Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quantifying the interruption impact of activity delays in non-serial repetitive construction projects

Abstract Available scheduling models for repetitive construction projects can be classified as serial or non-serial. Serial models assume that each repetitive activity is limited to have only one predecessor and one successor, while non-serial models enable repetitive activities to have multi predecessors and successors. Activity delays in serial and non-serial repetitive projects often cause work interruptions for successor activities and project delays. This paper presents the development of a novel scheduling model for both serial and non-serial repetitive construction projects to quantify the impact of any activity delay on interrupting the crew work continuity of its successors. An application example of a repetitive construction project from the literature is analyzed to illustrate the use of the model and its computations. This analysis illustrates the novel capabilities of the model in: (1) calculating a new float to identify the duration that each activity can be delayed without causing interruption in the crew work continuity of any of its successors; and (2) quantifying the impact of unexpected activity delay on interrupting the crew work continuity of its successors. These capabilities enable construction planners to analyze and minimize the impact of unexpected activity delays on interrupting the crew work continuity of all its successors.
Techniques and challenges in the assimilation of atmospheric water observations for numerical weather prediction towards convective scales

While contemporary numerical weather prediction models represent the large‐scale structure of moist atmospheric processes reasonably well, they often struggle to maintain accurate forecasts of small‐scale features such as convective rainfall. Even though high‐resolution models resolve more of the flow, and are therefore arguably more accurate, moist convective flow becomes increasingly nonlinear and dynamically unstable. Importantly, the models' initial conditions are typically sub‐optimal, leaving scope to improve the accuracy of forecasts with improved data assimilation. To address issues regarding the use of atmospheric water‐related observations – especially at convective scales (also known as storm scales) – this article discusses the observation and assimilation of water‐related quantities. Special emphasis is placed on background error statistics for variational and hybrid methods which need special attention for water variables. The challenges of convective‐scale data assimilation of atmospheric water information are discussed, which are more difficult to tackle than at larger scales. Some of the most important challenges include the greater degree of inhomogeneity and lower degree of smoothness of the flow, the high volume of water‐related observations (e.g. from radar, microwave and infrared instruments), the need to analyse a range of hydrometeors, the increasing importance of position errors in forecasts, the greater sophistication of forward models to allow use of indirect observations (e.g. cloud‐ and precipitation‐affected observations), the need to account for the flow‐dependent multivariate “balance” between atmospheric water and both dynamical and mass fields, and the inherent non‐Gaussian nature of atmospheric water variables.
The Shifting of Lecturers Beliefs in Written Corrective Feedback

Writing is often claimed as the most difficult and complex skill to be mastered by students. Moreover, compared to the other skills, writing is more thoughtful. In order to produce a good writing, the students-writer needs a sufficient guidance from the teacher (lecturer). Providing feedback to students’ writing is one the way to help students become a good writer. This article aimed at exploring lecturers’ beliefs, lecturers’ practices and the possibility of the shifted of their beliefs regarding the provision of written corrective feedback on students’ writing. The participants of this study were three lecturers of English Education Department of an Islamic State University of Lampung, Indonesia who taught writing. Interviews and document analysis were employed in collecting the data. Thematic analysis was used in analysing the data. The findings have shown that most of lecturers’ practices are incongruent with their beliefs. Moreover, the result of interview after some teaching practices has shown that their beliefs transform by the time. Keywords—lecturers’ beliefs; lecturers’ practices; written corrective feedback
Child Care Employment: Implications for Women's Self Sufficiency and for Child Development. Working Paper Series.

Reliable child care services are widely viewed as pivotal to the success of welfare reform because most welfare recipients depend on child care in order to seek, gain, and maintain employment. Others of the working poor need it to avoid dependency on public assistance. As a result, current policy decisions and research efforts are largely focused on how to build the U.S. child care supply, but little attention has been paid to child care employment itself as a precarious, low-wage job sector. Current decision making is driven by an emphasis on child care as an essential support service for working parents, with little regard for the fact that child care employment also involves urgent and complex research and policy questions. Child care is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the country, and one of the largest employers of low-income women; it is being increasingly identified as a job opportunity for women coming off welfare; and the poor conditions that are characteristic of child care jobs raise serious concerns not only about the viability of child care employment as a living-wage job, but also about the quality of services available to millions of children. (Contains 42 references.) (Author) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION . 1(1,, CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. THE FOUNDATION FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT WORKING PAPER SERIES CHILD CARE EMPLOYMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN'S SELF SUFFICIENCY AND FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT MARCY WHITEBOOK AND DEBORAH PHILLIPS
Validation and psychometric properties of the Maltese version of the Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale (DASS)

