Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A study on Convergence Factors Related with Academic Burnout of Students in Health Majors in Studying for TOEIC

This study was carried out to examine the converging factors related to academic burnout in students from health-related majors who are involved in studying for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). Research subjects included 291 randomly selected students from the J-region, who were enrolled in TOEIC classes. Data collection took place from April 3, 2017 to April 14, 2017, using anonymous self-administered questionnaires. The results of a multiple regression analysis in female students showed higher academic burnout pertaining to studying for the TOEIC when sleeping hours, self-worth, self-efficacy, school adaptation resilience, and study immersion were low, and job-seeking stress and test anxiety were high. The explanatory power of this model was 65%. Based on these results, to reduce academic burnout pertaining to studying for the TOEIC in health majors, it is first necessary to increase sleeping hours, self-worth, self-efficacy, school adaptation resilience, and study immersion, and to make efforts to manage self-competence, job-seeking stress, and test anxiety. The results of this study may be used to decrease the academic burnout caused by studying for the TOEIC in health major students and to increase their aptitude for studying English, to cultivate globalized capabilities. Future studies need to conduct an effect analysis on the control and mediation effect that these factors have on academic burnout.
Modeling Tweet Arrival Times using Log-Gaussian Cox Processes

Research on modeling time series text corpora has typically focused on predicting what text will come next, but less well studied is predicting when the next text event will occur. In this paper we address the latter case, framed as modeling continuous inter-arrival times under a logGaussian Cox process, a form of inhomogeneous Poisson process which captures the varying rate at which the tweets arrive over time. In an application to rumour modeling of tweets surrounding the 2014 Ferguson riots, we show how interarrival times between tweets can be accurately predicted, and that incorporating textual features further improves predictions.
Carbon sources for demersal fish in the western Seto Inland Sea, Japan, examined by δ13C and δ15N analyses

The relative importance of benthic and pelagic primary production for demersal fish and some invertebrates in the western Seto Inland Sea of Japan was examined using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses. A few fishes, such as juvenile black rockfish Sebastes inermis and large Japanese anchovies Engraulis japonicus, had isotopic carbon signatures similar to pelagic particulate organic matter (−20.1 ³ 1.7‰), which indicates that their food was derived from production in the water column. However, 92% of the 401 demersal fish that were analyzed had δ13C signatures (−17.0 to −13.0‰) similar to those of benthic crustaceans, epilithic microphytobenthos, and macroalgae and unlike the signature of pelagic particulate organic matter or zooplankton. These results suggest that in the Seto Inland Sea there is not a tight coupling between pelagic primary production and the food web of demersal fishes, but rather that these fishes are dependent on carbon from benthic primary production.
A Cross-Sectional Test of Linear Factor Models With Time-Varying Risk Premia

This paper explores the ability of theoretically-based asset pricing models such as the CAPM and the consumption CAPM referred to jointly as the (C)CAPM to explain the cross-section of average stock returns. Unlike many previous empirical tests of the (C)CAPM, we specify the pricing kernel as a conditional linear factor model, as would be expected if risk premia vary over time. Central to our approach is the use of a conditioning variable which proxies for fluctuations in the log consumption-aggregate wealth ratio and is likely to be important for summarizing conditional expectations of excess returns. We demonstrate that such conditional factor models are able to explain a substantial fraction of the cross-sectional variation in portfolio returns. These models perform much better than unconditional (C)CAPM specifications, and about as well as the threefactor Fama-French model on portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market ratios. This specification of the linear conditional consumption CAPM is able to account for the difference in returns between low book-to-market and high book-to-market firms and exhibits no evidence of residual size or book-to-market effects. (JEL G10, E21)
Tricyclic antidepressants and headaches: systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and relative adverse effects of tricyclic antidepressants in the treatment of migraine, tension-type, and mixed headaches. Design Meta-analysis. Data sources Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Trials Registry, and PsycLIT. Studies reviewed Randomised trials of adults receiving tricyclics as only treatment for a minimum of four weeks. Data extraction Frequency of headaches (number of headache attacks for migraine and number of days with headache for tension-type headaches), intensity of headache, and headache index. Results 37 studies met the inclusion criteria. Tricyclics significantly reduced the number of days with tension-type headache and number of headache attacks from migraine than placebo (average standardised mean difference −1.29, 95% confidence interval −2.18 to −0.39 and −0.70, −0.93 to −0.48) but not compared with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (−0.80, −2.63 to 0.02 and −0.20, −0.60 to 0.19). The effect of tricyclics increased with longer duration of treatment (β=−0.11, 95% confidence interval −0.63 to −0.15; P<0.0005). Tricyclics were also more likely to reduce the intensity of headaches by at least 50% than either placebo (tension-type: relative risk 1.41, 95% confidence interval 1.02 to 1.89; migraine: 1.80, 1.24 to 2.62) or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (1.73, 1.34 to 2.22 and 1.72, 1.15 to 2.55). Tricyclics were more likely to cause adverse effects than placebo (1.53, 95% confidence interval 1.11 to 2.12) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (2.22, 1.52 to 3.32), including dry mouth (P<0.0005 for both), drowsiness (P<0.0005 for both), and weight gain (P<0.001 for both), but did not increase dropout rates (placebo: 1.22, 0.83 to 1.80, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: 1.16, 0.81 to 2.97). Conclusions Tricyclic antidepressants are effective in preventing migraine and tension-type headaches and are more effective than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, although with greater adverse effects. The effectiveness of tricyclics seems to increase over time.
Changing Social Work Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Government in a Policy Class

