Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cloud computing: A potential paradigm for practising the scholarship of teaching and learning

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the educational potential of “cloud computing” (CC), and how it could be exploited in enhancing engagement among educational researchers and educators to better understand and improve their practice, in increasing the quality of their students' learning outcomes, and, thus, in advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in a higher education context. Design/methodology/approach – Adoption of the ideals of SoTL is considered an important approach for salvaging the higher education landscape around the world that is currently in a state of flux and evolution as a result of rapid advances in information and communications technology, and the subsequent changing needs of the digital natives. The study is based on ideas conceptualised from reading several editorials and articles on server virtualisation technology and cloud computing in several journals, with the eSchool News as the most important one. The paper identifies two cloud computing tools, their salient features and describes how cloud computing can be used to achieve the ideals of SoTL. Findings – The study reports that the cloud as a ubiquitous computing tool and a powerful platform can enable educators to practise the ideals of SoTL. Two of the most useful free “cloud computing” applications are the Google Apps for Education which is a free online suite of tools that includes Gmail for e‐mail and Google Docs for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and Microsoft's cloud service (Live@edu) including the SkyDrive. Using the cloud approach, everybody can work on the same document at the same time to make corrections as well as improve it dynamically in a collaborative manner. Practical implications – Cloud computing has a significant place in higher education in that the appropriate use of cloud computing tools can enhance engagement among students, educators, and researchers in a cost effective manner. There are security concerns but they do not overshadow the benefits. Originality/value – The paper provides insights into the possibility of using cloud computing delivery for originating a new instructional paradigm that makes a shift possible from the traditional practice of teaching as a private affair to a peer‐reviewed transparent process, and makes it known how student learning can be improved generally, not only in one's own classroom but also beyond it.
Language Transfer Learning for Supervised Lexical Substitution

We propose a framework for lexical substitution that is able to perform transfer learning across languages. Datasets for this task are available in at least three languages (English, Italian, and German). Previous work has addressed each of these tasks in isolation. In contrast, we regard the union of three shared tasks as a combined multilingual dataset. We show that a supervised system can be trained effectively, even if training and evaluation data are from different languages. Successful transfer learning between languages suggests that the learned model is in fact independent of the underlying language. We combine state-of-the-art unsupervised features obtained from syntactic word embeddings and distributional thesauri in a supervised delexicalized ranking system. Our system improves over state of the art in the full lexical substitution task in all three languages.
The Integration of Computer Simulation and Learning Support: An Example from the Physics Domain of Collisions

Discovery learning is generally seen as a promising but demanding mode of learning that, in most cases, can only be successful if students are guided in the discovery process. The present article discusses a study on discovery learning with a computer simulation environment in the physics domain of collisions. In the learning environment, which is called Collision, students learned about collisions where two particles move in the same direction and interact via a conservative force in such a way that the total mechanical energy is conserved. In the experiment we conducted with Collision, we evaluated the effects of adding two different ways to guide students: model progression, in which the model is presented in separate parts; and assignments, small exercises that the student can choose to do. The effect of providing assignments and model progression was evaluated by comparing the learning behavior and learning results over three experimental conditions in which different versions of the simulation environment were presented: pure simulation, simulation plus assignments, and simulation plus model progression and assignments. Students' use of the environment was logged, their subjectively experienced workload was measured on-line, and their learning was assessed using a number of assessment procedures. Providing assignments with the simulation improved students' performance on one aspect of a so-called intuitive knowledge test. Providing the students with model progression did not have an effect. A subjective workload measure indicated that expanding the simulation with assignments and model progression did not raise the workload experienced by the students.
T.H. Marshall and his critics: reappraising ‘social citizenship’ in the twenty-first century

T.H. Marshall's concept of ‘social citizenship’, developed in the 1949 lecture ‘Citizenship and Social Policy’, remains a vital study of welfare in developed nations. However, Marshall's social citizenship has come under attack as undermining civil liberties, or falling short of offering real equality to marginalised groups. This article returns to Marshall's lecture to show that he was in fact aware of such problems, but nonetheless held the provision of social rights to be a valuable normative project. Furthermore, this article argues that a new social citizenship, incorporating collective rights claims, could present a strong challenge to neoliberalism in contemporary welfare debates.
Personal versus impersonal relationship compliance and their relationship with personality

