Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Conceptualising Inclusive Pedagogy: The Inclusive Pedagogical Approach in Action

Abstract This chapter provides an overview of inclusive pedagogy, also referred to as the inclusive pedagogical approach (Florian & Black-Hawkins, 2011). Conceptually, the approach is predicated on a shift in pedagogical thinking away from conventional approaches that work for most learners existing alongside something additional or different for those (some) who experience difficulties, towards one that involves providing rich learning opportunities that are sufficiently made available for everyone, so that all learners are able to participate in classroom life. By focusing on how achievements in learning are realised through participation in the community of a classroom, the inclusive pedagogical approach acknowledges that there are individual differences between learners but avoids the problems and stigma associated with marking some learners as different. The second part of the chapter explains how the approach can be incorporated into the daily life of classroom activity using the Inclusive-Pedagogical-Approach-in-Action framework that was developed as a tool for assessing and gathering evidence about practice (Florian, 2014; Florian & Spratt, 2013).
What Types of Bondholders Impede Corporate Innovative Activities?

This study investigates whether institutional bond blockholders (i.e., bond funds that hold more than 5% of a firm's outstanding bonds) impede firm innovative activities, and if they do, through which channels. We find that long-term bond blockholders do not discourage firms from conducting innovative activities. Short-term bond blockholders, however, significantly reduce both firm investments in RD Innovation; Investment Horizon; Wall Street Walk
Agreement with night-waking strategies among community mothers of preschool-aged children.

OBJECTIVE To explore the night-waking schemas of mothers of preschool-aged children, using a new measure of agreement with night-waking strategies (Night-waking Vignettes Scale; NVS). METHOD A community sample of 203 mothers (M age = 32 years, SD = 5.1) of 2- to 5-year-olds (M age = 3.4 years, SD = 1.0) provided demographic information and completed the NVS and measures of night-waking and general parenting behavior. RESULTS Few mothers endorsed strong agreement or disagreement with limit-setting, active comforting, or rewards; mothers generally disagreed with punishment. Significant associations between agreement with night-waking strategies, child sex, and maternal educational attainment were observed; only agreement with punishment was correlated with general parenting. Agreement with night-waking strategies differed across the night-waking behaviors depicted in the NVS vignettes. Agreement with limit-setting and agreement with active comforting were correlated with night-waking. CONCLUSIONS Mothers may be ambivalent about common night-waking strategies. Night-waking schemas appear to be complex.
Sensitivity Analysis of a Water-Quality Model using Latin Hypercube Sampling

Decisions about water pollution control and management in river systems are increasingly based on predictions made with water quality models. Many uncertainties are associated with the development and calibration of such models and thus affect the model predictions. Therefore it often is necessary to perform a model reliability analysis prior to or as a supplement to model application to water pollution control and planning problems. In this paper, only the effect of parameter uncertainties on model prediction is investigated by applying sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. The Latin hypercube sampling technique in combination with regression and correlation analyses has been applied to the DUFLOW model developed for the Dender River in Belgium. These analyses aim to (1) identify the model parameters that significantly affect the model output uncertainty; (2) define the variables that should be measured for a successful model calibration; and (3) examine how model sensitivity changes with changing level of waste treatment. The results obtained indicate that three parameters related to the algal growth process have the greatest effect on the uncertainty of the simulated dissolved oxygen concentrations in the Dender River.
Motivation for Staying in College

The study investigated motivational differences and higher education outcomes between limited English proficiency (LEP) Hispanic students compared with non-LEP Hispanic students. With a sample of 668 Hispanic community college students, we measured various forms of achievement motivation informed by self-determination theory, grade point average (GPA), and first-semester and 1-year persistence outcomes. Using ANCOVA and logistic regression, we found that LEP students had significantly higher retention rates and levels of external regulation, or motivation out of compliance or extrinsic rewards. Moreover, LEP students with moderate levels of external regulation persisted longer in their first semester of community college. Implications for understanding the complex motivations of Hispanic community college students are discussed.
A quantitative comparison of scheduling algorithms for input-queued switches

This paper quantitatively evaluates several alternative approaches to the scheduling of cells in a highbandwidth input-queued ATM switch. In particular, we compare the performance of three algorithms described previously: FIFO queueing, parallel iterative matching (PIM), maximum matching and two new algorithms: iterative round-robin matching with slip (SLIP) and least-recently used (LRU). For the synthetic workloads we consider, including uniform and bursty tra c, SLIP performs almost identically to the other algorithms. Cases for which PIM and SLIP perform poorly are presented, indicating that care should be taken when using these algorithms. But, we show that the implementation complexity of SLIP is an order of magnitude less than for PIM, making it feasible to implement a 32x32 switch scheduler for SLIP on a single chip.
An Analysis of ISMIR Proceedings: Patterns of Authorship, Topic, and Citation

