Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Male and Female Industrial Workers

Ninety-one male and seventy-nine female Israeli industrial workers in similar technological settings were compared in terms of their job satisfaction and work role centrality. Female workers did not differ from men in their job satisfaction, when personal and technological factors were controlled. They had lower work role centrality, and this difference occurred predominantly for younger, unmarried, and Middle Eastern women. Both men and women tended to react similarly in their work role centrality to differences in the technological setting, but men did so more strongly. For both men and women, job satisfaction and work role centrality were correlated. For both genders, work role centrality was more responsive to personal characteristics and to technological conditions than was job satisfaction. The least satisfied and least work-centered women had no work place preference, and in this response differed from men. The findings for women concerning WRC are explained by means of a “socialization to industrial work” thesis, while findings regarding job satisfaction are situationally explained.
Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive Parenting Practices: Development of a New Measure

A 133-item parenting questionnaire was completed by 1251 parents of preschool and school-age children. Items in this measure were reduced using principal axes factor analyses followed by varimax rotation. Three global parenting dimensions emerged consistent with Baumrind's authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive typologies. Internal consistency reliability was assessed with Cronbach alpha and additional items were deleted. A 62-item instrument was retained, and the global parenting dimensions were subsequently analyzed to assess their internal structures using principal axes factor analyses followed by oblique rotation. For each of the three global dimensions a number of specific factors were identified.
The comP locus of Neisseria gonorrhoeae encodes a type IV prepilin that is dispensable for pilus biogenesis but essential for natural transformation

The expression of type IV pili (Tfp) by Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been shown to be essential for natural genetic transformation at the level of sequence‐specific uptake of DNA. All previously characterized mutants defective in this step of transformation either lack Tfp or are altered in the expression of Tfp‐associated properties, such as twitching motility, autoagglutination and the ability to bind to human epithelial cells. To examine the basis for this relationship, we identified potential genes encoding polypeptides sharing structural similarities to PilE, the Tfp subunit, within the N. gonorrhoeae genome sequence database. We found that disruption of one such gene, designated comP (for competence‐associated prepilin), leads to a severe defect in the capacity to take up DNA in a sequence‐specific manner, but does not alter Tfp biogenesis or expression of the Tfp‐associated properties of autoagglutination, twitching motility and human epithelial cell adherence. Indirect evidence based on immunodetection suggests that ComP is expressed at very low levels relative to that of PilE. The process of DNA uptake in gonococci, therefore, is now known to require the expression of at least three distinct components: Tfp, the recently identified PilT protein and ComP.
A Fantasy of the “Ambitious Young Girl” as Flexible Knowledge-worker Subject

One of the paradoxes of the so-called flexible work environments of late capitalism is that, at the same time as tribute is paid to organizational and work-force flexibility in terms of increased empowerment and freedom for workers to make their own decisions, there is also a strong emphasis on controlling their work. These ways of governing and controlling work have been problematized within critical organizational studies and analysed and conceptualized as audit regimes and audit cultures. Furthermore, feminist research highlights how the hegemonization of flexible work ideologies may result in declining health for employees and increased gender inequalities in the labour market. This article contributes to these critical strands of research by examining some of the gendered aspects of the ideological forces that work to install everyday work practices of “flexible subjects”. The analysis is done by studying the means of knowledge-work fantasies, and especially the ideological forces behind the fantasy of the “ambitious young girl”. I draw on feminist critiques of neo-liberalism and neo-liberal practices and, more specifically, theories of the professional investment that is supposedly common in neo-liberal discourses. The source material that laid the foundations for this article was gathered from within a more extensive ethnographic study where I followed the relocation of a knowledge-intensive civil service agency from the capital of Sweden to a smaller town northwest of the capital. The analysis shows that, in the process of moving work-place, employees became invested in a fantasy of “ambitious girls”, a fantasy that entailed certain expectations of flexible and mouldable civil service workers in neo-liberal times.
Fitness to drive after traumatic brain injury

This paper deals with the issue of fitness to drive in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Guidelines for assessment are proposed and three types of studies are reviewed: studies about impairments of attention and information processing, studies of driving competence, and driver selection studies, applying and evaluating the procedures for assessing fitness to drive. From these reviews a relicensing rate emerges of slightly over 50% for very severe TBI patients. Failures in relicensing particularly occur in patients with a very long duration of post-traumatic amnesia (exceeding 1 month), and with severe impairments of perception and judgement. Furthermore, a review of studies describing training of driving competence in traumatically brain-injured patients is presented. It is argued that graded procedures for (re)training should be developed and assessment should extend to training advice and prediction of training success. When expanding assessments according to this suggestion, evaluat.
“Privacy Is a Basic American Value”: Globalization and the Construction of Web Privacy in Israel

