Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
YOUNG GENERATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS OF WARFARE TOURISM: WHERE IS CROATIA? UTICAJ VEB-PREZENTACIJA RATNOG TURZMA NA

Nearly the entire territory of Croatia offers various types of war remains. The field of warfare tourism may be considered a micro niche of special tourism interest. The main objective of this multidisciplinary research is to empirically clarify the nature of the phenomenon of warfare tourism by focusing on the attitudes and opinion of young Croatian residents. In addition, the qualitative analysis of some representative cases of warfare web pages was also performed. A total of 292 filled questionnaires was used in the empirical analysis. We found out that only a small share of the youth considers visits to warefare sites/events uninteresting, while remembrance and educational purposes were at the top of the identified reasons, which means that warfare sites/events visits from this point of view has potential for Croatian tourism. Web presentations of relevant sites are very unattractive and weak; while there is no information on the Internet about some destinations and sites. Concluding remarks point to some limitations and suggestions for further research. Apstrakt: Na gotovo celokupnoj teritoriji Hrvatske mogu se pronaci razliciti tipovi ratnih ostataka. Oblast ratnog turizma može se smatrati mikro nisom od posebnog znacaja za turizam. Osnovni cilj ovog multidiscicplinar nog istraživanja jeste da se empirijskim putem objasni priroda pojma ratnog turizma oslanjajuci se na stavove i misljenja mladog stanovnistva Hrvatske. Takođe, sprovedena je i kvalitativna analiza reprezentativnih primera Internet prezentacija ratnog turizma. Ukupno je popunjeno 292 upitnika koji su obuhvaceni emprijskom analizom. Dosli smo do saznanja da samo mali procenat mladih smatra da posete ratnim lokalitetima/dodađajima nisu zanimljive, dok se kao glavni razlozi za posetu navode secanje na pomenute događaje i edukativni razlozi, sto znaci da posete ratnim lokalitetima i događajima predstavljaju veliki potencijal za razvoj turizma u Hrvatskoj. Prezentacije važnih ratnih turistickih lokaliteta na Internetu veoma su lose urađene i neupecatljive, dok se informacije o mnogim destinacijama i mestima cak ne mogu ni naci na Internetu. Zakljucci ovog rada ukazuju na određene nedostatke kao i na predloge i ideje za buduca istraživanja u ovoj oblasti.
A Bayesian Approach to Track Multiple Extended Targets Using Particle Filter for Nonlinear System

To track multiple extended targets for the nonlinear system, this paper employs the idea of the particle filter to track kinematic states and shape formation of extended targets. First, the Bayesian framework is proposed for multiple extended targets to jointly estimate multiple extended target state and association hypothesis. Furthermore, a joint proposal distribution is defined for the multiple extended target state and association hypothesis. Then, the Bayesian framework of multiple extended target tracking is implemented by the particle filtering which could release the high computational burden caused by the increase in the number of extended targets and measurements. Simulation results show that the proposed multiple extended target particle filter has superior performance in shape estimation and improves the performance of the position estimation in the situation that there are spatially closed extended targets.
Simulating interactions between saturated and unsaturated storage in a conceptual runoff model

There is an increasing demand for modelling the fluxes of chemical constituents at the catchment scale. Conceptual runoff models provide a basis for such modelling tasks provided that they capture the essential hydrological processes. However, most conceptual models do not fully address interactions between unsaturated and saturated storage. This can lead to unrealistic simulations for watersheds with shallow groundwater, where a large part of the soil volume can contribute to both the unsaturated and the saturated storage, depending on groundwater levels. Adding a small amount of water to the saturated storage will cause a significant amount of water stored in the unsaturated zone to change its status to ‘saturated’. The maximum volume of the unsaturated storage also decreases with rising groundwater levels, i.e. increasing saturated storage. In this study, a new model concept was proposed in which special emphasis was put on the interaction between saturated and unsaturated storage. The total storage was divided into two compartments, representing saturated and unsaturated storage, with a boundary moving up and down in response to the water budget of the compartments. Groundwater dynamics show a distinct pattern along the hillslope studied. Groundwater levels in an area close to the stream had dynamics similar to runoff, whereas levels further upslope responded to rainfall with a delay. To represent these differences in the model, the hillslope was subdivided into a riparian and an upslope reservoir. The performance of the new model was compared with that of simpler model variants without spatial differentiation and with or without the new formulation allowing for interactions between unsaturated and saturated storage. The new model approach provided the best results for simulating both runoff and groundwater dynamics. The subdivision of the hillslope accounted for most of the performance increase. To test the model structure further, 18O concentrations in the stream were simulated and compared with measured values. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy Belief: A Study Of Scale Development

Mualla BILGIN AKSU is Professor of Educational Sciences in the Faculty of Education, as well as the Head of Educational Administration and Supervision Program for the Graduate Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Akdeniz in Antalya, Turkey. Her prior work experience includes twelve years in the primary schools as a teacher, six years in the Ministry of National Education as an educational expert. Her research interests include job stress, clinical supervision, peer coaching, strategic planning and TQM, teacher leadership, ethical leadership, educational leadership and policies, novice teachers, and theory practice relations.
Triggering Employee Motivation in Adverse Organizational Contexts: “Going the Extra Mile” while Holding Hands with Uncertainty?

