Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Personal characteristics and academic achievement of undergraduate accounting students studying through open learning

The continuing growth of open learning is evident from developments in countries such as the United Kingdom, China, India and South Africa. This study attempts to determine if enrolments in a single accounting open learning subject are achieving equity aims by analysing the profile of these open learning students, and investigates the relationships which exist between students' characteristics and performance. Equity in education is a qualitative property and refers to judgements concerning justice, in particular broadening the access to education and training to those groups who have previously had limited access. Personal characteristics were examined to investigate whether those students who, due to a number of barriers, had historically found it difficult to access tertiary education were now availing themselves of the increased access to opportunities. Responses from 107 students to a questionnaire provided information on gender, place of residence, employment status, level of education, type of seco.
A Process Model of Organizational Commitment of Korean Government Employees: The Effects of Organizational Practices, Role Ambiguity, and Trust on Altruism

While a lot research has been devoted to the exploration of the antecedents of organizational commitment, less attention has been focused on the significant causal relationships among antecedents. Using data from 234 employees of two Korean central government agencies, this study examined the causal relationships of organizational practices with trust and role ambiguity in influencing organizational commitment composed of affective, continuance, and normative commitments. This study also examined the effect of organizational commitment on altruism. Results of Linear Structural Relations(LISREL) analyses showed that human resource-oriented practices, such as career development and training, are more directly related to affective and normative commitment, while organizational process-oriented practices, such as communication and participation in decision-making, are indirectly related to them through role ambiguity and trust. However, no hypothesized antecedent was found to affect significantly continuance commitment. As an outcome of organizational commitment, altruism was predicted by affective commitment and role ambiguity. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the nature of organizational commitment in the public sector and provide useful theoretical and practical implications for the elicitation of desirable attitudes and behaviors among government employees.
La capacité d’influence des cadres supérieurs en ressources humaines auprès des membres du comité de direction

Au cours des dernieres annees, un nombre croissant d’auteurs en gestion des ressources humaines se sont interesses aux roles que peuvent jouer les services des RH et les cadres superieurs en RH dans le developpement de la strategie de l’entreprise. Toutefois, il est pertinent de se demander dans quel contexte l’exercice de ces roles devient legitime. Selon certains auteurs, c’est particulierement le cas lorsque l’entreprise se retrouve face a des defis exigeants au plan des ressources humaines. Donc, compte tenu du contexte actuel caracterise par une economie sous pression, les cadres superieurs en RH devraient etre en mesure d’en profiter pour devenir des partenaires influents aupres du comite de direction. Cependant, nous savons tres peu de choses sur la capacite d’influence des cadres superieurs en RH, particulierement aupres des membres du comite de direction, de meme que l’ecart potentiel qui peut exister entre la perception de ces derniers et celle que les cadres superieurs RH entretiennent a leur propre egard en ce qui concerne leur capacite d’influence. Dans le cadre de notre recherche, le terrain cible se compose de cadres superieurs en RH travaillant majoritairement dans la grande region de Montreal. Au total, nous avons rencontre 41 cadres superieurs en RH afin de mesurer leur capacite d’influence. Suite a l’entretien, nous les avons invites a distribuer un questionnaire a des membres de leur comite de direction qu’ils avaient influence au cours des trois dernieres annees. Les analyses revelent que les cadres superieurs en RH tendent a surestimer leur capacite d’influence aupres des membres de l’equipe de direction par rapport au jugement porte par leurs collegues executifs ou de leur superieur immediat. Enfin, nos resultats montrent qu’une bonne reputation, une solide credibilite ainsi qu’un pouvoir de reference eleve peuvent faciliter l’exercice de l’influence des cadres superieurs en RH.
A Response to Andrea R. Halpern's Commentary

The author responds to points raised in Andrea Halpern's commentary, which appeared in Vol. 2, No. 1 of Empirical Musicology Review. Discussion focuses on the apparent contradiction between self-reports of veridical mental imagery of musical timbre, and cognitive constraints on temporal memory for multidimensional sound.
Nonlinear regression using second order methods

We present a highly efficient algorithm for the online nonlinear regression problem. We process only the currently available data and do not reuse it, hence, there is no need for storage. For the nonlinear regression, we use piecewise linear modeling, where the regression space is partitioned into several regions and a linear model is fit to each region. As the first time in the literature, we use second order methods, e.g. Newton-Raphson Methods, and adaptively train both the region boundaries and the corresponding linear models. Therefore, we overcome the well known overfitting and underfitting problems. The proposed algorithm provides a substantial improvement in the performance compared to the state of the art.
Lobular Neoplasia of the Breast