The principal aim of this study was to investigate differences between compliance found in ‘personal’ versus ‘impersonal’ relationships. It was hypothesised that these are two distinct types of compliance. The participants were 1461 students in further education in Iceland, who completed a number of questionnaires, including a specially constructed Situational Compliance Scale (SCS). A principal component analysis of the SCS items (using direct oblimin rotation) revealed two distinct factors, labelled ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ relationship compliance. For both males and females the two factors correlated significantly with compliance as measured by the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Neuroticism, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The findings suggest that the tendency to comply in one situation increases the likelihood that the person is susceptible to complying with requests in other situations. In spite of conceptual differences between different compliant situations, and the clear distinction between personal and impersonal relationship compliance, the present study suggests that these are different components of the broader psychological construct of compliance.
Stock-based detection of protein oligomeric states in jsPISA

A new version of the popular software PISA for the analysis of macromolecular interfaces and identification of biological assemblies (complexes) from macromolecular crystal structures is presented. The new web server jsPISA has a substantially improved user interface, based on modern JavaScript technologies, and also new elements of analysis: assembly stock and interaction radar. The new elements help interpretation of PISA results in difficult and ambiguous cases, for example, when the oligomeric state depends on protein concentration, or when the biologically relevant interaction is weak and cannot be easily discriminated from superficial crystal contacts. jsPISA is maintained by CCP4 at http://www.ccp4. ac.uk/pisa. There are no login requirements for using the server.
Introduction—Experiments in Comparative Urbanism

Urban studies is currently witnessing both a revival and a reorientation of comparative research (Robinson, 2005, 2006, 2011; Nijman, 2007a, 2007b; McFarlane, 2010; Ward, 2010). This is partly a result of urban researchers tracking traveling urban processes, including: the globalizing and “inter-referencing” of urban policy or models; the circulation of architectural, consultant, and developer expertise; the workings of transnational urban activism; or the shifting global resonances of urban cultures and milieux. Researchers increasingly engage across a much wider range of urban contexts in their search for understanding and theoretical inspiration (e.g., Peck and Theodore, 2010; McCann and Ward, 2011; Roy and Ong, 2011; Cochrane and Ward, 2012). But this resurgence of interest in comparativism is also a response to the changing landscape of global urbanisation per se, as urbanization trends in cities that might have previously been sidelined in much urban thinking now place them at the heart of the propagation of 21stcentury urbanisms (Roy, 2005; Parnell et al., 2009; Watson, 2009). Thinking and theorizing cities over the next decades will, we believe, challenge scholars to develop new and sophisticated comparative imaginations. The development of new methods and approaches to comparison is therefore essential to support different ways of working across diverse urban experiences. In this spirit, this special issue draws together a selection of “experiments” in comparative urbanism. We call these “experiments” because both methodologically and substantively this group of writers—and others besides—have found that they have had to move beyond the orthodoxies of urban comparative research. Although they certainly find much inspiration in the rigorous traditions of comparative urban studies (e.g., see Kantor and Savitch, 2005; Denters and Mossberger, 2006), scholars needing to think across wealthier and poorer cities, or hoping to build understandings starting from the scholarship of different regions, or concerned with the prolific transnational movement of urban phenomena, quickly find they must invent new analytical strategies, taking them beyond many of the existing assumptions grounding comparative urban research.
Visual Object Processing : A Cognitive Neuropsychological Approach

Recently there have been considerable advances made in understanding the kinds of processes which underlie our ability to recognize and name visually presented objects. These advances have come from experimental psychology, from studies of computer vision and from studies of the effects of brain damage on object recognition and naming. This book draws together research from these different approaches to visual object processing in an attempt to relate evidence from disorders of object processing to models of normal performance, and how such models can in turn help us understand object processing disorders.
NISAN: network information service for anonymization networks

