Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Relationship Between College Students’ Barriers to Exercise and Motivation

Background: Demographics among college students are becoming increasingly diverse and the enrollment of students who are considered “nontraditional” is on the rise. Traditional and nontraditional students are faced with numerous physical activity barriers and increased responsibilities when it comes to balancing school, work, and physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between college students’ barriers to exercise and motivation among traditional and nontraditional students. Furthermore, the study explored the relationships between college students’ barriers to exercise and motivation among males and females. Methods: Participants (n = 217) completed the Barriers to Being Active Questionnaire, the Psychological Need Satisfaction in Exercise Questionnaire, and the InternationalPhysical Activity Questionnaire. Results: The study found there were no differences among motivational factors, barriers to exercise, and traditional and nontraditional students. Females in this study reported significantly higher ratings of barriers compared to males. However, they reported higher ratings in the competence construct of Self-Determination Theory as compared to males. Conclusions: The current study,revealed traditional and nontraditional students, as well as males and females, all reported the same top three barriers to exercise that include: lack of time, energy, and willpower. Understanding college students’ motivation and barriers to physical activity is an important step in developing strategies to help them enhance their health and well-being. With the help of health professionals, college students can learn howto overcome these barriers.
Assessment of the Adoption and Implementation of IFRS for Small and Medium Scale Entities (SMEs). “A Study of Selected SMEs GA East of Ghana”

The IFRS for SMEs is an important element for attaining competitive advantage, attracting investors and gaining access to financial assistance in today’s world of competitive business irrespective of their size. The study assessed the adoption and implementation challenges of IFRS for SMEs among SMES in GA East (Madina). To assess the adoption and implementation benefits and challenges, a qualitative research and conceptual and theoretical framework was developed. These guided the design of the data collection instrument to suit the research. The study collected primary data by conducting interviews on 20 respondents. Purposive sampling techniques were used to select the firms. Data collected as transcribed and coded into the Nvivo software. The study revealed that, about 60% of Small and medium entities in Madina do not have knowledge about the IFRS for SMEs. The study further revealed that meeting regulatory requirements and avoiding noncompliance cost were some of the factors that necessitated firms with little knowledge on the standard to adopt it.
Politique budgétaire et développement inclusif : quelle contribution de la décentralisation en Côte d’Ivoire ?

Une reforme efficace et efficiente du secteur public constitue un enjeu important pour les gouvernements et les partenaires au developpement partout dans le monde. La decentralisation budgetaire le transfert de competences en matiere de recettes et de depenses du gouvernement central vers les gouvernements locaux est souvent consideree comme un moyen d’ameliorer l’efficacite de la mobilisation des ressources domestiques et de renforcer l’acces et la qualite des services publics. Dans la poursuite de ces objectifs, la decentralisation budgetaire est devenue un element essentiel de la politique de reforme du secteur public dans de nombreux pays surtout ceux en developpement. Face a l’importance des enjeux lies a cette reforme notamment sur les finances publiques, une importante litterature economique s’est attachee a etudier ses consequences et les conditions de sa reussite. Cette these contribue a cet effort a travers quatre chapitres portant sur les effets de la decentralisation budgetaire dans les pays en developpement et plus precisement en Cote d’Ivoire.Le premier chapitre analyse les consequences de la mobilisation fiscale au niveau municipal sur l’acces aux services publics et sur la reduction de la pauvrete. Les resultats suggerent que l’augmentation des revenus des municipalites accroit l’acces aux services publics, notamment l’education, et, dans une moindre mesure, reduit la pauvrete. Cet effet est accentue dans les regions a faible diversite ethnolinguistique et en milieu urbain. Le second chapitre evalue les effets de l’autonomie fiscale des municipalites sur la distribution de revenus de la population. Empiriquement, les resultats suggerent qu’une augmentation des revenus preleves par le gouvernement central (et retrocedes aux municipalites) reduit les inegalites de revenus, alors qu’une augmentation des revenus directement preleves par les municipalites augmente les inegalites (taxes locales). Le chapitre trois (3) analyse dans quelle mesure les transferts du gouvernement central aux municipalites affectent la mobilisation des revenus de ces dernieres. Les resultats montrent qu’une augmentation des transferts augmente les revenus des municipalites provenant des impots retrocedes, et, dans une moindre mesure, les taxes locales. Le quatrieme chapitre porte sur les determinants de la conformite des taxes foncieres. Nos resultats concluent que la conformite des taxes foncieres est determinee, entre autres, par les niveaux de services publics du gouvernement central et des municipalites, de la confiance des citoyens envers les municipalites et de la comprehension des citoyens du systeme de taxation. Les resultats de cette these induisent d’importantes implications en termes de politiques de renforcement du secteur public.
Automatic Selection and Concatenation System for Jazz Piano Trio Using Case Data