ABSTRACT Understanding student political attitudes—feelings about government and perceptions of its role—has long been of interest to social scientists. One factor that may influence political attitudes is belief in a just world, a complex psychological construct well established in the literature. Our study explores changes in social work students’ perception of a supportive role of government and their beliefs in a just world after one policy course using a pretest and posttest design. Student perceptions changed toward a more supportive government role, but there was no significant change for belief in a just world. The study contributes to empirical evaluation of the social work education policy class in terms of the Council on Social Work Education competencies.
Sentence imitation as a tool in identifying expressive morphosyntactic difficulties in children with severe speech difficulties.

BACKGROUND Sentence imitation has been identified as a good indicator of children's language skills, with performance differentiating children with specific language impairment and showing relationships with other language measures. It has a number of advantages over other methods of assessment. The assessment of morphosyntax in children who have severe speech difficulties presents unique challenges which currently available sentence imitation assessments do not address. AIMS This paper presents a new sentence imitation test (The Sentence Imitation Test (SIT-61)) and reports on an investigation which sets out to determine whether this test (1) reveals differences in performance between a group of children diagnosed with specific language impairment and a group of typically developing children (2) reveals distinct profiles of performance amongst children with different speech difficulties, and (3) provides information about morphosyntactic strengths and difficulties. METHODS & PROCEDURES SIT-61 is a finely graded sentence imitation test in which the phonotactic structure, segmental phonology and length of words were kept as developmentally simple as possible. Responses are scored for number of content words, function words and inflections correct. A novel scoring system was devised to credit a child where there was evidence of targeting a morpheme even if it was mispronounced. The test was administered to four groups of children between the ages of 4 and 6 years: 33 children with typical development, 13 children with known expressive morphosyntactic difficulties (specific language impairment), and two groups of 14 children with different types of speech disorder: a group with consistent phonological disorder, who used atypical phonological error patterns consistently; and a group with inconsistent phonological disorder, who produced atypical phonological errors inconsistently. OUTCOMES & RESULTS SIT-61 found differences in performance between the group of typically developing participants and the three clinic groups. While the consistent phonological disorder group obtained extremely high scores for content and function words, they obtained lower inflection scores reflective of their speech difficulties. The scores of the specific language impairment and inconsistent phonological disorder groups were comparable for content and function words, but the groups were differentiated through an analysis of their errors. Further analyses confirmed that low scores obtained by some children in the inconsistent phonological disorder group were due to morphosyntactic difficulties and not speech difficulties. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS A new sentence imitation test, the SIT-61, is shown to be valuable tool for identifying expressive morphosyntactic difficulties in children. It is informative about the morphosyntactic abilities of children with speech disorders and raises questions as to the nature of their difficulties.
Farm Cost Allocation Based on the Maximum Entropy Methodology - The Case of Saskatchewan Crop Farms

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has an ongoing research program to provide information on the effect of potential agricultural policy and technology scenarios on the environment and the economic conditions, behavior and performance in the agriculture sector. Included in this work program is a project to improve our farm level data on cost of production and farm management practices for economic and environmental analysis. As part of this effort to improve our data, this report evaluates an analytical method, called Maximum Entropy (ME), for its effectiveness in extracting detailed, enterprise level, cost of production information from whole-farm data. The ME method has been shown to be a promising and cost-effective option for obtaining these enterprise-level estimates from whole-farm data sets already available.
Partial characterization of the human CYP1A1 negatively acting transcription factor and mutational analysis of its cognate DNA recognition sequence