Network information distribution is a fundamental service for any anonymization network. Even though anonymization and information distribution about the network are two orthogonal issues, the design of the distribution service has a direct impact on the anonymization. Requiring each node to know about all other nodes in the network (as in Tor and AN.ON -- the most popular anonymization networks) limits scalability and offers a playground for intersection attacks. The distributed designs existing so far fail to meet security requirements and have therefore not been accepted in real networks. In this paper, we combine probabilistic analysis and simulation to explore DHT-based approaches for distributing network information in anonymization networks. Based on our findings we introduce NISAN, a novel approach that tries to scalably overcome known security problems. It allows for selecting nodes uniformly at random from the full set of all available peers, while each of the nodes has only limited knowledge about the network. We show that our scheme has properties similar to a centralized directory in terms of preventing malicious nodes from biasing the path selection. This is done, however, without requiring to trust any third party. At the same time our approach provides high scalability and adequate performance. Additionally, we analyze different design choices and come up with diverse proposals depending on the attacker model. The proposed combination of security, scalability, and simplicity, to the best of our knowledge, is not available in any other existing network information distribution system.
RACE-BASED CONSIDERATIONS AND THE OBAMA VOTE

Abstract In the 2008 presidential primaries, Barack Obama seemed to have a problem connecting with Asian American voters, as he lost heavily to Hillary Clinton in states such as California and New Jersey. Many speculated that race-based considerations played a significant role in Asian Americans' overwhelming support for Clinton over Obama, with conjectures built on a limited set of aggregate exit poll data from three states. Race may also have accounted for the high proportion of Asian Americans who in polls said they were undecided heading into the November election. In this article, we analyze the importance of race-based considerations in the Asian American vote, after controlling for other factors such as partisanship, issue preferences, age, and gender. We rely on the National Asian American Survey, a large-scale telephone survey of Asian American voters conducted mostly in the fall of 2008, with interviews in eight languages and with sizable numbers of respondents from the six largest national-origin groups. We find that race-based considerations do indeed help explain the Asian American vote in 2008. Respondents who failed to see political commonality between Asian Americans and Blacks were less likely to vote for Obama in the primary, although other factors, such as age and gender, played a more significant role. Finally, the role of race-based considerations paled in comparison to party identification and issue preferences in the general election, suggesting that election contexts can play an important role in shaping whether or not race is relevant to vote choice.
Generalized Analysis of Molecular Variance

Many studies in the fields of genetic epidemiology and applied population genetics are predicated on, or require, an assessment of the genetic background diversity of the individuals chosen for study. A number of strategies have been developed for assessing genetic background diversity. These strategies typically focus on genotype data collected on the individuals in the study, based on a panel of DNA markers. However, many of these strategies are either rooted in cluster analysis techniques, and hence suffer from problems inherent to the assignment of the biological and statistical meaning to resulting clusters, or have formulations that do not permit easy and intuitive extensions. We describe a very general approach to the problem of assessing genetic background diversity that extends the analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) strategy introduced by Excoffier and colleagues some time ago. As in the original AMOVA strategy, the proposed approach, termed generalized AMOVA (GAMOVA), requires a genetic similarity matrix constructed from the allelic profiles of individuals under study and/or allele frequency summaries of the populations from which the individuals have been sampled. The proposed strategy can be used to either estimate the fraction of genetic variation explained by grouping factors such as country of origin, race, or ethnicity, or to quantify the strength of the relationship of the observed genetic background variation to quantitative measures collected on the subjects, such as blood pressure levels or anthropometric measures. Since the formulation of our test statistic is rooted in multivariate linear models, sets of variables can be related to genetic background in multiple regression-like contexts. GAMOVA can also be used to complement graphical representations of genetic diversity such as tree diagrams (dendrograms) or heatmaps. We examine features, advantages, and power of the proposed procedure and showcase its flexibility by using it to analyze a wide variety of published data sets, including data from the Human Genome Diversity Project, classical anthropometry data collected by Howells, and the International HapMap Project.
Blowing the whistle : the organizational and legal implications for companies and employees

In this study the authors examine the profound consequences for individuals, organizations, and society at large of the phenomenon known as whistle-blowing. They examine several common views of the whistle-blower - from disloyal rat to courageous hero - and reveal how individuals reach the often difficult decision to turn in their companies. With case examples, such as Watergate, the Challenger disaster, and product liability lawsuits, they show executives how to deal with whistle-blowing and its consequences. For those contemplating "turning in" their companies, the authors offer real-life examples of the implications, both practical and legal.
Semismooth Homeomorphisms and Strong Stability of Semidefinite and Lorentz Complementarity Problems

