Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A comparative study of the content of two documents: The Design & Technology National Curriculum in England and New Zealand's Technology Curriculum

This paper presents the findings of a small-scale project that looked at whether the present Design and Technology (D&T) National Curriculum (NC) for England promotes the development of technological capability to support the generation of economic value through enhancing human capital. The English D&T NC has been in existence for 30-years with a number of iterations during that time. Throughout that time-span the technological world in which D&T education exists, has changed beyond all recognition. This paper looks briefly at the concept of the knowledge economy and the development of human capital in a technological world. It then examines whether the English NC for D&T has evolved through its various iterations. A comparison between the most recent edition of the D&T NC document and the latest New Zealand Technology document through an analysis of the words used in each document was carried out utilising the frequency of all the meaningful words in the two documents. The data would suggest that there has been little change in the English version through its various iterations whereas in the NZ document there is a focus that explicitly embraces the developing technological world. The conclusion from the analysis suggests that a more overt recognition of technological change is required in the next iteration of NC D&T if those both inside and outside the D&T community are to recognise and believe in the worth of the subject for the education of students in their acquisition of human capital that will enable them to fulfil a role in the successful economic development of England and indeed the United Kingdom.
An Emotional Design Approach to Develop New Cultural Products

Global markets receive bulks of similar products every morning from different companies around the globe. Because of tough competition, companies attempt to present attractive products for consumers. Cultural design approach is used by several companies to develop products which based on consumers’ cultures. While same cultural product are sold in different countries because of globalization, there is a need for a new approach to design cultural products to be more attractive for consumers from different cultures. As emotion is the key motivation for people while judging things and making buying decisions, emotional design can be considered a good approach for design cultural products. This paper aims to integrate emotional and cultural design processes to help designers to create emotional interaction between the consumer and the cultural products. This interaction can push consumers to buy specific products more than others. The paper firstly reviews emotional and cultural design, cultural features, and design process. Afterward, a framework is developed to describe how emotions can be embedded in cultural design process.
The influence of pre-roll advertising VOD via IPTV and mobile TV on consumers in Korea

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness on Korean consumers of pre-roll advertising via video on demand (VOD) in Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and mobile TV, and to compare the effects of pre-roll ads on VOD via IPTV and those in the mobile TV context. The results indicate that the intention to continue watching ads, viewers’ interest in the ads, and the usefulness of the ads were significant predictors that influenced viewers’ intentions to purchase the products being advertised on both pre-roll IPTV VOD and mobile TV. When comparing the effects on viewers of pre-roll ads shown on VOD via IPTV with those served in the mobile TV context, this study found that pre-roll ads shown on IPTV VOD were more credible and useful than ads viewed on mobile devices, and viewers had better recall of ads when they had watched them through IPTV. In addition, mobile viewers tended to find pre-roll ads on mobile devices more intrusive than those on IPTV VOD as a result of the extensive differences in viewing conditions between mobile devices and IPTV. This study suggests that contextual factors, viewing habits and conditions determined by the characteristics of a certain medium could be essential factors affecting advertising effectiveness.
Human Resource Management Practices and the perceived Hospital performance The mediating role of Intellectual Capital.

An extensive literature review covered two perspectives, namely, 'Human resource management (HRM) predict organizational performance' (OP), and intellectual capital predicts organizational performance. However, the linkage of "whether a bundle of good HR practices facilitates intellectual capital, which then leads to better organizational performance" is still a research gap. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of high - performance work system ( HPWS) on perceived hospital performance. In addition, this paper interesting in examining the mediating role of Human, Social and Organization capital in the hypothesized model. Data were collected from 198 HR managers working in private healthcare organizations in great Cairo. The analytical method used to empirically test the hypotheses is the structural equation modeling technique using AMOS( V.22) . The two steps are the assessment of the outer model and the assessment of the inner model. Results found that only human and social capital mediates HR practices-organizational performance relationship. This study is considered one of the first studies that examine the mediating role Human, Social and organization capital on the relationship between 'good HR practices' and organizational performance in private healthcare sector within Arab countries.
(De)legitimization strategy: the discontinuation of humanitarian rescue efforts in the meditteranean

