Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes na visão de líderes formais

This research, aimed to highlight the perspective of two formal leaders, focused on factors that result in an IES ENADE. The study aimed to construct a methodological approach grounded in a qualitative exploratory research, characterized as a case study. The sample of subjects was supported by the technical "Snowball" (snowball sampling), for both subjects selected for the research were the Director of Evaluation and Planning and the coordinator of the committee for assessment, (both directly responsible for all phases of ENADE, IES in the study). The data collection were unstructured interviews and data analysis to discourse analysis, where data were systematically compared, considering the points highlighted by interviewees as repetitions of expressions, differences, words, ideas, reflections and positions about the object of study. The context made it possible to identify some factors that affect the results of ENADE. Thus, the findings suggest that among the many important factors to obtain a satisfactory result in ENADE, awareness, motivation and the commitment of students with ENADE are considered as most significant in the view of the leaders interviewed.
“Upside Down Decolonization” in Subnational Island Jurisdictions: Questioning the “Post” in Postcolonialism

Most subnational (and mainly island) jurisdictions around the world today are actively conspiring in the dogged pursuit of protracted and extended colonial relationships—what is referred to as “upside down decolonization”—rather than aspiring to full independence. Various metropolitan powers are also discovering that island territories can be excised and rejigged as jurisdictional enclaves, able to perform (and get away with) exceptional functions. These can range from detention centers to low-tax regimes, from military bases to exclusive processing zones. In spite of the lingering rhetoric about the virtues of sovereignty, these “infinite pauses” in decolonization call for a more adequate conceptual assimilation within postcolonial theory.
Kinaesthesia and Instrumental Music Instruction: Some Implications

This paper reflects on some aspects of research on kinaesthesia and how it relates to music education as a whole and instrumental music teaching in particular. It explores the problems of terminology that exist in the literature (kinaesthesia versus proprioception) and describes kinaesthesia as it relates to human physiology. The article contrasts the phenomenological approach of instrumental teachers with the more experimental view of psychological research on this topic and concludes that the current research on kinaesthesia/proprioception is still introductory. Notwithstanding, some ways of benefiting from what is already known on the subject are suggested through the paper.
Too Lonely to Die Alone : Internet Suicide Pacts and Existential Suffering in Japan

Most striking in the recent rise of suicide in Japan are the increase in suicide among young Japanese and the emergence of Internet suicide pacts. An ethnography of suicide-related Web sites reveals a distinctive kind of existential suffering among visitors that is not reducible to categories of mental illness and raises questions regarding the meaning of an individual “choice” to die, when this occurs in the context of an intersubjective decision by a group of strangers, each of whom is too afraid to die alone. Anthropology’s recent turn to subjectivity enables analyses of individual suffering in society that provide a more nuanced approach to the apparent dichotomy between agency and structure and that connect the phenomenon of suicide in Japan to Japanese conceptions of selfhood and the afterlife. The absence of ikigai [the worth of living] among suicide Web site visitors and their view of suicide as a way of healing show, furthermore, that analyses of social suffering must be expanded to include questions of meaning and loss of meaning and, also, draw attention to Japanese conceptions of self in which relationality in all things, including the choice to die, is of utmost importance.
The quintessence of a therapeutic environment

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the necessary primary emotional development experiences for healthy personality formation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a critical synthesis of psychoanalytic theory. Findings – Five experiences are judged necessary for health ‘‘primary emotional development’’: attachment, containment, communication, inclusion and agency. These can be deliberately recreated in therapeutic environments to form a structure for ‘‘secondary emotional development’’. Practical implications – The ways in which these qualities of a psychosocial environment can be produced are described. Social implications – Failure to recognise the importance of these qualities of an environment can cause unhealthy, or frankly toxic, psychosocial environments in various settings. Originality/value – This is the author’s original work, and has relevance for all psychosocial
Explicit Expression for the Steady-State Translation Rate in the Infinite-Dimensional Homogeneous Ribosome Flow Model