North American analyses of privacy construct it as a human right that is inevitably violated by advanced communication technologies. Growing exposure is expected to become the fate of more and more people as globalization expands. However, studies of surveillance practices elsewhere suggest alternative interpretations of information disclosure, and developments in globalization theories highlight complicated relationships between the global, the local, and their mediators. This study adopts an agential approach to explore the encounter between Israeli and North American concerns over web privacy as they are mediated through local journalists' introduction of the new medium. The analysis identifies three arenas in journalists' discussion about web privacy: The U.S., Israel, and the global community of surfers, attending both to the predominance of the U.S. in this discourse, and to the absence of local structural accounts. The analysis proposes that by Americanizing the concern over privacy violation and by constructing it as paranoia of the technologically inept, the text neglects to contextualize privacy violation, and privatizes the struggle against it.
Reframing pedagogy while teaching about teaching online: a collaborative self-study

The purpose of this paper is to use collaborative self-study to analyze and describe our experiences of teaching about teaching in a digital, online environment. Data were gathered from reflective journal entries, emails and monthly Skype calls. Our findings indicate that the perceived disembodiment of teaching and learning online affected how we fostered relationships with students and responded to problems of practice. Further, we felt that a particular approach to teaching online risked teaching becoming reduced to providing feedback to students in the form of assessment, which had implications for our identities as teacher educators. By discussing our experiences of teaching online we began to develop a critical understanding of the challenges of teaching online, and questioned how our online practices shaped our developing pedagogies of teacher education.
Coda Stop and Taiwan Min Checked Tone Sound Changes

This acoustical and Electroglottography (EGG) study investigates the effect of coda deletion and co-articulatory phasing on vowels and final coda stops, [p t k ʔ], in Taiwan Min checked tones 3 and 5 syllables. Vowel duration, f0, spectral tilt (H1*-A3*), cepstral peak prominence (CPP) and glottal contact quotient (CQ_H) were analyzed. Compensatory lengthening, f0 lowering and increasing periodic phonation during the production of vowels after coda deletion were observed. During gradual phasing when codas were produced as energy damping, the vowels were found to be shorter in duration and less periodic in voicing than vowels abruptly phased with coda that were produced as full stop closure. However, spectral tilt H1*-A3* was not affected by either coda deletion or co-articulatory phasing. Therefore, these findings suggest that H1*-A3* may play a salient role in checked tone identification, and, as a result, is unaffected by sound change.
SOME INFINITY THEORY FOR PREDICTOR ENSEMBLES

To dispel some of the mystery about what makes tree ensembles work, they are looked at in distribution space i.e. the limit case of "infinite" sample size. It is shown that the simplest kind of trees are complete in D-dimensional space if the number of terminal nodes T is greater than D. For such trees we show that the Adaboost minimization algorithm gives an ensemble converging to the Bayes risk. Random forests which are grown using i.i. d random vectors in the tree construction are shown to be equivalent to a kernel acting on the true margin. The form of this kernel is derived for purely random tree growing and its properties explored. The notions of correlation and strength for random forests is reflected in the symmetry and skewness of the kernel
A General Model for Investigating the Effects of the Frequency Converter on the Magnetic Iron Losses of a Squirrel-Cage Induction Motor

We present a comprehensive analysis of iron losses in an inverter-fed induction motor. We performed experimental and numerical investigations to assess the additional losses produced by a pulsewidth modulated (PWM) supply compared to a sinusoidal supply. We developed an iron-loss model, called the hybrid model, and incorporated it into a two-dimensional (2-D) finite-element method (FEM) to investigate the losses. The model predicts the B-H loops and the ensuing iron losses. We also used a traditional iron-loss model based on the statistical theory for the sake of comparison. We solved the nonlinear dynamic equations of the FEM by the fixed-point method and the Crank-Nicolson time-stepping scheme. We found the hybrid model to be fairly accurate in reproducing the iron losses obtained experimentally on a squirrel-cage induction motor operated under several different conditions. The numerical analysis also provided interesting results regarding the role of the PWM supply in characterizing the behavior and distribution of iron losses in the geometry of the motor.
The effects of the presence and contexts of video game violence on children: A longitudinal study in Japan

