nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Measuring Teachers' enjoyment, anger, and anxiety: The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES)

The emotions of teachers are considered relevant not only for their own well being but also for the functioning of classrooms. Nevertheless, research on teacher emotions has been slow to emerge, and scales for their assessment via self report are generally lacking. In the present research we developed four item scales for three emotions considered most relevant in the context of teaching: enjoyment, anger, and anxiety (Teacher Emotions Scales, TES) Based on data of 944 teachers, we tested German and English language versions of the TES for reliability, internal and external validity, and cross language equivalence, while exploring the utility of both a general and a student group specific variant. All scales proved to be highly reliable, and confirmatory factor analysis supported internal validity by showing that three factor models (enjoyment, anger, and anxiety) were superior to single factor or two factor (positive vs. negative affect) models. The external validation analyses provided consistent evidence for theoretically meaningful relations with teachers' general affect, burnout, job satisfaction, and teacher self efficacy. These findings were robust across multiple studies. In addition, consistent relationships with student ratings of teaching behaviors were found. Analyses of measurement invariance revealed that the English and the German language versions were fully structurally equivalent und displayed metric invariance.
Knowledge sharing in online health communities: A social exchange theory perspective
Venue: Inf. Manag.

Online health communities (OHC) are becoming valuable platforms for patients to communicate and find support. These communities are different from general online communities. The knowledge shared in an OHC can be categorized as either general (public) or specific (private) and each category is shared in vastly different ways. Using the social exchange theory, we propose a benefit vs. cost knowledge sharing model for OHCs. The benefits are mainly based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the cost includes cognitive and executional costs. We use this benefit vs. cost model to examine how OHC members share general and specific knowledge. Data were collected from 323 users of two well known OHCs in China and were analyzed using the structural equation model. The results demonstrate that three factors positively impact the sharing of both general and specific knowledge: a sense of self worth, members' perceived social support, and reputation enhancement. Another factor, face concern, has a negative influence on specific knowledge sharing and a positive influence on general knowledge sharing. Executional cost only negatively impacts general knowledge sharing, and cognitive cost only negatively impacts specific knowledge sharing. This study of OHCs reveals that personal benefits promote knowledge sharing and costs prohibit it. These impacts vary between general knowledge and specific knowledge sharing.
Beyond safety outcomes: An investigation of the impact of safety climate on job satisfaction, employee engagement and turnover using social exchange theory as the theoretical framework.
Venue: Applied ergonomics

Safety climate, a measure of the degree to which safety is perceived by employees to be a priority in their company, is often implicated as a key factor in the promotion of injury reducing behavior and safe work environments. Using social exchange theory as a theoretical basis, this study hypothesized that safety climate would be related to employees' job satisfaction, engagement, and turnover rate, highlighting the beneficial effects of safety climate beyond typical safety outcomes. Survey data were collected from 6207 truck drivers from two U.S. trucking companies. The objective turnover rate was collected one year after the survey data collection. Results showed that employees' safety climate perceptions were linked to employees' level of job satisfaction, engagement, and objective turnover rate, thus supporting the application of social exchange theory. Job satisfaction was also a significant mediator between safety climate and the two human resource outcomes (i.e. employee engagement and turnover rate) This study is among the first to assess the impact of safety climate beyond safety outcomes among lone workers (using truck drivers as an exemplar)
A social exchange theory framework for understanding the job characteristics job outcomes relationship: the mediating role of psychological contract fulfillment

This study integrated the Job Demands Resources (JD R) model and concept of psychological contract fulfillment into a social exchange theory process framework to improve our understanding how and when job characteristics interact to influence job outcomes. Using survey data (n 334) we found evidence to support our hypothesized relationships between job characteristics (job demands and job resources) and job outcomes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and the mediating role of psychological contract fulfillment (transactional and relational) such that when job resources (job control and support) were high, the negative effects of high job demands on psychological contract fulfillment were attenuated. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
Capitalizing on Military Nurse Skills for Second Career Leadership and Staff Development Roles.
Venue: Journal of continuing education in nursing

