Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
İLKOKUL ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN OYUN TEKNİĞİ İLE OKUMA ALIŞKANLIĞI KAZANMASINA YÖNELİK ÖĞRETMEN GÖRÜŞLERİ: ANKARA BEYTEPE İLKOKULU ÖRNEĞİ

Oyun teknigi ile okuma aliskanligi kazandirmaya iliskin ogretmen goruslerini ortaya koymak amaciyla nitel yonteme dayali olarak yapilan bu arastirma, Ankara Beytepe Ilkokulu ornegi uzerinden gerceklestirilmistir. 2012-2013 egitim ve ogretim yilinda Beytepe Ilkokulu'nda gorev yapan 10 ogretmenin katilimiyla gerceklestirilen arastirmanin verileri, yari yapilandirilmis sorular odaginda gorusme teknigi ile elde edilmistir. Arastirmadan elde edilen sonuclar, ogretmenlerin oyunla ogrenme tekniginin baska bircok ders ya da uygulamanin ogretiminde oldugu gibi okuma aliskanligi kazandirmada da son derece etkili oldugunu ve kutuphaneci, veli, ogretmen isbirligi ile soz konusu teknigin daha etkili duzeyde uygulanabilecegini dusunduklerini gostermistir.
Decision tree based tone modeling with corrective feedbacks for automatic Mandarin tone assessment

We propose a novel decision tree based approach to Mandarin tone assessment. In most conventional computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) scenarios a tone production template is prepared as a reference with only numeric scores as feedbacks for tone learning. In contrast decision trees trained with an annotated tone-balanced corpus make use of a collection of questions related to important cues in categories of tone production. By traversing the corresponding paths and nodes associated with a test utterance a sequence of corrective comments can be generated to guide the learner for potential improvement. Therefore a detailed pronunciation indication or a comparison between two paths can be provided to learners which are usually unavailable in score-based CAPT systems.
Gas damping model for a RF MEM switch and its dynamic characteristics

A compact model for a capacitive RF MEM switch with damping is presented. The damping model is based on analytic expressions for flow resistances due to the rarefied air flow in the gap and in the perforation holes. The complete switch model is constructed of elements resulting from the discretization of the beam deflection equation and has been implemented as a nonlinear electrical equivalent circuit. The model reproduces the beam displacement accurately. Comparison with measured transient on/off capacitance characteristics shows very good agreement.
A “ Random-walk ” through the Saudi Arabian financial market : Is the Tadawul efficient ?

This paper examines the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and Random-walk Hypothesis (RWH) using the Variance-ratio test and Runs tests for seventeen sectors of the Saudi Arabia Tadawul stock exchange between April 2007 and May 2011. Under the assumptions of homoscedasticity and heteroskedasticity RWH is rejected for all sectors including the Tadawul Exchange. All Varianceratios are statistically significantly smaller than one. Variance-ratios smaller than unity indicate that variances decline proportionately with time. Using the non-parametric runs test, only Banking, Building, Insurance and the Telecommunication sectors indicate weak-form efficiency contrary to previous research results. This research concludes that the development of the Saudi capital market is dramatically improving its technical infrastructure and starting to show evidence of weak-form efficiency in some sectors. Nevertheless results from this research suggest that prices do not fully reflect available information and prices changes are not independent nor distributed randomly. The implication for both investors and authorities is that some returns may be predictable and opportunities for arbitrage and abnormal profit making may be available, contrary to RWH and EMH.
Racial and ethnic competition

Most studies of racial and ethnic relations discuss the position in a single country. Professor Banton's book is notable for its internationalism. It formulates principles that govern the development of relations between racial and ethnic groups everywhere, drawing upon case studies from across the globe. The arguments which organize this mass of evidence are taken from a rational choice theory of behaviour, combining elements from modern economics with older sociological interpretations. According to this theory, much turns on whether people, as they seek their economic and social goals, choose to compete as groups or individuals, for group competition reinforces any boundaries that are marked by physical difference, whereas individual competition dissolves them. Many of the concepts that have been used in racial and ethnic studies reflect the values of the more articulate groups in given societies at particular times. As the concepts of economics are less tied to varying cultures and circumstances, they can inform comparative history of racial relations in South Africa, the United States and Britain (as seen in three substantial chapters). They can also be used (as later chapters show) to illuminate the dynamics of racial discrimination in housing and employment markets, fitting the theory to the complexity of every-day transactions and bringing sociology into relation with social policy.
The Role of Touristsʼ Value Perceptions in Behavioral Intentions: The Moderating Effect of Gender