A 1-year panel study of 591 children in fifth grade explored the accumulative effects of the presence and contexts of video game violence on aggression and the antiviolence norm in Japan, on the basis of a comprehensive content analysis of video game violence. The results suggest that contextual effects of violent video games are quite complex, differing with gender, and that contexts are more important than the quantity of violence. Although attractive perpetrators and justification of violence increase aggression for boys, they decrease aggression and strengthen the antiviolence norm for girls, indicating that the direction of effects depend on the players' interpretation of violence.
Crime-Reporting Practices Among Market Women in Oyo, Nigeria

Crime surveys of businesses have revealed that while crimes in which men were victims tend to be reported, those in which women were victims are likely to go unreported to the police. Understanding the reasons behind male reporting and female non-reporting is useful not only for collection of crime statistics but also for improving crime control competences of law enforcement agencies. This article examines the impact of crime involving market women on their crime-reporting practices in Oyo town, Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted quantitative and qualitative approaches. Copies of a questionnaire were administered to collect quantitative data from randomly selected 210 market women at Akesan, Sabo, and Mosadoba markets in Oyo town. Five focus group discussions, in-depth and key informant interviews were conducted to complement quantitative data. Both data were analyzed. The study found that cultural considerations stand between crime events that hurt the economic interests of women and their readiness to report to the police. Due to the very low confidence that market women have in the ability and willingness of the police to apprehend criminals, they prefer to internalize their losses, take their cases to traditional rulers who use “oro cult” to protect them against criminals, or approach available faith-based options such as churches and mosques. The article concludes that women have economy-enriching roles to play in the context of sustainable security. It therefore suggests that the government should address public safety to enable market women make their modest contribution to Nigeria’s economic development.
Transfer of Learning from Management Development Programmes: Testing the Holton Model

Transfer of learning from management development programmes has been described as the effective and continuing application back at work of the knowledge and skills gained on those programmes. It is a very important issue for organizations today, given the large amounts of investment in these programmes and the small amounts of that investment that actually translates into an improved individual and organizational performance. This paper describes the testing of the Holton model of learning transfer and suggests amendments to the model where appropriate. A sample of participants on a management development programme within the Irish health service completed the Learning Transfer System Inventory based on the Holton model. The data obtained were analysed using multiple regression and partial correlation techniques. Results indicate that the model does adequately represent the effects of its factors, although a slightly revised model is presented. Important relationships between factors are identified, and the central role of the learners personal capacity for transfer (hitherto unreported in the literature) and their motivation to transfer in facilitating transfer is highlighted. In practical terms, the tested model can be used as a diagnostic tool by identifying individual, training design and work environment transfer issues in need of attention and by developing strategies to deal with them. It can also be used as a framework for the evaluation of training and development interventions, examining factors outside the traditional range of most training evaluation efforts and providing a more complete picture of the success or otherwise of that intervention.
Language Identification: The Long and the Short of the Matter

Language identification is the task of identifying the language a given document is written in. This paper describes a detailed examination of what models perform best under different conditions, based on experiments across three separate datasets and a range of tokenisation strategies. We demonstrate that the task becomes increasingly difficult as we increase the number of languages, reduce the amount of training data and reduce the length of documents. We also show that it is possible to perform language identification without having to perform explicit character encoding detection.
Schizophrenia in British Immigrants: Recent Findings, Issues and Implications

Recent literature reveals three clusters of findings with respect to schizophrenia in British immigrants: (1) while there are high rates of schizophrenia among many British immigrant groups, the rates are most consistently elevated among British Afro-Caribbeans; (2) there are high rates of compulsory hospital admission, and police contact prior to admission, in British Blacks with schizophrenia; and (3) there may be poorer outcome in Afro-Caribbean schizophrenic patients, when compared to Caucasian and Asian patients. Current explanatory hypotheses point away from genetic theories and highlight environmental factors, including socio-economic disadvantage and racism, as well as family and community responses to psychiatric disorders.
Including children with special educational needs in physical education: has entitlement and accessibility been realised?

The return of the Labour government to power in 1997 brought an increased focus upon inclusive education for children with special educational needs (SEN). Alongside this there has been a desire to enhance the opportunities young people have to access physical education (PE) and school sport. Previous research has shown that children with SEN often have fewer opportunities to access physical activity due to physical, social and emotional barriers to participation. With the advent of a new Con–Lib-Dem government in 2010 and a planned review of inclusion policies and practices, this paper examines the extent to which children with SEN have arrived at utopia in relation to their entitlement and access to PE. The paper identifies four themes central to successful inclusive PE, whilst suggesting there is still some way to go for children with SEN to have the same opportunities in physical activity as their non-disabled peers.
Textile-Based Weft Knitted Strain Sensors: Effect of Fabric Parameters on Sensor Properties

