Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Young heterosexual women's negotiations of sexual consent within casual encounters and intimate relationships

This thesis examines young heterosexual women's negotiations of sexual consent in their casual sexual encounters and intimate sexual relationships with men, and their perceptions and understandings of consent and sexual violence with regard to these different sexual contexts. It explores the nature of young women's negotiations of sexual consent with the intention of facilitating a deeper understanding of the issue of women's consensual engagement in unwanted, pressured and coerced sexual activity. This thesis fills a void in the qualitative research literature on how consent is actually negotiated in everyday (hetero) sexual encounters through analysing the interviews of eight young women aged between 18 and 24 within a postmodern feminist theoretical framework incorporating some aspects of the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu. It argues that negotiating consent is a complex process highly influenced by the implicit presence of gendered norms that often constrain young women's ability to freely negotiate their sexual choices without their conscious awareness. It therefore draws attention to the limitations of legal and sexual violence prevention discourses that promote a woman's sexual autonomy and responsibility for explicitly conveying her willingness or unwillingness to engage in sexual relations. Negotiations of Consent 5
A review of shape memory stability in NiTi alloys

Stability and fatigue are terms often referred to when discussing the durability of the shape memory effect. This paper considers the meaning of these terms and how they relate to the macroscopic memory response and the microstructural accommodation response of NiTi alloys. The results of previous workers are analysed and compared to establish how the three parameters that apparently control the macroscopic memory effect - temperature, stress and strain, are controlled themselves by the alloy's microstructure. It will be shown that repeated phase changes will alter the microstructure and hysteresis of the transformation and in turn this will lead to changes in transformation temperatures, transformation stresses and transformation strains. Both superelastic and memory effects are considered simultaneously so as to emphasise the similarities between the respective stress/strain and strain/temperature degradation effects. Although the mechanisms of both are often regarded as physically separate it is shown that in fact the macroscopic changes observed during cycling are a result of similar microstructural changes. It is also shown how as a result of the inherently large transformation strains internal cracking may occur and that even apparently stable microstructures can fail catastrophically via conventional crack growth mechanisms.
ECONOMICS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF DAIRY HERDS

2006). This trend was observed despite of large investments in -and quite advanced results from- research in several fields applied to female reproduction of the bovine species: genetics, physiology, patho-physiology, pharmacology and therapeutics. In parallel, practitioners have designed and provided “globalised”, “optimised”, “targeted”, or “aggressive” management and control schemes, in order to control or limit the consequences of the negative drift of fertility.
Effect the exclosure on plant diversity of the Hammada scoparia steppe in the Naama steppe courses (Algeria)

The analysis of ecological data is certainly a preliminary for first class understanding of ecosystem functioning and environmental design. Our work is to provide a fine phytoecological analysis based on the dynamics of vegetation and floristic inventories. The Steppe south Oranian of Naama (Algeria) at Remth (Hammada scoparia) is a representative example of arid threatened areas by the scourge of desertification, a strong human pressure and climatic constraints. It occupies the southern foothills of the Saharan Atlas, glacis and hamadas of the northern part of the Sahara where this species seems to find an optimum development in shallow soil, mostly in sandy loam texture, under lower arid and Saharan climate (isohyet between 100 and 150 mm). To overcome the degradation, actions and measures for rehabilitation and restoration will be considered using the most appropriate techniques of pastoral arrangements. Among these pasture improvement techniques, there is the exclosure technique (fencing). The objective of this latter is to encourage natural regeneration, the best to induce the recovery of natural biological steppe. Following this assessment, rehabilitation by the technique of exclosure the Hammada scoparia steppe has a positive impact on biological recovery by quantitative and qualitative increase in the rate of recovery of vegetation, flora richness and of phytomass. Floristic diversity of the Hammada scoparia steppe is very special because of its biological, systematic and phytogeographic characterization. This review underscores the importance of Saharan-endemic species thanks to a more favorable adaptation and resistance under arid bioclimate.
Impact of Fiscal Policy Shocks on the Indian Economy

