Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationships between Parental Involvement, Students’ Basic Psychological Needs and Students’ Engagement in Science: A Path Analysis

This study aimed to investigate relationships between Turkish middle school students’ perceptions of parental involvement, students’ basic psychological needs, and their engagement in science. Parental involvement was addressed with four dimensions: parents’ educational aspiration, parental communication, parents’ participation, and parental autonomy support. Students’ basic psychological needs incorporated autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Additionally, students’ engagement consisted of behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and agentic engagement. The sample of the study included 926 sixth, seventh, and eight grade students educated in one of the largest cities located in eastern part of Turkey. A path analysis using LISREL 8.8 programme was conducted to examine the hypothesized relations among variables of the study. Analysis results showed that parent educational aspiration, parental communication, parent participation, and parent autonomy support were statistically significantly and positively related to basic psychological needs. Besides, students whose basic psychological needs were met demonstrated more behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and agentic engagement in science.
CSF Biomarkers and Neuropsychological Profiles in Patients with Cerebral Small-Vessel Disease

Despite existing criteria, differential diagnosis of Vascular Dementia (VD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult. The aim of this study is to figure out cognitive and biomarker profiles that may help to distinguish between VD, AD and AD + Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (CSVD). We examined a cohort of patients with CSVD (n = 92). After stratification of cognitive impaired patients (n = 59) using the standard CSF beta-amyloid 42/40 ratio cut-off point of 0.975, we obtained two groups which differed with respect to several features: 32 patients with normal beta-amyloid 42/40 ratio (>0.975) showed markedly impaired blood-brain-barrier function as indicated by an elevated albumin ratio (median 8.35). They also differed in cognitive profiles when compared to 27 patients with AD typical beta-amyloid ratio and normal albumin ratio. We also enrolled an additional group of patients with AD (no significant CSVD on MRI, n = 27) which showed no impairment of the blood-brain-barrier. We showed a negative correlation between the albumin ratio and executive cognitive function (p = 0.016) and a negative correlation between memory function and typical AD markers like Tau (p = 0.004) and p181-Tau (p = 0.023) in our cohort. We suppose that the group of patients with normal beta-amyloid ratio represents VD while patients in the other groups represent AD+CSVD and pure AD. Our results support the idea that a dysfunction of the blood-brain-barrier might be contributing factor in the development of cognitive decline in CSVD as it seems to be of more importance than the severity of white matter lesions.
The conditional effects of self-control in situational action theory. A preliminary test in a randomized scenario study

ABSTRACT This study focuses on the perception-choice process in the Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation (SAT). The effect of self-control ability is studied in conditions of conflict or correspondence between personal morality and circumstantial characteristics. We demonstrate a conditional effect of self-control ability on choosing a violent response in two scenarios. While we demonstrate that self-control ability matters in cases of moral conflict, we demonstrate some findings that seem to be at odds with theoretical tenets of SAT. The impossibility to empirically distinguish processes of perception and choice, together with SAT’s current measure of self-control ability may partially be responsible for this empirical ambiguity.
Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by Photosystem II as a Response to Light and Temperature Stress

The effect of various abiotic stresses on photosynthetic apparatus is inevitably associated with formation of harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this review, recent progress on ROS production by photosystem II (PSII) as a response to high light and high temperature is overviewed. Under high light, ROS production is unavoidably associated with energy transfer and electron transport in PSII. Singlet oxygen is produced by the energy transfer form triplet chlorophyll to molecular oxygen formed by the intersystem crossing from singlet chlorophyll in the PSII antennae complex or the recombination of the charge separated radical pair in the PSII reaction center. Apart to triplet chlorophyll, triplet carbonyl formed by lipid peroxidation transfers energy to molecular oxygen forming singlet oxygen. On the PSII electron acceptor side, electron leakage to molecular oxygen forms superoxide anion radical which dismutes to hydrogen peroxide which is reduced by the non-heme iron to hydroxyl radical. On the PSII electron donor side, incomplete water oxidation forms hydrogen peroxide which is reduced by manganese to hydroxyl radical. Under high temperature, dark production of singlet oxygen results from lipid peroxidation initiated by lipoxygenase, whereas incomplete water oxidation forms hydrogen peroxide which is reduced by manganese to hydroxyl radical. The understanding of molecular basis for ROS production by PSII provides new insight into how plants survive under adverse environmental conditions.
Measuring the Non-compositionality of Multiword Expressions

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) appear frequently and ungrammatically in the natural languages. Identifying MWEs in free texts is a very challenging problem. This paper proposes a knowledge-free, training-free, and language-independent Multiword Expression Distance (MED). The new metric is derived from an accepted physical principle, measures the distance from an n-gram to its semantics, and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on MWEs in two applications: question answering and named entity extraction.
Capital Theory and Investment Behavior

