Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Organizational Culture in Adult Day Services (ADS) and Its Effect on Healthcare Delivery in Taiwan

Studies conducted in nursing homes/hospitals have shown that organizational culture plays an important role in care delivery and group culture leads to better quality of care. To explore the organizational culture and care delivery in adult day services (ADS) centers in Taiwan, we used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Quantitative data from the Competing Values Framework (CVF) assessment showed that the group culture was dominant at all three centers. Qualitative data from observation and staff interviews uncovered both group and nongroup cultural elements. The group cultural elements, such as flexible management, teamwork environment, and sharing the same values, contributed to good care; however, the nongroup cultural elements, such as the staff-centered view, hierarchy, and conflicts within the leadership, led to negative staff-staff and staff-clients interactions. Further research is needed to untangle the complexity between quality care delivery and organizational culture.
CapsNet Comprehension of Objects in Different Rotational Views

Capsule network (CapsNet) is a new and promising approach to computer vision. In the small amount of research published so far, it has shown to be good at generalizing complex objects and perform well even when the images are skewed or the objects are seen from unfamiliar viewpoints. This thesis further tests this ability of CapsNet by comparing it to convolutional networks (ConvNets) on the task to understand images of clothing in different rotational views. Even though the ConvNets have a higher classification accuracy than CapsNets, the results indicate that CapsNets are better at understanding the clothes when viewed in different rotational views.
Understanding Peer E ects

This paper provides evidence on ability peer effects in university education. Identification comes from the random assignment of students to sections. We find that students on average benefit from better-ability peers. Low-ability students, however, are harmed by high-ability peers. We introduce a placebo analysis that provides a simple test to quantify the estimation bias driven by the mechanisms described in Angrist (2013). In our setting, the bias is small and does not drive our results. Analyzing students’ course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven by improved student interaction rather than adjustments in teachers’ behavior or students’ effort.
An investigation into the relationship between sleep problems and daytime behaviour difficulties in adults with learning disabilities

Sleep research with adults with learning disabilities has been limited. This study considered the sleep problems experienced by adults with learning disabilities in two main sections, a survey and an intervention. The survey assessed the prevalence, nature and range of sleep problems experienced by adults with learning disabilities who live at home with their families, and investigated the relationship between sleep problems and daytime behaviour disturbance. The intervention part of the study considered whether daytime behaviour difficulties reduced following a successful sleep intervention, and whether carer stress was influenced by an improvement in sleep problems. Individuals with learning disabilities who live at home with their families had prevalence figures for sleep problems higher than those experienced by the general population. The relationship between sleep and behaviour problems was highly specific with settling problems predicting hyperactivity, lethargy, irritability and the overall score on behavioural measures. The interventions did not provide substantial evidence that sleep and behaviour were related, with only one of six participants demonstrating a decrease in behaviour problems following an improvement in sleep. Carer stress did not significantly reduce as a result of the intervention. The study has provided prevalence rates of sleep problems for a population which has not been previously studied. It concludes that the relationship between sleep and behaviour definitive conclusions can be drawn. The efficacy of behavioural interventions was demonstrated, and the clinical and theoretical implications of the results were considered.
FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS ESCOLA BRASILEIRA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS MESTRADO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DISSERTAÇÃO

Scholars aiming at developing a more comprehensive and integrated understanding of workplace and social phenomena have taken a keen interest in the incorporation of biological processes into organizational and behavioral research. This work seeks to introduce organizational and behavioral scholars to the basic aspects of research involving physiological data collection, with the aim at both describing in detail specific procedural protocols as well as facilitating the application and comprehension of this method. Specifically, in this paper, we focus on two endocrine markers that account for hormonal responses, namely cortisol and testosterone. We first review empirical literature measuring at least one of the endocrine measures of inquiry and then discuss both methodological and conceptual patterns inherent in this kind of research. More importantly, besides elaborating upon the methodological advantages, as the shortcomings associated with the measurement of these endocrine indicators, we offer a practical description of standard research protocols involved in studies that incorporate measures of either cortisol or testosterone. On the pretense of supporting scholars become better acquainted with the method and its procedures, we conclude by presenting an empirical example in which we illustrate how to measure endocrine activity in an actual research setting.
Predicting the Response of Shear-critical Reinforced Concrete Beams using Response-2000 and SNI 2847:2013