Purpose Assessing treatment satisfaction can guide specific interventions to improve anticoagulation adherence and reduce adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess the psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of the Maltese translation of the Duke Anticoagulation Satisfaction Scale (DASS). Patients and methods The DASS explores three dimensions (limitations, hassles/burdens, psychological impact). The translation process included forward and backward translations. Reliability was evaluated through internal consistency and reproducibility. Validity was evaluated through floor/ceiling effect, convergent/discriminant validity, construct validity, and known-group validity. Results The Maltese version of the DASS, administered to 174 patients on warfarin for different clinical indications, showed good reliability (Cronbach’s alpha 0.87; intraclass correlation coefficient for test–retest 0.73). Floor effect was identified mainly in the limitations and hassles/burdens subscales. Significant positive correlations were found between the DASS total score and its subscales (limitations 0.80, hassles/burdens 0.85, psychological impact 0.68). Female sex, shorter warfarin treatment duration (≤5 years), previous hospitalization and history of bleeding were associated with lower satisfaction. Conclusion Psychometric properties of the Maltese DASS were comparable to the original English version. The Maltese version of the DASS is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used by health care professionals to assess the level of satisfaction of Maltese-speaking anticoagulated patients.
Development of a Scale on Individual Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility Constructs: Based on Microfoundation Theory

The authors develop a scale to measure individual perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) constructs based on microfoundation theory. To develop the microfoundation based CSR scale, the research methodology involved two stages (qualitative research followed by quantitative research). In qualitative research, Focused Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted to extract items for survey questionnaire development. Subsequently, quantitative analysis was carried out. The data were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The study sample comprised of 407 management students of Indian business schools who enrolled in CSR and sustainability courses. The developed scale comprised of four variables namely Customer Product Preference (CPP), Customer Firm Preference (CFP), Investor Preference (IP) and Employability Preference (EP). The results were arrived at by undertaking Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and CFA. The scale developed and extended the theoretic conversation on CSR from the organizational level discussion to an individual level discussion based on microfoundation theory. This is one of the first studies to develop a scale on individual perspectives on CSR constructs based on micro-foundation theory.
Medium and Long-Term Returns to Professional Education in Switzerland: Explaining Differences between Occupational Fields

In Switzerland, initial vocational education and training graduates may enter a track of the tertiary system called professional education. Professional education represents about one-third of the tertiary system, includes numerous vocational training courses, and prepares for managerial or expert positions. Despite its prevalence, the long-term returns to professional education have rarely been investigated due to lacking data. In order to fill this gap, we will estimate the long-term returns to professional education based on a novel methodological design. Secondly, we aim to explain the differences in the returns to professional education between occupational fields by making use of the task-based approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003). Analyses are based on the Swiss Labour Force Survey from 1991–2016. Based on a quasi-panel with cohort fixed effects and on linear regression models, our results reveal average short-term returns to professional education of 7% and long-term returns of 11%. However, we find considerable differences in the returns between training fields, which can partly be attributed to differences in the change of task composition after completion of professional education between occupations.
Accurate emotion prediction in dyads and groups and its potential social benefits.

Emotion dynamics vary considerably from individual to individual and from group to group. Successful social interactions require people to track this moving target in order to anticipate the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. In two studies, we test whether people track others' emotional idiosyncrasies to make accurate, target-specific emotion predictions. In both studies, participants predicted the emotion transitions of a specific target-either a close friend (Study 1) or a first-year college roommate (Study 2)-as well as an average group member. Results demonstrate that people can make highly accurate predictions both for specific individuals and specific groups. Accurate predictions rely on target-specific knowledge; new community members were able to make accurate predictions at zero-acquaintance, but accuracy increased over time as individuals accrued specialized knowledge. Results also suggest that accurate emotion prediction is associated with social success in both individual and communal relationships and that such a relation might emerge over time. Overall, our studies suggest that people accurately make individualized predictions of others' emotion transitions and that doing so fulfills a meaningful function in the social world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Influence of mental stress on the pulse wave features of photoplethysmograms

