Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emerging from the Daddy Issue: A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of the Lived Experiences of Men Who Experienced Fatherlessness on Their Approach to Fathering Sons

Emerging from the Daddy Issue: A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of the Lived Experiences of Men Who Experienced Fatherlessness on Their Approach to Fathering Sons David Ricardo Inniss, Ed.D. Drexel University, October 2013 Chairperson: W. Edward Bureau Perceptions about fatherhood and the importance of the father role have changed significantly over time. This phenomenological study explored how experiences of father absence or paternal apathy impact behaviors among men and exert influence over their ability to effectively father their sons. It examined participants’ views on the meaning of transitioning to manhood in a father-absent household, the intersection between fatherhood and masculinity, and the impact of their history of fatherlessness on their approaches to fathering. The researcher drew on the phrase “Daddy Issue” to describe the “lack of emotional and psychological balance” (Gibbs, Blackman, Painton, & Willwerth, 2007, p. 3) and depression of cognitive performance (Chapman, 1977) associated with the experience of fatherlessness, the abuse of a paternal relationship, or paternal undependability. Existing studies on fatherlessness are predominantly quantitative with few qualitative studies investigating outcomes of resiliency and restoration of those who experienced fatherlessness. The researcher’s worldviews as a pragmatist, social constructivist, and advocate (Creswell, 2007) place importance on the youth experience that may shape men’s adult lives. The thoughts and feelings of 36 adult males were evaluated through the theoretical lens of Paternal Involvement, the MasculinityFatherhood Linkage, and Resilience. Thirteen of those men participated in semi-structured individual interviews, while 24 participated in two separate focus groups. Analysis of the data captured yielded thematic clusters that led to textural descriptions of participants’ experiences. From these textural descriptions, a structural description of the essence of fathering sons after experiencing fatherlessness was derived. The key findings in this study centered on the modeling of fatherhood, the perceived impacts of father absence, beliefs about the transition to manhood, the intersections between masculinity and fatherhood, and the pursuit of emotional closure. These findings were the foundation of practical recommendations as well as suggestions for future exploration into tangential phenomena. This Ed.D. Dissertation Committee from The School of Education at Drexel University certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Emerging from the Daddy Issue: A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of the Lived Experiences of Men Who Experienced Fatherlessness on Their Approach to Fathering Sons David Ricardo Inniss
Graph-regularized multi-class support vector machines for face and action recognition

In this paper, we formulate a variant of the Support Vector Machine classifier that exploits graph-based discrimination criteria within a multi-class optimization process. We employ two kNN graphs in order to describe intra-class and between-class data relationships. These graph structures are combined in order to form a regularizer which is used in order to regularize the multi-class SVM optimization problem. The derived multiclass classifier is compared with the standard SVM classifier and SVM formulations exploiting geometric class information on six publicly available databases designed for human action recognition in the wild and facial image classification problems, where its effectiveness is shown.
Exploring pre-service science teachers’ pedagogical capacity for formative assessment through analyses of student answers

Abstract Background: There has been an increasing emphasis on empowering pre-service and in-service science teachers to attend student reasoning and use formative assessments to guide student learning in recent years. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore pre-service science teachers’ pedagogical capacity for formative assessment. Sample: This study took place in Turkey. The participants include 53 pre-service science teachers in their final year of schooling. All but two of the participants are female. Design and methods: We used a mixed-methods methodology in pursing this inquiry. Participants analyzed 28 responses to seven two-tiered questions given by four students of different ability levels. We explored their ability to identify the strengths and weaknesses in students’ answers. We paid particular attention to the things that the pre-service science teachers noticed in students’ explanations, the types of inferences they made about students’ conceptual understanding, and the affordances of pedagogical decisions they made. Results: The results show that the majority of participants made an evaluative judgment (i.e. the answer is correct or incorrect) in their analyses of students’ answers. Similarly, the majority of the participants recognized the type of mistake that the students made. However, they failed to successfully elaborate on fallacies, limitations, or strengths in student reasoning. We also asked the participants to make pedagogical decisions related to what needs to be done next in order to help the students to achieve academic objectives. Results show that 8% of the recommended instructional strategies were of no affordance, 64% of low-affordance, and 28% were of high affordance in terms of helping students achieve the academic objectives. Conclusion: If our goal is to improve pre-service science teachers’ noticing skills, and the affordance of feedback that they provide, engaging them in activities that asks them to attend to students’ ideas and reasoning may be useful.
An optimized MLVA assay and its complementarity with PFGE and 1 MLST for Listeria monocytogenes clone identification and 2 surveillance 3 4

