Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Middle Eastern Muslim women: Beliefs, behaviors, and expectations during childbirth

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the beliefs, behaviors and expectations of immigrant Middle Eastern Muslim women during childbirth in Western health care systems. Ethnographic methods of personal narratives, semi-structured interviews, and field notes were used with a purposeful sample of seven informants. The informants represented diverse ethnic backgrounds from the countries of Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine-Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. The multiparous women were students or wives of students from a southwestern university. Five informants compared their Western birth experiences with births in their home country. Religious and cultural beliefs influenced the numerous behaviors and expectations identified during phases of childbirth: early labor, active labor, delivery, and post-delivery. The informants shared reasons for not attending childbirth classes, methods to increase labor, preferences for labor without intervention, rituals at birth, specific expectations of the nurses, and others. Recommendations for culturally and religiously congruent nursing care were offered.
Driving internationalization through business model innovation

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how a firm may innovate its business model to internationalize. Design/methodology/approach Owing to its novelty and to the depth of the investigation required to grasp the mechanisms and logics of business model innovation aiming at internationalization, a single case study has been performed related to a company located in North-Western Colombia. Findings The study provides detailed empirical evidences over the mutual connection and complementarities among value mechanisms of business models. Moreover, this study suggests that BMI fosters internationalization to scale, which, in turn, will require additional changes to match new customer needs as they emerge. Also, the study shows an extension of the action–space of lean startup approaches, intended as scientific approaches to international entrepreneurship. Originality/value This study connects business model innovation and internationalization as few studies have done before.
Scenario-Free Analysis of Financial Stability with Interacting Contagion Channels

Currently financial stress test simulations that take into account multiple interacting contagion mechanisms are conditional on a specific, subjectively imposed stress-scenario. Eigenvalue-based approaches, in contrast, provide a scenario-independent measure of systemic stability, but only handle a single contagion mechanism. We develop an eigenvalue-based approach that gives the best of both worlds, allowing analysis of multiple, interacting contagion channels without the need to impose a subjective stress scenario. This allows us to demonstrate that the instability due to interacting channels can far exceed that of the sum of the individual channels acting alone. We derive an analytic formula in the limit of a large number of institutions that gives the instability threshold as a function of the relative size and intensity of contagion channels, providing valuable insights into financial stability whilst requiring very little data to be calibrated to real financial systems.
A holistic approach to manage environmental quality by using the Kano model and social cognitive theory

Since its first proposition in 1984, the Kano model has been used extensively in a variety of contexts within industries and academic research demonstrating its wide applicability. The Kano model allows for describing the relationship between an objective aspect and a subjective aspect. Yet is this relevant for environmental quality as well? In this study, we explore the cases where the Kano model is used for assessing environmental quality and its perception by consumers and identify the potential influencing factors for its application with this respect. We find that the Kano model can serve as an effective tool for converging towards environmental quality and sustainability by indicating the direction from a social and behavioral choice perspective. We propose an integration of the Kano model with Bandura's triangle (a concept of the social cognitive theory) to create an instrument for driving change of customer attitude and behavior via changing the perception of environmental quality.
The attainment of 100 percent electrification ratio in the archipelago of Indonesia by people way electricity initiative

The electrification ratio in Indonesia has reached over 90 percent already but it is not easy to attain the rest of people who have not gotten the light because they are living in the scattered and isolated areas over several thousand islands in the archipelago of Indonesia. Conventionally, the electricity service in Indonesia is developed by using a centralized and interconnected of various large scale units of power plants. However, many big project of a large size power plant is currently facing many challenges including land and acquisition, financial closing, complex permit procedures, and right of way for transmission lines. As a result, the cost of such conventional system cannot be offset by the expected efficiency from a better reliability and economies of scale of such conventional system. To address this problem, the School of Technology STT PLN Jakarta, proposes an initiative namely ListrikKerakyatan (LK), which is a simple and small scaleself manage electricity development by local people empowerment using renewable energy available around the communities. After passing several pilot projects, This LK initiative has already successfully implemented in Klungkung District, Bali, using the model, called TOSS (TempatOlahSampahSetempat), stands for localized municipal waste treatment. The pilot project shows that a 30 kW gasifeier genset including its associated unit TOSS for 3 ton of waste is cost around USD 40 thousands, the cost of which is still less than rural funding available from national budget. LK needs relatively little operational cost since its fuel is made from municipal waste.
Public support for Tradable Peak Credits as an instrument to reduce congestion: A stated choice experiment that is simultaneously used to investigate the influence of content and medium of stated choice introductions