Current Economic and Market Crisis has launched the debate concerning the role of the Human Resources (HR) in organizations. The up to this point strategic discourse concerning this management area seems to be in discussion, mainly due to the need of consistency between cost-cutting organizational strategies and a high pressure for Sustainable HR Management (HRM) practices. The ability of organizations to manage their HR indicators in order to deliver strategic differentiation is a critical concern of Sustainability in HR. Employee’s motivation is a core performance indicator in HRM, due to the strongly and consensually documented association with productivity, absenteeism or turnover. An issue deserving consideration is to understand how practitioners may motivate employees in current adverse economic contexts, as the existing knowledge surrounding employee’s motivation was fundamentally based on growing-based economic scenarios. The main objective of the present study is thus, to explore an answer to the question: how to predict employee motivation in organizations embedded in adverse contexts? One hundred and ten employees from fifteen stores of an organization from a sector of a clothing brand consists the sample of our study. Participants voluntarily answered to a survey questionnaire that contained measures of the study variables. The hypotheses were tested using linear regression methodology. Empirical evidences showed that the quality of the organization-employee relation seems to be more important than the quality of the job-employee relation to explain employee’s motivation. In addition, results suggest that when the workers recognize fairness in the organization’s procedures, they feel stronger support from the organization and this has the ability to motivate them. The importance and significance of these results are discussed at theoretical and empirical levels, and we advance a set of recommendations to HR practitioners, in order to apply good employee’s motivation practices.
MONOPHYLY OF FOUR SECTIONS OF GENUS DENDROBIUM (ORCHIDACEAE): EVIDENCE FROM NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL DNA INTRENAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER (ITS) SEQUENCES

Evolutionary relationship among four sections of the genus Dendrobium (Aporum, Crumenata, Strongyle and Bolbidium) were inferred from nucleotide sequence variation in nuclear ribosomal DNA of Peninsular Malaysia species. The Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA from representative of 29 species of genus Dendrobium and two species of genus Bulbophyllum as out group were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction amplification and DNA sequencing. Data analyses have been carried out using Maximum Parsimony (MP) as a character based method by different software (PAUP*4. 0 B 10 and Mega 5). Parsimony analyses of sequences resulted in a well-resolved phylogeny. The data suggested that Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) is a reliable marker for the phylogenetic study of Dendrobium compared to previous studies using chloroplast DNA with low resolution level among sections. The results demonstrated that the four sections formed a monophyletic group and that it is best to recognise only one section instead of four. Based on ICBN rules, the name Aporum has a priority to be used for this new classification.
Academic Instruction Librarians’ Teacher Identity Development Through Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Teaching is a primary responsibility of many academic librarians. However, despite the job duties, many academic librarians do not see themselves as teachers. To determine how participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) impacted academic instruction librarians’ teacher identity the authors conducted an explanatory sequential mixed methods study. Using the theoretical framework, Communities of Practice, results from the quantitative survey demonstrated participation in SoTL did impact academic librarians’ teacher identity. The qualitative interviews explained the quantitative data. Study findings have implications for academic developers, Library and Information Science graduate programs, and academic library administrations.
Successful Visual Outcome Following Vitrectomy for Complication of Ocular Tuberculosis

A 24-year-old Chinese gentleman presented with two weeks history of sudden floaters in his right temporal visual field associated with blurring of vision. This ex-smoker also reported chronic, bloody cough for two years and recent pleuritic chest pain. Examination revealed a thin patient with right eye visual acuity of 6/18 associated with optic nerve dysfunction, optic disc swelling and macula star, retinal vasculitis and retinitis. Despite anti-tuberculosis medication and corticosteroids, he developed neovascularisation. Subsequent vitreous haemorrhage necessitated trans pars plana vitrectomy, membrane peeling, endolaser and silicone oil injection. Final visual acuity was 6/9 with quiescent retinopathy.
Effect of herd s size and geographical location on somatic cell count of milk from Holstein cows