Gene translation is a central stage in the intracellular process of protein synthesis. Gene translation proceeds in three major stages: initiation, elongation, and termination. During the elongation step, ribosomes (intracellular macromolecules) link amino acids together in the order specified by messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules. The homogeneous ribosome flow model (HRFM) is a mathematical model of translation-elongation under the assumption of constant elongation rate along the mRNA sequence. The HRFM includes n first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations, where n represents the length of the mRNA sequence, and two positive parameters: ribosomal initiation rate and the (constant) elongation rate. Here, we analyze the HRFM when n goes to infinity and derive a simple expression for the steady-state protein synthesis rate. We also derive bounds that show that the behavior of the HRFM for finite, and relatively small, values of n is already in good agreement with the closed-form result in the infinite-dimensional case. For example, for n = 15, the relative error is already less than 4 percent. Our results can, thus, be used in practice for analyzing the behavior of finite-dimensional HRFMs that model translation. To demonstrate this, we apply our approach to estimate the mean initiation rate in M. musculus, finding it to be around 0.17 codons per second.
The well being of children living in chronic war zones: The Palestinian—Israeli case

The paper presents a comprehensive review and integration of available studies on the effects of severe traumatic experiences on children, especially in the context of short and enduring exposure to harsh events and adversities, as they relate to children who live in violent war zones, in particular in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The review focuses on the role of risk and protective factors in determining the debilitating and damaging effects as well as resiliencies of short term and chronic catastrophic experiences on the future well being of children and emerging adults.
Effect of Manganese in Test Media on In Vitro Susceptibility of Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter baumannii to Tigecycline

ABSTRACT We assessed the effect of increasing manganese concentrations in test media (0.001 to 1,024 mg/liter) on MICs of tigecycline. For both broth microdilution (BMD) and Etests, this effect was negligible for physiological concentrations, but MICs increased when concentrations exceeded 8 mg/liter. Susceptibility testing should be performed on media with standardized low manganese content.
The role of gendered constructions of eating disorders in delayed help-seeking in men: a qualitative interview study

Objectives To understand how young men recognise eating disorder (ED) symptoms and decide to seek help, and to examine their experiences of initial contacts with primary care. Design A qualitative interview study. Setting Men from across the UK were interviewed as part of a study of 39 young men's and women's experiences of having an ED. Participants 10 men aged 16–25 years with various EDs including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Results The widespread perception of EDs as uniquely or predominantly a female problem led to an initial failure by young men to recognise their behaviours as symptoms of an ED. Many presented late in their illness trajectory when ED behaviours and symptoms were entrenched, and some felt that opportunities to recognise their illness had been missed because of others’ lack of awareness of EDs in men. In addition, the men discussed the lack of gender-appropriate information and resources for men with EDs as an additional impediment to making sense of their experiences, and some felt that health and other professionals had been slow to recognise their symptoms because they were men. Conclusions Although increasingly common in young men, widespread cultural constructions of EDs as a ‘women's illness’ mean that men may fail to recognise ED symptoms until disordered behaviours become entrenched and less tractable to intervention. Men also report that such perceptions can affect the reactions of their families and friends, as well as health and educational professionals. Primary care professionals are well placed to challenge inappropriate perceptions of EDs.
The effects of auditive and visual settings on perceived restoration likelihood

Research has so far paid little attention to how environmental sounds might affect restorative processes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of auditive and visual stimuli on perceived restoration likelihood and attitudes towards varying environmental resting conditions. Assuming a condition of cognitive fatigue, all participants (N = 40) were presented with images of an open plan office and urban nature, each under four sound conditions (nature sound, quiet, broadband noise, office noise). After the presentation of each setting/sound combination, the participants assessed it according to restorative qualities, restoration likelihood and attitude. The results mainly showed predicted effects of the sound manipulations on the perceived restorative qualities of the settings. Further, significant interactions between auditive and visual stimuli were found for all measures. Both nature sounds and quiet more positively influenced evaluations of the nature setting compared to the office setting. When office noise was present, both settings received poor evaluations. The results agree with expectations that nature sounds and quiet areas support restoration, while office noise and broadband noise (e.g. ventilation, traffic noise) do not. The findings illustrate the significance of environmental sound for restorative experience.
‘I don't have to listen to you! You're just a dinner lady!’: power and resistance at lunchtimes in primary schools

Over the last decade the school setting has emerged as a crucial site for the promotion and maintenance of children and young people's health. Issues relating to the types of foods served in and around schools continue to dominate school health policy and occupy a central position in government attempts to avert impending public health crises expected to arise from the perceived ‘obesity pandemic’. While acknowledging the ways in which school food has become a lens employed to focus the medical gaze towards the regulation of children's bodies, we need to be mindful of the tendency to regard these bodies as ‘docile’ and children as passive targets of school food policy. Rather, this piece seeks to problematise this view, seeking instead to develop an understanding of school dining rooms as spaces in which traditional power relationships between adults and children are contested and renegotiated. Data are drawn from an ethnographic study of four primary schools in Kingston upon Hull to explicate the contested nature of power relationships played out between teachers, lunchtime staff and pupils within the spatial and temporal boundaries of the dining room. In conclusion the argument is made that policy relating to school food is mediated by power relationships within schools. Rather than operating on static axes of power, these dynamic relationships constantly shift and are continuously renegotiated, redefined and contested.
RGB-D SLAM Based on Extended Bundle Adjustment with 2D and 3D Information