Nursing continues to face professional workforce and diversity shortage problems. This article advocates for examining an untapped resource the consideration of applicants for nursing leadership and educational positions in civilian health care organizations. This untapped resource is highly qualified, already retired (or going to be separated) military nurse officers (MNOs) who possess extensive health care knowledge, as well as distinctive ethnicity and gender composition. Clinical educators, as part of the organizational leadership, can play an important role in assisting the MNO civilian position assimilation because they come from a structured and unique cultural environment. Several innovative preparatory strategies are proposed to highlight the organization's support and commitment regarding preselection, recruiting, hiring, and mentoring, including the use of a specific navigational mentor to achieve the necessary acquired cultural assimilation for the MNO's success, satisfaction, and retention.
Diferentes perspectivas de sucesso em projetos de inovacao: uma analise comparativa das abordagens Design for Six Sigma e Design Thinking

O objetivo deste artigo e investigar o alinhamento das abordagens DFSS e DT ao perfil do projeto de inovacao e nas dimensoes de sucesso utilizadas para avalia los. Optou se pela estrategia de pesquisa qualitativa, com o desenvolvimento de um estudo de caso, realizado no ano de 2014, em uma empresa multinacional do setor financeiro, que utiliza ambas as abordagens. O estudo envolveu a analise de dados de oito projetos, sendo quatro DFSS e quatro DT. Para a interpretacao e sintese dos resultados, utilizou se a estatistica descritiva e o teste de mediana de Mood. Os resultados indicam que a abordagem selecionada influi nas dimensoes de sucesso em projetos e que projetos DT tendem a possuir maiores perspectivas de sucesso em inovacao.
Big Data Analysis of Contractor Performance Information for Services Acquisition in DoD: A Proof of Concept

This paper examines the use of Big Data analytic techniques to explore and analyze large datasets that are used to capture information about DoD services acquisitions. It describes the burgeoning field of Big Data analytics, how it is used in the private sector, and how it could potentially be used in acquisition research. It tests the application of Big Data analytic techniques by applying them to a dataset of CPARS ratings of acquired services, and it creates predictive models that explore the causes of failed services contracts using three analytic techniques: logistic regression, decision tree analysis, and neural networks. The report concludes that four variables exhibit the largest impact on the success/failure rates of services contracts: type of contract; awarded dollar value; workload per filled billets; of 1102 billets filled by contracting office.
Rethinking format: An examination of requests
Venue: Language in Society

This study explores the formulation of requests in an American English speaking shoe repair shop. Taking prior work on request formats as our starting point, we explore the two primary syntactic moods (declarative and interrogative) in our collection and two of the commonly noted subtypes of these moods, need/want declaratives and can interrogatives. While our findings in very general terms match those of previous studies, we also find significant grammatical variation within each of these formats, and note interactional uses for each variation. Our examination yields insight into facets of requesting that were previously undescribed. We offer an Emergent Grammar perspective on the complexity of lexicosyntax in the social action of requesting. (Requests, formats, Emergent Grammar, Conversation Analysis, American English, service encounters)
IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)
Venue: IEEE Access

The plethora of research, standardization and developments in Internet of Things (IoT) has increased enormously in recent years. This is due to the vast scope of IoT. Internet of Things refers to the worldwide network of interconnected objects, which allow people or things to be connected anytime, anyplace, with anything and anyone, using any path, any network and any service. The objects have different characteristics: mobile or static, with or without energy constraint, different computation and storage capabilities, equipped with different communication technologies and sensors, etc.
Ieee Access Special Section Editorial: Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Health
Venue: IEEE Access

Smart devices, such as tablets and phones, are revolutionizing access to healthcare services. They are bringing forth the mHealth and eHealth revolution, and are aiming to empower the consumers to make a difference to their health and wellbeing by connecting data to personalized analytics to timely insights. However, this consumer centric journey for smart and connected health is presenting challenges and opportunities for big data analytics research, whether in integrating and developing machine learning algorithms for heterogeneous and longitudinal data or developing novel systems or applications or developing new user experience frameworks, and doing all this while ensuring privacy and security of user data.
Do students behave like real taxpayers in the lab? Evidence from a real effort tax compliance experiment

We report on data from a real effort tax compliance experiment using three subject pools: students, who do not pay income tax; company employees, whose income is reported by their employer; and self employed taxpayers, who are responsible for filing and payment. While compliance behavior is unaffected by changes in the level of, or information about the audit probability, higher fines increase compliance. We find subject pool differences: self assessed taxpayers are the most compliant, while students are the least compliant. Through a simple framing manipulation, we show that such differences are driven by norms of compliance from outside the lab.
Enforcement, Socioeconomic Diversity, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States