Eighty-five Holland herds under control official lactation index were Somatic Cell Count (SCC) analyzed from March 2009 to February 2010. A total of 1,020 samples were collected monthly during this period. The herds were classified according to geographical location in the Minas Gerais State and number of dairy cows. The data were transformed to SCC linear score, and the average compared by the analysis of variance statistical analysis using the statistical program SPSS. This study did not find any association between location of the herd and CCS (p>0.05). It was also observed that herds with a greater number of lactating cows (from 21 to 40 and higher to 80) had lower rates of SCC (p<0.05) than those with smaller number of dairy cows (up to 20).
Assessment of Banks Liquidity: Empirical Evidence on Ethiopian Commercial Banks

The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of macroeconomic factors on liquidity of Ethiopian commercial banks. The data covered the period from 2007-2013 for the sample of ten commercial banks in Ethiopia and used secondary data. Macro-economic variables were analyzed by employing the balanced panel fixed effect regression model and the result of the study revealed that real GDP growth rate have negative and statistically significant impacts on liquidity of Ethiopian commercial banks whereas inflation rate, and interest rate margin were found to be statistically insignificant/ has no any impact on liquidity of Ethiopian commercial banks for the tested period. Keywords: Balanced panel data, Ethiopian commercial banks, macro-economic variables
Being equitable is not always fair: An assessment of PFES implementation in Dien Bien, Vietnam

Vietnam is the first Southeast Asian country to implement a national program for payments for forest environmental services (PFES), providing lessons on how such systems can be designed to achieve forest outcomes that are effective, efficient and equitable.This Working Paper presents results from an in-depth study on the implementation of PFES in Dien Bien province, Vietnam, which assessed how equity was locally conceptualized in the PFES benefit-sharing process and the factors that influenced local perceptions of equity.We found that local perceptions of equity varied across PFES communities because of differences in social contextual factors such as ethnicity and in the geography of the areas that affected the size of PFES payments and the level of PFES implementation. While PFES policy did include distributional equity considerations through formulation of the K-coefficient, this coefficient was not properly implemented on the ground due to its complexity and lack of data.The procedural aspects of equity were found to be lacking. Poor information flows, lack of awareness of rights and responsibilities and the non-participation of local ecosystem service (ES) providers in decision-making processes led to a general sense of inequity and demotivation.This study suggests that particular attention should be given to improve information sharing and communication patterns with local ES providers and to establish a proper grievance handling system for two-way information flow. The inclusion of local people in decision-making processes on the key elements of benefit-sharing mechanisms is crucial in aligning PFES benefits with the preferences of local people and could potentially help to motivate their performance in forest management. Policy makers and program implementers will want to examine local perspectives of equity - and to understand how these can change over time – so that they can tailor the design of benefit-sharing mechanisms to generate effective, efficient and equitable PFES outcomes.
Productivity and labour demand effects of inward and outward FDI on UK industry

We relate the technological and factor price determinants of inward and outward FDI to its potential productivity and labour market effects on both host and home economies. This allows us to distinguish clearly between technology sourcing and technology exploiting FDI, and to identify FDI which is linked to labour cost differentials. We then empirically examine the effects of different types of FDI into and out of the United Kingdom on domestic (i.e. UK) productivity and on the demand for skilled and unskilled labour at the industry level. Inward investment into the UK comes overwhelmingly from sectors and countries which have a technological advantage over the corresponding UK sector. Outward FDI shows a quite different pattern, dominated by investment into foreign sectors which have lower unit labour costs than the UK. We find that different types of FDI have markedly different productivity and labour demand effects, which may in part explain the lack of consensus in the empirical literature on the effects of FDI. Our results also highlight the difficulty for policy makers of simultaneously improving employment and domestic productivity through FDI.
Where do older Australians receive their health information? Health information sources and their perceived reliability

Background: Chronic disease prevalence is increasing, in part due to the ageing population, adding further pressure to Australia’s over-stretched primary health care services. While patients are encouraged to self-manage their chronic disease(s) in order to minimise the impact on their day-to-day functioning, little is known about where older adults receive health information and their perceptions of the reliability of these sources. Such knowledge would facilitate the development of self-management support strategies using health information sources that are acceptable to older adults. Methods: A cross-sectional design was utilised to investigate where older adults receive their health information and their perceptions of the perceived reliability of these sources. A paper-based survey was completed by 4,066 randomly selected adults (response rate = 46.8%) aged 55 years and older, who were resident in New South Wales, Australia. Results: Doctors (96%), pharmacists (60%) and the Internet (24%) were the most frequent providers of health information. Less than one-fifth of respondents reported having received health information from a nurse (18%). However, the health information sources perceived to be the most reliable were doctors (98%), pharmacists (74%) and nurses (34%). Discussion: Our results suggest that in Australia older adults primarily use doctors as a source of reliable health information and that nurses are under utilized in the provision of health information. The reasons for this need to be further investigated to ensure that nurses play an optimal role in the primary health care team. Although the Internet proved to be a popular source of health information, levels of perceived reliability were comparatively low. Future research should investigate whether the promotion of credible websites by health care professionals can overcome this barrier.
Sex differences in hydration status among adolescent elite soccer players