Mental stress is a major burden for our society. Invasive and non-invasive methods have been proposed to monitor and quantify it using various sensors on and off body. In this Letter, the authors investigated the use of the arm photoplethysmogram (PPG) to assess mental stress in laboratory conditions. Results were in correspondence with their previous in-silico study which guided the present study. Three wave shape parameters were identified for stress assessment from the PPG signal: (i) the time from dicrotic notch to end diastole; (ii) the time from pulse onset to systolic peak; and (iii) the ratio of diastolic to systolic area. The proposed in-vivo results showed that the two first parameters responded significantly to increased mental stress and to a breathing relaxation procedure, complementing heart rate, heart rate variability, and pulse transit time as indices of stress.
NILAI-NILAI YANG TERKANDUNG DALAM APRESIASI TEMBANG-TEMBANG JAWA

Javanese songs (tembang) have their own charisma as educational as well as entertaining media. In the society that has not been influenced by diatonic songs and music, tembang is used as a popular media or means of rocking to sleep. However, in line with technological advance and information progress, the position of tembang is pushed aside from top position to the edge. The advancement of science and technology has an impact on all elements of life, including the existence of tembang. Starting from those facts, this writing aims at revealing the values contained in Javanese tembang as an effort for preserving Javanese culture. The appreciation of Javanese tembang is hoped to be a corridor to popularize Javanese culture we own. Understanding values will lead us to have a good knowledge of a value which can be a guideline for the society, especially the younger generation as the cultural continuer. With this kind of understanding, the younger generation are hoped to be able to show respect for the cultural heritage full of philosophical values (like religious, moral, social, heroism, tangible values). Key words : appreciation, Javanese songs, values
Student Engagement and Study Intensity in Flipped PBL Curriculum and Blended Learning Activities

Employability has been on the political as well as the research agenda for a long time. International research on engineering education has identified issues in the transition from engineering education to work. Engineering education designers therefore have to increase the alignment between engineering education and professional practice and be in the frontline to prepare students for future trajectories of technological innovation. The purpose of this paper is to study the changes in perspectives on engineering competence in the transition from engineering education to work. In Denmark, the research project PROCEED-­‐2-­‐Work was established as a longitudinal study with the purpose of identifying possible gaps in the transition from engineering education to work. The purpose of this article is to present comparative data on the respondents’ perspectives on engineering when students are just about to graduate and after 10 months in work. The study is limited to a Danish context and it should also be taken into consideration that the cohort is to be considered as being in transition, as they only have 10 months of working experience. The key results are that the students just about to graduate feel ready in terms of their academic and societal competences and less prepared related to career and work competences. After 10 months of working experience, the priority of these factors are inverted, with academic and societal competences less prioritised than career and work competences. The respondents point out that project work and internships have been especially significant factors in preparing for and the learning of employable competences. However, students change perspective on engineering competences after just 10 months at work, which questions the alignment between current engineering curricula content and employability. The paper ends with a discussion of the potential of problem based learning to increase the employability of engineering students. Keywords: Employability, transition, engineering competences, problem based learning Type of contribution: Research paper.
Inequalities in the experience of early education in England:Access, peer groups and transitions

This paper summarises the output of a Nuffield-funded research project exploring inequalities in three aspects of children’s experience in early education in England. The main focus of the project was on ‘peer effects’ in pre-school settings: we examine the extent of clustering by income and language background and explore associations between pre-school peer group and children’s outcomes in early primary school. The report also presents findings on access to the full duration of the free entitlement to early education, and on variation in children’s experience of the transition onward to reception class. We find much lower levels of clustering in pre-schools in England than have been identified in studies for the US, particularly by income, and little evidence that pre-school peer group is related to early school attainment as assessed by teachers in reception and Year 2. But we identify significant levels of non-take-up of the full entitlement, particularly among disadvantaged groups. A higher prevalence in the local authority of some types of pre-school appears to make a difference: more voluntary sector or Sure Start provision is associated with higher take-up, while more Sure Start provision is further associated with lower inequalities in access between different groups. We also find disparities in the stability of transitions to reception class. In the cohort we examine, children from lowincome backgrounds and some minority ethnic groups are much more likely to experience the most secure transition – from a school nursery class to a reception class in the same school, with high numbers of known peers – because they are more likely to be in school nurseries to begin with. But among those attending school nurseries, some groups, including Black Caribbean children and those with a statement of special educational needs, are significantly less likely than others to continue to reception in that school. The disparity is of potential concern given wider disadvantages facing these groups of children.
The Evolution of Voice Perception

