Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Union Suppression and Union Substitution Strategies of Multinational Enterprises in Ghana

This article complements the literature by furthering the understanding of an ‘African dimension’ of multinational enterprise (MNE) union avoidance. The evidence suggests that MNEs engaged in both union suppression and union substitution strategies by (i) exploiting young employees' apathy to promote opposition and indifference for union organisation (evil stuff), (ii) implementing union member‐centred employee retrenchment (fear stuff), (iii) using enterprise‐level collective bargaining arrangement to suppress union bargaining power (fear and fatal stuff), (iv) exploiting the fragmented labour union environment to suppress union organisation (fatal and evil stuff) and (v) promoting individual employee voice and involvement mechanisms (sweet stuff). Although MNEs in Ghana engaged in both union suppression and union substitution strategies, they appear to particularly favour the adoption of ‘union suppression’ strategies and what might be termed as ‘corridor tactics’. Our article highlights four transitional issues underpinning the emerging success of ‘corridor tactics’ in union suppression in a less developed host country.
The Sustainable Development of Social Media Contents: An Analysis of Concrete and Abstract Information on Cultural and Creative Institutions with “Artist” and “Ordinary People” Positioning

The sustainability of social media is a common subject of study. With the emergence of cultural and creative industries, many studies have begun to explore the advantages and disadvantages of the integration of social media with cultural and creative industries. However, there remains a lack of research on the sustainability of cultural and creative social media. Therefore, the present study uses the example of a non-profit cultural and creative organization as its case. The use of social media content discovery technology explains the sustainable use of cultural and creative social media and how participation and interaction with cultural and creative brands are promoted from the perspective of artists or ordinary people. In addition, the analysis of concrete and abstract information explores how content orientation and brand perception impact emotions and behavior. We use social media content discovery technology to analyze 9529 image posts. The results show that for abstract themes, for example, art or design, people can be more easily guided by information with the help of images, which stimulate positive emotions, resulting in more actual engagement behavior, including posting and sharing. With respect to emotional responses, images with smiles are found to have a significant effect in guiding positive emotions, which are expressed through actions, such as active participation and feedback. By examining the meaning of the information in the images, we find that images with abstract themes have a good connection with the brand image. Although the information is less easily shown, it can guide significant outcomes that are positively correlated with the information. Therefore, strengthening brand image and content themes can effectively consolidate trust in brand content and the sustainable development of cultural and creative social media.
Psychological Well-Being in College: The Role of Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Romantic Relationships

Evans, Lyndsey Marie. Psychological Well-Being in College: The Role of Parental MetaEmotion Philosophy and Romantic Relationships. Published Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, University of Northern Colorado, 2019. According to recent research, numerous components of psychological well-being have indicated Americans are struggling psychologically. Given that psychological wellbeing has a bidirectional and, in some cases, a predictive relationship with various environmental factors, this study sought to discover the “missing link” of psychological well-being. In doing so, this study organized parental meta-emotion philosophy, emotion expression, romantic relationship satisfaction, and psychological well-being into unique measurement and structural models. Correlations, t-tests and structural equation modeling conducted on a sample of 167 indicated emotion-coaching and psychological well-being were significantly related to romantic relationship satisfaction. Further, emotionally-dismissive parenting was significantly related to emotion expression in relationships. No significant, predictive relationships were found between variables. These results served as a foundation for future research seeking to understand how parental characteristics during childhood and current day relationship satisfaction help to support and influence psychological well-being.
Token Validation in Automatic Corpus Gathering for Yorùbá Language

Recent methodologies in machine translation depend on the availability of large language corpora. The web being the repository for text and other multimedia content becomes a viable source for such data. However, there is need for text cleaning, as a pre-processing step, since foreign words are inevitably part of the harvested text. Dictionary lookup approach can be adopted for languages with comprehensive lexicon while manual cleaning approach is applied in other cases. Developing a full-coverage lexicon for Yoruba language is a cumbersome task due to the fact that new words can be formed as a result of elision, assimilation and contraction. In this paper, the morphology of Yoruba language was studied and modelled as a Finite State Machine which accepts a word and returns true if the goal state is reached and false otherwise. The FSM model was implemented in Java. A Yoruba dictionary containing 10,443 distinct words in their base form (i.e. without diacritics) and English dictionary with 64,150 distinct words were parsed through the finite state machine. In addition, 58 web pages sourced from the internet were subjected to classification by the system. Classification of entries from the Yoruba dictionary as valid Yoruba words gave 99.99% accuracy while the classification of entries from the English dictionary as Non-Yoruba words gave 94.07% accuracy. Also, using the threshold of 90% valid Yoruba words in a webpage, all 58 webpages were correctly classified. Result obtained revealed that the approach can reliably be applied in automatic harvesting of Yoruba monolingual corpus from the internet.
Cultural Competency-Related Content among Florida Colleges of Pharmacy Curricula

