Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaining behaviour and conflict handling style

Conflict handling styles is a commonly examined construct in negotiation and organisational research, however there is little research on this topic in the marketing literature. The current study begins to address this deficiency by examining the relationships between preferred conflict handling styles and complaining behaviours in a service encounter. The results show that people’s preference for the oblige, avoid, and dominate conflict handling styles is related to their use of complaint behaviours in a service failure situation.
RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use

The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes that effort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use within the library community and in addition as a bridge to the future of library data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch on the registration activities that have made the vocabularies usable independently of the RDA textual guidance. Designed for both human and machine users, the registered vocabularies describe the relationships between FRBR, the RDA classes and properties and the extensive value vocabularies developed for use within RDA.
Two distinct yeast proteins are related to the mammalian ribosomal polypeptide L7

The RLP7 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was cloned, sequenced and localized to the right arm of chromosome XIV, close to the centromere. It encodes a predicted polypeptide (RLP7p) of 322 amino acids, with a calculated molecular mass of 36 kDa and an isoelectric point of 9·6. Putative open reading frames very similar to RLP7 are present in two other yeasts, Kluyveromyces lactis and Candida utilis. The RLP7p gene product has significant sequence similarity to the S. cerevisiae YL8 polypeptide of the large ribosomal subunit (Mizuta et al., 1992), itself homologous to the L7 subunit of mammalian ribosomes. However, RLP7p and YL8 do not functionally replace each other, since an rlp7‐Δ::HIS3 strain is completely inviable. Judging from its predicted mass, isoelectric point and amino acid sequence, RLP7p does not correspond to any ribosomal component biochemically identified so far in S. cerevisiae, and also differs from all known ribosomal proteins by the low codon usage bias of its gene.
High-performance work systems and the instrumental employee

Employee instrumentalism, which has been defined as the belief that work is primarily a means to non-work ends rather than a central life interest, was investigated as a potential negative antithesis to employee job involvement, organisational commitment, trust in managers, and job satisfaction. Drawing on data from a representative national population survey, instrumentalism was found to be negatively related to commitment and involvement, but independent of the degree to which employees trust their managers and find satisfaction in their jobs. Furthermore, instrumentalism was found to be independent of managerial practices encompassed under the high-performance work systems (HPWS) rubric, suggesting it to be a stable socialised state that employees bring to their jobs rather than a response to the work environment. Practical implications are discussed.
The EGIM, a generic instrumental module to equip EMSO observatories

The EGIM, EMSO Generic Instrumental Module, developed within the frame of the European project “EmsoDev”, is designed to consistently and continuously measure parameters of interest for the science areas covered by the European Research Infrastructure Consortium EMSO, “European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory”. The EGIM aims to set up a number of ocean locations where the same set of core variables, including temperature, conductivity, pressure, dissolved O2, turbidity, ocean currents, and passive acoustics, are measured homogeneously: using identical hardware, the same sensor references, the same qualification methods, the same calibration methods, the same data format and access, and the same maintenance procedures. The EGIM provides all the services required to ensure the best measurement quality and long-term reliability in line with the Best Practices Handbook by FIXO3 and ESONET-EMSO Label, these services being sensor power distribution, time stamping, data storage and backup, protection against the environment and against fouling and bi-directional communication services… The EGIM is flexible and matches all EMSO site and discipline specific requirements. Operating modes, power requirements, mechanical design, embedded software enable the EGIM to adapt to the various EMSO node configurations: mooring line, sea bed station, cabled or non-cabled and surface buoy. Its compact and its modularity covers an array of deployment scenarios including being able to accommodate new instruments. This will be a key point to the modularity, inter-operability and capacity of the future evolution of the system. Having the EGIM as the sole reference for all nodes is a crucial step towards standardization, increasing global reliability and reducing costs across EMSO.
EEG From a Single-Channel Dry-Sensor Recording Device

