Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Spirituality, community and action : an exploration of Catholic sisters in social work

This qualitative study explored how Catholic sisters who practice social work understand their experiences in both religious life and the field of social work. Sisters have made significant contributions to professional social services for centuries and have done so out of deep spiritual commitments; yet, modern sisters’ experiences have not been examined by researchers as a source of knowledge about how spiritual belief and social work practice intersect and impact both individual growth and institutional action. A total of 12 Catholic sisters who had worked in social work settings across the U.S. participated in semi-structured interviews for this study about meaning behind their choice of lifestyle and work, the motivations that sustained those choices, and finally, their understanding of any areas of reciprocal influence, overlap, or evolution in terms of their beliefs and behaviors as social workers and as sisters. Noteworthy findings from this sample are as follows: (1) a “generative” spirituality motivated sisters’ work for social justice alongside oppressed communities, (2) membership in religious community functioned as an embrace of “woman-centered” spirituality, (3) community structures buoyed and enhanced their social work practices and development as sisters, (4) spiritual beliefs and behaviors were sometimes renegotiated to better meet the needs of social justice as understood through social work experience SPIRITUALITY, COMMUNITY AND ACTION: AN EXPLORATION OF CATHOLIC SISTERS IN SOCIAL WORK A project based upon an independent investigation, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work.
A randomised wait list-controlled pre–post–follow-up trial of a gratitude diary with a distressed sample

Abstract In a randomised wait list-controlled trial with repeated measures pre-, post- and follow-up design, participants (N = 109) with a current self-reported diagnosis of an anxiety disorder and/or depression, took part in an internet-based study. After completing a three-week gratitude diary returning participants had lower scores on measures of depression, anxiety, stress and perceived sleep difficulties and higher scores on a measure of subjective well-being than immediately pre-intervention. At three-week follow-up depression and sleep scores for returning participants were no longer significantly different from pre-intervention, however, improvements for subjective well-being and stress at post-intervention were maintained. At follow-up anxiety scores had not only been maintained but had improved significantly beyond post-intervention results. Intention to treat analyses were conducted and provided support for most completer results. Differences between the two sets of analyses are discussed below. This trial provides support for the use of gratitude diaries as an intervention with distressed populations.
Becoming the Leader: Leadership as Material Presence

This paper seeks to understand leaders as material presences. Leadership theory has traditionally explored leaders as sites of disembodied traits, characteristics and abilities. Our qualitative, mixed method study suggests that managers charged with the tasks of leadership operate within a very different understanding. Their endogenous or lay theory understands leadership as physical, corporeal and visible, and as something made manifest through leaders’ material presence. This theory-in-practice holds that leadership qualities are signified by the leader’s physical appearance: the good leader must look the part. Actors consequently work on their own appearance to present an image of themselves as leader. They thus offer a fundamental challenge to dominant exogenous, or academic, theories of leadership. To understand the unspoken assumptions that underpin the lay theory of leadership as material presence, we interrogate it using the new materialist theory of Karen Barad and the object relations theory of Christopher Bollas. This illuminates the lay theory’s complexities and sophisticated insights. In academic terms it offers a theory of how sentient and non-sentient actors intra-act and performatively constitute leadership through complex entanglements that enact and circulate organizational and leadership norms. The paper’s contribution is thus a theory of leadership micro-dynamics in which the leader is materialized through practices of working on a corporeal self for presentation to both self and others.
Distant freehand pointing and clicking on very large, high resolution displays

We explore the design space of freehand pointing and clicking interaction with very large high resolution displays from a distance. Three techniques for gestural pointing and two for clicking are developed and evaluated. In addition, we present subtle auditory and visual feedback techniques to compensate for the lack of kinesthetic feedback in freehand interaction, and to promote learning and use of appropriate postures.
Quantitative Electroencephalography Patterns Associated With Medical Conditions

