Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adolescent students’ psychological needs: Development of an existence, relatedness, and growth needs scale

ABSTRACT The satisfaction of adolescents’ perceived psychological needs facilitates their academic achievement and adjustment within school. A first step in this direction is the identification of adolescents’ psychological needs and the environmental factors to meet these needs. Based on the theory of Existence, Relatedness, and Growth, known as ERG, the present study aimed to develop and provide evidence for the validity of a new measure of adolescent students’ psychological needs at school. Five hundred and eighty adolescent students of public secondary schools in central Greece participated in the study. Students completed the ERG Needs Scale, the Autonomy and Competence Scales, and the Subjective Well-Being measures. Preliminary results showed that the new instrument has promising psychometric properties. The potential contribution of the new instrument for future research and educational practices are discussed.
Überprüfung der Reliabilität und Validität der Kurzform des Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ-S) in den Altersgruppen des frühen und späten Erwachsenenalters

Zusammenfassung. Mit dem Physical Self-Description Questionnaire Short (PSDQ-S) von Marsh, Martin und Jackson (2010) liegt eine auf 40 Items gekürzte validierte Version des Physical Self-Description Questionnaire von Marsh, Richards, Johnson, Roche und Tremayne (1994) vor, die bereits in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt ist. Die vorliegende Studie evaluierte den deutschsprachigen PSDQ-S anhand von 402 Probanden im frühen und späten Erwachsenenalter. Im Ergebnis lassen die Analyse der Reliabilität und Validität sowie der Vergleich mit den Befunden von Marsh et al. (2010) , Stiller und Alfermann (2007) sowie weiterer übersetzter und validierter PSDQ-S-Versionen die Verwendung der deutschsprachigen Kurzform empfehlen. Ebenso wie die Originalversion ist sie für männliche und weibliche Personen, sowie für die Altersgruppen des frühen und späten Erwachsenenalters geeignet. Für alle vier Gruppen besteht eine äquivalente Faktorstruktur.
DOES JOB ROTATION AND JOB SATISFACTION AFFECT THE PERFORMANCE?

The purpose of this research: (1) To know the description of job rotation, job satisfaction and employee performance at the Jambi Provincial Transportation Department. (2) To know the effect of job rotation on employee performance at the Jambi Provincial Transportation Department. (3) To know the effect of job satisfaction on employee performance at the Department of Transportation of Jambi Province. (4) To know the influence between job rotation and job satisfaction on employee performance at the Department of Transportation of Jambi Province.The method of this research is descriptive and quantitative and using regresion method. The population in the study were the employees of the Jambi Provincial Transportation Department. Technique of sampling research using of stratified sampling. The total sample in this study was 123 respondents.The result of the research shows that the average level of the respondent's answer for job rotation (X1) is 74.46% and the average level of the respondent answer for job satisfaction variable (X2) is 68.52, it shows highest average respondent There is in position variable rotation (X1). The magnitude of the effect of rotation variables on the performance of employees at the Department of Transportation Jambi Province is amounted to 2,427. The amount of influence of job satisfaction on employee performance variables at the Jambi Provincial Transportation Department is 4.452. Based on the analysis that together into two independent variables of job rotation and job satisfaction have a significant effect amounted to 2.201 (X1) dan 3.308(X2) on the performance of employees at the Transportation Agency of Jambi Province. Keywords: Job Rotation, Job Satisfaction, Employee Performance
A chebyshev collocation spectral method for numerical simulation of incompressible flow problems

This paper concerns the numerical simulation of internal recirculating flows encompassing a two-dimensional viscous incompressible flow generated inside a regularized square driven cavity and over a backward-facing step. For this purpose, the simulation is performed by using the projection method combined with a Chebyshev collocation spectral method. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are formulated in terms of the primitive variables, velocity and pressure. The time integration of the spectrally discretized, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is performed by a second-order mixed explicit/implicit time integration scheme. This scheme is a combination of the Crank-Nicolson scheme operating on the diffusive terms and a second-order Adams-Bashforth scheme acting on the advective terms. The projection method is used to split the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two decoupled problems: the Burgers equation to predict an intermediate velocity field and the Poisson equation for the pressure, which is used to correct the intermediate velocity field and satisfy the continuity equation. Numerical simulations for flows inside a two-dimensional regularized square driven cavity for Reynolds numbers up to 10000 and over a backward-facing step for Reynolds numbers up to 875 are presented and compared with numerical results previously published, where good agreement is demonstrated.
The Role of Consumer Ethnocentrism on the Effects of Domestic vs Foreign Product Failure on Post Consumption Emotions and Complaint Behaviors