In this article, we analyse the impact of fiscal shocks on the Indian economy using structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) methodology. The study uses quarterly data for the period 1997Q1–2009Q2. Two different identification schemes have been used to assess the effects of shocks on government spending and tax revenues on output. The recursive scheme is based on the Cholesky decomposition and the second identification scheme of Blanchard & Perrotti’s (1999) technique of using information on the tax system to identify the SVAR model. We find that the impulse responses obtained from both identification schemes behave in a similar fashion but the values of the multipliers differ. Also, the shock-to-tax variable has a bigger impact on gross domestic product (GDP) than the government spending shock. In the extended four variable VAR model, the effects of fiscal shocks on private consumption has been assessed using the recursive identification scheme. Findings indicate that the tax variable has a larger impact on private consumption compared to the government spending variable. In the short run, the impact of expansionary fiscal shocks follows the Keynesian tradition but the long-run response is mixed. JEL Classification: C32, E32, E62
Demographic and clinicopathologic profile of malignant epithelial ovarian tumors: an experience from a tertiary cancer care centre in Bangalore, South India

Background: Ovarian cancer is fast emerging as the leading cancer of the female genital tract. It is the second most common gynecological malignancy in India, but has poor outcomes making it the leading cause of gynecologic cancer related deaths. There is a paucity of data regarding demographic details, patterns of care and outcomes of ovarian epithelial malignancies in India. This is a study to evaluate the demographic details, clinical profile and pathology details of epithelial ovarian cancer registering in atertiary cancer center in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Methods: This is a retrospective study of the case records of patients diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer from January 2012 to December 2014. Results: Malignantovarian tumors constituted 5.6% of all malignancies in women. 84 cases were of epithelial origin constituting 64.4% of all malignant ovarian tumors. 58% of patients were from Karnataka and 25% were from West Bengal. 27% underwent suboptimal surgery outside at presentation. The median age at presentation was 51 years. Most of the patients were parous (25% were para 2 and 3). 5% patients were nulliparous. Pain abdomen (39%) and abdominal distension/ bloating (16%) were the most common symptoms. 75% of these cases presented in III-IV stage. Method of diagnosis was: primary surgery and Biopsy of mass (50%), fine needle aspiration cytology of mass or ascites/ pleural effusion (40%), and diagnostic laparoscopy in (9.5%) of the patients. The most common histological variants were serous cystadenocarcinoma (32%) and mucinous adenocarcinoma (15%). Conclusions: Majority of the patients presented with vague nonspecific abdominal complaints which leads to delay in diagnosis. Most of the patients presented in advanced stage of the disease. Delay in diagnosis and improper management prior to registering in tertiary cancer centre was common. There is a need to improve awareness regarding ovarian cancer in general population and also primary care physician.
Development of the RAQM2 aerosol chemical transport model and predictions of the Northeast Asian aerosol mass, size, chemistry, and mixing type

Abstract. A new aerosol chemical transport model, the Regional Air Quality Model 2 (RAQM2), was developed to simulate the Asian air quality. We implemented a simple version of a triple-moment modal aerosol dynamics model (MADMS) and achieved a completely dynamic (non-equilibrium) solution of a gas-to-particle mass transfer over a wide range of aerosol diameters from 1 nm to super-μm. To consider a variety of atmospheric aerosol properties, a category approach was utilized in which the aerosols were distributed into four categories: particles in the Aitken mode (ATK), soot-free particles in the accumulation mode (ACM), soot aggregates (AGR), and particles in the coarse mode (COR). The aerosol size distribution in each category is characterized by a single mode. The condensation, evaporation, and Brownian coagulations for each mode were solved dynamically. A regional-scale simulation (Δx = 60 km) was performed for the entire year of 2006 covering the Northeast Asian region. The modeled PM1/bulk ratios of the chemical components were consistent with observations, indicating that the simulated aerosol mixing types were consistent with those in nature. The non–sea-salt SO42− mixed with ATK + ACM was the largest at Hedo in summer, whereas the SOSO42− was substantially mixed with AGR in the cold seasons. Ninety-eight percent of the modeled NO3− was mixed with sea salt at Hedo, whereas 53.7% of the NO3− was mixed with sea salt at Gosan, which is located upwind toward the Asian continent. The condensation of HNO3 onto sea salt particles during transport over the ocean accounts for the difference in the NO3− mixing type at the two sites. Because the aerosol mixing type alters the optical properties and cloud condensation nuclei activity, its accurate prediction and evaluation are indispensable for aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction studies.
Pro-environmental spillover in consumer behavior: existence and drivers