In this paper, we discuss a computational model of an automatic jazz session system that is statistically trainable model using lead sheet and jazz session data, in addition, we provide an implementation as prototype system based on this model. In contrast to most previous jazz session systems that required heuristic rules and the human labeling of training data to estimate musical intention of human players, we suggested a statistically trainable mathematical model of jazz session using stochastic state transition model approximating a musical trajectory model. Based on the model, we developed a jazz session system as a prototype using concatenation of case data from real jazz session recordings to show the validity of our model. This system consists of training phase and concatenating phase. In the training phase, the system learns some parameters to classify the piano, bass, and drums data using non-negative matrix factorization, and calculates the chain probabilities by trigram and co-occurrence probabilities between piano, bass, and drums. In the concatenating phase, the system estimates musical states of bass and drums from piano midi-format input, searches and selects a suitable musical data from case data, and concatenates a musical data matching the key between input piano and bass. As a result of the comparative evaluation experiment using some concatenated midi-format data by above methods, our system was found to generate a jazz piano trio musical data having naturalness and shown validity of our proposing model.
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Experiences in Close Relationships — Revised — General Short Form (ECR-R-GSF) in an Australian and a Chinese Sample

Attachment dimensions refer to how interpersonal emotion regulation strategies are utilised and have a profound impact in adulthood. Its measurement has attracted a large amount of research attention. The Experiences in Close Relationships — Revised (ECR-R) Questionnaire is one of the most widely used and researched self-report questionnaires to measure romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance in multiple language groups, despite inconsistent evidence regarding its factorial structure. The 20-item Experiences in Close Relationships — Revised — General Short Form (ECR-R-GSF) was developed based on the ECR-R to measure attachment experiences in all relationships (not just romantic ones) in an English-speaking sample. However, no short form of the ECR-R is available for the Chinese population. In order to cross-validate the first Chinese version of the ECR-R-GSF, specifically the proposed two-factor structure, against the English version, an Australian university student sample (n = 426) and a Chinese university student sample from China (n = 626) were recruited. The Anxiety and Avoidance scales were found to have good internal reliability in both samples. However, the proposed two-factor model only provided an acceptable fit even after adding modifications in the Australian sample, and the fit was not satisfactory in the Chinese sample. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that partial metric but not scalar invariance was achieved across cultures. Implications for relationship and cross-cultural research and practice were discussed.
Chronological Prediction of Certainty in Recall Tests using Markov Models of Eye Movements

To predict chronologically certainty levels of understanding of question statements during recall tests using observed eye movements, the hidden Markov model was employed. The feasibility of predicting the accuracy of responses was examined using optimization and simulation of the model together with experimental eye movement data. Chronological prediction accuracy could be calculated using this model, and the accuracy decreased with task difficulty. The highest accuracies were observed at 550 msec. after onset of stimuli. The certainty of correct responses was calculated using the probability of transition. This certainty was the highest during the 100-250 msec. after stimuli onset, and decreased with the duration of the response. These results provide the possibility of estimating the progress of understanding. Keywords-Eye Movements; Hidden Markov Model; Certainty; User Intention
Digital Platforms and Differential Gains

The relationship of digital media platforms and public participation in election campaigns was investigated through an original survey of randomly selected registered voters. The goal was to produce a better understanding of how exposure and attention to political news on different digital platforms were associated with participatory behaviors and to test whether the association of participation and digital news was moderated by online political expression as predicted by the differential gains model of political engagement. Among platforms, news websites, Facebook, and Twitter produced the strongest positive relationship with online expression, while news websites and mobile news apps were the strongest predictors of off-line participation. Online expression was significantly related to participation, and enhanced digital news use’s association with participation across platforms. These results hold practical implications for journalists to better understand how to allocate resources across digital platforms, anticipate audience interest, and engage with digital news users during election campaigns.
Association between Smoking and Dental Caries among People of Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India

INTRODUCTION The entire scientific community through proven research has pointed out the menace of tobacco consumption, also termed as “‘a public health nightmare” prevalent among people across the globe. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and WHO proclaim that tobacco use causes nearly 6 million deaths per year and if these trends continue at the same pace, this will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by the year 2030 with 70% of deaths occurring in the low economy countries.
Source Memory Failures: Comparing Source Misattribution to Sources of False Memories

