Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tipping the balance back towards emancipation: exploring the positions of Flemish community sport practitioners towards social control

Abstract Current debates highlight the dualistic nature of community sport, which is shaped by both emancipating logics and controlling logics. Critical scholars have warned against the current prioritization of controlling logics over emancipating ones, as this might lead to instrumental approaches in which the vulnerability of young people is managed rather than tackled. However, little research has been conducted on the way in which practitioners perceive and act upon the dominance of social control as a value within community sport. In this article, we report on the findings of a qualitative study into three community sport initiatives in Flanders, Belgium. The data indicate there are small emancipatory moments within the daily practice of community sport. Based on these results, we propose a reconfiguration of the concept of emancipation from being a solid, utopian ideal towards being a search for moments where the dominant logics of social control are momentarily disrupted.
Gambling among Youth in Contemporary Ghana: Understanding, Initiation, and Perceived Benefits

Abstract:Youth participation in gambling in Ghana has been surging, but little research has been done on the subject. This study examines factors leading to initiation into gambling and participants' understanding of and motivation for it. One-on-one interviews were conducted with twenty selected participants. Thematic analysis shows that factors that triggered their gambling include personal loss, the proximity of betting sites, unemployment, leisure, and curiosity. Participants variously perceived betting on sports as a game that involves chance, money, and electronic gadgets. The perceived benefits of gambling included money, socialization, positive emotion, expression of knowledge, and love of football. Implications are discussed in light of the need for educating youth on adaptive coping strategies and the need for policies and programs to provide better alternatives to youth unemployment.
Unmarried Fathers’ Earnings Trajectories: Does Partnership Status Matter?

Married men earn more than unmarried men. Previous research suggests that marriage itself causes some of the difference, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers' earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a new birth cohort study the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study which follows unmarried parents for the first five years after their child's birth. Results provide some support for the idea that increasing marriage will lead to increased fathers' earnings.
Ethical Issues with Informed Consent

Informed consent is a vital step to any research project. It is the process in which a patient/participant consents to participate in a research project after being informed of its procedures, risks, and benefits (Bulger, 2002)[3]. Ideally, after fully comprehending the information about the project, the patient/participant gives full and conscious consent for the physician/scientist to continue with the procedure. There are many ethical issues that are entwined with the informed consent process. In order to fully appreciate the importance of this process, the history that led to its inclusion in research projects must be understood. Although informed consent is designed to make sure that a participant fully understands the procedures, benefits, and risks involved in an experiment, it is not without its flaws in its practical application. There are many covert communication barriers between participants and researchers that lead to misunderstandings. This prevents participants from making the fully autonomous decisions sought for in the informed consent process. Some of those barriers are related to cultural aspects such as language differences and religious dogma. Others are related to the faith that participants have in science such as false expectations. Having awareness of these types of barriers is crucial for both researchers and participants. Misunderstandings concerning the experimental procedures can lead participants to get involved in research projects that they dont approve of. Finding themselves in this situation can have great effects on the psychological and physical wellbeing of participants. For this reason, it is ethical for researchers to account and correct for the misunderstandings in the informed consent process. This would ensure that participants are treated according to the ethical standards set by the Belmont Report.
Staying Down with the Joneses: Neighbourhood Differences in the Well-being Effects of Unemployment

Previous research has demonstrated that unemployment has an adverse effect on mental well-being but that peer effects as captured by the unemployment of neighbours can moderate these negative impacts. The idea being that contact with others who are also unemployed can help the unemployed feel relatively better off. The question as to whether certain unemployed individuals are more likely than others to be affected by comparison effects in the labour market has, however, received little empirical or theoretical attention. In this study we identify substantive gender, age and personality differences in the extent to which the unemployment of neighbours alleviates the psychological distress associated with unemployment. We suggest that these observed differences in the well-being effects of unemployment across neighbourhoods may have significant labour market implications. This is because the well-being ‘cost’ of unemployment may be less than anticipated in high-unemployment neighbourhoods and particularly those with relatively higher concentrations of older and unemployed males.
The governability of collective bargaining. The case of Spain

The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of governability of collective bargaining proposed by Traxler, Blaschke and Kittel (2001) and to demonstrate its explanatory capacity and limitations in the Spanish case. Governability is an important subject that should be taken into account in the reform of industrial relations systems and in the debate with regard to centralisation and decentralisation of collective bargaining in Europe. The authors' main hypothesis is drawn up in line with the institutionalist approach. Their argument, based on the results of collective bargaining, is that the Spanish system of collective bargaining, in spite of the organisational weakness of the unions and of the employers' associations, is governable thanks to the role of the state, the institutions, the legal ordering, as well as tradition and custom. Cet article se propose d'analyser le concept de gouvernabilité de la négociation collective proposé par Traxler, Blaschke et Kittel (2001) et de montrer dans quelle mesure il peut expliquer le cas de l'Espagne et quelles sont ses limites. La gouvernabilité est un thème majeur qui mériterait d'être pris en considération dans la réforme des systèmes de relations professionnelles et dans le débat sur la centralisation et la décentralisation de la négociation collective en Europe. Le postulat avancé par les auteurs répond à l'approche institutionnelle. Leur argument, dérivé des résultats de la négociation collective, est que, malgré les faiblesses organisationnelles des syndicats et des associations d'employeurs, le système espagnol de négociation collective est gouvernable grâce à l'intervention de l'Etat, des institutions, de l'appareil juridique ainsi que de la tradition et de la coutume. Dieser Beitrag untersucht das Konzept der, Governability‘ von Tarifverhandlungen, wie es von Traxler, Blaschke und Kittel (2001) vorgeschlagen wird, und die Erklärungskraft und Grenzen dieses Konzepts im Falle Spaniens. Das Thema “Regierbarkeit” spielt eine wichtige Rolle und sollte bei Reformen der Systeme der industriellen Beziehungen ebenso wie bei den Debatten über Zentralisierung und Dezentralisierung der Tarifverhandlungen in Europa einbezogen werden. Bei der Aufstellung ihrer Haupthypothese gehen die Autoren nach dem institutionellen Ansatz vor. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen der Tarifverhandlungen führen sie an, dass es der Rolle des Staates, der Institutionen und der Rechtsordnung ebenso wie den Traditionen und den Gebräuchen zu verdanken ist, dass das spanische Tarifverhandlungssystem trotz der Organisationsschwäche der Gewerkschaften und der Arbeitgeberverbände, regierbar’ ist.
Mission as Translation: A Fusion of Three Horizons

