Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Technology and Job Satisfaction in Academic Libraries: Role of Leadership Style and Librarians' Attitude

This study determined the role of leadership style and librarians' attitude in job satisfaction of academic librarians in the technology driven work environment. Variables studied are leadership style, attitude to technology and job satisfaction. Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Questionnaires were distributed in four conference arenas hosted by Nigerian Library Association (NLA) and its sub - sections. 124 usable copies from academic librarians were obtained and analyzed to obtain results for the study. Findings suggest that there is significant positive relationship (p<0.05) between leadership styles that are creative, dynamic and flexible in technology appropriation and librarians' job satisfaction. There was also significant positive relationship (p<0.05) between job satisfaction and librarians with positive attitude that the profession will remain a necessity in the information age and librarians that reported that technology has improved and enriched their services. Multiple regressions calculated suggest that librarians' gender, age and education are not significantly associated with job satisfaction in technology environment when all variables are held constant. The study recommends that library leaders should increase employees' job satisfaction through adopting technology appropriating styles that are innovative, flexible and dynamic. This will also help librarians in achieving their mission of providing information to meet the needs of the new age users.
Occupational Stressors and the Mental Health of Truckers

Trucking has been classified as one of the highest-risk occupations in the United States. Occupational stress is even greater for long-haul truckers who are away from home, family, friends, and other support networks for several days or weeks at a time. Occupational stressors and the mental health of truckers was studied using data collected as part of a large multisite ethno-epidemiological study of trucker networks. Findings from the current study show that truckers face many occupational stressors including constant time pressures, social isolation, disrespectful treatment from others, driving hazards such as weather changes, traffic, and road conditions, and violence or fear of violence. Facing such stressors may be a factor in the prevalence of risky behaviors including drug use and paying for sex. Therefore, mental health promotion and treatment for truckers is an important area of concern and must be examined within the broader context of the transportation environment.
Computational Modeling of Spatio-temporal Social Networks: A Time-Aggregated Graph Approach

Introduction Social computing is transforming on-line spaces with popular applications such as socialnetworking (e.g., Facebook), collaborative authoring (e.g., Wikipedia), social bargainhunting (e.g., Groupon), etc. Spatio-temporal constraints are becoming a critical issue in social computing with the emergence of location-based social-networking, Volunteered Geographic Information (Goo 07, Elw 08), Participative Planning (Elw 08, Fis 01), etc. Location-based social networks (e.g., foursquare.com and the “Places Check-in” feature on Facebook) facilitate socialization with nearby friends at restaurants, bars, museums, and concerts. Volunteered Geographic Information (e.g., Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap, Google MyMaps) allows Internet users to participate in generation of geographic information. Traditional computational models for social networks are based on graphs [Fre 06, Was 94, Nrc 03, Cro 09], where nodes represent individual actors (e.g., persons, organizations) and edges represent relationship ties (e.g., communication, financial aid, contracts) between actors. Such graph models are used to assess centrality and the influence of actors (e.g., measures such as degree, reach, “between-ness,” bridge), as well as community structure (e.g., measures such as cohesion, clustering, etc.). Statistical properties such as skewed degree distribution are modeled by random graphs [New 02, Nrc 03], where each node-pair has a connecting edge with independent probability p, which may depend on factors such as geographic distance [Won 05]. However, traditional graph and random graph models are limited in addressing spatiotemporal questions such as change (e.g., how is trust or leadership changing over time? who are the emerging leaders in a group? what are the recurring changes in a group? ), trends (e.g., what are the long-term and short-term trends in network size or structure? what are the exceptions to the long-term trend? ), duration (e.g., how long is the tenure of a leader in a group? how long does it take to elevate the level of trust such as a relationship changing from visitor to friend? ), migration, mobility and travel (e.g., interplay between travel behavior and size/structure of social networks [Tim 06]). This position paper explores timeaggregated graph models to support computational tools to address such questions.
Understanding Corporate Social Irresponsibility on Sports Organizations

