Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Port Governance Model by Managers’ and Customers’ Point of View: A Study at Port of Valencia, Spain

This paper shows a study of governance in the port of Valencia, Spain, based on a port governance conceptual model. The study follows a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) and it is based on primary data obtained through interviews with the port managers (qualitative phase) and questionnaires applied to port users (quantitative phase). The results show the applicability of the adopted port governance model, since its structure was useful for the analysis and understanding of the governance of port of Valencia. From the application of the model, an efficient and mature governance model was identified in the port of Valencia, which is perceived by the existing structure of governance, the actions of governance implemented and the results achieved, as evidenced both by the analysis of managers’ and users’ perception.
Design, Fabrication and Control of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot Prototype for Stroke Patients

Stroke is one of the prominent causes of disability in the world. In order to have chances for recovery, the stroke patients need repetitive and consistent rehabilitation activities or treatment. However, the increasing number of stroke patients with limited number of therapist and transportation problem for rural patients limits the possibility to have better treatment. This paper discussed the application of robotics system to support the rehabilitation activities focusing on the upper limb area of the body. The result shows two designs of upper limb rehabilitation device were fabricated and controlled. Both prototypes were emphasized on the compact, transportable/portable and simple operation concept. In order to evaluate the prototype, real patient test or experiment needs to be conducted.
Early First Drinking Experience and Behavioral Problems in Male and Female Adolescents

Early drinking experience is often associated with severe mental health problems. Recently, early alcohol consumption has increased and moved up. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between early first drinking experience and behavioral problems in adolescents, males and females. Method: Three-hundred thirty adolescents (aged 11-14 years), living in the North East of Italy, participated in this study. They represented a 30% random sample of the school population of each site. Data were collected through group-administered questionnaires. The students answered the questionnaires anonymously in their classrooms and in the presence of the researchers. Results:14.3% of the sample (boys, n=24; girls, n=19) reported having a first drinking experience before 11 years of age and a progression in alcohol use has been observed. In the multivariate analysis, early first drinkers (EFD) compared to non-EFD, were significantly more likely to have higher rule breaking scores (boys: OR=1.29; 95% CI 1.15-1.44; girls: OR=3.11; 95% CI 1.92-5.04). Conclusions: Clinicians should keep under close surveillance early first drinking habits in children aged less than 11 years and efforts should be focused on reducing alcohol consumption, particularly in light of the recent increase in the prevalence of adolescents’ binge drinking behavior.
The Role of Social Power, Procedural Justice, Organizational Commitment, and Job Satisfaction to Engender Organizational Citizenship Behavior

A conceptual framework is proposed to investigate the effects of employees' perception of managers' social power on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) mediated by procedural justice, employees' organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. To test the frame-work, structural equation modeling techniques are applied to data collected from 195 top and middle level employees of a private commercial bank in Bangladesh. Primarily this study aims to test the theoretical models to measure the causality whether Social Power, Procedural Justice, Organizational Commitment, and Job Satisfaction can foster Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The results of the study indicate that procedural justice is significantly and positively related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The findings indicated that organizational commitment has a positive relationship with OCB but the relationship is found to be insignificant. In addition the results also show that employees' with high job satisfaction will have higher OCB, suggesting that bank management needs to value employees' job satisfaction to increase employees' OCB. Implications for practicing managers and for future research are discussed.
Antifungal effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf extracts on mango fruit post-harvest rot agents in Yola, Adamawa state

A study for the rot of Mango fruit was carried out in three markets of Yola North Local Government of Adamawa State (Jimeta Modern market, Jimeta shopping complex and Jimeta old market) in April, 2015. Also the effect of crude water extracts of neem on the rot control was carried out. The following isolates Botrytis cinerea, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger were identified and proven through pathogenicity test to be the pathogenic. Out of a total sample size of 72 fruits (24 fruits/market) there was an average rot incidence of 33.3%. The highest pathogen incidence was in Jimeta Modern market (36.82%) while the least was in Jimeta old market (27.93%). Severity of mango fruit rot in the markets showed that Jimeta Modern Market was moderate (29.03%), Jimeta Shopping complex was also moderate (29.04%) while Jimeta Old market was high (41.93%). Control trials (invitro and invivo) on Botrytis cinerea, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger had 2.71mm, 2.30mm, 0.90mm rots (invitro) respectively. The neem leaf extract was highly effective compared to control set up (P=0.0001).
Disparities between Explanatory Models of Health Clients, Healthcare Providers and Health Insurer