This thesis explores the discontinuation of NGO rescue ships in the Mediterranean being permitted to dock and offload in Italy. An interpretive method is used to research firstly the development of the act of discontinuation, using Stegmaier et al.’s theories of discontinuation (2014). Then, focusing on Borras and Elder’s Governance of Change theory (2014) and Berger and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality (1966), the study shifts its focus to the legitimation and de-legitimation strategies used by actors Italy and the EU. The thesis shows, that through utilizing foremost the Januslike nature of legitimation and de-legitimation, Italy and the EU developed a strong cooperative strategy for their process of discontinuation. It became clear that the EU played a key role in the early discontinuation strategies and that Libya was chosen to be transformed into the new ‘rescuer’ nation in the Mediterranean, in order to become yet another ‘gatekeeper’ of Europe.
GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF CONVERSATION TEXTSIN “BAHASA INGGRIS” A TEXTBOOK PUBLISHED BYTHE INDONESIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

This study is an effort to analyze grammatical features of conversation models in an English textbook. Conversations in many school textbooks written by non-native speakers have the risk to be lack of naturalness of real-life communication. “Bahasa Inggris” was written by three Indonesian writers. Since conversations have specific features that differ from written language, this study aimed to find out the answer to the questions: how do conversation models in “Bahasa Inggris” share common features of naturally-occurring conversations? ; how are non-clausal units as constructional principles of spoken grammar realized? ; and what gambits are used? This research is descriptive qualitative. The data were collected from 16 conversation texts found in “Bahasa Inggris” for grade XII. The analyses of the data were done based on two criteria: analyzing grammatical features based on Biber et al.’s theory (1999), including spoken grammatical features, inserts, and syntactic non-clausal units, and analyzing conversation gambits based on Keller and Warner’s theory (1988), including kinds of gambits and gambits of four speech acts. The result of analyses showed that all conversation models in “Bahasa Inggris” share some common features of naturally-occurring conversation. However, some important features in informal conversation such as pauses, hesitations, repeats, expletives, and non-standard features did not appear. The nonexistence of those features made them lack naturalness of real-life communication. Inserts were found in 14 conversation texts and syntactic nonclausal units were found in 10 conversation texts. Opening, linking, and responding gambits were used based on the speech acts required in Curriculum 2013. Yet, the proportion use of six expressions of four speech acts was not equal. From the findings, it is suggested that the English teachers choose textbooks which provide conversation texts that represent naturally-occurring conversations, for example, the ones that are written by native speakers. Therefore, the students will be able to learn the real form of spoken language, not only learn a language through speaking.
Adolescent Civic Involvement and the Great Recession of 2008: Testing the Certainty of Employment

This study employs data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to investigate the relationship between the voluntary civic involvement of high school students and their subsequent employment status during the Great Recession of 2008. It also examines whether volunteering with a specific type of community organization relates to future employment. Such youth civic involvement offers experiential learning in which students use academic knowledge and skills to address specific community needs. Along the pathways to employment, students achieve learning objectives while experiencing real-world issues. Using SPSS, the authors conduct a logistical regression, and discuss the results using odds ratios. The authors also include gender, ethnicity, family composition, parents’ highest level of education, and family income as demographic variables.
Forced labour in the UK and the Gangmasters Licensing Authority

The Gangmasters (Licensing) Act was introduced in 2004 to curb exploitative and fraudulent activities by gangmasters/labour providers supplying labour in the agriculture, forestry, horticultire, shellfish-gathering and related food processing and packaging industries. The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) is responsible for the implementation of the Act through the operation of the Gangmaster Licensing scheme. All labour suppliers within those sectors have to be licensed in order to operate.
Three High-Dimensional Cross-Sectional Tests for Fund Performance Evaluation

The traditional fund-by-fund performance evaluation method suffers from various econometric problems such as multiple hypothesis testing, time-varying coefficients, cross-sectional dependence, etc. To overcome these problems, we tailor three high-dimensional cross-sectional tests to empirically evaluate the performance of both U.S. mutual funds and hedge funds, which yield results fundamentally different from the extant literature. For mutual (hedge) funds, we find about 5% (10%) on average with significant alphas, and more negative (positive) alphas than the positive (negative) alphas. The statistical significance of these fund alphas is too high to be explained by sheer luck. Interestingly, fund performance diverges during the late 2000s Global Financial Crisis. In addition, we find some (little) arbitrage opportunities among mutual (hedge) funds.
Reliability Analysis of Automatic Transmission Based on T-S Fuzzy Fault Tree