THE ROLE OF CONSUMER ETHNOCENTRISM ON THE EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VS FOREIGN PRODUCT FAILURE ON POST CONSUMPTION EMOTIONS AND COMPLAINT BEHAVIORS Kittinand Bandhumasuta Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Mahesh Gopinath It is well acknowledged that consumer ethnocentrism has a negative effect on evaluations of foreign products, brand-related attitudes toward foreign brands, and purchase intentions of the non-local products. However, an investigation into the role of consumer ethnocentrism at the post-consumption stage had been neglected. Specifically, when a product fails for a consumer. The main purpose of this dissertation is to study the role of consumer ethnocentrism on the post purchase consumption emotions and complaint behaviors. This dissertation proposes that cognitive appraisals of antecedent events and individual social traits will lead to differentiated outcomes. Domestic products that are perceived to be from one’s own in-group will lead high ethnocentrism consumers to judge those products (in group) favorably compared to foreign products (out group). Therefore, when in-group members perform harmful actions, individuals may defend the negativity of the actions of the fellow group members and exhibit a high tolerance for their wrong doing. Two experimental studies in this dissertation provides evidence to support the proposition that highly ethnocentric consumers tend to lessen the importance of self-related failures but emphasize the failure of out-group members and punish the foreign products more severely than domestic products when the product fails. They showed higher level of negative emotions such as anger and regret for foreign product failures compared to domestic product failures. Similarly, they are more likely to engage in retaliatory behaviors such as negative word of mouth, switching, boycotting when foreign product fails. In contrast, in the case of domestic product failure, high ethnocentrism consumers engage in more conciliatory behaviors.
On a discrete interaction risk model with delayed claims and randomized dividends

Abstract In this paper, we study a discrete interaction risk model with delayed claims and randomized dividends payable at a non-negative threshold level. The recursive formula and the defective renewal equation for the Gerber-Shiu discounted penalty function are derived. Furthermore, the explicit expression for the discount-free Gerber-Shiu function is obtained. As an application, the joint distributions of the surplus immediately prior to ruin and the deficit at ruin and numerical illustration from a specific example are presented.
Time, memory and class: The unintended consequences of the bourgeois gaze

In this article, I argue that currently there is a middle-class bias that dominates in sociological culture and structures the ways the discipline operates as a form of bourgeois gaze. These forms of regulation and structuration within the discipline are also visible in Paul Willis's book Learning to Labour (1977), and they need to be illuminated, problematized and challenged if the discipline is to be able to contribute meaningfully and critically to an enlargement of its approach to sociological analysis, including the analysis of class and youth culture. My attempt is to make an exposure and reconsider Learning to Labour through the lens of time, memory and class, by performing an additional reading of the ‘the lads’ orientation toward different temporalities and conscious practices of memory work.
Sibling similarity and relationship quality in Finland

Siblings form the strongest horizontal family tie, which often involves life-long emotional closeness and various forms of support. Similarity is often assumed to strengthen sibling relations, but existing evidence is scarce and mixed. Using data from the Generational Transmissions in Finland surveys collected in 2012, we employ both total and sibling fixed-effect regressions and examine whether sibling similarity is associated with relationship quality in two family generations: an older generation born in 1945–1950, and the generation of their children, born in 1962–1993. We study sibling similarity in gender, age, financial condition and parenthood status and measure relationship quality by contact frequency, emotional closeness and provision of practical help. In both generations, being of the same gender was associated with all relationship measures. Age similarity was also associated with more contacts and increased emotional closeness in the younger generation, and differences in parenthood status with increased provision of practical help in the older generation. In most aspects, however, sibling similarity was not associated with relationship quality. While sibling relations tend be strong in contemporary Finland, this is only partly due to similarity effects.
Digital health: critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives

blems of health and wellbeing, particularly for those with some awareness of the post-structuralist and continental philosophy that broadly informs the new-materialist assemblage framework. Those without such familiarity may initially find their ontological preconceptions challenged, but this is not to say that it is an insurmountable task for the interested reader. The book makes efforts to outline its conceptual lineage and its contributions without unreasonable assumptions about its audience. Those with existing predispositions toward such theoretical terrain may find the book of more immediate interest and benefit, supplementing, expanding, and challenging their own conceptual commitments. That said, any interested scholar would find this text a useful inclusion in their reading, if not for the sake of applying it to their own work, then to better understand how others are drawing upon the emerging rich theoretical terrain loosely assembled under the various labels of post-structuralism, new-materialism, post-humanism and assemblage theory.
Role of In Vitro Stimulation with Lipopolysaccharide on T-Cell Activation in HIV-Infected Antiretroviral-Treated Patients