Abstract: Lobular neoplasia is increasingly being detected, probably due to the widespread screening for breast malignancies. The understanding of lobular neoplasia is undergoing a paradigm shift, from being considered a predictor of recurrence to being considered a pre‐invasive lesion, based on molecular studies suggesting a clonal link with invasive lobular cancer. The management of patients diagnosed to have lobular neoplasia is in evolution, with the increasing need for risk stratification and hence the necessity to identify this entity separately as either lobular carcinoma in‐situ and atypical lobular hyperplasia. The indications for wide local excision for patients diagnosed to have lobular neoplasia on biopsy are being defined. The evidence for preventive strategies like hormonal treatment with Tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors for high risk patients is increasing, with the results from prospective interventional trials. The role of screening magnetic resonance imaging for surveillance of high risk patients with lobular neoplasia is under evaluation.
Quantity and quality of parental language input to late-talking toddlers during play

This study compared the language behaviours of parents of toddlers with language delay (LD) and language ofparents of typically developing toddlers (LN). Results indicate that parents of children with a language delay and children with normal language produced comparable amounts of linguistic input, but differed on some qualitative measures. Parents of children with normal language used more responses, expansions and self-directed speech than parents of toddlers with language delay. Parents may adjust their conversational style to the communicative ability of their children. These results reinforce language behaviours taught in parent training programmes.
ANALYSIS OF SMALL-SCALE GROWER RETURNS IN MPUMALANGA : TENANT FARMERS OR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCERS ?

Small-scale grower (SSG) production in Mpumalanga province of South Africa has declined dramatically since the 2000/01 season. Tsb Sugar Ltd provided 811 consolidated remittance advice slips from the 2003/04 to 2006/07 seasons for analysis to obtain an insight into SSG financial returns. The results are indicative of the growers’ annual cash trading account, and are expressed per unit of gross production to enable comparison. Results indicate that the sustainability of the sector is questionable, with 30% of growers reliant on industry financial grants to generate a remuneration surplus. Scale economies do exist in the sector and a direct positive relationship exists between yield and unit returns. A grower’s choice of financial institution’s terms of trade has a significant impact on unit returns. Results show that declining yields may be a product of a reduced incentive to invest, brought about by continued poor terms of trade. Specific policy recommendations include improving performance by consolidating areas to take advantage of scale economies and increasing yields, and increasing the institutional savings to enable growers to ratoon their crops. Returns can be further improved, and sustainability enhanced, by restructuring current debt levels through lobbying financial institutions for debt restructuring.
Adapted Assessment of Phonological Sensitivity Skills

Children with little or no functional speech are at risk for literacy acquisition. Assessment of early literacy skills is particularly challenging among this population due to the need for children to provide a spoken response to tasks. This study explored the effects of adapted response modes on measures of phonological sensitivity. Assessment tasks were administered in three response conditions to 12 typically developing kindergarten students with 4 participants in each response condition. Identical tasks were administered in the speech response condition, speech response condition combined with picture response arrays, and nonspeech response condition whereby participants pointed to answers on picture response arrays. Results revealed no statistically significant differences in scores across the three response conditions for 11 of 12 tasks, suggesting that nonspeech assessment of phonological sensitivity should continue to be explored as a feasible option for use among individuals with little or no functional speech.
Decoupling Responsible Management Education

This article examines under what conditions business schools may decouple the structural effects of their engagement in responsible management education from actual organizational practices. We argue that schools may be unable to match rising institutional pressures to publicly commit to responsible management education with their limited internal capacity for change. Our analysis proposes that decoupling is likely if schools (a) are exposed to resource stringency, (b) face overt or covert resistance against change processes, (c) are confronted with competing institutional pressures, and (d) perceive institutional demands as ambiguous. We discuss two implications of this proposition. On one hand, decoupling can cause dissonant legitimacy perceptions, leading to cynicism around responsible management education within business schools. On the other hand, a temporary inconsistency between talk and action may help schools to articulate future ambitions for responsible management education, which, over time, could inspire recoupling effects.
Four latent traits of emotional experience and their involvement in well-being, coping, and attributional style