In order to solve the lack of automatic transmission slippage fault data, the uncertainty of the link between the source of the fault and the degree of failure, the lack of applicability of the traditional Boolean logic gate, the T-S model and fuzzy theory and the revision of the confidence index are proposed. The expert survey method was combined and the analysis method was introduced into the fault tree. The T-S model is introduced into the typical fault analysis, using the fuzzy possibility to describe the failure probability of the component. The connection between events is described with the T-S gate. The fault degree of the component is described by the fuzzy number, the model simulation is used to simulate the fault analysis, and the contribution or importance of the top event to the failure of the component is obtained. The fuzzy possibility and fault diagnosis of the top event are calculated. Without knowing the fault mechanism accurately, we can find the weak link of the system, and provide reference for automatic transmission slip fault diagnosis and maintenance.
Household’s Happiness and Financial Market Participation

ABSTRACT Using the 2014 China Family Panel Studies, this study examines the impact of household’s subjective well-being on financial decision. It investigates whether happiness affects household’s decision to participate in risky financial market. This study finds a non-linear relationship between happiness and the probability of financial market participation. The probability of risky financial market participation increases as self-reported happiness measure increases. However, the probability declines slightly at the highest level of self-reported happiness measure. In order to address a potential endogeneity problem, this study uses the Two Stage Least Squaredmodel with two sets of instrumental variables. These findings provide a strong support for the hypothesis that a person’s subjective well-being is one of the major determinants of household’s economic behaviours, and provide an important implication on household portfolio research.
Short Selling and Market Anomalies

Abstract We assess the importance of well-known market anomalies for shorting strategies and how it changes over the 1988–2014 period. We find that anomalies contribute to both relative short interest (RSI) and RSI's negative information content about future earnings surprises and analyst actions. Anomalies explain more than half of the RSI-return relation. These results neither attenuate over time nor vary with market sentiment. RSI on least-shorted firms contains unique return-predictive information, which becomes increasingly important over time while RSI on most-shorted firms does not. Our findings suggest that a significant portion of short sellers' informational advantage comes from exploiting market anomalies.
The (lack of) momentum effect in the UAE stock market

We investigate the momentum effect in the United Arab Emirates equity returns. Using a dataset of 124 firms listed in the UAE stock markets in the period January 2004 – March 2019, we form portfolios from one-way sorts on past returns ranging from 3 to 12 months. Contrary to the evidence from global markets, we have found that the momentum effect in the UAE is weak, unreliable, and insignificant. Under realistic trading assumptions, the momentum strategies cannot outperform a diversified market portfolio.
Motivations for Loan Herding by Chinese Banks and its Impact on Bank Performance

This study uses a dynamic herding model that considers intertemporal and cross&#8208;sectional correlation to confirm that loan herding occurs among joint&#8208;stock commercial banks (JSCBs) and city commercial banks (CCBs). We clarify the motivations for bank loan herding. We find that loan herding by both JSCBs and CCBs results more from following the behavior of other same&#8208;type banks than different&#8208;type banks because of characteristic herding or reputational concerns. Loan herding by JSCBs is motivated by investigative herding, whereas loan herding by CCBs results from informational cascades. Moreover, loan herding has a significantly harmful impact on the operating performance of CCBs but not JSCBs, which may be explained by the irrational behavior of CCBs. Our results will help Chinese bank supervisors develop appropriate policies for handling loan herding.
The effect of SSAP 101 on loss provisioning by property-casualty insurers

This paper examines whether the adoption of the Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles (SSAP) 101, a new accounting standard that significantly limits management’s discretion in both the recognition and measurement of tax contingencies, affects the loss provisions of property-casualty (PC) insurers. We find that PC insurers significantly reduce their loss provisions after SSAP 101 adoption, particularly those with greater ex ante exposure to SSAP 101, consistent with reduced incentives to establish loss reserves for tax purposes. Additionally, PC insurers with greater exposure to SSAP 101 show increased earnings persistence and decreased returns on asset volatility, suggesting improved insurer transparency and an improved overall risk profile via tax avoidance mitigation. Overall, our study offers important insight into the economic effects of accounting standards in the insurance industry.
Research on Internal Control Construction System of Energy-based Enterprises Based on COSO and Financial Quality