We investigated the effect of LPS in vitro stimulation on T-cell activation in HIV-infected patients with different CD4+ recovery on HAART. PBMCs from 30 HIV-positive, HAART-treated, aviremic individuals with different CD4+ reconstitution (Low Responders: CD4+ < 350/μL; Intermediate Responders: CD4+ 350–599/μL; High Responders: CD4+ ≥ 600/μL) were cultured with LPS and the proportion of HLA-DR/CD38- and Ki67-expressing CD4+/CD8+ T-cells was measured (flow cytometry). Upon LPS stimulation, significantly higher CD4+ and CD8+HLA-DR+ cells were shown in LR and IR versus HIV-negative controls. While no differences in the proportion of LPS-stimulated CD4+CD38+ cells were recorded amongst HIV-positive subgroups, CD8+CD38+ cells were more elevated in patients with lower CD4+ recovery on HAART (i.e., LR and IR). Upon in vitro LPS stimulation, HLA-DR and CD38 expression on T-cells are differentially regulated. While HLA-DR induction reflects impaired CD4+ reconstitution on HAART, cell-surface CD38 expression is increased only on CD8+ T-cells, allowing to speculate that the sole induction of CD38 on CD4+ cells may not be sufficient to depict LPS-driven immune activation in HIV.
Deformations of algebras over operads and Deligne's conjecture

In present paper we develop the deformation theory of operads and algebras over operads. Free resolutions (constructed via Boardman-Vogt approach) are used in order to describe formal moduli spaces of deformations. We apply the general theory to the proof of Deligne's conjecture. The latter says that the Hochschild complex of an associative algebra carries a canonical structure of a dg-algebra over the chain operad of the little discs operad. In the course of the proof we construct an operad of geometric nature which acts on the Hochschild complex. It seems to be different from the brace operad (the latter was used in the previous approaches to the Deligne's conjecture). It follows from our results that the Grothendieck-Teichm\"uller group acts (homotopically) on the moduli space of structures of 2-algebras on the Hochschild complex. In the Appendix we develop a theory of piecewise algebraic chains and forms. It is suitable for real semialgebraic manifolds with corners (like Fulton-Macpherson compactifications of the configuration spaces of points).
Macrophage stimulating agent soluble yeast β‐1,3/1,6‐glucan as a topical treatment of diabetic foot and leg ulcers: A randomized, double blind, placebo‐controlled phase II study

Dysregulated inflammatory response is believed to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of several late complications of diabetes mellitus. β‐Glucans are potent inducers of immune function. The present randomized, double blind, two‐center, placebo‐controlled study was undertaken to explore safety, tolerability and efficacy of soluble β‐1,3/1,6‐glucan (SBG) as a local treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.
Deep Learning-based Pipeline to Recognize Alzheimer’s Disease using fMRI Data

Over the past decade, machine learning techniques and in particular predictive modeling and pattern recognition in biomedical sciences, from drug delivery systems to medical imaging, have become one of the most important methods of assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of issues in their entirety and solving complex medical problems. Deep learning is a powerful machine learning algorithm in classification that extracts low- to high-level features. In this paper, we employ a convolutional neural network to distinguish an Alzheimers brain from a normal, healthy brain. The importance of classifying this type of medical data lies in its potential to develop a predictive model or system in order to recognize the symptoms of Alzheimers disease when compared with normal subjects and to estimate the stages of the disease. Classification of clinical data for medical conditions such as Alzheimers disease has always been challenging, and the most problematic aspect has always been selecting the strongest discriminative features. Using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and the famous architecture LeNet-5, we successfully classified functional MRI data of Alzheimers subjects from normal controls, where the accuracy of testing data reached 96.85%. This experiment suggests that the shift and scale invariant features extracted by CNN followed by deep learning classification represents the most powerful method of distinguishing clinical data from healthy data in fMRI. This approach also allows for expansion of the methodology to predict more complicated systems.
Suddenness of death as a determinant of differential grief experiences