8 1 Institut Pasteur, National Reference Centre and World Health Organisation 9 Collaborating Centre for Listeria 10 2 Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Paris, France 11 3 Inserm U1117, Paris, France 12 4 Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health, Paris, France 13 5 Univ Paris-Sud, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR 8621, Orsay, France 14 6 CNRS, Orsay, France 15 7 Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, Paris, France 16 8 Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, APHP, Division of Infectious Diseases 17 and Tropical Medicine, Paris, France 18 9 Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Paris, France 19 * Corresponding authors 20 S. Brisse. Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Unit, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr Roux, 21 F-75724 Paris, France. E-mail: sylvain.brisse@pasteur.fr; Phone +33 1 40 61 36 58 22 M. Lecuit. Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, F-75724 23 Paris, France. E-mail: marc.lecuit@pasteur.fr; Phone +33 1 40 61 30 29 24 25 Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.00606-13 JCM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 10 April 2013
Intrabeam Scattering in the NLC Main Damping Rings

We use Bane's approximation to the Bjorken-Mtingwa theory of intrabeam scattering to calculate the emittance growth as a function of bunch charge in the KEK ATF. We find that our results are consistent with the experimental data. We then calculate the emittance growth in the NLC Main Damping Rings using the same formulae; we allow for some uncertainty in the ATF data by using two different values for the Coulomb log factor in the formulae for the emittance growth rates. We find that despite the IBS emittance growth, it should still be possible to achieve the specified transverse and longitudinal emittances in the NLC Main Damping Rings at the specified bunch charge.
Tensile Properties Along the Grains of Earlywood and Latewood of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Dry and Wet State

Mechanical parameters of Scots pine wood (Pinus sylvestris L.) of low (about 8%) and high (higher than the fiber saturation point) moisture content (MC) subjected to tensile stress along the grains were studied. The measurements were performed for microtome samples sliced from either earlywood or latewood and for samples containing both earlywood and latewood. The effect of MC on the mechanical properties of earlywood and latewood of Scots pine was different. The MC was found to have greater influence on the tensile strength and modulus of elasticity in latewood than in earlywood, but its effect on strain at failure was greater in earlywood. As determined individually for earlywood and latewood, the tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and the strain at failure that were calculated from the rule of mixtures (the weighted mean for earlywood and latewood) did not differ significantly from the values found in the samples containing both zones. This similarity was observed at low and high MC.
A Parallel FEM Matrix Assembly for Electro-Quasistatic Problems on GPGPU Systems

This paper introduces a new matrix assembly algorithm for nonlinear problems that decomposes the problem into parts that are well suited for parallel computation on GPGPUs. It has the strength that recomputations in nonlinear entries of the stiffness matrices are embarrassingly parallel. The algorithm is used to solve electro-quasistatic problems. The proposed discretization includes the handling of Dirichlet and homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions.
Spatial Heterogeneity of Cx43 is an Arrhythmogenic Substrate of Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardias during Compensated Cardiac Hypertrophy in Rats

