Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Student-athletes’ Evaluation of Coaches’ Coaching Competencies and Their Sport Achievement Motivation

The primary concerns of this study is whether universities’ sport coaches possess good coaching competency skills in bringing up potential athletes for the country. What are coaches’ coaching competency levels? Do their competencies capability able to contribute significantly to sport achievement motivation of student-athletes? Thus, this study was designed to evaluate the competency level of coaches and student-athletes’ achievement motivation at the Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) in sports competitions. A total of 322 student-athletes were participated in the questionnaire survey. Researchers have adapted the Coaching Competency Scale to measure four different dimensions of coaching competency and Sport Orientation Questionnaire to measure achievement motivation of student-athletes. Validity and reliability of the instrument were found to be satisfactory.The results of this study indicate that the coaches’ competency levels at the HEI were not differ significantly by gender and performance of student-athletes, but it was differed significantly by type of sport, between team and individual sports. In addition, this study showed that there was a moderate relationship between the competencies of sport coaches and achievement motivation among student-athletes. However, among the coaches’ coaching competencies, motivation competency of coaches was found to be significant contributor to student-athletes sport achievement motivation. The study provides important insights from the perspective of sport development programme at the related organizations which can be valuable in identifying and recruiting suitable coaches; and helping coaches to some extent in planning strategies for coaching athletes to ensure the effectiveness of its role as a coach.
A determination of the synthetic hyetograph parameters for flow capacity assessment concerning stormwater systems

The paper presents the results of an analysis of the influence of synthetic rainfall duration and location of rainfall intensity peak on the rate of the flood volume in surcharged storm sewers. The analyzed rainfalls had durations from 15 minutes to 180 minutes. It was assumed, that the rainfall peak location would change between the beginning and the end of the rainfall with increments of 10% of the rainfall duration. Outflow simulations were performed with the use of SWMM5.1. 012 for three models of real urban catchments with surfaces from 1.6 km 2 to 6.7 km 2 . An assessment of the influence of rainfall parameters was made on the basis of the flood volume rates. Short rainfalls with peaks located at the beginning of rainfall duration do not generate flooding. For other rainfalls it was found that for a specified rainfall duration the flood volume increases with the increase of time of the rainfall peak location. The maximum flood volume varied from 5% to 12% of the total runoff volume, depending on the catchment area, and is generated by the rainfall, whose intensity peak occurs right after the time corresponding to the flow time through the catchment.
Perceived Paternal Parenting Style and Proactive Coping Strategies of Indian Adolescents

Parental child rearing practices are regarded as significant step towards development of coping skills in children and adolescents. The role of fathers in child’s progress from infancy through adulthood is undeniable. The unique bond that a father and a child share is instrumental in influencing various behavioural outcomes in children. For a traditional country like India the emergence of active involvement of fathers in parenting is increasingly becoming popular. The present study investigates the influence of perceived paternal parenting styles on adolescents’ coping strategies. Family structure, gender of adolescents and income of father were taken as moderators in the study. The sample of this study was N = 180 (male 45.6% and female 54.4 %). Adolescents from standard X-XI, belonging to joint family (22.8%) and nuclear family (77.2%) were selected from different schools in Kharagpur, West Bengal (India). Analysis of variance and hierarchical multiple regression analysis were carried out for data analysis. Results revealed that adolescents’ perception of paternal demandingness and autonomy granting significantly predicts preventive and instrumental coping strategies among adolescents. Income of father and gender of adolescent were found to moderate the relationship between perceived paternal parenting style and coping strategies.
Some Extensions of Poincaré-Bendixson Theory Applied to a Resonant Converter.

Popular Abstract in Swedish I denna avhandling studeras en resonant omvandlare. Detta ar en elektrisk krets som amvandlar likspanningar fran en niva till en annan. For att styra detta system, maste man forsta dess egenskaper. Min uppgift har varit att undersoka huruvida systemet innehaller s.k. granscykler (sjalvsvangningar) respektive chattering (extremt snabba sjalvsvangningar). Vissa av dessa granscykler ar onskade och vissa ar oonskade medan all chattering maste undvikas vid styrningen av den resonanta omvandlaren. Dessa oonskade fenomen som forsvarar styrningen ar av yttersta intresse att utreda. Det finns klassisk matematisk teori (Poincare-Bendixson teori) som skulle kunna hjalpa mig med utredningen av granscyklerna, men vart system ar tyvarr inte av den beskaffenheten att teorin utan vidare kan anvandas. Systemet ar av s.k. switchad typ, dvs. det beskrivs av flera olika elektriska kretsar (i vart fall 4 stycken). Systembeskrivningen alternerar mellan dessa kretsar (switchning), vilket komplicerar utredningen. Den klassiska matematiska teorin maste alltsa utvidgas sa att den utvidgade teorin aven omfattar system av switchad typ. Jag har lyckats gora detta och en fullstandig utredning angaende granscykler ar genomford. I och med resultaten redovisade i avhandlingen kan styrningen av den resonanta omvandlingen adresseras med storre sakerhet. (Less)
Accounting manipulations and political costs: Tooth & Co Ltd, 1910–1965

