nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
The Process of Responsibility, Decoupling Point, and Disengagement of Moral and Social Responsibility in Supply Chains: Empirical Findings and Prescriptive Thoughts

The aim of the paper is to explore and assess the process of responsibility, decoupling point, and disengagement of moral responsibility, in combination with business sustainability (BSus) in supply chains. The research is based on a qualitative approach consisting of two multifaceted case studies, each including multiple case companies and different empirical research characteristics, and a review of BSus in supply chain literature. The case studies apply moral disengagement (MDis) to propose how moral responsibility can deteriorate in supply chains, and the literature review identifies elements of BSus in supply chain management (SCM) The contribution of this paper is to compare these two research streams and evaluate the efficacy of the concepts proposed in the case studies. Through this study, BSus gains an entirely different and complementary toolkit which should facilitate further and more effective research in SCM. The theory of MDis also provides a foundation for reinforcing explanatory and prescriptive aspects of 'best practices' in the SCM literature. The findings also establish a basis for organizing and monitoring supply chains so as to improve BSus efforts. Considering moral responsibility as a flow this research explains why and how certain practices may impede BSus efforts in supply chains. Original and/or innovative outcomes include explanatory and prescriptive insights that emerge from a combination of empirical findings from two case studies, including seven companies and a framework for improving BSus management in supply chains, based on a typology of moral disengagement.
The impact of the customer order decoupling point on type and level of supply chain integration

Literature suggests that more supply chain (SC) integration increases of SC performance. However, recent research shows that contextual factors affect the effectiveness of SC integration efforts. Specifically, the location of the customer order decoupling point (CODP) might be such a factor, but there is limited empirical evidence. This study explores the impact of the location of the CODP on SC integration. It empirically investigates upstream, internal and downstream SC integration efforts in twelve metal parts producing Dutch companies to offer a comprehensive view of the effects of the location of the CODP on SC integration. Our results show a clear relationship between SC integration and the location of the CODP. Specifically, make to order (MTO) assemble to order (ATO) and make to stock (MTS) companies show relatively high levels in upstream, internal and downstream SC integration, respectively. Moreover, MTO companies mainly share forecast information and engage in joint R&D with their suppliers, ATO companies focus on internal SC integration using information systems and planning, while MTS companies interact with their customers intensively to exchange forecast information. Our study adds to the insight on the application of SC integration in different situations and offers initial evidence for the effects of the location of the CODP on SC integration.
The optimal decision of customer order decoupling point for order insertion scheduling in logistics service supply chain

Customer demand for order insertions impacts the position of the customer order decoupling point (CODP) in a logistics service supply chain (LSSC) This paper focuses on how the parameters of inserted orders affect the position of the CODP when a logistics service integrator (LSI) is operating a mass customization logistics service. Considering customer demand for orders to be inserted, a CODP decision model for LSSCs is developed based on a two echelon LSSC consisting of an LSI and several customers. The objectives of the model are to maximize the profit and to ensure the comprehensive satisfaction of the LSI. Conducting numerical analyses on a specific dataset, it was discovered that the scale effect coefficient and service volume of the inserted order have a clear influence on the CODP decision, while the order variation coefficient does not. Furthermore, the LSI will not accept an inserted order when the inserted order has a high variation coefficient or a low price.
Design of a robotic agent that measures smile and facing behavior of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Venue: 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO MAN)

Although socially assistive robots are popularly studied as a powerful tool in therapeutic activities for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) there are several challenges particularly in automation of the robot's behavior due to difficulties of sensing children's social behaviors by the robotic agent. We developed measurement methods to quantitatively measure children's social behaviors, such as smiling and facing behavior, by means of a wearable device and an image processing. Smiling, facing behavior and their synchrony are usually considered as important social behaviors that imply positive affect and engagement of the participant during the therapeutic intervention. Therefore, the proposed approach would contribute not only to develop the robotic agent which is capable of performing in response to social behaviors of children with ASD, but also to support an evidence based therapeutic intervention. In this article, the measurement performance of the proposed methods were verified by experiments with ten children with ASD, and the relationship between their smile and facing behavior were analyzed.
An evaluation of the Cygnet parenting support programme for parents of children with autism spectrum conditions