Under the general situation of energy conservation and emission reduction and building a green ecological economy, the financial internal control of energy enterprises has become the main way for enterprises to reduce energy production costs, ensure the security of corporate asset funds, and improve the income of energy enterprises. For the reading of relevant literatures on the internal control of energy resources enterprises, the research direction of the research is to analyze the internal control construction system of energy production enterprises based on the five elements of COSO and financial quality, and find that the accounting audit work in energy enterprises pays attention to the degree is not high. According to the control environment, risk assessment and control activities, the trend of declining shows that the communication between the audit and other departments of the enterprise is not efficient, the internal supervision is weak, and the quality of financial information has a great impact on internal control. The following conclusions are obtained, which requires accountants to pay more attention to corporate auditing, strengthen the awareness of energy audit risk prevention, improve the construction of auditing system, and strengthen internal control in auditing activities to improve the quality and efficiency of internal audit control of energy production enterprises.
Paddy farmer's perception and factors influencing attitude and intention on adoption of organic rice farming

As a staple food, the availability of rice is essential for Indonesian people. It is undoubtable that Green Revolution (GR) has a significant contribution to rice production. However, GR also emerges the detrimental impact, mainly on the environment. The expectation is that organic farming is an appropriate solution for dealing with this issue. On one side, the increased in demand for healthy food implies the organic farming has a good prospect. However, the adoption rate of organic farming is still low among farmers. This study aims at examining the perceptions of paddy farmer and factor affecting attitude and behavioral intention to adopt organic rice farming. This study involved 600 paddy farmers as respondents in Sragen District, Central Java, Indonesia. The study grouped the respondents into two categories, i.e., semi-organic and conventional farmers. The data were collected through a structured questionnaire. The results showed that the perceived usefulness, perceived ease, and environmental concern affected positive and significantly on attitude. Meanwhile, the behavioral intention was influenced significantly by attitude, subjective norm, moral obligation and perceived behavioral control. Conclusively, the perceptions on technology characteristic, environmental concern, moral obligation have a positive impact on attitude and intention to adopt organic rice farming. Therefore, the dissemination of organic rice technology should be accelerated to take the advantages of positive attitudes by changing their mindset toward adopting organic rice farming.
Testing the Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rate and Oil Price Pass-Through in BRICS Countries: Does the state of the economy matter?

This paper investigates not only the question of whether there is exchange rate and oil price pass-through (EROPPT) but also the extent to which the pass-through is asymmetric or state dependent in the BRICS countries. Using monthly data and the nonlinear Vector Smooth Transition Autoregressive (VSTAR) model, we find evidence of period specific pass-through between the upper and lower regime periods, governed by the selected transition variables. We also find asymmetric pass-through in all the countries with strong evidence of higher pass-through when the size of the shocks to the transition variable moves the system above a threshold level. The result further divulges that output growth asymmetrically reacts to the shocks. The implication of these findings is that the pass-through is strongly affected by the state of the economy.
Technology acceptance model based study of students’ attitudes toward use of enterprise resource planning solutions

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are the most frequently used software tool in companies in all industries. Therefore, the labour market requires the knowledge and skills for usage of ERP solutions from graduates – future employees. The main objective of our paper is therefore the identification of important factors that contribute to the acceptance of ERP solutions by students in economics and business and that shape their intentions to use this knowledge in the future. The model of our research is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), extended by identified important multidimensional external factors that refer to (1) students’ personal characteristics and information literacy, (2) perceived system and technological characteristics of ERP solutions and (3) perceived support within the study process. Research results revealed that several dimensions of the three multidimensonal factors play an important role in shaping the attitudes towards acceptance of ERP solutions by students.
When New Product Development Is Not Enough For Sustained Performance : An Empirical Validation Of “The Continuous Innovation Stool”

Hyland and Boer (2006) describe continuous innovation in terms of operational, innovation and strategic capabilities. They hypothesize that the better a firm aligns, coordinates and/or integrates the functions responsible for these areas, the higher and more sustainable the firm will perform. The purpose of this paper is to test the “continuous innovation stool”, using data obtained from the Chief Operating Officers and the Chief Technology Officers from 189 firms in eight countries. The analyses show that firms that excel at innovation management, are also more likely to be good at managing operations and strategic choices. Also, and more important, the higher the firm’s capabilities on these three domains, the better their business performance, which is a first confirmation of the “continuous innovation stool”.