In two samples of college students (Ns = 116 and 141), this research investigated the ways in which individuals differ in their experience of emotion. Four latent traits emerged from scales assessing such differences—Intensity, Attention, Expression, and Clarity. In both samples, these latent traits were found to be involved in reports of personality, well-being, coping, and explanatory style. Clarity was positively associated with measures of positive well-being and negatively associated with measures of negative well-being. Individuals who experience intense emotions (Intensity), who attend to them often (Attention), or who notably express them (Expression), reported coping by focusing on and venting their emotions and by seeking social support. Individuals who are adept at identifying their emotions (Clarity) reported engaging in active, planful coping and in positive reinterpretations of events. Individuals high on Clarity made self-affirming attributions for good events.
Discourse Generation for Instructional Applications: Identifying and Exploiting Relevant Prior Explanations

To reap the benefits of natural language interaction, tutorial systems must be endowed with the properties that make human natural-language interaction so effective. One striking feature of naturally occurring interactions is that human tutors and students freely refer to the context created by prior explanations. In contrast, computer-generated utterances that do not draw on the previous discourse often seem awkward and unnatural and may even be incoherent. The explanations produced by such systems are frustrating to students because they repeat the same information over and over again. Perhaps more critical is that, by not referring to prior explanations, computer-based tutors are not pointing out similarities between problem-solving situations and therefore may be missing out on opportunities to help students form generalizations. In this article, we discuss several observations from an analysis of human-human tutorial interactions and provide examples of the ways in which tutors and students refer to .
Ethical Followers: A Link to Ethical Leadership

Scholars and practitioners of ethical leadership need to give attention to both leaders and followers in the leadership process. This paper conceptualizes followers as active participants in the leadership process with central roles in ethical leadership. The author uses a four-component process of ethical decision-making to provide insights into the capabilities required for in order for followers to act ethically. The paper concludes with a focus on the joint responsibility of both leaders and followers for ethical decisions.
MyD88 Signaling Regulates Steady-State Migration of Intestinal CD103+ Dendritic Cells Independently of TNF-α and the Gut Microbiota

Intestinal homeostasis and induction of systemic tolerance to fed Ags (i.e., oral tolerance) rely on the steady-state migration of small intestinal lamina propria dendritic cells (DCs) into draining mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN). The majority of these migratory DCs express the α integrin chain CD103, and in this study we demonstrate that the steady-state mobilization of CD103+ DCs into the MLN is in part governed by the IL-1R family/TLR signaling adaptor molecule MyD88. Similar to mice with complete MyD88 deficiency, specific deletion of MyD88 in DCs resulted in a 50–60% reduction in short-term accumulation of both CD103+CD11b+ and CD103+CD11b− DCs in the MLN. DC migration was independent of caspase-1, which is responsible for the inflammasome-dependent proteolytic activation of IL-1 cytokine family members, and was not affected by treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Consistent with the latter finding, the proportion and phenotypic composition of DCs were similar in mesenteric lymph from germ-free and conventionally housed mice. Although TNF-α was required for CD103+ DC migration to the MLN after oral administration of the TLR7 agonist R848, it was not required for the steady-state migration of these cells. Similarly, TLR signaling through the adaptor molecule Toll/IL-1R domain-containing adapter inducing IFN-β and downstream production of type I IFN were not required for steady-state CD103+ DC migration. Taken together, our results demonstrate that MyD88 signaling in DCs, independently of the microbiota and TNF-α, is required for optimal steady-state migration of small intestinal lamina propria CD103+ DCs into the MLN.
Taylorizing business school research: On the ‘one best way’ performative effects of journal ranking lists

The article critically examines how work is shaped by performance measures. Its specific focus is upon the use of journal lists, rather than the detail of their construction, in conditioning the research activity of academics. It is argued that an effect of the ‘one size fits all’ logic of journal lists is to endorse and cultivate a research monoculture in which particular criteria, favoured by a given list, assume the status of a universal benchmark of performance (‘research quality’). The article demonstrates, with reference to the Association of Business Schools (ABS) ‘Journal Guide’, how use of a journal list can come to dominate and define the focus and trajectory of a field of research, with detrimental consequences for the development of scholarship.
Applying Outbreak Detection Algorithms to Prognostics

