Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Study on the Mediating Effect of Work-Family Conflict on Locus of Control and Job Satisfaction among Paramedical Staff

This study is conducted to test direct and indirect effect of locus of control on job satisfaction. Data is gathered from a sample of 60 both male and female paramedical staff aged 40 years and below, working full-time in 3 corporate hospitals in Andhra Pradesh state of Southern India, using selfadministered questionnaires. The data is analyzed using correlation and multiple regression analyses using SPSS Software. Results of correlation analysis revealed that locus of control is related to job satisfaction and not significantly related to work family conflict and work-family conflict is not related to job satisfaction. Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that work-family conflict partially mediates the relationship between locus of control and job satisfaction. Paramedical staff who believe that they are in control of the events that happen in their lives seem to be more satisfied with their jobs and seem to experience moderate work-family conflict. Copyright © 2016 Penerbit Akademia Baru All rights reserved.
An Exploratory Study of Logging Configuration Practice in Java

Logging components are an integral element of software systems. These logging components receive the logging requests generated by the logging code and process these requests according to logging configurations. Logging configurations play an important role on the functionality, performance, and reliability of logging. Although recent research has been conducted to understand and improve current practice on logging code, no existing research focuses on logging configurations. To fill this gap, we conduct an exploratory study on logging configuration practice of 10 open-source projects and 10 industrial projects written in Java in various sizes and domains. We quantitatively show how logging configurations are used with respect to logging management, storage, and formatting. We categorize and analyze the change history (1,213 revisions) of logging configurations to understand how the logging configurations evolve. Based on these study results, we reveal 10 findings about current practice of logging configurations. As a proof of concept, we develop a simple detector based on some of our findings. We apply our detector on three popular open-source projects and identify three long-lived issues (more than two years). All these issues are confirmed and two of them have been fixed by the open-source developers.
Spelling: Processes and strategies in print and computer formats.

Research addressing the role of format on spellers' abilities to recognize and correct errors has neglected to incorporate the variables of error type and strategic engagement in their studies. Thus, the three experiments in this dissertation examined the abilities of various types of spellers (above average, average, below average, and second language) across print and computer formats. The experiments introduced the role of attention as a factor in error blindness (i.e., inability to detect mistakes) for spelling recognition tasks, and the role of working memory in the graded quality of mental representations for spelling production tasks (i.e., correction of misspellings). In each experiment, spellers were randomly assigned to one of four counterbalanced groups. Spellers were asked to detect and correct misspelling for two essays in print and computer formats, identifying the spelling strategies applied. The studies compared word knowledge levels to error detection and correction abilities; attentional and working memory processes accounted for the influence of the type of error and format on spelling performance. Findings demonstrated inherent processing differences between spelling recognition and production processes and the masking effects of the application of strategies on spelling accuracy. Effects of error type in terms of saliency and clarity were found as phonological errors were easier to detect and correct, but morphological errors were more prone to error blindness regardless of the format. Spellers' quality of mental representations remained equally accessible due to their grounding in orthography. Format alone did not have an effect on accuracy, but did have an effect on strategic engagement. Format evidenced higher cognitive demands in the computer format and when spellers switched work from computer to print. These changes were explained by
Revealed strength of preference: Inference from response times

Revealed preference is the dominant approach for inferring preferences, but it is limited in that it relies solely on discrete choice data. When a person chooses one alternative over another, we cannot infer the strength of their preference or predict how likely they will be to make the same choice again. However, the choice process also produces response times (RTs), which are continuous and easily observable. It has been shown that RTs often decrease with strength-of-preference. This is a basic property of sequential sampling models such as the drift diffusion model. What remains unclear is whether this relationship is sufficiently strong, relative to the other factors that affect RTs, to allow us to reliably infer strength-of-preference across individuals. Using several experiments, we show that even when every subject chooses the same alternative, we can still rank them based on their RTs and predict their behavior on other choice problems. We can also use RTs to predict whether a subject will repeat or reverse their decision when presented with the same choice problem a second time. Finally, as a proof-of-concept, we demonstrate that it is also possible to recover individual preference parameters from RTs alone. These results demonstrate that it is indeed possible to use RTs to infer preferences.
The Impact of External Shocks on Business Cycle Fluctuation in Several Developed Asian Countries