Abstract Positive accounting theory posits that political costs influence accounting choices by large firms. Most studies rely on cross‐sectional analyses of large samples using coarse data. We employ rich archival data to analyse the profit measurement and disclosure practices of Tooth & Co, a large Australian brewing company, from 1910 to 1965. This period provides considerable variation in scope and incentives to manipulate reported profit. Reporting discretion changed significantly from early voluntary disclosure through to the extensive scheduled disclosure requirements of the Companies Act 1961. Varying incentives include changes in excise duties levied on beer production, and dramatic company growth and market dominance resulting from takeovers of competitors and vertical integration. We examine the pattern of reported profit in relation to internal records and the pattern of accruals. We find that Tooth's profit‐smoothing practices and understatements were perceived by management as important in justifying dividend policy, while systematic understatements of reported profit were used to avoid potential political costs associated with high profitability and market dominance. The most significant relative increases in profit understatement are shown to occur where dividend policy and political cost motivations coincide.
Seismic structure of the Longmen Shan region from S‐wave tomography and its relationship with the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake on 12 May 2008, southwestern China

Using arrival time data, we determined seismic structure of the Longmen Shan by S‐wave tomography and studied its relations with the Ms 8.0 earthquake in Wenchuan, southwestern China. Our results suggest that the Longmen Shan fault belt is a rheologic boundary between the eastern Tibetan plateau and the Sichuan basin, and the deep crust of the entire Longmen Shan is significantly thickened by ductile deformation. The upper structure of the eastern Tibetan plateau is cored by the high‐velocity Pengguan massif. Its collision with the Sichuan basin is the most direct reason for the seismic ruptures on the Longmen Shan fault belt north of Wenchuan, while the lack of earthquakes south of Wenchuan is related to the weakness of the crust. Therefore, The Ms 8.0 earthquake occurred in a strongly heterogeneous region. The variations in the crustal structure largely controlled the initial rupture of the Ms 8.0 earthquake and aftershock activity.
Dealing with stiffness in time-domain Stokes flow simulation

As microfluidic devices become more common and more elaborate, it becomes necessary to develop simulation tools that allow the efficient and yet accurate threedimensional time-domain analysis of the behavior of these devices. Detailed tim ed omain analysis of three dimensional microfluidic structures requires dealing with the stiffness of the differential equations associated with the motion of objects in viscous fluids and with updating the solver grids. We minimize the issue of mesh adaptation by using the boundary element method which only requires discretizing and updating two dimensional surface meshes. We address the issue of stiffness by introducing av elocity implicit time stepping schem et hat hasmuch better stability than the explicit Forward Euler scheme and that has a much lower computational cost than a fully implicit scheme.
Subsidiary withdrawal and network of multinational corporations

The motives of foreign direct investments (FDIs) have been explained through marketand efficiency-seeking in prior literature (e.g., Johanson and Vahlne, 1977). However, the foreign operations of multinational corporations (MNCs) have been complicated. Ekholm, Forslid, and Markusen (2007) argued the importance of export-platform FDIs by illustrating that some subsidiaries function as platforms to export products to third-party countries. Meanwhile, many affiliates are part of international production networks, known as “networked FDIs” (Baldwin and Okubo, 2014). This viewpoint sheds light on third-party country effects instead of characteristics of individual-affiliate and parent-affiliate pairs. Moreover, prior studies have identified determinant factors on the survival of foreign subsidiaries. However, the literature premises that profitable subsidiaries are less likely to withdraw from host countries (Bradley, Aldrich, Shepherd, and Wiklund, 2011). The export-platform FDIs literature implies that the premise is not necessarily true since MNCs withdraw foreign subsidiaries for the purpose of restructuring subsidiary networks in the same region or throughout the world. Such withdrawals in a focal country would have certain influences on subsidiary operations in third-party countries. This study intends to extend the FDI and subsidiary survival literature by considering thirdparty country effects. This study argues that the withdrawal of production subsidiaries from a focal country influences their operations in third-party countries of the same region. FDIs by MNCs have been more complicated over the past several decades; therefore, networked FDIs are critical considerations for understanding contemporary subsidiary operations of MNCs. According to The Survey on Overseas Business Activities by the Research and Statistics Department of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which is the present study’s empirical touchstone, more than 40 Subsidiary withdrawal and network of multinational corporations
Assessing the impact of the competency level on the success of companies’ integration