The design and development of textile-based strain sensors has been a focus of research and many investigators have studied this subject. This paper presents a new textile-based strain sensor design and shows the effect of base fabric parameters on its sensing properties. Sensing fabric could be used to measure articulations of the human body in the real environment. The strain sensing fabric was produced by using electronic flat-bed knitting technology; the base fabric was produced with elastomeric yarns in an interlock arrangement and a conductive yarn was embedded in this substrate to create a series of single loop structures. Experimental results show that there is a strong relationship between base fabric parameters and sensor properties.
Patterns of Change in Children's Loneliness: Trajectories from Third Through Fifth Grades

Latent growth-mixture modeling was used to investigate patterns of change in loneliness for 170 children from third through fifth grades. A three-class model representing unique trajectories of loneliness provided the best overall fit to the data, including a Stable Low group (65%), as well as groups of Increasers (23%) and Decreasers (12%). Groups were then compared on aspects of peer functioning, including peer optimism, classroom sociometric ratings, and peer behavior nominations that were also collected in third, fourth, and fifth grades. The Stable Low group was characterized by positive peer functioning (elevated peer optimism, below-average victimization and passive social withdrawal nominations, and above-average mutual friendships). The Increasers had elevated passive social withdrawal and later victimization nominations, and possibly represent a subgroup of children at risk for developing later internalizing symptomatology. The Decreasers had a less clear pattern of peer functioning in third grade but were indistinguishable from the Stable Low group by fourth and fifth grades. Findings are discussed in the context of the development of loneliness in middle childhood.
Creating a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data: heuristic derivation and stationary-phase analysis

SUMMARY With seismic interferometry a virtual source can be created inside a medium, assuming a receiver is present at the position of the virtual source. Here we discuss a method that creates a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data, without needing a receiver inside the medium. Apart from the reflection data, an estimate of the direct arrivals is required. However, no explicit information about the scatterers in the medium is needed. We analyse the proposed method for a simple configuration with the method of stationary phase. We show that the retrieved virtual-source response correctly contains the multiple scattering coda of the inhomogeneous medium. The proposed method can serve as a basis for data-driven suppression of internal multiples in seismic imaging.
Finger extraction from scene with grayscale morphology and BLOB analysis

In this paper, we describe a method to detect human fingers from images captured by a stereo camera. The images captured by the stereo camera are preprocessed by a skin detection module. Two hands are extracted from the skin regions using disparity information. We then apply grayscale morphology and use BLOB analysis to detect fingers and their directions. The method is simple yet powerful for finger detection. This extraction result can be used for posture and gesture recognition tasks in computer vision.
Two Classes of the Cdh1-Type Activators of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex in Plants: Novel Functional Domains and Distinct Regulation On-line version contains Web-only data.

The Cdc20 and Cdh1/Fzr proteins are the substrate-specific activators of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC). In Medicago truncatula, the MtCcs52A and MtCcs52B proteins represent two subgroups of the Cdh1-type activators, which display differences in their cell cycle regulation, structure, and function. The ccs52A transcripts are present in all phases of the cell cycle. By contrast, expression of ccs52B is restricted to late G2-phase and M-phase, and its induced overexpression in BY2 cells inhibited mitosis. MtCcs52A is active in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and binds to the S. pombe APC, whereas MtCcs52B does not because of differences in the N-terminal region. We identified a new functional domain, the Cdh1-specific motif conserved in the Cdh1 proteins that, in addition to the C-box and the terminal Ile and Arg residues, was essential for the activity and required for efficient binding to the APC. Moreover, we demonstrate that cyclin-dependent kinase phosphorylation sites adjacent to the C-box may regulate the interaction with the APC. In the different plant organs, the expression of Mtccs52A and Mtccs52B displayed differences and indicated the involvement of the APC in differentiation processes.
How Adaptive Is Memory for Cheaters?

Evolutionary psychology posits that the human mind comprises highly specialized cognitive modules, including a module that is thought to facilitate social cooperation by allowing for the detection of cheaters. Consistent with assumptions implied by models of reciprocal altruism, our research has revealed enhanced source memory for faces of cheaters (i.e., memory for the context in which the faces of cheaters were encountered). However, this finding should not be uncritically interpreted as evidence of a specialized cheater-detection mechanism. Here, we review evidence suggesting that human memory may be better characterized by more general mechanisms. A preference to attend to, and remember, threatening and unusual information may ensure that processing resources are focused on relevant information in a wide variety of situations, and may therefore constitute a more adaptive mechanism for remembering social information than focusing exclusively on cheating would.