Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, FIRM OWNERSHIP, AND INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL

Technology is transferred across countries at some cost to the transferor and transferee. Rather than treating transfer costs as determined by a Leontief type cost function, the author examines the incentive of each party to invest resources in transferring technology. The theoretical model predicts that subsidiaries will receive greater resources than partially licensor-owned and independent firms. The empirical analysis confirms this prediction. This result favors multinational investment over direct licensing of technology to independent firms. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.
Comparison of VOTs in Mandarin–English bilingual children and corresponding monolingual children and adults

Word-initial stops in Mandarin and English show a distinctive phonological categorization but a similar phonetic realization along the VOT (Voice Onset Time) continuum. Previous research reported that native Mandarin adults produce measurably longer long-lag VOTs than native English adults. The present study examined whether and how the difference between Mandarin and English VOTs is manifested in monolingual children and Mandarin–English bilingual children. The participants included 15 five- to six-year-old sequential bilingual children, 24 corresponding monolingual children (15 Mandarin, 9 English), and 22 monolingual adults (12 Mandarin, 10 English). The bilingual children were divided into two groups (Bi-low and Bi-high) based on the amount of experience in English. Each participant was recorded producing 18 Mandarin words and/or 18 English words containing six stops in each language. The VOT values were measured from the beginning of stop burst to the onset of the voicing. The results showed that the language difference in VOT in the monolingual children was manifested in a pattern similar to the monolingual adults. However, Mandarin and English VOTs showed less separable distributions in the two groups of bilingual children. Further analysis suggested that both groups of bilingual children tended to separate Mandarin and English short-lag VOTs but only the Bi-low children showed different long-lag VOTs between the two languages. These results suggested that due to the bilingual effects and L1–L2 (first language – second language) interactions, even though the bilingual children tried to separate the two VOT systems, they implemented the separation in a different manner than the monolingual speakers.
Relationship Between Work Satisfaction with Employee Engagement

Job satisfaction is a factor capable of increasing the level of employee engagement. This study aims to empirically examine the relationship between job satisfaction and employee engagement. The subjects in this study are the lecturers at the University of X. The selection of subjects was randomized and the sampling technique was randomized sampling. Methods of data collection were the scale of job satisfaction and employee engagement scale. The data were analyzed using product moment correlation techniques. Based on the results of hypothesis testing between work motivation and OCB, the results of the correlation coefficient were = 0.230 with a significance of 0.001 (p <0.05) which meant that there was a very significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and employee engagement. Keywords— Job Satisfaction, employee engagement.
The evolution of tax implicit value judgements, redistribution and income inequality in the UK: 1968 to 2015

An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and transfer policy, where an important theme concerns changes in the relative treatment of alternative population subgroups. We develop an empirical approach for quantifying the value judgements implicit in the relative treatment of demographic subgroups by a tax and transfer system. We apply this approach to UK data reported at annual intervals between 1968 and 2015, documenting remarkable improvements in tax and transfer treatment enjoyed by some population subgroups – particularly families with children and age pensioners – relative to the wider population. We show that accounting for the changing value judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s.
The Impact of Donald Trump’s Tweets on College Student Civic Engagement in Relation to his Perceived Credibility and Expertise

by Thalia Valerie Bobadilla University of the Pacific 2018 Because college students use social media so often, it would be incumbent for the researcher to examine the impact Donald Trump’s tweets might have on these young adults’, civic engagement and how the tweets may be affecting his perceived credibility and expertise. The researcher administered a questionnaire to 350 college students from a private medium sized west coast university using various modified scales examining credibility, expertise and civic engagement. Civic engagement was measured using an adapted version of several civic engagement instruments. The researcher used a correlation analysis to answer proposed research questions. Donald Trump’s tweets have a significant positive impact on the way college students perceive him to be credible and an expert. The tweets were not correlated to civic engagement, but further research concluded that specific tweets have the ability to have a significant negative correlation on civic attitudes and behaviors. The correlation analysis also found a significant negative correlation between which form of media students use the most and their civic engagement. A regression analysis was performed to see if the tweets had predicting power on college student perception of his credibility and expertise. The tweets
Motivating first-year engineering students through gamified homework

