Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Occupational Stress And Role Commitment Among Teachers Working At Secondary Level In Relation To Gender And Length Of Service

Faculty of Education i ABSTRACT Ever since the dawn of civilization, teachers have been considered as the core of any educational system. They act as the reformers of education and rescue the world through education. As an educator, mentor and guide, they play a pivotal role of being a harbinger and facilitator of social change in the society. The skill and expertise of the teacher as a professional visualizes the future of learners and prepares them to be the good citizens of tomorrow (Kandu, 1988). It is recommended that teachers must be trained to become “reflective practitioners”. A teacher occupies an important and unique place in the system of education. He is the heart and soul of this system and leads the students from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge and understanding. He acts as a pivot for the transmission of intellectual traditions and help to keep the lamp of civilization burning. Thus, the importance of a teacher for the community and educational system is very much evident. Although teaching is profession, yet people do not think of a teacher as a professional worker like other professions such as medicine, law, engineering etc. Many consider it not a profession but a mission. The successful teacher must possess the ability and an academic competence for teaching. In this scientific age, the teacher must possess the ability to appreciate and understand the changing needs of the society and must understand the psychological bases of education which influence the education. Teacher education has led to some innovations in its various aspects to work out strategies for planning and implementing innovative programmes by making themselves familiar with the areas for innovations, process and skill of innovating new ways and methods of teacher education. In teaching profession , a teacher has to perform multiple activities like teaching, evaluating, communicating , guiding and counseling the students, organizing co-curricular activities etc., together with activities which are intrinsic to
Combination Effects of Herbs in a Multi-herbal Formula: Expression of Juzen-taiho-to's Immuno-modulatory Activity on the Intestinal Immune System

Herbal formulas of traditional Japanese (Kampo), Chinese and Korean medicines usually comprise multiple herbs in a single formula. These medicines are expected to show their clinical effects by chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical combination effects of multi-herbs. However, little effort has been made so far to scientifically clarify the nature of such combination effects. Interestingly, for example, though a Kampo medicine Juzen-taiho-to (Shi-Quan-Da-Bu-Tang in Chinese) stimulates the immune functions of Peyer's patch cells, none of its single component herbs shows such activity. We thus examined the combination effect of herbs in the Juzen-taiho-to formula for the expression of its immuno-stimulating activity. Juzen-taiho-to, a composite formula of 10 herbs, has been generally considered to comprise two kinds of basic formula, each of which consists of four different herbs in addition to two others. The combinations of herbs based on these two basic formulas were evaluated for their stimulating activities on cytokine production from murine Peyer's patch cells both in vitro and ex vivo. Combined decoction of six among 10 herbs in Juzen-taiho-to is crucial for the expression of its stimulating activity on Peyer's patch cells. 3D-HPLC analysis of the ingredients in the fractions from the combined decoctions indicated that, in addition to quantitative changes of ingredients, alterations occur in their chemical composition by decoction of different herbs. The stimulating activity of Juzen-taiho-to on Peyer's patch cells results from the combination effect of its six essential component herbs. This combination effect is based on physicochemical interactions among the ingredients of the component herbs.
String organization of field theories: Duality and gauge invariance.

String theories should reduce to ordinary four-dimensional field theories at low energies. Yet the formulation of the two are so different that such a connection, if it exists, is not immediately obvious. With the Schwinger proper-time representation, and the spinor helicity technique, it has been shown that field theories can indeed be written in a stringlike manner, thus resulting in simplifications in practical calculations, and providing novel insight into gauge and gravitational theories. This paper continues the study of string organization of field theories by focusing on the question of local duality. It is shown that a single expression for the sum of many diagrams can indeed be written for QED, thereby simulating the duality property in strings. The relation between a single diagram and the dual sum is somewhat analogous to the relation between an old-fashioned perturbation diagram and a Feynman diagram. Dual expressions are particularly significant for gauge theories because they are gauge invariant while expressions for single diagrams are not.
Spatio-Temporal Identification of Areas Suitable for West Nile Disease in the Mediterranean Basin and Central Europe