This paper presents analyses of peer-reviewed papers and posters published in the past nine years of ISMIR proceedings: examining publication and authorship practices, topics and titles of research, as well as the citation patterns among the ISMIR proceedings. The main objective is to provide an overview of the progress made over the past nine years in the ISMIR community and to obtain some insights into where the community should be heading in the coming years. Overall, the ISMIR community has grown considerably over the past nine years, both in the number of papers and posters published each year, as well as the number of authors contributing. Furthermore, the amount of collaboration among authors, as reflected in co-authorship, has increased. Main areas of research are revealed by an analysis of most commonly used title terms. Also, major authors and research groups are identified by analyzing the co-authorship and citation patterns in ISMIR proceedings.
On the limits of effective hybrid micro-energy harvesting on mobile CRFID sensors

Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide both sensing and general-purpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small capacitors charged by energy harvesting. CRFIDs have small form factors and consume less energy than traditional sensor motes. However, CRFIDs have yet to see widespread use because of limited autonomy and the propensity for frequent power loss as a result of the necessarily small capacitors that serve as a microcontroller's power supply. Our results show that hybrid harvesting CRFIDs, which use an ambient energy micro-harvester, can complete a variety of useful workloads--even in an environment with little ambient energy available. Our contributions include (1) benchmarks demonstrating that micro-harvesting from ambient energy sources enables greater range and read rate, as well as autonomous operation by hybrid CRFIDs, (2) a measurement study that stresses the limits of effective ambient energy harvesting for diverse workloads, (3) application studies that demonstrate the benefits of hybrid CRFIDs, and (4) a trace-driven simulator to model and evaluate the expected behavior of a CRFID with different capacitor sizes and operating under varying conditions of mobility and solar energy harvesting. Our results show that ambient harvesting can triple the effective communication range of a CRFID, quadruple the read rate, and achieve 95% uptime in RAM retention mode despite long periods of low light.
Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections among younger subjects of the city of Messina (Sicily)

Summary Introduction. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are considered a serious public health problem worldwide, affecting especially young people. The international monitoring data indicate that 70% of patients with STIs are aged between 15 and 24 years and the World Health Organization estimates that one out of 20 teenagers contracts an STI each year. We wanted to evaluate, through this work, what high school students of Messina know about the STIs. Material and methods. From February to May 2013 questionnaires were distributed to students of the last three classes of seven high schools, three of which belonging to humanistic area and four to technical area. The completed questionnaires collected were 1588. Results and discussion. The investigation carried out showed a better knowledge of the STIs by students of humanistic schools than students of technical-scientific schools, the percentage of correct answers was 74% and 60% respectively; this probably also depends on the family context, in fact, there is a statistically significant correlation between the percentage of correct answers and parents education level. Young people have a limited knowledge on the subject. We concluded our work by stressing the importance and the need to deepen and improve the training and information of the medical staff, teachers and families, as it is from their knowledge and their ability to provide complete and accurate information about the risks posed by STIs that can derive knowledge and choices of appropriate lifestyle between the youth population.
Recursive Implementation of Erosions and Dilations Along Discrete Lines at Arbitrary Angles

Van Herk (1992) has shown that the erosion/dilation operator with a linear structuring element of an arbitrary length can be implemented in only three min/max operations per pixel. In this paper, the algorithm is generalized to erosions and dilations along discrete lines at arbitrary angles. We also address the padding problem; so that the operation can be performed in place without copying the pixels to and from an intermediate buffer. Applications to image filtering and to radial decompositions of discs are presented.
Adaptive MAC-layer Sensing of Spectrum Availability in Cognitive Radio Networks

In the recently-suggested dynamic spectrum allocation policy of cognitive radio networks [1]–[3], sensing/monitoring of spectrum availability is identified as a key requirement. To meet this requirement we address an important MAC-layer sensing issue: which of proactive and reactive sensing is more energy-efficient? An algorithm is proposed to dynamically determine which sensing mode to use. For proactive sensing, sensing-period adaptation to maximize discovery of opportunities and optimal-ordering of channels to minimize the delay in finding an available channel are proposed. Channel-usage patterns are also estimated. Our simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed sensing scheme, as well as its performance improvements over the previously-proposed schemes. The sensing-period adaptation discovers up to 98% of the analytical maximum of spectral opportunities, regardless of choice of the initial sensing period. For the testing scenario and simulation parameters we used, the proposed scheme is shown to discover up to 20% more opportunities than the previous sensing schemes without sensing-period adaptation. This improvement may become greater as the initial sensing period grows. The delay in finding an idle channel with the proposed channel-ordering is around 0.02 second, which is a half of the delay without channel-ordering, and the proposed scheme yields steady performance over a wide range of the number of channels.
Semiclassical geometry of quantum line bundles and Moritaequivalence of star products