ABSTRACT Gamification has been applied in multiple different contexts for increasing motivation towards completion of activities such as company loyalty programs, exercise initiatives, and corporate training. Although gamification has been applied within engineering classrooms previously, very little results have been obtained on how gamification approaches can impact student academic motivation. This study applied an action research approach to the development of curricular content for an online gamification platform that could be used for homework in a first-year second semester engineering design course. During the two cycles performed, researchers learned from the students directly what elements of the platform appealed to them and helped with their learning process allowing the researchers to make active changes to the gamification platform throughout the semester as well as in between cycles to improve final outcomes. After completion of the second cycle of analysis, the researchers were able to create content for a gamification platform that has been shown to be able to empower students towards learning engineering material while providing them with the necessary support so that they can feel successful although further refinement based on student comments and feedback is still necessary. Students also felt that the content built into the platform was of interest to them and useful to their overall learning process. This study demonstrated the utility of using action research as a means to actively incorporate student feedback in the development of educational innovations leading to ongoing improvements and a final product that meets the intended needs of its target population.
Real-Time Monocular Three-Dimensional Motion Tracking Using a Multithread Active Vision System

In this study, we developed a monocular stereo tracking system to be used as a marker-based, three-dimensional (3-D) motion capture system. This system aims to localize dozens of markers on multiple moving objects in real time by switching five hundred different views in 1 s. The ultrafast mirror-drive active vision used in our catadioptric stereo tracking system can accelerate a series of operations for multithread gaze control with video shooting, computation, and actuation within 2 ms. By switching between five hundred different views in 1 s, with real-time video processing for marker extraction, our system can function asJvirtual left and right pan-tilt tracking cameras, operating at 250/Jfps to simultaneously capture and processJpairs of 512 × 512 stereo images with different views via the catadioptric mirror system. We conducted several real-time 3-D motion experiments to capture multiple fast-moving objects with markers. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of our monocular 3-D motion tracking system.
Firms Bunching Response to Indonesian Income Tax Threshold

Presumptive tax policy is implemented internationally in common in order to ease the SME’s tax administration. Firms have an opportunity to respond or not to a certain tax policy in order to get lower tax burdens. There is a presumptive tax policy implemented in Indonesia which affects firms’ behavior in gaining and reporting their incomes. Firms tend to choose to have their incomes below the threshold that has lower tax burdens. As a developing country, Indonesia has certain firms’ charactheristics and systems that differs from developed country’ firms so there is a necessity to know that the responses of Indonesian firms regarding the implementation of presumptive tax policy. This study aims to analyze firms’ responses regarding presumptive tax implementation especially in Indonesia with a certain threshold of IDR 4.8 billion since 2013. This study uses the bunching estimation method dan firms’ tax return data from 2011 to 2016, that differs from other studies in which use survey data. Our study concludes that the presumptive tax implementation based on turnover value induces negative bunching phenomenon in Indonesia due to the lower tax burden for firms whose turnover value is above the threshold. This negative bunching indicated by the results of significant bunching estimation analysis in the period after the presumptive tax policy implemented. In contrast to the developed country’ firms, Indonesian firms tend to stay above the threshold, rather than below, to gain lower tax burden.
Self-Esteem Shapes the Impact of GPA and General Health on Facebook Addiction

This study investigates the mediation impact of grade point average (GPA) and general health positive on Facebook addiction via self-esteem (SE) under the provision of active daily use of Facebook. We reached 120 participants who are college students. Our sample comprised 63 (52.5%) females and 57 (47.5%) males. We collected data through an online questionnaire. Structural equation modeling using IBM SPSS AMOS and mediation analysis were performed. The findings of the study suggested that SE is a critical and shaping construct when the decreasing impact of both GPA and general health positive on Facebook addiction is a concern. College students with low GPA and general health–positive feelings have low SE, which in turn increases the possibility of becoming a Facebook addict. Moreover, active daily use of Facebook is another factor triggering addiction. Recommendations and further research studies are presented.
Computational Thinking: A 21st Century Skill