We present qualitative data from a study in Ghana (2011), where the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced to improve access to health care. In 2011 membership enrolment and retention in the scheme was stalling. To obtain better insights into socio-cultural factors that influence utilization of healthcare services and the NHIS this study compared Explanatory Models of healthcare clients with those of primary healthcare providers and the NHIS regarding illness, the need for, the quality of, and the control over healthcare and health insurance services. We found critical disparities in socio-cultural beliefs and perceptions of healthcare and health insurance between these three stakeholder groups, such as the clients’ holistic view on illness versus healthcare providers’ bio-medical view; the clients’ inter-relational focus in perceiving quality of services versus the providers’ medical technical focus. These differences are leading to misconceptions, blame practice, poor services, non-adherence and low trust. The findings increase our understanding of clients’ behavior and that of their service providers. We conclude with key messages for policy leaders and operational managers that can guide them in improving services and facilitating client trust and interest to participate in health insurance and utilize healthcare services.
The impact of social media and online customer reviews on product choice and customer retention

The digitalisation continues to proceed and consumers increasingly make use of social media and online customer reviews. However it is sometimes difficult for companies to recognize the importance and opportunities of these factors. On the other side stand the consumers who are overwhelmed by the possibilities social media presents and struggle to find objective information towards their product or company. With the help of already existing literature that is relevant to the topic a review will be conducted to find answers regarding this problem. Furthermore a survey will be used to specifically address questions to a sample. Within these two processes it will be examined what the impact social media and online customer reviews have when choosing a product or considering becoming a loyal customer. The results of the literature review show that there is an impact from online customer reviews on product choice, however it does not provide enough information to draw a clear conclusion regarding the problem. The survey on the other hand clearly links online customer reviews with product choice as well as customer retention. It also gives also insights on how social media is involved, since it mainly is a function that indirectly influences product choice and customer retention. It was found that although only indirect connection could be drawn the impact is still relevant. Therefore the problem addressed at the beginning, namely how companies can recognise and use social media and online customer reviews, is represented in the impact. For consumers the outcome of the study helps to identify information sources as well as to decrease the bias that might occur from reviews or personal opinions when for example choosing a product.
The effects of management control systems on organizational performance

Eine Vielzahl der Geschaftsbereiche und –prozesse basieren heutzutage auf Informationstechnologie (IT). Aus diesem Grund spielen Management Kontrollsysteme eine wichtige Rolle fur Organisationen. Um organisationale Ziele zu erreichen, unterstutzen diese Systeme nicht nur das Management bei der Ausubung von Kontrollfunktionen, sondern steuern auch das Management selbst effektiv und effizient zu arbeiten. Die Hauptgrundlage fur verlassliche, adaquate und wahrheitsgetreue Informationsgewinnung uber die Situation der Organisation, sind die Informationssysteme und deren standardisierte und damit verbundenen Elemente. Diese Informationen werden vorwiegend durch Kennzahlen dargestellt. Seit dem Beginn der 90er Jahre ist die Balanced Scorecard (BSC) eine kontrovers diskutierte Technik um Kennzahlen zu integrieren, zu vereinheitlichen und zu strukturieren und unzahlige Gesellschaften haben das Konzept implementiert. Aus diesem Grund versucht seither eine Vielzahl von Autoren die Nachfrage nach empirischer Forschungsarbeit zu diesem Thema zu decken. Diese Diplomarbeit beschaftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen von Management Kontrollsystemen auf die organisationale Entwicklung im Kontext der Balanced Scorecard Implementierung. Auserdem werden verschiedene einflussreiche Studien der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte miteinander verglichen, um verschiedene positive und negative Effekte zu diskutieren.
Long-term evolution of the neutron-star spin period of SXP 1062

Context. The Be/X-ray binary SXP 1062 is of especial interest owing to the large spin period of the neutron star, its large spin-down rate, and the association with a supernova remnant constraining its age. This makes the source an important probe for accretion physics. Aims. To investigate the long-term evolution of the spin period and associated spectral variations, we performed an XMM-Newton target-of-opportunity observation of SXP 1062 during X-ray outburst. Methods. Spectral and timing analysis of the XMM-Newton data was compared with previous studies, as well as complementary Swift/XRT monitoring and optical spectroscopy with the SALT telescope were obtained. Results. The spin period was measured to be Ps = (1071.01 ± 0.16) s on 2012 Oct. 14. The X-ray spectrum is similar to that of previous observations. No convincing cyclotron absorption features, which could be indicative for a high magnetic field strength, are found. The high-resolution RGS spectra indicate the presence of emission lines, which may not completely be accounted for by the SNR emission. The comparison of multi-epoch optical spectra suggest an increasing size or density of the decretion disc around the Be star. Conclusions. SXP 1062 showed a net spin-down with an average of u Ps = (2.27 ± 0.44) s yr −1 over a baseline of 915 days.
Spatially Resolved Acoustic And Aerodynamic Studies Upstream And Downstream Of An Industrial Axial Fan With Involvement Of The Phased Array Microphone Technique