In this paper we show how deformation quantization of line bundles over a Poisson manifold $M$ produces a canonical action $\Phi$ of the Picard group $\Pic(M)\cong H^2(M,\mathbb Z)$ on the moduli space of equivalence classes of differential star products on $M$, $\Def(M)$. The orbits of $\Phi$ characterize Morita equivalent star products on $M$. We describe the semiclassical limit of $\Phi$ in terms of the characteristic classes of star products by studying the semiclassical geometry of deformed line bundles.
Quantifying the Human Impacts on Papua New Guinea Reef Fish Communities across Space and Time

Describing the drivers of species loss and of community change are important goals in both conservation and ecology. However, it is difficult to determine whether exploited species decline due to direct effects of harvesting or due to other environmental perturbations brought about by proximity to human populations. Here we quantify differences in species richness of coral reef fish communities along a human population gradient in Papua New Guinea to understand the relative impacts of fishing and environmental perturbation. Using data from published species lists we categorize the reef fishes as either fished or non-fished based on their body size and reports from the published literature. Species diversity for both fished and non-fished groups decreases as the size of the local human population increases, and this relationship is stronger in species that are fished. Additionally, comparison of modern and museum collections show that modern reef communities have proportionally fewer fished species relative to 19th century ones. Together these findings show that the reef fish communities of Papua New Guinea experience multiple anthropogenic stressors and that even at low human population levels targeted species experience population declines across both time and space.
‘Adaptive Dynamics’ vs. ‘adaptive dynamics’

Various approaches that can be described as ‘adaptive dynamics’ arose from a need to describe the general features of evolutionary change under complex patterns of frequency dependence. Such frequency dependence often arises from ecological scenarios with several interacting species. Currently, the term, ‘Adaptive Dynamics’ (capitalized) is most often used to refer to a much more narrow body of theory based on models in which evolutionary change is mutation-limited and occurs on a time scale that is much slower than population dynamics. This note argues that the usefulness of all types of adaptive dynamics depends on their ability to provide approximate descriptions of systems in which their assumptions are not satisfied. The ability to approximate more complex situations can only be assessed by analysing more complex and realistic models. Some of Waxman and Gavrilets’ criticisms of Adaptive Dynamics are based on unrealistic expectations from simple models, but they are probably correct in arguing that Adaptive Dynamics is insufficient to predict when sympatric speciation will occur.
Bundle-Branch Reentry and the Postpacing Interval After Entrainment by Right Ventricular Apex Stimulation: A New Approach to Elucidate the Mechanism of Wide-QRS-Complex Tachycardia With Atrioventricular Dissociation

Background —Diagnosis of bundle-branch reentry ventricular tachycardia (BBR-VT) by the standard approach is challenging, and this may lead to nonrecognition of this tachycardia mechanism. Because the postpacing interval (PPI) after entrainment has been correlated with the distance from the pacing site to the reentrant circuit, BBR-VT entrainment by pacing from the right ventricular apex (RVA) should result in a PPI similar to the tachycardia cycle length (TCL). This factor may differentiate BBR-VT from other mechanisms of wide-QRS-complex tachycardia with AV dissociation, such as myocardial reentrant VT (MR-VT) or AV nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), in which the circuit is usually located away from the RVA. Methods and Results —Transient entrainment by RVA pacing was attempted in 18 consecutive BBR-VTs and finally achieved in 13. Results were compared with those found in 59 consecutive MR-VTs and 50 consecutive AVNRTs. The mean PPI−TCL difference was significantly (P <0.0001) shorter in the BBR-VT group (9±11 ms) than in the MR-VT (109±48 ms) and the AVNRT (150±29 ms) groups. No BBR-VT showed a PPI−TCL >30 ms (range −12 to 24 ms). Except for 2 MR-VTs, no MR-VT (range 21 to 211 ms) or AVNRT (range 100 to 215 ms) showed a PPI−TCL <30 ms. Conclusions —A PPI−TCL >30 ms, after entrainment by RVA stimulation, makes BBR-VT unlikely. Conversely, a PPI−TCL <30 ms is suggestive of BBR-VT but should lead to further investigation by use of conventional criteria.
A Conversation With Liz Dolan—Satellite Sisters: Conquering Every Audio Platform … One Cup of Coffee at a Time

