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Drivers, motivations, and barriers to the implementation of corporate social responsibility practices by construction enterprises: A review
Venue: Journal of Cleaner Production
Year: 2019

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing attention in the construction industry. The implementation of CSR integrates the desires of construction enterprises to achieve competitive advantages and demonstrate their commitments to be socially responsible. Previous studies have mainly explored the factors influencing CSR implementation in a broader field of management, recognizing that there are discrete sets of influencing factors for different industry sectors. Based on a systematic review of 69 relevant CSR research in construction, this study aims to identify and conceptualize the influencing factors drivers, motivations, and barriers for CSR implementation by construction enterprises. The descriptive analysis shows an increasing trend in CSR studies in construction with studies focused on both developed and developing countries. The content analysis results show that the drivers can be categorized into three sub themes: policy pressure, market pressure, and innovation and technology development. The key motivations include: financial benefits, branding, reputation and image, relationship building, organizational culture, and strategic business direction. Next, the barriers were grouped into five perspectives, namely: government policy, construction enterprise, the attributes of CSR, the stakeholder perspective, and the construction industry. To conceptualize these influencing factors, this study proposed a theoretical perspective that combined the stakeholder, institutional and self determination theories. The findings have implications for government agencies in the development of relevant policies to encourage the adoption of CSR practices in the industry. For construction enterprises, the findings have implications to their new or existing CSR practices in enhancing organizational competitive advantages and in achieving their goals to be socially responsible.
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER IN DSM 5
Venue: Depression and anxiety
Year: 2014

With the publication of DSM 5, the diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder (SAD, also known as social phobia) have undergone several changes, which have important conceptual and clinical implications. In this paper, we first provide a brief history of the diagnosis. We then review a number of these changes, including (1) the primary name of the disorder, (2) the increased emphasis on fear of negative evaluation, (3) the importance of sociocultural context in determining whether an anxious response to a social situation is out of proportion to the actual threat, (4) the diagnosis of SAD in the context of a medical condition, and (5) the way in which we think about variations in the presentation of SAD (the specifier issue) We then consider the clinical implications of changes in DSM 5 related to these issues.
Dislocated Dental Prothesis Sitting at the Larynx in an Aphasic Patient: Potentially Fatal Situation
Venue: The Journal of craniofacial surgery
Year: 2017

Foreign body in respiration tract is a life threatening emergency and requires urgent treatment. The diagnosis and treatment requires awareness and suspicion of signs and symptoms of foreign body aspiration.  A unique case of total dental prothesis aspiration of a 44 year old aphasic patient is presented. The prothesis is completely removed from the larynx.  Foreign body aspiration is frequently suspected in children, it is rarely thought about in adults with subacute or chronic respiratory symptoms unless an evident history of an aspiration event is obtained. Facial trauma, dental procedures, central nervous system dysfunction due to stroke, mental retardation, metabolic encephalopathy, seizures, and alcoholism are precipitating factors in adults. Careful clinical history and physical examination is mandatory. Foreign bodies located in the laryngeal region are almost always treated with surgery.  Loose dentures must be avoided especially in mental retarded, aphasic patients, and patients with central nervous system dysfunction.
Donor Project funded ICT Initiatives in the Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) Sector of Asian Developing Countries: A Systems Approach to Managing Project Intervention Processes
Year: 2011

This chapter is set against a background of national ICT initiatives implemented in the Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) sectors of developing Asian countries through donor agency funded projects. This research is based on a ten year research study of ICT initiatives implemented in nine VTE sector donor funded projects covering Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The empirical data was gathered through contextual observations, action research and a review of project documentation. The ICT initiatives studied focussed on MIS (management information systems) aiding strategy formulation and management in the VTE sector and computer based training (CBT) The research reveals that the projects studied were designed by host governments and donor agencies in response to perceived problems in the VTE sector. The research also reveals that process of managing donor projects, which is largely based on hard approaches, is problematic. Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is based on a learning and enquiring cycle. The research uses SSM to learn about the nature and scope of the selected donor projects in VTE, which can be conceptualised as Project Intervention Processes (PIPs)
Representation Learning for Text level Discourse Parsing
Venue: ACL
Year: 2014

