Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Organizational Commitment in Universities - A Comparison in Turkey

Organizational commitment has become one of the most popular subjects of management studies in last decades. Identifying factors which affect organizational commitment i s usually regarded as a fundamental step to attain success in organizations and particularly in universities. This study aims to identify and compare factors affecting the organizational commitment level of faculty members who are employed by Aksaray Unive rsity (a new university in Turkey) and Cukurova University (an older University in Turkey). This is a preliminary study comparing two Turkish universities in terms of their faculty members’ organizational commitment levels. A survey was carried out on 179 people from Aksaray University and 189 people from Cukurova University in the months March and April 2013. In both universities, diverse commitment patterns varying according to age, sex, position, marital status, work length and hometown have been disclos ed. Further studies can deal with commitment profiles or with the relationship between attitudes and behaviors of teaching staff.
Estimating a NKBC Model for the U.S. Economy with Multiple Filters

This paper estimates a new-Keynesian DSGE model of the U.S. business cycle by employing a variety of business cycle proxies, either one-by-one or, following a recent proposal by Canova and Ferroni (2009), in a joint fashion. Objects such as posterior densities, impulse-response functions, and forecast error variance decompositions are shown to be remarkably sensitive to different filtering. This uncertainty notwithstanding, shocks to trend inflation are given robust support as the main inflation driver in the post-WWII era.
Structural Vector Auto Regression Analysis of the Dynamic Effects of Shocks in Renewable Electricity Generation on Economic Output and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: China, India and Japan

This paper investigates effects of shocks in the share of renewable electricity in total electricity generation on real output growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China, Japan and India from 1970 to 2011 using structural vector auto regression analysis. These economies are assumed to face exogenous correlated random shocks in the share of renewable electricity in total electricity generation (RT). The substantiality of the shocks’ impact on real output growth and CO2 emissions were examined using impulse responses and variance decompositions (VDC). The impulse responses show that positive shock in RT positively affects real output growth and reduces CO2 emissions. Shocks in RT have long-lived impacts, but all countries show stability signs and absorb RT shocks with some delays. VDCs analysis corroborates the findings of impulse responses. These research findings support governmental initiatives that reduce CO2 emissions through renewable power generation and ensure sustained economic growth.
IPO Underpricing in China: New Evidence from the Primary and Secondary Markets

This paper divides Chinese A-Share IPO initial returns into the initial return in the primary market and in the secondary market. Our empirical evidence shows that the initial abnormal return in the secondary market is significantly positive. This study also finds that 1) the initial return in the primary market is negatively related to the subscription or lottery ratio; 2) the initial return in the secondary market is positively related to the market return, and negatively related to IPO offering prices; 3) the initial turnover is negatively related to the offering size; 4) the initial turnover has no impact on the initial return in the secondary market but the latter has a significantly positive influence on the initial turnover.
SAW sensors for harsh environments

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors are rugged components made on highly stable substrate materials. In addi- tion, by their operating principle they lend themselves to wireless readout by radio signals. For these reasons, they are a first choice for sensing in harsh environments. A review is given on SAW device design, instrumentation of sensor systems, and on the physical interactions underlying sensing mechanisms. Recent progress in chemical as well as physical sensing toward various applications, e.g., in pollution control, biomedicine, and industry, is highlighted. Index Terms—Chemosensors, coatings, detection limit, high temperature, instrumentation, resolution, selectivity, sensing mechanisms, sensitivity, sensor materials, surface acoustic waves, torque.
Effect of the MTHFRC677T variant on risk of venous thromboembolism: interaction with factor V Leiden and prothrombin (F2G20210A) mutations

Odds ratios for the MTHFRC677T variant were determined in a large case–control study of 558 unselected patients with venous thromboembolism and 500 control subjects. The odds ratios for MTHFRC677T heterozygosity and homozygosity were 1.07 (95%CI 0.84–1.36) and 0.71 (95%CI 0.48–1.03). In patients with the factor V Leiden or the F2G20210A mutations there was no apparent increase in risk of venous thromboembolism due to the MTHFRC677T polymorphism.
A Survey of Emotional Difficulties of Nurses who Care for Oncology Patients

Nurses who care for dying patients are under pressure emotionally because of their beliefs and values about death as well as the emotions and reactions of the patients and their families. This study examines the emotional difficulties of nurses caring for oncology patients in Turkey. The study used a descriptive survey design. The participants were 157 nurses from three medical oncology units in Ankara. Results showed that nurses had difficulty in talking to oncology patients about end-of-life issues and found that caring for dying patients affected their personal lives. This study also showed that the length of nurses' work experience had no effect on their feelings and perceptions toward terminally ill patients. However, the nurses who had more work experience were more likely to report difficulty in talking to patients. Most of the nurses expressed feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness about pain management and treatments.
Is Evidence-Based Organizational Innovation in the NHS a Chimaera - Or Just Elusive?