In the study of SLAM problem using an RGB-D camera, depth information and visual information as two types of primary measurement data are rarely tightly coupled during refinement of camera pose estimation. In this paper, a new method of RGB-D camera SLAM is proposed based on extended bundle adjustment with integrated 2D and 3D information on the basis of a new projection model. First, the geometric relationship between the image plane coordinates and the depth values is constructed through RGB-D camera calibration. Then, 2D and 3D feature points are automatically extracted and matched between consecutive frames to build a continuous image network. Finally, extended bundle adjustment based on the new projection model, which takes both image and depth measurements into consideration, is applied to the image network for high-precision pose estimation. Field experiments show that the proposed method has a notably better performance than the traditional method, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in improving localization accuracy.
On the Speed of Coming Down from Infinity for $\Xi$-Coalescent Processes

The $\Xi$-coalescent processes were initially studied by Mohle and Sagitov (2001), and introduced by Schweinsberg (2000) in their full generality. They arise in the mathematical population genetics as the complete class of scaling limits for genealogies of Cannings' models. The $\Xi$-coalescents generalize $\Lambda$-coalescents, where now simultaneous multiple collisions of blocks are possible. The standard version starts with infinitely many blocks at time $0$, and it is said to come down from infinity if its number of blocks becomes immediately finite, almost surely. This work builds on the technique introduced recently by Berstycki, Berestycki and Limic (2009), and exhibits deterministic ``speed'' function - an almost sure small time asymptotic to the number of blocks process, for a large class of $\Xi$-coalescents that come down from infinity.
A longitudinal study of emotional intelligence in graduate nurse anesthesia students

Objective: Emotional intelligence (EI) is an important component not only for success in the nurse anesthesia (NA) profession, but as a NA student as well. Using the ability-based EI model, the purpose of this was to examine the difference in EI between the first semester and last semester of NA training programs. Methods: First semester NA students completed the online Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test V2.0 EI instrument, and then the same students repeated the instrument in their last (7 th) semester. Results: There was a statistically significant correlation between overall EI and long-term overall EI (P = 0.000), reasoning area and long-term reasoning area (P = 0.035), experiencing area (P = 0.000) and long-term experiencing area, perceiving branch and long-term perceiving branch (P = 0.000), using and long-term using branch (P = 0.000), and the managing branch and long-term managing branch (P = 0.026). The correlation between the understanding branch and the long-term understanding branch was not statistically significant (P < 0.157). The paired sample t-test demonstrated no statistically significant change (n = 34) in overall EI, the two areas scores, or the four-branch scores between the first semester and the last semester of a NA training program. Conclusions: This longitudinal study shows the lack of EI change in NA students over time. Thus, no change in EI occurs as a result of transitioning through a NA program based on the accrediting body′s standardized curriculum, but the results helped the researcher provide useful data to inform future research on the use of EI measures as predictors of NA program success.
Writing Instruction for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Historically, learners with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have not had access to the general education curriculum. Current legislation mandates that all children, including children with ASD, have access to and make progress in the general education curriculum. This article contains a review of the literature on writing instruction for children with ASD. Investigation yielded 15 studies with 29 participants with ASD ages 4 to 21 years. Based on the studies reviewed, we concluded that students with ASD benefit from explicit writing instruction, but more research is needed to establish an evidence-based set of practices to guide educators in the development of effective writing programs for this population of students. Strategies that are particularly promising and suggestions for future research are given.
The effects of ethical climate on group and individual level deception in negotiation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of ethical climate on the use of deception during negotiation for both individuals and groups. It aims to focus on the use of “ethical climate” as a shared task representation at the group level.Design/methodology/approach – Participants were 458 undergraduate students who earned course credit. Participants engaged in a simulated negotiation task about the selling/purchase of a new car, via an instant messenger program. Those assigned to the “seller” role either negotiated individually or as a three‐person group, and received one of three ethical climate manipulations (honesty, competitive, or control). The main dependent variable was whether the seller(s) disclosed information about a possible defect.Findings – As predicted, groups were less honest than individuals. Participants in the honesty condition were most likely to be honest while those in the competitive condition were the least likely to be honest, although this difference was no.
Developmental Considerations in Youth Athlete Burnout: A Model for Youth Sport Participants

