Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFECTS OF GREEN TRANSFORMATIONAL AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON GREEN CREATIVITY, ECO-INNOVATION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR OF INDONESIA

The role of energy efficiency (ENE) is regarded as the prime goal for reducing environmental pressures; co-existing in the form of the organization’s extensive energy dependence and resource depletion. Therefore, the current examination proposed to test the empirical association of ETL and TRL in influencing green creativity (GRC) and eco-innovation (ECI) in higher educational institutes of Indonesia. Moreover, given the significance of ENE in curtailing negative effects of power consumption in environmental degradation, the present study also examined the impact of GRC and ECI on ENE by particularly focusing higher educational institutes. The study applied partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), and the results recommended that eco-innovation and have a positive and significantly influenced by green transformational leadership. Moreover, the results further suggested that eco-innovation and green capacity have significantly and positively impacted by ethical leadership. Finally, the results of PLS-SEM confirm that eco-innovation and green capacity have significantly and positively impact on ENE on international schools in Indonesia. In summary, the results confirmed that green transformational leadership, eco-innovation and GRC are very important and significant contributor in enhancing ENE in higher education sector of Indonesia. The study recommended that government need to pay more attention on environmental friendly innovations to reduce environmental issues and enhance ENE in Indonesia.
The influence of trust in understanding citizens' behavior to use social media for e-government services

Due to high uncertainties in using social media for e-government services, it is critical to build citizens trust to encourage their acceptance of these services. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of trust on citizens’ intention to use social media for e-government services. TAM was used as a theoretical foundation to examine the effect of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on trust and citizens’ intention to use social media for e-government services. The results of this study are based on a survey sample of 457 Pakistani citizens’ by employing SmartPLS3.0 in the data analysis. The results confirm the significant effect of trust on citizens’ intention to use social media for e-government services. It was also found that citizens’ perception of ease of use and usefulness of e-government services predict their trust and intention to use these services. The findings from this study are useful for policy makers and government organizations to increase citizens’ participation in social media for e-government services.
In-store location-based marketing with beacons: from inflated expectations to smart use in retailing

ABSTRACT The announcement of beacon technology in 2013 created a wave of excitement among pioneering retailers and marketing leaders, allowing them to send location-based messages to customers in-store. However, until present, the technology has not yet established a strong foothold in retailing. The present paper adopts a multi-method approach with the objective to 1) detail its main challenges in the market and 2) enlighten scholars and practitioners on smart use cases for in-store location-based marketing. The findings of the multiple data sources (i.e. review of academic and practitioner literature, in-depth interviews with retail technology experts and focus groups with consumers) allowed the authors to infer valid conclusions, along with recommendations for future research and actionable managerial advice.
The effect of consumption motivation on the perception of gift store attributes in jewelry retail stores and its influence on repurchase intention

Purpose – The study assesses the effect of hedonic and utilitarian motivations on the perception of atmosphere and service quality, on satisfaction, and on repurchase intention in a Brazilian retail chain of silver jewelers. Design/methodology/approach – A mall-intercept survey of 160 consumers and a structural equation model analysis were conducted using the SmartPLS software. Also, the research data were subjected to partial least squares multigroup analysis (PLS-MGA). Findings – In general, the store’s display/layout and customer service significantly impacted the customer’s satisfaction and repurchase intention. Utilitarian consumers showed greater satisfaction in stores with background music. Hedonic consumers showed a strong relationship between the store display/layout and the customer service, and also between satisfaction and repurchase intention, indicating that the satisfaction they encounter with the store’s atmosphere and service leads to repurchase intention. Originality/value – Hedonic and utilitarian consumers differ in the cognitive procedures that are activated while shopping. By offering a store atmosphere tailored to the customers’ orientations and decisions, retailers can increase consumer satisfaction of both hedonic and utilitarian consumers. In theory, the study addresses consumer motivation theory within the retail atmosphere, specifically gift shops in the silver jewelry segment.
Assessment of the beneficiaries’ perception, policy achievement and sustainability of the CT-OVC programme on access to basic education in Seme sub county in Kisumu county

v TABLE OF CONTENTS . vi LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATION . x OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS . xi LIST OF TABLES . xiv LIST OF FIGURES . xv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Background to the Study . 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem . 11 1.3 Research Questions . 12 1.3. 1 Main Research Question . 12 1.3. 2 Specific Research Questions . 12 1.4 Objective of the Study . 12 1.4. 1 Main Objective. 12 1.4. 2 Specific Objectives . 12 1.5 Justification of the Study . 13 1.6 Scope and Limits of the Study . 14 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW . 16 2.
The use of budgetary and financial information by politicians in parliament: a case study