While a laboratory setting and research-grade electroencephalogram (EEG) equipment allow control of variables and high-quality multiple-channel EEG recording, there are situations and populations for which this is not suitable. The present studies examined the validity of a new method of single-channel EEG measurement that is portable and uses dry-sensor technology. In study 1, EEG was recorded simultaneously from the portable device and 4 standard EEG electrodes from a research system, during eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC) resting conditions, with 20 adult participants. Average correlations with the research system frequency spectra were highest at site F3 for portable device data processed onboard of the device (r = .90), and for device data processed in a standard manner (r = .89). Further, predictable variations in EO versus EC comparisons were observed. In study 2, twenty-three healthy children had EEGs recorded from the portable device during EO and EC resting conditions, and 3 EO active conditions (ie, relaxation, attention, and cognitive load). Absolute and relative EEG band power differed between conditions in predicted ways, including a reduction in relative theta power and an increase in relative alpha power in EC compared to EO resting conditions. Overall, the results suggest that, while limited in terms of scalp recording locations, the portable device has potential utility in certain EEG recording situations where ease of use is a priority.
A Multipath Energy-Aware On demand Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Energy consumption is the most challenging issue in routing protocol design for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), since mobile nodes are battery powered. Furthermore, replacing or recharging batteries is often impossible in critical environments such as in military or rescue missions. In a MANET, the energy depletion of a node does not affect the node itself only, but the overall network lifetime. In this paper, we present multipath and energy-aware on demand source routing (MEA-DSR) protocol, which exploits route diversity and information about batteries-energy levels for balancing energy consumption between mobile nodes. Simulation results, have shown that MEA-DSR protocol is more energy efficient than DSR in almost mobility scenarios.
Direction-Setting Activities in Reading Comprehension: A Comparison of Two Approaches

Two direction-setting activities designed to increase high-school LD students' comprehension of important concepts during content area instruction were compared. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of two instructional groups. The first group was taught with prereading activities based on a basal approach to teaching comprehension. The major focus of this condition was on (a) developing student interest and motivation, (b) highlighting the relevance of the passage to the students' past experience, and (c) offering a general introductory discussion. The second group received instruction using an advance organizer in the form of a text outline designed to help students process information from the text. Daily instructional sessions lasted 50 minutes and continued for 9 school days. The dependent measures consisted of (a) three probe tests administered at the end of each 3-day unit and (b) a 12-item posttest. Results indicated that on both dependent measures the advance-organizer group significantly outperformed the basal group. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the development of teaching strategies for LD students.
Intelligent Biogeography-Based Optimization for discrete variables

Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) is a new bio-inspired and population based optimization algorithm. The convergence of original BBO to the optimum value is slow. Intelligent Biogeography-Based Optimization (IBBO) technique is a hybrid version of BBO with Bacterial Foraging algorithm (BFA). In this paper, authors integrate the bacterial intelligence feature of BFA to decide the valid emigration in migration process of BBO. This increases the ability of BBO to escape from getting trapped in local minima and converges to near-global optimum. This makes faster convergence to the optimum value. To validate the performance of IBBO, experiments have been conducted on unimodal and multimodal benchmark functions of discrete variables. IBBO and BBO are initialized with integer versions of population.
Allothrombium mitchelli (Acari: Trombidiidae) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Incidence, Seasonality, and Predation on Beech Scale (Homoptera: Eriococcidae)

Abstract American beech gaps in the southern Appalachian mountains are currently threatened by an insect-mediated disease complex known as beech bark disease. Cryptococcus fagisuga Lindinger, or beech scale, a major component of beech bark disease, wounds trees through feeding on vascular tissue through the outer cambium. This feeding method leaves numerous wounds and provides entryways for infection by fungal pathogens. Allothrombium mitchelli Davis, a large red velvet mite, was found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where it was observed to feed on beech scale. First-instar larvae of A. mitchelli are quiescent, and deutonymphs are the only mobile immature stage. A. mitchelli probably has one generation per year with adult population peaks in late spring and early fall; deutonymph populations also peaked in early fall within the areas studied. Both adults and deutonymphs feed on beech scale. In 1996, mites were found on 22.1% of beech trees (n = 453) in selected plots; incidence was greatest at Sweat Heifer on 9 May (81%, n = 29). Mite incidence was significantly influenced by categorized aspect (χ2 = 57.92, P < 0.0001, n = 453) and categorized elevation (χ2 = 101.33, P < 0.0001, n = 453). A strong significant (0.4528, P < 0.0001) correlation was observed between mite incidence and elevation. A weak but significant negative correlation (−0.1341, P = 0.0001) was found between numbers of A. mitchelli on individual trees and beech scale ratings at Sweat Heifer and Indian Gap plots. Although their status as a biological control agent of beech scale is uncertain, A. mitchelli is one of only a few species that has been observed to feed consistently on beech scale.
Improving User Interface Personalization

