Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Beyond cultural competence: transforming teacher professional learning through Aboriginal community-controlled cultural immersion

ABSTRACT This paper problematises the concept of cultural competence in teacher professional learning arguing instead for opportunities to develop critical reflexivity in the ongoing construction of a pedagogical cultural identity. In the Aboriginal context within Australia, this research study demonstrates how attaining cultural knowledge, understandings and skills is most effective when professional learning is delivered by local Aboriginal cultural knowledge holders. This research study analyses the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Connecting to Country cultural immersion programme for local communities and schools. A mixed methods approach, analysing quantitative and qualitative data from questionnaires and interviews, highlights the significant impact this experience has on teachers in building relationships with local Aboriginal community members. Teachers reported learning new knowledge about local Aboriginal people, culture, history and issues that challenged their assumptions, personal and collective positioning and pedagogical approaches to teaching Aboriginal students. Implications from the study identify the significance of privileging Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in order to realise culturally responsive schooling and empower teachers as critically reflective change agents in their schools. It further identifies the need for significant human and financial investment so that all teachers can engage with this authentic and potentially transformative professional learning experience.
Study of Packet Traffic Fluctuations Near Phase Transition Point from Free Flow to Congestion in Data Network Model

Phase transition phenomena between non-congested and congested phases in packet traffic have been observed in many packet switching networks (PSNs). Using the PSN model we investigate the nature of fluctuations in number of packets in transit from their source to their destination, when the mean flow density into the PSN model is close to the phase transition point. A meaningful parameter of PSN behaviour near this critical point is the Hurst exponent that when larger than 0.5 is revealing of a long memory process, i.e. a fractional Brownian motion. In this paper we have used Hurst exponents and long range dependence to analyse PSN model behaviour. We have found that the DFA analysis and several methods for estimating the Hurst exponent suggest the presence of a long memory process for the PSN model using adaptive routing. However, we have not observed this in the case of static routing for the same type of incoming traffic. Thus, the packet traffic is more correlated in PSN model with adaptive routing than the static one. We present our finding, outline the work underway and discuss its expansion.
Haematological & molecular profile of acute myelogenous leukaemia in India.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Recurrent balanced translocations are generally recognized to be a major parameter for prognostication in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The chromosomal translocation t(15;17) results in PML/RARalpha fusion gene, t(8;21) results in AML1/ETO fusion gene and Inv 16 generates CBFbeta/MYH11 fusion gene. Patients with these mutations have a good prognosis unlike abnormalities in chromosome 5 or 7 or FLT3 genes. Therefore, we screened the AmL patients for known specific genetic abnormalities that could lead to more definitive prognoses. METHODS A total of 113 AML patients were evaluated at diagnosis based on routine morphology and cytochemistry and classified according to the WHO criteria. The distribution of AML subtypes was M1(1), M2(32), M3(57), M4(14), M5(1), M6(1) and seven cases where morphological subtype could not be classified. RT-PCR was performed to identify PML/RARalpha, AML1/ETO, CBFbeta/MYH11 and FLT3 nternal tandem duplication (ITD). RESULTS Of the 57 patients with M3 subtype, 55 had the PML-RARalpha fusion transcript. The prevalence of bcr3 (short isoform) was higher (62%) than that of bcr1 (long isoform) (38%) and no correlation was found with age, sex or white blood cell count. FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations were more frequent in patients with APL than in other AML subtypes (17.5 vs. 8.9%), the frequency greater in patients with bcr3 isoform (70%) than in those with in bcr1 isoform (30%). Patients with FLT3/ ITD mutations had a significantly higher median white cell count than those without these mutations (55 x 10(9)/l vs. 6.3 x 10(9)/l P<0.001). More patients with FLT3/ITD mutations died early (53%) than those without these mutations (16%) (P<0.01). AML1-ETO fusion transcript was detected in 16 of 56 patients with no correlation with clinical or haematological parameters. INTERPRETATION & CONCLUSION The results of the present study showed presence of bcr3 (short isoform) higher than bcr1 (long isoform). FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutation was predominant in acute promyelocytic leukaemia patients with bcr3 isoform. Thus, patients with APL who have FLT3 mutation appear to have a poorer prognosis. Therefore, rapid identification of specific translocations at diagnosis is important for prognostic purposes and their detection should be incorporated into routine assessment.
Rule learning approaches for symmetric multiplayer games

This paper describes a series of experiments involving rule learning for Samurai, a symmetric multiplayer strategy game. Rule based artificial intelligence is commonly used in a wide variety of computer strategy games. Automated rule learning processes have been used to derive rules both to improve the quality of AI play and to illuminate possible strategies and tactics for the games. This research explores the effects of using seed AI rules and bootstrap AI for rule learning on the outcome of the learning process. It is demonstrated that good quality sets of rules can be generated for the Samurai game with or without seed rules. It is also shown that the use of a bootstrap AI produces rule sets better tuned to face that AI, although not necessarily better in general.
Frequent Breakpoints in the 3 pl 4 . 2 Fragile Site , FRA 3 B , in Pancreatic Tumors 1

