Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“It's not Easy Being Green”: Exploring Green Creeds, Green Deeds, and Internal Environmental Locus of Control

The authors report on the development of a novel construct, internal environmental locus of control (INELOC), which captures consumers’ multifaceted attitudes pertaining to personal responsibility towards and ability to affect environmental outcomes. Using data gathered from a sample of consumers, the linkages between INELOC and a wide array of environmental behaviors were investigated. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed four first-order dimensions (“green consumer,” “activism,” “advocate,” and “recycling attitudes”) embedded within a second-order INELOC factor. Structural equations modeling techniques showed that INELOC was a strong positive predictor of many behaviors. However, the nature of the attitude–behavior relationship varied considerably across behavioral contexts, implying that people do not consistently behave in a proenvironmental manner. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Do Written Instructions Need Examples

An inductive reasoning task was used to compare the relative efficacy of general, written instruction information to that of more specific example information. A conflict situation was set up in which subjects were given instructions that described one procedure and an example that described another procedure. The effectiveness of example and instruction information was measured by looking at which procedure subjects used. In the six experiments reported, most of the subjects consistently used the example information and disregarded the instructions. This example effect was not the result of the order of the instruction and example information, nor was it a result of the nature of information in the instructions and example. When the instruction information was stressed as very important, the example effect was attenuated but not eliminated. The results suggest that subjects may not fully process instructions because they believe that examples are more useful and important.
Three dimensions of corporate governance : trials of strength, illusions of control and gender diversity

Auditing and corporate governance are more than an ensemble of techniques influenced by society; they also influence and sometimes create the world we live in. Rather than emphasizing ordered and peaceful accounts of technical and regulatory developments in matters of corporate governance, my thesis is predicated on sociological perspectives which seek to shed light on the actual networks and processes that underlie the spread of regulation, policies and "best" practices in society. The promotion and adoption of ideals of competition, transparency and to some extent diversity within the public sector are greatly derived from the private sector, making the separation of research dealing with the governance of public and private organizations more complex. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to study the development and implementation of regulatory standards for boards of directors in private as well as in public corporations. The recognition of actor reflexivity in interpreting key aspects of corporate governance processes is at the core of this thesis where individual agency and interpersonal interactions are central. Discourses and structures do not deterministically impact the behavior of individuals; they are necessarily interpreted and translated along the way. An examination of how ideas travel and how actors construct meanings bringing further light on their complexities in the adoption and enactment of new governance regulation is the overall objective of the three essays which constitute this thesis. How do ideas travel from one the private to the public sphere? In which conditions are programmes and their underlying technologies translated into regulatory frameworks? What is the role of experts in the promotion of ideas and the trials of strength they are submitted to? How are regulatory prescriptions and best-practice discourse received by the individuals in charge of their enactment? Is reception characterized with a logic of compliance and/or one of resistance? How do board members make sense and interpret the presence of women on boards in light of affirmative action regulation? These questions cannot be answered with simple explanations and assumptions however their exploration conveys the rich complexity and inherent contradictions of the world in which we live.
A V-Band Three-State Phase Shifter in CMOS-MEMS Technology

A V-band CMOS-MEMS switchable phase shifter based on reflection-type topology is presented in this work. The phase shifter is fabricated in 0.18-<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$\mu{\rm m}$</tex></formula> CMOS process with a chip size of 1.04 <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\rm mm}^{2}$</tex></formula>, wherein the suspended MEMS structure is released through the post-CMOS micromachining. Three discrete phase states, including 0<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{\circ}$</tex></formula>, 89<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{\circ}$</tex></formula>, 144<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{\circ}$</tex></formula> at 65 GHz, can be achieved by the bi-directional fishbone actuators under 46-V actuation voltage. The measured insertion loss is <formula formulatype="inline"> <tex Notation="TeX">$2.2\pm 1~{\rm dB}$</tex></formula> and the return loss is better than 14 dB over the 55–65 GHz frequency range, demonstrating a great potential in many applications.
Transcranial slow oscillatory stimulation drives consolidation of declarative memory by synchronization of the neocortex