Tax policy and investment behaviour: tax policy and the cost of capital services, estimates of the parameters of the investment function, the effects of tax policy on investment behaviour, Robert E. Hall and Dale W. Jorgenson application of the theory of optimum capital accumulation: theory of investment behaviour, econometrics of investment behaviour, estimates of the parameters of the investment functions, impact of tax policy on investment behaviour, Robert E. Hall and Dale W. Jorgenson technology and decision rules in the theory of investment behaviour: introduction, technology, objective function, optimal investment policy, decision rules, Dale W. Jorgenson the economic impact of investment incentives: introduction, postwar investment incentives in the United States, the economic analysis of investment incentives, current policy alternatives, direct impact, total impact, Dale W. Jorgenson the economic theory of replacement and depreciation: introduction, replacement, depreciation, form of the replacement distribution, Dale W. Jorgenson investment and production - a review: introduction, form of the production function - cross sections, form of the production function - time series, returns to scale, Dale W. Jorgenson the investment tax credit and counter-cyclical policy: summary, introduction, impact of the investment tax credit, alternative investment tax credits, appendices - the investment equation, optimization procedures, Roger H. Gordon and Dale W. Jorgenson inflation-proof depreciation of assets: the first-year system, administrative aspects, . against two others, future economic impact, a better way, Alan J. Auerbach and Dale W. Jorgenson inflation and corporate capital recovery: introduction, theoretical frame-work, empirical implementation, capital recovery during the postwar period, proposed systems for capital recovery, Dale W. Jorgenson and Martin A. Sullivan the efficiency of capital allocation: introduction, technology and preferences, general equilibrium model, appendix - list of instrumental variables, Dale W. Jorgenson and Kun-Young Yun tax policy and capital allocation: introduction, tax policy, technology and preferences, general equilibrium model, tax reform, appendix - list of instrumental variables, Dale W. Jorgenson and Kun-Young Yun. (Part contents).
Sign Value and Tourists Information Search Behavior

Sign value has been known to impact individuals decision to purchase leisure-based products or services and to imply symbolic meaning through social interaction (Dimanche & Samdahl, 1994; Kapferer & Laurent, 1986; Mick, 1986). The purposes of this study were to identify sign value dimensions and to investigate the relationship between sign value and tourists information search behavior when controlling for the credibility of information sources used. The results of this study suggest that individuals do place some level of importance on social interaction and symbolic meaning, the two dimensions of sign value. With respect to information search behavior, we found that individuals perception of credibility significantly predicted their use of an information source. The results of this study have profound implications for the industry as well as an important step towards the exploration of information search behavior in relation to sign value and the credibility of information sources. INTRODUCTION Signs or symbols are used to convey symbolic meaning and are known to impact individuals decision to purchase leisure-based products and services (e.g., Brown, 1992; Dimanche, Havitz, & Howard, 1993; Noble & Walker, 1997; Samdahl, 1988; Stokowski, 1990). Interestingly, there is no commonly agreed upon definition of the value of signs or symbols despite the fact that sign value has long been studied by social psychologists. For example, Mick (1986) suggested that sign value may imply symbolic meaning through social interaction. Park and McClung (1986) and Park and Young (1986) argued that sign value reflects a desire to express ones actual or ideal self-image, role position, or feelings toward group members or an external audience. Sign value has also been expressed as the ability of a product to reflect and express ones status, personality, or identity (Kapferer & Laurent, 1986), and is aroused by the inclination to seek experiences that will enhance ones identification or self-construct (Dimanche &
Indigenous knowledge, skills and action: Indigenous women’s learning in the Peruvian Amazon

Abstract Drawing on long term ethnographic research in the SE Peruvian Amazon this article asks what kinds and forms of learning do indigenous women value, how are the knowledge and skills they value changing over time and what is the nature of their agency in the face of the discrimination and prejudice that permeate their lives. Harakmbut women’s lives have been transformed over the past 40 years in the wake of neoliberal globalisation, rapacious exploitative economic practices and unregulated illegal gold mining. Within this context, three types of learning emerge as important: learning about indigenous cosmology and way of life; experiential learning through engagement with an expanding capitalist society; and learning through training and capacity building for participation, voice and rights-based advocacy. The article argues that all three types of learning give meaning to Harakmbut women’s lives, their relationship to their history and their views of the world.
MICROSTRIP ANTENNA WITH DEFECTED GROUND PLANE STRUCTURE AS A SENSOR FOR LANDMINES DETECTION

A proposed sensor for landmines detection consists of two parallel microstrip antennas placed on the same ground plane and with defected ground structure between them has been investigated. The microstrip patch array with defected ground structure has the advantage of a low mutual coupling compared with the classic one. The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is used to simulate the sensor for landmines detection.
Islamic Religiosity and Its Influence on Muslim Students’ Travel Preferences