For this study, we sought to understand the conceptualization of sports organizations in the CSR context from the customer perspective. Previous studies have mainly focused on the positive effect of CSR and neglected the negative effect of irresponsible behaviors. The associations on these entities are often treated discretely, whereas the interrelatedness of the associations are overlooked. This research employs the brand concept map (BCM) method to elucidate the complex and interconnected associations of how a sports organization is perceived, and presents these findings in a graphical network structure. The aggregated network of associations in people’s memory, consisting of performance, setting, and auxiliary elements, constitutes the core (brand) images and relevant patronage values of an organization. This research contributes to the understanding of sports brand on the association and network levels. This study identifies useful individual associations such as baseball, players, mascots, related products and corporations, CSR-related behaviors, and the interconnection patterns between elements. These identified factors are useful in detecting and developing patronage and in identifying incongruence in the conceptualization of brand and organization image. The interconnectivity and network structure of people’s associations are considered by the employed in this methodology in this study. This study identifies the framework of relevant associations, elements, values, and interconnection patterns, which not only provide comprehensive information in understanding complex conceptual perceptions, but might also be leveraged and focused on by marketers for an enhanced creative marketing and communication strategy.
Information Acquisition, Decision Making, and Implementation in Organizations

We study the value of divergence in values and preferences in organizations by combining three stages of a decision process—ex ante information acquisition, interim project choice, and ex post project execution—into a tractable model. A key insight is that our unified model provides predictions different from models without the execution decision stage. We consider an organization that consists of a decision maker who selects a project and an implementer who acquires costly information before project choice and executes the selected project. They have intrinsic and possibly divergent preferences over projects. We show that, although the implementer’s dual role generates a disadvantage of designing conflicts in terms of the implementation motivation, it simultaneously boosts the implementer’s motivation for information acquisition to influence the decision maker’s project choice more under divergent preferences. Our results provide managerial insights that designing conflicts is beneficial only in environments where additional information is sufficiently precise and must be accompanied by a manager who is balanced and incorporating feedback. This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.
System-Wide Changes to SUMO Modifications in Response to Heat Shock

The small ubiquitin-like modifier protein SUMO is redistributed among many targets to mediate both short- and long-term signaling events. SUMO Status Revealed Posttranslational modification of proteins through their conjugation to small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins is important in the nucleus for the repair of damaged DNA and the maintenance of chromosome structure, as well as for a number of cytoplasmic processes. Although the machinery involved in attaching SUMO moieties to target proteins is well characterized, less is known about the upstream signals that trigger this modification. Golebiowski et al. designed a highly stringent, quantitative approach, involving protein purification and mass spectrometric techniques, to perform a system-wide analysis of the SUMOylation states of hundreds of proteins in HeLa cells in response to heat shock. The authors also analyzed the dynamic nature of SUMOylation in cells during the subsequent recovery phase. In addition to identifying many previously unknown substrates of SUMO-2, this proteome-wide analysis of SUMOylation revealed a rapid and dramatic redistribution of SUMO-2 among proteins involved in short- or long-term responses to heat stress. This new approach should also prove valuable in systems-wide analysis of other posttranslational modifications. Covalent conjugation of the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins to target proteins regulates many important eukaryotic cellular mechanisms. Although the molecular consequences of the conjugation of SUMO proteins are relatively well understood, little is known about the cellular signals that regulate the modification of their substrates. Here, we show that SUMO-2 and SUMO-3 are required for cells to survive heat shock. Through quantitative labeling techniques, stringent purification of SUMOylated proteins, advanced mass spectrometric technology, and novel techniques of data analysis, we quantified heat shock–induced changes in the SUMOylation state of 766 putative substrates. In response to heat shock, SUMO was polymerized into polySUMO chains and redistributed among a wide range of proteins involved in cell cycle regulation; apoptosis; the trafficking, folding, and degradation of proteins; transcription; translation; and DNA replication, recombination, and repair. This comprehensive proteomic analysis of the substrates of a ubiquitin-like modifier (Ubl) identifies a pervasive role for SUMO proteins in the biologic response to hyperthermic stress.
INTERSESSION RELIABILITY OF A PROTOCOL TO ASSESS REFLEX ACTIVATION HISTORY IN THE VASTUS MEDIALIS

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of a protocol to assess reflex activation history in the vastus medialis. Eight subjects reported to the laboratory on two occasions. Reflex activation history was assessed by delivering two stimuli of the same intensity 80 ms apart. The dependent variable evaluated was the percentage of the unconditioned reflex amplitude. Eight trials were elicited and averaged on each day. An intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC 2,1) was used to estimate intersession reliability. The ICC for the protocol was found to be 0.9647. The results of this investigation indicate that this technique can reliably estimate reflex activation history in the vastus medialis.
Perkembangan Skala Usaha Perbankan Syariah di Indonesia Pra dan Pasca Kebijakan Office Channeling

