Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multiple Terrorist Attacks: Compassion Fatigue in Israeli Social Workers

With each recurrent terror attack in Israel, hospital social workers attend family members of the injured and the dead from the very first hours after the incident, giving them psychological first aid and information. The aims of the study were to assess the occurrence and levels of compassion fatigue and its correlates among hospital social workers. Fifty-three social workers from two major hospitals in Israel filled out the Secondary Traumatization and Burnout subscales of the Compassion Fatigue Questionnaire, in addition to demographic details, professional experience, and participation in supervision or debriefing sessions. The results show that social workers had participated on average in 4.4 (SD 2.6) terror attacks. Of the social workers, 75.5% had participated in debriefing sessions soon after the terror incident, and most had participated in individual or group supervision. They reported moderate levels of secondary traumatization and low levels of burnout. The latter outcome was related to parti.
Being Attractive Brings Advantages: The Case of Parrot Species in Captivity

Background Parrots are one of the most frequently kept and bred bird orders in captivity. This increases poaching and thus the potential importance of captive populations for rescue programmes managed by zoos and related institutions. Both captive breeding and poaching are selective and may be influenced by the attractiveness of particular species to humans. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that the size of zoo populations is not only determined by conservation needs, but also by the perceived beauty of individual parrot species assessed by human observers. Methodology/Principal Findings For the purpose of data collection, we defined four sets of species (40 parrots, 367 parrots, 34 amazons, 17 macaws). Then, we asked 776 human respondents to evaluate parrot pictures of the selected species according to perceived beauty and we analyzed its association with color and morphological characters. Irrespective of the species set, we found a good agreement among the respondents. The preferred species tended to be large, colorful, and long-tailed. Conclusions/Significance We repeatedly confirmed significant, positive association between the perceived beauty and the size of worldwide zoo population. Moreover, the range size and body size appeared to be significant predictors of zoo population size. In contrast, the effects of other explanatory variables, including the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) listing, appeared insignificant. Our results may suggest that zoos preferentially keep beautiful parrots and pay less attention to conservation needs.
The Behavioral Genetics of Behavioral Anomalies

A number of recent papers have examined the environmental and genetic sources of individual differences in economic and financial decision making. Here we contribute to this burgeoning literature by extending it to a number of key behavioral anomalies that are thought to be of importance for consumption, savings, and portfolio selection decisions. Using survey-based evidence from more than 11,000 Swedish twins, we demonstrate that a number of anomalies such as, for instance, the conjunction fallacy, default bias, and loss aversion are moderately heritable. In contrast, our estimates imply that variation in common environment explains only a small share of individual differences. We also report suggestive evidence in favor of a shared genetic architecture between cognitive reflection and a subset of the studied anomalies. These results offer some support for the proposition that the heritable variation in behavioral anomalies is partly mediated by genetic variance in cognitive ability. Taken together with previous findings, our results underline the importance of genetic differences as a source of heterogeneity in economic and financial decision making. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, Teck Ho, and Terrance Odean, special issue editors.
Absorption and hallucinatory experience

In this paper, we investigate whether the personality trait of Absorption is a predisposing factor for hallucinatory experience. Our participants completed a number of questionnaires, assessing absorption, hallucinatory experiences, subjective experiences along the sleep-wakefulness continuum, paranormal experiences and belief, and dissociation. Our findings are indicative of a common, pseudo-hallucinatory experiential base, suggesting that absorption can indeed serve as the predisposing factor for hallucinatory experience. In our discussion, we look at the implications of this finding for applied cognitive psychology, focusing on the study of false memories and reality monitoring, and on the study of probability judgement and paranormal belief. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Language: en
Bringing the Background to the Foreground: What Do Classroom Environments That Support Authentic Discussions Look Like?

Authentic discussions are dialogically oriented classroom interactions where participants present and consider multiple perspectives and often use others’ input in constructing their contributions. Despite their instructional effectiveness, authentic discussions are reportedly rare in classrooms. This qualitative case study examines the features of the environment of a fifth-grade classroom community where authentic discussions were frequent. The examination used recorded class sessions, interviews, and field notes to identify seven aspects of the classroom environment that appeared to be essential to the presence of authentic discussions: physical environment, curricular demands and enacted curriculum, teacher beliefs, student beliefs about discussions, relationships among members, classroom procedures, and norms of classroom participation.
Correlates of depressive symptoms in a representative sample of young Australian women

