Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Delivery-flow routing and scheduling subject to constraints imposed by vehicle flows in fractal-like networks

The problems of designing supply networks and trafﬁc ﬂow routing and scheduling are the subject of intensive research. The problems encompass the management of the supply of a variety of goods using multi-modal transportation. This research also takes into account the various constraints related to route topology, the parameters of the available ﬂeet of vehicles, order values, delivery due dates, etc. Assuming that the structure of a supply network, con-strained by a transport network topology that determines its behavior, we develop a declarative model which would enable the analysis of the relationships between the structure of a supply network and its potential behavior resulting in a set of desired delivery-ﬂows. The problem in question can be reduced to determining sufﬁcient conditions that ensure smooth ﬂow in a transport network with a fractal structure. The proposed approach, which assumes a recursive, fractal network structure, enables the assessment of alternative delivery routes and associated schedules in polynomial time. An illustrative example showing the quantitative and qualitative relationships between the morphological characteristics of the investigated supply networks and the functional parameters of the assumed delivery-ﬂows is provided.
Assessing Social Investment Synergies (ASIS)

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Stress as a Mediator of Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intention in Selected Savings and Loans Companies in Ghana

This study examined occupational stress as a mediator of work-family conflict and turnover intention in selected Savings and Loans Companies (SLCs) in Ghana. Descriptive cross-sectional research design was adopted for the study. One hundred and twenty-six (126) respondents from three firms were selected using simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. A structured and selfadministered questionnaire was the main data collection instrument. Data was analysed with the help of SPSS whilst the hypotheses were tested through correlation and multiple regression analysis. The study found a significant positive relation among work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict and occupational stress. Also, occupational stress had a positive effect on turnover intention. However, work-to-family conflict rather than family-to-work conflict significantly predicted turnover intention. Finally, the relation between work-family conflict and turnover intention was fully mediated by occupational stress. It was recommended among others those work-family interventions such as flexitime, compressed workweek and job sharing should be implemented by management in the Savings and Loans Companies (SLCs) to help lessen the burden that comes with employee turnover.
Specificity of performance appraisal feedback, trust in manager, and job attitudes: A serial mediation model

I investigated the potential serial mediating role of feedback acceptance and job satisfaction in the relationship between specificity of performance appraisal feedback, trust in manager, and job involvement by analyzing self-reported survey data from 240 people employed in various companies throughout South Korea. A path analysis and the PROCESS macro in SPSS were used to test the mediation model. Only the partial mediation model of feedback acceptance had adequate fit. Furthermore, both feedback specificity and trust in manager had significant direct and indirect relationships with employees’ feedback acceptance and job satisfaction, and job satisfaction was directly associated with job involvement. These findings suggest that when an employee is provided with performance appraisal feedback, manager trust and feedback specificity may positively influence feedback acceptance. Acceptance of the feedback may, in turn, lead to greater job satisfaction and involvement.
Effect of differently worded messages about alcohol on intent to breastfeed among university women in South Korea

Background: There is concern that advice not to drink alcohol could discourage the initiation and particularly shorten the duration of breastfeeding. However, little research has explored the impact of variously worded messages about drinking while breastfeeding on women’s intentions to drink or to breastfeed. Methods: We haphazardly allocated a convenience sample of nulliparous (>95%) Korean female university students to be exposed to three differently worded messages on alcohol use during breastfeeding in the body of a questionnaire. Translated to English, they were as follows: Liberal: “Breastfeeding is compatible with moderate but not heavy drinking of alcohol. ” Moderate: “You can use alcohol while breastfeeding, but only on rare occasions and only 1-2 drinks at a time. Too much alcohol can harm the breastfeeding process. After each drink, you should wait 2 hours before breastfeeding to keep the child from being affected. ” Strict: “You should never use alcohol while you are breastfeeding. ” Results: Most of the 280 valid responses expressed an intention to breastfeed. Over 90% of sampled women drank alcohol currently; 91% of them intended to reduce consumption during breastfeeding. How strictly messages were worded did not affect intention to drink during breastfeeding. Neither strict nor liberal messages reduced intention to drink alcohol while breastfeeding. The strict message clearly told the students what to do, whereas the moderate and liberal messages left choices up to them. Receiving these messages that required women to decide for themselves reduced the women’s intention to breastfeed (p<0.001). Conclusions: In this sample of largely nulliparous university women, a more strictly worded message regarding alcohol use during breastfeeding did not reduce breastfeeding intentions. Messages that left decisions up to the women did. The risk of harm associated with alcohol consumption during breastfeeding should we weighed against the risk that raising concerns about alcohol consumption might reduce the initiation or duration of breastfeeding. Research is needed to test such messages in different cultures and to follow up after delivery to see if indeed expressed intent correlates with actual practices. Until then, messages regarding breastfeeding and alcohol are likely to continue to be based only on the unexamined assumptions as to whether cautions about alcohol will affect women’s breastfeeding practices.
Robot motion control based on anticipatory emotions