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to research the use of accounting information by politicians. Based on the Portuguese Parliament setting, it seeks to understand how useful politicians consider this information to be, what type of budgetary and financial information they use, and for what purposes. Finally, the research also seeks to find out whether politicians resort to expert intermediaries or advisors help them in the use of this information. Design/methodology/approach Following a qualitative and interpretative methodology, the study draws upon interviews with Members of Parliament in Portugal (and their technical advisors (TAs)) from all political parties, in particular the members of the Budget, Finance and Administrative Modernization Committee (COFMA) of the Parliament. Findings Research shows that, due to the general lack of knowledge and the complexity of the accounting information, politicians in the Parliament do not use it frequently, only occasionally. To be better or worse informed for the debates and other activities depends on each Member of Parliament’s personal willingness to prepare oneself, notwithstanding some aggregated and previously analyzed information made available by official technical support units. Parliamentarians may also resort to TAs, who prepare the information at their request. Both intermediaries and TAs are deemed important to support parliamentarians’ understanding of more technical budgetary and financial issues. Practical implications This paper shows that politicians acknowledge there is room for improving the role of information intermediaries and advisors, who would support them to better understand and use accounting information. Parliamentary groups incharge of hiring advisors, as well as accounting professionals, in Portugal and in other countries, must be aware of the very useful role accountants play in this process. Social implications While allowing to understand whether and how politicians use accounting information, this research contributes to the process of public sector accounting reforms in Portugal, and at an international level, inasmuch as public sector accounting and reporting standards should better address these users’ information needs. Assuming that these reforms would foster more accurate, transparent and useful information for accountability and decision making, it is essential that politicians acknowledge and become real users of accounting information, in order to accomplish those objectives. Originality/value This study contributes to the general knowledge of how politicians use accounting information. Academic studies so far have not gathered enough evidence about the type of accounting information that is actually important for politicians. This paper highlights that use of such information by politicians depends on individual skills and their willingness to receive the appropriate advice.
Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure: It’s Implication on Agency Cost (A Study in Indonesia Manufacturing Company)

 yolandafitrizulfia@gmail.com Abstract This study examines how Good Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure are associated with the Agency Cost. Agency Cost is measured by the efficiency ratio or Asset Utilization Ratio. While Good Corporate Governance is measured with the size of board commissioner and independent commissioner. Ownership Structure uses managerial ownership and institutional ownership as its proxy. The sample of this study is 118 manufacturing company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2011-2016. The result indicates that institutional ownership has positive and significant effect on agency cost. The finding of this study do not show any relationship among board of commissioners, independent commission and managerial ownership toward
Impacts of the Bolsa Família Program on the labor market of Brazilian municipalities

Resumo Beneficiando cerca de 14 milhões de famílias brasileiras, o Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) é um dos mais importantes programas brasileiros de transferência condicionada de renda dos últimos anos. A investigação dos impactos do PBF, no mercado de trabalho formal dos 5.570 municípios brasileiros, no período de 2004 a 2013, constitui o principal objetivo deste artigo. Usando dados totais de cada um dos municípios da União, obtidos no Cadastro Único do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social (MDS) e no Cadastro Central de Empresas do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), métodos de estimação dos mínimos quadrados ordinários (MQO), modelos de dados em painel e modelos dinâmicos, testam-se as hipóteses da associação do benefício do PBF com a quantidade de pessoal ocupado assalariado formal e com o total dos salários e de outras remunerações. Nos três modelos utilizados, os resultados indicam associação positiva para as duas hipóteses testadas.
The role of L-selectin shedding in regulating lymphocyte migration.