Background Ventricular remodeling increases the propensity of ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden death in patients. We studied the mechanism underlying these fatal arrhythmias, electrical and structural cardiac remodeling, as well as arrhythmogeneity during early, compensated hypertrophy in a rat model of chronic pressure overload. Methods Twenty-six Wistar rats were subjected to transverse aortic constriction (TAC) (n = 13) or sham operation (n = 13). Four weeks postoperative, echo- and electrocardiography was performed. Epicardial (208 or 455 sites) and transmural (30 sites) ventricular activation mapping was performed on Langendorff perfused hearts. Subsequently, hearts were processed for (immuno)histological and molecular analyses. Results TAC rats showed significant hypertrophy with preserved left ventricular (LV) function. Epicardial conduction velocity (CV) was similar, but more dispersed in TAC. Transmural CV was slowed in TAC (37.6 ± 2.9 cm s−1) compared to sham (58.5 ± 3.9 cm s−1; P < 0.01). Sustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardias were induced from LV in 8/13 TAC and in 0/13 sham rats. During VT, electrical activation patterns showed variable sites of earliest epicardial activation and altering sites of functional conduction block. Wandering epicardial reentrant activation was sporadically observed. Collagen deposition was significantly higher in TAC compared to sham, but not different between arrhythmogenic and non-arrhythmogenic TAC animals. Connexin43 (Cx43) expression was heterogeneous with a higher prevalence of non-phosphorylated Cx43 in arrhythmogenic TAC animals. Conclusion In TAC rats with compensated cardiac hypertrophy, dispersion of conduction correlated to arrhythmogenesis, an increased heterogeneity of Cx43, and a partial substitution with non-phosphorylated Cx43. These alterations may result in the increased vulnerability to polymorphic VTs.
The barley amo1 locus is tightly linked to the starch synthase IIIa gene and negatively regulates expression of granule-bound starch synthetic genes

In this study of barley starch synthesis, the interaction between mutations at the sex6 locus and the amo1 locus has been characterized. Four barley genotypes, the wild type, sex6, amo1, and the amo1sex6 double mutant, were generated by backcrossing the sex6 mutation present in Himalaya292 into the amo1 ‘high amylose Glacier’. The wild type, amo1, and sex6 genotypes gave starch phenotypes consistent with previous studies. However, the amo1sex6 double mutant yielded an unexpected phenotype, a significant increase in starch content relative to the sex6 phenotype. Amylose content (as a percentage of starch) was not increased above the level observed for the sex6 mutation alone; however, on a per seed basis, grain from lines containing the amo1 mutation (amo1 mutants and amo1sex6 double mutants) synthesize significantly more amylose than the wild-type lines and sex6 mutants. The level of granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSSI) protein in starch granules is increased in lines containing the amo1 mutation (amo1 and amo1sex6). In the amo1 genotype, starch synthase I (SSI), SSIIa, starch branching enzyme IIa (SBEIIa), and SBEIIb also markedly increased in the starch granules. Genetic mapping studies indicate that the ssIIIa gene is tightly linked to the amo1 locus, and the SSIIIa protein from the amo1 mutant has a leucine to arginine residue substitution in a conserved domain. Zymogram analysis indicates that the amo1 phenotype is not a consequence of total loss of enzymatic activity although it remains possible that the amo1 phenotype is underpinned by a more subtle change. It is therefore proposed that amo1 may be a negative regulator of other genes of starch synthesis.
‘I would love to blast some pow music and just dance’: First Nations students’ experiences of physical activity on a university campus

Abstract Although physical activity is valued in Aboriginal communities, an in depth understanding of the physical activity experiences among urban Aboriginal people in Canada is absent from the literature. The primary purpose of this study was to explore First Nations students’ physical activity experiences on a university campus. A secondary purpose was to identify ways to create and promote positive physical activity experiences for First Nations university students. Five First Nations students (ages = 18–28 years) engaged in a talking circle and one-on-one interviews. Three main themes emerged from the students’ narratives: (1) we are similar but unique, (2) a longing for tradition, and (3) extending a personal connection with physical activity. The participants’ stories included challenges with physical activity on campus, some of which were unique to the First Nations student experience (e.g. lack of traditional activities) and grew increasingly complex as their narratives unfolded (e.g. experiencing racism). The participants shared strategies they use to deal with challenges related to physical activity, including self-talk, incorporating significant others, and attempting to integrate traditional beliefs and practices. Changes made at the institutional-level were also considered as ways to manage personally difficult physical activity experiences. Further research and collaborative approaches are needed to: (1) develop university initiatives that generate more physical activity options as well as enhance the quality of physical activity for Aboriginal students, and (2) explore culturally-relevant resources that might be useful for Aboriginal students dealing with difficult physical activity experiences.
Adolescent mothers in later life: Frontmatter