Human–robot interaction requires the robot to recognize and convey emotions. Emotions also enhance adaptation by influencing deliberative actions. However, scientists traditionally relegate the emulation of emotions to high levels in multi-level architectures, where those emulated emotions collaborate with reasoning to come up with the best action. In contrast, in this research, we propose the use of emulated emotions at the lowest level of a cognitive architecture, for instance, robot motion control. Thus, the traditional definition of error used by a controller changes in order to include anticipation. The discrepancy between an anticipated ideal state and an anticipated robot state elicits an emotion. This simple emotion-inspired definition of the error improves the controller by more than 11% according to the definition of performance in this article, which argues that robot control architectures should use emulated emotions from their lowest levels.
Sports‐Led Tourism, Spatial Displacement, and Hotel Demand

We analyze the relationship between professional sports events and concerts held in LA's Staples Center and nearby hotel performance. Government‐led economic redevelopment projects often envision sports facilities as tourist magnets. Little evidence exists supporting links between sporting events and hotel demand. An empirical analysis exploiting exogenous daily variation in the timing of games and concerts from 2002 to 2017 shows a small positive impact on room revenue at hotels within one mile and larger room revenue decrease at hotels located one to 4 miles away. The overall impact on hotel room revenue and rooms rented was not positive. Nearby hotel room rates increased during NBA and NHL work stoppages. The city granted four new hotels built very near the arena exemptions from occupancy taxes for 20–25 years; these exemptions reduced hotel tax revenues by a minimum of $4.5 million annually and may not have been needed to spur new hotel development. (JEL H26, H71, Z28)
How technology can be supportive and motivating for patients with chronic heart failure

Background: eHealth is an important factor in the self-management of chronically ill patients. Even though there are many existing theories on how to persuade users into using eHealth technologies, adherence is not always optimal. This study aims to find factors that influence chronic heart failure (CHF) patients in their self-management, and see how eHealth can be deployed to be more supportive and help motivate chronically ill patients in their self-management. This study made use of a case example called 'mijn Health e-Portal', or mijnHEP for short. By discussing the mijnHEP it was determined how the elements of eHealth were experienced amongst patients. In addition possible opportunities for improvement of this platform were uncovered. Methods: This study used qualitative structured interviews (n=10) which consisted of 2 parts. In the first part patients were asked about their experiences in living with their illnesses. In the second part patients were ask to orientate themselves on the mijnHEP platform and describe their experiences with eHealth interventions like the case example. This way, data was gathered to identify bottlenecks in chronic self-care management and uncover what role eHealth can fulfill in this aspect. Results: The interviews provided two kinds of results, those specific to the mijnHEP platform and those related towards self-management and eHealth in general. The results specific to the mijnHEP platform were formulated into 47 requirements. Six bottlenecks in the self-management of CHF patients were identified: dealing with mental stress, lack of introduction into cardiac rehabilitation programs, lack of acknowledgement, trust in technologies, coordination between healthcare providers, and the level of control of their own rehabilitation. The patients also described the participation of their health care providers in eHealth interventions as an important factor to their adherence. Conclusion: eHealth interventions have the potential to be of added value in the self-management of chronically ill patients. To keep up adherence levels in eHealth interventions, it seems these kinds of technologies benefit from a multidisciplinary implementation. In addition, there should be attention towards the involvement of social circles of CHF patients, in order to create awareness of the illnesses. Furthermore, the goals and functions of eHealth platforms should be clear, to increase ease of use. The introduction users get to these platforms seems to be another vital aspect in the success of eHealth platforms. A key principle in resolving these kinds of bottlenecks is a personalized approach in addressing the needs and wishes elicited from all of the stakeholders involved.
Oil Exporters' Dilemma; How Much to Save and How Much to Invest