SUPPLEuses decision-theoretic optimization to render an abstractfunctional specificationinto an adaptive interface, which is personalized both to an individual’s usage pattern and the characteristics of a target device. This paper briefly describes three enhancements to S UPPLE: 1) light-weight utility elicitation, 2) the ability to adapt to user’s behavior by generating interfaces with multiple ways to access the same functionality, and 3) generalization-based customization.
Modularity and Organizational Dynamics in Open Source Software (OSS) production

Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of OSS production are at least in a continuum of tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled organizational circumstances of production in which both geographically distributed volunteers and paid developers with organizational ties work together (albeit separately over time). Furthermore, organizational circumstances of OSS production appear to be dynamic, as firms move in and out of OSS production communities over time. In essence we argue that the reason for the confusing empirical results was a persistent assumption that organizational circumstances of OSS production are static or unitary; rather what matters is the organizational circumstances of production in any episode of contribution. This research agenda paper proposes future inquiries to develop a comprehensive picture of ecological shift in different levels of system modularity and organizational circumstances of OSS production over time and through episodes.
InFrame: Multiflexing Full-Frame Visible Communication Channel for Humans and Devices

Recent efforts in visible light communication over screen-camera links have exploited the display for data communications. Such practices, albeit convenient, have led to contention between space allocated for users and content reserved for devices, in addition to their aesthetic issues and distractive nature. In this paper, we propose InFrame--a system that enables dual-mode full-frame communication for both humans and devices simultaneously. InFrame leverages the temporal flick-fusion property of human vision system and the fast frame rate of modern display. It multiplexes data onto full-frame video contents through a novel complementary frame design and several other techniques. It thus ensures screen-camera data communication without affecting the primary video-viewing experience for human users. Our preliminary experiments have confirmed that InFrame can achieve about 12.8kbps data rate with imperceptible video artifacts when being played back at 120FPS.
Prevalence and correlates of young people's sexual aggression perpetration and victimisation in 10 European countries: a multi-level analysis

Data are presented on young people's sexual victimisation and perpetration from 10 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain) using a shared measurement tool (N = 3480 participants, aged between 18 and 27 years). Between 19.7 and 52.2% of female and between 10.1 and 55.8% of male respondents reported having experienced at least one incident of sexual victimisation since the age of consent. In two countries, victimisation rates were significantly higher for men than for women. Between 5.5 and 48.7% of male and 2.6 and 14.8% of female participants reported having engaged in a least one act of sexual aggression perpetration, with higher rates for men than for women in all countries. Victimisation rates correlated negatively with sexual assertiveness and positively with alcohol use in sexual encounters. Perpetration rates correlated positively with attitudes condoning physical dating violence and with alcohol use in men, and negatively with sexual assertiveness in women. At the country level, lower gender equality in economic power and in the work domain was related to higher male perpetration rates. Lower gender equality in political power and higher sexual assertiveness in women relative to men were linked to higher male victimisation rates.
Soy Protein Supplementation Reduces Clinical Indices in Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Purpose Clinical trials have studied the use of soy protein for treating type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome (MS). The purpose of this study was to outline evidence on the effects of soy protein supplementation on clinical indices in T2D and MS subjects by performing a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Materials and Methods We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases up to March 2015 for RCTs. Pooled estimates and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated by the fixed-and-random-effects model. A total of eleven studies with eleven clinical variables met the inclusion criteria. Results The meta-analysis showed that fasting plasma glucose (FPG) [weighted mean difference (WMD), -0.207; 95% CI, -0.374 to -0.040; p=0.015], fasting serum insulin (FSI) (WMD, -0.292; 95% CI, -0.496 to -0.088; p=0.005), homeostasis model of assessment for insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) (WMD, -0.346; 95% CI, -0.570 to -0.123; p=0.002), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (WMD, -0.230; 95% CI, -0.441 to -0.019; p=0.033), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (WMD, -0.304; 95% CI, -0.461 to -0.148; p=0.000), total cholesterol (TC) (WMD, -0.386; 95% CI, -0.548 to -0.225; p=0.000), and C-reactive protein (CRP) (WMD, -0.510; 95% CI, -0.722 to -0.299; p=0.000) are significant reduced with soy protein supplementation, compared with a placebo control group, in T2D and MS patients. Furthermore, soy protein supplementation for longer duration (≥6 mo) significantly reduced FPG, LDL-C, and CRP, while that for a shorter duration (<6 mo) significantly reduced FSI and HOMA-IR. Conclusion Soy protein supplementation could be beneficial for FPG, FSI, HOMA-IR, DBP, LDL-C, TC, and CRP control in plasma.
Determinantes de un sistema organizacional en red para el desarrollo rural del turismo en Antioquia (Colombia)