Manuscript type: Research paper Research aims: This paper aims to examine the relationship between Islamic religiosity and preferences towards Islamic tourism products and services. This paper also compares Islamic tourism product and service preferences between Iranian and Malay university students. Design/Methodology/Approach: Using the online survey method, this study collects data from 422 Malay and Iranian university students. The collected data are then analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM). Research findings: The findings indicate that Islamic religiosity plays a significant role in determining Islamic travel preferences. While Malays reported higher levels of Islamic religiosity, the Iranians are more influenced by their religiosity when deciding on travel preferences. Theoretical contributions/Originality: Despite literature indicating that there is an interaction between religion and tourism, the effect of Islamic attributes on destination choices remains fragmented. Aiming to close this gap, this study examines and compares the influence of Islamic religiosity on Muslim travel preferences by comparing the Malay and Iranian students. Practitioner/Policy implications: The findings imply that service providers should be mindful of the different levels and influences of Islamic religiosity on Islamic travel preferences when designing tourism products and offering services to both markets. Research limitation/Implications: This study limits the comparison to only Iranian and Malay students, thereby suggesting that future research could include more diverse samples of Muslim students including those from non-Muslim countries. Keywords: Islamic Religiosity, Islamic Beliefs, Islamic Practices, Islamic Travel Preferences, Structural Equation ModellingJEL Classification: M3
CO PID controller for TITO processes

In this paper, decentralized PID controller is designed for Two-Input Two-Output (TITO) processes using Cuckoo Optimization (CO) technique. The pair of PID controller parameters is designed at the same time because multi-dimensional non-linear problem could be easily solved by CO technique with higher convergence speed and less computational time. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is illustrated and verified by simulation results of TITO processes.
A (2 + ∊)-Approximation for Maximum Weight Matching in the Semi-Streaming Model

We present a simple deterministic single-pass (2 + ϵ)-approximation algorithm for the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model. This improves upon the currently best known approximation ratio of (3.5 + ϵ). Our algorithm uses O(n log2 n) space for constant values of ϵ. It relies on a variation of the local-ratio theorem, which may be of independent interest in the semi-streaming model.
Increased Overlap between the Brain Areas Involved in Self-Other Distinction in Schizophrenia

Self-awareness impairments are frequently mentioned as being responsible for the positive symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, the neural correlates of self-other distinction in this pathology are still poorly understood. In the present study, we developed an fMRI procedure in order to examine self-other distinction during speech exchange situations. Fifteen subjects with schizophrenia were compared to 15 matched controls. The results revealed an increased overlap between the self and non-self cortical maps in schizophrenia, in the medial frontal and medial parietal cortices, as well as in the right middle temporal cortex and the right inferior parietal lobule. Moreover, these neural structures showed less BOLD amplitude differences between the self and non-self conditions in the patients. These activation patterns were judged to be independent of mirror-like properties, familiarity or body-ownership processing. Significantly, the increase in the right IPL signal was found to correlate positively with the severity of first-rank symptoms, and thus could be considered a “state-marker” of schizophrenia, whereas temporal and medial parieto-frontal differences appear to be “trait-markers” of the disease. Such an increased overlap between self and non-self cortical maps might be considered a neuro-physiological signature of the well established self-awareness impairment in people suffering from schizophrenia.
Studies on the catalytic domains of multiple JmjC oxygenases using peptide substrates

The JmjC-domain-containing 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases catalyze protein hydroxylation and Nϵ-methyllysine demethylation via hydroxylation. A subgroup of this family, the JmjC lysine demethylases (JmjC KDMs) are involved in histone modifications at multiple sites. There are conflicting reports as to the substrate selectivity of some JmjC oxygenases with respect to KDM activities. In this study, a panel of modified histone H3 peptides was tested for demethylation against 15 human JmjC-domain-containing proteins. The results largely confirmed known Nϵ-methyllysine substrates. However, the purified KDM4 catalytic domains showed greater substrate promiscuity than previously reported (i.e., KDM4A was observed to catalyze demethylation at H3K27 as well as H3K9/K36). Crystallographic analyses revealed that the Nϵ-methyllysine of an H3K27me3 peptide binds similarly to Nϵ-methyllysines of H3K9me3/H3K36me3 with KDM4A. A subgroup of JmjC proteins known to catalyze hydroxylation did not display demethylation activity. Overall, the results reveal that the catalytic domains of the KDM4 enzymes may be less selective than previously identified. They also draw a distinction between the Nϵ-methyllysine demethylation and hydroxylation activities within the JmjC subfamily. These results will be of use to those working on functional studies of the JmjC enzymes.
Michigan Hunter Education Instructors’ Attitudes, Beliefs and Knowledge toward Environmental and Ecological Systems

