Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Goal completion moderates the association between immoral behavior and self-perceived authenticity

ABSTRACT Individuals may engage in immoral behavior to achieve the ends they desire. Two studies (total N = 1257) investigated whether the impact of such goal-directed immoral behavior on self-perceived authenticity would vary according to different goal states. Study 1 employed an experimental task whereas Study 2 surveyed participants on their personal goal pursuit. In both studies, we found that the association between immoral behavior and self-perceived authenticity was stronger after than prior to goal completion. Our findings corroborate the goal competition perspective on authenticity, and suggest avenues for future research on state authenticity and the dynamic consequences of immoral behavior.
The Chilean Sectoral Innovation Systems: An Approach from The National Innovation Survey

This paper proposes a configuration and characterisation of the economic sectors in Chile applying Malerba’s sectoral innovation systems approach. Its objective is to examine the existence of sectoral systems of innovation in Chile and their characteristics. Using data from the Chilean Tenth Innovation Survey of Firms, a three-step statistical analysis was performed. In the first step, 15 variables were chosen and converted by factor analysis into four components reflecting the configuration of the sectoral system. In the second step, a cluster analysis was carried out to determine the characterisation of the sectors. In the final step, a simple econometric model was developed to estimate a proxy for the propensity to patent of the economic sectors. It is possible to discover the existence of three groups of sectoral innovation systems. One is characterised by a low propensity to patent. Another one uses market information and some effort in R&D to innovate. A third one is characterised by a strong use of market sources, high effort in R&D, strong networking and collaboration, and a close interaction with the industrial property system. This paper shows the usefulness of composite variables in identifying those sectors with higher propensity to patent. In particular, the factor networks and collaboration is the most important. This last is important to highlight in terms of policies in science and technology that aim to establish formal mechanisms to share common knowledge strengthening the relationships among the different players of the innovation process
The effects of restaurant service quality on revisit intention in pandemic conditions: an empirical study from Khonkaen, Thailand

ABSTRACT Due to the pandemic conditions of COVID-19, there is a restriction to dine out at restaurants. All restaurants need to reformat their business models, some restaurants are temporarily closed, and some restaurants offer takeaway and/or delivery services. The purposes of this study were twofold: to determine the relationship between restaurant service quality and revisit intention and to examine the moderating effect of trust on this relationship. This study examined how service quality in restaurants affects revisit intention during pandemic conditions. This study indicated that restaurant service quality influences customer trust. In the same way, customer trust has a positive effect on revisit intention. However, restaurant service quality does not directly affect on revisit intention.
Spatial variability of surface peat properties and carbon emissions in a tropical peatland oil palm monoculture during a dry season

The expansion of oil palm monocultures into globally important Southeast Asian tropical peatlands has caused severe environmental damage. Despite much of the current focus of environmental impacts being directed at industrial scale plantations, over half of oil palm land‐use cover in Southeast Asia is from smallholder plantations. We differentiated a first generation smallholder oil palm monoculture into 8 different sampling zones, and further divided the 8 sampling zones into oil palm root influenced (Proximal) and reduced root influence (Distal) areas, to assess how peat properties regulate in situ carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) fluxes. We found that all the physico‐chemical properties and nutrient concentrations except sulphur varied significantly among sampling zones. All physico‐chemical properties except electrical conductivity, and all nutrient content except nitrogen and potassium varied significantly between Proximal and Distal areas. Mean CO2 fluxes (ranged between 382 and 1191 mg m−2 h−1) varied significantly among sampling zones, and between Proximal and Distal areas, with notably high emissions in Dead Wood and Path zones, and consistently higher emissions in Proximal areas compared to Distal areas within almost all the zones. CH4 fluxes (ranged between −32 and 243 µg m−2 h−1) did not significantly vary between Proximal and Distal areas, however significantly varied amongst sampling zones. CH4 flux was notably high in Canal Edge and Understorey Ferns zones, and negative in Dead Wood zone. The results demonstrate the high heterogeneity of peat properties within oil palm monoculture, strengthening the need for intensive sampling to characterize a land use in the tropical peatlands.
Automated phylogeny of Palaung dialects

Improved methods in automatic cognate detection have recently been used by historical linguists to help determine the subgrouping of a clade of languages or dialects, capitalizing on the efficiency of computers when handling substantial amounts of data. In this paper, 16 Palaung dialects are examined using various methods of automatic cognate detection. Partial (List, 2016) and whole cognate detection are used together with Lexstat and Sound Class Alignment to generate a phylogenetic tree of these dialects. The results of these methods are compared to the results using cognate detection decided by human experts (Deepadung et al., 2015). These results are substantially similar, suggesting that automatic cognate and phylogeny detection using algorithms is a viable complement to historical linguistic research. Accompanying this paper is a tutorial for the automated cognate detection and phylogeny procedure that was used. By following the steps, users can create results based on segmenting the morphemes of Palaung dialects differently.
Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy in emerging markets: Mexico and South Korea as case study

