frames the problems (common to the islands) theoretically and focuses on how the internal areas (considered marginal for a long time) have considerable material and immaterial resources to be valorised. Second, the study evaluates the internal relationship networks that characterise the island territory through the cluster and principal components analysis using origin–destination data to represent vocations and population needs. A smart governance strategy is proposed for Sardinia through an assessment of the functionality of urban settlements and interconnections between the hinterlands (the small and the main cities of the case study), following the smart region paradigm. The study underlines the importance of the interconnection between urban geographical areas. Thus, given an analytical-numerical approach, the originality of this research is highlighted in how it is possible to extract social vocations of the territory, which is generally not easily quantifiable.
Are Corporate Governance Theories Relevant to Account for the History and Long- Term Survival of Old Catholic Orders?

Despite extensive research efforts, the causal link between various corporate governance practices and the long-term performance and survival of organizations is still largely unexplored. Various theoretical approaches aim at explaining a governance system's influence on organizational performance and sustainability over the long run, but few contemporaneous corporate organizations have experienced long enough lifespans to examine the underliyng assumtions consistently in a sound and consistent empirical setting. Catholic orders are among the oldest still existing organizations and hence present a unique opportunity to test theoretical assumptions about governance systems' capacity to influence long-term survival. This paper presents a structured inventory of the current state of research on the form and functions of the governance systems of three old Catholic orders (namely the Benedictines, Dominicans, and Jesuits) in historical perspective and confirms the relevance of this kind of approach.
Workplace Gender Pay Gaps: Does Gender Matter Less the Longer Employees Stay?

Research indicates men often receive greater merit rewards than women for the same performance. It is unclear, however, whether gender differences in merit rewards narrow with increasing firm tenure or whether gender differences in merit-rewards stay constant across employees' firm-internal career. Using longitudinal personnel records of a private U.S. employer (2005–2014), the author finds no evidence for declining gender effects on pay when employees stay longer, not even among nonprofessionals where performance is easier to assess. Results contradict information-based theories and speak to status characteristics theory. Moreover, gender disparities are significant only when supervisors have discretion over merit increases.
Technical efficiency, reform debts and financial management of farms in transition countries : the experience of the Czech Republic

L'article etudie les inefficacites dues au management et l'impact des decisions financieres sur la performance des exploitations tcheques, individuelles et collectives, specialisees en grandes cultures et en elevage. Pour estimer l'efficacite technique, la methode Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) est employee, en combinaison avec une procedure de bootstrapping afin de tenir compte de la variabilite statistique. Puis l'impact des decisions financieres est analyse par un Tobit simultane, qui tient compte de l'endogeneite des variables financieres. Les resultats revelent une relation positive entre l'endettement et l'efficacite des exploitations collectives, mais la relation est negative pour les exploitations individuelles. Cela semble suggerer que les exploitations individuelles utilisent les prets a des fins non productives. Les exploitations collectives croulent sous les dettes provenant du processus de reforme, qui peuvent faire obstacle a leur acces aux prets commerciaux et affecter negativement l'efficacite.
Code Mixing AnalysisinEnglishTeaching Learning ProcessatSenior High School 1 Takalar

The results showedthat there are three types of code mixing consisting of 99utterance (data), 55 data of intra sentential code mixing, 33 of intra lexical codemixing and 11 of involving a change of pronunciation. There are four reasons ofusing code mixing in English teaching learning process;Students have low level inEnglish, making joke, more relaxed and habit. For students’ perception, most ofthem agreed that using code mixing in English teaching learning process is necessaryto help them understand the complex contentandthe teaching learning processcanrun well.
Knowledge, attitude, and performance of internists regarding the relationship of periodontal disease and diabetes mellitus

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Studies have confirmed a strong association between periodontal disease (PD) and diabetes mellitus (DM). Treatment of DM is in the field of internists. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and performance of Iranian internists regarding the relationship of DM and PD. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire comprising of five domains and 34 questions was utilized (12 questions regarding demographics, 2 questions regarding the need for continuing education courses on oral health for physicians, 5 questions about knowledge, 12 questions about attitude, and 3 questions about the performance of physicians regarding the association of PD and DM). This questionnaire has been previously used in a study conducted in North Carolina, United States of America. The questionnaire was translated to Persian and its validity and reliability were confirmed. Next, 134 internists participating in a national congress filled out the questionnaire. The response rate was 97%. Data were analysed using the linear regression model in SPSS software. RESULTS: The mean and standard deviation (SD) of score of knowledge, attitude, and performance of internists was 57 ± 26, 61 ± 12, and 37 ± 28, respectively, out of one hundred. Among the participants, 96% emphasized on the significance of cooperation with dentists in management of patients with DM and 81% of them confirmed the need for periodontal examination training for physicians. The total score of performance was significantly higher in internists with academic positions (β = 0.177, P = 0.047), older age (β = 0.234, P = 0.011), higher mean weekly working hours (β = 0.185, P = 0.043), and those who had passed a course regarding clinical, dental, and periodontal examination as part of their educational curricula (β = 0.190, P = 0.035). CONCLUSION: This study showed that internists had low level of knowledge and performance regarding the relationship of PD and DM. This casts light on importance of enrichment of the educational curriculum and continuing medical educations in this regard.
Deviant Workplace Behavior as Emotional Action: Discriminant and Interactive Roles for Work-Related Emotional Intelligence