Sharia service policy / Office Channeling through Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 8/3/PBI/2006 positive impact of union funds. By the end of 2007, the UUS service sharia opens branch office in the conventional bank successfully channeling of public funds of Rp 507.8 billion. Funds come from the 1053 Office Channeling outlets. This study describes the development of scale sharia banking in Indonesia before and after the policy and also to know the projected target in the 5% market share of Bank Syariah National bank at the end of the year 2008. The results of the analysis showed that each variable in the regression equation linier have impact together to the total banking assets sharia, and the results predicted by the end of 2008 the market share of sharia banking reaches only 2.5% of total bank assets nationally. Keywords : Office Channeling, skala usaha, perbankan syariah dan penghimpunan dana.
Statistical contingency has a different impact on preparation judgements than on causal judgements

Previous studies on causal learning showed that judgements about the causal effect of a cue on an outcome depend on the statistical contingency between the presence of the cue and the outcome. We demonstrate that statistical contingency has a different impact on preparation judgements (i.e., judgements about the usefulness of responses that allow one to prepare for the outcome). Our results suggest that preparation judgements primarily reflect information about the outcome in prior situations that are identical to the test situation. These findings also add to previous evidence showing that people can use contingency information in a flexible manner depending on the type of test question.
Interpreting and responding to strategic issues: The impact of national culture

Perceptions of environmental uncertainty and organizational control influence strategic behavior. As national culture influences these perceptions we expect to find cultural differences in interpretation and response to strategic issues. Given a case describing an issue concerning deregulation of the U.S. banking industry, managers completed questionnaires rating interpretations and responses to that issue. National culture was found to influence interpretation and responses. In particular, Latin European managers when compared with other managers were more likely to interpret the issue as a crisis and as a threat. Latin Europeans were also more likely to recommend proactive behavior. This study indicates that different cultures are likely to interpret and respond to the same strategic issue in different ways. These differences may help to explain and predict different responses of European countries to ‘1992’.
The Impact of Weather on Mobility and Participation in Older U.S. Adults.

OBJECTIVES We examined the impact of weather on the daily lives of US adults to understand which populations are most vulnerable to various weather conditions. METHODS Data came from a 2013 supplement to the University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters Surveys of Consumers, a nationally representative telephone survey of 502 adults in the contiguous United States. We used logistic regressions to assess the odds of mobility difficulty and participation restriction during different weather conditions, as well as age group differences. RESULTS Ice was most likely to change the way respondents got around (reported by 47%). In icy conditions, participants had difficulty leaving home (40%) and driving (35%). Facing ice, older adults (≥ 65 years) had twice the odds of having great difficulty leaving home (odds ratio [OR] = 2.22; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.12, 4.42) and curtailing work or volunteer activities (OR = 2.01; 95% CI = 1.01, 4.06), and 3 times the odds of difficulty driving (OR = 3.33; 95% CI = 1.62, 6.86) as younger respondents. We also found significant differences in mobility and participation by gender and region of residence. CONCLUSIONS Weather can affect social isolation, health, well-being, and mortality among older US adults.
Examining key determinants of mobile wallet adoption intention in Malaysia: an empirical study using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 model

Mobile technology has been shifting towards the integration of near field communication technology into the mobile wallet, which was considered as a substitute for the conventional wallet. However, the mobile wallet is not implemented in Malaysia yet. Premised on this, this research aimed to explore the determinants affecting Gen Y’s behaviour intention on mobile wallet adoption in Malaysia by adapting unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 as research model. 418 valid surveys were gathered via a self-administered and online survey. The data was then analysed by using multiple regression analysis. The findings showed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and habit were positively associated with the intention to use, whereas social influence and price value were the non-significant determinants affecting Gen Y’s behaviour intention to adopt the mobile wallet in Malaysia. This paper delivered a widespread comprehension and deeper understanding of Gen Y’s behaviour intention on the mobile wallet. Hence, mobile service providers and other business operating in Malaysia need to be alert to the acceptance of this new alternative payment method.
THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LYSINE AND METHIONINE LEVELS ON BROILER CHICKENS PERFORMANCE