The paper presents the further development of a combined acoustic-aerodynamic diagnostics method, suited to on-site investigation of industrial axial fans. The method, involving phased array microphone experiments, has been demonstrated in a case study. The acoustic data have been processed by means of a Rotating Source Identifier algorithm, and represented in the form of upstream and downstream source maps. A procedure has been reported for investigating the effect of duration of averaging on the phased array microphone results. A supplementary experiment has been elaborated for elimination of noise source ambiguity in evaluating the source maps. Certain rotor noise sources have been localised in a detailed manner. The momentum thickness parameter has been introduced and experimentally justified as a representative indicator of both aerodynamic loss and upstreamradiated noise. This offers a basis for fan redesign for reducing both noise and loss.
Computational Modelling of Auxetics

Modern technologies require new materials of special properties. One of the reasons for interest in materials of unusual mechanical properties comes from the fact that they can be used (either as inclusions or as matrices) to form composites of required properties. There is a number of physical properties that we implicitly assume to be positive. However, one may be surprised to discover that they can also be negative. Negative materials include, amongst other ones, those having negative stiffness (Lakes et al., 2001), negative thermal expansion (Hartwig, 1995), negative refractive index (Sang & Li, 2005), negative permittivity (Ruppin, 2000) and/or negative permeability (Ruppin, 2000). It is worth to add that in presence of some constrains even the compressibility can be negative (Lakes & Wojciechowski, 2008). A new field of challenge are studies of materials exhibiting negative Poisson’s ratio. The latter is a negative ratio of relative transverse dimension change to relative longitudinal dimension change of a body when an infinitesimal change of a stress acting along the longitudinal direction occurs whereas the other stress components remain unchanged. Such materials, first manufactured by Lakes (Lakes, 1987) and coined auxetics by Evans (Evans, 1991), are a subject of intensive studies both in the context of fundamental research and applications (Remillat et al., 2009). The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate recently discovered anomalous deformation of an auxetic plate, constrained by fixing two opposite sides, which is loaded by uniform tension (or compression) applied perpendicularly to two other opposite sides of the plate. The problem was studied both in three dimensions (3D) by Strek et al. (Strek et al., 2008) and in two dimensions (2D) by Pozniak et al. (Pozniak et al., 2010) by finite element methods. In all the cases studied it has been assumed that the material was isotropic. 12
ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF STABILITY IN MODEL POPULATIONS

Detailed studies of the density-dependent interactions of larval and adult life stages of Drosophila melanogaster suggest that the stability of populations is dependent on environmental variables. Models of Drosophila population dynamics predict that the levels of food supplied to the adults and larvae will have important effects on population stability: stability is enhanced when adults are given low amounts of food and larvae are given high amounts of food. Experimental results presented here are consistent with these general predictions. These observations have implications for the management of biological populations and present an opportunity for studying the evolution of population stability.
Salp grazing: effects on phytoplankton abundance, vertical distribution and taxonomic composition in a coastal habitat