In the nineties, emerging markets like Mexico and South Korea experienced external shocks that depreciated their domestic currencies that eventually led to an overall inflation. The goal in this paper is to estimate long-run and short-run exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) elasticities to consumer and import prices and determine whether monetary policies have reduced the ERPT. Two Vector Error Correction Models were estimated using monthly data from 1995 to 2018. The results show that monetary policies did reduce the ERPT on consumer and import prices in Mexico. In South Korea, the ERPT to import prices was stronger, only when we account for the 1997 financial crisis, the results show that monetary policies contributed to reduce the ERPT to both consumer and import prices.
Narrative Review of Leadership Development Programs among Medical Professionals

In the recent studies and large-scale radical change efforts to improve patient safety culture, leadership emerged as the most substantial influential factor in facilitating an organizational culture. Effective leaders care for and support their staffs to improve job satisfaction, loyalty, and productivity, which ultimately promote high-quality care increasing patients’ experience and overall healthcare service satisfaction. In this review paper, themes like leadership in organizational culture, leadership styles, and leadership qualities were analyzed to assess the effectiveness of medical leadership in a healthcare organization where professionals at the bottom often have more significant influence in decision-making than their managers. As most literature evaluated the impact of leadership development programs at personal levels, our study has addressed the paucity of studies that assess the mechanisms by which leadership programs stimulate learning and change at organizational-level outcomes. We found that good medical leadership in an organizational culture includes effective human resources and staff management, strong senior management support, a learning environment, time for improvement efforts, and psychological safety. Transformational leadership style also showed a positive association with job satisfaction, motivation, and teamwork. Besides, a leader’s well-being, pro-activeness, and willingness to learn are also essential factors. Our review advocates for leadership development programs in the medical curricula to morph leadership among medical students, graduates, and continuing physicians in a dynamic and interactive influence process.
A Critical Review of Theoretical Aspects of Strategic Planning and Firm Performance

Strategic planning is critical in the management of an organisation due to the essential role it plays in leading the organisation into the identification of strategic plan to be used by the organisation through focusing the issues within the organisation, evaluating their effects while considering the organisational operations and developing alternative measures and tactics so as to ensure that the organisation earns competitive advantage as discussed in the paper. The dependence of the strategic planning and the performance of the firm is also notable with all the goals in the strategic planning, leading to influence the performance of the organisation. The paper uses elements of the strategic plan including the mission and the vision, the core values, the strengths, the weaknesses, the opportunities and the threats as well as the strategies, with an inclusion of the objectives and the operation tactics to review the strategic planning and the organisational performance. Qualitative methods are used to collect and analyse the secondary data from review past studies and reports. The study finds strategic planning significantly depending on the analysed elements of the strategic planning in achieving the outcome. The elements also play a critical role in aligning the organisation towards working on a specific organisational strategic planning process to ensure all stakeholders are focused on a common goal that determines the performance of the firm.
Toxicity of four metals and their mixtures to Pseudomonas fluorescens: An assessment using fixed ratio ray design

The toxicities of binary (Ni(II) + Co(II) and Zn(II) + Cd(II)), ternary (Zn(II) + Cd(II) + Ni(II) and Ni(II) + Co(II) + Cd(II)) and quaternary (Ni(II) + Co(II) + Zn(II) + Cd(II)) mixtures of metal ions to Pseudomonas fluorescens were assessed by using inhibition of dehydrogenase activity as an endpoint. Uniform design concentration ratio (UDCR) and equieffect concentration ratio (EECR) mixtures were designed to evaluate the combined toxicities of these heavy metal ions. All the dose-response relationships of the UDCR and EECR mixtures and the individual metals could be described by logistic function. Toxicities predicted by concentration addition (CA) and independent action (IA) models were compared with the observed toxicities. The CA and IA models predicted similar toxicities of the binary and Zn(II) + Cd(II) + Ni(II) ternary mixtures. Generally, Zn(II) + Cd(II) + Ni(II) ternary mixtures were synergistic while Ni(II) + Co(II) + Cd(II) ternary mixtures were antagonistic. The equieffect and quaternary mixtures were generally synergistic. Synergistic, antagonistic and additive effects of the mixtures are possible from the viewpoint of these analyses.
Season ticket holder no-show behavior in the Czech Republic