Parents of children on the autistic spectrum often struggle to understand the condition and, related to this, manage their child's behaviour. Cygnet is a parenting intervention which aims to help parents address these difficulties, consequently improving parenting confidence. It is widely used in the United Kingdom (UK) Despite this, there have been few evaluations. This paper reports a small scale pragmatic evaluation of Cygnet as it was routinely delivered in two English cities. A non randomised controlled study of outcomes for parents (and their children) was conducted. Data regarding intervention fidelity and delivery costs were also collected. Parents either attending, or waiting to attend, Cygnet were recruited (intervention group: IG, n=35; comparator group: CG, n=32) Parents completed standardised measures of child behaviour and parenting sense of competence pre and post intervention, and at three month follow up (matched time points for CG) Longer term outcomes were measured for the IG. IG parents also set specific child behaviour goals. Typically, the programme was delivered as specified by the manual. Attending Cygnet was associated with significant improvements in parenting satisfaction and the specific child behaviour goals. Findings regarding other outcomes were equivocal and further evaluation is required. We conclude that Cygnet is a promising intervention for parents of children with autism in terms of, at least, some outcomes.
Learning in a Twitter based community of practice: an exploration of knowledge exchange as a motivation for participation in #hcsmca

Through participation in communities of practice (CoPs) those with a common interest can share in learning about and improving practices within their domain (Wenger, E. (2006) Communities of practice: A brief introduction. Retrieved from http:/wenger trayner.com/theory/ As CoPs move online, there is increased potential for more expansive and diverse membership. By providing a space in which a global population of members can engage with each other and access and contribute information and knowledge, social media may be used to support online CoPs. Although not originally designed for community development, Twitter is one social media platform that is being used in innovative ways to support communities. This study explores learning as a motivation for participating in the successful Twitter based CoP Health Care Social Media Canada #hcsmca) #hcsmca uses tweet chats (planned synchronous discussions aggregated by a hashtag) to engage in robust dialogues associated with learning and knowledge creation. Interviews with 24 #hcsmca community members show that learning is a fundamental motivator for participation in the community. Twitter was found to be a platform that enables learning for #hcsmca members, albeit not universally. Four thematic elements of learning in #hcsmca were identified. For interviewees, learning was a motivation for participating in the community because they were able to access and share expertise, discover who knows what within the healthcare community, access novel information through interactions with members who have diverse personal and professional backgrounds, and learn information that they could apply in their personal and professional lives.
Singapore primary and secondary students' motivated approaches for learning: A validation study

This study aimed to develop and validate a 28 item questionnaire to measure Singapore primary and secondary students' N 1035) motivation in relation to their self directed learning (SDL) and collaborative learning (CL) with and without Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with an emphasis on investigating the high order factor structure, if any. The instrument consists of seven dimensions: task value, self efficacy, extrinsic goal, SDL, SDL with ICT, CL, and CL with ICT. By using confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood method, the instrument was found to express satisfactory reliability and validity, and it can be best represented by a two correlated second order factor model. Besides, measurement invariance of the second order model was also tested, and results showed that the second order factor structure was generally invariant across gender (boys vs. girls) and grade levels (primary vs. secondary)
THE IMPACT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND GENDER ON JOB SATISFACTION OF POLICE OFFICERS IN PUNJAB, PAKISTAN.

Umbreen Khizar. The present study will explore the correlation of personality traits, gender and job satisfaction of police officers in Punjab, Pakistan. The sample will be consisted on 300 senior police officers. The sample will be further divided on the basis of gender differences. The sample will be selected from Punjab, Pakistan. Survey research method will be used for data collection. Neo Five Factor Inventory (NEO FFI) will be used for measuring the personality traits. Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) scale will be used to check the job satisfaction. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) will be used for data analysis.
Does Personality Have a Different Impact on Self Rated Distraction, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance in Different Office Types?
Venue: PloS one

This study investigates the joint effect of office type (cell, shared room, open plan, and flex) and personality, measured by the Big Five personality traits, on self rated measures of distraction, job satisfaction, and job performance (measured by professional efficacy) Regression analyses with interactions between personality and office type were conducted on 1205 participants working in 5 organizations from both the private and public sectors. While few interactions were observed in the cases of professional efficacy and job satisfaction, several were observed between personality traits and office type on the level of distraction reported. Specifically, more emotionally stable participants reported lower distraction, particularly those working in flex offices. Both agreeableness and openness to experience were associated with higher levels of distraction among participants in open plan compared to cell offices.
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations for tax compliance: evidence from a field experiment in Germany

We study extrinsic and intrinsic motivations for tax compliance in the context of a local church tax in Germany. This tax system has historically relied on zero deterrence so that any compliance at baseline is intrinsically motivated. Starting from this zero deterrence baseline, we implement a field experiment that incentivized compliance through deterrence or rewards. Using administrative records of taxes paid and true tax liabilities, we use these treatments to document that intrinsically motivated compliance is substantial, that a significant fraction of it may be driven by duty to comply preferences, and that there is no crowd out between extrinsic and intrinsic motivations.
Post Quantum Attribute Based Signatures from Lattice Assumptions
Venue: IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.