Objective. Assess cultural competency-related content in Pharmacy curricula among Colleges/Schools of Pharmacy in the state of FL. Methods. Content analysis was used to examine PharmD course descriptions among 5 FL accredited Colleges of Pharmacy. All course descriptions were obtained through the institutes’ websites and the Florida Department of Education’s Statewide Course Numbering System. The text query analysis gathered and compared key terms among all universities using QSR NVivo11 software. In addition, the association between the number of courses with cultural competency-related content for each PharmD program and each class year were examined. Results. Cultural competency related content differed by PharmD programs and class years. Only first-year (P1) pharmacy students showed significant differences in exposure to courses with cultural competency-related content. Conclusion. This study implies PharmD education curricula needs to incorporate more exposure to cultural competency-related content within Pharmacy programs. Implementing cultural competence training would equip pharmacists in delivering competent care to vulnerable patient populations.
Serious leisure is social: Things to learn from the social world perspective

Abstract In this article, the social world perspective (SWP) is discussed to address the concern that current serious leisure (SL) studies focus predominantly on individual experiences while overlooking the broader sociocultural context. In addition to using SWP to identify how social organization and process shape a leisure world and its members’ experiences, the fluidity of SWP indicates the need to explore social changes in a leisure world, underlying situations, and the influences of individuals’ and groups’ actions on social changes. SL experiences and qualities in those situations may be performed differently or innovatively by enthusiasts to legitimize and sustain their or their group’s status in a leisure world. Those diverse and innovative actions, in turn, can enrich a leisure world. This study reveals that SWP is a useful tool for conceptualizing the social aspect of SL.
The wiretap channel applied to biometrics

We present an application of the wire-tap channel to biometrics. Our contribution is threefold. We start with an information-theoretic approach and modelization of the biometric identification problem of the European Project (VIPBOB). Next, we generalize Wyner's coset-coding scheme and prove that linear codes achieves the Shannon-capacity. Finally, we present a solution to the original problem using LDPC codes.
Perceptions of safety confronted by experience: How visitors to Istanbul modified their perceptions of risk and fear in the light of personal experience

This paper compares the perceptions of risk and safety of those arriving on a visit to Istanbul with a similar sample of those returning from their trip. While the two samples are of different individuals, the research does provide a proxy measure of change, or lack of it, in the light of personal experience. In this sense, it offers an advantage over traditional crime surveys that present a snapshot of perceptions at one point in time. The findings are discussed in the context of more general research on fear of crime and perceptions of risk, and how these are – or are not – influenced by personal experience.
Ordonnancement et réallocation de tâches sur une grille de calcul

Nous nous interessons dans cet article a l'etude des effets de la reallocation de tâches sur une plate-forme de grille du type de Grid'5000, composee de ressources paralleles, chacune geree par un systeme batch. Les resultats de simulation a partir de traces reelles de Grid'5000 montrent des gains allant jusqu'a 40% sur le temps d'attente moyen d'une tâche dans le systeme, alors que les tâches sont affectees lors de leur soumission au site permettant de les terminer le plus tot a priori.
Compound Noun Polysemy and Sense Enumeration in WordNet

Sense enumeration in WordNet is one of the main reasons behind the problem of high polysemous nature of WordNet. The sense enumeration refers to misconstruction that results in wrong assigning of a synset to a term. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to discover and solve the problem of sense enumerations in compound noun polysemy in WordNet. The proposed solution reduces the number of sense enumerations in WordNet and thus its high polysemous nature without affecting its efficiency as a lexical resource for natural language processing. Keywords–Polysemy; wordNet; compound nouns; sense enumeration.
Auto-generating Bilingual Dictionaries