FKA3B, at chromosomal band 3pl4.2, is the most active common fragile site in the human genome. Homozygous deletions in the region of FRA3B have been observed in many types of solid tumors. Recently, the FHIT gene was reported to span FRA3B and was shown to be homozygously deleted in several gastric and colonie tumor cell lines. Several microsatellite markers that precisely define the 1.0-Mb region surround ing FRA3B and FHIT have been utilized, along with other 3p microsatellites, to analyze the loss of 3p sequences in 25 primary pancreatic adenocarcinomas. The high density of microsatellite markers in the 3pl4.2 region enabled us to both identify losses within and flanking FRA3B in pancreatic cancer and define the breakpoints. We observed loss of heterozygosity of 3pl4.2 markers in 16 of 25 pancreatic tumors and loss of heterozygosity of 3p markers outside of 3pl4.2 in only 2 of 25 tumors of this type. There appears to be a dramatic clustering of chromosomal breakpoints at 3pl4.2 in and immediately distal to FRA3B in pancreatic cancer. We detected no homozygous deletions in this region.
A bibliometric analysis of research productivity of emergency medicine researchers in South Korea

Objective During the past 20 years, over 1,400 doctors have been certified as emergency physicians in Korea. The number of scientific publications in the field of emergency medicine has also increased. This study aims to evaluate the research productivity of academic emergency physicians in South Korea. Methods Articles published from 1996 to 2015 by authors affiliated with Korean emergency departments were retrieved using Pubmed, Embase, and Web of Science. Research productivity was analyzed quantitatively to ascertain the number of articles for publication type and year. The performance of these articles was also analyzed qualitatively using impact factor, citation number, and Hirsch index. Bibliometric analysis was performed by researching Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Results A total of 858 articles with 293 Korean authors as the first or corresponding authors were published across 191 journals. The number of publications increased continuously. The most common publication type was original article (n=618), the most commonly studied research topic was resuscitation medicine (n=110), and the average impact factor of the original articles was 2.158. The highest h-index was 17 and, using Web of Science, the maximum number of citations was found to be 85. Conclusion This study suggests that the research productivity of Korean authors in the emergency medicine field has progressed steadily during the last 10 years. However, qualitative indexes, such as the number of citations and h-index value, remain low.
Consideration of age degradation in the RF performance of CMOS radio chips for high volume manufacturing

The age reliability of the RF performance of CMOS radio chips must be validated prior to high volume manufacturing. In this paper, we show the results of age simulations on some RF subblock designs used in our 802.11 a/b/g radio chip transceiver for our WLAN card. Transistor age models, based on HCI and NBTI age degradation mechanisms, were derived from stress measurements made on a variety of NMOS and PMOS transistors. They were used in full circuit level age simulations on a driver amplifier and a mixer design, presented here, using Cadence's RelXpert simulator, which allows for age modeling from the single transistor level up to the entire TX and RX chain hierarchies.
Love for the club, love for the stadium? The influence of sportscape perception and place attachment on soccer attendance among Belgian fans

Mariana de Carvalho (1&2), José Pedro Sarmento (2), Filip Boen (3), Jeroen Scheerder (1) 1: Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, University of Leuven, Belgium 2: Sport Management Department, CIFI2D, Sports Faculty, University of Porto, Portugal 3: Physical Activity, Sports & Health Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, University of Leuven, Belgium msmfcarvalho@gmail.com
Effects of Humectant and Roasting on Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Jerky Made from Spent Hen Meat

This study was carried out to develop jerky product utilizing spent hen meat. Manipulation of water activity (aw) of semi-dried meat with the addition of humectants (glycerol and sorbitol at the concentration of 0, 10, and 15%) and roasting process were applied to enhance quality of jerky product. After spent hen meat was ground, formulated, reformed and then dried in convection oven at 85℃ for 2 h followed by 60℃ for 1 h, all jerky samples showed values of aw ≤0.85 with total aerobic bacteria, yeast and mold and Staphylococcus aureus counts were reduced to undetectable levels. Moreover, the results showed that the 15% glycerol added jerky showed superior quality, indicated by the lowest aw, low protein aggregation as evaluated by sorption isotherm and the lowest shear value as compared to sorbitol added and control samples (p<0.05). Regardless effect of humectant, roasting could improve the quality of the jerky via enhanced sensory attributes by increasing color, appearance, flavor and overall acceptability scores (p<0.05). Therefore, spent hen meat could be used as a potential raw material for jerky in which soft product texture obtained by the addition of glycerol and intense flavor resulted from roasting process after drying, leading to sensory acceptance.
Structure and Reactivity of PdOx/ZrO2Catalysts for Methane Oxidation at Low Temperatures