The thesis focuses on pro-environmental spillover, and is based on a panel study (pre and postintervention online surveys) on a sample of students from Århus University, Denmark. Essay 1 analyzes the existence itself of spillover, showing that this is limited to simple and painless behaviors. Essay 2 focuses on the role played by habits as moderator of the spillover effect. Results show that habits do play a relevant role in shaping spillover trajectories, with individuals holding strong habits in the target behavior being more likely to experience stronger spillover. Essay 3 deals with the role played by incentives in spurring spillover; results suggest that the nature of rewards (monetary vs praise) is not a relevant factor in moderating spillover. Firma dello studente
BOARD STRUCTURE, D&O INSURANCE AND THE VARIABILITY OF FIRM PERFORMANCE

We examine the relation between the disclosure of Directors’ & Officers’ (D&O) Liability insurance and the variability of firm performance. Our results show D&O insurance is positively correlated with the variability of firm performance. Specifically, the evidence shows a one percent increment in D&O insurance coverage will lead to a 0.31, 30, and 0.0008 percent increase in the variability of corporate performance measured in monthly stock returns, annual accounting returns on assets (ROA), and Tobin’s Q respectively. Therefore, instead of reducing risk, the findings of this paper suggest D&O insurance may actually increase firm risk, which is very different from the essential purpose of implementing this insurance.
Long-run effects on poverty of public expenditure in education

Household characteristics may have long-run effects on individual outcomes in adulthood. For instance, individuals who lived when young in households experiencing financial problems are more likely to be poor when adults. Public intervention in education is one of the most important means by which governments try to reduce these effects and to promote equality of opportunity. The objective of this paper is to check whether public expenditure in education has an effect in reducing the probability of being poor when adult, and to what extent. Our main finding is that public expenditure in primary education has a strong long-run effect on reducing incidence of poverty in adulthood. We also find that this effect is concentrated mainly among individuals who have parents with a low level of education.
Market Orientation and Performance within Community Enterprises in Upper Northeastern Region of Thailand

The paper is designed to provide a quantitative measure of the effects of market orientation on the performance of the silk-weaving community enterprise‘s network in the upper Northeast of Thailand. The objectives of this study are two-fold, (1) to examine the validity and reliability of the measure of the market orientation, and (2) to examine the causal relationship between intelligence generations, intelligence dissemination and organizational responsiveness and the performance of the community enterprise network in the upper Northeast of Thailand. The research mainly involves a survey design. It includes a pilot test using undergraduate business students at UdonThani Rajabhat University for pretesting questionnaire items. In addition, this investigation into intelligence generations, intelligence dissemination and organizational responsiveness attributes necessitates uncovering variables of interest and this involves a large-scale field study. The data were collected via questionnaire interviews from 192 samples. They included the members of textile community enterprises in 3 provinces (Nong Bua Lamphu, UdonThani, and Loei). Respondents were asked to rate, on a five-point Likert scale, their agreement or disagreement on the market orientation attributes. LISREL 8.30 was used for data analysis since the proposed model is a simultaneous system of equations having latent constructs and multiple indicators. Quantitative data were analysed by the statistical technique, such as structural equation modelling. The study found that market orientation consists of intelligence generations, and organizational responsiveness of the silk-weaving community enterprise network in the upper Northeast of Thailand. The study also found that there is a causal relationship between intelligence generations, and organizational responsiveness on the performance of the community enterprise network in the upper Northeast of Thailand. The managerial implications are discussed.
Current Knowledge about Violence against Healthcare Workers

The nurses' occupational experiences of violence set forth the reflection of their feelings and attitude toward themselves, the patient and how to take care of them. The aim of this study is to explain the nurses' experiences of violence in the therapeutic sections especially psychiatry. The results revealed that the violence is often exerted by the patients due to ectopic demands and the nature of their ailment. Nurses reported verbal violence more than the non-verbal one. In most of the cases, the nurses' first reaction, attempting to calm down the patient by talking to him/her, doesn't work and it often leads to fixing cases. The other results are deduced in four main concepts including the lack of adequate protection of the personnel, poor risk management, the outcomes of violence and humanitarian tendencies. Reinforcement of the management approaches in regular meetings, dealing with the inefficiencies, encouraging the staff, in-service training with an emphasis on the models pragmatically (by displaying) and the follow-up reports of the violent events are noticed with the most proper planning and organization.
Wildfowl distribution, conservation and research in southern Africa

