Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Religious Attribution Scale: further validation with an American sample

ABSTRACT The Religious Attribution Scale (RAS) was developed recently and validated with a predominantly Muslim Indonesian sample. This study aimed to demonstrate the validity of the RAS with a sample of individuals from the US. Students from two US colleges participated in this research. In addition to the RAS, other constructs such as meaning in life and life satisfaction were assessed. Reliabilities for all measures were acceptable. Similar to the findings reported for the Indonesian sample, positive religious attribution was associated positively with the presence of meaning in the US sample. However, different relations were observed between positive attribution and search for meaning in life in the US and Indonesian sample. We also found that positive religious attribution had positive correlations with life satisfaction and negative religious attribution factors were negatively related to life satisfaction. Mediational analysis revealed that meaning in life was a potential mediator for religious attribution and life satisfaction.
A Compact Quasi-Elliptic Dual-Mode Cavity Filter Using LTCC Technology for V-band WLAN Gigabit Wireless Systems

In this paper, the development of highly integrated dual-mode filter solutions is presented for V-band compact, low-cost wireless front-end modules utilizing multilayer low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) technologies. A dual-mode cavity filter experimentally demonstrates a quasi-elliptic response and excellent performance in terms of low insertion loss ( < 2.76 dB) and high rejection. The rectangular shaped cavity resonator is first designed to generate two resonant modes (TE102 and TE201) that are orthogonal each other. Then, the location of the feeding structures and the size of the external slots are optimized to generate the quasi-elliptic dual-mode response. The filter has been implemented by employing rows of vias as sidewalls represent a new class of devices that enable the three dimensional (3D) integration for V-band WLAN gigabit wireless systems
Well-Supported vs. Approximate Nash Equilibria: Query Complexity of Large Games

We study the randomized query complexity of approximate Nash equilibria (ANE) in large games. We prove that, for some constant $\epsilon>0$, any randomized oracle algorithm that computes an $\epsilon$-ANE in a binary-action, $n$-player game must make $2^{\Omega(n/\log n)}$ payoff queries. For the stronger solution concept of well-supported Nash equilibria (WSNE), Babichenko previously gave an exponential $2^{\Omega(n)}$ lower bound for the randomized query complexity of $\epsilon$-WSNE, for some constant $\epsilon>0$; the same lower bound was shown to hold for $\epsilon$-ANE, but only when $\epsilon=O(1/n)$. Our result answers an open problem posed by Hart and Nisan and Babichenko and is very close to the trivial upper bound of $2^n$. Our proof relies on a generic reduction from the problem of finding an $\epsilon$-WSNE to the problem of finding an $\epsilon/(4\alpha)$-ANE, in large games with $\alpha$ actions, which might be of independent interest.
The Influence of Social Media Communication on Consumer's Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Concerning Brand-Sponsored Events

Social media communication was suggested to influence consumers on their decision process of participating in events. Despite the relevance of evaluating this proposition, the effects of social media brand-related communications on event attendance were not yet validated. To address this literature gap, it was evaluated whether firm-created and user-generated social media brand-related content influenced consumers' attitudes and, consequently, their intentions to participate in brand-sponsored events. Additionally, the mediating role of consumers' attitudes towards the brand and the event was examined. An online survey (n = 307) was implemented and results were analyzed with structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings contribute to managers and scholars in the field of events marketing in general and brand-sponsored events in specific, by means of proposing and validating a model that confirms (1) the effects of firm-created social media (SM) brand-related content on brand attitude, (2) the influence of user-generated SM brand-related content on both brand and event attitudes, (3) the impact of brand attitude on event attitude, (4) the influence of event attitude on the consumers' intentions to participate; and (5) identifies different arrays revealing how consumers' attitudes towards the brand and the event mediate the relationship between SM communications on consumers' behavioral intentions, while distinguishing the type of SM brand-related content source.
Automatic extraction of advice-revealing sentences foradvice mining from online forums

Web forums often contain explicit key learnings gleaned from people's experiences since they are platforms for personal communications on sharing information with others. One of the key learnings contained inWeb forums is often expressed in the form of advice. As part of human experience mining from Web resources, we aim to provide a methodology to extract advice-revealing sentences from Web forums due to its usefulness, especially in travel domain. Instead of viewing the problem as a simple classification, we define it as a sequence labeling problem using various features. We identify three different types of features (i.e., syntactic features, context features, and sentence informativeness) and propose a new way of using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for labeling sequential sentences, which in our experiment gave the best performance for our task. Moreover, the sentence informativeness score serves as an important feature for this task. It is worth noting that this work is the first attempt to extract advice-revealing sentences from Web forums.
The Discovery of Broad P Cygni X-Ray Lines from Circinus X-1 with the Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer

We present the first grating-resolution X-ray spectra of the X-ray binary Circinus X-1, obtained with the High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer on Chandra. These reveal a rich set of lines from H-like and/or He-like Ne, Mg, Si, S, and Fe detected with a high signal-to-noise ratio. The lines are broad (±2000 km s-1) and show P Cygni profiles. The absorption components of the lines extend to low velocity, and they have about the same widths and strengths as the corresponding emission components. The widths of the X-ray P Cygni lines are comparable to that of the broad component of the strong, asymmetric Hα line from Cir X-1, suggesting that the two phenomena may be related. We discuss outflow models and propose that the P Cygni profiles may arise in the moderate temperature (~5 × 106 K) region of the wind from an X-ray-heated accretion disk. This basic picture strengthens the idea that the accretion disk in Cir X-1 is viewed in a relatively edge-on manner, and it suggests that Cir X-1 is the X-ray binary analog of a broad absorption line quasar.
COLLEGE CHOICES OF LATINA/O STUDENTS ATTENDING A FOR-PROFIT COLLEGE: UNDERSTANDING PERSISTENCE AND RETENTION

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv LIST OF TABLES . viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Problem Statement . 2 Purpose Statement . 3 Research Questions or Hypotheses . 4 Significance of the Study . 4 Theoretical Underpinnnings . 5 Assumptions . 5 Delimitations . 5 Definitions of Key Terms . 5 Summary . 6 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW Latina/o Underrepresentation in Higher Education . 7 Barriers to Latina/o Students’ Postsecondary Success . 8 Policy and Political Barriers . 11 Latina/o Access to Education . 14 Access to College via For-Profit Institutions . 19 College Choice . 23 Latina/o Persistence and Retention . 27 Fostering a Sense of Belonging . 29
Ferrous versus Ferric Oral Iron Formulations for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency: A Clinical Overview

Iron deficiency anaemia represents a major public health problem, particularly in infants, young children, pregnant women, and females with heavy menses. Oral iron supplementation is a cheap, safe, and effective means of increasing haemoglobin levels and restoring iron stores to prevent and correct iron deficiency. Many preparations are available, varying widely in dosage, formulation (quick or prolonged release), and chemical state (ferrous or ferric form). The debate over the advantages of ferrous versus ferric formulations is ongoing. In this literature review, the tolerability and efficacy of ferrous versus ferric iron formulations are evaluated. We focused on studies comparing ferrous sulphate preparations with ferric iron polymaltose complex preparations, the two predominant forms of iron used. Current data show that slow-release ferrous sulphate preparations remain the established and standard treatment of iron deficiency, irrespective of the indication, given their good bioavailability, efficacy, and acceptable tolerability demonstrated in several large clinical studies.
Is Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease Caused by Abnormal Ion Composition or Abnormal Volume?

The most common lethal genetic disease in the Caucasian population is cystic fibrosis (CF). In 1970, the median life expectancy was 8 yr; today, with the concerted effort of scientists and clinicians, the median survival age has risen to 30 yr. About 1 in 23 people carry a single defective copy of
Performance in e-learning: online participation and student grades

The beneficial effects of learners interacting in online programmes have been widely reported. Indeed, online discussion is argued to promote studentcentred learning. It is therefore reasonable to suggest that the benefits of online discussion should translate into improved student performance. The current study examined the frequency of online interaction of 122 undergraduates and compared this with their grades at the end of the year. The findings revealed that greater online interaction did not lead to significantly higher performance for students achieving passing grades; however, students who failed in their courses tended to interact less frequently. Other factors that may be salient in online interactions are discussed.
Learning Despite Concept Variation by Finding Structure in Attribute-based Data

Learning accuracy depends on concept variation. The accuracy of six learning systems (C4.5, Grove, Greedy, Fringe, LFC and MRP) is compared using a set of forty test concepts. The selection of these concepts was guided by the existence of structured concepts that appear in diicult real-world domains (such as protein folding). Such concepts often have embedded, implicit structure , which may be revealed through explicit relations. Experiments using these benchmark concepts show that concept variation aaects systems that nd relations, such as MRP, signiicantly less than the other learners. We analyze this distinctive behavior in terms of concept characteristics and relate it to system performance in real-world domains.
Age, anger regulation and well-being