Tradable Peak Credits (TPC) is a new instrument to reduce congestion. It is expected to have a higher public support than traditional road pricing. So far, research has mainly been conducted into behavioral effects and effects on the road network of implementing such systems. This study investigates the public support for TPC and how this support is influenced by the design of the TPC system by means of a stated choice experiment. It was shown that TPC does not have a higher public support than a congestion charge and a kilometer charge as was hypothesized. Also, it was shown how different groups of variables influence the support for TPC. Furthermore, public preferences regarding the design of a TPC system were revealed. Recommendations are made for further research on TPC and for policymakers. The stated choice experiment was also used to investigate to what extent variations in communication medium and content influence the outcomes of the experiment.
Psychiatric comorbidity in tropical Far North Queensland

Psychiatric comorbidity can be defined as the occurrence of at least one mental disorder plus one substance abuse disorder in the same person. Much research has been conducted on how to identify psychiatric comorbidity, and the barriers that mental health professionals have towards individuals with psychiatric comorbidity. The objective of this study is to provide baseline data that is required for researching such issues as prevalence rates, demographic indicators and possible links between disorders. The research was conducted in a community setting within the Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (CATT) of Cairns, a city situated in the tropical far north of the state of Queensland, Australia. The analyses focused on descriptive statistics and determining the predictors of comorbidity. The general finding of this study indicated that within this region the prevalence rate of psychiatric comorbidity was 52 percent. It is estimated that in Australia, between 32% to 87% of psychiatric patients also have alcohol or other drug problems. Age, residential area and poly-drug usage were significant predictors of comorbidity.
Urban Green Spaces and Their Need in Cities of Rapidly Urbanizing India: A Review

Urbanization offers several opportunities for the growth of economic, social, and technology sectors, offering benefits to society in terms of better living and healthcare facilities, as well as employment opportunities. However, some major downsides of urbanization are overcrowding and environmental degradation. In order to realize sustainable and environmentally friendly urbanization, there is an urgent need for comprehensive land use planning and of urban settlements by giving due consideration to create and sustain urban green spaces (UGS) such as parks, gardens, roadside vegetation, etc. UGS play a vital role in reducing air pollution, mitigating climate change, and providing various ecosystem services. UGS are being deteriorated substantially due to booming urbanization in developing countries such as India. This review is focused on highlighting the many challenges in creating and maintaining UGS in the Indian context. It is a compilation of available reports on problems linked with poor land use and/or planning of urban settlements. The challenges associated with the management and maintenance of UGS are described. The poor and irregular watering of many existing UGS is one of the major issues among several others requiring immediate attention to resolve the problem of deteriorating UGS in some cities of India. As the groundwater resources are rapidly depleting because of ever increasing water demand, UGS are being dispensed with poor and irregular watering resulting in their deterioration. A list of possible solutions and prospects of UGS in cities aiming to become smart cities soon are discussed in this review. Efficient wastewater treatment and a non-potable reuse system are possible solutions for better prospects of UGS, and therefore, optimism of better cities with low to null urban heat island effect.
A New Analytical Model for Customer Growth Considering Potential Purchasing Preferences

In retail businesses, it is important to grow customers into good customers in order to increase and maintain sales. Therefore, many researches have clarified the differences of the purchasing tendency between good and other types of customers; however, in fact, it is hard to say that many retailers can take useful measures for acquiring good customers effectively by taking into account the purchase tendency. On the other hand, a latent class model has been studied as an analysis method to grasp customers’ preferences and purchasing trends from purchasing history data. In this study, we assume latent classes behind customers' purchasing data, and apply the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to represent the differences in customers’ preferences. This model enables grasping the tendency of purchasing items in each latent class considering diversity and heterogeneity of the features of customers and items. Moreover, we propose a method to extract important items for each customer in terms of turning him/her into a good customer based on the k-nearest neighbor algorithm by using the analysis result of purchasing trends in each latent class. Furthermore, we apply the proposed model to actual purchasing history data and show the possibility of its application in practice.
Price Fraction Changes Impact on Stock Trading Indicators: An Events Study on Indonesia Stock Exchange