Successful episodic recollection occurs when an event properly binds with its context. Source misattribution demonstrates incorrect binding of a memory with its contextual information. By contrast, false memories are memories of events that did not occur. Although theoretically they should not be bound with contextual information, often, false memories are accompanied by contextual information. This phenomenon is known as content borrowing. This thesis project examined the differences between the two contextual memory errors. The DRM paradigm was used to induce both source misattributions and content borrowing. This allowed the neural differences between the two to be directly tested. No differences were found between source misattribution and content borrowing. However, false memories with content borrowing showed different neural activations from true memory with correct source, true memory with incorrect source, and correct rejection. This suggests that false memories and source misattributions may represent similar errors in memory that rely on gist memory traces.
Development of a new Navier-Stokes Solver using a Generalized HPC method for the Pressure Poisson Equation

The computational cost of solving the Navier-Stokes equations numerically is too high for most full-scale applications, especially within the marine field. Many marine structures are defined as large volume structures. For these structures give potential flow theory reliable results, to an acceptable computational cost. Shao and Faltinsen (2012) have developed the HPC method, an efficient and accurate field solver for potential flow problems. The method utilises harmonic polynomials, which satisfy the Laplace equation by definition. Bardazzi et al. (2015) have generalized the method to solve the Poisson equation. In this thesis is an immersed boundary grid, proposed by Hanssen et al. (2015), implemented for a circular cylinder. The potential flow around the cylinder is solved with the HPC method. A convergence rate of 3.47 was obtained for the L2 − error. However, some oscillations were observed, which is typical for immersed boundary methods. The generalized HPC method is implemented in a Navier-Stokes solver, to solve the pressure Poisson equation. A uniform flow around a square cylinder is investigated for a Reynolds number of 40. The results are compared with reference values. The same problem is also solved when a finite difference (FDM) scheme is used for the pressure Poisson equation. A drag coefficient of 1.69 was obtained with the generalized HPC method, while the FDM scheme obtained a drag coefficient of 1.77. The drag coefficients in the literature are in the range between 1.6 and 1.8. None of the methods converged. This is probably because the finest grid was too coarse to obtain convergence. A uniform grid was applied, and further grid refinement was out of reach. Concerning computational time was the generalized HPC method significant faster than the FDM scheme. For the finest grid, which corresponds to 237 600 unknowns, was the HPC solver 3.4 times faster than the FDM scheme. On the machine that was used, do this correspond to a difference of approximately 49 hours, when 30 seconds are simulated. This illustrates the potential for reducing the computational time in a Navier-Stokes solver, by using a generalized HPC method for the pressure Poisson equation. The generalized HPC method did not automatically satisfy the discrete compatibility condition. To resolve this was a modified equation system solved. A singular value decomposition was necessary to obtain the modified equation. This represents an additional computational cost, which should be possible to avoid.
Impact of Evaluation Apprehension on Knowledge Sharing Intention through Attitude and Perceived Behavioural Control

Knowledge sharing plays a pivotal role in the success of the organizations. Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) are the gateway for the key decision makers to understand the customers and improve process and policies accordingly. CSRs are constantly monitored and evaluated while sharing knowledge with the customers. This evaluation can impact intention of CSRs to share their knowledge. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of evaluation apprehension (EA) on knowledge sharing Intention (KSI). Based on responses of total 207 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs), working in the three mobile companies (Mobilink, Ufone, and ZONG) this study found that: evaluation apprehension is negatively linked with knowledge sharing intention i.e. higher the evaluation apprehension lowers the knowledge sharing intention; Attitude and Perceived behavioral Control plays a mediating role between evaluation apprehension and intention for sharing knowledge. This study is extremely useful for the practitioners in the telecom sector, particularly call centre managers to understand the CSRs in a better way. A satisfied and knowledgeable CSRs with the intention to share his knowledge with the customers is beneficial for both customer and the company. Using findings of this study future researchers can further research about technical aspects of CSRs working environment and role of knowledge sharing.
The Roles of Corporate Governance Towards Value-Oriented Islamic Finance Practices

This paper argues that while significant concerns have been invoked on the material aspects of Islamic finance such as financial growth and products sophistication, it is nevertheless observed that equal emphasizes have not been given on social objectives of Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) as part of its value-oriented frameworks. In the absence of extensive discourse on corporate governance and its roles on CSR, this paper attempts to highlight the importance of corporate governance in stimulating the social function of IFIs within the Islamic ethical dimension paradigm. This paper aims at expanding the normative objective function of IFIs by advocating corporate social responsibility (CSR) via strengthening the corporate governance framework. Unlike the western concept of corporate governance, which is based on the western business morality that derived from “secular humanist”, this paper suggests that corporate governance in IFIs is founded on the epistemological aspect of Tawhid, Shari’ah and ethics. This paper employs theoretical and case study research method to develop understanding and to advocate the notion of value oriented Islamic finance practices. The study utilizes descriptive, comparative and critical analysis approaches in extracting and analyzing the information.
Comparison of body composition, physical fitness parameters and skeletal muscle damage indices among young Indian male soccer & hockey players