This study explains differences in the life courses of teenage mothers and studies the lives of their adolescent children. Data come from a longitudinal study of about 300 Baltimore women and their children. The women were first interviewed in the mid-1960s when they became pregnant; evidence clearly demonstrated that early childbearing affected some women more negatively than others. This 17-year followup study was conducted in 1983-1984; a number of potential determinants were studied to define those accountable for differences in life-course trajectories. Analysis focuses on whether the mother was currently on Welfare and whether she had limited her fertility to fewer than 3 children. Some of the determinants found to be linked to a womens recovery from early motherhood follow. 1) If a woman was on Welfare during childhood there is a greater risk that she will have 3+ children and remain on Welfare. 2) Women from large families are less able to recover economically from premature parenthood compared to those from average and small families. 3) 42% of women from families in which neither parent had reached 10th grade were likely to be on welfare compared to 16% of women whose parents had completed 10th grade. 4) School aspirations have a large indirect effect and strongly influence an adolescents chances of remaining in school of receiving special education and of using birth control. 5) Women who had 2+ additional children by the 5-year followup were almost 4 times more likely to be on Welfare and 72% less likely to become economically secure at the 17-year followup. 6) Attending the Poe School for pregnant teens significantly reduced the proportion of women on Welfare in adulthood. 7) Teens enrolled in the Sinai Hospital comprehensive perinatal care program were also more likely to avoid economic dependency in later life largely because they practiced birth control the year after the delivery of their first child. 8) Stable marriage leading to economic security and independence from the family of origin contributes to the adolescent mothers long-term economic success. Few mothers were found to have neglected their children though the mothers struggles to avoid poverty may have contributed to their childrens problems with academic achievement maladjustment misbehavior and may contribute to their possible early parenthood.
Corporate Social Capital and Liability