This research presented differences of stock price fraction system to stock trading indicator variables such as volume, value, and frequency of stock trading transactions on companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The purpose of this research was to measure and analyze the difference of stock price fraction system to stock trading indicator variables. Sample determination based on the sampling method was saturated, i.e., the technique of determining the sample by using all members of the population as a sample. The sample in this research used JCI data as it represents the 115 issuers listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the research period. This research used Mann-Whitney U Test to find out whether there were differences between two groups of data that were not related (independent) with the classification; group 1 was the volume data, the value and frequency of stock trading before the new price fraction that was applied 02 May 2016. While the second group data volume, value and frequency of stock trading after applying the new price fraction 02 May 2016. This research finds that the stock trading indicators reflected by the trading volume of stocks, the value of the stock, and the frequency of stock trading has a significant difference before and after the implementation of the new stock price fraction.
Strategic Development Through Competitor Analysis of PT. Isra Presisi Indonesia’s Case for Entering the Non-automotive Market

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is, through competitor analysis, to help PT. Isra Presisi Indonesia devise strategies to enter new, non-automotive markets. Design/methodology/approach – Business coaching, gathering competitors’ information through online research and by conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with competitors and their customers to gauge competitors’ strengths and weaknesses. The results from the interviews were analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods. Findings – The findings show that PT. Isra Presisi Indonesia can enter more than one non-automotive market, but it would have to implement all of the strategies devised in this paper because identified competitors are already very well established. To succeed, PT. Isra Presisi Indonesia must be at least on a par with competitors when entering new markets. Research limitations/implications – The limitation of this paper is that it can only be used by a B2B company similar to PT. Isra Presisi Indonesia and the list of the competitors in this document is in no way complete. Originality/value – The paper adds to the literature of competitor analysis in B2B (business-to-business) Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia.
Exploring new ways to utilise the market intelligence (MI) function in corporate decisions: Case opinion mining of nuclear power

The challenge in today’s corporations is that even though the technology portfolio of a company plays a crucial role in delivering revenue—falling as a topic mainly under the area of technology management—technology may have a negative image due to observed risks or failing the sustainability criteria. It may influence the company’s image and brand image, possibly also influencing decisions at corporate level. The monitoring of technology sentiments is therefore emphasized, benefiting from the advanced methods for business environment scanning, namely market and competitor intelligence functions. This paper utilizes a new big data based method, mostly utilized in market(MI)/competitor intelligence(CI) functions of the company, opinion mining, to analyse the global media sentiment of nuclear power and projects deploying the technology. With this approach, it is easier to understand the linkage to corporate images of companies deploying the technology and also related corporate decisions, mainly done in the areas of technology market deployment, marketing and strategic planning. The results indicate how the media sentiment towards nuclear power has been mostly negative globally, particularly in social media. In addition, results from similar analyses from a single company’s images for the companies currently deploying the technology are seemingly less negative, indicating the influence of company’s communication and branding activities. This paper has implications showing that a technology’s media sentiment can influence a company’s brand image, marketing communications and the need for actions when technology is deployed. In conclusion, there seems to be a need for better co-operation between different corporate functions, namely technology management, MI, marketing and strategic planning, in order to indicate technology image impacts and also counteract firestorms from social media.
Governance of the water-energy-food nexus