Recent research has used self-determination theory to examine athlete burnout among adults. However, there is a dearth of theory-driven research investigating burnout among young athletes, particularly as it pertains to its sociological influences. With research suggesting that motives for sport (dis)continuation vary among athletes of different ages, this study assessed the utility of self-determination theory (SDT) and Coakley’s model for youth burnout while examining developmental differences. Participants included swimmers of ages 7–17. Analyses revealed a model that approached adequate ft indices and accounted for 70% of the burnout variance. Results supported utilizing these theories to understand youth burnout while accounting for developmental differences.
Age in High-Functioning Healthy Men Is Associated with Nonlinear Decline in Some ‘Executive’ Functions in Late Middle Age

Background/Aim: Age-related cognitive decline might involve selective deterioration of specific brain systems. We studied the relationship between age and cognition by comparing cognitive function of older and younger high functioning men. Methods: A cross-sectional study comparing neuropsychological test battery performance of younger (18–60 years) and older (61–85 years) men. Results: Older men showed impaired psychomotor speed, working memory, attention, declarative verbal memory and executive functions. Impairment in executive function was prominent and not explained by psychomotor slowing, impaired working memory or attention. Regression models showed a non-linear relationship between age and executive function with a change of slopes in the mid-50s. The relationship of age with verbal memory was linear. Conclusions: The nonlinear change in late middle age is consistent with the hypothesis that an age-related selective diatheses impacts selectively on executive function.
'Passing the Buck': Incongruence between Gender Role and Topic Leads to Avoidance of Negotiation

Avoidance of negotiation is rarely investigated, and the implicit assumption guiding much of the current negotiation research is that engagement is inevitable. In addition, compensation is typically examined, although topics related to both employment and family life are also negotiated in organizations. Two experimental studies tested hypotheses about how incongruence between gender role and negotiation topic influences the likelihood of passing off the negotiation, i.e., ‘‘passing the buck. ’’ In study 1, women were significantly more likely to avoid a negotiation about compensation than men, and aversion partially mediated this gender difference. Study 2 revealed a significant two-way interaction between gender and negotiation topic on avoidance. Women were significantly more likely to avoid negotiation about compensation than men; conversely, there was a trend for men to avoid negotiation about access to a lactation room, with the interaction mediated by aversion. The findings underscore the importance of both negotiation topics and avoidance.
Student Transition to High School and Persistence: Highlighting the Influences of Social Divisions and School Contingencies

Although explanations for why students drop out of high school have drawn considerable attention for many years (often focusing on their deficits or background risks), researchers have recently turned their attention to ways in which school environments, structures, and practices may influence students’ successful transition to high school and eventual graduation. In this article, we provide results from a multilevel, longitudinal study describing how individuals, their social groupings (social class, race‐ethnicity), and organizational features of schools intersect in ways that have consequences for students’ likelihood for receiving diplomas.
Síntomas depresivos en adultos mayores institucionalizados y factores asociados

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo explorar los factores asociados con sintomas depresivos en adultos mayores institucionalizados. Se realizo un estudio transversal en 276 adultos mayores de Centros de Bienestar del Anciano de Medellin. Se valoraron caracteristicas demograficas, funcionales, ansiedad, salud percibida, redes de apoyo, estado nutricional y calidad de vida. Prevalencias de sintomatologia depresiva fueron similares por sexo y edad (p > 0.05). Adultos dependientes para la realizacion de actividades cotidianas, tuvieron mayores porcentajes de sintomas de depresion (p < 0.001). Altos niveles de ansiedad (OR = 2.74), deterioro funcional (OR = 2.82), ningun grado de formacion academica (OR = 3.70) y mujeres parcialmente dependientes (OR = 21.89) se asociaron con mayor probabilidad de presentar sintomas de depresion (p < 0.05). En general, perdida de roles, estado de dependencia y calidad de vida disminuida aumentan la sintomatologia depresiva.
Control, information-seeking preferences, occupational stressors and psychological well-being

This study reports a test of the minimax and blunting hypotheses (Miller, 1979a, 1980a, b, 1981). A sample of 221 academic and support staff at a British university were administered a stressor inventory, a measure of psychological well-being, a measure of work-related locus of control and a modified version of the Miller Behavioral Style Scale (1987), which measures information-seeking preferences. Using moderated multiple regression analysis, no support was gained for either hypothesis. However, the results did support a main effects model of perceived control and psychological well-being.