In this paper we examine the determinants of tax filing compliance in the United States. We use county level data on non filing rates for the tax year 2000, obtained directly from the Internal Revenue Service. We include explanatory variables identified in the "rational compliance" framework, including an enforcement index against identified non filers, the audit rate of filers, and the average penalty rate for both filers and non filers. We also examine the role of socio economic diversity on tax compliance, testing whether within county heterogeneity in household income, language, race, and religion can help explain variation in non filing rates. We find that non filing is increasing with heterogeneity by race, though not by income or language, and that non filing is decreasing with heterogeneity by religious membership. As for enforcement variables, we find that non filing rates tend to fall with the enforcement index. Other variables have somewhat mixed results.
PHOSPHATE SOLUBILIZING MICROBES: AN EFFECTIVE AND ALTERNATIVE APPROACH AS BIOFERTILIZERS

It is undoubtedly clear that phosphorus is the second most important nutrient after nitrogen required for growth of plants. It is an essential element in all living systems. Hardly 1% 2% of phosphorous is supplied to other parts of the plants. Plants acquire phosphorus from soil solution in the form of phosphate anion. It is the least mobile element in plant and soil in comparison to other macronutrients. It remains in a precipitated form in the soil as mono or orthophosphate or is absorbed by Fe or Al oxides through legend exchange. Generally, the phosphate solubilizing microorganisms (PSM) play a very important role in phosphorus nutrition by exchanging its availability to plants through release from inorganic and organic soil phosphorus pools by solubilization and mineralization. The main mechanism in the soil for mineral phosphate solubilization is by lowering the soil pH by the microbial production of organic acids and mineralization of organic phosphorus by acid phosphates. To fulfill the phosphorous demand of plant, an additional source of phosphorous is applied to plants in the form of chemical fertilizers. One of the most common forms of phosphate is fertilizers in the form of rock phosphate or superphosphate. It is not suggested to apply these phosphates directly to soil as there are so many environmental problems. Hence, biofertilizers or microbial inoculants are used as an alternate source, which are both economic as well as eco friendly.
Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan

Japanese social order emphasizes a superior's responsibility for their subordinates' well being. This traditional "right to benevolence" is a wellspring of hope for workers. This paper describes how, in the wake of changes in employment practices since the mid 1970s, citizens' groups and labor lawyers creatively combined advances in medicine and legal knowledge with this right to benevolence in lawsuits seeking compensation for injuries caused by overwork. The social movement against karoshi (death due to overwork) that arose from these suits first sought workers' compensation system reforms. Later, they won legislative remedies. Rulings in Japanese courts, including the Supreme Court, affirmed employers' legal responsibility for worker well being to include care for accumulated fatigue and mental health. Buoyed by these successes, activists and victims' families hopes of preventing karoshi reached new heights with the June 2014 passage of the Karoshi Prevention Countermeasures Promotion Law (Karoshi to boshi taisaku suishin ho) Karoshi compensation victories, administrative rule changes, and legislative reforms raised public awareness of overwork and exploitative management practices. Nevertheless, we must conclude that, although karoshi legislation gives hope for a legal regime of employee care rights, the current law is weak and remediation only addresses the worst cases. Moreover, participation in the legislative process risks limiting the movement's future influence.
Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence

In Japan, today, longevity has not meant a reduction in years of dependence. As a result, anticipation of a long life also brings the troubling anticipation of problems like chronic illness and loneliness. How do older adults facing such a future create hope? The purpose of this paper is threefold: (i) to propose a conceptualization of hope as "lunar aesthetics," that is, not as anticipation of achievement but as a process of loss and renewal; (ii) to link this process to aesthetic forms and ritual practices from my fieldwork with older adults in Kyoto; and (iii) to critically evaluate the ways current formal long term care diverges from "lunar" hope. Drawing on Japanese associations between the moon, hope, and rituals memorializing the spirits of the dead, this paper argues that older adults engage with an alternative interpretation of hope based on transience and transcendence. Both of these offer hope to older adults by reorienting the temporal boundaries of personhood, to experience change (including decline and death) as an inherent aspect of becoming part of a larger narrative of linked generations or the natural state of life.
An International Comparison of Hope and Happiness in Japan, the UK, and the US

