Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Examining Adaptive Structures of Military Families in Relation to Deployment

Military families experience stressors unique to their occupation which strongly influence family structure. Deployment is one of the most impactful and unique experiences that a majority of current military families have experienced as it influences familial stability and structures. Previous research has found that when compared to civilian American families, military families tend to identify as more rigid than flexible while still maintaining good familial satisfaction reports. By examining the correlation between various family structure domains of military families (cohesion, flexibility, rigidity, deployment history, and familial satisfaction) mental health workers may better assist these families in establishing strategies to endure immediate and ensuing stressors of deployment. A participant pool ( n = 104) of military members, veterans, partners, and their children completed a demographic questionnaire including deployment history and the FACES IV self-assessment tool authored by David Olson (2011). The FACES IV identifies domains of cohesion and flexibility and their relationships with disengagement, enmeshment, rigidity, and chaos. It was hypothesized that levels of heightened rigidity may serve
The Effect of Interest Rate Differentials on Exchange Rate Volatility of East African Community Currencies

The study sought to test the effect of interest rate differentials on the exchange rate volatility of East African Community currencies. It used secondary data collected from Central Bank of Kenya, Bank of Uganda, Bank of Tanzania, Bank of the Republic of Burundi, National Bank of Rwanda and the IMF e-Library. A panel data model was used to regress average monthly exchange rates, interest rate differentials, inflation rate differentials and relative current account balances for a period starting from January 2013 to December 2017. Findings from the fixed-effects model showed that 98.8% of the variation in the exchange rate is explained by the three independent variables. Interest differential was the main independent variable with a coefficient’s value of 0.0274. This means that in East African Community an increase by 1 point in interest rate differential leadsto the depreciation of home currency by 0.0274 points. The study also found that the relative current account balance contributes also to the home currency depreciation with a coefficient’s value of 0.000052. However, the study could not be able to find the expected results for inflation differential as it has a negative coefficient’s value (-0.0075). This contradicts the economic theory on inflation differential and may due to other variables that were not included in the model but can be with great importance in the explanation of exchange rate movement. The study further suggested that more research can be carried out to bring forth more knowledge to the pool of literature on the relationship between interest rate differential and exchange rate volatility in the region.
EST Secondary School Reading Curriculum: The Preparation for Reading at Tertiary Level

Reading skill becomes the pioneer and the most vital skill at the tertiary level, it is the gateway to every academic achievement. This study analyses the Yemeni EST senior secondary reading curriculum to explore how well this curriculum prepares secondary school level students for reading content area subjects at the tertiary level. The data were collected through document review and classroom observation. The framework of this study was based on a revised model of Sidek (2010) of method analysis of the teaching of reading skill. The findings on the emphasis on reading skill and the level of cognitive demands of reading tasks indicated that reading skill is greatly and explicitly emphasized in the selected curriculum; however, the curriculum partially prepares secondary school students for tertiary reading in terms of the level of cognitive demands of reading tasks. Findings were discussed in terms of improving the effectiveness of EST senior secondary reading textbooks and classroom instruction on the students’ level of reading comprehension at higher education. Suggestions for EST curriculum revision were provided in the discussion section.
PENGARUH MOTIVASI DAN PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT TERHADAP KOMITMEN DAN KINERJA DALAM STRATEGI PENINGKATAN KINERJA KARYAWAN (STUDI KASUS PT VALE INDONESIA Tbk)

For PT Vale Indonesia Tbk, performance is one of the important indicators for the company. Performance is also mentioned and described in the proceeds of the 2014 Joint Task Force which is the result of management agreements with trade unions as representatives of employees. To analyze the influence of motivation and perceived organizational support towards commitment and performance in employee performance improvement strategy at PT Vale Indonesia Tbk, used data collection technique through questionnaires distribution to selected employee as sample. Data analysis technique used in this research is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. This method is commonly used for the examination of relatively complex relations simultaneously with a sample of 202 people at PT Vale Indonesia Tbk. The results showed that commitment was positively and significantly influenced by Perceived Organizational Support and motivation, performance was positively and significantly influenced by motivation and Perceived Organizational Suppor, while commitment had positive and significant effect on employee performance at PT. Vale Indonesia Tbk, so the hypothesis in this research is accepted.
Two Demonstrators Are Better Than One—A Social Robot That Learns to Imitate People With Different Interaction Styles