Attribute based signature schemes (ABS) constitute important and powerful primitives when it comes to protecting the privacy of the user's identity and signing information. More specifically, ABS schemes provide the advantage of anonymously signing a message once a given policy is satisfied. As opposed to other related privacy preserving signatures, the verifier is not able to deduce from the signature, which attributes have been used to satisfy the (public) signing policy. In this work we give new and efficient constructions of lattice based ABS signature schemes, that are not based on the traditional approach of using span programs or secret sharing schemes as for classical schemes. In fact, our approach is less involved and does not require such complex subroutines. In particular, we first construct a new (t,B) threshold ABS scheme that allows to anonymously generate signatures, if t out of p=|B| attributes are covered by valid credentials. Based on this scheme, we propose a lattice based ABS scheme for expressive policies, by use of a new credential aggregation system that is built on top of a modified variant of Boyen's signature scheme. The signature size of the so obtained ABS scheme is linear in the number of disjunctive terms rather than the number of attributes.
Efficient Cryptographic Password Hardening Services from Partially Oblivious Commitments
Venue: CCS

Password authentication still constitutes the most widespread authentication concept on the Internet today, but the human incapability to memorize safe passwords has left this concept vulnerable to various attacks ever since. Affected enterprises such as Facebook now strive to mitigate such attacks by involving external cryptographic services that harden passwords. Everspaugh et al.~provided the first comprehensive formal treatment of such a service, and proposed the Pythia PRF Service as a cryptographically secure solution (Usenix Security'15) Pythia relies on a novel cryptographic primitive called partially oblivious pseudorandom functions and its security is proven under a strong new interactive assumption in the random oracle model. In this work, we prove that this strong assumption is inherently necessary for the Pythia construction, i.e. it cannot be weakened without invalidating the security of Pythia. More generally, it is impossible to reduce the security of Pythia to any non interactive assumptions. Hence any efficient, scalable password hardening service that is secure under weaker assumptions necessarily requires a conceptually different construction. To this end, we propose a construction for password hardening services based on a novel cryptographic primitive called partially oblivious commitments, along with an efficient secure instantiation based on simple assumptions. The performance and storage evaluation of our prototype implementation shows that our protocol runs almost twice as fast as Pythia, while achieving a slightly relaxed security notion but relying on weaker assumptions.
Microwave and millimeter wave power amplifiers: Technology, applications, benchmarks, future trends
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Radio Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT)

Solid State Transistor Device Technology is ubiquitous in communications, radar, electronic warfare, and instrumentation applications. This presentation will cover Si LDMOS, PHEMT, InP HEMT/MHEMT and GaN HEMT. Content includes principles of operation, structures, characteristics, classes of operation, and device state of the art benchmarks. The art of power amplifier design is approached from a historical perspective. Power amplifiers utilizing these device technologies covering UHF through sub millimeter wave are described including amplifier state of the art benchmarks. Future trends are highlighted and summarized.
Promotion of flu vaccination among healthcare workers in an Italian academic hospital: An experience with tailored web tools
Venue: Human vaccines immunotherapeutics