Introduction: CSC: The Structure of Advantage and Disadvantage S.M. Gabbay, R.Th. A.J. Leenders. Section I: Conceptual Issues - Theory, Models, and Measurement. 1. Organizational Networks and Corporate Social Capital D. Knoke. 2. Social Capital of Organization: Conceptualization, Level of Analysis, and Performance Implications J.M. Pennings, K. Lee. 3. A Relational Resource Perspective on Social Capital L. Araujo, G. Easton. 4. Social Capital by Design: Structures, Strategies, and Institutional Context W.E. Baker, D. Obstfeld. 5. Corporate Social Capital and Liability: a Conditional Approach to Three Consequences of Corporate Social Structure I. Talmud. 6. Dimensions of Corporate Social Capital: Toward Models and Measures S. -K. Han, R.L. Breiger. 7. Organizational Standing as Corporate Social Capital P. Doreian. 8. Customer Service Dyads: Diagnosing Emperical Buyer - Seller Interactions along Gaming Profiles in a Dyadic Parametric Space D. Iacobucci. Section II: Structure at the Individual Level - Social Capital in Jobs and Careers. 9. The Sidekick Effect: Mentoring Relationships and the Development of Social Capital M. Higgins, N. Nohria. 10. Social Capital in Internal Staffing Practices P.V. Marsden, E.H. Gorman. 11. Getting a Job as a Manager H. Flap, E. Boxman. 12. The Changing Value of Social Capital in an Expanding Social System: Lawyers in the Chicago Bar, 1975 and 1995 R.L. Sandefur, et al. Section III: Structure at the Individual Level -- Social Capital and Management. 13. Generalized Exchange and Economic Performance: Social Embeddedness of Labor Contracts in a Corporate Law Partnership E. Lazega. 14. CEO Demographics and Acquisitions: Network Effects of Educational and Functional Background P.R. Haunschild, et al. 15. Public Service Organizations -- Social Networks and Social Capital E. Ferlie. 16. The Dark Side of Social Capital M. Gargiulo, M. Benassi. 17. Social Capital, Social Liabilities, and Social Resources Management D.J. Brass, G. Labianca. Section IV: Structure at the Firm Level -- Social Capital in Collaboration and Alliances. 18. The Triangle: Roles of the Go-Between B. Nooteboom. 19. The Management of Social Capital in R&D Collaboration O. Omta, W. van Rossum. 20. Technological Prestige and the Accumulation of Alliance Capital T.E. Stuart. 21. Networks and Knowledge Production: Collaboration and Patenting in Biotechnology L. Smith-Doerr, et al. 22. Supply Network Strategy and Social Capital C. Harland. Section V: Structure at the Firm Level -- Social Capital and Financial Capital. 23. Choosing Ties from the Inside of a Prism: Egocentric Uncertainty and Status in Venture Capital Markets J.M. Podolny, F. Castellucci. 24. Corporate Social Capital and the Cost of Financial Capital: An Embeddedness Approach B. Uzzi, J.J. Gillespie. 25. Venture Capital as an Economy of Time J. Freeman. Conclusion. References. Index. Contributors. Editors.
Mapping XML to a Wide Sparse Table

XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this paper, we propose a novel mapping of XML data into one wide table whose columns are sparsely populated. This mapping provides good performance for document types and queries that are observed in enterprise applications but are not supported efficiently by existing work. XML queries are evaluated by translating them into SQL queries over the wide sparsely-populated table. We show how to translate full XPath 1.0 into SQL. Based on the characteristics of the new mapping, we present rewriting optimizations that dramatically reduce the number of joins. Experiments demonstrate that query evaluation over the new mapping delivers considerable improvements over existing techniques for the target use cases.
Integrating the cochlea's compressive nonlinearity in the Bayesian approach for speech enhancement

The human ear has a great ability to isolate speech in a noisy environment and, therefore, constitutes a great source of inspiration for speech enhancement algorithms. In this work, we propose a Bayesian estimator for speech enhancement that integrates the cochlea's compressive nonlinearity in its cost function. When compared to existing Bayesian speech enhancement estimators, the proposed estimator can achieve a better compromise between speech distortion and noise reduction by favoring less speech distortion at lower frequencies, where the main formants are located, while increasing the noise reduction at higher frequencies. The proposed estimator also yields better results both in terms of objective and subjective performance measures.
Authoritarianism in the general population: the education interaction hypothesis

The negative association between educational level and measures of authoritarianism has been recognized for many years. Here we present evidence that the problem is treated more usefully as one of statistical interaction: the relation of authoritarianism to other substantive measures is largely artifactual at lower educational levels, but is substantively more meaningful at higher educational levels
Social Movements and Policy Implementation: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty, 1965 to 1971

This study of the Mississippi civil rights movement and the War on Poverty examines the relationship between social movements and policy implementation. A “movement infrastructure” model is developed that focuses on organizational structure, resources, and leadership to account for the impact of social movements on policy implementation. A two-tiered research design is employed that includes (I) a quantitative analysis of poverty programs in Mississippi counties from 1965 to 1971, and (2) case studies that show the complex interaction between the civil rights movement, resistance by whites, local powerholders, and federal agencies. The quantitative analysis shows that counties with strong movement infrastructures generated greater funding for Community Action Programs. The case studies show that movements were excluded from the initial formation of these programs as local whites attempted to preempt civil rights activists. However, in counties with strong movement infrastructures, activists were able to gain access to decision-making bodies and shape the content of poverty programs.