Commercial talk radio was not always a male-dominated format. Crittenden’s (1971) foundational study of “open mike radio forums” in 1967 revealed that about half of the callers to Terre Haute, Indiana’s Speak Out program on radio station WAAC-AM were women. More significantly perhaps, “57 percent of the female respondents had listened one or more times in the past four weeks, as opposed to 40 percent of the males” (Crittenden, 1971, pp. 202–203). This pattern was also evident in Turow’s 1974 study of callers to the “talk jockeys” of WCAU-AM radio in Philadelphia that “did not seem to be a significant difference between the percentages of male and female callers and the percentages of men and women in the city at large, except on Saturday, when twice as many women as men called” (Turow, 1974, p. 174). By 1993, after the growth of talk radio led by conservative personalities such as Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlesinger, audience research indicated that 60% of talk radio listeners were male (Capella et al., 1996). Just a few years later, commercial talk-radio audiences were “composed largely of middle-aged, male, college-educated, middleand upper-income individuals” (Owen, 1997, p. 337). This male skew remained consistent in subsequent studies of political, sports, or “hot” talk radio both in the United States and in other countries (Darnell & Wilson, 2006; Gould, 2007; Lee & Cappella, 2001; Nylund, 2012). The departure of female listeners from traditional talk radio formats, however, did not mean that women stopped listening to spoken word radio formats or conversations about current events. During that same period of growth for commercial talk radio, public radio grew significantly, and NPR recorded its largest audience shares in its history (Arbitron 2012), with more women listening than men (Pew Research, 2012). This may have less to do with politics than it does with gender-related styles
Extending the JD-R approach to predicting work/study engagement and creative performance : evidences from Chinese employees and students

Extending the JD-R Approach to Predicting Work/Study Engagement and Creative Performance: Evidences from Chinese Employees and Students by Wu Mengyuan Master of Philosophy Although innovation and creativity play an increasingly important role in helping organizations survive in today’s highly competitive environment, less is known about the antecedents and mechanisms of creative performance in the Chinese context. To bridge the gap of knowledge, this thesis adopted and extended Bakker (2011)’s Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R model) to exploring four antecedents of creative performance, namely, creative requirement (job demand), creative self-efficacy (personal resource), perceived support for creativity (job resource), and work/study engagement. It was hypothesized that engagement would mediate the positive effect of creative self-efficacy, perceived support for creativity and creative requirement on creative performance. Creative requirement would moderate the effect of creative selfefficacy, perceived support for creativity on engagement. Self-reported questionnaires were distributed to Office staff (n=154) and supermarket staff (n=158) from Mainland China. Undergraduates (N=194) were recruited from a university in Hong Kong and were asked to complete a self-reported questionnaire that included both subjective and objective tests for creativity performance. Hierarchical linear regression analyses with Bootstrapping procedures were conducted separately to test the proposed hypothesized model among the three participant groups. It was found that the hypothesized model was partially supported across all the samples. Also, different mediation mechanisms of engagement were found between employee and student samples. Engagement was found to partially mediate the positive effect of perceived support for creativity on (both subjective and objective) creative performance among three samples; yet it only partially mediated the positive effect of creative self-efficacy on employees’ creative performance. In addition, only creative self-efficacy was found to be a significant predictor of (both subjective and objective) creative performance across all three samples. Also, no moderation effects were supported. Nevertheless, the main contributions of this study to the existing creative performance literature are mainly twofold: (a) extending the JD-R model to incorporate creativity and (b) generalizing the JD-R model to the Chinese context. Finally, recommendations for promoting employees and undergraduates’ creative performance are discussed in the thesis.
Job Market Signaling

1. Introduction, 355. — 2. Hiring as investment under uncertainty, 356. — 3. Applicant signaling, 358. — 4. Informational feedback and the definition of equilibrium, 359. — 5. Properties of informational equilibria: an example, 361. — 6. The informational impact of indices, 368. — Conclusions, 374.
Evaluation and Optimization of the Financial Sustainability of Public Rental Housing Projects: A Case Study in Nanjing, China

In recent years, Chinese governments have launched ambitious plans in developing public rental housing (PRH), which are almost impossible to accomplish without the involvement of the private sector. Yet, very few quantitative studies have been carried out to evaluate the financial sustainability of PRH projects in China, especially from the perspective of the private sector. This knowledge gap is bridged through the evaluation of the financial sustainability of a hypothetical privately owned PRH project in Nanjing, China as a case study, utilizing data of a state-owned PRH project and the classic discounted cash flow method. The results indicate that the studied project is financially infeasible, which means that private companies would not be willing to participate in the provision of public rental housing, if they merely focus on profits. Then, the most cost-effective optimization measure of the studied case is quantitatively selected from four possible optimization scenarios, leading to a financial balance. This paper presents the current financial status of Chinese PRH projects, thereby providing policy makers with useful references to effectively accelerate the private sector’s provision of PRH in China.