Based on an inverse function theorem for a system of semismooth equations, this paper establishes several necessary and sufficient conditions for an isolated solution of a complementarity problem defined on the cone of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices to be strongly regular/stable. We show further that for a parametric complementarity problem of this kind, if a solution corresponding to a base parameter is strongly stable, then a semismooth implicit solution function exists whose directional derivatives can be computed by solving certain affine problems on the critical cone at the base solution. Similar results are also derived for a complementarity problem defined on the Lorentz cone. The analysis relies on some new properties of the directional derivatives of the projector onto the semidefinite cone and the Lorentz cone.
Alveolar concentrations of piperacillin/tazobactam administered in continuous infusion to patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia*

Objectives:To determine the steady-state serum and alveolar concentrations of piperacillin/tazobactam administered in continuous infusion to critically ill patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia and various degrees of renal failure. Design:Prospective comparative study. Setting:An intensive care unit and research ward in a university hospital. Patients:Forty patients with microbiologically documented ventilator-associated pneumonia. Interventions:Patients were randomized to receive piperacillin/tazobactam daily continuous infusions of 12/1.5 g or 16/2 g after a loading dose of 4/0.5 g. The serum and alveolar piperacillin/tazobactam concentrations were determined at steady-state with high performance liquid chromatography. Measurements and Main Results:The median (interquartile) serum and alveolar piperacillin concentrations were respectively 25.3 mg/L (23.1–32.6) and 12.7 mg/L (6.7–18.0) for 12/1.5 g/day, and 38.9 mg/L (32.9–59.6) and 19.1 mg/L (14.0–21.5), respectively, for 16/2 g/day in patients with no/mild renal failure. In patients with moderate/advance renal failure, the median (interquartile) serum and alveolar piperacillin concentrations were 102.4 mg/L (97.4–112.6) and 44.1 mg/L (33.4–48.3), respectively, for 12/1.5 g/day, and 135.3 mg/L (119.5–146.2) and 54.9 mg/L (45.2–110.3), respectively, for 16/2 g/day. Our results show great variability in piperacillin/tazobactam concentrations, with an alveolar percentage penetration of 40–50% for piperacillin and 65–85% for tazobactam and a negative association between serum or alveolar concentrations and creatinine clearance. Conclusions:A target piperacillin serum concentration of at least 35–40 mg/L is probably required to provide alveolar concentrations exceeding the susceptibility breakpoint for Gram-negative bacteria (16 mg/L) during ventilator-associated pneumonia. In patients with no/mild renal failure, a continuous daily dose of piperacillin/tazobactam 16/2 g allows reaching this target concentration, which might be not observed with 12/1.5 g/day. In patients with moderate/advanced renal failure, both dosages achieve serum concentrations far above the 35–40 mg/L threshold, suggesting that in that case, therapeutic drug monitoring should be performed in order to adjust the daily dose.
The effectiveness of training to change safety culture and attitudes within a highly regulated environment

An attitude survey developed by Harvey et al. was used to measure responses from employees in the nuclear industry before and after a safety training intervention which all employees attended in their work teams. The first administration of the survey yielded 417responses, and the second, administered 16 months later following the training intervention, yielded 460 responses, representing response rates of over 69 per cent in both cases. Using six factors derived earlier from the survey, significant improvements in attitudes and beliefs were found for two of the factors (and a further three factors showed rises in the same direction) for management/professional employees. For shop floor employees, only one factor showed a significant change, which was a reduction in job satisfaction over the same time period. It was concluded that the hypotheses that management would respond to the safety initiative but that shop floor would not were supported. A further hypothesis concerning grade differences in culture and attitudes was also supported. These findings are discussed in terms of culture and risk, risk taking and training, where the implications for safety training are crucial.
Towards a Theory of Organisational Culture

Students of organisation generally hold that deciphering the subtleties and nuances of behaviour, speech and artifacts in order to describe and understand organisational culture can only be done through such observational field methods as ethnography. Owens and Steinhoff question this assumption and the methodological limitations inherent in it. They sought to develop a paper‐and‐pencil instrument that may be used to probe the unseen, unvoiced, virtually preconscious elements that underlie and give rise to the organisational culture of schools in order to assess systematically the organisational cultures in them. The authors explain the theory of organisational culture which guided the development of their research instrument, the Organisational Culture Assessment Inventory (OCAI).