West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-transmitted Flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the Flaviviridae family. Its spread in the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans poses a significant risk to human health and forces public health officials to constantly monitor the virus transmission to ensure prompt application of preventive measures. In this context, predictive tools indicating the areas and periods at major risk of WNV transmission are of paramount importance. Spatial analysis approaches, which use environmental and climatic variables to find suitable habitats for WNV spread, can enhance predictive techniques. Using the Mahalanobis Distance statistic, areas ecologically most suitable for sustaining WNV transmission were identified in the Mediterranean basin and Central Europe. About 270 human and equine clinical cases notified in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Morocco, and Tunisia, between 2008 and 2012, have been considered. The environmental variables included in the model were altitude, slope, night time Land Surface Temperature, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Enhanced Vegetation Index, and daily temperature range. Seasonality of mosquito population has been modelled and included in the analyses to produce monthly maps of suitable areas for West Nile Disease. Between May and July, the most suitable areas are located in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and North Cyprus. Summer/Autumn months, particularly between August and October, characterize the suitability in Italy, France, Spain, the Balkan countries, Morocco, North Tunisia, the Mediterranean coast of Africa, and the Middle East. The persistence of suitable conditions in December is confined to the coastal areas of Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Israel.
Dynamic and Static Models of Body-Mind Approaches from Neurobiological Perspectives

Body-mind approaches (e.g., yoga, mindfulness meditation, Pilates method, and cognitive behavior therapy) are commonly used by the public today. However, the comprehensive neurobiological framework of effects of body-mind approaches is unknown. To begin, we discuss the dynamic and static models of each body-mind approaches from neurobiological perspectives, as well as from the standpoint of practical issues. By the dynamic components of body-mind approaches, people enhances meta-cognitive function, and it lead to decreases in avoidance behavior in social aversive context are suggested. On the other hand, it is assumed that static components of body-mind approaches enhance non-reactive monitoring function for baseline of self. Therefore, we discuss the implications of these findings for practitioners and for future research on body-mind researchers. Additionally, this chapter covers the essential ethical guidelines of body-mind approaches within the domain of medical or educational fields.
Early maladaptive schemas and typical and atypical symptoms of depression among Adult Children of Alcoholics

Introduction: The aim of the study was to distinguish the maladaptive schemas defined by Jeffrey Young et al. dominate within a group of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACoA) and to examine the relationship between the schemas and depressive symptoms in the study group. Material and methods: Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-SF3), Rutz Gotland Male Depression Scale (GMDS) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used in this study. The study consisted of 56 female and 10 male participants in ACoA treatment. Results: The highest results in the study group were obtained in the following schemas: Recognition-seeking, Negativity, Unrelenting standards, Streszczenie
The Relationship Between Auditory Habituation and Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Relationship Between Auditory Habituation and Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder David Nicholas Top Jr. Department of Psychology, BYU Master of Science Many individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have atypical sensory processing and behaviors including sensory sensitivity and low registration of sensory stimuli as well as sensory seeking and avoiding behaviors. Additionally, many individuals with ASD have clinically distressing levels of anxiety. Previous research suggests that there is a link between abnormal sensory processing, anxiety, and ASD. The purpose of this study was to experimentally observe auditory sensory processing using pupillometry methods, between ASD, control, and high-anxious control groups. While a difference in tonic pupil size was observed, there were no reactivity or habituation differences between the groups. There were no significant correlations between the pupillometry measures and behavioral measures of emotional distress and anxiety. These results do not indicate a relationship between anxiety and unimodal auditory response in ASD. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
Modeling High Speed Machining with the SPH Method

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the use of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Method within the framework of modeling high speed cutting. First, a 2D SPH based model is carried out using the LS-DYNA software. SPH is a meshless method, thus large material distortions that occur in the cutting problem are easily managed and SPH contact control allows a “natural” work piece/chip separation. The developed SPH model proves its ability to account for continuous and shear localized chip formation and also correctly estimates the cutting forces, as illustrated in some orthogonal cutting examples. Then the SPH model is used in order to improve the general understanding of machining with worn tools. At last, a milling model allowing the calculation of the 3D cutting forces is presented. The interest of the suggested approach is to be freed from classically needed machining tests: Those are replaced by 2D numerical tests using the SPH model. The developed approach proved its ability to model the 3D cutting forces in ball end milling.
The effect of different drinks on the color stability of different restorative materials after one month