The study was conducted to assess the effects of different L-Lysine and DL-Methionine levels on broiler chickens from 1 to 42 d of age. A total of ninety six Hybro strain chicks were selected on the basis of uniform initial live bodyweight (48g/chick). Chicks were randomly divided into four treatments of 6 chicks per pen. Diets were formulated based on sorghum, groundnut meal, sesame meal and bone meal to meet the nutrient requirements of broiler diet. In treatment 1, diet was formulated to contain (3,100 kcal/kg) (22.4% CP, 0.70% Lysine, and 0.00% Methionine). Treatment 2 was (22.4% CP, 0.60% Lysine, and 0.10% Methionine) and treatment 3 was (22.4% CP, 0.50% Lysine, and 0.20% Methionine) which were fed to broilers. Requirements for the 1-to 42-d growth period were determined by body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion, respectively. The weight gain in treatment 1 was significantly higher than other treatments. No significant differences were observed in feed intake and feed efficiency between treatment groups throughout the experimental period. The results show that birds negatively responded to dietary levels of 0.10% lysine, and 0.60% methionine had a beneficial effect on the performance of broiler chicken. Economically, the study indicated that supplementation of methionine and lysine to broiler diet increased gross marginal profit.
Rapid PCR-Based Identification of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Screening Swabs

ABSTRACT A PCR identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), obviating the need for subculture on agar media, was investigated. The combination of MRSA detection by mecA femB PCR with prior enrichment in selective broth was tested for 439 swabs. PCR identified 36 MRSA-positive samples, in concordance with conventional methods.
Human Resource Management: Employee Compensation Guide

*Extension Agricultural Economist, Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service; and Extension Program Specialist III–Economic Accountability, The Texas A&M System. Most managers think in terms of: “What do I have to pay to . ” That is not an easy question to answer. A better question might be: “What do I want my compensation package to say? ” It is already saying a lot, whether you realize it or not. Compensation can be linked to business structure and to employee recruitment, retention, motivation, performance, feedback and satisfaction. It is typically among the first things potential employees consider. For employees, compensation signifies not so much how they are paid, but how they are valued.
The Paulson Plan’s Competitive Effects

The joint plan by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, announced on Monday, October 13, 2008, represented the largest financial transfer from taxpayers to financial institutions in U.S. history. Existing academic studies have analyzed whether this massive state intervention improved the recipients’ financial health with a focus on the wealth effects for shareholders and creditors. An investigation of investor reactions to the initial Paulson plan announcement and 247 subsequent capital injection transactions reveals that this public intervention was everything but neutral with respect to competition among participants in the financial industry. The results suggest that the “too-big-to-fail” effect was in play. Concerns about potential competitive distortion effects are reinforced by the negative reactions of rivals’ stock market prices to capital injections directed toward large recipients.
DNA levels in circulating immune complexes decrease at severe SLE flares-correlation with complement component C1q.

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship of DNA content in circulating immune complexes with disease course and activity in SLE. The DNA content in circulating immune complexes containing anti-DNA antibodies of IgG class was determined in serial samples from 28 patients with SLE by a quantitative immunochemical assay. The patients presented various active disease manifestations over 5-55 months. Disease activity (SLEDAI-score), drug treatment and ACR-criteria were recorded. Levels of anti-dsDNA, CRP, leukocytes, complement components C3, C4 and C1q were measured. Patients with severe flares and high SLEDAI scores had low Clq levels at onset of active disease manifestations. The patients with low C1q serum levels during flare (n=13) had significantly lower amounts of DNA in immune complexes than patients with normal Clq (P=0.001). Levels of DNA in immune complexes correlated with Clq at flares (r=0.62, P<0.0001) and correlated inversely with SLEDAI scores (r=-0.47, P=0.012). In conclusion, the low levels of DNA in circulating immune complexes found in severely ill SLE patients with concomitantly low serum concentrations of Clq prior to flares might be related to tissue deposition of immune complexes.
Tumor‐specific shared antigenic peptides recognized by human T cells

Summary: The first tumor‐specific shared antigens and the cancer‐germline genes that code for these antigens were identified with antitumor cytolytic T lymphocytes obtained from cancer patients. A few HLA class I‐restricted antigenic peptides were identified by this ‘direct approach’. A large set of additional cancer‐germline genes have now been identified by purely genetic approaches or by screening tumor cDNA expression libraries with the serum of cancer patients. As a result, a vast number of sequences are known that can code for tumor‐specific shared antigens, but most of the encoded antigenic peptides have not yet been identified. We review here recent ‘reverse immunology’ approaches for the identification of new antigenic peptides. They are based on in vitro stimulation of naive T cells with dendritic cells that have either been loaded with a cancer‐germline protein or that have been transduced with viruses carrying cancer‐germline coding sequences. These approaches have led to the identification of many new antigenic peptides presented by class I or class II molecules. We also describe some aspects of the processing and presentation of these antigenic peptides.