The integration of companies is crucially important in the ongoing globalization processes. Companies must unify the material assets and optimize property. The integration of the company, incrementally, and competency development is also essential in order to expand the competitiveness of the companyâ€™s integrated structure. Identification and management of competencies are especially important for the enterprise structures, which carry out the integration processes. The level of competency development and the types of competencies may or may not be similar. The aim of this research is to specify and develop an organizational competency structure, which groups individual competencies of an organization into various segments based on their similarity. This research is relevant due to the need to systematize and streamline competencies in order to better identify them and develop a set of measures for their monitoring. The theoretical literature analysis allowed us to create a model that characterizes the assumed impact of the competencies on the successful integration of companies. Based on the data, we divided the organizational competencies into five major categories are. An empirical assessment of the impact of the competencies on the market success of the integration of enterprise structures is provided. This research indicates that the success of such integration is substantially determined by the formation and development of the competencies. The authors interviewed top managers of 225 medium and large-sized companies from all over the country were (the questionnaire was created by Rudenko M.N.) The time lag is 5 years. Thereby, the results can be used in the process of regional policy formation.
Nonhomothetic Preferences and the Home Market Effect: Does Relative Market Size Matter?

The home market effect (HME) implies that market size matters for the pattern of trade and the industry structure of trading countries. Standard HME models tend to ignore the "relative" market size due to the homothetic preference assumption although international trade models often emphasize the importance of relative differences across countries. We incorporate nonhomothetic preferences into the model and show that the relative market size matters as well as the absolute size. Our empirical results suggest that the relative market size fares better overall in determining the pattern of trade while the absolute size is crucial for a country to be a net exporter in the industries with increasing returns to scale.
Forecasting International Tourism Demand in Malaysia Using Box Jenkins Sarima Application

The main aim of this paper is to generate one-period-ahead forecasts of international tourism demand for Malaysia. An appropriate ARIMA model or well known as Box-Jenkins model has been applied in this paper to generate the forecast of international tourism demand. Before selecting an appropriate model, formal stationary tests has been applied in this paper and finds that, the series are stationary at level. Secondly, in order to get a good estimation, this paper has identified the autoregressive (AR) and moving average (MA) of the entire period of the data. Therefore, the future demand of tourism is forecast based on the combination of AR and MA, which known as ARMA model. In this paper, the competing models have been thoroughly investigated when the model adequacy has been checked before the best combination of ARIMA model was selected. Thus, the best fitted ARIMA (1,0,1) with seasonal effects or well known as SARIMA approaches has been suggested through this study and the forecasting process is based on this combination. The forecasts generated by the ARIMA model suggest that Malaysia will face increasing tourism demand for the period of 2009:Q1-2009:Q4. Besides that, this paper found the Box-Jenkins model has offered valuable insights and provide reliable forecasts of tourism demand for Malaysia.
Effects of Wall Shear Stress on MHD Conjugate Flow over an Inclined Plate in a Porous Medium with Ramped Wall Temperature

This study investigates the effects of an arbitrary wall shear stress on unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a Newtonian fluid with conjugate effects of heat and mass transfer. The fluid is considered in a porous medium over an inclined plate with ramped temperature. The influence of thermal radiation in the energy equations is also considered. The coupled partial differential equations governing the flow are solved by using the Laplace transform technique. Exact solutions for velocity and temperature in case of both ramped and constant wall temperature as well as for concentration fields are obtained. It is found that velocity solutions are more general and can produce a huge number of exact solutions correlative to various fluid motions. Graphical results are provided for various embedded flow parameters and discussed in detail.
Traductoras gallegas del siglo XX: Reescribiendo la historia de la traducción desde el género y la nación

Within the newly established field of Galician Studies, Feminist Theory has played a major role in revealing how women have contributed to the development of the Galician cultural polysystem. However, it is my contention that the translative facet of many women translators has not yet received enough critical attention. Therefore, within the framework of a growing interest in the roles played both by women and by translation in the development of societies, this article seeks to explore the history of translation in the context of Galicia, with a view to underscoring the contributions of women translators throughout the 20th century. The aim of the article is twofold: firstly, to offer an overview of translators such as Mercedes Vazquez Fernandez Pimentel, Mari Luz Morales, Teruca Bouza Vila, Maria Barbeito, Amparo Alvajar, Xohana Torres, and Teresa Barro, in order to open up new areas for research so that subsequent studies can further examine their contributions in more depth. Secondly, it seeks to analyse the power relations which inform the activity of translation both from a gender and national approach.
Environmental effectiveness of GAEC cross-compliance Standard 4.1 (b, c) ‘Protection of permanent pasture land’ and economic evaluation of the competitiveness gap for farmers