Evaluation of: Marshall L, Helgadottir H, Molle M, Born J: Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory. Nature 444, 610–613 (2006). Slow-wave sleep plays a crucial role in the consolidation of declarative memory. During this sleep stage the electroencephalogram predominantly shows slow oscillatory activity and slow sleep spindles. The latter are likely to be linked to hippocampal fast ripples and subsequent neuronal firing, presumably supporting the transformation of memory. Anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation generates a temporary negativity of the extracellular space in the underlying tissue, secondarily causing a shift of the neuronal membrane potential towards depolarization. A novel type of transcranial ‘intermittent’ slow oscillatory stimulation was applied over the frontal cortex during early stage-two sleep with the purpose of inducing endogenous slow oscillations and slow spindle activity. It is argued that this form of stimulation elicited a specific enhancement of the .
Impulsivity moderates the association between depressive rumination and number of quit attempt failures by smokers

Negative mood states have been shown to increase the likelihood of relapse among smokers attempting to quit. Rumination increases the vulnerability to depression among smokers, a relationship that is intensified by impulsivity. This cross-sectional study investigated the association between depressive rumination and impulsivity on smokers’ (n = 53) lifetime quit attempt failures. Depressive rumination was positively associated with number of quit attempt failures. As hypothesized, there was a significant interaction between depressive rumination and impulsivity. At high levels of impulsivity, there was a strong positive association between depressive rumination and number of quit attempt failures. However, at low levels of impulsivity the association between depressive rumination and quit attempt failures was diminished and not significant. The results support an affect regulation model of quit attempt failures, whereby impulsivity strengthens effects of depressive rumination, decreasing the likelihood of successfully quitting smoking.
Sugar and hexokinase suppress expression of PIP aquaporins and reduce leaf hydraulics that preserves leaf water potential

Sugars affect central aspects of plant physiology, including photosynthesis, stomatal behavior and the loss of water through the stomata. Yet, the potential effects of sugars on plant aquaporins (AQPs) and water conductance have not been examined. We used database and transcriptional analyses, as well as cellular and whole-plant functional techniques to examine the link between sugar-related genes and AQPs. Database analyses revealed a high level of correlation between the expression of AQPs and that of sugar-related genes, including the Arabidopsis hexokinases 1 (AtHXK1). Increased expression of AtHXK1, as well as the addition of its primary substrate, glucose (Glc), repressed the expression of 10 AQPs from the plasma membrane-intrinsic proteins (PIP) subfamily (PIP-AQPs) and induced the expression of two stress-related PIP-AQPs. The osmotic water permeability of mesophyll protoplasts of AtHXK1-expressing plants and the leaf hydraulic conductance of those plants were significantly reduced, in line with the decreased expression of PIP-AQPs. Conversely, hxk1 mutants demonstrated a higher level of hydraulic conductance, with increased water potential in their leaves. In addition, the presence of Glc reduced leaf water potential, as compared with an osmotic control, indicating that Glc reduces the movement of water from the xylem into the mesophyll. The production of sugars entails a significant loss of water and these results suggest that sugars and AtHXK1 affect the expression of AQP genes and reduce leaf water conductance, to coordinate sugar levels with the loss of water through transpiration.
The Effect of Prior Case Outcomes on Juvenile Justice Decision-Making

This research is a replication of a recent paper by Thornberry and Christenson (1984) that found that prior dispositions affect current dispositions in juvenile justice decision-making. We find, as they did, that the outcome of current cases is highly dependent on prior dispositional outcomes. However, unlike them, we find that successive dispositions are characterized by escalation of sentences, not stability. In a recent paper, Thornberry and Christenson (1984) find a relationship between juvenile justice dispositions imposed for past offenses and the disposition of current offenses. They report that past organizational decisions, reflected in the disposition of prior offenses, exert a strong influence on current case outcomes, controlling for offense-related and extralegal factors. Further, in exploring the nature of the relationship between prior and current dispositions, they find that repeat offenders are very likely to receive the same type of disposition for each successive offense. They conclude that there is a tendency toward stability, rather than escalation, in the disposition of cases involving repeat offenders. Thornberry and Christenson's (1984) research adds a new dimension and direction to the justice decision-making literature. It suggests that processing variables are important, not only in the short term from arrest to disposition of any single offense, but over the long-term delinquent career as well. This study is a replication and extension of their research, utilizing a larger and more recent data set and more extensive data on previous outcomes. *We thank Terence P. Thornberry and two anonymous referees for comments on an earlier version of this paper, and Alan Agresti for statistical advice. Address correspondence to John C. Henretta, Department of Sociology, 3115 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. 1986 The University of North Carolina Press
A Comparison of the Effect of Using Sit/stand Stool on Prolonged Standing Task.