This chapter focuses on the need for a novel approach to governing the water, energy and food sectors adopting the nexus concept. It argues that the successful integration of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus conceptualisation for the governance of these sectors is contingent on the effective management of the relational equity of all stakeholders/actors. The chapter adopts a view on collective governance as an arrangement that brings together various actors and public agencies in collective forums, to engage in problem-solving-focused and consensus-oriented decision-making. It further contends that the collaborative approach is one of the most impactful means of nexus governance, enabled and facilitated by effective relational equity management. To illustrate its arguments, the chapter uses the case of Kazakhstan and its approach to policy design and implementation for the water, energy and food sectors. By emphasising the significance of effective relational equity management to enable and facilitate higher levels of integration across sectors, institutions, levels and scales, leading to more impactful policy design and implementation, this chapter lays the foundation for further debate in the book.
EFFECTS OF EXTERNAL FACTORS ON THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH SUMATERA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Small and medium enterprises are known to be major contributors to the economy of South Sumatra. However, the support they receive from government and other stakeholders are insufficient to the size of the sector. This paper examines the effects of external macroeconomic and social factors such as credit, education, tax and inflation on small and medium enterprises employment in South Sumatra. Secondary time series data from 1995 to 2014 was used for this research. The data was stabilized by first differencing then ordinary least squares method was applied to analyze the data. The results show that tax had strong negative influence on the SMEs employment at five percent significance level. Credit and education also had some impact on SMEs at ten percent significance level. However, their coefficients showed negative signs reflecting the negative growth of SMEs over the period. This meant that, despite the increases in credit received by SMEs and the primary and secondary school graduates entering the SME sector, the SME employment declined over the period. There was no significant influence on the SMEs by inflation over the period studied though the coefficient of inflation showed a positive sign disclosing that inflation had no negative impact on SME employment over the period covered.
Africas Human Capital Development: Is Public Finance Management an Effective Strategy?

Given the prevailing conjecture that human capital has multiple pathways through which it influences growth and development, understanding its current level and capacity and the public finance management impact in Africa cannot be overemphasized. Hence, the study examines the long-run and short-run relationship between public spending and human capital in twenty-one (21) sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries between 1984 and 2016 using mean – group (MG) and pooled mean – group (PMG). Empirical evidence reveals that when primary school enrollment is employed as the human capital indicator, public spending has a positive and significant effect on human capital in the long-run, whereas it is insignificant in the short-run. The findings support the view that public spending oriented towards education could lead to human capital enhancement in the long-run. Also, with the inclusion of life expectancy as the human capital measure, government expenditure positively and significantly influences human capital in the long- run as well as in the short-run, suggesting that public expenditure on the advancement of literacy rate and provision of better health facilities would stimulate human capital development in SSA. The study highlights that political and institutional failures which undermine good-quality delivery of sustainable social services (including education and healthcare services) could harm the development of human capital in the region. Thus, the paper posits that ensuring effective expenditure control and results-based funding are central to the drive towards raising the quality of human capital in Africa.
Diretrizes curriculares e estratgias para implantao de uma nova proposta pedaggica

O presente estudo busca contribuir com o movimento de transformacao a ser desenvolvido nas Escolas/Cursos de Enfermagem. Essa contribuicao se refere a formacao de enfermeiras(os) com autonomia e discernimento, para assegurar a construcao do modelo de atencao a saude, a producao de novos conhecimentos e a prestacao de servicos de qualidade voltados para as necessidades de saude da populacao, com resolutividade. Traz algumas reflexoes conceituais e metodologicas que possam direcionar a mudanca no processo de formacao de enfermeiras(os), alem de apontar estrategias para a implantacao da nova proposta pedagogica, baseando-se no desafio da implementacao das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais do Curso de Graduacao em Enfermagem.
Effect of Generic Strategies on the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Nairobi County

iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT . vi DEDICATION. vii LIST OF TABLES . x LIST OF FIGURES . xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . xii CHAPTER ONE . 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION. 1 1.1 Background of the Study . 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem . 4 1.3 Purpose of the Study . 5 1.4 Research Questions . 6 1.5 Significance of the Study . 6 1.6 Scope of the Study . 7 1.7 Definition of Terms. 7 1.8 Chapter Summary . 8 CHAPTER TWO . 9 2.0 REVIEW OF LITERATURE . 9 2.
Internationalising cultural products: the Ouroboros strategy and the case of visual kei

ABSTRACT Scholars have developed a vast literature that helps firms internationalise products and brands. Yet, there is comparatively limited work that examines the internationalisation strategies of cultural products. Through a case study of 31 visual kei rock bands, this study sheds light onto the patterns, objectives, and timing of internationalised cultural products. The results suggest that visual kei musicians adopt one of two internationalisation strategies: “standard internationalisation” or the “Ouroboros strategy. ” Standard internationalisation is a linear strategy, where the objective is market growth through the acquisition of consumers in international markets, and where internationalisation can occur as early as the introduction stage of a product’s life. The Ouroboros strategy is a nuanced strategy where the pattern of internationalisation is circular, the objectives include market expansion and cultural goals, the target markets are both foreign and domestic consumers, and where internationalisation occurs in the growth and mature stages of bands’ life cycles.