The recirculation of lymphocytes between blood and lymphoid organs is fundamental to the function of a healthy immune system. In lymph nodes (LN) lymphocytes exit the blood at specialised post capillary vessels known as high endothelial venules (HEVs), attaching to and migrating between the high endothelial cells (HECs) of which HE Vs are comprised. The L-selectin cell adhesion molecule plays an essential role in this "homing" to LN. The extracellular portion of L-selectin is rapidly cleaved in response to a number of physiological and non-physiological stimuli, although the role of this "shedding" in lymphocyte migration is not well understood. To study this role, “non shedding” mutations were employed starting with an eight residue membrane proximal deletion (AM-N) in human L-selectin. This mutation has been shown to completely abrogate phorbol ester-induced L-selectin shedding when expressed in the mouse pre-B cell line 300.19. Mouse EL4 T lymphoma cells, were stably transfected with either wildtype or AM-N human L-selectin cDNA. Adhesion and transendothelial migration events were modelled using a cultured HEC monolayer system which allows lymphocyte interactions with HEV to be mimicked in vitro. The equivalent eight residue deletion (AK-N) was created for mouse L-selectin and a further panel of stable EL4 transfectants was generated and tested. To address conflicting data on the ability of such deletion mutants to abolish shedding, as well as anomalies observed within this study, another “non shedding” mouse L-selectin mutation (LAP) was engineered. Finally, mice transgenic for either AK-N or LAP or wildtype L-selectin were created. Transgene expression was directed towards the T lymphocyte compartment. Preliminary characterisation of transgenic mice indicated no gross effects of either mutation on lymphoid organ cellularity or short term lymphocyte trafficking. A number of important experiments will be possible when the transgenic mice are crossed to L-selectin knockout mice, removing expression of endogenous L-selectin.
An exploratory study to deepen understanding of the decision-making processes of national accounting standards boards : the case of adoption or otherwise of IFRS for SMEs in the EU

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Stable coronary artery disease. Is it really stable? Lesion morphology interpretation by Grayscale and VH‐IVUS in patients with coronary artery disease

Despite the wide knowledge on the pathological features of an unstable plaque, it is hard to differentiate in vivo a stable from an unstable plaque. The possibility to differentiate these plaques is mainly based on coronary angiography, which depicts artery as a planar silhouette of the contrast‐filled lumen without any information on the vessel wall. Conversely, intracoronary imaging techniques, such as IVUS and IVUS virtual histology, are the established gold standard for in vivo qualitatively (e.g. visually) identification of plaque morphology and coronary plaque tissue components, helping understanding of plaque stability degree. We herein describe these imaging technologies and its clinical and research applications.
Working with the Aboriginal Communities

Redfern is a significant hub of services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is the home and starting point for legal, health and welfare services provided by independent self-managed indigenous organisations. Redfern is where people come if they are searching for relatives, if they just got off the train, if they just got out of prison. On any one day the actual number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Redfern area is greater than numbers shown on the census. The report of the recent NSW Parliament Inquiry into Redfern-Waterloo highlights the significance of this area for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and concludes that the significant disadvantage faced by those communities requires innovative and enhanced service provision. The severity and prevalence of domestic and family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is well established. For recent research see for example Australian Institute of Health and Welfare "Family Violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples" 2006. Redfern Legal Centre employs an Aboriginal Outreach Worker to support Aboriginal women dealing with legal and court processes arising as a result of family violence. We aim to provide an effective culturally appropriate holistic and supportive link between the services of RLC - especially for women dealing with domestic violence but also for discrimination, tenancy, credit and debt, family and welfare law matters where DoCS has intervened to remove children from their parents - and the community and with other Aboriginal services operating in the inner Sydney area. The Aboriginal worker raises awareness of our service and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to come to us. Our partnership with Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Women's Centre is crucial to meeting this objective. This is an outreach/liaison/education project to raise awareness in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities of the Redfern and inner Sydney areas about family violence and the legal and other support services available. It is also, importantly, about showing the way to those services, to guide and to walk with those who need assistance. People have the right to live free from violence in their families and communities. The community education aspect of the role is about raising awareness of non-acceptable behaviour and empowering people to speak and act against it.
Migration at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations

The Central Mediterranean Sea is the most dangerous crossing for irregular migrants in the world. At any point in time, over half a million potential migrants wait in Libya to travel to Italy with the aid of human smugglers. In response to high profile shipwrecks and mounting deaths, European nations intensified search and rescue operations beginning in 2013. We develop a model of irregular migration in order to identify the effects of these operations on activity along this smuggling route. Leveraging plausibly exogenous variation from rapidly varying weather and sea conditions, we find that smugglers responded to these operations by shifting from seaworthy wooden boats to flimsy inflatable rafts. In doing so, these operations induced more crossings and had the ultimate effect of entirely offsetting the intended safety benefits of search and rescue operations, which were captured at least in part by smugglers.
The “Start-up a Business” Strategy in the Succession Process Planning at the Top of Family Firms