With recent advances in social robotics, many studies have investigated techniques for learning top-level multimodal interaction logic by imitation from a corpus of human–human interaction examples. Most such studies have taken the approach of learning equally from a variety of demonstrators, with the effect of reproducing a mixture of their average behavior. However, in many scenarios it would be desirable to reproduce specific interaction styles captured from individuals. In this paper, we train one deep neural network jointly on two separate corpuses collected from demonstrators with differing interaction styles. We show that training on both corpuses together improves performance in terms of generating socially appropriate behavior even when reproducing only one of the two styles. Furthermore, the trained neural network also enables us to synthesize new interaction styles on a continuum between the two demonstrated interaction styles. We discuss plots of the hidden layer activations from the neural network, indicating the types of semantic information that appear to be learned by the system. Further, we observe that the better performance with the synthesized corpus is not merely due to the increase of the sample size, as even with the same number of training examples, training on half the data from each corpus provided better performance than training on all the data from a single corpus.
Bayesian analysis of moving average stochastic volatility models: modeling in-mean effects and leverage for financial time series

Abstract We propose a moving average stochastic volatility in mean model and a moving average stochastic volatility model with leverage. For parameter estimation, we develop efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and illustrate our methods, using simulated and real data sets. We compare the proposed specifications against several competing stochastic volatility models, using marginal likelihoods and the observed-data Deviance information criterion. We also perform a forecasting exercise, using predictive likelihoods, the root mean square forecast error and Kullback-Leibler divergence. We find that the moving average stochastic volatility model with leverage better fits the four empirical data sets used.
Working with Sexual Offenders

Since the mid 1980s, a mass of scholarly material has been published on sex offender treatment. There has also been a gradual recognition by academics and practitioners working in the field of the particular challenges faced by those providing treatment for sexual offenders. Various detrimental impacts have been associated with providing treatment to sexual offenders, including stress, burnout and vicarious traumatisation. In this book, the author presents the results of interviews conducted with a variety of Prison Service staff working with sex offenders on the UK-based Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP). Participants were asked about the positive and negative effects of working with sexual offenders, the quality of training they had received, and what types of personal and organisational support were available to them. The results show that the UK Prison Service needs to give greater consideration when selecting candidates to deliver the SOTP. In addition, it is concluded that there should be further staff training for those working on the SOTP, and that existing sources of organisational support need to be improved.
Resilience of sustainability‐oriented and financially‐driven organizations

Bus Strat Env. 2019;1–16. wiley Abstract To answer key questions concerning how negative and positive financial performance gaps motivate organizations to build more resilient systems, we develop a conceptual process model to reveal the process bywhich financially and sustainability‐driven organizations can translate these negative and positive financial performance gaps into organizational resilience.We specify the differentmodes of search behaviors that these organizations pursue when encountering negative and positive financial performance gaps. We then expand on group engagement model to theorize that vicarious search is likely to encourage limiting behaviors, whereas internal search is likely to foster promotion behaviors. Finally, we explain howboth promoting and limiting behaviors can be helpful in improving organizational resilience. In this way, we hope to advance research that connects and integrates relatively disparate realms and, more specifically, to contribute to the sustainability, resilience, and performance feedback literatures.
Stress, parenting and family support in attention defi cit/hyperactivity
 disorder

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) causes impairments in child development. Parents of children with this diagnosis may present stress, problems in managing rules and limits, compromising parenting style, besides perceiving family support as low. The objectives of the study were to characterize the stress, parenting style and perception of family support in parents of children with ADHD, establishing relationships between these variables. For this, 42 parents (fathers and mothers) responded to Lipp’s Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults (LSSI), the Inventory of Parenting Styles (IPS) and the Family Support Perception Inventory (FSPI). The results show that the mothers presented more stress than the fathers; there was also an association of mothers’ stress with negative parenting practices and low perception of family support. Another finding was that the higher the child’s age, the worse the parenting style presented by the family. New research should support this data.
Factors that influence PhD candidates’ success: the importance of PhD project characteristics