Emotion regulation has been argued to be an important factor in well-being. The current study investigated the effects of adult aging on emotional expression, emotional control and rumination about emotional events, focusing on an emotion which is particularly important in social interaction: anger. Measures of anger regulation and well-being were obtained in a sample of 286 adults aged between 18 and 88. Older adults expressed anger outwardly less often, and reported more inner control of anger using calming strategies compared to their younger counterparts. These age differences were not explained by variance in social desirability of responding. Age improvements in negative affect and anxiety were partly explained by age differences in anger regulation suggesting an important role for anger management in good mental health amongst older adults. Further, age improvements in quality of life were explained by variance in anger regulation indicating that improved management of emotions with age is an important factor in maintaining well-being in old age.
Talectomy for Equinovarus Deformity in Family Members with Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy Type I

The treatment of severe rigid neurogenic clubfoot deformities still remains a challenging problem in modern paediatric orthopaedics. In those cases, in spite of being a palliative procedure, talectomy has been advocated for the correction of the deformity thus providing a stable plantigrade foot which allows pain-free walking with standard footwear. Herein, we present the results after talectomy in two patients (brother and sister) affected by a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I, with rigid severe pes equinovarus deformities.
Research Documentary: " Glasgow's Turnaround " 1 Urban Shrinkage in Great Britain

Outline: " Glasgow's Turnaround " is the first part of a two part research documentary. It studies the history of Glasgow's planning strategies following on from the city's industrial heyday of shipbuilding in the 1930s, its industrial decline, population shrinkage (some of which was actively encouraged by city and government policies), to today's current regeneration strategies and their outcomes. In the documentary local practitioners, politicians and academics discuss critically the different strategies put in place to reverse the decline. These strategies presented include economics and housing, culture, education, and migration. Local governance and public spending play a key role. The documentary concludes with the city's relative and fragile success (the fragility is underlined by the current economic crises) at the cost of social and physical polarisation. Duration of Part I: 19 minutes. (Part II of the video, which studies community involvement in the political decision-making process, and which looks in particular at Govan, a former riverside shipbuilding community within Glasgow, is currently being edited). Urban decline is not a recent phenomenon (Diamond 2004). The literature has long documented it and the socioeconomic issues resulting from population migration, leading in the worst cases in the eventual abandonment of vast areas of commercial and industrial buildings, and entire neighbourhoods of housing (Downs 1997; Beauregard 2003). However, if the phenomenon is not new, its occurrence is spreading out, predominantly in industrialized countries but also all over the world, and at an accelerated pace. Recording the variation of a population in a delimited urban area, according to the Urban Audit (2007) out of 220 large and medium-sized European cities, 57% of the cities and 54% of the larger urban zones lost population in the period from 1996 to 2001. This pervasive shrinking-city syndrome signs an "end of era" (Oswald, 2006). Although specific factors may be different for the developed and developing worlds, the multidimensional causes are deeply interrelated and anchored in the globalization process. This film and paper with the Glasgow's case, will detail the multidimensional and interrelated driving forces shaping this process and its multifaceted effects and sketch the diverse strategies implemented by the urban governance, trying to answer to this unwanted process. In the current context of economic and urban development in Europe, cities are having to cope with intense economic restructuration (Bontje 2004). Contemporary globalisation processes (Amin and Thrift 1994), with an economy that is " spatially dispersed, yet globally integrated …
Research Commentary: Introducing a Third Dimension in Information Systems Design - The Case for Incentive Alignment

Prior research has generated considerable knowledge on information systems design from software engineering and user-acceptance perspectives. As organizational processes are increasingly embedded within information systems, one of the key considerations of many business processes--organizational incentives--should become an important dimension of any information systems design and evaluation, which we categorize as the third dimension: incentive alignment. Incentive issues have become important in many IS areas, including distributed decision support systems (DSS), knowledge management, and e-business supply chain coordination. In this paper we outline why incentives are important in each of these areas and specify requirements for designing incentive-aligned information systems. We identify and define important unresolved problems along the incentive-alignment dimension of information systems and present a research agenda to address them.
An Assessment of 3G Mobile Service Acceptance in Bangladesh

This paper aims to find out the key factors influencing mobile users to adopt 3Gtechnology and affecting the subscriber's feedback while using third generation (3G) mobile services that are available for one year in Bangladesh. An interesting fact that motivated this research was the significant low rate of 3G service usage among mobile operators in Bangladesh though we get the completely opposite picture worldwide. To examine the user acceptance and to depict user behavioral pattern, data were collected from 200 respondents through a survey. The analysis was done into two categories: one was in general and the other one was department based. The results of the study revealed the user intention, awareness, attitude, expectation, key 3G service usage etc. The findings have future implications for existing as well as newly arrived service providers who have very recently started their journey. Considering these identified factors would provide the directions for telecom operators to achieve high rate of 3G service adoption and to provide more successful 3Gservices.However, the study covered a limited area where those findings are applicable. The result of this study might be helpful for the telecom operators while targeting the 3G subscriber market and also for the future research on this field. Keywords—Awareness; Adoption; 3G mobile service; usage
Measuring and Optimizing Cultural Markets