This paper conducts empirical analysis to investigate the impact of domestic shocks relative to that of internal shocks on business cycle fluctuation in several developed Asian economies. The factors that determine the volume and impacts of these shocks on business cycle fluctuation are also in the scope of analysis. We apply a structural vector auto-regression model (SVAR) with Blancher and Quah’s identification. The results show that the domestic shocks are main sources of business cycle fluctuations in Asia countries; while the external shocks only have secondary impacts on the domestic economies. However, the impacts of external shocks are increasing over time. The factors that determine the volume of shocks on business cycle fluctuation include exchange rate, government consumption expenditure, terms of trade, trade openness and domestic monetary policy.
Understanding Quality of Life in Children with Asthma and their Parents : Family Resources and Challenges

The present research investigated the links between caregiver burden, family environment, and quality of life in 97 pairs of children with asthma and one of their parents (the primary family caregiver). Using structured equation modelling, within-participant analyses showed that family environment was positively linked to quality of life for both children and parents respectively. Across-participant analyses demonstrated that parents’ positive perceptions of family environment were associated with parents’ and children’s improved quality of life. In addition, parents’ perceptions of family environment mediated the link between caregiver burden and parents’ and children’s quality of life. Implications for intervention with families are discussed in light of this study’s important results.
THE POSITIVE CASUAL IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON PRODUCTIVITY : A NOT SO TYPICAL RELATIONSHIP BY RODOLPHE DESBORDES AND VINCENZO VERARDI

Previous research has argued that foreign direct investmen t (FDI) exerts a positive and causal impact on the productivity of the recipient count ries. However, we find that there is little macroeconomic evidence that FDI foster s productivity growth in recipient countries, including in those with high absorpti ve capacity, once we use an instrumental variables (IV) estimator robust to outliers. JEL classification: C2, F2, O3, O4.
4-2017 Infrastructure Development , Income Inequality and Urban Sustainability in the People ' s Republic of China

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People’s Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income disparities at the city level remain undetermined. Using 10 citylevel infrastructure indicators relating to sustainable urban development and city income inequality measures, calculated using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) Surveys, this study investigates the correlation between infrastructure and inequality from 2005 to 2013. The results indicate that wastewater treatment, domestic waste management, public green spaces, water efficiency, and residential power efficiency infrastructures were negatively correlated with income inequality with a lag of 2 or 3 years. Investment in these infrastructures might be associated with reductions in inequality ranging from 4% to 49%. Conversely, mass transit usage was positively correlated with income inequality both 2 and 3 years later. An increase in mass transit ridership of 20 trips per capita annually might be associated with a 1% rise in income inequality after 2 years. Increase in water supply coverage and Internet access were also positively correlated with rising inequality. Investment in these infrastructures might warrant further measures to ensure adequate distributional outcomes.
The Effects Productive Performance Influenza Vaccine

Three hundred one-day-old mixed sex ducklings (100 Cherry valley, 100 Moulard and 100 Pekin ducks) were allotted into either indoor housing system (n=2); ducklings within each breed were brooded and reared without any access to an outdoor yard until slaughtering, outdoor housing system (n=2); where ducklings were allowed to an outdoor access from the 3 slaughtering. Behaviours of the birds were collected in four periods per day (observation week); two periods in the morning and two in the afternoon every week for five observation weeks. Body weights and weight gains of birds were also determined weekly for five consecutive weeks. Cellular immune responses (phagoc phagocytic index) of the birds to Avian Influenza vaccine was measured at the 3 and 7 day of vaccination whereas, antibody responses to vaccination were measured at the 14 and the 28 days of vaccination. The obtained results showe that Cherry valley ducks exhibited higher and total body care behaviour compared to both Moulard and Pekin. Housing ducks indoors increased standing, preening, wing stretching, wing and leg stretch, panting, total body care, floor exploration and total exploration, and aggressive behaviours. Cherry valley ducks had higher initial and final body weight than Moulard and Pekin Pekin ducks had heavier body weights during the 2 6 week of age. Moreover, Pekin ducks g at the 2 week of age whereas, during the 4 of age, Cherry valley gained more weight than Moulard and Pekin. Rearing ducks in indoor housing systems resulted in a non-significant reduction in their body weights during week of age, while during the 4 week of age indoor ducks had higher body weights and weight gains than them under outdoor systems. On contrary, outdoor systems increased their body weight gain during the 6 and the 8 week, and their total weight gain. There were no significant differences between the three duck breeds for the phagocytic activity after the 3 vaccination however, phagocytic index ducks after the 7 day of vaccination compared to both Cherry valley and Moulard ducks. Moreover, keeping ducks in indoor systems increased phagocytic activity after the 3 day of vaccination, and phagocytic index vaccination. From these results it could genotype can affect behaviour, productivity and responses of ducks to immune challenges. Taken the behavioural, productive and immunity indicators of welfare together, it appears that -under the farm conditions ducks performed well under indoor housing systems, and Moulard ducks performed well under outdoor housing systems whereas, the performance of Pekin ducks was less Copyright © 2015 IJAIR, All right reserved 1395 International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research Volume 3, Issue of Housing Systems on B and Immune Response in Three Breeds o Sherif Z. El-kholya Department of Husbandry and Development of Animal Wealth, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhur University, Damanhur, Egypt. Usama A. Abou Department of Development of Animal Wealth, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Gomhoria St.,
Both Market and Hierarchy : Understanding the Hybrid Nature of Cooperatives