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the prevalence of depressive symptoms among a national cohort of young Australian women, and the characteristics of those who experience them. It explores the associations between demographic and health-related variables and depressive symptoms in a representative sample of 9333 Australian women aged 22 – 27 years, from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Approximately 30% of these young women indicated that they were experiencing depressive symptoms, as indicated by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-10). After adjusting for age and rurality of residence, depressive symptoms were related to the following demographic variables: low income, low educational qualifications, a history of unemployment, not being in a relationship, and living arrangements other than living with a partner. Those health-related variables that were significantly associated with depressive symptoms included frequent visits to doctors and medi.
Model reduction: some results

Simulation is becoming a popular tool, aided by the development of powerful and faster computers, new features like parallel and distributed simulation and easier simulation software that allows to reduce the time to implement a model. In spite of that, the cycle time of a simulation study is still long. The paper presents some remarks on model reduction reasoning and how, through this, the time of a simulation study could be reduced. The discussion is based on the example of Kienbaum and Paul (1994) of the pub problem, using a simplification of their H-ACD representation to describe the original and reduced models. The models are implemented and the results obtained shows their statistical equivalence which suggests the feasibility of this approach.
Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change

The Maslowian theory of the articulation of higher order needs was correlated to the classic economic utility theory and additional ecological theories concerning cultural mobility were considered. The notions of individuation embourgeoisement and civil religion form the foundation of interpretation of changes in Western family formation. The operationalization of these concepts was described and a model of ideational change was proposed. The model of ideational change is cohort-and education-driven; a period-cohort interaction is recognized that may capture the dialectics of idealization and subsequent disenchantment with institutional regulation. The two most salient features of Western ideational change have been the precesses of secularization and individuation. A value scale used exerted a marked impact on the proportion of young women currently cohabiting (or sharing). In Belgium Denmark France and Germany with sharing a minor confounding factor large deviations from the grand mean persisted after control for age and the two variables capturing material circumstance. Agnostics postmaterialists world citizens and nonconformists in familial matters exhibited 7-14% more nonmarital cohabitation at ages 18-29 than the average (23% among women not living with parents). Conversely young women with regular church attendance materialists nationalists and conformists fell 7-17% short of the grand mean. When Ireland United Kingdom the Netherlands which have more sharing or Italy and Spain with unknown proportions of sharing were included the deviations from the overall mean were only slightly attenuated for the religiosity and nonconformism scales. It was documented that cultural changes are not unstructured or simply endogenous. The individuation process has continued to progress despite the degradation of economic opportunities for young adults in Western Europe. The Durkheimian dimension of social integration via the acceptance or refutation of institutional regulation had a direct relationship to changes in family formation family distribution and procreation during the postwar period.
Maternal mental health and child nutritional status in four developing countries

Objective: To test the hypothesis that maternal common mental disorders (CMD) are associated with poorer child nutritional status in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Vietnam, and Peru). Design: Community based cross sectional survey in 20 sites in each of the four countries. Maternal CMD measured by the self reporting questionnaire 20 items (SRQ20). Potential confounding factors include: household poverty, household composition, maternal characteristics such as age and education, child characteristics such as birth weight, age, and sex. Possible mediating factors included the child’s physical health and breast feeding status. Setting: Urban and rural, poor and middle income areas in each country. Participants: 2000 mothers and their children aged 6–18 months in each country. Main outcome measures: Child stunting and underweight measured using standard anthropometric techniques. Results: Levels of maternal CMD and child malnutrition are high in each study setting. After adjusting for confounding factors, the odds ratios (OR) for the association of maternal CMD with child stunting are: India 1.4 (95%CI 1.2 to 1.6), Peru 1.1 (0.9 to 1.4), Vietnam 1.3 (0.9 to 1.7), and Ethiopia 0.9 (0.7 to 1.2). For child underweight, the confounder adjusted ORs are: India 1.1 (0.9 to 1.4), Peru 0.9 (0.6 to 1.2), Vietnam 1.4 (1.1 to 1.8), and Ethiopia 1.1 (0.9 to 1.4). No clear evidence for effect modification by the child’s age or sex was found. Possible mediating factors for the effect of maternal CMD on child malnutrition did not provide strong suggestions for potential mechanisms. Conclusions: There was a relation between high maternal CMD and poor child nutritional status in India and Vietnam. However, the findings from Peru and Ethiopia do not provide clear evidence for a similar association being present in non-Asian countries. Regardless of the direction of the relation, child nutrition programmes in Asia should consider incorporating promotion of maternal mental health.
Do core self-evaluations mediate the effect of coworker support on work engagement? A study of hotel employees in Iran.