Policymakers in oil-exporting countries confront the question of how to allocate oil revenues among consumption, saving, and investment in the face of high income volatility. We study this allocation problem in a precautionary saving and investment model under uncertainty. Consistent with data in the 2000s, precautionary saving is sizable and the marginal propensity to consume out of permanent shocks is below one, in stark contrast to the predictions of the perfect foresight model. The optimal investment rate is high if productivity in the tradable sector is high enough.
Evolvable Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Systems For In-Vitro Diagnostics

Recent developments in the life-science -omics disciplines, together with advances in microand nanoscale technologies o↵er unprecedented opportunities to tackle some of the major healthcare challenges of our time. Lab-on-Chip technologies coupled with smart-devices in particular, constitute key enablers for the decentralization of many in-vitro medical diagnostics applications to the point-of-care, supporting the advent of a preventive and personalized medicine. Although the technical feasibility and the potential of Lab-on-Chip/smart-device systems is repeatedly demonstrated, direct-to-consumer applications remain scarce. This thesis addresses this limitation. After identifying system evolvability as a key enabler to the adoption and long-lasting success of next-generation point-of-care systems by favoring the integration of new technologies, streamlining the reengineering e↵orts for system upgrades and limiting the risk of premature system obsolescence. Among possible strategies, platform-based design represents a particularly suitable entry point to the development of evolvable systems. One necessary condition, is for change-absorbing and change-enabling mechanisms to be incorporated in the platform architecture at initial design-time. Important considerations arise as to where in Lab-on-Chip/smart-device platforms can these mechanisms be integrated, and how to implement them. Our investigation revolves around the silicon-nanowire biological field e↵ect transistor, a promising biosensing technology for the detection of biological analytes at ultra low concentrations. We discuss extensively the sensitivity and instrumentation requirements set by the technology before we present the design and implementation of an evolvable smartphone-based platform capable of interfacing lab-on-chips embedding such sensors. We elaborate on the implementation of various architectural patterns throughout the platform and present how these facilitated the evolution of the system towards one accommodating for electrochemical sensing. Model-based development was undertaken throughout the engineering process. A formal SysML system model fed our evolvability assessment process. We introduce, in particular, a model-based methodology enabling the evaluation of modular scalability : the ability of a system to scale the current value of one of its specification by successively reengineering targeted system modules. The research work presented in this thesis provides a roadmap for the development of evolvable point-of-care systems, including those targeting direct-to-consumer applications. It extends from the early identification of anticipated change, to the assessment of the ability of a system to accommodate for these changes. Our research should thus interest industrials eager not only to disrupt, but also to last in a shifting socio-technical paradigm.
Translating trans identity: (re)reading and (re)writing undecidable texts and bodies

In this thesis I look at the translations of six fictional and non-fictional first-person texts. Two are transgender, two intersex and two agender; they are from every century between the seventeenth and the twenty-first and are originally written in French, Spanish and English. The writers of all of these texts specifically use writing to show their gender identity, whether that be shifting or non-binary. I label all of my texts and their protagonists undecidable; undecidability is an inherent characteristic of texts written by or about trans people and I argue that translation is the best place to explore and represent this undecidability. The texts are undecidable because they are a mixture of fact and fiction – they are intertextual with unreliable narrators and open endings. The protagonists are undecidable because no decision should ever be made about whether they are male or female, masculine or feminine. My research shows that while undecidability is heightened in my texts, all bodies and all texts are in some ways undecidable. It looks to Deleuze to consider how they are made up of constant becomings and unbecomings and to Derrida to consider these becomings as spectres. I argue that no text or body is ever finished and texts and bodies are haunted by the ghosts of former and future texts and bodies. To represent this in translation I look to the palimpsest, the hypertext and the cut-out technique. These queer translation experiments highlight the sexual and textual undecidability that is in every text and body; it is the juxtaposition of trans embodiment and translation that helps us to see that both gender (but especially trans-gender) and writing (but especially translation) are multiple, radical, queer and undecidable, always open to being (re)read and (re)written by the author, the translator and the reader.
The Determinants of Successful Goal Pursuit