What is a cooperative? Until the early 1960s much of the theoretical debate focused on whether cooperatives represented a form of vertical integration by farmers, that is, an extension of the member firms, or whether cooperatives could legitimately be analyzed as organizations having scope for decision making independent of their member firms. Subsequent theoretical work has modeled cooperatives based on coalition, nexus of contracts, and property rights perspectives. More recently, the cooperative has been characterized as an intermediate (or hybrid) form of governance. This paper contributes to the economic theory of the cooperative organization by examining it from a comparative economic perspective. Departing from Williamson’s unidimensional continuum of governance structures, the paper adopts the view that governance structures exhibit multiple dimensions – including asset ownership, authority, administrative controls, and incentives – and “true hybrids” are market-like on some of these dimensions while hierarchy-like on others. I show that cooperatives blend market-like attributes with hierarchy-like mechanisms and thus should be viewed as a true hybrid rather than as an intermediate form. In other words, cooperatives have architectures of their own which are distinct from markets and hierarchies. The paper concludes with a discussion about the usefulness of this approach to our understanding of the economic nature of cooperatives as it informs potential avenues for future research.
Automated exploit generation method for stack buffer overflow vulnerabilities

In this paper automated method for exploit generation is presented. This method allows to construct exploits for stack buffer overflow vulnerabilities and also to prioritize software bugs. It is applied to program binaries, without requiring debug information. The method is based on dynamic analysis and symbolic execution. We present a tool implementing the method. We used this tool to generate exploits for 8 vulnerabilities in both Linux and Windows programs, 3 of which were undocumented at the time this paper was written.
Development of The NSAID-L-Proline Amino Acid Zwitterionic Co-crystals -

Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are belonged to class II of the Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) which exhibit low aqueous solubility. The crystal engineering technique such as cocrystallization is an effective strategy to improve the solubility of drugs. Recently, exploration of the zwitterionic cocrystals involved amino acid, has been started and gained a lot of interest in the pharmaceutical active substance development. Under the guidance of the crystal engineering concept, cocrystal formation of some NSAID were investigated. The drugs are: mefenamic acid, ketoprofen, and diclofenac acid meanwhile L-proline was used as a co-former. Cocrystal screening was conducted by liquid assisted grinding (LAG) with ethanol using the equimolar ratio of drug and L-proline. The dynamic formation of the new phase was monitored by FT-IR of both LAG and neat grinding (NG) crystallization method. Beyond the three of drugs, only diclofenac acid and L-proline interaction showed hydrogen bond that was initially identified by FT-IR method. This result was supported by the melting point change on the thermogram and the significant differences in diffractogram pattern. Furthermore, the hydrogen bond formation is clearly observed by using FT-IR method. Next, the formation of the crystalline phase by LAG occurred faster than NG method. Finally, this study found the new phase arrangement between diclofenac acid and L-proline, which strongly indicate a cocrystal. The dynamic of the cocrystal arrangement also was shown influenced by method, in which LAG was faster than NG method.
Nutritional Content and Significance of Tomato Powder

Tomatoes are known to be a rich source of vitamins, minerals and carotenoids, especially vitamin C, phosphorus, potassium, and lycopene and it may become an ideal addition to different types of processed foods. Keeping in view all these facts, dried tomato powder was prepared and analyzed for its vitamin C, lycopene and mineral contents. Tomato powder contain vitamin C 125 mg, lycopene 1.41 mg, iron 3.99 mg, phosphorus 173 mg, calcium 80 mg, magnesium 126 mg, Zinc 2.71 mg, copper 0.876 mg, manganese 1.83 mg, sodium 121.60 mg and potassium 2805.8 mg per 100 g. The results obtained showed that it is a good source of various macro and micro mineral elements. One hundred grams of tomato powder provides between 5.81-74.82% and 6.39-87.00% of the daily recommended intake for different macro and micro mineral elements for Indian male and female, respectively.
Spectrophotometric nanomolar determination of glucose by using C-dots/ magnetic nanozyme