El sistema organizacional asociado al desarrollo del turismo rural en el departamento de Antioquia tiende a establecer redes informales. El proposito de este articulo es estudiar el flujo de informacion y la interdependencia entre actores en las redes Oriente y Suroeste, con el animo de inferir su incidencia en la gobernanza como condicion de desarrollo. Se adopta para este fin el Analisis de Redes Sociales. Los resultados muestran dos fenomenos: primero, la informacion podria fluir mas rapido en la red Oriente gracias a su densidad; segundo, es en la red Suroeste donde las relaciones publico-privadas y las acciones publicas no estatales determinan la gobernanza de la red.
Changes in cooperative behaviour and belief in finitely repeated social dilemmas

Economic and psychological studies have determined the tendency to improve cooperation in initial interactions in which people are required to contribute in public good games. The current study examined the behavioural changes of individuals during finite interaction times. Participants were invited to make decisions twice in a step-level public good game, and their belief in achieving the collective interest was measured. Participants were divided into three groups based on their first decisions. Results showed that high contributors demonstrated high levels of contribution in their subsequent interactions, whereas low and equal contributors increased their levels of contribution after the initial interaction. Additionally, the cooperative level of low contributors increased along with their cooperative belief. The theoretical and practical implications of changes of behaviour and belief in repeated social dilemmas were identified.
A photographic reference system of the microstructure of the hair of southern African bovids

Techniques and methods to investigate the microstructure of hair are fully descriptionbed in this study of the hair of thirty-three species of southern African bovids. The results are presented in the form of a pictorial reference atlas with distribution maps, habitat data and descriptionptions of the hair. This can be used as an identification system. Although the system has limitations, a key has been formulated to assist in identification within the criteria used.
VOLAP: A Scalable Distributed System for Real-Time OLAP with High Velocity Data

This paper presents VelocityOLAP (VOLAP), a distributed real-time OLAP system for high velocity data. VOLAP makes use of dimension hierarchies, is highly scalable, and exploits both multi-core and multi-processor parallelism. In contrast to other high performance OLAP systems such as SAP HANA or IBM Netezza that rely on vertical scaling or special purpose hardware, VOLAP supports cost-efficient horizontal scaling on commodity hardware or modest cloud instances. Experiments on 20 Amazon EC2 nodes with TPC-DS data show that VOLAP is capable of bulk ingesting data at over 400 thousand items per second, and processing streams of interspersed insertions and aggregate queries at a rate of approximately 50 thousand insertions and 20 thousand aggregate queries per second with a database of 1 billion items. VOLAP is designed to support applications that perform large aggregate queries, and provides similar high performance for aggregations ranging from a few items to nearly the entire database.
Examining the Influence of Actual-Ideal Self-Discrepancies, Depression, and Escapism, on Pathological Gaming Among Massively Multiplayer Online Adolescent Gamers

This study examined whether actual-ideal self-discrepancy (AISD) is related to pathological gaming through escapism as a means of reducing depression for adolescent massively multiplayer online gamers. A Discrepancy-reduction Motivation model of pathological video gaming was tested. A survey was conducted on 161 adolescent gamers from secondary schools. Two mediation effects were tested using path analysis: (a) depression would mediate the relationship between AISDs and escapism, and (b) escapism would mediate the relationship between depression and pathological gaming. Results support the hypotheses stated above. The indirect effects of both AISD and depression were significant on pathological gaming. AISD and escapism also had direct effects on pathological gaming. The present study suggests that pathological behaviors may be over-regulated coping strategies of approaching the ideal self and avoiding the actual self.
Bicultural Social Development

The conditions that result in bicultural social development among Latino children and adolescents represent the central focus of this article. The literature surrounding bicultural development is reviewed from four perspectives: (a) immigrant children and adolescents, (b) second generation Latinos or the offspring of immigrants, (c) later generation ethnic children and adolescents, and (d) mixed ethnic and racial heritage individuals. Each of these situations presents different socialization contexts and challenges for parents and children in the transmission of culture across generations and for the development of bicultural competence. The concepts of acculturation, marginality, and biculturalism are examined for the assumptions inherent in each of these constructs. An important assumption in the analysis is that maintenance of ethnic identity and bicultural orientation may be imposed on Latinos depending on their phenotype, which marks them as ”outsiders” to the dominant social group. Thus, ethnic loyalty and biculturalism may serve as positive coping responses in a racialized society.