Inferring a bilingual dictionary from two or more existing bilingual dictionaries is a non-trivial task, as seen in reports of large-scale, computationally-heavy experiments published in recent years. Early works on this have already noted that the main obstacle in such inferences stems from the fact that polysemy is not isomorphic across languages, and often a monosemous lexical item in one language can be polysemous in its corresponding transltion into another language. In this paper, we propose an experiment on tr anslation inference across dictionaries, based on a graph-based view of a collection of bilingual dictionaries. The idea is to explore the results and analyze them from a lexicographic point of view to reflect the implications that the issue of anisomorphy introduces in the task, and to illustrate its hurdles and potential benefits.
Currency Indexes and Consistent Currency Misvaluation: Illustrations using Big Mac Data

A currency’s misvaluation versus an index of other currencies, termed the currency’s multilateral misvaluation, depends on the index weights. This study clarifies the idea of consistency in multilateral misvaluation and provides instructive empirical illustrations using several currency index weighting methods. For both of the Economist’s Big Mac approaches (“raw” and Adjusted) to intrinsic foreign exchange value, the study finds that a multilateral currency misvaluation estimate based on an equal-weight index does not necessarily provide a reasonable approximation to the estimate of a more economically-meaningful currency index.
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE CONNECTICUT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM

We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools on student shortand longterm outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a semester less time enrolled in college, although effects on college fade-out. Male students have 32% higher quarterly earnings. Earnings effects may in part reflect general skills: male students have higher attendance rates and test scores, and industry fixed effects explain less than 1/3rd of earnings gains. We find little evidence that attending a technical high school affects the outcomes of female students. Eric Brunner Department of Public Policy University of Connecticut 10 Prospect Street, 4th Floor Hartford, CT 06103 eric.brunner1@gmail.com Shaun Dougherty Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Vanderbilt University 230 Appleton Place Nashville, TN 37203-5721 shaun.dougherty@vanderbilt.edu Stephen L. Ross Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 and NBER stephen.l. ross@uconn.edu A appendices is available at http://www.nber. org/data-appendix/w28790
Why American Workers’ Retirement Income Security Prospects LookSo Bleak: A Review of Recent Assessments

Several recent assessments suggest that the majority of U.S. workers are at risk of suffering a fall in their standard of living in retirement. These assessments are often based on models that fail to reflect the way income and saving vary over workers’ life cycles. They extrapolate younger workers’ observed savings behavior into the future, ignoring workers’ capacity to boost saving after children leave home, the mortgage is paid off, and other early-life obligations have been discharged. The measurement of preretirement income and its spendable portion as an indicator of living standards in working years is often exaggerated by inappropriate indexing. This method leads to overestimates of earnings to be replaced in retirement and underestimates of the income replacement capacity of Social Security for various segments of the workforce. Although clearly some workers are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living throughout retirement, the situation is less dire than a number of studies have suggested. This general conclusion holds true even with a sensible consideration of healthcare costs.
New Methodology for Asynchronous Motor the Adaptive-Sliding-Mode-Control Capable of High Performance Regulation

A new methodology for the design of adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) for Asynchronous motor control will be presented in this paper. The sliding mode control (SMC) has become one of the most active branches of control theory that has found successful applications in a variety of engineering systems, such an the electrical motors. The new Adaptive sliding mode control method is compared to other existing techniques. The pros and cons of ASMC controller will be demonstrated by intensive simulation results. It will be shown that the presented controller is with fast tracking capability, less steady state error, and robust to load disturbance.
Last Mile Caching of Video Content by an ISP

While streaming traffic is today overflowing networks, leading to major disputes beween the various actors of the content delivery chain, we show in this paper that distributed caching in eyeball networks is an efficient means of reducing load on critical links in the network. To prove this statement, we perform trace driven simulations exploiting traffic measurements from the IP backbone network operated by Orange in France. We then describe how distributed caching can be implemented and we propose an associated business model.
Serverless Computing and Scheduling Tasks on Cloud: A Review

Recently, the emergence of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has gained increasing attention by researchers. FaaS, also known as serverless computing, is a new concept in cloud computing that allows the services computation that triggers the code execution as a response for certain events. In this paper, we discuss various proposals related to scheduling tasks in clouds. These proposals are categorized according to their objective functions, namely minimizing execution time, minimizing execution cost, or multi objectives (time and cost). The dependency relationships between the tasks plays a vital role in determining the efficiency of the scheduling approach. This dependency may result in resources underutilization. FaaS is expected to have a significant impact on the process of scheduling tasks. This problem can be reduced by adopting a hybrid approach that combines both the benefit of FaaS and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Using FaaS, we can run the small tasks remotely and focus only on scheduling the large tasks. This helps in increasing the utilization of the resources because the small tasks will not be considered during the process of scheduling. An extension of the restricted time limit by cloud vendors will allow running the complete workflow using the serverless architecture, avoiding the scheduling problem.
Region Clustering Based Multiple Query Optimization