Text level discourse parsing is notoriously difficult, as distinctions between discourse relations require subtle semantic judgments that are not easily captured using standard features. In this paper, we present a representation learning approach, in which we transform surface features into a latent space that facilitates RST discourse parsing. By combining the machinery of large margin transition based structured prediction with representation learning, our method jointly learns to parse discourse while at the same time learning a discourse driven projection of surface features. The resulting shift reduce discourse parser obtains substantial improvements over the previous state of the art in predicting relations and nuclearity on the RST Treebank.
A nonlinear quadrilateral thin flat layered shell element for the modeling of reinforced concrete wall structures
Venue: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Year: 2019

In this article, a simple and accurate quadrilateral thin flat layered shell element formulation for the nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) wall systems under static and cycling loads is presented. The 4 node shell element, with 6 degree of freedom (DOF) per node (3 displacements and 3 rotations) is created by superposing the quadrilateral layered membrane element with drilling degrees of freedom (12 DOF, 2 displacement and 1 rotation per node) developed by Rojas et al.  2016) and the Discrete Kirchhoff Quadrilateral Element (12 DOF, 1 displacement and 2 rotations) formulated by Batoz and Tahar ( 1982) to model the in plane and the out of plane bending behavior of the shell element, respectively. In addition, to model the complex behavior and coupling of the axial, flexural and shear behavior, observed in complex RC wall structures, the transversal section of the shell element consists of a layered system of fully bonded, smeared steel reinforcement and smeared orthotropic concrete material with the rotating angle formulation. The formulation used a tangent stiffness matrix approach, which include the coupling of membrane and bending effects. For verification, the shell element formulation is used to model a set of experimental results for T shaped RC walls that are available in the literature. The proposed element is robust, simple to implement, and it can predict the global results (load vs. displacement and maximum capacity) and also the local behavior (vertical strain at the base level along the web and the flange) observed in RC wall structures.
Value Added by PV Installations in The Netherlands (2015) A Modeling Approach
Year: 2017

Renewable energy installations stimulate the economy through the monetary flows of salaries, profits and taxes, as well as job creation. The WeBEE model created by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOW) to quantify value added and employment effects generated by RE technologies in Germany was adapted to reflect the Dutch economy. It was then used to calculate the value added to the Dutch economy due to the photovoltaic (PV) in 2015, the most recent year for which complete economic data was available. To understand how the value added is distributed, it is broken down into components on two levels: the adminstrative level, i.e. the municipal, provincial and national level; as well as on the level of value chain elements, such as manufacturing, planning or installation.
Character Aware Sub Word Level Language Modeling for Uyghur and Turkish ASR
Venue: INTERSPEECH
Year: 2019

Uyghur and Turkish are two typical agglutinative languages, which suffer heavily from the data sparsity problem. Due to this, we first apply a statistical morphological segmentation and change the number of morphs to get a better sub word level automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. The best systems, which yield 2.03% and 1.65% absolute WER reductions from the word level systems for Uyghur and Turkish respectively, are used for further n best rescoring. To further alleviate the data sparsity problem, we use both convolutional neural network (CNN) based and bi directional long short term memory (BLSTM) based character aware language models on the two languages. In order to alleviate the information missing of the middle steps of the BLSTM based character aware language model, we propose to use the weighted average of each time steps' outputs. The proposed weighting methods can be divided into three categories: decay based, position based and attention based. Results show that the decay based weighting method leads to the most significant WER reductions, which are 2.38% and 1.96% compared with the sub word level 1 pass ASR system for Uyghur and Turkish respectively.
The Impact of Intercultural Experiences on Preservice Teachers' Preparedness to Engage with Diverse Learners.
Year: 2018

Free to read on publisher website The diversity of student populations globally is increasing more rapidly than the diversity of the teaching workforce. Concerns are that beginning teachers are ill prepared to meet the needs of the diversity of students in their classrooms. This lack of preparedness has been partially attributed to inadequate preparation within teacher education programs. We advocate that preservice teachers need to understand how their prior intercultural experiences can be utilised to better prepare them for teaching diverse groups of learners. This qualitative study (n=40) draws on Hammer's (2009) Intercultural Development Continuum to explore the impact that these experiences have on shaping preservice teachers as teachers of diversity. We use the data to illustrate the breadth of positioning on the IDC of these preservice teachers. Findings indicate that prior quality engagement with diversity over time enhances preservice teachers' intercultural competence. We describe how teacher education can better prepare preservice teachers for engaging diverse learners.
Comparison of Telehealth Related Ethics and Guidelines and a Checklist for Ethical Decision Making in the Midst of the COVID 19 Pandemic
Venue: Behavior analysis in practice
Year: 2020