Influenza causes significant mortality particularly among the elderly and high risk groups. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of occupational exposure due to contact with patients. Aims of this study was to promote flu shot among HCWs through a multimedia campaign in a large North Eastern Italian Hospital.  The 2013/2014 flu vaccination multimedia campaign addressed to HCWs was developed by maintaining pre existing tools (letters in pay slip and poster displayed in wards) and creating 4 on line spots (30" delivered trough the hospital intranet. Campaign effectiveness was assessed in terms of changes in knowledge, attitude and practice comparing data of pre (10 items) and post test (20 items) survey on a randomized sample of HCWs.  Response rates were 92.6% (464/501) in pre test and 83.2% (417/501) in post test. 93.8% (391/417) of HCWs reported to awareness of the campaign to promote vaccination. Spots were seen by 59.6% (233/391) of HCWs. Some reasons for vaccine denial, "not believing in vaccine efficacy" (34.7% to 14.9% "not considering flu as a serious problem" (from 24% to 12.6% "thinking not to get sick" (28.7% to 18.2% or "being against the vaccine" (32.7% to 21% showed a statistically significant reduction after the exposure to the campaign. The "intention to get vaccinated in the next year" instead, raised effectively (13.1% to 36.6% Vaccinated HCWs rate in 2013 2014 season was 7.6% (221/2910) and 5.6% (164/2910) in 2012 2013 (p<0.005)  The multimedia campaign succeeded with regard to KAP outcomes, but the vaccination rate is still far from the goal of 90% Due to their impact, especially on younger age groups, web tools deserve to be better studied as effective approach to convey health information among HCWs.
Quantifying Noisy Attractors: From Heteroclinic to Excitable Networks
Venue: SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst.

Attractors of dynamical systems may be networks in phase space that can be heteroclinic (where there are dynamical connections between simple invariant sets) or excitable (where a perturbation threshold needs to be crossed to a dynamical connection between "nodes" Such network attractors can display a high degree of sensitivity to noise both in terms of the regions of phase space visited and in terms of the sequence of transitions around the network. The two types of network are intimately related one can directly bifurcate to the other. In this paper we attempt to quantify the effect of additive noise on such network attractors. Noise increases the average rate at which the networks are explored, and can result in "macroscopic" random motion around the network. We perform an asymptotic analysis of local behaviour of an escape model near heteroclinic/excitable nodes in the limit of noise \eta\rightarrow 0^ as a model for the mean residence time $T$ near equilibria. We also explore transition probabilities between nodes of the network in the presence of anisotropic noise. For low levels of noise, numerical results suggest that a (heteroclinic or excitable) network can approximately realise any set of transition probabilities and any sufficiently large mean residence times at the given nodes. We show that this can be well modelled in our example network by multiple independent escape processes, where the direction of first escape determines the transition. This suggests that it is feasible to design noisy network attractors with arbitrary Markov transition probabilities and residence times.
Pseudo heteroclinic connections between bicircular restricted four body problems

In this paper, we show a mechanism to explain transport from the outer to the inner Solar system. Such a mechanism is based on dynamical systems theory. More concretely, we consider a sequence of uncoupled bicircular restricted four body problems BR4BP (involving the Sun, Jupiter, a planet and an infinitesimal mass) being the planet Neptune, Uranus and Saturn. For each BR4BP, we compute the dynamical substitutes of the collinear equilibrium points of the corresponding restricted three body problem (Sun, planet and infinitesimal mass) which become periodic orbits. These periodic orbits are unstable, and the role that their invariant manifolds play in relation with transport from exterior planets to the inner ones is discussed.
Nonlinear and detuning effects of the nutation angle in precessionally forced rotating cylinder flow

The flow in a rapidly rotating cylinder forced to precess through a nutation angle a is investigated numerically, keeping all parameters constant except a, and tuned to a triadic resonance at a 1o. When increasing a, the flow undergoes a sequence of well characterized bifurcations associated with triadic resonance, involving heteroclinic and homoclinic cycles, for a up to about 4o. For larger a, we identify two chaotic regimes. In the first regime, with a between about 4o and 27o, the bulk flow retains remnants of the helical structures associated with the triadic resonance, but there are strong nonlinear interactions between the various azimuthal Fourier components of the flow. For the larger a regime, large detuning effects lead to the triadic resonance dynamics being completely swamped by boundary layer eruptions. The azimuthal mean flow at large angles results in a large mean deviation from solid body rotation and the flow is characterized by strong shear at the boundary layers with temporally chaotic eruptions.
Analytical study of chaos and applications

We summarize various cases where chaotic orbits can be described analytically. First we consider the case of a magnetic bottle where we have non resonant and resonant ordered and chaotic orbits. In the sequence we consider the hyperbolic Henon map, where chaos appears mainly around the origin, which is an unstable periodic orbit. In this case the chaotic orbits around the origin are represented by analytic series (Moser series) We find the domain of convergence of these Moser series and of similar series around other unstable periodic orbits. The asymptotic manifolds from the various unstable periodic orbits intersect at homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits that are given analytically. Then we consider some Hamiltonian systems and we find their homoclinic orbits by using a new method of analytic prolongation. An application of astronomical interest is the domain of convergence of the analytical series that determine the spiral structure of barred spiral galaxies.