In order to solve the problem of low efficiency in dealing with large numbers of queries in Hive, we propose a multi-queries region clustering (MQRC) method to improve the overall performance. This method makes effective use of the region overlap between queries and the region aggregation of query sets. By clustering the query set, we divide some queries with high similarity into a group, and share a materialized view within the group, which can effectively reduce the overhead of the query set. The experimental results show that, the method proposed in this paper is superior to the traditional method. It can shorten the time of queries.
In the name of ‘the people’? Popular Sovereignty and the 2015 Greek referendum

ABSTRACT This article explores the rise of new conflicts of sovereignty especially with regard to popular sovereignty in the EU polity. It asks whether referenda in the national realm are effective tools to enhance popular sovereignty at supranational level. To elucidate this question, we distinguish between embedded and unilateral referenda. Empirically, the paper focuses on the referendum called by the Greek government on the proposed Memorandum of Understanding in 2015. While ambiguous from the outset, the referendum turned out to be of an embedded nature and failed to enhance popular sovereignty. Based on elite interviews and analysis of the discussion in the media, our analysis shows that the referendum was envisaged by the Greek government instrumentally to put pressure on the other negotiating parties and tackle internal party disagreements. This turned out to be a self-defeating strategy ignoring the popular mandate and failing to improve the conditions for financial assistance.
Comparing probabilistic predictive models applied to football

We propose two Bayesian multinomial-Dirichlet models to predict the final outcome of football (soccer) matches and compare them to three well-known models regarding their predictive power. All the models predicted the full-time results of 1710 matches of the first division of the Brazilian football championship and the comparison used three proper scoring rules, the proportion of errors and a calibration assessment. We also provide a goodness of fit measure. Our results show that multinomial-Dirichlet models are not only competitive with standard approaches, but they are also well calibrated and present reasonable goodness of fit.
On the Use of Mobile Apps in Education: The Impact of Digital Magazines on Student Learning

As the use of technology evolves in education, an extensive range of new smart devices and digital applications is becoming available to academics. Digital magazines are an example of such technologies, which can help educators to improve the learning experience of their students inside and outside of the classroom. Digital magazines are widely available and some can be further customized and curated by instructors using mobile apps. This article explores the impact of curated digital magazines, created and distributed via a mobile app—Flipboard, in enhancing students’ engagement, enjoyment, and learning of class-related content. Overall, students responded favorably to the adoption of this technological innovation. Students exposed to the digital magazines and mobile app displayed higher levels of enjoyment with class content and performed better on a knowledge assessment, relative to students in a control condition. The article concludes with a discussion of results and implications for future research.
Illuminating Information Creating: Using the "Four C" Model of Creativity as a Lens for ILS

Information creating is understudied in the ILS field. This paper introduces the interdisciplinary “Four C”Model of Creativity (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009) and begins to employ it as a lens for conceptualizingand approaching information-creating research. The “Four C” model distinguishes four main types ormodes of creativity. When translated into ILS, the model serves as a platform for aggregating information-creatingresearch, synthesizing across it, recognizing gaps in it, and growing this research area overall.
The Effect of Based Learning Problem Model with Macromedia Flash to the Representation Mathematical Ability VII Grade Students of SMPN 1 Sidamanik

This research is amed to know: (1) the effect of problem basic learning with macromedia flash to the mathematic representation ability and (2) the effect of problem basic learning model with macromedia flash to students’ self confident. The kind of this research is quasi experiment. The population of this research is all VII Grade students of SMPN 1 Sidamanik. The sample of this research is VII-A Class as experiment class (36 students) and VII-C Class as control class (36 students). The instrument used consist of mathematic representation ability test and self-confidence questionary . the analisys is used by using 2 rutes Anava. The result of this research shows that: (1) there is significant effect of problem based learning by macromedia flash to the mathematic representation ability (2) there is significant effect of problem basic learning with macromedia flash to the students’ self-confidence. Keywords: Problem Based Learning, Macromedia Flash, Mathematic Representation Ability, and Self-Confidence