Southern Africa is taken to include the territories of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Rhodesia and South West Africa, as well as south-western Angola and southern Mozambique. Zoogeographically southern Africa embraces the whole of the African landmass situated south of the Cunene and Zambesi Rivers. The main features of the subcontinent’s topography are a relatively flat plateau, averaging 1,000 metres above sea level and occupying most of the central area, a steep escarpment and a narrow coastal plain. The considerable elevation of the cen­ tral plateau, especially in the east where mountainous country rises to above 3,000 metres, lowers the temperature, so much of the tableland interior has an annual mean of less than 18°C. The area is thus cooler than might be expected from its latitude, and can be regarded as temper­ ate. By contrast, the eastern coastal plain as far south as Natal, and the lowlands of the Limpopo and Zambesi valleys are sub­ tropical and tropical. In the south and west the subcontinent is washed by the cold Benguella current which maintains a cool coastal belt with annual means of the order of 16°C. Semi-arid conditions are normal over most of southern Africa. Mean annual precipitation is about 60 mm. in the west and increases from west to north-east, exceeding 1,000 mm. in parts of Mozam­ bique. Over the whole region, however, the mean is about 475 mm. In the extreme south-west the rainy season is in winter, with 75% of the annual fall (577 mm.) occurring between April and September. This south-western Cape area, also known as the Winter Rainfall area, covers some 15,000 sq. miles and roughly 1% of the whole subcontinent. Over most of the rest of the region, the winters are cool and dry; the rains falling chiefly in sum­ mer. In between the winter and summer rainfall areas is a relatively narrow band of country that receives rain at all seasons. Droughts, often enduring for years, are common. Dry periods may be succeeded by unpredictable years of over-abundance of rain. For the region as a whole, an average 20% deviation from the normal rainfall prevails. As the rainfall increases from west to east it becomes more reliable and predictable from year to year. Over much of the summer rainfall area the fall is in the form of heavy, short-lived thun­ der showers, often very local in effect. The average annual run off of the rivers is not proportionate to the average rain­ fall. In South Africa 91% of the precipi­ tation is returned to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration; only 9% reaches the rivers. Evaporation generally exceeds rainfall by about three times. As a comparison between the semi-arid south and the well-watered north, total annual run off from all rivers in South Africa is about 42 million acre feet (272,368 Imp. ga ls .= l acre ft.); this is exceeded by the Zambesi River alone.
THE DAMAGES OF KSIAZ CASTLE ARCHITECTURE IN RELATION TO ROUTES OF RECOGNIZED TECTONIC FAULTS AND INDICATIONS OF RECENT TECTONIC ACTIVITY OF SWIEBODZICE DEPRESSION OROGEN - CENTRAL SUDETES, SW POLAND

Recent tectonic activity in the area of Swiebodzice Depression is recorded by the instruments of underground Geodynamic Laboratory (GL) of Space Reseach Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences (SRC PAS). Irregular in time tectonic events lasting dozen or so hours or several days have been watched by pendulums tiltmeters since 1974. Indications of tectonic activity such as tiltings of foundation and vertical motions are repeatedly observed by water-tube tiltmeters (WT). The effects of tectonic activity in the region of Ksiaz are visible in the geological structure of the orogen as well as deformations of Pelcznica Valley meander. Zones of discontinuity in the environment of undeground laboratory as well as objects of the castle were determined by geodetic measurements at established geodetic horizontal network and precise geological and structural identification. Geodetic horizontal network in underground corridors of GL was established in the first phases of the work. Construction of the network gives opportunity to designate the locations of faults and their projection onto the terrain map. The faults were measured by geodetic methods to determine their routes and dips. Simultaneously, works on identifying damages of Ksiaz Castle architectural objects were conducted, the appearance of which suggested connection with the activity of tectonic faults. Some worrisome cracks in the castle architectural objects can be seen in the structure of wall of St. George Tower, in the wall of Chestnut Terrace as well as in the western wall of terraces (fragments repeatedly repaired). It has been found that the zones of above-mentioned damages are approximately linear and in the azimuth close to the faults route directions. The tasks presented in publication represent initial part of the work, which is necessary for further progress of tectonic activity investigation in the Ksiaz area. In following research works focused on evaluation of the influence of tectonic activity on the castle architectural objects the two sources of information will be used, i.e. local information based on time series from GL and information from field measurements using geodetic research network. ARTICLE INFO