C-dots/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite was known as peroxidase-like nanozyme. In this work, C-dots/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite was used to determine glucose in the presence of glucose oxidase (GOx). The color change of 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) was used as an indication of glucose in a colorimetric assay. The nanozymatic activity of C-dots/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite to detect glucose was depended on TMB and C-dots/Fe3O4 nanozyme concentration and pH. The linear range and detection limit to determine glucose using C-dots/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite were obtained as 5 × 10−8 to 1 × 10−3 M and 50 nM, respectively. Also, the sensing system shows high selectivity towards the detection of glucose in the presence of fructose, lactose and maltose as interferences. The results indicate that this assay is simple, cheap, and highly sensitive and selective for glucose determination.
Tilburg University Contracting Productivity Growth

In this paper, we analyze the interactions between growth and the contracting environment in the production sector. Allowing incompleteness in contracting implies that viable production relationships for ̄rms and workers, and therefore the pro ̄tability of industries, depend on the rates of innovation and growth. The speed at which new innovations arrive in turn depends on the pro ̄tability of production, for the usual reasons examined in the endogenous growth literature. We show that these interactions can have important implications which are consistent with observed phenomena in both the micro and macro environment. In particular, we demonstrate that a technological shock (increasing productivity of research) can, through this interaction, lead to a productivity slowdown and a shift in labor market contracts away from ̄rms providing implicit guarantees of lifetime employment and towards shorter-term \contractor" type arrangements. We show the consistency of an increase in the proportion of the labor force under short term employment, increased relative returns of workers in high productivity sectors, and increased income inequality, with a productivity slowdown of ̄nite duration. ¤Both authors are grateful to the SSHRC for ̄nancial support. We would like to thank seminar participants at Queen's, Toronto, Brock, Waterloo, and York Universities in Canada, and Melbourne and LaTrobe Universities in Australia for helpful comments, and Dan Bernhardt, Je® Borland, Mark Crosby, Nancy Gallini, Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Nathan Nunn, Ian McDonald, James MacKinnon, Michael Smart, Gregor Smith, and Aloysius Siow, for discussions. We have also bene ̄ted greatly from the comments of the editor and two anonymous referees of this journal. The usual disclaimer applies. 1
Effects of Climate Change on average and extreme Wave Conditions at selected Locations in the German Baltic Sea

On the basis of long-term time-series (1960-2100) of wind data from different model runs of the regional climate model CCLM, future wave conditions (2001-2100) were calculated and assessed at selected locations in the south-western Baltic Sea. For the future projection of the wind, the IPCC SRES emission scenarios A1B and B1 were assumed. For the statistical assessment of the changes of the wave conditions, average and extreme values for future (e.g. 2071-2100) and for actual conditions (e.g. 1971-2000) were compared. Analyses of the wind conditions from the CCLM model show that the average near surface wind velocity in the study area is going to increase up to 4% and that in general more westerly winds will occur in the future. In consequence, the average significant wave height may increase up to 8% and westerly wave directions become more dominant. Regarding the change of extreme wave heights, different signals of change and a large spread of the results (+14% to -14%) were found at the locations investigated.
C R ] 1 1 Ju l 2 01 9 Unicyclic strong permutations

In this paper, we study some properties of a certain kind of permutation σ over Fn2 , where n is a positive integer. The desired properties for σ are: (1) the algebraic degree of each component function is n− 1; (2) the permutation is unicyclic; (3) the number of terms of the algebraic normal form of each component is at least 2. We call permutations that satisfy these three properties simultaneously unicyclic strong permutations. We prove that our permutations σ always have high algebraic degree and that the average number of terms of each component function tends to 2. We also give a condition on the cycle structure of σ. We observe empirically that for n even, our construction does not provide unicylic permutations. For n odd, n ≤ 11, we conduct an exhaustive search of all σ given our construction for specific examples of unicylic strong permutations. We also present some empirical results on the difference tables and linear approximation tables of σ.
CS 269 Q Project Final Report

We present an application of Grover’s algorithm to the 3-SAT problem, and verify the resulting square-root speedup over the classical search. We achieve this with reductions from CNFs to phase-flip oracles with depth linear in the number of gates and boolean variables. These reductions were implemented in pyQuil. To optimize the oracle circuits, we evaluated different circuit constructions: one based on Fredkin gates and four based on CCNOT. In our comparison of these different circuit construction and compilation methods, we found that CCNOT-based solutions require less qubits and gates. This is because they admit several tricks to reduce the total number of qubits and gates required.