This study investigates the accuracy of Response-2000 in predicting the response of shear-critical reinforced concrete beams. The experimental data selected was that obtained by Vecchio and Shim in 2004 on twelve reinforced concrete beams which sought to replicate beams originally tested by Bresler and Scordelis in the early 1960s. This study also aims to compare the results obtained to the predictions of SNI 2847:2013. It is demonstrated that Response-2000 is capable of providing accurate predictions of load-deflection responses up to the peak load, but underestimates the ductility of beams that exhibit a mixed flexure-shear failure mode. It is also shown that both methods provide conservative predictions of the shear strength of beams with no shear reinforcement, with the software providing more consistent and reliable predictions of shear strength of beams containing shear reinforcement.
SMA HEAT ENGINES: ADVANCING FROM A SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY TO A PRACTICAL REALITY

Over 60% of energy that is generated is lost a s w ste heat with close to 90% of this waste heat being classified as low grade being at temperatures less than 200oC. Many technologies such as thermoelectrics have been proposed as means for har vesting this lost thermal energy. Among them, that of SMA heat engines appears to be a stro ng candidate for converting this low grade thermal output to useful mechanical work. Unfortun ately, though proposed initially in the late 60’s and the subject of significant development wor k in the 70’s, significant technical roadblocks have existed preventing this technology from moving from a scientific curiosity to a practical reality. This paper/presentation provides an overv iew of ongoing work being performed on SMA heat engines under the US DOE ARPA-E initiative. I t begins with a review of the previous art, covers the identified technical roadblocks to past advancement, presents the solution path being taken to remove these roadblocks, and describes sig nificant breakthroughs to date. The presentation concludes with details of the current fu ctioning prototype, which, being able to operate in air as well as fluids, dramatically expa nds the operational envelop and makes significant strides towards the ultimate goal of co mmercial viability.
Labor Productivity, Effort and the Euro Area Business Cycle

The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We capture both characteristics in a New Keynesian business cycle model with labor search frictions, where labor can vary along three margins: employment, hours, and effort. We estimate the model with Bayesian methods and find evidence for a significant use of the effort margin in generating procyclical productivity. We show that a model with labor effort is more successful at matching the business cycle facts than is one with variable capital utilization or dominant technology shocks. Finally, we demonstrate that effort dampens the response of inflation to exogenous shocks.
Johanna Avato-Migration pressures into the EU

This paper aims to better understand emigration pressures into the European Union by looking at the determinants of the propensity to migrate at the individual level. The analysis is based on survey data from Albania, Moldova, Egypt and Tunisia collected by the European Training Foundation (ETF) in 2006. Within this context the study focuses on (i) the selection of migrants in terms of skills and in terms of labor market integration and (ii) information frictions as major factors for inefficient labor mobility. It argues that where superior information is present, intentions do better predict migration behavior because the individual has formed her intention based on more rational expectations about host country conditions. The paper finds ambiguous selection effects and high migration pressures of unemployed and less wealthy people. It finds further that better information indeed leads to migration intentions being more certain and provides policy recommendations that result from these findings. JEL classification: F22, O15, J61, O52
Influence of silica fume on concrete

Traditionally, Ordinary Portland cement is used for making the civil structures. Portland cement can be partially replaced by silica fume. Silica fume is non metallic and non hazardous waste of industries. It is suitable for concrete mix and improves properties of concrete i.e. compressive strength etc. The main objective of this research work is to determine the optimum replacement percentages which can be suitably used under the Indian conditions. To fulfill the objective various properties of concrete using silica fume have been evaluated. Further to determine the optimum replacement percentage comparison between the regular concrete and concrete containing silica fume is done . It has been seen that when cement is replaced by silica fume compressive strength increases up to certain percentage (10% replacement of cement by silica fume). But higher replacement of cement by silica fume gives lower strength. The effect of Silica fume on various other properties of Concrete has also been evaluated. This paper is a very good tool for the beginners to understand the effect and have an overlook of Silica Fume on Concrete.
The Meaning of Links in Blogs

This study aims to increase the knowledge of linking on a distinct Web space, the blogosphere. It investigates the meaning of hyperlinks in blogs. The material consists of 160 links from 80 Finnish blogs. Reasons for creating links, visible attitudes towards target pages and contexts of links were analyzed. The results show that links in the blogosphere are means for showing appreciation and valuation. They connect similar topics in the blogosphere as well as on the Web generally. Links in blogs can also reveal negative attitudes towards target pages, contrary to what is usually the case on other Web environments. In diary blogs, of which the sample was largely formed, links are more used to tell about interests and valuations of the blogger than to add something to the content of the blog. The study confirms the picture of links as an essential element of the blogosphere, without which it would lose much of its specific nature.
The Path to More Efficacious Teacher Preparation: The Role of Adequate Coursework and Practicum Factors