Computational thinking is a 21st century skill that is becoming ever-more important in today’s increasingly technological world. It should appear formally in the K-12 curriculum, but the inherent vagueness of computational thinking necessitates a long journey to the classroom: contents must be developed under a new pedagogical means and be tested before gradually being incorporated into the curriculum. Training of teachers to adopt the new pedagogical means is also a prerequisite to incorporation. Thus, a faster route to help students could be considering computational thinking as an extracurricular activity, gradually developing and elaborating it, and finally imposing it in the curriculum once a solid framework has been achieved. In this paper, we introduce the pillars of computational thinking and present practical suggestions, namely computational mathematics and artificial intelligence labs, as platforms for developing computational thinking in K-12. The outlined approach is conceptual and high level – it should not be considered an action plan for the education system, but rather an ideological proposal in need of more elaboration for execution.
Decision Aiding An MCDM approach to portfolio optimization

We propose a model for portfolio optimization extending the Markowitz mean–variance model. Based on cooperation with Standard and Poors we use five specific objectives related to risk and return and allow consideration of individual preferences through the construction of decision-maker specific utility functions and an additive global utility function. Numerical results using customized local search, simulated annealing, tabu search and genetic algorithm heuristics show that problems of practically relevant size can be solved quickly. � 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Cultural-Developmental Perspective: Chinese Immigrant Students’ Academic Achievement Motivation as an Illustrative Example

In this article, I present research evidence corroborating that students of Chinese descent are a high-achieving clique compared to other ethnic and cultural groups. A prominent explanation invokes cultural values highly emphasized in Chinese societies, especially those focusing on filial piety and educational achievement. However, for Chinese immigrant adolescents exposed to another cultural model and undergoing developmental changes, the motivation mechanisms underlying their academic achievement are more complex. I posit that this complexity can be understood and unraveled by contextual theories of acculturation and human development. Moreover, expanding on the cultural-developmental perspective as advocated by others, I explicate specifically how acculturative and developmental processes are intertwined to guide the individual’s internalization of cultural imperatives. To illustrate this framework, I draw insights from interviewing three Chinese immigrant adolescents in the United States. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings discussed in this paper aim to contribute knowledge to the literature by demonstrating the role of acculturation and development in Chinese immigrant students’ psychological processing of parental message concerning academic success which, in turn, contributes to their academic achievement motivation. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This article is available in Online Readings in Psychology and Culture: https://scholarworks.gvsu. edu/orpc/vol6/iss1/8
The reconciliation of fraternal twins: Integrating the psychological and sociological approaches to ‘micro’ corporate social responsibility

Aguinis and Glavas’ (2012) call for a deeper understanding of the microfoundations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has spurred a growing number of empirical micro-CSR studies. Micro-CSR scholars share the common goal of developing a clear picture of the microfoundations of CSR—a holistic theoretical and empirical understanding of how individual actions and interactions drive CSR-related activity—but pursue this objective from a variety of angles. Our research suggests that although many scholars work under the same ‘micro-CSR’ banner, they approach their goal from a wide range of disciplines, use different methodologies, and study different phenomena. In this critical essay, we show that most micro-CSR research can be classified in one of two distinct sub-fields: ‘psychological micro-CSR’ and ‘sociological micro-CSR’. We compare the differences between these orientations (including their distinct empirical approaches, and contributions of both fields of micro-CSR) and explore possible opportunities for cross-fertilization between the psychological and sociological approaches. Finally, we suggest ways in which micro-CSR scholars could exploit the complementarities and eliminate the blind spots common to the two dominant micro-CSR approaches.
Plasmon-Mediated Catalytic O2 Dissociation on Ag Nanostructures: Hot Electrons or Near Fields?

Plasmonic nanostructures have been proposed as useful materials for photon harvesting applications. However, the mechanisms by which energy transfer occurs across interfaces formed between plasmonic materials and their environment are under debate. A commonly invoked mechanism is indirect hot charge carrier transfer, where hot carriers are generated in the plasmonic material by nonradiatve plasmon decay, followed by transfer of these carriers to interfacial species in a sequential process. Alternatively, chemical interface damping has been reported to allow direct interaction between surface plasmons and interfacial species electronic states. Here we provide evidence from experiment and theory that for plasmon-mediated catalytic O2 dissociation on Ag plasmonic nanoparticles, the direct interaction of O2 molecules with surface plasmon near-fields was responsible for observed photocatalysis. These results offer important mechanistic insights for the design of plasmonic materials that maximize efficiency for.
Simulation as Pedagogy: An Experiential Teaching Strategy for Social Work Education