Research has shown that prolonged standing associated with pain and fatigue. One of the recommended ways to address them is to use sit/stand stool at the standing workstations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of sit/stand stool on the workstation to reduce standing fatigue. Sixteen subjects involved in the study. Eight females and eight males, with no previous lower extremity problems sorted by picking and placing objects in grading table while (1) standing and (2) using sit/stand stool for 90 minutes. Using sit/stand stool involves a pronounced reduction of percentage of maximum voluntary contraction (%MVC) of muscles and perceived discomfort, increase change of skin temperature, increased change of the circumference at the ankle and calf. Sit/stand stool caused most discomfort in hips. While, for standing condition most discomfort occurred in the foot.
Optimizing DSP scheduling via address assignment with array and loop transformation

Reducing address arithmetic instructions by optimization of address offset assignment greatly improves the performance of DSP applications. However, minimizing address operations alone may not directly reduce code size and schedule length for multiple functional units DSPs. In this paper, we exploit address assignment and scheduling for application with loops on multiple functional unit DSPs. Array transformation is used in our approach to leverage the indirect addressing modes provided by most of the DSP architectures. An algorithm, address instruction reduction loop scheduling (AIRLS), is proposed. The algorithm utilizes the techniques of rotation scheduling, address assignment and array transformation to minimize both address instructions and schedule length. Compared to the list scheduling, AIRLS shows an average reduction of 35.4% in schedule length and an average reduction of 38.3% in address instructions. Compared to the rotation scheduling, AIRLS shows an average reduction of 19.2% in schedule length and 39.5% in the number of address instructions.
The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments

A main problem in the study of organizational change is that the environmental contexts in which organizations exist are themselves changing, at an increasing rate, and towards increasing complexity. This point, in itself, scarcely needs laboring. Nevertheless, the characteristics of organizational environments demand consideration for their own sake, if there is to be an advancement of understanding in the behavioral sciences of a great deal that is taking place under the impact of technological change, especially at the present time. This chapter is offered as a brief attempt to open up some of the problems; it stems from a belief that progress will be quicker if a certain extension can be made to current thinking about systems.
Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry: What Have We Learned About The Heart?

The emergence of new platforms for the discovery of innovative therapeutics has provided a means for diagnosing cardiac disease in its early stages. Taking into consideration the global health burden of cardiac disease, clinicians require innovations in medical diagnostics that can be used for risk stratification. Proteomic based studies offer an avenue for the discovery of proteins that are differentially regulated during disease; such proteins could serve as novel biomarkers of the disease state. For instance, in clinical practice, the abundance of such biomarkers in blood could be correlated with the severity of the disease state. As such, early detection of biomarkers would enable an improvement in patient prognosis. In this review, we outline advancements in various proteomic platforms used to study the disease proteome and their applications to the field of clinical medicine. Specifically, we highlight the contributions of proteomic-based profiling experiments to the analysis of cardiovascular diseases.
Wildlife-Related Recreation, Meaning, and Environmental Concern

It has been suggested that participating in outdoor recreation exposes people to environmental degradation and increases their concern about such degradation on a broader scale. However, research has not supported a strong connection between outdoor recreation participation and environmental concern. Focusing on wildlife-related recreation, we hypothesized that the meaning of an activity to an individual would mediate the relationship between participation and environmental concern. A mail-back survey of hunting and fishing license holders in Washington ( n = 602) was used. Using structural modeling, we compared a model of a direct relationship between wildlife-related recreation participation and environmental concern with two models where the meaning of wildlife-related recreation fully and partially mediated the participation/environmental concern relationship. Full mediation was supported for bow hunting, fly-fishing, and wildlife and nature viewing, and partial mediation was supported for artificial lure and bait fishing. No mediation occurred for firearm hunting. Given the questionable fit of most models tested, the actual relationship between recreation participation and environmental concern may be more complex than previous research has suggested. Continued research on the role of activity meaning in influencing the participation/concern relationship, while also exploring the role of other personal and social factors, should be conducted.
Introduction to the special issue: Perspectives on mood in sport and exercise