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a model that investigates core self-evaluations as a mediator in the relationship between coworker support and work engagement. Data were collected from a sample of 100 full-time frontline employees of the five- and four-star hotels in Iran. The relationships were tested using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The results demonstrate that core self-evaluations partially mediate the impact of coworker support on vigour, while it fully mediates the relationship between coworker support and dedication. In contrast, core self-evaluations do not function as a mediator in the relationship between coworker support and absorption. Implications of the findings are discussed and avenues for future research are offered.
The MST and the EZLN Struggle for Land: New Forms of Peasant Rebellions

In this article, the author reviews some of the conclusions of the literature on peasant rebellions in the light of current land struggles of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico. The author argues that conventional explanations of peasant rebellions are inappropriate for the analysis of current land struggles in Latin America in the midst of the process of neoliberal globalization. Neither struggle can be characterized as 'quasi-feudal', nor as conservative reactions, but instead should be interpreted as attempts to create a basis for self-subsistence and autonomy. Consequently, the author proposes Marx's concept of alienated labour as an alternative explanatory concept, because it highlights one of the main objectives of the members of the MST and the EZLN, which is the control over their livelihood through a struggle for their re-peasantization.
Responsible tourist motivation: how valuable is the Schwartz value survey?

Relatively little is known about the motivations of responsible tourists, but even less is known about the contribution of the values construct in their decision-making. The values construct is well used in consumer studies in the knowledge that deeply held beliefs are the key to understanding motivation. Indeed, because values underpin individuals' moral choices they are also particularly relevant in an ethical context, and therefore highly appropriate in a study of responsible tourists. Much of the values research incorporates the Schwartz list of values (1992), but while it has received wide support in consumer research, there are disagreements about its utility in ethical consumer studies. These are the issues this paper seeks to address through the presentation and discussion of results from a recent study into the values of responsible tourists. The paper argues that while Schwartz's values typology might be useful in a general consumer context, its lack of universality means it offers insufficient insight into responsible tourists' motivations. This paper contributes to tourist motivation research by identifying several new values in a significant modification to the Schwartz values typology, and concludes by discussing how these additional values offer a deeper understanding of the motivations of responsible tourists.
Volume Reconstruction for MRI

One of the challenges in medical imaging is to increase the resolution of 3D MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) signals. This is the problem of 3D signal reconstruction under the condition of very low sampling rate. Based on compressive sensing theory, the Direct Volume Reconstruction (DVR) method is proposed to reconstruct the 3D signal volume-by-volume based on a learned dictionary. DVR is a general method and applicable to any 3D signal as long as it can be sparsely represented. To exploit the nature of the 3D MRI system, the Progressive Volume Reconstruction (PVR) method is further proposed to improve the DVR reconstruction. In PVR, local reconstruction is used to reconstruct in-plane slices, and the output is then forwarded to global reconstruction, in which both the initially sampled and locally reconstructed signals are used together to reconstruct the whole 3D signal. Two separate dictionaries, rather than one, are trained in PVR. In this way, more prior knowledge from the training data is exploited. Experiments on a head MRI dataset demonstrate that DVR achieves much better performance than conventional tricubic interpolation and that PVR considerably improves DVR performance with regard to both PSNR and visibility quality.
Participation in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups: A Theoretical Integration

This article presents a theoretical formulation that integrates, within the framework of expectation states theory, theories of the emergence of power-and-prestige orders in status-heterogeneous and homogeneous task-oriented groups. A model based on this theoretical formulation is construted and used for predicting participation rates in open interaction settings. The article explores the fit of the moel to data from both status-heterogeneous and status-homogeneous groups.
Importance of high frequency audibility on speech recognition with and without visual cues in listeners with normal hearing