Previous studies in our laboratory identified a negative regulatory domain in the 5'-flanking region of the human CYP1A1 gene containing two negative regulatory elements (NRE). Characterization of one of these elements revealed three nuclear protein binding regions: a 21-bp palindrome with a point of symmetry at -784 and two guanine- and cytosine-rich elements that flank the palindrome. Functional studies suggested the palindrome is critical for transcriptional repression, whereas the guanine- and cytosine-rich sequences play a secondary role. In this study, the interaction between nuclear proteins and the CYP1A1 NRE was further defined. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) indicated that the NRE -784 palindrome alone, but not the guanine- and cytosine-rich sequences minus the palindrome, was capable of specific nuclear protein binding. Competitive cotransfection experiments confirmed this observation in intact cells. Specific residues important for DNA-protein interactions were identified by site-directed mutagenesis and competitive EMSA. The loss of specific protein binding was also correlated with the loss of negative regulatory activity in a transient-expression assay. Finally, competitive EMSA was performed with consensus oligonucleotides for known transcription factors. An NF-Y consensus sequence efficiently competed with the NRE probe for specific nuclear protein binding. EMSA supershift analyses indicate that a protein immunologically related to NF-YB is part of the specific nuclear protein complex binding the human CYP1A1 NRE. These studies have refined our understanding of the sequences critical for the transcriptional repression of human CYP1A1. To our knowledge, this is also the first report implicating a member of the NF-Y transcription factor family in negative gene regulation.
Show Me the Argument: Empirically Testing the Armchair Philosophy Picture: SHOW ME THE ARGUMENT

Many philosophers subscribe to the view that philosophy is a priori and in the business of discovering necessary truths from the armchair. In this paper, we set out to empirically test this picture of philosophy as “armchair philosophy. ” If philosophy were indeed a priori, and in the business of discovering necessary truths from the armchair, then we would expect to see that reflected in philosophical practice. In particular, we would expect philosophers to advance mostly deductive, rather than inductive, arguments, which are the sort of arguments whose premises, if true, necessitate the truth of their conclusions. Our results show that the percentage of philosophy articles advancing deductive arguments is higher than the percentage of articles advancing inductive arguments, which is what we would expect from the vantage point of the “armchair philosophy” picture. However, our results also show that the percentages of articles advancing deductive arguments and those advancing inductive arguments are converging over time and that the difference between inductive and deductive ratios is declining over time. This trend suggests that deductive arguments are gradually losing their status as the dominant form of argumentation in philosophy.
Walking the Walk or Just Talk?: A Global Examination of Men’s Intentions to Take Violence Preventative Action

ABSTRACT Given the increasing prominence of both bystander-based approaches to gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and of proactively engaging men and boys to join efforts to end GBV, understanding the factors that support men’s antiviolence bystander behavior is important. This study examined correlates of willingness to engage in violence preventative bystander behavior in a global sample of 299 adult men engaged in GBV prevention events or work. Participants came from over 50 countries and provided data via an online, anonymous survey available in English, Spanish, and French. Path analysis was used to model participants’ willingness to engage in a variety of violence-preventative behaviors in the future, with variable selection guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and by research implicating gender-related attitudes in bystander willingness and behavior. Findings suggest that bystander willingness was supported by past bystander behavior, self-efficacy to engage in bystander behavior, positive beliefs about the contributions of antiviolence involvement, and by an awareness of male privilege. Social network support for GBV prevention work, and support for gender equity were not significant correlates of bystander willingness in the full path model. These findings held across participants from the Global North and Global South, suggesting that self-efficacy, an awareness of male privilege, and positive attitudes toward antiviolence work are factors which may support men’s violence preventative actions across broad regional contexts.
Self-concept: A predictor of mental health

The present study is an attempt to understand mental health in the context of self-concept of the participants. A 2 x 2 factorial design, with gender (boys and girls) x level of self-concept (low and high) was used in the present study. The high self-concept and low self-concept groups of adolescent were categorized on the basis of the median score obtain on self-concept scale (SCS) (mdn = 40.5). SCS (Ahluwalia, 2002) and mental health inventory (Jagdish & Srivastva, 1996) tests were administrated on each of the groups. Results revealed the significant effects of level of self-concept. High self-concept group had better mental health than low self-concept group. Role of gender and gender x level of self-concept interaction were found insignificant. Regression results evinced that behavior, intellectual and school status, popularity, happiness and satisfaction and as a whole self-concept predicted positively whereas, anxiety has contributed negatively in mental health.
Viscoelastic boundary stabilization for a transmission problem in elasticity