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of three different drinks on the color parameters of four different restorative materials. Materials and Methods Three different composites (Filtek Ultimate Universal Restorative, Filtek Ultimate Flowable, and Filtek Silorane, 3M ESPE) and a polyacid-modified composite resin material (Dyract XP, Dentsply DeTrey GmbH) were evaluated. Eighty-four disc-shaped specimens of 8 mm in diameter and 2 mm in thickness were prepared (n = 21 each). Color coordinates (L*a*b*, ΔL*, Δa*, Δb*, and ΔE*) were measured using a VİTA Easyshade Compact (VİTA Zahnfabrik) after 24 hr of storage (baseline) and after 30 day of storage in three different beverages of black tea, Coca cola, or water (control) (n = 7). In each beverage, the specimens were stored three times a day, one hr each, for 30 day. The color changes (ΔE) were calculated and were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn multiple comparison test. Results The color difference (ΔE*) of the resin materials ranged between 1.31 and 15.28 after 30 day of immersion in the staining solutions. Dyract XP in Coca cola (15.28 ± 2.61) and black tea (12.22 ± 2.73) showed the highest mean ΔE* value after 30 day, followed by Filtek Ultimate Universal Restorative (5.99 ± 1.25) and Filtek Ultimate Flowable (4.71 ± 1.40) in black tea (p < 0.05). Conclusions The compomers displayed unacceptable color changes at the end of 30 day in all beverages. Among resin composites, the silorane based composite exhibited relatively good color stability than the others. Filtek Ultimate Universal Restorative and Filtek Flowable showed similar color changes in all beverages.
Extraction of action patterns using local temporal self-similarities of skeletal body-joints

The RGB-Depth data has resulted in a great improvement on the task of human pose estimation, however, additional step is still necessary to interpret sequential human poses into more informative actions. In this paper, we explore extracting action patterns using temporal self-similarity from time sequential skeletons recovered from such data. For each body joint, action patterns are extracted locally in the temporal extent of a given video. Then, the standard bag-of-words framework is employed to assemble these local patterns for action modeling. Action recognition is performed using Naive-Bayes-Nearest-Neighbors classifier with also considering the spatial independence of body joints. Experimental result on the benchmarking dataset: UCF Kinect dataset, suggested the effectiveness and promise of the proposed action patterns.
Symbolic Synthesis of Observability Requirements for Diagnosability

Given a partially observable dynamic system and a diagnoser observing its evolution over time, diagnosability analysis formally verifies (at design time) if the diagnosis system will be able to infer (at runtime) the required information on the hidden part of the dynamic state. Diagnosability directly depends on the availability of observations, and can be guaranteed by different sets of sensors, possibly associated with different costs. In this paper, we tackle the problem of synthesizing observability requirements, i.e. automatically discovering a set of observations that is sufficient to guarantee diagnosability. We propose a novel approach with the following characterizing features. First, it fully covers a comprehensive formal framework for diagnosability analysis, and enables ranking configurations of observables in terms of cost, minimality, and diagnosability delay. Second, we propose two complementary algorithms for the synthesis of observables. Third, we describe an efficient implementation that takes full advantage of mature symbolic model checking techniques. The proposed approach is thoroughly evaluated over a comprehensive suite of benchmarks taken from the aerospace domain.
Counting and Constructing Minimal Spanning Trees

We revisit the minimal spanning tree problem in order to develop a theory of construction and counting of the minimal spanning trees in a network. The theory indicates that the construction of such trees consists of many di erent choices, all independent of each other. These results suggest a block approach to the construction of all minimal spanning trees in the network, and an algorithm to that e ect is outlined as well as a formula for the number of minimal spanning trees.
Asymmetries of null subjects and null objects in L1-English and L1-Japanese learners’ Chinese

Abstract Based on the HSK Dynamic Composition Corpus, this study investigated the use of Chinese null arguments by advanced adult L1-English and L1-Japanese learners with Chinese native speakers as a baseline. Several asymmetries were found. First, the learners produced many more null subjects than null objects. Second, null subjects were mainly animate, while null objects were mainly inanimate. Third, more null subjects were used in non-matrix clauses than in matrix clauses. In addition, L1 did not seem to play a significant role in the learners’ use of Chinese null arguments, and the learners’ use Chinese null arguments was generally not native-like. Finally, it appears that null objects are not transferable or developmental and that infrequent use of null objects is universal in L2. It was argued that positive evidence in the target input as well as the nature of the subject and the object led to the asymmetric use of null subjects and null objects in L2 Chinese.
Hierarchical path planning of mobile robots in complex indoor environments

Inspired by the Hierarchical D* (HD*) algorithm of Cagigas (Robotics and Autonomous Systems 52, 190—208, 2005), in this paper we introduce a novel hierarchical path planning algorithm called the Focussed Hierarchical D* (FHD *). Unlike the original HD* algorithm, the FHD* algorithm guarantees the optimality of the global path, and requires considerably less time for the path replanning operations. This is achieved by several modifications: (1) optimal placement of the so-called bridge nodes needed for hierarchy creation, (2) focusing the search around the optimal path, which reduces the search area without loss of optimality, and (3) introduction of partial starts and partial goals, which further reduce computational time of replanning operations. The FHD* algorithm was tested in a multi-room indoor environment and compared with the original HD* algorithm, non-hierarchical D* algorithm, and Focussed D* algorithm under the same conditions. The FHD* algorithm significantly outperforms other algorithms with respect to the computational time. Furthermore, it can be easily extended to the problem of path planning between different floors or buildings.
Relationship between entire functions and their derivatives sharing small function except a set

