Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Populism as a Problem of Social Integration

We argue that support for parties of the radical right and left can usefully be understood as a problem of social integration—an approach that brings together economic and cultural explanations for populism. With comparative survey data, we assess whether support for parties of the radical right and left is associated with feelings of social marginalization. We find that people who feel more socially marginal—because they lack strong attachment to the normative order, social engagement, or a sense of social respect—are more likely to be alienated from mainstream politics and to support radical parties. We also find an association between indicators for recent economic and cultural developments often said to affect social status and feelings of social marginalization, especially among people with low incomes or educational attainment. We conclude that problems of social integration and subjective social status deserve more attention from scholars of comparative political behavior.
Female Representation in the Academic Finance Profession

We present new data on female representation in the academic finance profession. In our sample of finance faculty from the top-100 U.S. business schools during 2009–2017, only 16.0% are women. The gender imbalance manifests itself in several ways. First, after controlling for research productivity, women have less favorable career outcomes. They hold positions at lower-ranked institutions, are less likely to be tenured and full professors, and there is evidence that they are paid less. Second, women publish fewer papers. Third, women have more female coauthors, which suggests smaller publication networks. Time-series data suggest shrinking gender gaps in recent years.
Practitioner perspectives of legacy: insights from the 2015 Pan Am Games

ABSTRACT Although legacy frameworks exist in academia and legacies are oft discussed in relation to publicly- and privately funded events, there remains a dearth of knowledge on practitioner conceptualisations of the concept. A case study of the Toronto 2014 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games was conducted using semi-structured interviews with event organisers and city officials to understand how practitioners conceptualise legacies, and what their goals are in relation to legacies. The findings show that organisers conceptualise legacies as solely positive, and include Games-time impacts and outcomes as part of the legacy. The positive frame supports the three central legacy goals: justifying public spending on events, boosting public support for event hosting, and advancing city development goals through event hosting. This research contributes to the discourse on event legacy and takes an important step in expanding understandings of practitioner conceptualisations of legacy.
A time-series cross-sectional analysis of the impact of political distrust and the economy in the aftermath of the Great Recession

ABSTRACT The Great Recession that hit Europe since 2008 sparked the interest of many scholars in understanding its impact on voting behaviour. Some studies have argued that the economic crisis paved the way for a new resurgence of challenger parties, whereas others have argued that their success is driven by the crisis of political representation. However, the analysis of the interplay between these two competing arguments is still scarce. In this paper, I build upon the protest and economic voting theories to explain the success of challenger parties in the aftermath of the Great Recession. By performing a multilevel analysis with time-series cross-sectional data, I found that political distrust and the economy have had an impact on the voting for challenger parties, and the interaction between the two dimensions explains the further increase in their electoral success.
Chemins rugueux issus de processus discrets

Le present travail se veut une contribution a l’extension du domaine des applications de la theorie des chemins rugueux a travers l’etude de la convergence des processus discrets, qui permet un nouveau regard sur plusieurs problemes qui se posent dans le cadre du calcul stochastique classique. Nous etudions la convergence en topologie rugueuse, d’abord des chaines de Markov sur graphes periodiques, ensuite des marches de Markov cachees, et ce changement de cadre permet d’apporter des informations supplementaires sur la limite grâce a l’anomalie d’aire, invisible en topologie uniforme. Nous voulons montrer que l’utilite de cet objet depasse le cadre des equations differentielles. Nous montrons egalement comment le cadre des chemins rugueux permet d’en- coder la maniere dont on plonge un modele discret dans l’espace des fonctions continues, et que les limites des differents plongements peuvent etre differenciees precisement grâce a l’anomalie d’aire. Nous definissons ensuite les temps d’occupation iteres pour une chaine de Markov et montrons, en utilisant les sommes iterees, qu’ils donnent une structure combinatoire aux marches de Markov cachees. Nous proposons une construction des chemins rugueux en passant par les sommes iterees et la comparons a la construction classique, faite par les integrales iterees, pour trouver a la limite deux types de chemins rugueux differents, non-geometrique et geometrique respectivement. Pour finir, nous illustrons le calcul et la construction de l’anomalie d’aire et nous donnons quelques resultats supplementaires sur la convergence des sommes et temps d’occupation iteres.
Dépistage des personnes précaires âgées de 18 à 65 ans consultant aux urgences du CHU de Grenoble grâce au score EPICES