We consider an anisotropic body which is cbnstituted of two different types of materials supporting a memory boundary condition and we show that its energy decays uniformly as time goes to infinity with the same rate as the relaxation function g, that is, the energy decays exponentially when g decays exponentially, and polynomially when g decays polynomially.
Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Primosomal DnaD Protein: Highly Conserved C-Terminal Region Is Crucial for ssDNA and PriA Helicase Binding but Not for DnaA Protein-Binding and Self-Tetramerization

The role of DnaD in the recruitment of replicative helicase has been identified. However, knowledge of the DNA, PriA, and DnaA binding mechanism of this protein for the DnaA- and PriA-directed replication primosome assemblies is limited. We characterized the DNA-binding properties of DnaD from Staphylococcus aureus (SaDnaD) and analyzed its interactions with SaPriA and SaDnaA. The gel filtration chromatography analysis of purified SaDnaD and its deletion mutant proteins (SaDnaD1-195, SaDnaD1-200 and SaDnaD1-204) showed a stable tetramer in solution. This finding indicates that the C-terminal region aa 196–228 is not crucial for SaDnaD oligomerization. SaDnaD forms distinct complexes with ssDNA of different lengths. In fluorescence titrations, SaDnaD bound to ssDNA with a binding-site size of approximately 32 nt. A stable complex of SaDnaD1-195, SaDnaD1-200, and SaDnaD1-204 with ssDNA dT40 was undetectable, indicating that the C-terminal region of SaDnaD (particularly aa 205–228) is crucial for ssDNA binding. The SPR results revealed that SaDnaD1-195 can interact with SaDnaA but not with SaPriA, which may indicate that DnaD has different binding sites for PriA and DnaA. Both SaDnaD and SaDnaDY176A mutant proteins, but not SaDnaD1-195, can significantly stimulate the ATPase activity of SaPriA. Hence, the stimulation effect mainly resulted from direct contact within the protein—protein interaction, not via the DNA—protein interaction. Kinetic studies revealed that the SaDnaD-SaPriA interaction increases the Vmax of the SaPriA ATPase fivefold without significantly affecting the Km. These results indicate that the conserved C-terminal region is crucial for ssDNA and PriA helicase binding, but not for DnaA protein-binding and self-tetramerization.
Cooperative On-Demand Layered Streaming in Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Networks

Peer-to-Peer network architecture has been widely deployed in the recent days due to its provision of bandwidth sharing among the neighbors, which definitely removes the bottleneck from the server. For on-demand streaming, P2P network could be used to deliver the video stream on time, either from server or from neighbor peers. But the major problem with on-demand streaming is the time constraint imposed on service. A user arrived/joined after a certain period in on-demand service of P2P network, will miss the blocks/layers of the current session serving directly from the server to existing peers. Here, the peers who already received blocks/layers from server can cache those portions and forward those blocks/layers later, to new joining peers, if requested. In this way, new users can get the movie blocks/layers from neighboring peers, instead of the server and this scheme helps to reduce the single point of bottleneck. Also, layered streaming provides fairness among the heterogeneous peers, any limited bandwidth peer can receive only base stream at minimum and is able enjoy the movie with degraded quality. When joining in the P2P network, a user choose the prospective neighbors to build a mesh for application-level multicast support, according to the peer selection criteria. In this paper, a mesh-based on-demand peer-to-peer network architecture is proposed, with appropriate caching, layered streaming and peer selection strategy. The simulation results show that the proposed solution is efficient at bandwidth utilizing from supplying peers, scalable at server bandwidth consumption and optimal at maximizing streaming quality.
Factors Contributing or Hindering Sociocultural Adjustment of International Students and the Importance of Intercultural Training

This documentary research examined the sociocultural adjustment of international students in unfamiliar settings through a discussion of culture shock and adjustment problems before looking at intercultural training as a means of overcoming these problems. A body of empirical evidence and literature suggests that the adjustment problems experienced by international students are greatest at the beginning of their stay. The main factors contributing to problems with cross cultural adjustment are interaction with hosts, cultural distance, cultural identity, and cultural knowledge. In order to ease the sociocultural adjustment of international students, awareness of the signi! cance of intercultural training should be raised among students, teachers and staff of universities in order to bridge the gap in cultural difference and build mutual understanding between hosts and sojourners. This article therefore suggests various intercultural training techniques to facilitate the sociocultural adjustment of international students.