As in many industry sectors, in professional sports, no-shows increasingly pose a significant challenge to the management. Previous research has established that spectator no-show behavior is widespread among season ticket holders, in particular, but the specific antecedents of such behavior seem to be context-sensitive. Accordingly, in this note, we contribute to the emerging literature on the determinants of spectator no-show behavior by analyzing STH behavior in an as yet unexplored football environment, i.e., the Czech Republic. Interestingly, our findings give reason to presume that most effects (e.g., habit, travel distance) are robust across the different sporting environments, despite noticeable differences.
Nudged into Better Portfolios and Lower Risk: Robo-Advice and Savings Decisions

Mutual fund and ETF savings plans (SPs) are becoming an increasingly important part of retail investor portfolios and many investors now adopt robo-advisors to obtain guidance on SP choices. Using data from a large online bank that introduced a robo-advising tool, I explore how robo-advice changes investors’ SP choices and document three main results. First, default options improve robo-advice users’ fund choices towards lower-cost and more diversified funds. Second, many investors – also those who previously held all-equity portfolios – adhere to the default asset allocation that is associated with a 50% equity exposure, although they could construct riskier SP portfolios through the robo-advisor. Third, I document considerable heterogeneity in longer-term adherence to robo-advisor recommendations. First-time SP users are more inert and stick to the robo-advisor’s proposed asset allocation while experienced SP users quickly readjust their equity exposure away from the robo-advisor’s recommendation. My results emphasize the power of defaults in all-digital robo-advisory services and highlight how they can improve fund choices while at the same time push investors into unsuitable asset allocations.
Does Firm-Level Productivity Predict Stock Returns?

Contrary to the findings of previous U.S. studies, we show that the firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) of Japanese manufacturers positively predicts their future stock returns in the cross-section when controlling for relevant risk factors, including those of Fama and French (2015). Risks related to intangible expenditure, primarily those for research and development (R&D) and personnel, explain a substantial fraction of the predictive power of firm-level TFP, while bankruptcy, macroeconomic, and capital expenditure risks do not. More productive firms trade at a significant premium to less productive firms. This premium compensates investors for risks associated with innovation and human and organizational capital formation
Parental Investments and Early Childhood Development: Short and Long Run Evidence from India

The overall impacts of early childhood programs depend on the indirect impacts that arise due to intra-household reallocation of parental investments. Using historical administrative data from the rollout of the largest early childhood development program in the world, I find that adults exposed to the program when young showed significant improvements in various measures of health, education, and labor market outcomes. Parents reallocated their investments toward children exposed to an increase in program intensity, as evidenced by negative spillovers on siblings. Accounting for the negative spillovers on siblings reduces the internal rate of return of the program by 9%.
When Machines Trade on Corporate Disclosures: Using Text Analytics for Investment Strategies

In this study, we evaluate several trading strategies based on the textual content of corporate disclosures using machine learning. To obtain a conservative estimate of profitability, we require orders to be placed for the close price of the current trading day and stocks must exhibit high liquidity to ensure proper order execution. Our evaluation based on 354,992 form 8-K filings and 10,204 ad hoc announcements shows that the proposed trading strategies yield up to 7.81% and 9.34% out-of-sample annualized return. More importantly, we find that the prevalent approach in the literature of estimating the stock market reaction of a disclosure based on the closing price of the past trading and omitting liquidity filters substantially overestimates profitability. We also provide useful insights for practitioners by describing feature importance to shed light onto how the machine learning models arrive at decisions.
The effect of property taxes on house prices: Evidence from the 1993 and the 2012 reforms in Italy

We quantify the effect of property tax reforms implemented in Italy in 1993 and 2012 on property prices. We focus on the Italian house prices index using the Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA), a statistical approach that proves to be useful when a counterfactual scenario for policy evaluation is difficult to create due to the universality of intervention. The hypothesis under test is that the two reforms caused a statistically significant discontinuity in the house prices index dynamics. We estimate two alternative versions of the ITSA model ─ one including only Italy, and another one including also similar European countries as control terms (France, Germany, Spain, and the UK). Property tax changes effects are reform-specific. As for the 1993 reform effect on real house prices, we estimate a 13-14 percent decrease of the mean level and a 1 percentage points (p.p.) increase of the rate of growth. As for the 2012 reform, depending on the model chosen, we estimate a 3-5 percent decrease, or a 4 percent increase, in level, as well as a 3-4 p.p. decrease, or a 2 p.p. increase, of the rate of growth.
1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Diethylphosphate Based Extraction of Bioplastic “Polyhydroxyalkanoates” from Bacteria: Green and Sustainable Approach