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) services have been provided primarily in the fields of health care and education across various settings using an in person service delivery model. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the necessity of and demand for ABA services using telehealth have increased. The purpose of the present article was to cross examine the ethical codes and guidelines of different, but related fields of practice and to discuss potential implications for telehealth based ABA service delivery. We reviewed the telehealth specific ethical codes and guidelines of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Social Workers, along with the related ABA literature. These organizations addressed several useful and unique ethical concerns that have not been addressed in ABA literature. We also developed a brief checklist for ABA practitioners to evaluate their telehealth readiness by meeting the legal, professional, and ethical requirements of ABA services.
Two Stage Relay Selection for Enhancing Physical Layer Security in Non Orthogonal Multiple Access
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Year: 2019

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security of a cooperative relay network where two source destination pairs communicate through a decode and forward (DF) relay in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. To safeguard the legitimate communications against eavesdropping, we propose a novel two stage secure relay selection (TSSRS) with a non orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme to maximize the capacity of one source destination pair, while guaranteeing the successful communication of the other source destination pair. To explicitly reveal the benefits of our proposed scheme, we derive the exact and asymptotic expressions for its secrecy outage probability. As a benchmark, we also analyze the secrecy performance of the TSSRS strategy with an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that our proposed TSSRS NOMA scheme significantly outperforms the TSSRS OMA scheme when the transmit power at the source and relay is in the low and medium regimes. In addition, we show that the advantage of the TSSRS NOMA scheme over the TSSRS OMA scheme becomes obvious when the two source destination pairs have profoundly different secrecy requirements.
Gain Scheduling Based PID Control Approaches for Path Tracking and Fault Tolerant Control of a Quad rotor UAV
Year: 2018

Quad rotor UAVs have generated considerable interest in the control community because of their wide applications due to their advantages over regular air vehicles. In this paper Gain Scheduling PID (GS PID) control approaches were designed for a quad rotor UAV with the feature of being a multivariable nonlinear system. The control target, a Quanser Qball X4 quad rotor UAV, was introduced in this paper. The proposed design procedure of control approaches is based on the parameter dependent quadratic stability approach. The mission processes includes a programmed path tracking of the quad rotor, and a fault tolerant process of the quad rotor during hovering. Simulation results carried out are shown, wherein the performance achieved with these control strategies are shown as well. The simulation results show that control algorithms implemented for the quad rotor UAV in this paper could increases the performance of the quad rotor UAV in tracking the desired trajectory and increases reliability of the UAV.
A visualization review analysis of the last two decades for environmental Kuznets curve "EKC" based on co citation analysis theory and pathfinder network scaling algorithms
Venue: Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Year: 2021

Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a statistical tool to examine the cointegration and causality nexus between economic growth and carbon emissions. The EKC is widely used in energy and environmental economics studies. Although a large number of researchers have analyzed the EKC by applying different statistical models, some review work has been summarized to draw a pictorial view of extending studies in this research field. However, still, the macroscopic overview needs to be considered. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the literature for finding a new pathway for further research employing, and to facilitate this research, scientometric analysis is carried out by feature in CiteSpace. The dataset was screened and found 2384 records out of 59,225 Web of Science (WoS) references, and the records for the timespan 1999 2019 was used to visualize the knowledge map and outcome of the scientific enterprise. The visualization results reveal the most influencing studies, institutions, authors, countries, keywords, and category cloud, in the research field of EKC. This article reveals that the research on EKC in alignment with green and sustainable technology science requires more attention. Further, this article would help authors and publishers make their decisions for the research of EKC and planning for future perspectives to contribute to academic development and applied methodology.
A review and recent developments in photocatalytic water splitting using TiO2 for hydrogen production
Year: 2007