Fleet maintenance and supply management systems are challenged to increase the availability and reliability of equipment. Prognostics can help. This paper examines the utility of selected statistical data mining algorithms, originally developed for bio-surveillance applications, in achieving fleet prognostics. Preliminary experimental evaluation suggests that it is possible, useful and practical to apply such algorithms to rapidly detect emerging patterns of systematic failures of equipment or support processes, and to continuously monitor relevant data for indications of specific types of failures. The key remaining technical challenge is to tame down a potentially large number of plausible pattern detections without compromising high detectability rates. The key practical consequences to maintenance and supply managers include the ability to be notified about emergence of a possible problem substantially earlier than before, the ability to routinely screen incoming data for indications of problems of all conceivable types even if their number is very large, and the ability to pragmatically prioritize investigative efforts according to the statistical significance of the detections.
Prescription Opioid Epidemic and Infant Outcomes

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Although opioid pain relievers are commonly prescribed in pregnancy, their association with neonatal outcomes is poorly described. Our objectives were to identify neonatal complications associated with antenatal opioid pain reliever exposure and to establish predictors of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). METHODS: We used prescription and administrative data linked to vital statistics for mothers and infants enrolled in the Tennessee Medicaid program between 2009 and 2011. A random sample of NAS cases was validated by medical record review. The association of antenatal exposures with NAS was evaluated by using multivariable logistic regression, controlling for maternal and infant characteristics. RESULTS: Of 112 029 pregnant women, 31 354 (28%) filled ≥1 opioid prescription. Women prescribed opioid pain relievers were more likely than those not prescribed opioids (P < .001) to have depression (5.3% vs 2.7%), anxiety disorder (4.3% vs 1.6%) and to smoke tobacco (41.8% vs 25.8%). Infants with NAS and opioid-exposed infants were more likely than unexposed infants to be born at a low birth weight (21.2% vs 11.8% vs 9.9%; P < .001). In a multivariable model, higher cumulative opioid exposure for short-acting preparations (P < .001), opioid type (P < .001), number of daily cigarettes smoked (P < .001), and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor use (odds ratio: 2.08 [95% confidence interval: 1.67–2.60]) were associated with greater risk of developing NAS. CONCLUSIONS: Prescription opioid use in pregnancy is common and strongly associated with neonatal complications. Antenatal cumulative prescription opioid exposure, opioid type, tobacco use, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor use increase the risk of NAS.
Asperger's Syndrome in Autistic Children and Their Modes of Learning Through Casual Speech Method

The objective of this study is to identify the Asperger's syndrome in autistic children by observing their behaviour, their extralinguistics factors and to develop the best teaching method in learning Malay language. The five children with autistic learning disabilities were observed. This case study used for five children whom have been endorsed by a medical officer and special education teachers as people with autism. They participated in the Special Education Programme for Integrated Learning Disabilities. In order to select appropriate teaching methods for autistic children, researchers implemented six methods of learning in the classroom. There are Common Method without Music, Common Method without Songs, Common Method without Drama, Casual Speech Method with Music, Casual Speech Method with Songs and Casual Speech Method with Drama. Observations showed that the most frequent behavioral symptom displayed by the children was reduced when this method was implemented. Casual Speech Method with Songs is the best method to reduce the Asperger syndrome of five subjects to the minimum in learning Malay language. The Casual Speech Method with Songs is the best method and be created in Teaching Module in learning Malay language. This module can be reviewed by Ministry of Education to be applied in Special Education Programme for Integrated Learning Disabilities in Learning Malay language. Based of their observed behavior the best method produced a strategic learning method that can enhance the communication skill of autistic children.
Dilation as treatment for vaginal agenesis and hypoplasia: A pilot exploration of benefits and barriers as perceived by patients

Summary Reconstructive surgery has been the traditional treatment for the short vagina. Recently vaginal dilation has been recommended due to its low morbidity. Small retrospective studies have reported success rates of up to 80% but include neither clear definitions of ‘success’ nor exploration of factors associated with compliance and outcome. The first 10 women prescribed vaginal dilation treatment at a specialist gynaecological clinic during the study period were interviewed and asked to complete the Multi-dimensional Sexuality Questionnaire (MSQ), with an assessment of perceived vaginal characteristics. The participants scored lower scores on sexual esteem, sexual assertiveness and sexual satisfaction and higher scores in sexual anxiety, sexual depression and fear of sexual relationships in comparison with the standardisation sample. Dilator treatment must be subject to the same scrutiny as any intervention. Vaginal dilation can have a negative emotional impact on women and psychological intervention may be needed to maximise efficacy.