The link between physical activity and mood is perhaps one of the most intuitively appealing relationships in the whole area of sport and exercise psychology. Failure to “get in the right mood” seems to be a common attribution for poor performance by athletes, while mood enhancement appears to be an important motive for participation among exercisers. However, intuitive appeal and empirical support is not the same thing, a distinction confirmed by the equivocal nature of research findings pertaining to mood and physical activity. Answers to the frequently investigated research questions, “Does exercise enhance mood? ” and “Can mood predict athletic performance? ” have been characterized by a cautious “yes” qualified by a substantial list of “if’s” and “but’s. ” Since the pioneering research efforts of William Morgan and colleagues in the 1970’s, efforts that still continue today, attitudes toward mood-performance relationships in sport have passed through periods of sustained credibility to increasingly skeptical scrutiny. Morgan demonstrated that the scores of athletes on the Profile of Mood States (POMS: McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1971), particularly at an elite level, were characterized by the now famous iceberg profile, combining high vigor with low tension, depression, anger, fatigue and confusion. This finding subsequently led to the POMS being proclaimed in Psychology Today as the “test of champions” (Morgan, 1980). The veracity of this claim and the significance of an iceberg mood profile have been challenged in more recent review articles (e.g., Renger, 1993; Rowley, Landers, Kyllo, & Etnier, 1995). Indeed, Renger (1993) went as far as calling for researchers to “abandon the POMS” (p.83) in research on successful and unsuccessful athletes. As the reader will discover, there is much support within these pages for the basic tenets of Morgan’s (1985) Mental Health Model and hopefully much information that moves beyond simply espousing the benefits of a particular mood profile. This special issue of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is devoted to a range of theoretical, measurement, and empirical issues in the area of mood research. It brings together some of the most influential researchers in the field, who offer different perspectives on the extant literature. The special issue is intended to provide a valuable resource for researchers of mood in the sport and exercise environments, offering new theoretical perspectives, comprehensive reviews of the literature, normative data for sport and exercise, and a bibliography of the most recent publications in the area.
Spanish knowledge base generation for polarity classification from masses

This work presents a novel method for the generation of a knowledge base oriented to Sentiment Analysis from the continuous stream of published micro-blogs in social media services like Twitter. The method is simple in its approach and has shown to be effective compared to other knowledge based methods for Polarity Classification. Due to independence from language, the method has been tested on different Spanish corpora, with a minimal effort in the lexical resources involved. Although for two of the three studied corpora the obtained results did not improve those officially obtained on the same corpora, it should be noted that this is an unsupervised approach and the accuracy levels achieved were close to those levels obtained with well-known supervised algorithms.
Assessing quality of life in persons with severe neurological disability associated with multiple sclerosis: The psychometric evaluation of two quality of life measures

Objectives. To examine the psychometric properties of two conceptually different quality of life (QoL) measures, the SEIQoL-DW (a person-centred measure) and the SF36 (a health-based measure), in a severely disabled population of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Design. A factorial repeated measures design was used. Method. The two QoL measures were administered at baseline to 30 individuals with MS at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Putney; participants were aged between 20 and 65 years and selected on the basis of their communication ability, years since diagnosis and extent of physical disability (using EDSS ratings). Administration of the SEIQoL-DWand the SF-36 was repeated on five fortnightly occasions on a subset of 22 participants 10 months after baseline. On each of the five re-test occasions, participants also rated their QoL ‘today’ and ‘generally’ on visual analogue scales, and reported significant positive/negative life changes that had affected their QoL. Results. The SF-36 was more reliable by traditional re-test standards than the SEIQoL-DW, but several floor and ceiling effects were observed. Only the SEIQoLDW was significantly related to QoL today (average correlation 0. 52) and QoL generally (average correlation 0. 52) (p < .05) ratings and analyses using ANOVA suggested that the measure was also more sensitive to life changes reported (F (2, 36)= 7. 57, p <. 01). Conclusion. The SEIQoL-DW is recommended as a suitable person-centred measure for use with the current population, because it appears to have good face validity and is capable of reflecting individual reports of life change between assessments. It has potential use in other severely disabled samples who obtain low scores on health-based measures because of their physical status, providing a more holistic view of individual QoL than the SF-36.