The kinetics of methane combustion at low temperatures are consistent with a Mars–van Krevelen redox mechanism involving the activation of methane on site pairs consisting of oxygen atoms and oxygen vacancies on the surface of PdOxcrystallites. H2O strongly inhibits methane oxidation rates by titrating surface vacancies in a quasi-equilibrated adsorption–desorption step. Initial activation periods during methane oxidation are related to the presence of oxygen-deficient PdOxcrystallites, which contain stronger Pd–O oxygen bonds and increase their oxygen content during steady-state combustion reactions. Strong Pd–O bonds in small crystallites and in oxygen-deficient PdOxalso lead to the observed decrease in methane oxidation turnover rates as crystallite size decreases or as samples are treated at temperatures above those required for PdO-to-Pd decomposition.
Intentions to Participate in Training Among Older Unemployed People

While a considerable number of studies have focused on factors driving employees to voluntarily participate in training programs, much less is known on this topic with regard to the unemployed population, in particular the older unemployed, who often are in a vulnerable labor market position due to educational deficits and skills obsolescence. This study proposes and investigates a serial mediator model of older unemployed individuals’ training intentions grounded in propositions from social cognitive theory and the theory of planned behavior as well as prior models of employee involvement in training. The results, based on cross-sectional questionnaire data from 176 unemployed Portuguese individuals aged 40+, suggest that age, education, and proactivity have an indirect effect on training intentions via learning self-efficacy and training-related outcome expectations. Age was also directly related to stronger training intentions. These results may be useful for interventions aiming to encourage older unemployed individuals’ participation in training.
Approximating the Minimum Tour Cover of a Digraph

Given a directed graph G with non-negative cost on the arcs, a directed tour cover T of G is a cycle (not necessarily simple) in G such that either head or tail (or both of them) of every arc in G is touched by T. The minimum directed tour cover problem (DToCP), which is to find a directed tour cover of minimum cost, is NP-hard. It is thus interesting to design approximation algorithms with performance guarantee to solve this problem. Although its undirected counterpart (ToCP) has been studied in recent years, in our knowledge, the DToCP remains widely open. In this paper, we give a 2 log2(n)-approximation algorithm for the DToCP.
Web accessibility and people with dyslexia: a survey on techniques and guidelines

Although the dyslexia has significant occurrence in the global population, ranging from 15 to 20%, not much is known about how developers, designers, and content producers should respect differences and consider people with dyslexia in the Web. In this paper we present a survey regarding the state of the art on dyslexia and Web Accessibility. From the results, we present a set of 41 guidelines that may support website stakeholders (i.e., people directly involved with the design, development, and content) in phases involving design, coding, and Web content insertion. Moreover, we propose a mapping of these guidelines considering the responsibilities of different roles of websites stakeholders. Informed by this survey we expect development teams to objectively consider abilities of people with dyslexia in order to remove accessibility barriers.
Passivity Analysis and Passivation of Event-Triggered Interconnected Systems Using Passivity Indices

We consider the passivity analysis and passivation problems for event-triggered feedback interconnected systems. Based on the location of the event-triggered samplers, we consider two event-triggered control schemes respectively: event-triggered sampler of plant output and event-triggered sampler of controller output. For both schemes, we first derive the conditions to characterize the level of passivity for the interconnected system using passivity indices. The event-triggering condition is proposed to guarantee that these indices can be achieved. Then the passivation problem is considered and the passivation conditions are provided. Considering that the passivation condition depends on the passivity indices of the plant and controller and also the event-triggering condition, the trade off between performance (passivity level) and communication resource utilization is discussed.
Toll-Like Receptor 2/6 Agonist Macrophage-Activating Lipopeptide-2 Promotes Reendothelialization and Inhibits Neointima Formation After Vascular Injury