La precarite touche entre 12 et 15% de la population francaise, mais cela represente 35 a 45% des personnes consultant aux urgences. Il semble important de depister ces patients pour les prendre en charge leur globalite. Donc l’etude repose sur le depistage des personnes precaires âgees de 18 a 65 ans consultant aux urgences du CHU de Grenoble. C’est une etude observationnelle descriptive, monocentrique, toutes les personnes admises entre 18 et 65 ans etaient incluses sauf presence d’un critere d’exclusion (urgences absolues, personnes illettrees ou ne parlant pas francais non accompagnees, personnes confuses non accompagnees, personnes privees de liberte ou sous tutelle) ou les personnes ayant exprime leur refus. Le recueil des patients s’est deroule sur cinq journees de 24 heures tirees au sort, un questionnaire etait rempli au lit du malade par l’investigateur ou les externes du service. L’objectif principal etait de depister le nombre de personnes precaires âgees de 18 a 65 ans consultant aux urgences du CHU, grâce au score EPICES. 46,2% des personnes incluses sont precaires. La majorite de ces patients sont des hommes, jeunes, fumeur, sans emploi, de nationalite francaise, sans suivi dentaire, avec des passages repetes aux urgences, pour des motifs psychiatriques ou d’addiction plus frequemment que les personnes non precaires. Il faut signaler que 45% des personnes precaires avaient un emploi, 84% avaient declare un medecin traitant, 82% avaient une complementaire maladie. L’association absence d’emploi et fumeur actif, expose a 80% au risque d’etre precaire. Il est necessaire de mettre en place des strategies de depistage pour une prise en charge plus adaptee.
Effects of simvastatin and omega 3-fatty acids on blood pressure, plasma lipid profiles, liver and renal function in type 2 diabetes

A group of patients with and hyperlipidemia were divided into male and female groups and further subdivided into 3 groups. These groups received, either simvastatin (20 mg daily), Omega3-fatty acid (2g/day), or both. The blood pressure and lipid profile were measured before and after 4 weeks of treatment. Our data showed that treatment with simvastatin did not produce significant effect on blood pressure, however the blood pressure was significantly reduced in patients received omega 3-fatty acid or simvastatin plus omega3-fatty acid. The total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), and low density lipoprotein (LDL) significantly decreased in all treated groups. The high density lipoprotein (HDL) significantly increased in all treated groups except in the group of males receiving simvastatin. Alanine transaminase (ALT) increased significantly in female and male groups receiving simvastatin, but significantly decreased in same groups receiving omega 3-fatty acid and in the males receiving simvastatin plus omega3-fatty acid. The aspartate transaminase (AST) levels significantly decreased in all treated groups except in the female group given omega3-fatty acid. The alkaline phosphatase (ALP) significantly increased only in the groups given simvastatin alone. The levels of urea and creatinine were not affected in all groups. In our prospective study we found that simvastatin decreased TC, TG and LDL, and resulted in elevation of liver transaminases. Omega3- fatty acid alone or in combination with simvastatin has similar effect on lipid profile and it significantly reduces blood pressure without affecting liver or renal function.
Grenzen in Zeiten technologischer und sozialer Disruption

Der Begriff Grenzen markiert ein Spannungsfeld der anwendungsorientierten Forschung. Einerseits erweitern Wissenschaftler_innen durch ihre Entwicklungs-, Innovations- und Transferleistungen die Nutzungs- und Verwertungspotentiale, andererseits stosen sie dabei an Grenzen: an Grenzen des technisch Machbaren, des Finanzierbaren, des gesellschaftlich Akzeptierten und des ethisch Vertretbaren. Die Publikation „Grenzen in Zeiten technologischer und sozialer Disruption“ lenkt den Blick auf diese Dialektik. Die Autor_innen greifen das Thema aus verschiedenen fachlichen Perspektiven auf und geben dadurch Impulse zum Nachdenken und zur Diskussion. Sie beschaftigen sich in ihren Beitragen mit den Megatrends Digitale Transformation, Klimawandel, Globalisierung, demografischer Wandel, Urbanisierung und Migration. Dabei bedienen sie sich verschiedener methodischer Ansatze, etwa der Nutzung von Big Data, Kunstlicher Intelligenz und Robotik.
Prevalence of diabetes in Tirupati urban population and the role of risk factors associated with it - a preliminary survey.

A house-to-house inquiry for patients with known diabetes was carried out in Tirupati, a town in Andhra Pradesh. 220 diabetic patients were inquired for a detailed questionnaire regarding the type of diabetes, life style including diet, habits, heredity and exercise. Out of them, 35 (16%) were type I diabetic and 185 (84%) were type II diabetic patients. Out of the type II diabetic patients 130 (70%) fall in the age between 30-45 years and 32 (17.5%) between age 46-55 yrs and 23 (12.5%) are above 55 years. Regarding life style and habit, 45 (24.5%) of the Type II patients have regular habit of both smoking and alcoholic, where 15 (8%) of the type II were either smokers or alcoholics alone. Among the total diabetic patients inquired, 92% of them were unaware about the role of other factors like smoking, alcohol, diet and exercise associated with diabetes. The study highlights a high prevalence of known type II diabetes in developing urban areas like Tirupati and these data are very important in area with most diabetic prevalence. Proper diet, life style and exercise in controlling the prevalence of diabetes must be incorporated into health services. Hence, pharmacists have more roles to play in advising and counseling the diabetic patients during the dispensing of medicines.
Forever in Debt: The Effects of Debt-Funded Education on Racial Disparities