Abstract Previous research has shown that bereavement following the loss of a loved one can often produce a variety of physical and psychological effects for the individuals left behind. Specifically, the suddenness and violence of a death may be particularly important determinants of subsequent negative psychological functioning. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the grief experiences of individuals bereaved by different causes of death, specifically focusing on the suddenness of the death. Adult participants completed an online survey including demographic questions and psychological measures. The results suggest that individuals who lost someone to a sudden death reported more negative outcomes and impairment than individuals who lost someone to a more expected death. These results suggest that the cause and circumstances surrounding the death may play an important role in an individual’s grief and bereavement experiences.
Importance of Literature Profiling: An Archival Analysis with Illustrative Examples for IS Researchers

The importance of a thorough and systematic literature review has long been recognised across academic domains as critical to the foundation of new knowledge and theory evolution. Driven by an exponentially growing body of knowledge in the IS discipline, there has been a recent influx of guidance on how to conduct a literature review. As literature reviews are emerging as a standalone research method in itself, increasingly these method focused guidelines are of great interest, receiving acceptance at top tier IS publication outlets. Nevertheless, the finer details which offer justification for the selected content, and the effective presentation of supporting data has not been widely discussed in these method papers to date. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the concept of ‘literature profiling’ while arguing that it is a key aspect of a comprehensive literature review. The study establishes the importance of profiling for managing aspects such as quality assurance, transparency and the mitigation of selection bias. And then discusses how profiling can provide a valid basis for data analysis based on the attributes of selected literature. In essence, this study has conducted an archival analysis of literature (predominately from the IS domain) to present its main argument; the value for literature profiling, with supporting exemplary illustrations.
Author ' s personal copy Mind control ? Creating illusory intentions through a phony brain – computer interface

Can one be fooled into believing that one intended an action that one in fact did not intend? Past experimental paradigms have demonstrated that participants, when provided with false perceptual feedback about their actions, can be fooled into misperceiving the nature of their intended motor act. However, because veridical proprioceptive/perceptual feedback limits the extent to which participants can be fooled, few studies have been able to answer our question and induce the illusion to intend. In a novel paradigm addressing this question, participants were instructed to move a line on the computer screen by use of a phony brain–computer interface. Line movements were actually controlled by computer program. Demonstrating the illusion to intend, participants reported more intentions to move the line when it moved frequently than when it moved infrequently. Consistent with ideomotor theory, the finding illuminates the intimate liaisons among ideomotor processing, the sense of agency, and action production. 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Smoking increases tissue factor expression in atherosclerotic plaques: implications for plaque thrombogenicity.

BACKGROUND Smoking increases the risk of atherothrombotic events. To determine whether smoking influences plaque thrombogenicity, we examined the effect of cigarette smoking and aspirin use on tissue factor (TF) expression in atherosclerotic plaques. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 23 apoE-/- mice were exposed to cigarette smoke with (n=9) or without (n=14) aspirin treatment. Eleven mice who were exposed to filtered room air served as controls. Aortic root plaques of mice exposed to smoke had higher immunoreactivity for TF (14+/-4% versus 6.4+/-3%; P=0.0005), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (15+/-4% versus 5+/-2%; P=0.002), and macrophages (16+/-5% versus 6+/-2%; P=0.002) compared with nonsmoking controls. Aspirin treatment attenuated smoking-induced changes in plaque composition. In human plaques obtained by carotid endarterectomy, TF immunoreactivity (8+/-5% versus 2+/-2%; P=0.0002) and activity (P=0. 03) were higher in the plaques from smokers (n=28) than those from nonsmokers (n=28). Aspirin use was associated with reduced TF expression in smokers (9+/-8% versus 3+/-4%; P=0.0017). CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest increased plaque TF expression and thrombogenicity as a novel mechanism for the increased risk of atherothrombotic events in smokers. Treatment with aspirin may reduce TF expression.
The Structure of Deference: Modeling Occupational Status Using Affect Control Theory

Current theories of occupational status conceptualize it as either a function of cultural esteem or the symbolic aspect of the class structure. Based on Weber’s definition of status as rooted in either cultural or class conditions, we argue that a consistent operationalization of occupational status must account for both of these dimensions. Using quantitative measures of cultural sentiments for occupational identities, we use affect control theory to model the network deference relations across occupations. We calculate a measure of the extent to which one occupational actor deferring to another is incongruent with cultural expectations for all possible combinations of 304 occupational titles. Because high-status actors are less likely to defer to low-status actors, the degree to which these events violate cultural expectations provides an indicator of the relative status position of different occupations. We assess the construct validity of our new deference score measure using Harris Poll data. Deference scores are more predictive of status rankings from poll data than are occupational prestige scores. We establish criterion validity using five theoretically relevant workplace outcomes: subjective work attachment, job satisfaction, general happiness, the importance of meaningful work, and perceived respect at work.