Nano sized TiO2 photocatalytic water splitting technology has great potential for low cost, environmentally friendly solar hydrogen production to support the future hydrogen economy. Presently, the solar to hydrogen energy conversion efficiency is too low for the technology to be economically sound. The main barriers are the rapid recombination of photo generated electron/hole pairs as well as backward reaction and the poor activation of TiO2 by visible light. In response to these deficiencies, many investigators have been conducting research with an emphasis on effective remediation methods. Some investigators studied the effects of addition of sacrificial reagents and carbonate salts to prohibit rapid recombination of electron/hole pairs and backward reactions. Other research focused on the enhancement of photocatalysis by modification of TiO2 by means of metal loading, metal ion doping, dye sensitization, composite semiconductor, anion doping and metal ion implantation. This paper aims to review the up to date development of the above mentioned technologies applied to TiO2 photocatalytic hydrogen production. Based on the studies reported in the literature, metal ion implantation and dye sensitization are very effective methods to extend the activating spectrum to the visible range. Therefore, they play an important role in the development of efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production.
Removing Camouflaged Barriers to Equality: Overcoming Systemic Sexual Assault and Harassment at the Military Academies
Year: 2018

The Education Amendments of 1972 introduced requirements to protect female students from discriminatory policies at post secondary institutions. A portion of those amendments, commonly known as Title IX, require that no students be subjected to discrimination based on their sex by any educational institution or activity receiving federal financial assistance. An exemption under SS 1681(a)(4) however, explicitly prohibits application of Title IX to any educational institution whose primary purpose is to train individuals for military service or the merchant marine. Although those students are still subject to stringent conduct standards, the service academies themselves are tethered to sex discrimination policies only by their goodwill, reputation, and the boundaries of the Constitution. Answering only to the Department of Defense (or Transportation, in the case of the United States Merchant Marine Academy) does not hold these institutions accountable to their students or to the American public. The academies' attempts at combatting this widespread problem have been ineffective, and they continue to perpetuate a culture of sexual violence. This Note proposes the removal of exemption language from Title IX, or, alternatively, insists that the academies comply with mandatory reporting requirements under the Clery Act.
A CUT FREE SIMPLE SEQUENT CALCULUS FOR MODAL LOGIC S5
Venue: The Review of Symbolic Logic
Year: 2008

In this paper, we present a simple sequent calculus for the modal propositional logic S5. We prove that this sequent calculus is theoremwise equivalent to the Hilbert style system S5, that it is contraction free and cut free, and finally that it is decidable. All results are proved in a purely syntactic way.
COVID 19 and IS: Challenges and Opportunities for People, Careers, and Institutions
Year: 2020

In one remarkable week, and in the face of a horrifying pandemic, information technology and systems were harnessed to dramatically transform education and office work It wasn't always pretty, but the IT infrastructure worked, at least for those fortunate to have access to it Tele medicine, remote work, distance education concepts long touted but sparsely implemented suddenly essential and transformational Now that we have made it through the immediate impact of the pandemic, the long term implications and consequences are emerging What is this pandemic driven, but IT shaped, new normal? What does it mean for families, careers, and businesses? What does it mean for higher education and our discipline? Our panelists will explore the challenges faced by doctoral students and early career professors, two career families, and small businesses But we will also ask them to help identify new opportunities, particularly for research, new modes of education and greater engagement with industry
Do young bilinguals acquire past tense morphology like monolinguals, only later? Evidence from French English and Chinese English bilinguals
Venue: Applied Psycholinguistics
Year: 2011

Previous studies have shown that preschool bilingual children lag behind same aged monolinguals in their production of correct past tense forms. This lag has been attributed to bilinguals' less frequent exposure to either language. If so, bilingual children acquire the past tense like monolinguals, only later. In this study, we compared the English past tense production of Chinese English bilingual children with a matched sample of French English bilinguals (5 12 years old) The results showed small but reliable differences in the children's past tense production (e.g. the kinds of errors the children made) that could be attributed to knowledge of the other language. Both groups of children showed equivalent rates of accuracy, suggesting that bilinguals exposed to naturalistic speech acquire the past tense much like monolinguals do, only later and with some effects, most likely morphophonological, from their other language.