Federal loans originally were made available to students for the purpose of helping those who couldn’t afford to attend a college or university to do so and to graduate. As researchers examined the effects of federal-loan debt on matriculated students and graduates, they found that loans may be beneficial when used appropriately but otherwise may hinder the academic success of student borrowers. Black students rely more on federal student loans than White students do, a difference that is correlated with disparities in wealth accumulation post-graduation. I will describe alternative means of funding college education that are designed for all students and that have the intent of reducing the inequality in post-graduation wealth. A combination of these methods may be more effective than any of them by themselves.
Does Culture Affect Tourism Demand? A Global Perspective

Tourism studies commonly focus on the determinants of tourism demand. While most examine factors such as economic determinants, research on the effect of culture on tourism demand remains underdeveloped. This study uses a Bayesian two-stage median regression method to eliminate the potential collinearity between cultural and travel distance and to estimate the impact of cultural distance more appropriately. The results show that while there is a negative relationship between cultural distance and tourism demand, tourism demand is less sensitive to change in cultural distance; the popularity of a travel route moderates the effect of cultural distance on tourism demand; and the influence of cultural distance is different across time and different source markets.
Anti-money laundering ratings: uncovering evidence hidden in plain sight

PurposeThis paper aims to increase the transparency of information in official anti-money laundering rating data to assist evidence-informed decision-making in compliance, policy-making and research.Design/methodology/approachThis paper converts anti-money laundering rating data into information-rich visualisations, reintroduces a comparison methodology and ranks all anti-money laundering regimes evaluated to date.FindingsOfficial anti-money laundering ratings as currently structured and presented offer surprisingly little policy-relevant information. Persistent failure to transform available data into information for knowledge and insight suggests that the risk has been realised that impressionistic judgments or politicised interests drive the policy agenda at least as much as objective evidence or substantive economic and social goals.Practical implicationsAny reluctance to generate policy-relevant information from the industry’s primary data set or disinclination to engage constructively with a growing body of independent critical policy effectiveness evidence calls into question whether implementing anti-money laundering controls with some prospect of achieving substantial societal benefits, or perpetuating the current system, prevails.Originality/valueWith a dearth of scholarship at the intersection of money laundering and policy effectiveness scholarship and practice, this paper combines elements of these disciplines and examines anti-money laundering effectiveness from a different viewpoint. Rather than seeking to measure money laundering or estimate the proportion of criminal proceeds successfully intercepted, this paper draws directly from the anti-money laundering industry’s own “main” data set.
Hahnenküken von Legehühnern sollen leben! Und was machen wir dann mit den Hähnen? Zahlungsbereitschaft für Hahnenfleischprodukte unter Berücksichtigung des Informations-Framings

Eine angemessene Zahlungsbereitschaft fur Fleischerzeugnisse von Legehybrid- oder Zweinutzungshahnen ist ein wichtiger Aspekt, um diese innovativen Konzepte der Legehennenhaltung wirtschaftlich tragfahig zu machen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Auswirkung von Informations-Framing auf die Zahlungsbereitschaft fur Fleischprodukte dieser Hahne. Das multiple lineare Regressionsmodell zeigt, dass sich ein hedonistisches Framing signifikant positiv auf die Zahlungsbereitschaft der VerbraucherInnen auswirkt. Im Gegensatz dazu beeinflussen die Einstellungen der VerbraucherInnen zur Totung der Eintagskuken die Zahlungsbereitschaft nicht.
Racial Selection in Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan

ABSTRACT The US Armed Forces officially desegregated in 1948. Over the following 70 years, the military has made great strides in promoting racial integration. We find evidence, however, that Black soldiers’ experience of military service still differs significantly from that of other racial and ethnic groups. Exploiting a database of administrative records for 100,000 Army personnel serving during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, we find that Blacks were less likely than other service members to have deployed, or to face intense combat if deployed, during the early phases of the campaigns.
Related Factors to Screening or Repeat Screening for Cervical and Breast Cancer among Women