ABSTRACT In this study, the effect of touristsʼ perception of value on behavioral intentions, as well as the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between value perceptions and behavioral intentions was examined. A multidimensional value structure was used to investigate not only the functional components of value perceptions but also the hedonic value components, such as social value and emotional value. According to the findings, the most effective value dimension of revisit intentions of tourists is emotional value, whereas the most effective dimension of their recommendation intentions is social value. Moreover, it was found that the effect of behavioral price value perceptions on revisit intention was more of a determinant for males, whereas the effect of quality value perceptions on revisit intention was more of a determinant for females.
Differential Personality Correlates of Early Adolescents’ Bullying-Related Outsider and Defender Behavior

This study investigated personality correlates of early adolescents’ tendency to either defend victims of bullying or to avoid involvement in bullying situations. Participants were 591 Dutch fifth- and sixth-grade students ( X ¯ a g e = 11.42 years). Hierarchical regression models were run to predict these students’ peer-reported defender and outsider behavior by their self-reported Big Five and Reinforcement Sensitivity scores. Agreeableness (i.e., politeness) positively predicted both behaviors. Emotional stability (i.e., impulse control) positively and extraversion (i.e., dominance) negatively predicted only outsider behavior. Finally, punishment sensitivity positively and reward sensitivity negatively predicted only outsider behavior. While agreeableness seems conducive to executing provictim interventions, lacking in dominance and a strong impulse control make actively avoiding involvement in bullying situations more likely. The latter also holds for early adolescents who are afraid of punishment and unresponsive to rewards. The findings suggest that antibullying interventions aiming at promoting defending in outsiders need to take the influence of personality into account.
Corporate Social Responsibility Communication: Stakeholder Information, Response and Involvement Strategies

While it is generally agreed that companies need to manage their relationships with their stakeholders, the way in which they choose to do so varies considerably. In this paper, it is argued that when companies want to communicate with stakeholders about their CSR initiatives, they need to involve those stakeholders in a two-way communication process, defined as an ongoing iterative sense-giving and sense-making process. The paper also argues that companies need to communicate through carefully crafted and increasingly sophisticated processes. Three CSR communication strategies are developed. Based on empirical illustrations and prior research, the authors argue that managers need to move from 'informing' and 'responding' to 'involving' stakeholders in CSR communication itself. They conclude that managers need to expand the role of stakeholders in corporate CSR communication processes if they want to improve their efforts to build legitimacy, a positive reputation and lasting stakeholder relationships.
Generalized Forecast Errors, A Change of Measure, and Forecast Optimality

This paper establishes properties of optimal forecasts under general loss functions, extending existing results obtained under speci…c functional forms and data generating processes. We propose a new method that changes the probability measure under which the well-known properties of optimal forecasts under mean squared error loss can be recovered. We illustrate the proposed methods through an empirical application to U.S. in‡ation forecasting.
Effect of Weight Reduction on Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Obese Patients

The Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III emphasized the importance of management of the metabolic syndrome. However, little information is available about the effect of weight reduction on the metabolic syndrome in obese patients among Koreans. A longitudinal clinical intervention study from the 12-week of weight reduction program, including life style modification and adjuvant appetite suppressants, in 78 obese persons was performed. Anthropometry and metabolic risk factors were measured before and after weight reduction. Visceral (VAT), subcutaneous (SAT), and total adipose tissue (TAT) on abdomen were determined by CT scan. Moderate decrease in weight (9.3%) induced significant reduction of waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and triglyceride. Weight reduction also resulted in significant decrease in total cholesterol, LDL-C, uric acid, fasting insulin, and HOMA score. The subjects with metabolic syndrome showed more improvements of metabolic components than those without metabolic syndrome through weight reduction. The reductions of visceral-subcutaneous fat ratio (VSR) and waist circumference were observed as for the predictable variables related to the improvement of metabolic component and insulin resistance in Korean obese patients.
Designing temporally and spatially integrated social mobility models for wireless network researches

Modeling the mobility of mobile devices has always been a key issue for researchers as mobility needs to be taken into consideration in a variety of research situations in wireless networks. For many years, researchers have been striving to come up with more accurate mobility models which produce results similar to real mobility data. Although recent focuses on social relationship have improved the performance of mobility models, they still neglect or underestimate the influence of spatial and temporal factors which might greatly affect the movement of people. In this paper, we propose a novel way of modeling human movement on the basis of social, spatial and temporal factors by adopting a unique model structure and by introducing new mobility features such as roads. Simulation demonstrated that these measures produce results similar to real mobility data.
R-loop formation at Snord116 mediates topotecan inhibition of Ube3a-antisense and allele-specific chromatin decondensation

Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are oppositely imprinted autism-spectrum disorders with known genetic bases, but complex epigenetic mechanisms underlie their pathogenesis. The PWS/AS locus on 15q11–q13 is regulated by an imprinting control region that is maternally methylated and silenced. The PWS imprinting control region is the promoter for a one megabase paternal transcript encoding the ubiquitous protein-coding Snrpn gene and multiple neuron-specific noncoding RNAs, including the PWS-related Snord116 repetitive locus of small nucleolar RNAs and host genes, and the antisense transcript to AS-causing ubiquitin ligase encoding Ube3a (Ube3a-ATS). Neuron-specific transcriptional progression through Ube3a-ATS correlates with paternal Ube3a silencing and chromatin decondensation. Interestingly, topoisomerase inhibitors, including topotecan, were recently identified in an unbiased drug screen for compounds that could reverse the silent paternal allele of Ube3a in neurons, but the mechanism of topotecan action on the PWS/AS locus is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that topotecan treatment stabilizes the formation of RNA:DNA hybrids (R loops) at G-skewed repeat elements within paternal Snord116, corresponding to increased chromatin decondensation and inhibition of Ube3a-ATS expression. Neural precursor cells from paternal Snord116 deletion mice exhibit increased Ube3a-ATS levels in differentiated neurons and show a reduced effect of topotecan compared with wild-type neurons. These results demonstrate that the AS candidate drug topotecan acts predominantly through stabilizing R loops and chromatin decondensation at the paternally expressed PWS Snord116 locus. Our study holds promise for targeted therapies to the Snord116 locus for both AS and PWS.
Incidence of venous and paradoxical air embolism in neurosurgical patients in the sitting position: Detection by transesophageal echocardiography

Background: Venous air embolism (VAE) and paradoxical air embolism (PAE) are serious complications associated with the sitting position for neurosurgery. Although PAE is the result of VAE, the incidence of PAE according to the severity of VAE has not been investigated systematically in humans.
The Capacity to Use the Group as a Corrective Symbiotic Object in Group Analytic Psychotherapy for Patients with Psychosis

Group psychotherapy is widely accepted for treatment of patients suffering from psychosis. Nevertheless, some uncertainties remain regarding efficacy of insight-oriented group psychotherapy in these cases. Embracing the thinking of those authors that consider corrective symbiotic experience as essential in psychotherapeutic treatment for patients with psychosis, we explore the possibilities of group psychotherapy in enabling corrective emotional experience in our group therapeutic activity. Through some clinical examples from long-term outpatient group psychodynamic psychotherapy, which was insight oriented, we demonstrate how this method works with patients suffering from psychosis in a carefully selected group. Our experiences are positive, showing that the group analytically informed approach can offer a corrective symbiotic experience to patients with psychosis. However, patients with very deep symbiotic needs, who exclusively demand gratification of their symbiotic transferences, are not recommended for inclusion in group analytic work.
Fabrication of polyimide bi-stable diaphragms using oxide compressive stresses for the field of ‘Buckle MEMS’

In this paper we develop vacuum-actuated polyimide bi-stable actuators using buckled diaphragms for applications in the field of MEMS. The fabrication process involves a single mask step and DRIE etch step to fabricate the buckled bi-stable diaphragms. Compressive stresses in a companion thermal oxide layer provide pre-stress in the polyimide mechanical films that initiates diaphragm buckling upon release. Pressure was used to actuate these polyimide diaphragms from their first stable state to their second stable state, resulting in ‘zero electrical power’ actuation. The buckling height of the polyimide diaphragms is approximately 7.6 µm with an actuation pressure of 41 kPa, which compares favorably with model predictions assuming effective diaphragm properties for a single layer. These polyimide diaphragms can be used as the fundamental building blocks in micro-pumps, micro-valves, switches and optical devices. Because of their bi-stable nature, they can also be used for applications in mechanical memory storage.
Magnetic field correlation as a measure of iron‐generated magnetic field inhomogeneities in the brain

The magnetic field correlation (MFC) at an applied field level of 3 Tesla was estimated by means of MRI in several brain regions for 21 healthy human adults and 1 subject with aceruloplasminemia. For healthy subjects, highly elevated MFC values compared with surrounding tissues were found within the basal ganglia. These are argued as being primarily the result of microscopic magnetic field inhomogeneities generated by nonheme brain iron. The MFC in the aceruloplasminemia subject was significantly higher than for healthy adults in the globus pallidus, thalamus and frontal white matter, consistent with the known increased brain iron concentration associated with this disease. Magn Reson Med 61:481–485, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
EEG-based classification of positive and negative affective states

This study aimed to identify the neurophysiological correlates of two primary aroused affective states related to positive and negative emotions, and to create a classification model for each second of data. General and individualized models were built on the EEG data recorded from 98 participants while watching two contrasting ~20 min videos – one to elicit a negative affective state, and the other to induce positive affect. The final models were cross-validated on an additional 63 participants and the classifiers achieved similar results. The classifiers’ generalization capability was further estimated in a related study where 63 participants returned to watch videos that incorporated narratives with varying levels of fairness, justice, and character identification.
BENEFITS OF SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS: A SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH

This article presents a synthesis of research on benefits of supervised agricultural experience (SAE) programs during a thirty-year period 1964 - 1993 . A library search of selected sources was used to gather data for the study. Research in this area is primarily descriptive, detailing the benefits of SAEs . Research supports the belief that SAEs ar eregarded as beneficial to students, and that SAEs help make agricultural education vocational . Agricultural knowledge andpositive work attitudes are among the benefits students gain from SAEs . Research supports the concept that classroom/laboratory, SAEs, and FFA complement each other in the teaching and learning process . The research is state specific, fragmented, and lacks cohesiveness. Regional and national studies are needed on the benefits of SAEs to student learning; outcomes of SAEs; ways to effectively measure benefits from SAEs; optimal scope of SAEs; and building symbiotic relationships between classroom/laboratory instruction, FFA, and SAE to further enhance student learning.
Design and Performance of Solar Tracking System with Fuzzy Logic Controller

A solar tracking system is designed to optimize the operation of solar energy receivers. More solar energy is collected by the end of the day if solar receivers are installed with a tracker system. In this paper, a solar tracking system is modeled using Matlab/Simulink and a fuzzy logic control is designed for the control of this system. The generated controller was combined with the solar tracking system and the control was realized with the fuzzy logic controller in the Matlab/Simulink environment. At the same time, PI control is applied to the system and the results obtained with PI control were compared with the results of fuzzy logic.
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign

This study investigates media effects on stereotypic attitudes toward immigrants in a political campaign that dealt with the naturalization of immigrants. By combining a content analysis of the campaign coverage with a 2-wave panel survey, the study found that negative news portrayals of immigrants increased stereotypic attitudes in the public in the course of the campaign. Additionally, the frequent exposure to positive news portrayals of immigrants reduced the activation of negative outgroup attitudes. However, these findings are contingent on people's issue-specific knowledge. Only people with low to moderate knowledge were influenced by negative and positive news stories about immigrants in the campaign. Well-informed people were resistant to the effects of positive and news portrayals of immigrants.
Empowering Supervisees to Empower Others: A Culturally Responsive Supervision Model

Educating therapists to provide culturally responsive psychotherapy constitutes one of the major mental health challenges of this decade. This article describes a model of clinical supervision for assisting supervisees in developing culturally responsive therapy approaches. The model includesfourstages, which are intended to unfold in a systematic way, aimed at increasing cultural competence and awareness of sociocultural issues. The stages move from the didactic to the experiential, from the cognitive to the personal, from the objective toward the subjective. This model, the supervisory climate, and its place in the context of an entire training program are presented.
Blood–brain barrier dysfunction and epilepsy: Pathophysiologic role and therapeutic approaches

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is located within a unique anatomic interface and has functional ramifications to most of the brain and blood cells. In the past, the BBB was considered a pharmacokinetic impediment to antiepileptic drug penetration into the brain; nowadays it is becoming increasingly evident that targeting of the damaged or dysfunctional BBB may represent a therapeutic approach to reduce seizure burden. Several studies have investigated the mechanisms linking the onset and sustainment of seizures to BBB dysfunction. These studies have shown that the BBB is at the crossroad of a multifactorial pathophysiologic process that involves changes in brain milieu, altered neuroglial physiology, development of brain inflammation, leukocyte–endothelial interactions, faulty angiogenesis, and hemodynamic changes leading to energy mismatch. A number of knowledge gaps, conflicting points of view, and discordance between clinical and experimental data currently characterize this field of neuroscience. As more pieces are added to this puzzle, it is apparent that each mechanism needs to be validated in an appropriate clinical context. We now offer a BBB‐centric view of seizure disorders, linking several aspects of seizures and epilepsy physiopathology to BBB dysfunction. We have reviewed the therapeutic, antiseizure effect of drugs that promote BBB repair. We also present BBB neuroimaging as a tool to correlate BBB restoration to seizure mitigation. Add‐on cerebrovascular drug could be of efficacy in reducing seizure burden when used in association with neuronal antiepileptic drugs.
The Importance of Attributional Complexity for Transformational Leadership Studies

Attributional complexity refers to the capability of discriminating and integrating dimensions related to social judgment in order to understand social behaviour. While previous leadership research has examined the role of leader attributions, it has neglected the role of attributional complexity. We theorize and find support for a relationship between higher attributional complexity and transformational leadership behaviours, based on a sample of 100 leaders and their direct reports. Leaders who were more complex in their social judgments, attributing complex external and internal causes to others' behaviours and actions, were seen as more transformational by their direct reports. Our findings suggest that attributional complexity is a construct that warrants consideration in future research on both transformational leadership and leadership attributions.