This study explored how well perceived adequacy of coursework and practicum context factors (Job comfort, mentoring support, and workload) explained student teachers’ efficacy. Data was collected via a survey questionnaire administered face-to-face to all student teachers (N = 97, or 90%) who engaged in a practicum at secondary schools (grades 9 & 10) in south-west Ethiopia during 2013 academic year. The multiple linear regression analysis revealed a moderate fit model (R =0.335), in which 33.5% of the variance in teacher efficacy was attributed to the predictor variables considered in this study (F8, 66 =4.164, P<0.001). Perceived coursework adequacy (β=.420) followed by job comfort (β=.366) remained stronger and positive predictors of student teachers’ efficacy. On the other hand, student teachers’ efficacy was related to sex and placement site, where females and those placed at Gambella site were predicted to be less efficacious, indicating further area of concern to address the observed gap.
Remittances and gender discrimination

It is recognized that female migrants experience a ‘double disadvantage’, first as immigrants and second as women. Although, this can imply higher economic and psychological migration costs, little research has explicitly focused on the role of female discrimination at destination as remitting device. This paper empirically tries to reconsider the relationship between gender and remittances in a micro setting including gender discrimination in the analysis. Preliminary macro results to be confirmed using individual level data (see footnote 3) show that females remit more and that a more discriminating destination environment leads to higher amount of remittances acting as an important return migration incentive for female migrants residing abroad. Estimation results suggest that gender inequality in the global economy (i.e. the remittance sending countries) have an indirect effect on migration origin country’s development through the increase of private financial flows.
Elite schools and the formation of expectations of returns to education: evidence from Mexico City

This study examines whether, and in what ways, the attendance of elite high schools schools a ect students' expectations of the earnings returns to higher educational attainments. We use panel data for a sample of individuals who attend public senior-secondary schools of Mexico City between 2005 and 2008/9 and exploit the variations in admission to more selective schools generated by a centralized and competitive exam-based allocation process of students into public senior-high schools. We nd that admission to an elite high school increases substancially both learning achievements and the earnings and returns expected from a college education. The results are consistent with students valuing the higher cognitive, and possibly non-cognitive, skills that they acquire in those elite schools. At the opposite, we nd no higher e ects on the expectations of students from more disadvantaged family background, suggesting that an imperfect information channel is not explaining our ndings. Also, the lack of evidence of e ects of admission to elite high schools on the earnings expected with only a high-school diploma tends to discard that the observed changes in expectations are driven by reputation e ects in the labor market (i.e. a signaling channel). These ndings bring evidence that the schooling environment provided by elite institutions can have bene ts that extend beyond gains in scholastic achievements.
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Eva H. Telzer, Andrew J. Fuligni, Matthew D. Lieberman, Michelle E. Miernicki, and Adriana Galván Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
BinaryCmd: Keyword Spotting with deterministic binary basis

We present a compact binary architecture with 60% fewer parameters and 50% fewer operations (OP) during inference compared to the current state of the art for keyword spotting (KWS) applications at the cost of 3.4% accuracy drop. This architecture makes use of binary orthogonal codes to analyze speech features from a voice command resulting in a model with minimal memory footprint and computationally cheap, making possible its deployment in very resource-constrained microcontrollers with less than 30kB of RAM.
Explaining cross section of stock returns:

This paper examines the effect of firm specific variables on stock returns of financial and non-financial enterprises in Nepal. Fixed effects regression models are estimated to identify causal relationship of firm size, book-tomarket ratio, leverage, earnings yield and assets growth with adjusted stock return. A balanced panel data of 110 observations for 11 non-financial firms and 120 observations for 12 commercial banks listed in NEPSE are taken for the study covering a 10 year period from 2009 till 2018. Comparative analysis is done by estimating sector wise regression models. For non-financial firms, fixed effects model performed better than random effect model and OLS model suggested by Hausman test and Wald test. OLS model showed better by Wald test for financial firms. The findings reveal that size and book-to-market equity ratio have significant negative impact on stock returns in the non-financial firms. However for financial firms only bookto-market ratio shows significant negative impact on stock returns in univariate and bivariate models. Leverage is observed to have positive impact on stock return at 10 percent level of significance in univariate model for financial firms.
Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey

We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects, the reflection problem is generally solved by network interactions even in nonlinear, heterogeneous models. By contrast, microfoundations are generally not identified. We discuss and assess the various approaches developed by economists to account for correlated effects and network endogeneity in particular. We classify these approaches in four broad categories: random peers, random shocks, structural endogeneity, and panel data. We review an emerging literature relaxing the assumption that the network is perfectly known. Throughout, we provide a critical reading of the existing literature and identify important gaps and directions for future research.
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Although Facebook and Twitter traffic registers an important growth compared to blogs, the analysis of travel blogs remains extremely important for tourism marketers, as travelers use blogs for communicating their experiences, for offering objective evaluations and subjective opinions about the characteristics of visited destinations. They use social networks to increase the visibility of their blogs in the virtual space. Travel blogs represent a cheap and accessible information source about a travel destination, and bloggers participate in producing and broadcasting the tourist destination image in the virtual space. This study shows that blogs authored by those who aim at keeping in contact with their family and real life friends are suitable for analyzing a country’s image. Nonetheless, Romanian authors who aim for a broad and amorphous, unknown target can be better included in the promotion strategy of the destination image in the virtual space. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of a Romanian and French authors’ blogs sample shows that the type of communication used by travel blogs is decisive for the way in which they can be used in the communication strategy of Romania’s image as a tourist destination. Data revealed by this study can be used for elaborating communication strategies of Romania as a tourist destination for both local and foreign travelers.
TRACER STUDIES ON THE DIRECT AND RESIDUAL EFFECTS OF PHOSPHORUS AND SULPHUR FROM ORGANIC MANURES IN GROUNDNUT – SUNFLOWER CROPPING SYSTEM

Phosphorus x sulphur integration trial was conducted using 32P and 35S tracer technique, to develop a nutrient management technology for groundnut –sunflower cropping system. Six treatments (100% RDF to groundnut crop through poultry manure, 75% RDF through poultry manure and 25% RDF through chemical fertilizers, 50% RDF through poultry manure and 50% RDF through chemical fertilizers, 25% RDF through poultry manure and 75% RDF through chemical fertilizers and 100% RDF through chemical fertilizers), all applied on equal P basis @ 34 kg P2O5 ha-1 and on equal S basis @ 75 kg S ha-1. The six treatments, including a no-P and no-S as control were replicated three times in a completely randomized design. Main crop of groundnut was followed by a residual crop of sunflower. Plant analysis for 32P and 35S activity and nutrient contents was carried out. Post-harvest soil analysis was carried out after groundnut and sunflower. Application of 100% RDF to groundnut, 25% as poultry manure and 75% as chemical fertilizers recorded the highest soil nutrient availability and uptake in main crop. But in residual crop 75% poultry manure with 25% chemical fertilizers registered higher soil available nutrient and uptake. In main crop the ‘A’ values, %Pdfs and %Sdfs were higher in the combination of 25% poultry manure with 75% chemical fertilizer but in residual crop were higher in 75% poultry manure and 25% chemical fertilizer combination. Sole poultry manure treatment recorded highest %Pdff in main crop but highest %Pdff and % Sdff were recorded in sole chemical fertilizer treatment in residual crop. Key word: %Pdff, %Pdfs, %Sdff, %Sdfs and ‘A’ value
Tenofovir-related renal and bone toxicity

This report aims to cover tenofovir-related renal and bone toxicity presented at the 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Vancouver, Canada in 2015. Much of the data on tenofovir described the effect of tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) on renal and bone parameters, either directly or through regimen strategy. Not all renal and bone data are reported here; this report focuses on studies attempting to provide novel insight.
High Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Prisoners, Tianjin, China

The high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among prisoners calls for interventions to identify latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) before disease onset. To identify LTBI prevalence among prisoners and factors associated with it, we conducted a cross-sectional study in Tianjin. We randomly sampled 959 HIV-negative adult prisoners by ward clusters in 5 prisons and determined LTBI by seropositivity using an interferon-γ release assay. The overall rate of LTBI was 52.0% (499/959) in the 5 facilities and ranged from 41.9% (72/172) to 60.9% (106/174). Age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.7, 95% CI 1.4–2.0 per 10 years), duration of imprisonment (aOR 1.2, 95 CI% 1.1–1.2 per year), previous incarceration (aOR 2.0, 95% CI 1.5–2.7), and facility-specific TB incidence (aOR 1.9, 95% CI 1.3–2.8) were risk factors for LTBI. These findings indicate possible TB transmission within prisons and suggest the necessity for early TB case detection, as well as prophylaxis.