Background: ‪The present study was aimed to evaluate the evidential comparison of anthropometric, body composition, physical fitness parameters and muscle damage indices between soccer and field hockey players. Material and methods: ‪Forty-one young Indian male players (including soccer, N = 18, and hockey, N = 23) were evaluated for anthropometric parameters (height, weight, BMI, BMR), and physical fitness variables (grip strength, back strength, flexibility, VO2max, anaerobic power) using standard procedures. Body composition (fat mass, fat free mass, cell mass, muscle mass, fluid content, glycogen, minerals, body density) was assessed by using multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA). Muscle damage indices (lactate dehydrogenase, LDH; creatine kinase, CK-MB) were measured via standard spectrophotometric assay protocols. Results: ‪Grip strengths and VO2max were found to be significantly higher among field hockey players, whereas lower values were found for relative anaerobic power (Wpower). LDH and CK-MB were found to be higher in soccer players. The correlation study depicts a positive relation between Wpower and LDH (r = 0.307, insignificant) and CK-MB (r = 0.330, p < 0.05). Conclusions: ‪Field hockey players have better muscular coordination and body balance with generous endurance capacity as they have higher strength indices and VO2max. Higher glycolytic capacity and sprinting ability was found among soccer players.
LİSELİ ERKEK SPORCULARIN VE SPORCU OLMAYANLARIN BENLİK KAVRAMLARI.

: The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in self concept among high school male athletes and non-athletes; and to investiga te the effect of sports experiences and type of sports on self-concept of high school male athletes. The self-concept of 174 high school male athletes and 174 non-athletes were compared by using Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents. T-test results have showed that there was a significant differen ces in social acceptance, athletic competence and physical appearance sco . res between athletes and non-athletes (p<.05). A significant difference was found in athletic competence and job competence scores among athletes ac cording to year of sports experiences (p<.05). According to type of sports; a -significant difference was found in social acceptance score among athletes (p<.05).
A set of factors related to the opportunity motivation: Analysis of Early-stage entrepreneurs from SEE

This paper focuses on a set of factors related to the opportunity motivations of early-stage entrepreneurs, such as entrepreneur’s perceptions and socio-demographic factors. The research area of this paper includes: fear of failure, social networking, entrepreneur’s knowledge, skills and experience, and perception of business opportunity; and socio-demographic characteristics of entrepreneurs, such as the age, gender, level of education and household income. The data has been provided by Adult Population Survey, as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The sample includes data collected in 2014, from 12,023 adults by interview methods, which implies valid answers of 692 early-stage entrepreneurs, i. e. a total of 415 early-stage entrepreneurs driven by opportunity motivation. The respondents are located in the Southeast Europe (SEE); and settled in six countries: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. According to SPSS Statistics, the empirical research was processed using the Binomial Logistics Regression. Two hypotheses were set up to test the conceptual model. According to the theory and research results, the model consisted of determinants related to the opportunity motivations of early-stage entrepreneurs, has been developed. Motivation as a dependent variable has been measured by the TEA Opportunity index. Thus, the opportunity motivation is found to be related to the entrepreneur’s perception, and socio-demographics factors. Determinants such as the fear of failure and perception of business opportunity contribute to a higher likelihood in the modelling opportunity motivation. The age, gender, level of education and household income also contributed to the developed model. The lower and middle household income of entrepreneurs, secondary degree education, gender as a male, and the entrepreneurs’ age about 45-64 significantly added to the model prediction. Social networking and KSE's did not have a significant role on the entrepreneur's motivation according to the empirical results and the developed model. In addition to improving theoretical material from the field of entrepreneurship, the model also contributes to this work.
How Do Business and Financial Cycles Interact

This paper analyzes the interactions between business and financial cycles using an extensive database of over 200 business and 700 financial cycles in 44 countries for the period 1960:1-2007:4. Our results suggest that there are strong linkages between different phases of business and financial cycles. In particular, recessions associated with financial disruption episodes, notably house price busts, tend to be longer and deeper than other recessions. Conversely, recoveries associated with rapid growth in credit and house prices tend to be stronger. These findings emphasize the importance of developments in credit and housing markets for the real economy.