Importance of high frequency audibility on speech recognition with and without visual cues in listeners with normal hearing. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I appreciate the contributions of the many people who were instrumental in my completion of the PhD. First, Ruth A. Bentler and Yu-Hsiang Wu for the continued support and guidance-this project would not be what it is without you both. The enthusiasm you both have towards the field is infectious and I hope you continue to share that with future students. I must thank Shawn Goodman who provided the MATLAB code for curve-fitting my data set. Also, special thanks to Karen I. Kirk for allowing me to work in her lab and be a part of the MLST development and Xuyang Zhang for his help with the statistical analysis. I could not have made it through these past five years without my friends and family. They have been unrelenting in their support and love. The completion of this degree is shared with Steve Silberer, who has been unbelievably patient, understanding, and helpful (we may just land this plane). Thanks to Jerry, Vicki, Izzy and Annie, who were my home away from home, as well as to my Western Illinois University friends (colleagues) who have listened and supported me while picking-up the slack when I was living in Iowa. Finally, I want to acknowledge the WIU undergraduate and graduate students, who remind me every day why I chose this path-keep making me proud! And, without my graduate assistants (Emilee, Dana, Keeley, Nicole, and Caitlin), I would have never finished this adventure. Each of you had a hand in keeping the audiology program running in my absence and rising to the challenge each time I needed you. To all of you, I will be forever grateful. Last, but certainly not least, my student Ashley Schwingle who sacrificed her summer 2013 helping me to collect data so that finishing this could be iii realized. Your work ethic and constant enthusiasm was necessary to keep me moving forward. You will never know how much that brownie meant to me! Thank you. iv ABSTRACT Purpose: To study the impact of visual cues, speech materials and age on the frequency bandwidth necessary for optimizing speech recognition performance in listeners with normal hearing. Method: Speech recognition abilities of adults and children with normal hearing were assessed using three speech perception tests that were low-pass (LP) filtered and presented …
Proteome-wide Identification of Cellular Targets Affected by Bisindolylmaleimide-type Protein Kinase C Inhibitors*

Bisindolylmaleimide compounds such as GF109203X are potent inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC) activity. Although bisindolylmaleimides are not entirely selective for PKC and are known to inhibit a few other protein kinases, these reagents have been extensively used to study the functional roles of PKC family enzymes in cellular signal transduction for more than a decade. Here, we establish a proteomics approach to gain further insights into the cellular effects of this compound class. Functional immobilization of suitable bisindolylmaleimide analogues in combination with the specific purification of cellular binding proteins by affinity chromatography led to the identification of several known and previously unknown enzyme targets. Subsequent in vitro binding and activity assays confirmed the protein kinases Ste20-related kinase and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and the non-protein kinases adenosine kinase and quinone reductase type 2 as novel targets of bisindolylmaleimide inhibitors. As observed specifically for CDK2, minor chemical variation of the ligand by immobilizing the closely related bisindolylmaleimides III, VIII, and X dramatically affected target binding. These observed changes in affinity correlated with both the measured IC50 values for in vitro CDK2 inhibition and results from molecular docking into the CDK2 crystal structure. Moreover, the conditions for affinity purification could be adapted in a way that immobilized bisindolylmaleimide III selectively interacted with either PKCα or ribosomal S6 protein kinase 1 only after activation of these kinases. Thus, we have established an efficient technique for the rapid identification of cellular bisindolylmaleimide targets and further demonstrate the comparative selectivity profiling of closely related kinase inhibitors within a cellular proteome.
Autonomously Creating Quality Images

Creativity is an important part of human intelligence, and it is difﬁcult to quantify (or even qualify) creativity in an intelligent system. Recently it has been suggested that quality, novelty, and typicality are essential properties of a creative system. We describe and demonstrate a computational sys-tem (called DARCI) that is designed to eventually produce images in a creative manner. In this paper, we focus on quality and show, through experimentation and statistical analysis, that DARCI is beginning to be able to produce images with quality comparable to those produced by humans
The protean career attitude, emotional intelligence and career adjustment

The rampant and unpredictable changes in the world of work have recently become a particular point of concern. Organisations worldwide require career agents who are more adaptable to respond appropriately to these challenges. The study aimed to firstly assemble a viable empirical career adjustment model to address these challenges. Secondly, the study differentiated and profiled four career agent groups which utilise this model in different and dynamic ways. These career agent profiles provided an exploratory and contextual platform for the third aim, to uncover a narrative of the adaptable career in the South African context. A convenience sample (n = 427) mostly representing engineers (38%), financial professions (22%) and technicians (15%) responded to three instruments which operationalised the dimensions of the proposed career adjustment model. The dimensions included in the model were the (i) Protean and Boundaryless career attitude, (ii) Emotional Intelligence and (iii) Work-Stressor experience. These dimensions were operationalised by (i) the Protean (Self-Directed Career Management and Values Driven scale) and Boundaryless (Organisationally Mobile and Boundaryless Mindset scale) career attitude scales, (ii) the BarOn EQ-i composite scales (Intrapersonal EQ, Interpersonal EQ, Adaptability, Stress Management and General Mood) and (iii) selected scales from the Sources of Work Stress Inventory (Lack of Autonomy and Workload). These instruments were tested for reliability and validity which provided acceptable results in terms of Cronbach alphas and EFA. The Protean and Boundaryless career attitude (PBca) instrument showed less reliable results with the Values Driven scale (α = .65). The SDCM scale produced more reliable results (α = .74). The BM and OM scales rendered the most reliable results (α = .86 and α = .87 respectively). The other instruments reflect excellent alpha