The human voice is a rich source of information and an important means of interpersonal communication. Beginning with Darwin (1872), nonverbal vocal communication has long interested evolutionary scientists, and in the last quarter century empirical research on voice production and perception from an evolutionary perspective has increased dramatically. One reason for this surge of interest is that behavioral ecologists and evolutionary psychologists have taken advantage of recent technological improvements in acoustic analysis software as well as sound recording and reproduction devices. More importantly, many voice researchers have recognized that the extraction of biologically relevant information from the vocal channel constitutes a set of adaptive problems widely shared across many species. Evolutionary scientists studying human vocal behavior therefore have a rich theoretical framework and an established comparative basis for developing specific research questions. For any vocal species, including humans, we should expect perceptual adaptations designed to process acoustic features of the vocal sounds of conspecifics (other individuals of the same species). An evolutionary approach provides a framework for specifying the nature of these adaptive perceptual problems. In this chapter, the authors describe recent work focusing on human voice perception from an evolutionary perspective and provide examples of the value of this approach for gaining a full understanding of this fundamental aspect of human behavior.
DIRECTIONS SETS: A GENERALISATION OF RATIO SETS

For every integer $k\geq 2$ and every $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$, we define the $k$-directions sets of $A$ as $D^{k}(A):=\{\boldsymbol{a}/\Vert \boldsymbol{a}\Vert :\boldsymbol{a}\in A^{k}\}$ and $D^{\text{}\underline{k}}(A):=\{\boldsymbol{a}/\Vert \boldsymbol{a}\Vert :\boldsymbol{a}\in A^{\text{}\underline{k}}\}$, where $\Vert \cdot \Vert$ is the Euclidean norm and $A^{\text{}\underline{k}}:=\{\boldsymbol{a}\in A^{k}:a_{i}\neq a_{j}\text{ for all }i\neq j\}$. Via an appropriate homeomorphism, $D^{k}(A)$ is a generalisation of the ratio set$R(A):=\{a/b:a,b\in A\}$. We study $D^{k}(A)$ and $D^{\text{}\underline{k}}(A)$ as subspaces of $S^{k-1}:=\{\boldsymbol{x}\in [0,1]^{k}:\Vert \boldsymbol{x}\Vert =1\}$. In particular, generalising a result of Bukor and Tóth, we provide a characterisation of the sets $X\subseteq S^{k-1}$ such that there exists $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ satisfying $D^{\text{}\underline{k}}(A)^{\prime }=X$, where $Y^{\prime }$ denotes the set of accumulation points of $Y$. Moreover, we provide a simple sufficient condition for $D^{k}(A)$ to be dense in $S^{k-1}$. We conclude with questions for further research.
Rectal Palpation Associated Cumulative Trauma Disorders and Acute Traumatic Injury Affecting Bovine Practitioners

A survey was conducted to determine the prevalence, time of onset and anatomical location of musculoskeletal injuries among bovine practitioners. The survey response rate was low and respondents had significantly more years in practice than the sampled population. Musculoskeletal injuries were reported by seventy-one percent of respondents. Palpation associated acute traumatic injury was reported by thirty percent of respondents. The anatomical locations most frequently affected, in descending order, were the shoulder, elbow, wrist, neck, knee and hip. Current palpation level of activity was not associated with the presence of symptoms. Symptoms were reported significantly more frequently on the same side of the body as the arm used to perform rectal palpation.
Analisis Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Ketepatan Waktu Penyampaian Laporan Keuangan (Studi Empiris Perusahaan yang Terdaftar Di BEI)

Kebutuhan ketepatan waktu penyampaian laporan keuangan merupakan salah satu karakteristik yang harus dipenuhi agar laporan keuangan yang disajikan relevan untuk membuat keputusan. Semakin cepat informasi diungkapkan, maka akan semakin relevan informasi tersebut bagi para pengguna laporan keuangan. Ketepatan waktu sangat dipengaruhi faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan dengan pengambilan keputusan. Berdasarkan penelitian terdahulu masih terdapat kesimpangsiuran faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi ketepatan waktu penyampaian laporan keuangan perusahaan. Untuk itu, dalam penelitian ini ingin mengetahui faktor-faktor apa yang paling signifikan berpengaruh positif terhadap ketepatan waktu penyampaian laporan keuangan berdasarkan hasil penelitian terdahulu. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor profitabilitas, reputasi KAP, dan ukuran perusahaan lebih signifikan dan secara simultan berpengaruh positif terhadap ketepatan waktu penyampaian laporan keuangan perusahaan.