Departments of natural resources are stressed to adapt to meet current societal and management pressures of the 21st century and ensure the long-term viability of wildlife and wildlife management for future populations. Michigan has gained an elite reputation as a national leader for abundant fishing and hunting opportunities. While the necessary skill-sets and knowledge are changing for new hunters, little research exists on Michigan Hunter Education (MHE) Instructors and their beliefs and knowledge about the environment and ecosystems as it relates to educating future hunters. The purpose of this study was to establish baseline attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of environmental and ecological systems among a subset of MHE instructors. The survey measured demographics and Michigan Hunter Education instructor ecological world view as defined by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) at the 2015 MHE Academy. This was a descriptive/correlational research study. Socio-demographic variables had limited effect on relationships between environmental concerns and attitudes toward management of ecosystems. Further, MHEinstructors held an anthropocentric worldview and an alternative ecological paradigm.However, there were strong correlations between MHE instructors NEP scores and Scale Items related to understanding the: (a) Reality of limits to growth, (b) Possibility of eco-crisis, and (c) Fragility of nature‟s balance. Keyword: Hunter Education; eco-crisis; New Ecological Paradigm; New Ecological Paradigm; Recreation
Work Life Balance: Demystifying the Myth among Modern Day Female Academics

This paper provides a conceptual analysis of the work life balance initiatives adopted by female academics in South Africa. The intersecting identities and roles within home, work, community and society experienced by women pull them in multiple directions. Yet, there is limited research that has examined female academics` ability to balance work and personal life and overcome work life conflict. Therefore, it is necessary to review the facets that influence work life balance and the extent to which these facets can be demystified and the role of leadership. Based upon these important insights,the challenges of females work life balance areembedded in socio-cultural practices, personal variables and institutional factors.The implication of this study is that it will enable leaders, policy makers and the relevant stakeholders to come up with various ideologies, perspectives and interventions that enhance and/or promote work life balance among female academics in SA. Keywords : Work life balance, Myth, Well-being, Females, Academics.
Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology

This thesis is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, both in science and on an everyday level. The thesis develops a theory of anthropomorphism in common-sense psychology. Anthropomorphism, the natural human tendency to ascribe human characteristics (and especially human mental characteristics) to things that aren't human, is an important theme in the thesis. Anthropomorphism reveals an endemic anthropocentricity that deeply influences our thinking about other minds. The thesis then constructs a descriptive model of anthropomorphism in common-sense psychology, and uses it to analyse two studies of the ascription of mental states. The first, Baron- Cohen et al. 's (1985) false belief test, shows how cognitive modelling can be used to compare different theories of common-sense psychology. The second study, Searle's (1980) `Chinese Room', shows 'that this same model can reproduce the patterns of scientific intuitions taken to systems which pass the Turing test (Turing, 1950), suggesting that it is best seen as a common-sense test for a mind, not a scientific one. Finally, the thesis argues that scientific theories involving the ascription of mentality through a model or a metaphor are partly dependent on each individual scientist's common-sense psychology. To conclude, this thesis develops an interdisciplinary study of common-sense psychology and shows that its effects are more wide ranging than is commonly thought. This means that it affects science more than might be expected, but that careful study can help us to become mindful of these effects. Within this new framework, a proper understanding of common-sense psychology could lay important new foundations for the future of cognitive science.
Familiarity, opinions, experiences and knowledge about scalp cooling: a Dutch survey among breast cancer patients and oncological professionals

Objective: Scalp cooling (SC) is applied to reduce chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA). The aim of this study was to investigate patients′ familiarity and opinions and oncological professionals′ attitude and knowledge about SC in the Netherlands. Methods: Ex breast cancer patients, nurses and medical oncologists (MDs) from SC and non-SC hospitals filled out questionnaires. Results: The majority of MDs and nurses were satisfied with the results of SC, as were SC patients. Over 33% of MDs and nurses perceived their knowledge level insufficient to inform patients about effectiveness, which was over 43% for information about safety. MDs main reason to not apply SC was doubt about effectiveness and safety. Nurses generally offered SC to a minority of eligible patients. Patients were frequently unfamiliar with SC before diagnosis. Seventy percent of SC patients with insufficient results (20/52) reported to mind it very much. With expected success rates of 35% and 50%, respectively, 36% and 54% of patients would use SC again. Conclusion: Room for improvement has been shown for both patients′ familiarity and oncological professionals′ knowledge about SC. Sharing knowledge about results, safety and patients′ experiences will improve patient counseling and SC availability. The results of this survey led to the development of a national standard on CIA and SC.