This banded dissertation is an examination of simulation as a pedagogy for social work education. While the Council of Social Work Education recognizes simulation as an accepted pedagogy, there remains little research on its use in social work education. To effectively utilize and structure simulation within the curriculum, more needs to be understood about its influences on social work student development and its fit within the social work educational context. The first product of this dissertation, a conceptual paper, presents a framework for the use of simulation in social work education. The framework consists of three elements: holistic competency as the aim of social work education, a model of curriculum as engagement for the vehicle through which programmatic culture is established, and experiential learning theory as a foundational learning theory. The author demonstrates alignment between the pedagogy of simulation with the aims, culture, and theory which inform social work education. The second product is a research study, examining the influence of participation in repeated simulations on social work student development in clinical skills. Addressing a gap in the literature, this study utilized a nine-month qualitative design to explore student experiences with three simulations over the course of two semesters. Based on the findings, the author proposes a conceptual model for student growth in metacognition and self-regulation, utilizing multiple simulation experiences. The third product is an interactive eposter presentation given at the Council on Social Work Education 2018 Annual Program Meeting. This eposter summarizes research findings from the second banded dissertation product and incorporates practice experience in simulations for interprofessional education. Conclusions address the need for alignment between simulation learning objectives and simulation frequency. SIMULATION AS PEDAGOGY iii Simulation is a strong pedagogy for social work education, allowing for holistic engagement in learning. A better understanding of its influence on social work students allows educators to leverage the benefits of the pedagogy to align with identified learning objectives. Further research can build on the proposed conceptual model in Product Two as well as explore the use of simulation in an online environment.
AN INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REAL-TIME BUILDING ENERGY MODELING AND FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS

It is common that a building consumes 20% more than its design intent. The inconsistency between design and operation is a driving force. To address this issue, we present an integrated infrastructure for real-time building energy modeling, visualization and energy Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD). A building information model (BIM) based database is developed for the purpose of storing building operational, simulation and FDD analysis data. A BIM to building energy modeling (BEM) middleware is developed to automatically generate energy modeling codes. A connector is developed in Building Control Virtual Testbed (BCVTB) which enables the storage of building energy management system (BEMS) data into a BIM based database in real-time fashion. Finally, this infrastructure is implemented in a real-building and continuously performs its data collection and visualization functions.
Parallel Software Framework for Large-Scale Parallel Mesh Generation and Adaptation for CFD Solvers

This paper presents the design and implementation of the new version of our software, the Parallel Runtime Environment for Multi-node Applications (PREMA 2.0). The motivation for the development of the runtime system is to provide a software framework that efficiently handles irregular parallel applications whose performance suffers from work-load imbalances. The runtime system provides the minimum set of tools for developing applications that do not explicitly handle load balancing, by monitoring the system load and making dynamic load balancing decisions implicitly, based on user directives. PREMA 2.0 supports multiple execution units allowing the application to run multiple computations in parallel, while it monitors the load of the system and performs migration when desired without interrupting execution. Concurrent migrations from the same process are also made available, giving flexibility to the load balancing algorithm design. Furthermore, the communication and the execution have been separated into different threads to provide asynchronousmessage reception and instant computation execution at the arrival of new work requests. Testing the system on a synthetic benchmark with load imbalance indicates an overall performance improvement of almost 30 percent, by retaining a better work-load distribution among the execution units.
Effects of Task Complexity and Planning Conditions on L2 Argumentative Writing Production

ABSTRACT Investigating the effects of task design and implementation features on second language (L2) production is necessary, as the findings can provide potential insights into pedagogical and assessment task design and sequencing as well as into the nature of L2 learners’ attentional resources. To this end, this study probed into the effects of task complexity and pretask planning on L2 writing production. Eighty L2 learners of upper-intermediate English proficiency were invited to complete two writing tasks of varying degrees of complexity in relation to the reasoning demands and the number of elements under pretask versus no pretask planning conditions. Results show that as a function of increasing task complexity, one dimension of the syntactic and lexical complexity, content, organization, and writing quality improved, whereas accuracy and fluency reduced. Providing 10 minutes pretask planning had significant favorable effects on one dimension of syntactic complexity and fluency, no effects on accuracy or lexical complexity, and significant positive impacts on the content, organization, and writing quality. These findings lend partial support to the Cognition Hypothesis, the Trade-off Hypothesis, and attentional funneling in L2 writing. Theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications of the study for task design and implementation as well as for task-based assessment in language education programs are discussed.