Goal pursuit is ubiquitous in everyday life, which has subsequently led to the proliferation of a multitude of theories and perspectives on what constitutes successful goal pursuit. While all of this work is indeed a testament to the centrality of goals in the context of motivational psychology, the problem, however, is that researchers often focus on only one particular theory while often ignoring other (possibly competing or overlapping) ideas. To address this concern, we conducted a prospective longitudinal study in order to determine which factors best predict goal progress over time. Participants (n = 799) were asked to set three week-long goals, as well as completed an extensive battery of measures, including 14 individual difference measures assessed at the between-person level and seven goal-specific measures assessed at the within-person level. Participants then reported how much progress they made on each of their goals at the end of the week. In keeping with best measurement practices, we first examined the validity of all self-report measures used in the study. Results indicate that the majority (92%) of individual difference measures demonstrated good internal consistency, although only a subset (71%) provided some evidence during more rigorous tests of validity. Upon examining the potential for overlapping constructs, three latent factors emerged providing evidence of substantial jangle-fallacies within the goal pursuit literature. Finally, using Bayesian model comparison we examined the extent to which these constructs predicted goal progress. Results indicate that people were more likely to make progress on the goals that they are committed to, have plans for, or that are more autonomous compared to their other goals. Additionally, we found that people who had specific plans for pursuing their goals, were more intrinsically oriented, experienced more competence in their daily life, experienced less frustration for their need for autonomy, and were able to re-engage in goals following failure made more progress on their goals compared to other people. The discussion focuses on implications of the present research on the field of self-regulation and goal pursuit, as well as measurement practices and theory development within social and personality psychology more broadly.
The financial sustainability of local authorities in England and Spain: a comparative empirical study

In recent years, the financial sustainability of local authorities has been recognised as a concept of crucial importance in ensuring that public services may continue to be delivered to future generations. Although many European countries have implemented programmes to enhance their financial sustainability, local authorities are characterised by differing administrative traditions and achieve diverse outcomes in response to the reforms made. Taking a comparative approach, the present study identifies institutional, macroeconomic and microeconomic factors that might influence local authorities’ financial sustainability in England and Spain in order to determine and explain similarities and differences in the drivers and risk factors for financial sustainability in local authorities’ provision of public services. Points for practitioners This article is based on three major theories (agency theory, neo-institutional theory and stakeholder theory) related to the institutional, macroeconomic and microeconomic factors determining financial sustainability and aims to identify these factors comparing different contexts (English and Spanish contexts). This identification of factors that influence municipal financial sustainability could clarify what policymakers might have done to prevent the crisis, what they should do to prevent similar failures in the future and how the long-term provision of public services may be ensured.
A Study on Attitude towards Research among Technology Education Students in Pakistan.

In contemporary world, Students’ attitude is considered more important than their experiences and academic preparation. A positive attitude towards research is a key to success and progress in the knowledge based societies. This study explored the students’ attitude towards research. The participants of present study were Master of Technology Education (MTE) students studying in Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. The sample comprised of 140 students of technology education selected through random sampling technique. The Attitude towards Research scale (ATR) was adapted for data collection. The scale was consisted of 28 items which were divided into five factors: research usefulness, research anxiety, positive attitudes, relevance to life, and research difficulties. ATR scale was developed by Elena C. Papanastasiou from University of Cyprus in 2002. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test. The results showed that student have a positive attitude towards research. It was concluded that there is insignificant different between male and female students attitude towards research. It was suggested for better academic attainment that more researches should be conducted to explore other causes similar *Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Email: tariqedu71@yahoo.com **Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Email: qayyum.ier@pu.edu. pk *** Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Email: mumtaz.ier@pu.edu. pk ****Ph.D Scholar, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Email: nisar_abid_88@hotmail.com *****M.T. E. , Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Email: sidrasabir99@yahoo.com A Study on Attitude towards Research among TE Students in Pakistan 114 to aptitude, inspiration and anxiety. It was also suggested more support by conducting researches which comprise qualitative data collection methods such as observations and interviews from students for sharp-eyed understanding and implications of this research.
The Low-Minus-High Portfolio and the Factor Zoo

Regardless of whether the CAPM is rejected for valid reasons or by mistake, a single long-short portfolio will always explain, together with the market, 100% of the cross-sectional variation in returns. Yet, this portfolio, which we coin the "Low-Minus-High (LMH) portfolio," need not proxy for fundamental risk. We show theoretically how factors based on valuation ratios (e.g, book-to-market), or on investment rates, can be proxies for the LMH portfolio. More generally, the empiricist can uncover an infinity of proxies for the LMH portfolio, thus unleashing the factor zoo.