An eco-friendly approach toward downstream processing of bacterial biomass for extraction of an intracellular potential bioplastic material polyhydroxyalkanoates replacing chlorinated organic solvents is reported using ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate ([C2mim][(C2)2OPO3]) as an extractant. [C2mim][(C2)2OPO3] dissolved wet bacterial biomass of Halomonas hydrothermalis (MTCC accession no. 5445; NCBI Genbank accession no. GU938192), with ease on account of its high hydrogen bond basicity (β = 1.07). The recovered polymer with a yield of 60% ± 2% was characterized using 1H NMR, FT-IR, and TGA techniques and confirmed to be polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). The properties of PHB were found to be in close proximity to the standard PHB. The [C2mim][(C2)2OPO3] was recovered with 60% yield and retention of chemical structure after two consecutive dissolution cycles, which minimized the cost of developed process. The recovered PHB was used to prepare a bioplastic film, which showed good therm.
Parental Attitude And Self-Diclosure Of A Teenager’s Abilities

This paper overviews research into modern adolescents’ development and analyzes how the verbalization of information about oneself affects the objective existing biological and social processes such as the increase in dopamine as a primary reward, and self-image of abilities with respect to one’s abilities for further professionalization, which demonstrates the importance of the I-text for the person; the paper also dwells upon other aspects of the importance of self-understanding for adolescents’ development. This research is based on the self-realization of abilities as a concept. Self-disclosure is defined herein as an adolescent’s internal monolog with themselves that reveals their potential for themselves. The authors investigate how adolescents’ academic performance, the fulfilment of fundamental motivations (existential fulfilment), and metacognitive abilities correlate with parental attitudes. A group of adolescents (N=156) was split into two subgroups: positive self-realization (SR1) and no self-realization (SR0). The researchers further classified the parental attitudes and retrieved several resulting variables: academic performance, existential fulfilment, the level of metacognitive abilities and reflection. Parental attitudes turned out to be an important factor of self-realization. Maternal attitude was concluded to be more important. This trend was most pronounced in the correlation between positive maternal attitude and the fulfilment of the first fundamental motivation (trust) in both subgroups. SE1 adolescents’ results correlated better with positive maternal attitude. Fathers were found to affect the self-realization of abilities and the child’s development as well, albeit to a lesser extent. Fathers’ positive interest did correlate with a number of their adolescent children’s metacognitive abilities.
A regulatory network driving shoot lignification in rapidly growing bamboo

Abstract Woody bamboo is environmentally friendly, abundant, and an alternative to conventional timber. Degree of lignification and lignin content and deposition affect timber properties. However, the lignification regulatory network in monocots is poorly understood. To elucidate the regulatory mechanism of lignification in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), we conducted integrated analyses using transcriptome, small RNA, and degradome sequencing followed by experimental verification. The lignification degree and lignin content increased with increased bamboo shoot height, whereas phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and Laccase activities first increased and then decreased with shoot growth. Moreover, we identified 11,504 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in different portions of the 13th internodes of different height shoots; most DEGs associated with cell wall and lignin biosynthesis were upregulated, whereas some DEGs related to cell growth were downregulated. We identified a total of 1,502 miRNAs, of which 687 were differentially expressed. Additionally, in silico and degradome analyses indicated that 5,756 genes were targeted by 691 miRNAs. We constructed a regulatory network of lignification, including 11 miRNAs, 22 transcription factors, and 36 enzyme genes, in moso bamboo. Furthermore, PeLAC20 overexpression increased lignin content in transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants. Finally, we proposed a reliable miRNA-mediated “MYB-PeLAC20” module for lignin monomer polymerization. Our findings provide definite insights into the genetic regulation of bamboo lignification. In addition to providing a platform for understanding related mechanisms in other monocots, these insights could be used to develop strategies to improve bamboo timber properties.
The Role of Employees in Digital Transformation: A Preliminary Study on How Employees’ Digital Literacy Impacts Use of Digital Technologies

Even though digital technologies such as cloud technologies are prevalent in transforming businesses, the role of employees and their digital skills in the process is, to a large extent, neglected. This article brings forward the novel concept of digital literacy to explore the role of employees in understanding the wide variety of opportunities of digital technologies and their actualization. By treating digital literacy as the antecedent of cognitive behavior of employees in utilizing cloud technology at companies, we apply the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) for analyzing preliminary empirical data collected from 124 Australian employees’ technology use intentionality and behavior. The quantitative analysis shows that the TPB holds for the utilization of cloud technology and there is a positive relationship between employees' digital literacy and the utilization of cloud technology at companies. Overall, the study contributes to the technology management literature by offering a workable construct to measure the digital skills of employees in the form of digital literacy. Further, it expands the TPB framework by introducing digital literacy as a perceived behavior control variable that helps to examine the role of employees in digital transformation. The paper ends with implications and limitations of our preliminary study, followed with suggestions for future studies.