This paper comes from a 3 yr study of environmental effects on egg and larval mortality of snapper Pagrus auratus (Sparidae), during their spring-summer spawning season in the Hauralu Gulf In the first 2 yr, the salps Thalia democratjca and Salpa fuslformls dominated mesozooplankton biomass in November and December, average chl a concentrations In the rn~xed layer were reduced and chl a maxima were well below the mixed layer. In the third year, salps were very rare, and the mixed layer was richer in chl a and the chl a maxima were at the bottom of the mixed layer. Diatoms dominated the phytoplankton community in the first 2 yr, especially below the mixed layer, but a more even mix of diatoms, dinoflagellates and flagellates was present in the third year. Averaged mixed layer depth and stratification intensity varied little across the 3 yr, suggesting that variation in vertical mixing rates did not drive the phytoplankton contrasts. Salp population grazing rates were high enough to overtake phytoplankton population growth at many sites. However, most sites had lower salp biomass than this, yet the reduction of chl a concentration and deepening of chl a maxima were widespread and temporally persistent. The vertical distributions of chl a were simulated in a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model which contrasted a salp-dominated community that had high sedimentation of organic wastes with a microzooplankton community within which wastes were recycled in situ. This model, and calculated rates of grazing, sedimentation, and water column mixing, showed that rates of nutrient incorporation into salp mass and sedimentation of waste material from salp grazing would be much greater than mixing of remineralized nutrient back up through the pycnocline. This causes formation of deep chl a maxima which can persist well after significant grazing pressure has dissipated. The variation in phytoplankton taxonomic composition is explained in terms of growth rates of the taxa under different grazing, nutrient and light regimes. The major effects of salp grazing in the coastal environment appear to be to deepen phytoplankton distributions and reduce biomass, rather than to remove phytoplankton biomass from the euphotic zone completely, as can occur in slope and oceanic waters.
Perceived Usefulness of ICT Usage among JKKK Members in Peninsular Malaysia

Information and communication technology (ICT) is indeed an important tool to expose the rural community to development. Realizing the importance of ICT, a number of high impact ICT programs and projects have been introduced by the government. However, do the rural community especially their leaders which are the Village Development and Security Committee members (JKKK) use ICT? And more importantly do they perceive ICT as useful in their daily activities and tasks? This question brings us to the main objective of this paper which is to know the factors that influence the perceived usefulness towards ICT usage among the JKKK members in Peninsular Malaysia. Besides, this paper intends to investigate the level of perceived usefulness towards ICT usage among JKKK members and to reveal the most significant contributors for perceived usefulness towards ICT usage. This is a quantitative study whereby data were gathered using a questionnaire. Based on the multi stage random sampling, a total of 240 JKKK members have been selected as the respondents. Based on the analyses done, it can be concluded that respondents studied do have a high level of perceived usefulness towards ICT usage. All of the four factors studied have a positive and significant relationship towards ICT usage. Attitude was identified as the most significant contributor for perceived usefulness towards ICT usage while the four predictor variables explain about 60.0% of the variance/variation in perceived usefulness towards ICT usage.
Gender differences in participatory leadership: An examination of principals’ time spent working with others

The purpose of this study was to examine whether female principals have a more participatory style compared to their male counterparts by examining principals’ daily time allocation patterns. The study analyzed data from End of Day (EOD) survey logs from principals in an urban school district. Results from hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) results showed that female principals, when compare to male principals, spent a higher proportion of their time working with others in planning/setting goals. At the same time, there were no differences in how principals allocated their time total working alone or working with others and their time distribution in other leadership domains. The findings suggest that gender differences in leadership style depend on specific activity domains and that there are significant differences in the key domain of strategic planning.
Identification and pathogenicity of microorganisms affecting purple passion fruit in Colombia

crop in Colombia, as seen by an increase in the area under cultivation. This recent prominence coincides with a low number of existing technologies related to the cultivation of the fruit, resulting in a lack of knowledge about its associated pathogens and the absence of rapid and precise diagnostic tests. The objective of this study was to determine the pathogenicity of distinct microorganisms isolated from purple passion fruit samples, some of which had not been previously reported in Colombia. The sampling was performed in seven plots located in two regions of the Colombian Antioquia. With the use of field symptomatology, the isolation of microorganisms, morphological characteristics, molecular analysis, and pathogenicity tests, the pathogen species Phytophthora nicotianae var. parasitica, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides sensu lato, and Phytophthora drechsleri were identified for the first time in Colombia. These pathogens cause lesions in fruits, with an incidence of 10.9, 7.6, and 2.8%, respectively. This is also the first report on a global level of Phytophthora drechsleri causing a disease in this plant species.
Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice

This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects of individual heterogeneity. Whilst the model contains the main theory of occupational choice, human capital theory, it also tests dynasty hysteresis through parental status variables. The focus is an examination of the relationship between choice and personality with the inclusion of psychometrically derived personality variables. Occupational choice is modelled using multinomial logit estimation using the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong credentialism effects. Parental status has a small and limited effect on occupation outcomes indicative of only some small dynasty hysteresis. On the other hand, personality effects are found to be significant, relatively large and persistent across all occupations. Further, the strength of these personality effects are such that they can in many instances rival that of various education credentials. These personality effects include but are not limited to: managers being less agreeable and more antagonistic; labourers being less conscientiousness; and sales people being more extraverted.