Evidence-based adoption of organizational innovations requires explicit definition of the outcomes the innovations are intended to produce. Implementation theory, however, suggests that organizational innovations are often politicized in the sense that the prospect of implementing them provokes conflicts of interests among the parties affected. Then the intended outcomes of the innovation are liable to be formulated ambiguously, misleadingly or not at all, which makes evidence-based organizational innovation unattainable. Analysis of 61 organizational innovations in nine English NHS primary care trusts suggests that while the majority of innovations were not politicized in this way, a substantial minority were. Innovations whose adoption is motivated by evidence can therefore be differentiated from politicized innovations whose adoption is not so motivated, even when they nevertheless do have evidential support.
Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Governments have invested heavily in building local and regional entrepreneurial networks in order improve economic performance and regeneration. However, there are many types of network, and different types of network are appropriate for different purposes. Some types of network are most useful in the early stages of entrepreneurial activity and others at later stages. Careful definitions are necessary in order to analyse the role of networks in generating interpersonal and inter-organizational trust, and hence in augmenting the stock of social capital. Effective networks are normally intermediated by reputable trust-brokers. The reputation of government gives it a significant role as a trust-broker, but there is a danger that its reputation may be undermined when it extends its activities into areas where it lacks the competence to intervene effectively.
Post-ischaemic paraesthesiae in pellagrins

SUMMARY A quantitative assessment of post-ischaemic paraesthesiae has been made in 50 pellagrins and 20 healthy identical controls. The results show a highly significant diminution of the paraesthetic response in pellagrins. In pellagrins having peripheral neuropathy the depression of paraesthesiae was more marked than in those without peripheral neuropathy. There was no consistent relationship between severity of peripheral neuropathy and degree of depression of paraesthetic response. Post-ischaemic paraesthesia has been used in the evaluation of peripheral nerve function in many diseases including intoxication, vitamin defici- encies, alcoholism, malignant disease, and diabetes chronic liver disease uraemia and motor-neurone disease
Significant impact of HLA class I allele expression on outcome in melanoma patients treated with an allogeneic melanoma cell lysate vaccine. Final analysis of SWOG-9035.

7501 Background: SWOG-9035 compared 2 years of an allogeneic melanoma lysate (Melacine™) to observation in patients (pts) with stage II melanoma 1.5-4.0 mm thick. We also analyzed the effects of expression of certain HLA antigens (≥2 of HLA-A2, A28, B44, B45, C3 - called M5 - or either HLA-A2 and or C3). Now we report the mature overall survival (OS) analysis as planned. METHODS Primary analyses were conducted on the eligible pt population (intent to treat, ITT) using a Cox model adjusted for stratification and recognized prognostic factors. HLA analyses were [Formula: see text], involved all typed pts and were adjusted for stratification and prognostic factors. RESULTS In total, 689 pts were entered over 4.5 years (598 eligible). Median follow-up time is 7.8 years (maximum 10.9 years). Ninety-one patients are ineligible, mostly (n=75) by pathology (tumor too thin or too thick). For the ITT analysis, the 5-year OS for the observation arm is 77% and for the vaccine arm is 81% (p=.98). For all randomized pts, the 5-year OS for the observation arm is 76% and for the vaccine arm is 82% (p=.49). We HLA typed 553 of the total 689 pts enrolled (80% of the total). There was a significant interaction of M5 status (≥2 vs 0-1) and treatment (p=.02). Among pts with 2 or more of the M5, 5-year OS for vaccine pts is 93% and for observation pts is 74% (p=.009). Among patients with 0-1 of the M5, 5-year OS for vaccine pts is 83% and for observation pts is 82% (p=.68). The interaction remained significant when only HLA A2/C3 status was considered (A2+ and/or C3+ vs A2- and C3-, p=.004). In the A2+ and/or C3+ group, 5-year OS for vaccine pts is 90% and for observation pts is 76% (p=.007). In the A2- and C3- group, 5-year OS for vaccine pts is 80% and for observation pts is 84% (p=.16). CONCLUSION There was no significant benefit of vaccine therapy overall, but this prospective analysis indicates significant survival benefit of vaccine therapy among early-stage melanoma pts expressing ≥2 of the M5 alleles. HLA-A2 and C3 were the predominant alleles contributing to this effect. A prospective confirmatory trial in pts expressing HLA-A2 and/or HLA-C3 is planned. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
The value relevance of exploration and evaluation expenditures