Using the method of back translation, comparative surveys were conducted to examine the differences and similarities in hope and happiness in Japan, the UK, and the US. We find substantial differences in levels of hope; most people in the UK and US hope to realize something in the future, whereas only half of Japanese respondents have what they see as 'feasible' hopes. Looking at the similarities, the issue of family is consistently the most important content of hope in all three countries. The empirical estimations also reveal that marriage, jobs, health, friends, trust, and patriotism have similar effects on hope and happiness across the three countries. Lack of friends, limited experience of feeling trusted, and lack of religious belief result in less hope in Japan. Ordeals in the past tend to reduce the degree of happiness in the present, but at the same time, such difficulties encourage people to have hopes that forward looking actions will bring about better conditions. This counter trend implies that the positive setback effect impacts consistently upon hope in all three of the countries studied.
Hope for coral reef rehabilitation: massive synchronous spawning by outplanted corals in Okinawa, Japan
Venue: Coral Reefs

Since 1998, the Onna Village Fisheries Cooperative, Okinawa, Japan, has outplanted more than 40 scleractinian coral species, under permits issued by OkinawaPrefecture. TheCoophas established a unique and successful rearing method for outplants (Higa and Omori 2014)  Seeding outplants at the periphery of existing colonies has been suggested as a means of enhancing larval settlement to increase coral abundance, density, and cover during reef rehabilitation. During sexual reproduction, synchronous spawningmaximizes fertilization rate by generating high gamete concentrations (Oliver and Babcock 1992)
Modeling, Simulation and Control of the Walking of Biped Robotic Devices, Part II: Rectilinear Walking

This is the second part of a three part paper. It extends to the free walking results of a previous work on postural equilibrium of a lower limb exoskeleton for rehabilitation exercises. A classical approach has been adopted to design gait (zero moment point (ZMP) linearized inverted pendulum theory, inverse kinematics obtained through the pseudo inverse of Jacobian matrices) While several ideas exploited here can be found in other papers of the literature, e.g. whole body coordination, our contribution is the simplicity of the whole control approach that originates logically from a common root. (1) The approximation of the unilateral foot/feet ground contacts with non holonomic constraints leads naturally to a modeling and control design that implements a two phase switching system. The approach is facilitated by Kane's method and tools as described in Part I. (2) The Jacobian matrix is used to transfer from the Cartesian to the joint space a greater number of variables for redundancy than the degrees of freedom (DOF) We call it the extended Jacobian matrix. Redundancy and the prioritization of postural tasks is approached with weighted least squares. The singularity of the kinematics when knees are fully extended is solved very simply by fake knee joint velocities. (3) Compliance with the contact and accommodation of the swing foot on an uneven ground, when switching from single to double stance, and the transfer of weight from one foot to the other in double stance are approached by exploiting force/torque expressions returned from the constraints. (4) In the center of gravity (COG)/ZMP loop for equilibrium, an extended estimator, based on the linearized inverted pendulum, is adopted to cope with external force disturbances and unmodeled dynamics. Part II treats rectilinear walking, while Part III discusses turning while walking.
Efficient 3D Hand Tracking in Articulation Subspaces for the Manipulation of Virtual Objects
Venue: CGI

We propose an efficient method for model based 3D tracking of hand articulations observed from an egocentric viewpoint that aims at supporting the manipulation of virtual objects. Previous model based approaches optimize non convex objective functions defined in the 26 Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) space of possible hand articulations. In our work, we decompose this space into six articulation subspaces (6 DoFs for the palm and 4 DoFs for each finger) We also label each finger with a Gaussian model that is propagated between successive image frames. As confirmed by a number of experiments, this divide and conquer approach tracks hand articulations more accurately than existing model based approaches. At the same time, real time performance is achieved without the need of GPGPU processing. Additional experiments show that the proposed approach is preferable for supporting the accurate manipulation of virtual objects in VR/AR scenarios.
An optical sensor for tracking hand articulations
Venue: 2016 IEEE SENSORS

Recognizing and tracking articulations of the human hand is key to the development of areas such as robotics, virtual reality systems and physical rehabilitation. Based on the principle of crossed polarization detection, a novel optical sensor with a hinge configuration, is proposed to monitor finger articulation. Using 3D printing technology, we fabricated a lightweight and compact sensor suited to attaching on fingers. The weighted average method was applied to the sensor's output data to determine angular positions corresponding to finger joint articulations. The experimental results show excellent consistency with theoretical predictions. The sensor features good accuracy 0.5% of full scale) and repeatability, improved sensitivity, and an improved measuring range of 180deg. The performance of the sensor is a promising development for monitoring finger articulation. Future work will focus on integrating multiple sensors as part of an instrumented glove to evaluate the true potential for monitoring hand articulation.