In small family firms, succession to the top is very critical stage of their lives. A high percentage of these firms do not survive their founder. When the successor takes the reins of the company, he has no experience and reputation. For this reason, he very often fails to allow the family firm to survive after its founder. Although many streams of research address succession in family businesses, significant gaps in the literature remain in the field of the strategies that can mitigate the vulnerability of the family firms when the old leader retires and a new leader takes the reins of the company. The underlying argument in this paper is: By starting up one’s own company some years before taking the lead, the successor can solve the problem of his lack of experience and entrepreneurial reputation. If he succeeds in starting up his own company, he will develop experience, reputation, and legitimation on becoming the new head of the family firm. The founder’s original collaborators, commercial partners, and stakeholders will also thrust him. Finally, this paper presents the results of a survey based on 28 questionnaires filled by the protagonists of the succession to the top of family firms. Some of the candidates to succession have started their own firms prior to taking on the reins of their family businesses. This sample is significant as this strategy of training and the gaining of experience by the successor after starting up his own business is not very widespread in family firms. Moreover, it has produced impressive results in companies that have adopted it. This strategy is also very useful in preventing father-son conflicts that affect the survival of many family firms and help the successor to build his reputation, legitimation, and to learn through experience how to manage an enterprise. It also allows the successor to experiment with innovations and internalisation processes in his own start-up; thus, removing any risk to his family firm. These experiences can benefit the family business after the successor takes over the leadership.
A Relational Data Matching Model for Enhancing Individual Loss Experience: An Example from Crop Insurance

The focus of this article is on predictive analytics regarding data scarcity and credibility, which are major difficulties facing the agricultural insurance sector, often due to limited loss experience data for those infrequent but extreme weather events. A new relational data matching model is presented to predict individual farmer yields in the absence of farm-level data. The relational model defines a similarity measure based on an Euclidean distance metric that considers weather information, farm size, county size, and the coefficient of variation of yield to search for the most “similar” region in a different country to borrow individual loss experience data that are otherwise not available. Detailed farm-level and county-level corn yield data in Canada and the United States are used to empirically evaluate the proposed relational model. Compared to the benchmark model, the empirical results confirm the efficiency of the proposed model in that it yields lower prediction error with smaller variation, and it recovers the actual premium rate more accurately. The proposed relational model provides a new approach for insurers, reinsurers, and governments to enhance individual loss experience, helping to overcome issues (such as data scarcity, credibility, and aggregation bias) that present substantial challenges in risk modeling, pricing, and developing new insurance programs, particularly for developing countries.
Patients' Experiences of Loneliness in a Professional Caring Relationship

The aim of this qualitative interview study is to describe breast cancer and heart surgery patients' experiences of loneliness in a professional caring relationship. Martin Buber's perspective on loneliness provides an ontological basis for the examination of loneliness in the context of a professional caring relationship. Loneliness is a difficult experience for patients in a caring relationship to accept and handle. These experiences followed patients for years. An ontological perspective on loneliness helps to provide a deeper understanding of patients' experiences in a caring relationship. These experiences help to illuminate what are the most essential elements of nursing care.
Driving loyalty through satisfaction and Trust in e-environment: A case of developing Country

Purpose – The objective of this study is to determine the factors that contribute to online shopping loyalty in Malaysian’s e-retailing environment. Design/methodology/approach–The research aim of this study focuses on Malaysian consumers. The study undertakes an empirical approach and therefore, data were collected through a self-administered online questionnaire and 291 responses were found to be usable. The structural equation modelling technique was used for the analysis of the data with the help of AMOS 22. Findings–The empirical results show that website perceived usefulness, ease of use, privacy/security and e-scape are significant predictors of web site e-satisfaction and e-trust. Furthermore, to establish an online loyalty, companies need to focus their attention on e-satisfaction and e-trust. Practical Implications – Although previous studies have investigated the pertinent issues about online retailing. However, very few studies have been conducted in developing counties like Malaysia. Furthermore, this study proposes a research framework which could be helpful for e-retailers to enhance consumes value by strategically focusing on online shopping loyalty. Originality/Value – The empirical results of this study address a serious gap in the existing literature especially in the context of an emerging country in the context of e-retailing.