The paper presents the main results of the monitoring on the effectiveness of the cross-compliance Standard 4.1 ‘Permanent pasture protection: lett. b, c’ carried out in two case studies within the project MO.NA. CO. Soil, botanical, productive and economic (competitiveness gap) parameters have been monitored. In the short term, the Standard 4.1 showed its effectiveness on soil quality, biomass productivity and competitiveness gap in both case studies. Botanical parameters showed differing results, therefore their generalization is not applicable to the heterogeneity of the pasture land Italian system. Shallow soil tillage could be suggested, every 40-50 years, when an appropriate soil organic matter content and the absence of runoff phenomena occur.
Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0 < z < 5 Measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System

We present an empirical investigation of the colors of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system. The sample studied includes 2625 quasars with SDSS photometry: 1759 quasars found during SDSS spectroscopic commissioning and SDSS follow-up observations on other telescopes, 50 matches to FIRST quasars, 573 matches to quasars from the NASA Extragalactic Database, and 243 quasars from two or more of these sources. The quasars are distributed in a 2. °5 wide stripe centered on the celestial equator covering ∼529 deg2. Positions (accurate to 0.″2) and SDSS magnitudes are given for the 898 quasars known prior to SDSS spectroscopic commissioning. New SDSS quasars, which range in brightness from i* = 15.39 to the photometric magnitude limit of the survey, represent an increase of over 200% in the number of known quasars in this area of the sky. The ensemble average of the observed colors of quasars in the SDSS passbands are well represented by a power-law continuum with αν = -0.5 (fν ∝ να) and are close to those predicted by previous simulations. However, the contributions of the "small blue (or λ3000) bump" and other strong emission lines have a significant effect upon the colors. The color-redshift relation exhibits considerable structure, which may be of use in determining photometric redshifts for quasars from their colors alone. The range of colors at a given redshift can generally be accounted for by a range in the optical spectral index with a distribution αν = -0.5 ± 0.65 (95% confidence), but there is a red tail in the distribution. This tail may be a sign of internal reddening, especially since fainter objects at a given redshift tend to exhibit redder colors than the average. Finally, we show that there is a continuum of properties between quasars and Seyfert galaxies, and we test the validity of the traditional dividing line (MB = -23) between the two classes of active galactic nuclei.
Spatial scale of genetic structuring in coastal cod Gadus morhua and geographic extent of local populations

We estimated the spatial scale of genetically distinguishable populations of coastal Atlantic cod Gadus morhua using microsatellite DNA markers. Significant overall heterogeneity in allele frequencies was found among 5 cod samples (n = 493) along a 79 km segment of the Norwe- gian Skagerrak coast (FST = 0.0013; p = 0.021). Most (3 out of 4) samples separated by less than 30 km were genetically highly similar (FST < 0), whereas more distantly separated samples were typically genetically different. This genetic differentiation pattern indicates a patchy population structure with local coastal cod populations being limited in geographic extent to approx. 30 km or less. The spatial structure is thus on the scale of local fjords, suggesting a role for local topography in shaping popu- lation structure. The population structuring of coastal cod is more fine-scaled than hitherto reported, but is consistent with mark-recapture studies and data on egg distributions, and emphasises the need to focus on local populations in the management of marine fishes.
Transparency in Structured Interviews: Consequences for Construct and Criterion-Related Validity

Although researchers agree on the use of structured interviews in personnel selection, past research has been undecided on whether these interviews need to be conducted nontransparently (i.e., without giving interviewees any indication of the evaluated criteria) or transparently (i.e., by revealing to interviewees the dimensions assessed in the interview). This article presents two independent studies examining the effects of interview transparency on interviewees' performance and on the interview's construct and criterion-related validity in the context of an application training program. Results from both Study 1 (N = 123) and Study 2 (N = 269) indicate an improvement in interviewees' performance under transparent interview conditions. Both studies further support the assumption that transparent interviews show satisfactory construct validity, whereas nontransparent interviews do not. Moreover, Study 2 showed no significant difference between the interview's criterion-related validity under transparent versus nontransparent conditions. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
Enhancing power system transient stability using optimal unified power flow controller based on Lyapunov control strategy

This paper presents a new control strategy for an Optimal Uni ed Power Flow Controller (OUPFC) through a Lyapunov energy function in terms of local parameters to improve the transient stability of a power system. The OUPFC is a hybrid con guration of Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices, i.e. an arrangement of small-sized Uni ed Power Flow Controller (UPFC) and a full-scale Phase Shifting Transformer (PST). In this study, a new term of OUPFC's energy function and its injection model in a simpli ed structure preserving model is developed and implemented in a two-machine power system using MATLAB/Simpower. The ability of the OUPFC controller to enhance the transient stability is compared to that of UPFC. The results show that using the proposed control strategy for OUPFC leads to more abatement of the rst swing oscillations and enlargement of stability margin. It is concluded that compensation of UPFC's angle displacement maycome true using OUPFC with appropriate angles in proper locations. So, compared to UPFC, OUPFC enjoys another degree of freedom.