ABSTRACT Employees are thought to engage in deviant workplace behaviors (e.g., sabotage, theft) when they are stressed, frustrated, or angry. Given the emotional nature of these actions, individual differences in work-related emotional intelligence (W-EI) should, potentially, be consequential. Three studies (ns = 91, 198, & 147) examined this possibility by assessing variations in emotion perception and management skills with an ability measure specifically designed for the workplace context. Employees who received higher W-EI scores were less prone to both interpersonal deviance and organizational deviance and these relationships displayed discriminant validity as well as meaningful interactive effects with organizational stressors. The investigation extends our understanding of workplace deviance in a way that highlights an important role for work-related variations in emotional intelligence.
Inequality in India: A review of levels and trends

This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s in India. It draws extensively on the existing literature, supplemented with analyses of multiple data sources, to paint a picture. It notes where different data sources suggest conflicting conclusions that reflect both data challenges and the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes.
Twitter Analysis for Intelligent Transportation

The amount of data available online has grown enormously over the last decade as a result of the rapid growth of smartphone users and the availability of communication applications. Due to the anonymity and instantaneous nature of social media broadcasting compared to conventional attitudinal survey methods, social media mining is becoming popular for complementing traditional traffic detection methods due to its accessibility in reaching a large population and the opportunities for reflecting the true and immediate behaviour of participants for free. This study presents a framework for Arabic Twitter content analysis to gain transportation insight. The study is done with a dataset of more than 1 million tweets collected within 3 months. The proposed model comprises three main components: data acquisition, data analysis and the reverse geotagging scheme (RGS). The RGS tackles the problem of lack of location information in the tweets. Results show that 13% of the dataset reports traffic-related incidents with an overall precision of 55% and 87% for incidents identification prediction without and with reverse geotagging, respectively. This proves the efficiency of the developed analyser in identifying tweets on transportation and the potential of the RGS in defining the location of tweets with no registered location information.
Determinants of quality of life among people living with HIV in the hilly region of Myanmar

Abstract The aim of this study was to determine quality of life and its associating factors among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the hilly region of Myanmar. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the National AIDS Program and Integrated HIV Care Program in Myanmar. A total of 326 PLHIV were recruited, of whom 49.1% had high QOL. Adherence to ART (AOR: 5.18; 95% CI: 2.02–13.31), high social capital (AOR: 3.16; 95% CI: 1.85–5.38), being male (AOR: 2.21; 95% CI: 1.27–3.83), asymptomatic (AOR: 2.18; 95% CI: 1.24–3.83), low self-stigma (AOR: 2.85; 95% CI: 1.61–5.04), and time spent at the clinic less than 30 min (AOR: 2.17; 95% CI: 1.15–4.08) were significant predictors of quality of life (QOL) among PLHIV. This study revealed that social factors such as HIV stigma and gender issues are important determinants of QOL in addition to health service factors and clinical outcomes.
The effect of halal foods awareness on purchase decision with religiosity as a moderating variable

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effect of religiosity on the relationship between awareness and purchase decision of halal foods. Design/methodology/approach Using a convenience sampling procedure, 200 questionnaires were distributed to various local higher education institutions with a 64% response rate. A moderated regression analysis is used to test the relationship between awareness and purchase decision, with religiosity as the moderating variable. Findings As expected, the authors find that among the sample, the level of awareness toward halal foods is high, and that the effect of awareness on purchase decision is positive and significant. Importantly, they find that religiosity acts as a moderating variable on the relationship between awareness and purchase decision. Research limitations/implications First, the sample was taken from higher institutions only and respondents were selected using convenience sampling. Hence, it may not be fully representative of the Brunei Muslim population. Second, there may also be omitted variables not considered in the study. Third, the survey instrument and conceptualization of religiosity are both issues that may require further investigation in the literature. Practical implications The results indicate that awareness is an important antecedent of Muslim students’ intention to purchase halal foods. Marketers should design their campaigns focusing on creating awareness regarding their compliance with halal products. Moreover, food manufacturers and sellers should use the reliable halal certification and logo as a way to inform their consumers that their products are truly halal. Originality/value This study adds to the current limited knowledge of halal foods research. In particular, the authors investigate the moderating effect of religiosity on the relationship between awareness and purchase decision of halal foods.
A Study Of Speech Acts Used In Maher Zain’s Selected Song Lyrics

The purpose of this study is to explain what types of speech acts are used in Maher Zain’s selected song lyrics and to identify the condition influencing speech acts to be appropriate. This study applies qualitative method because of the data are in sentence form. This study also applies Kreidler’s (1998) theory of speech act and Yule’s (1996) theory of appropriate condition. The writer found several results. First, seven types of speech acts found in 40 data that have taken from seven songs. Second, Performative is the most commonly used in Maher Zain’s songs lyrics. Third, Sincerity condition is the dominant condition influencing some speech acts to be appropriate. Keywords: speech acts, seven types of speech acts, appropriate condition.
The Cyclical Behavior of Factor Shares

We review the empirical evidence about factor shares and show that, apart from a varying trend, they are characterized by a strong and persistent cyclical behavior. We argue that existing models of the business cycles cannot replicate these facts. Next we study a model of growth and innovation under competitive conditions. Firms choose how many workers to hire, how much to invest, and which production technique to use. New productive capacity, embodying labor saving techniques, is costly. Central to our theory are endogenous movements in relative factor prices creating incentives for replacing old technologies with new ones. The endogenous interaction between labor-saving innovations and changes in the relative price of labor is the source of both growth and cycles .