Hydration of athletes may affect performance and health status likely with differences among sexes. We studied the impact of sex on hydration behaviour in adolescent athletes. Hydration status and urine markers were investigated in 7 female and 7 male elite 16 years-old soccer players in temperate climate (21-24°C). Participants consumed water ad libitum during the first training session (LIB), whereas in the second session (HYD) they drunk a water amount matching 70% of sweat loss from the LIB session. Post-training performances were evaluated by Yo-Yo intermittent recovery level 1 (IR1) test and countermovement jump (CMJ). Body mass values were recorded and urine samples were collected before and after each experimental session. Males drunk a double amount of water in HYD (1.19±0.21 kg) compared to LIB (0.62±0.19 kg; p=0.001; ES=2.88), resulting in a lower percentage body mass loss (HYD -0.95±0.63% versus LIB -1.59±0.33%; p=0.044; ES=-1.35); total distance of Yo-Yo IR1 was higher, albeit not significantly, in HYD (2953±779 m) than in LIB (2103±939 m); CMJ performance was unchanged. In females, water drunk, body mass, Yo-Yo IR1 and CMJ did not vary in HYD versus LIB sessions. In adolescent males a 70% sweat replacement personalized hydration regimen reduced body mass loss and tended to improve performance, whereas in females ad libitum water drinking allowed to maintain hydration status (<1% body mass loss). Our results suggest that coaches and athletes themselves should consider a personalized hydration regimen for adolescent male soccer players, whereas ad libitum drinking seems suitable for females.
Aridity Conditions in the Iberian Peninsula During the XX Century

Aridity is one of the key elements characterizing the climate of a region, having a severe impact on water management, availability and human activities. Aiming at assessing aridity conditions in the Iberian Peninsula during the XX century, the spatial distribution of the De Martonne aridity index and Pinna Combinative index are analysed between 1901? 2012 and three sub-periods: 1901? 1940, 1941? 1980 and 1980? 2012. Gridded precipitation totals and air temperature datasets are used on a monthly basis. Results show that the southernmost of Iberia is particularly vulnerable to water stress and hence to desertification processes. In particular, both aridity indices revealed an increase and northward extension of the semi-arid regime in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901 and 2012. This increase is noteworthy for the period 1981 to 2012. More than 50% of the north and western territory have experienced humid to very humid conditions, while the other regions underwent semi-dry to dry settings. Results also reveal that climate was subjected to spatial and temporal variabilities with an overall statistically significant (at a 95% confidence level) trend towards to more severe aridity conditions in the south-easternmost and central regions with the exception of a small portion of the northwestern Iberia. The remaining territory of the Iberian Peninsula does not reveal statistically significant trends. High spatial correlations were also depicted between the De Martonne aridity index and the Pinna Combinative index.
Application of remote sensing data to monitor mangroves and other coastal vegetation of India

Remote sensing data, because of its repetitive, synoptic and multi-spectral nature, has proved to be of an immense value in monitoring of coastal vegetation. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) data have been extensively used to map mangroves and other coastal vegetation for the entire country’s coastline. Large database on spatial extent of mangroves and their condition has been created on 1:250,000, 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale using IRS data (the database provides information for the first time on the mangrove areas of the entire Indian coast). Based on this study, it was observed that the Kori creek, Gujarat, has large area under mangroves. The repetitive nature of the data has helped in monitoring vital and critical areas, periodically. In one such study, on the Marine National Park, in the Gulf of Kachchh, mangrove areas were monitored for the last 25 years. The degradation of mangroves continued up to 1985 and the condition significantly improved due to the adoption of conservation measures. This has helped in planning various management actions to conserve this vital ecosystem. IRS data have been used in identifying dominant plant communities in many mangrove areas such as Bhitarkanika, Coringa, Mandovi estuary in Goa and the Gulf of Kachchh, etc. This is a unique approach for providing spatial information at plant community level and can be seen as a first step towards bio-diversity assessment. Along with the mangroves, seaweed, seagrass beds and dune vegetation have also been mapped with reasonable accuracy. With the better sensors planned for future, remote sensing-based information is going to be one of the major inputs in the preparation of management action plans.
Simulation of high-spin Heisenberg models in coupled cavities

We propose a scheme to realize the Heisenberg model of any spin in an arbitrary array of coupled cavities. Our scheme is based on a fixed number of atoms confined in each cavity and collectively applied constant laser fields, and is in a regime where both atomic and cavity excitations are suppressed. It is shown that as well as optically controlling the effective spin Hamiltonian, it is also possible to engineer the magnitude of the spin. Our scheme would open up a way to simulate otherwise intractable high-spin problems in many-body physics.