In their seminal paper [16], Salganik, Dodds, and Watts introduced an artificial music market (the MusicLab) to study why experts routinely fail at predicting commercial success of cultural products. The MusicLab was instrumental in demonstrating that social influence can create significant unpredictability in cultural markets. Watts [23] also advocates the use of “measure and react” strategies to counteract the diculty of making accurate predictions. However, finding a concrete strategy that scales for very large markets has remained elusive so far. This paper demonstrates the benefits of such a strategy in the MusicLab setting: It presents a “measure and react” strategy, called “measure and optimize”, that combines songs quality, appeal, and social influence to maximize the expected downloads at each iteration. Computational experiments show that our “measure and optimize” strategy can leverage social influence to produce significant performance benefits for the market. Moreover, this paper formally proves that a “measure and optimize” strategy with social influence outperforms in expectation any “measure and react” strategy not displaying social information. In other words, when using a “measure and optimize” strategy, dynamically showing consumers positive social information increases the expected performance of the seller in the cultural market.
The influence of knowledge, experience, and education on gender disparity in entrepreneurial self-efficacy

Prior research suggests significant gender disparities in entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE). Cultural norms, gender role stereotypes, and resulting diverse self-beliefs are often used to explain the significant gender differences in ESE. This study argues that besides cultural norms and stereotypes, the gender difference in ESE can partly be explained by individual background variables such as supervisory experience, business process knowledge, and the level of education. With data from 57 small business owners and 120 graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship students, the study found that the gender difference in ESE is partly explained by the mediating role of business process knowledge and supervisory experience. The gender difference is also significantly lower at the graduate level of education. These results shed light on the value of business process knowledge, supervisory experience, and graduate level business education in increasing women’s ESE. Implications of the study and its limitations are discussed.
Measuring service quality in higher education: HEdPERF versus SERVPERF

Purpose – This paper aims to test and compare the relative efficacy of three measuring instruments of service quality (namely Higher Education PERFormance (HEdPERF), SERVPERF and the moderating scale of HEdPERF‐SERVPERF) within a higher education setting. The objective was to determine which instrument had the superior measuring capability in terms of unidimensionality, reliability, validity and explained variance.Design/methodology/approach – After a pilot test, data were collected from students in two public universities, one private university and three private colleges in Malaysia between January and March 2004, by the “contact person” route. From a total of 560 questionnaires, 381 were usable: a response rate of 68.0 per cent. This sample of nearly 400,000 students in Malaysian tertiary institutions was in line with the generalized scientific guideline for sample size decisions. Data were subjected to regression analysis.Findings – A modified five‐factor structure of HEdPERF is put forward as the mos.
The Effect of Macrolide Resistance on the Presentation and Outcome of Patients Hospitalized for Streptococcus pneumoniae Pneumonia.

RATIONALE There are conflicting reports describing the effect of macrolide resistance on the presentation and outcomes of patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia. OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the effect of macrolide resistance on the presentation and outcomes of patients with pneumococcal pneumonia. METHODS We conducted a retrospective, observational study in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona of all adult patients hospitalized with pneumonia who had positive cultures for S. pneumoniae from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2013. Outcomes examined included bacteremia, pulmonary complications, acute renal failure, shock, intensive care unit admission, need for mechanical ventilation, length of hospital stay, and 30-day mortality. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Of 643 patients hospitalized for S. pneumoniae pneumonia, 139 (22%) were macrolide resistant. Patients with macrolide-resistant organisms were less likely to have bacteremia, pulmonary complications, and shock, and were less likely to require noninvasive mechanical ventilation. We found no increase in the incidence of acute renal failure, the frequency of intensive care unit admission, the need for invasive ventilatory support, the length of hospital stay, or the 30-day mortality in patients with (invasive or noninvasive) macrolide-resistant S. pneumoniae pneumonia, and no effect on outcomes as a function of whether treatment regimens did or did not comply with current guidelines. CONCLUSIONS We found no evidence suggesting that patients hospitalized for macrolide-resistant S. pneumoniae pneumonia were more severely ill on presentation or had worse clinical outcomes if they were treated with guideline-compliant versus noncompliant regimens.