Objective—Reendothelialization after vascular injury (ie, balloon angioplasty or stent implantation) is clinically extremely relevant to promote vascular healing. We here investigated the therapeutic potential of the toll-like receptor 2/6 agonist macrophage-activating lipopeptide (MALP)-2 on reendothelialization and neointima formation in a murine model of vascular injury. Approach and Results—The left common carotid artery was electrically injured, and reendothelialization was quantified by Evans blue staining after 3 days. A single injection of MALP-2 (1 or 10 µg, IV) after vascular injury accelerated reendothelialization (P<0.001). Proliferation of endothelial cells at the wound margins determined by 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine incorporation was significantly higher in MALP-2–treated animals (P<0.05). Furthermore, wire injury–induced neointima formation of the left common carotid artery was completely prevented by a single injection of MALP-2 (10 µg, IV). In vitro, MALP-2 induced proliferation (BrdU incorporation) and closure of an artificial wound of endothelial cells (P<0.05) but not of smooth muscle cells. Protein array and ELISA analysis of isolated primary endothelial cells and ex vivo stimulated carotid segments revealed that MALP-2 stimulated the release of multiple growth factors and cytokines predominantly from endothelial cells. MALP-2 induced a strong activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in endothelial cells, which was attenuated in smooth muscle cells. Furthermore, MALP-2 significantly enhanced circulating monocytes and hematopoietic progenitor cells. Conclusions—The toll-like receptor 2/6 agonist MALP-2 promotes reendothelialization and inhibits neointima formation after experimental vascular injury via enhanced proliferation and migration of endothelial cells. Thus, MALP-2 represents a novel therapeutic option to accelerate reendothelialization after vascular injury.
What Makes Us More Egocentric in Communication? The Role of Referent Features and Individual Differences

The perspective-adjustment model of language interpretation assumes an initial egocentric stage in comprehension that is only later adjusted to the interlocutor's perspective. Moreover, substantial processing resources are involved in perspective-taking. However, many experiments in the perspective-adjustment framework do not control for visual salience and semantic typicality of referents. We conducted a referential task experiment focusing on salience and typicality as potential factors that may increase the cognitive costs of an interpretation. We additionally manipulated the interactive versus non-interactive nature of the task (with or without an interlocutor) to test the effects of perspective-taking on interpretation. Saliency and typicality of referents influenced the interpretation process when they were in conflict with the perspective-taking factor. Also, the interactive situations were more cognitively demanding than the non-interactive ones. These results are consistent with the constraint-based model that views interpretation as a probabilistic process of competition between constraints.
Language norms and language use: Hypercorrections in the Independence period of Chilean Spanish

Abstract In this study we analyze ego-documents and metalinguistic texts from nineteenth century and early twentieth century Chilean Spanish showing a number of cases of phonetic-phonological hypercorrections. Our focus is the interaction between language-normative discourses and language use. We work with the assumption that hypercorrections are a symptom of the speakers’ linguistic consciousness regarding the norm and the (overt) prestige associated with certain variants, and thus they reveal the influence that normative ideas exert over language use. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Chilean Spanish underwent a process of linguistic standardization, which manifested itself through a number of ‘disciplinary texts’ (grammars, dictionaries) that offered an exoglossic normative model. Chilean Spanish differed from this normative model in a number of features which were subject to overt condemnation and also were precisely those affected by hypercorrection in our data.
Troubleshooting the Femoral Attachment During Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction

The medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) has been recognized as an important soft tissue restraint in preventing lateral patellar translation. As many patients with acute or chronic patellar instability will have a deficient MPFL, reconstruction of this ligament is becoming more common. Appropriately, significant research has been undertaken regarding graft biomechanics and techniques, as intraoperative errors in graft placement often result in poor patient outcomes. Although the research has not answered all of the dilemmas encountered during reconstruction, publications consistently emphasize the importance of re-establishing an anatomic femoral attachment. The purpose of this study was to briefly review the current literature on MPFL reconstruction. Graft selection and patellar graft attachment and fixation are discussed, but the main focus is the femoral attachment as this is where most errors are seen and, unfortunately, where getting it right appears to matter the most. Using a sawbones knee model, the concepts of an MPFL graft that is “high and tight” or “low and loose” are presented, with the goal of providing physicians with intraoperative tools to adjust an incorrectly placed femoral MPFL attachment. This model is also used to justify the recommendation of graft fixation in 30° to 45° of knee flexion.
Modeling and simulation of nanoscale devices with a desktop supercomputer

Designing nanoscale devices presents a number of unique challenges. As device features shrink, the computational demands of the simulations necessary to accurately model them increase significantly. This is a result of not only the increasing level of detail in the device design itself, but also the need to use more accurate models. The approximations that are generally made when dealing with larger devices break down as feature sizes decrease. This can be seen in the optics field when contrasting the complexity of physical optics models with those requiring a rigorous solution to Maxwell's equations. This added complexity leads to more demanding calculations, stressing computational resources and driving research to overcome these limitations. There are traditionally two means of improving simulation times as model complexity grows beyond available computational resources: modifying the underlying algorithms to maintain sufficient precision while reducing overall computations and increasing the power of the computational system. In this paper, we explore the latter. Recent advances in commodity hardware technologies, particularly field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), have allowed the creation of desktop-style devices capable of outperforming PC clusters. We will describe the key hardware technologies required to build such a device and then discuss their application to the modeling and simulation of nanophotonic devices. We have found that FPGAs and GPUs can be used to significantly reduce simulation times and allow for the solution of much large problems.