Purpose - – This paper aims to investigate the value relevance of the various components of exploration and evaluation expenditures in the Australian extractives industry. Whether exploration and evaluation expenditures is more value relevant, following the adoption of AASB 6, and whether it differs for firms engaged only in exploration when compared to those also engaged in mining production is also examined. Design/methodology/approach - – This paper uses a modified Ohlson model as a benchmark against which to compare an alternative valuation model featuring the disclosed components of exploration and evaluation expenditures. A sample comprising 430 firm-year observations between 2003 and 2009 is utilised. Findings - – Written-off exploration and evaluation expenditures and the number of projects in which firms are involved is relevant to investors when assessing the value of extractive firms. Further, the implementation of AASB 6 has led to an improvement in the relevance of exploration and evaluation information in assessing firm value. Research limitations/implications - – The sample is based on observations from the years 2003-2004 to the years 2006-2009. The authors do not incorporate 2005, as this is the first year the new standard was implemented, and there is the possibility of a settling in effect. The authors base our sample on the top 100 extractive firms in 2009. As such, these companies may not represent the accounting practices of smaller firms in the Australian extractive industry. Originality/value - – The authors address a gap in the literature by examining the value relevance of the detailed line items of exploration and evaluation expenditure reported by extractives firms. The authors also explore the effect of regulatory changes by examining the value relevance of exploration and evaluation expenditures pre- and post-International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 6/Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) 6 implementation. Finally, the authors contribute useful findings to the standard setters’ ongoing deliberations aimed at producing a comprehensive standard on extractive activities by providing useful feedback on the relevance of accounting for pre-production costs under a regime using the “area of interest” method.
High-Level Abstractions for Programming Network Policies

The emergence of network programmability enabled by innovations such as active networking, SDN and NFV offers tremendous flexibility to program network policies. However, it also poses a new demand to network operators on programming network policies. The motivation of this dissertation is to study the feasibility of using high-level abstractions to simplify the programming of network policies. First, we propose scenario-based programming, a framework that allows network operators to program stateful network policies by describing example behaviors in representative scenarios. Given these scenarios, our scenario-based programming tool NetEgg automatically infers the controller state that needs to be maintained along with the rules to process network events and update state. The NetEgg interpreter can execute the generated policy implementation on top of a centralized controller, but also automatically infers flow-table rules that can be pushed to switches to improve throughput. We study a range of policies considered in the literature and report our experience regarding specifying these policies using scenarios. We evaluate NetEgg based on the computational requirements of our synthesis algorithm as well as the overhead introduced by the generated policy implementation. Our results show that our synthesis algorithm can generate policy implementations in seconds, and the automatically generated policy implementations have performance comparable to their hand-crafted implementations. Our preliminary user study results show that NetEgg was able to reduce the programming time of the policies we studied. Second, we propose NetQRE, a high-level declarative language for programming quantitative network policies that require monitoring a stream of network packets. Based on a novel theoretical foundation of parameterized quantitative regular expressions, NetQRE integrates regular-expression-like pattern matching at flow-level as well as application-level payloads with aggregation operations such as sum and average counts. We describe a compiler for NetQRE that automatically generates an efficient implementation from the specification in NetQRE. Our evaluation results demonstrate that NetQRE is expressive to specify a wide range of quantitative network policies that cannot be naturally specified in other systems. The performance of the generated implementations is comparable with that of the manually-optimized low-level code. NetQRE can be deployed in different settings. Our proof-of-concept deployment shows that NetQRE can provide timely enforcement of quantitative network policies. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn. edu/edissertations/2119 Graduate Group Computer and Information Science First Advisor Rajeev Alur Second Advisor Boon T. Loo
The Pre‐programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies

The key to estimating the impact of a program is constructing the counterfactual outcome representing what would have happened in its absence. This problem becomes more complicated when agents, such as individuals, firms, or local governments, self-select into the program rather than being exogenously assigned to it. This paper uses data from a major social experiment to identify what would have happened to the earnings of self-selected participants in a job training program had they not participated in it. The authors investigate the implications of these earnings patterns for the validity of widely used before-after and difference-in-differences estimators.
Further studies of the role of noncapsular antibody in protection against experimental Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteremia

Serum antibody against polyribosylribitol phosphate, the capsular antigen of Haemophilus influenzae type b, confers protection against experimental Haemophilus infection. Antibodies against noncapsular antigens are also protective, but the antigenic specificity of the protective antibodies remains unknown. Antilipopolysaccharide antibody was prepared by immunization of rabbits with boiled H. influenzae type b cells. Antilipopolysaccharide antibodies present in these sera did not protect against experimental Haemophilus bacteremia in infant rats. Antisera were also prepared by immunization of rabbits with live H. influenzae type b bacteria. After absorption of anticapsular and antilipopolysaccharide antibodies, these sera contained antibody to several outer membrane proteins which were accessible on the intact bacterial surface as detected by radioimmune precipitation. These absorbed sera prevented experimental Haemophilus bacteremia in infant rats. Thus, antibodies against noncapsular, non-lipopolysaccharide determinants, possibly against one or more outer membrane proteins, confer protection against experimental H. influenzae type b disease. In contrast, antibodies against lipopolysaccharide are ineffective.
An Examination of the Relationship Between Teacher Efficacy and Teachers' Perceptions of Their Principals' Leadership Behaviors

Over the years there has been significant discussion of the connection between principal's leadership qualities and teacher efficacy. Students come to the classroom from stable, traditional, supportive home environments as well as from unstable, broken, and homeless situations. Teachers are asked to teach a classroom full of students with a wide range of learning abilities as well as a varied range of learning disabilities. The confidence to do this for the measure of a teacher's career takes a strong sense of efficacy. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' sense of efficacy and teachers' perceptions of their principals' leadership qualities that enhance and/or diminish the teachers' sense of efficacy. This study utilized both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study the effects of leadership qualities on teacher efficacy. Quantitative data was acquired utilizing the teacher sense of efficacy scale and the principal leadership questionnaire. Qualitative data was gathered through a focus group meeting of teachers with measurably strong efficacy to identify principal practices that affect teachers' efficacy. The study's outcomes reported that total respondent data indicates a generally positive relationship between these two variables. Subgroup analysis revealed varying results with diminishing relationships measured from elementary to secondary teachers. Qualitative information gathered from teachers with strong efficacy reported strategies that foster teacher efficacy, make teachers feel good about teaching and inhibit the development of teacher efficacy. The study recommends that principals and school administrators be especially knowledgeable of the six components of transformational leadership as well as the three aspects of teacher efficacy examined in this study. Being mindful of how daily leadership decisions not only fit within the transformational leadership constructs, but more importantly, how they affect good classroom teaching practices, should help principals plan and initiate strategies and programs that create a campus atmosphere more conducive to comprehensive learning.
Nativity, Ethnicity, and Residential Relocation: The Experience of Hmong Refugees and African Americans Displaced from Public Housing

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on how the experiences of refugee public housing residents differ from those of other public housing residents when they participate in housing dispersal programs. An analysis of the spatial resettlement patterns and survey responses of Hmong and African-American public housing residents who were involuntarily relocated from public housing in Minneapolis, MN indicates the extent to which residents resettled in ethnically concentrated neighborhoods and their satisfaction with their new housing arrangements and neighborhoods. Research results suggest that Hmong did not settle in ethnically concentrated neighborhoods to the same extent as African Americans after relocation, and experienced lower levels of satisfaction in their new housing arrangements and neighborhoods. These findings indicate that the outcomes for residents involved in housing dispersal programs may depend in part on nativity status.
Ramucirumab in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

ABSTRACT Introduction: Therapeutic options for treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) have recently increased. Ramucirumab (Cyramza), an anti-angionenic agent was approved in 2014 for treatment of several malignancies, including second-line treatment of patients with NSCLC with disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. Areas covered: We performed a comprehensive search of the literature focused on clinical trials with use of ramucirumab, targeting its evolution in the treatment of NSCLC. This review summarizes the results regarding its safety and efficacy. Expert opinion: Angiogenesis has been widely recognized as a quintessential feature in cancer, intrinsically mediating tumor survival and progression. Ramucirumab, an anti-VEGFR2 agent, combined with docetaxel, was FDA-approved for NSCLC patients. Results from a phase III trial have demonstrated the usefulness of this combination, with benefits in progression free survival and overall survival for NSCLC patients. A greater magnitude of benefit is seen in patients with aggressive tumor behavior. Treatment with ramucirumab is generally tolerable, however, there is potential for severe toxicity. Adverse events reported with this combination include neutropenia, febrile neutropenia and hypertension. Also, there is the intrinsic risk of bleeding resulting from the mechanism of action. As such, adverse events should be identified timely, so drug-related complications can be prevented.