ABSTRACT High dropout rates, delay, and dissatisfaction among PhD students are common problems in doctoral education. Research shows that many different factors are associated with doctoral success, but these factors have not often been studied simultaneously. Moreover, characteristics of the PhD project are mostly neglected. In this study, we investigate which supervision, psychosocial, and project characteristics are related to satisfaction, progress, and quit intentions in a sample of 839 PhD candidates at a university in the Netherlands. Results of regression analyses show that experienced workload was negatively related to satisfaction and progress and positively to quit intentions. The quality of the supervisor-PhD candidate relationship, the PhD candidate’s sense of belonging, the amount of freedom in the project, and working on a project closely related to the supervisor’s research were positively related to satisfaction and negatively to quit intentions. The high workload of PhD candidates should be a major point of attention for universities who wish to increase their rates of PhD completion and PhD candidates’ satisfaction. In addition, the ‘match’ between PhD candidate and supervisor is crucial, both personally – a good relationship – and academically, i.e. that the PhD candidate works on a topic closely related to the supervisor’s research.
Mr Phillips and the medium-run: temporal instability vs. frequency stability

The paper goes back to the original insight by Phillips and investigates the negative relationship between money wage inflation and the unemployment rate occurring at frequency bands that stretch beyond those of the business cycle. We use UK annual data for the period 1861-2015, and post- WWII quarterly data from 1960 to 2016. The two critical findings are that the wage Phillips Curve is predominantly a medium-run phenomenon, comprised in the 8-to16-year frequency band, and that the curve disappears beyond this range. Similar conclusions are reached using the post-WWII quarterly sample: at the aggregate level and at high frequencies the PC relationship is unstable over time, whereas in the frequency range between 32 to 64 quarters (our medium run timescale), this time dependency disappears.
Why I chose to become a teacher and why I might choose not to become one. A survey of student teachers’ perceptions of teaching as a career

A detailed questionnaire about why they chose teaching as a career and the challenges that they face on their ITT course was completed by 189 third year student teachers on a third year BA in Primary Education with QTS programme at a university in Wales. The findings showed that several factors contributed to their choosing a career as primary school teachers, including reasons related to perceived teaching ability, altruistic reasons, intrinsic reasons, and extrinsic reasons. The data also revealed that the main stressors faced by the respondents were linked to four factors, namely: high levels of accountability; the pressure of monitoring; the continual demand for change; and the perceived lack of respect given to the profession. Differences were found between the male and the female respondents in the ways they perceived their role within the profession. The findings have important implications for all those who are concerned with the attracting and retaining the most competent teachers to/in our primary schools.
Company quality assessments

First of a two‐part series. Examines current schemes for self‐assessment and their limitations. Proposes a new method of measuring organisational excellence and continous improvement. Suggests what is needed is an “assessment model” of the company′s quality goals and results, created and analysed through surveys and measurement.
Beyond the Low Frequency Fluctuations: Morning and Evening Differences in Human Brain

Human performance, alertness, and most biological functions express rhythmic fluctuations across a 24-h-period. This phenomenon is believed to originate from differences in both circadian and homeostatic sleep-wake regulatory processes. Interactions between these processes result in time-of-day modulations of behavioral performance as well as brain activity patterns. Although the basic mechanism of the 24-h clock is conserved across evolution, there are interindividual differences in the timing of sleep-wake cycles, subjective alertness and functioning throughout the day. The study of circadian typology differences has increased during the last few years, especially research on extreme chronotypes, which provide a unique way to investigate the effects of sleep-wake regulation on cerebral mechanisms. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we assessed the influence of chronotype and time-of-day on resting-state functional connectivity. Twenty-nine extreme morning- and 34 evening-type participants underwent two fMRI sessions: about 1 h after wake-up time (morning) and about 10 h after wake-up time (evening), scheduled according to their declared habitual sleep-wake pattern on a regular working day. Analysis of obtained neuroimaging data disclosed only an effect of time of day on resting-state functional connectivity; there were different patterns of functional connectivity between morning (MS) and evening (ES) sessions. The results of our study showed no differences between extreme morning-type and evening-type individuals. We demonstrate that circadian and homeostatic influences on the resting-state functional connectivity have a universal character, unaffected by circadian typology.
Digital Technologies and Selective Exposure: How Choice and Filter Bubbles Shape News Media Exposure