The paper is mainly devoted to deriving the relationship between an entire function and its derivative when they share one small function except possibly a set, which is related to the famous Brück conjecture. In addition, two propositions of infinite products are obtained. The first one is the growth property of a certain infinite product. The second one is the property of entire solutions of the differential equation which concerns infinite products.
Reconstruction of diffusions using spectral data from timeseries

Abstract. A numerical technique for the reconstruction of diffusion processes (diffusions, in short) from data is presented. The drift and diffusion coefficients of the generator of the diffusion are found by minimizing an object function which measures the difference between the eigenspectrum of the operator and a reference eigenspectrum. The reference spectrum can be obtained, in discretized form, from timeseries through the construction of a discrete-time Markov chain. Discretization of the Fokker-Planck operator turns minimization of the object function into a quadratic programming problem on a convex domain, for which well-established solution methods exist. The technique is a generalization of a reconstruction procedure for continuous-time Markov chain generators, recently developed by the authors. The technique also allows to derive the coefficient in the homogenized diffusion for the slow variables in system with multiple timescales.
Self-Control and Deviance: A Test of the General Theory of Crime in Argentina

ABSTRACT Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime (GTC) has been one of the most cited and tested theories in criminology. It posits to be in effect transcultural in its application and relevant for any norm-violating behaviors. As most empirical work has been completed in English speaking countries, the current study tested some of the main theoretical postulates in a sample of 214 Argentinean male adolescents, both offenders and non-offenders. More specifically, it tested the relationships between parental practices, self-control, criminal opportunities, and deviance. Findings provide evidence that offenders reported more deviant behaviors and more risk factors than non-offenders. They also provide partial empirical support for the main theoretical propositions. Maternal closeness, support. and monitoring had different effects on self-control and on deviance; both low self-control and opportunities had direct effects of deviant behaviors. Theoretical, research, and practical implications of study findings are discussed.
Excessive social networking sites use and online compulsive buying in young adults: the mediating role of money attitude

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of excessive use of social networking sites on online compulsive buying, and whether this effect is mediated by the dimensions of money attitude (i.e. power-prestige, distrust and anxiety) in young Malaysian adults. Design/methodology/approach A correlational cross-sectional, questionnaire-based design was adopted. A total of 1,155 university students completed an online survey. A parallel multiple mediator model was then developed and tested using covariance-based structural equation modeling. Findings Excessive use of social media had a positive effect on money attitude dimensions and online compulsive buying. Also, power-prestige and anxiety dimensions of money attitude mediated the positive effect of excessive use of social networking sites on online compulsive buying. Practical implications Several implications for the parents of young adults, institutions of higher learning as well as banks that provide services to these youths have been suggested. Originality/value Little is known about the effect of excessive use of social media on compulsive online buying and the mechanisms behind it. This study contributes to the literature by testing the mediating role of money attitude in the effect of use of social networking sites on online compulsive buying.
Software Process Diversity: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Analysis of Impact on Project Performance

This article investigates software process diversity, defined as the project condition arising out of the simultaneous use of multiple software development process frameworks within a single project. Software process diversity is conceptualized as the response of a project team to such contingencies as requirements volatility, design and technological novelty, customer involvement, and the level of organizational process compliance enforced on the project. Moreover, we conceptualize that the degree of fit (or match) between a project's software process diversity and the level of process compliance enforced on the project impacts overall project performance. This conceptualization was empirically tested by utilizing data collected from 410 large commercial software projects of a multinational firm. The results show that higher levels of requirements volatility, design and technological novelty, and customer involvement increased software process diversity within a project. However, software process diversity decreased relative to increases in the level of process compliance enforced on the project. A higher degree of fit between the process diversity and process compliance of a project, rather than the effects of those variables independently, was found to be significantly associated with a higher level of project performance, as measured in terms of project productivity and software quality. These results indicate that increasing software process diversity in response to project-level contingencies improves project performance only when there is a concomitant increase in organizational process compliance efforts. The implications of these results for research are discussed and prescriptive guidelines derived to manage the fit between process diversity and process compliance for improving software project performance.