io fed b ck ⎪ Fall 2006 87 This article summarizes some of the quantitative electroencephalography EEG (QEEG) and QEEG literature associated with several medical conditions. This peerreviewed scientific literature demonstrates that we can commonly expect to find disturbed electrophysiological patterns associated with Lyme disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, and cardiopulmonary bypass surgery patients. Abnormal EEG patterns are also commonly found in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and in individuals with chemical sensitivities and those who have been exposed to toxic substances or extensive radiation. This literature encourages us that EEG biofeedback holds potential to assist patients with all of these conditions, and the data provided have implications for how neurofeedback treatment may be done.
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Successful innovation is seen as a top priority within many organisations (Porter, Stern, & Council on Competitiveness, 1999). Innovation is the mechanism by which organisations produce the new products, processes and systems required for adapting to changing markets, technologies and modes of competition (D’Aveni, 1994; Dougherty & Hardy, 1996; Utterback, 1994). This process requires the application of knowledge in some new or novel way. However, the explosion in knowledge and increasingly specialized technologies and markets has meant that a single firm alone is unlikely to possess all the relevant knowledge required to innovate. Consequently, organisations have been searching for new ways of overcoming this difficulty. One such mechanism is harnessing information technology to facilitate new organisational structures suited to managing innovation and knowledge into the 21st century. Information technology has expanded the opportunities (and challenges) of undertaking innovation. Twenty-four-hour product development processes are now a reality as multi-nationals race new products to the market. This chapter shows how leading innovators leverage e-business tools to harness knowledge residing in all areas of their value chain, including suppliers and customers. A case study of Cisco Systems, Inc. is used to illustrate this new operating model. This chapter appears in the book, Knowledge and Information Technology Management: Human and Social Perspectives edited by Angappa Gunasekaran, Omar Khalil and Syed Mahbubur Rahman. Copyright © 200, Idea Group Inc. 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey PA 17033, USA Tel: 717/533-8845; Fax 717/533-8661; URL-http://www.idea-group.com ITB8222 IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING
Features of the Representation Space for 3-D Objects

To explore the nature of the representation space of 3-D objects, we studied human performance in forced-choice classification of objects composed of four geon-like parts, emanating from a common centre. The two class prototypes were distinguished by qualitative contrasts (cross-section shape; bulge/waist), and by metric parameters (degree of bulge/waist, taper ratio). Subjects were trained to discriminate between the two prototypes (shown briefly, from a number of viewpoints, in stereo) in a 1-interval forced-choice task, until they reached a 90% correct-response performance level. In experiment 1, eleven subjects were tested on shapes obtained by varying the prototypical parameters both orthogonally (Ortho), and in parallel (Para) to the line connecting the prototypes in the parameter space. For the eight subjects who performed above chance, the error rate increased with the Ortho parameter-space displacement between the stimulus and the corresponding prototype: F1,68=3.6, p<0.06 (the effect of the Para displacement was marginal). Clearly, the parameter-space location of the stimuli mattered more than the qualitative contrasts (which were always present). To find out whether both prototypes or just the nearest neighbour of the test shape influenced the decision, in experiment 2 eight new subjects were tested on a fixed set of shapes, while the test-stage distance between the two classes assumed one of three values (Far, Intermediate, or Near). For the six subjects who performed above chance, the error rate (on physically identical stimuli) in the Near condition was higher than in the other two conditions: F1,89=3.7, p<0.06. The results of the two experiments contradict the prediction of theories that postulate exclusive reliance on qualitative contrasts, and support the notion of a metric representation space with the subjects' performance determined by distances to more than one reference point or prototype (cf Edelman, 1995 Minds and Machines 5 45 – 68).
CEO Interests and Concerns in Second Wave ERP

This paper is the product of a study of what top management find interesting and what is of concern to them in relation to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the second wave of ERP. Very little empirical research exists on the subject of the interests and concerns of CEOs in relation to a company’s ERP System. However research into information system literature indicates that CEOs are valued as key players in the management of IT to secure that the IT strategy is aligned with the business strategy. Based on the fact that very little prior research exists on the CEOs’ interests and concerns in relation to the ERP system in the second wave, we employed an interpretive explorative case study with a grounded approach carried out through open interviews with CEOs. The research was conducted in three mid-size Danish production companies all of which have an ERP system. The contribution of this paper is five propositions that represent the core of what top management interests and concerns are in relation to the ERP systems. As our methodology also reflects, this case study is not representative and can therefore not be generalised. Rather, it is a first insight into the field and it can be used for reflection and/or tested in future research. The five propositions are: establishing a decision structure, ensuring that the IT strategy is aligned with the business strategy, identifying the impact that an ERP system has on the organisation, establishing ERP target measures and identifying innovative possibilities in ERP. The paper ends with a discussion of the findings of the case study, the implications for practice and research and the possibilities for future research.
Transcriptional Regulation of IL-15 Expression during Hematopoiesis

Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most commonly studied source of the cytokine IL-15. Using an IL-15 reporter transgenic mouse, we have recently shown previously unappreciated differences in the levels of IL-15 expressed by subsets of conventional DCs (CD8+ and CD8−). In this study, we show that IL-15 promoter activity was differentially regulated in subsets of hematopoietically derived cells with IL-15 expression largely limited to myeloid lineages. In contrast, mature cells of the lymphoid lineages expressed little to no IL-15 activity. Surprisingly, we discovered that hematopoietic stem cells (lineage−Sca-1+c-Kit+) expressed high levels of IL-15, suggesting that IL-15 expression was extinguished during lymphoid development. In the case of T cells, this downregulation was Notch-dependent and occurred in a stepwise pattern coincident with increasing maturation and commitment to a T cell fate. Finally, we further demonstrate that IL-15 expression was also controlled throughout DC development, with key regulatory activity of IL-15 production occurring at the pre-DC branch point, leading to the generation of both IL-15+CD8+ and IL-15−/lowCD8− DC subsets. Thus, IL-15 expression is coordinated with cellular fate in myeloid versus lymphoid immune cells.
Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century

Inflation targeting is a monetary policy rule that has implications for both the average performance of an economy and its business cycle behavior. We use a modern, rational expectations model to study the twin effects of this policy rule. The model highlights forward- looking consumption and labor supply decisions by households and forward-looking investment and price-setting decisions by firms. In it, monetary policy has real effects because imperfectly competitive firms are constrained to adjust prices only infrequently and satisfy all demand at posted prices. In this 'sticky price' model, there are also effects of the average rate of inflation on the amount of time that individuals must devote to shopping activity and on the average markup of price over cost that firms can charge. However, in terms of the welfare effects of long-run inflation, it is optimal to set monetary policy so that the nominal interest rate is close to zero, replicating in an imperfectly competitive model the result that Friedman found under perfect competition. A perfect inflation target has desirable effects on the response of the macroeconomy to permanent shocks to productivity and money demand. Under such a policy rule, the monetary authority makes the money supply evolve so a model with sticky prices behaves much like one with flexible prices.
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Groups and Group Galaxies at z ~ 1

We study the clustering properties of groups and of galaxies in groups in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey data set at z ~ 1 in three separate fields covering a total of 2 deg2. Four measures of two-point clustering in the DEEP2 data are presented: (1) the group correlation function for 460 groups with estimated velocity dispersions of σ ≥ 200 km s-1; (2) the galaxy correlation for the full DEEP2 galaxy sample, using a flux-limited sample of 9800 objects in the range 0.7 ≤ z ≤ 1.0; (3) the galaxy correlation for galaxies in groups or in the field; and (4) the group-galaxy cross-correlation function. Our results are compared with mock group and galaxy catalogs produced from ΛCDM simulations. Using the observed number density and clustering amplitude of the DEEP2 groups, the estimated minimum group dark matter halo mass is Mmin ~ 6 × 1012 h-1 M☉. Groups are more clustered than galaxies in the DEEP2 data, with a relative bias of b = 1.17 ± 0.04 on scales rp = 0.5-15 h-1 Mpc. The correlation function of galaxies in groups has a steeper slope (γ ~ 2.12 ± 0.06) than for the full galaxy sample (γ ~ 1.74 ± 0.03), and both samples can be fit by a power law on scales rp = 0.05-20 h-1 Mpc. We empirically measure the contribution to the projected correlation function, wp(rp), for galaxies in groups from a "one-halo" term and a "two-halo" term. The projected cross-correlation between group centers and the full galaxy sample shows that red galaxies are more centrally concentrated in groups than blue galaxies at z ~ 1. DEEP2 galaxies in groups appear to have a shallower radial distribution than that of mock galaxy catalogs made from N-body simulations, which assume a central galaxy surrounded by satellite galaxies with an NFW profile. Using simulations with different halo model parameters, we show that the clustering of galaxies in groups can be used to place tighter constraints on the halo model than can be gained from using the usual galaxy correlation function alone.
The role of PBL in improving physics studentsâ€™ creative thinking and its imprint on gender

Creativity is one of the components in thinking skills that realized as one of a critical feature for a developing industrial country like Malaysia. The main objective of this paper is to provide details of studentsâ€™ score on several criteriaâ€™s of creative thinking who was previously done from YanPiaw Creative-Critical test analysis and in addition of that also to present an evidence to support the previous study on the relationship between creativity and gender. The subjects of this study were 28 Physics with Electronics undergraduate students exposed to problem-based learning (PBL) for one semester (i.e., 14 weeks) during Semester 2, Session 2012/2013 academic year. The study took place at School of Science & Technology, University Malaysia Sabah. The results and comparison of the findings in this study with previous study was present, also accompanying by proper discussion.
Oral adenosquamous carcinoma: Report of a rare entity with a special insight on its histochemistry

Adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) of the head and neck (H and N) is an aggressive variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). They are described as SCC subtype with high infiltrative capacity and also presents with dual histomorphology, having both squamous and glandular cell components. ASC of the H and N region is considered as a controversial tumor, as it is similar to salivary gland mucoepidermoid carcinoma. It has been described in a variety of body sites, including uterine cervix, lung and pancreas. ASC rarely develops in the upper aerodigestive tract, particularly in the oral cavity. The affected sites in oral cavity include palate, tonsillar pillar areas and floor of the mouth. To the best of our knowledge in the literature, only 17 cases of ASC in the floor of the mouth have been reported. Hereby, we report an additional case of ASC occurring in the floor of the mouth in a 70-year-old male patient.
Examining the effects of corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership on turnover intention

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply the self-concept theory and conservation of resources theory to develop a model that explains how both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical leadership influence turnover intention through work engagement and burnout. Design/methodology/approach A survey of employees from banking industry in Taiwan and the research hypotheses were empirically tested by two-step structural equation modeling (SEM) and regression analysis. Findings The empirical findings indicate that CSR and ethical leadership are both related to work engagement positively and burnout negatively. Turnover intention is affected by work engagement negatively and burnout positively. While the relationship between CSR and work engagement is positively moderated by ethical leadership, the relationship between burnout and turnover intention is negatively moderated by self-efficacy. Research limitations/implications This study confirms that both CSR and ethical leadership play critical roles for influencing turnover intention through the mediation of work engagement and burnout. The moderating effects of ethical leadership and self-efficacy are also presented in this study. Practical implications The authors’ findings bring some suggestions for managers who want to prevent high turnover intention from spreading all over their organization. Specifically, CSR and ethical leadership should be taken into account when managers develop their strategies to reduce turnover intention. Originality/value This study analyzes how turnover intention takes shape from ethical perspectives and through which work-related state of mind (such as burnout, work engagement) can turnover intention be eventually affected.
Algal blooms on coral reefs: What are the causes?

[Extract] The recent paper by Lapointe (1997) on the causes of algal blooms on coral reefs was presented as a test of the hypothesis that the reefs of Jamaica and southeast Florida had exceeded a threshold level of eutrophication that resulted in blooms of benthic algae. We offer this critique to evaluate the logic and efficacy of the tests presented by Lapointe (1997).
Radial mixing in the outer Milky Way disc caused by an orbiting satellite

Using test particle simulations, we examine the structure of the outer Galactic disc as it is perturbed by a satellite in a tight eccentric orbit about the Galaxy. A satellite of mass a few times 10 9 M ⊙ can heat the outer Galactic disc, excite spiral structure and a warp and induce streams in the velocity distribution. We examine particle eccentricity versus the change in mean radius between initial and current orbits. Correlations between these quantities are reduced after a few satellite pericentre passages. Stars born in the outer galaxy can be moved in radius from their birth positions and be placed in low eccentricity orbits inside their birth radii. We propose that mergers and perturbations from satellite galaxies and subhaloes can induce radial mixing in the stellar metallicity distribution.
3D model-based collaboration in design development and construction of complex shaped buildings

The successful implementation of complex-shaped buildings within feasible time and budget limits, has brought attention to the potential of computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies (CAD/CAM), Building Information Modeling (BIM), and the need for integrated practice. At the core of an integrated practice vision lies the intimate collaboration between the design team and construction team and a digital three-dimensional model, often with parametric and intelligent characteristics. With the shift from two-dimensional (2D) paper-based representations to three-dimensional (3D) geometric representations in building information models (BIM), architects and engineers have streamlined ‘inner’ design team communication and collaboration. However, practice conventions have posed significant challenges when attempting to collaborate on the designer’s 3D model with the ‘external’ design team – involving the architect (or engineer)-of-record, and contractor, construction manager or fabricator, etc. Focusing on the execution of complex-shaped buildings, the objective of this paper is to illustrate varying collaborative approaches to understand how design teams use 3D models to control geometry. The authors attempt to provide specific responses to the following questions: What are the issues when collaborating on 3D models? What are the mechanisms that design teams adopt to surpass practice conventions? The findings from three case studies suggest that collaboration methodologies on 3D models differ with the architects’ approaches to geometry control. The authors will demonstrate that successful model-based collaboration occurs either on a contractual or non-contractual model issued by the architect.