This paper analyzes the role of different origins to news media in selective exposure. We rely on a unique web-tracking online dataset from Spain to identify points of access to news outlets and study the influence of direct navigation and news-referred platforms (i.e., from Facebook and Google) on selective exposure. We also explore cross-level interactions between origins to news and political interest and ideology. We find that direct navigation increases selective exposure while Google reduces it. We also find that the relationship between origins to news and selective exposure is strongly moderated by ideology, suggesting that search engines and social media are not content neutral. Our findings suggest a rather complex picture regarding selective exposure online.
The Verbal Aggression of Spectators at Youth Baseball Games: Investigating the Impact of Competition Level, Team Identification, and Fan Dysfunction

Previous research had found that level of team identification was positively associated with aggression at youth sporting events (Wann, Weaver, Belva, Ladd, & Armstrong, 2015). The current investigation was designed to extend this work by incorporating fan dysfunction into the model (i.e., fans who are confrontational and frequently complain). Spectators at either a recreational or select (i.e., travel) youth baseball game completed a survey packet assessing demographics, team identification with their favorite Major League Baseball team, identification with the youth team, fan dysfunction, and hostile and instrumental verbal aggression directed toward officials and opponents. Results indicated that, contrary to expectations, team identification was not a unique predictor of verbal aggression. Rather, fan dysfunction predicted each form of aggression, aggression toward both targets, and total aggression.
The Meaning of Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy in Working Mothers - A Qualitative Study

Background: The benefits of exclusive breast feeding is well documented. However, in Indonesia, breast feeding rates fall well below global recommendations. The aim of this research was to explore the meaning of breastfeeding self-efficacy from working mothers’ perspective. Method: a qualitative method was used that is the nature of the phenomenology. Setting: the study was conducted in an outpatient’s department in a hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia. Participants: the respondents were eight mothers working outside the home for 40 hours per week, attending lactation classes, Indonesian, with children aged seven months to two years, and babies born healthy. Results: there were five main themes identified in the women’s stories, relating to self-efficacy and breastfeeding: 1) the source of breastfeeding self-efficacy; 2) the confidence to breastfeed her infant; 3) the motivation to breastfeed; 4) perception of workplace control; and 5) the impact of breastfeeding self-efficacy on breastfeeding behavior. Conclusion: The participants who decided to breastfeed for at least two years tended to think positively about breastfeeding. The women had realistic expectations of the commitment that breastfeeding entailed, even though they were faced with many workplace obstacles.
Heterosexual students’ accounts of teachers as perpetrators and recipients of homophobia

Abstract This paper is concerned with how teachers manage homophobia at school. It examines how they deal with homophobia directed at students, and instances when teachers become the recipients of homophobia themselves. This dual focus, on teachers as both the perpetrators and recipients of homophobia, adds complexity to existing studies concerning how homophobia operates in schools. In previous studies, it has been LGBTIQA+ teachers who have provided accounts of homophobia they have experienced. In this research, heterosexual students offer these narratives. Via these accounts, students acknowledge and corroborate teachers’ voices in other studies. Students’ depictions also reveal nuances in homophobia’s operation and that heterosexual teachers can sometimes be its target. In existing literature, LGBTIQA+ students typically provide narratives about whether teachers are effective at addressing homophobia. In the current study, heterosexual students deliver these accounts, confirming their LGBTIQA+ peers’ assessment that teachers often ignore homophobia or respond ineffectually. When heterosexual students identify homophobia, they lift the burden for acknowledging and addressing this discrimination from the LGBTIQA+ community. Retelling incidents in this way, recognizes homophobia is not the sole responsibility of individual perpetrators and recipients, but an issue that implicates the whole school and its culture.
Effects of Divided Attention on Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Human Memory: Further Support for an Asymmetry

: Despite a tradition in cognitive psychology that views encoding and retrieval processes in human memory as being similar, F. I. M. Craik, R. Govoni, M. Naveh-Benjamin and N. D. Anderson (1996) have recently shown that notable differences exist between the 2 when divided-attention manipulations are used. In this article, the authors further examined this asymmetry by using several manipulations that changed task demands at encoding and retrieval. The authors also used a secondary-task methodology that allowed a microlevel analysis of the secondary-task costs associated with encoding and retrieval. The results illustrated the resiliency of retrieval processes to manipulations involving different task demands. They also indicated different loci of attention demands at encoding and retrieval. The authors contend that whereas encoding processes are controlled, retrieval processes are obligatory but do require attentional resources for their execution.