The importance of screening or repeat screening for cervical and breast cancer is well known to decrease the chance of death from cancer. Few data is avaliable regarding factors associated with participation in cervical and breast cancer screening and repeat screening examinations. This study was to investigate the associations of demographic factors, health status and cancer risk recognition, attitude to cancer screening, health behaviors, and inhibiting or facilitating factors to cervical and breast cancer screening with participation in the screening tests. Data was collected with self-administrated questionnaires from 342 women, aged 40 to 69 years. The cancer screenings were classified into have had or never groups and repeat or not repeated groups. In the case of cervical and breast cancer screening, the have had group was 90 (26.3%), and 82 (24.0%) and the repeat group was 17 (5.0%), and 13 (3.8%) respectively. According to logistic regression analysis, age ( : OR=3.25, 95% CI=1.27-8.26), breast cancer screening (Do vs Don't : OR=14.49, 95% CI=7.46-27.78) and other person's cancer (Yes vs No : OR=4.27, 95% CI=1.01-18.05) were statistically significantly associated with participation in screening for cervical cancer. Regular exercise (Do vs Don't : OR=2.76, 95% CI=1.30-5.88) and cervical cancer screening (Do vs Don't : OR=13.70, 95% CI=7.09-26.32) were statistically significantly related to participation in screening for breast cancer.
Decompensating domestically: the political economy of anti-globalism

ABSTRACT The rise of populism across advanced industrial countries presents a challenge to the institutions and norms that make up the current global order and threatens to undo the global system that has enabled decades of free trade and investment. We outline in this paper a domestic political economy account of the contemporary crisis of the global order, rooted in disenchantment with the redistributive bargain between globalization’s winners and losers. We present individual and local-level evidence that is consistent with this account, first documenting the decline of the embedded liberal compromise over the past 40 years in Europe, and then providing individual-level evidence from the United States of growing protectionism and xenophobia in response to import exposure, particularly among respondents whose occupational profile is most risk-exposed.
climate change and natural hazards in the Grisons

On account of the current global warming, climate researchers warn of a possible increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather conditions in the future. As an alpine canton, the Grisons are particularly exposed to such events. In the article, the effects of climatic change on large avalanches, floods, mud avalanches, landslides and rock falls are discussed, together with the thawing of permafrost and the melting of glaciers. In the case of large avalanches, thanks to present scientific knowledge and existing protective structures, a greater danger is not necessarily to be feared. However, where floods and mud avalanches are concerned, the situation is somewhat different: there is a greater likelihood of an increased frequency of more severe events in the future. In addition, the potentially endangered zones are larger and more difficult to protect. For such events, therefore, the potential for prevention and damage reduction is significantly higher. The future risk of rock falls and landslides is more difficult to predict. These are highly dependent on the local geology and the necessary understanding of the processes involved is still far from complete. Permafrost degradation and the disappearance of many small glaciers will create new sources of danger and hence increase yet again the risk of floods, mud avalanches and rock falls. The responsible authorities in Canton Grisons are aware of these hazards and lay emphasis on the documentation of events, the establishment of systems of measurement and of information, on warning systems and the application of damage reducing measures on site.
Combining Paid Work and Eldercare in the Netherlands in the Practice of Selected Dutch Organizations

The possibility to balance work and eldercare in the Netherlands is determined by legal and institutional factors (such as special employment entitlements for a career in the form of leaves and a flexible working arrangement). In our paper we compare the Dutch legislation in this field with the HRM practice of four Dutch public and private (non-profit and for-profit) organizations. The aim is to check what kind of workplace eldercare assistance is provided by the organizations and what forms are applied due to legal regulations and what goes beyond these regulations and why. The results show that the relationship between employer and employee is based on mutual trust. Dutch employers are – as far as circumstances permit – more generous in practice than the specific legislation requires, mainly due to the minimum rights in the legislation. A reason for the generosity is self-interest. The Dutch regulation of sick pay can be seen as an incentive to prevent sickness as it obliges employers to continue paying the wages during sickness for a long period. Moreover, they want to build loyalty and motivation among their employees by developing a formof corporate social responsibility.
Housing Activism Initiatives and Land-Use Conflicts: Pathways for Participatory Planning and Urban Sustainable Development in Bucharest City, Romania

This paper presents a geographical perspective of the phenomena of housing activism and land-use conflicts per se. It focuses not only on their spatial manifestations, but also on the complexity of the perceived meanings, values, and the power relationships among the involved parties, rooting into activist geographies. The research methodology was based on two complementary methods: frame analysis to observe the emergence, sources of land-use conflicts, and nature of the relationships between the actors involved; and discourse analysis to explore the social interactions and power relations between structures and practices related to housing activism. For a more inclusive perspective on the sources of land-use conflicts and housing activism initiatives in Bucharest, we used a combination and triangulation of various sources and modes of data collection. Compared with other European cities with active civic engagement, this phenomenon is still emerging in Bucharest. Although conflicts are numerous, the civic initiatives are still fragmented and fail to generate a vision and implementable public policy. However, multiple assaults on urban spaces (green areas, historically protected areas) have resulted in more actions and actors (individual or organised) becoming civically engaged. The article contributes to the environmental debates that stress housing activism as a pathway to participatory planning initiatives.