In this article we want to argue that mission models of inculturation and contextualization are not apt responses to the enlightenment model of mission or colonial mission and that the ‘mission as translation’ model is one way forward. We propose this explorative model of mission by engaging mission studies with translation studies in philosophy of language. The realization that mission studies, with its focus on the gospel text, missionary-interpreter and receptor community, shares structural commonalities with the central categories of translation studies inspires this engagement between disciplines. Our proposal is that mission as translation is necessarily a fusion of these three horizons. Finally, we test this model in the Lotha Naga context, ending with broad implications for mission studies.
Rigid Surface Operators

Surface operators in gauge theory are analogous to Wilson and ’t Hooft line operators except that they are supported on a two-dimensional surface rather than a one-dimensional curve. In a previous paper, we constructed a certain class of half-BPS surface operators in N = 4 super Yang–Mills theory, and determined how they transform under S-duality. Those surface operators depend on a relatively large number of freely adjustable parameters. In the present paper, we consider the opposite case of half-BPS surface operators that are “rigid” in the sense that they do not depend on any parameters at all. We present some simple constructions of rigid half-BPS surface operators and attempt to determine how they transform under duality. This attempt is only partially successful, suggesting that our constructions are not the whole story. The partial match suggests interesting connections with quantization. We discuss some possible refinements and some string theory constructions which might lead to a more complete picture.
Speaker location and microphone spacing invariant acoustic modeling from raw multichannel waveforms

Multichannel ASR systems commonly use separate modules to perform speech enhancement and acoustic modeling. In this paper, we present an algorithm to do multichannel enhancement jointly with the acoustic model, using a raw waveform convolutional LSTM deep neural network (CLDNN). We will show that our proposed method offers ~5% relative improvement in WER over a log-mel CLDNN trained on multiple channels. Analysis shows that the proposed network learns to be robust to varying angles of arrival for the target speaker, and performs as well as a model that is given oracle knowledge of the true location. Finally, we show that training such a network on inputs captured using multiple (linear) array configurations results in a model that is robust to a range of microphone spacings.
Mechanisms of Cefadroxil Uptake in the Choroid Plexus: Studies in Wild-Type and PEPT2 Knockout Mice

The choroid plexus uptake of [3H]cefadroxil was studied in peptide transporter 2 (PEPT2) wild-type and null mice as a function of temperature, transport inhibitors, pH, and saturability. At normal pH (7.4) and temperature (37°C), the uptake of 1 μM cefadroxil was reduced by 83% in PEPT2–/– mice as compared with PEPT2+/+ mice (p < 0.001). A further reduction was achieved in null animals by reducing the temperature to 4°C, or by adding saturating concentrations of unlabeled cefadroxil or p-aminohippurate (p < 0.05). Glycylsarcosine coadministration could inhibit the uptake of cefadroxil in PEPT2+/+ mice (p < 0.01) but not PEPT2–/– mice. Although a proton-stimulated uptake of cefadroxil was demonstrated in PEPT2+/+ mice (pH 6.5 versus pH 7.4; p < 0.01), no pH dependence was observed in PEPT2–/– mice. Kinetic parameters for cefadroxil (without p-aminohippurate) in wild-type mice were: Vmax = 5.4 pmol/mg/min, Km = 34 μM, and Kd = 0.0069 μl/mg/min; in the presence of p-aminohippurate, the parameters were: Vmax = 4.1 pmol/mg/min, Km = 27 μM, and Kd = 0.0064 μl/mg/min. In null animals, the kinetic parameters of cefadroxil (without p-aminohippurate) were: Vmax = 2.7 pmol/mg/min, Km = 110 μM, and Kd = 0.0084 μl/mg/min; in the presence of p-aminohippurate, only a Kd = 0.010 μl/mg/min was observed. Based on kinetic and inhibitor analyses, it was determined that (under linear conditions), 80 to 85% of cefadroxil's uptake in choroid plexus is mediated by PEPT2, 10 to 15% by organic anion transporter(s), and 5% by nonspecific mechanisms. These findings demonstrate that PEPT2 is the primary transporter responsible for cefadroxil uptake in the choroid plexus. Moreover, the data suggest a role for PEPT2 in the clearance of peptidomimetics from cerebrospinal fluid.
TIDAL STREAMS OF INTRACLUSTER LIGHT

Using N-body simulations, we have modeled the production and evolution of substructures in the intracluster light (ICL) of a simulated galaxy cluster. We use a density-based definition of ICL, where ICL consists of luminous particles which are at low densities, to identify ICL particles and track their evolution. We have implemented a friends-of-friends-type clustering algorithm which finds groups of particles correlated in both position and velocity space to identify substructures in the ICL, hereafter referred to as “streams. ” We find that ≈40% of the cluster's ICL is generated in the form of these massive (M ⩾ 7.0 × 108 M☉), dynamically cold streams. The fraction of the ICL generated in streams is greater early in the cluster's evolution, when galaxies are interacting in the group environment, than later in its evolution when the massive cluster potential has been assembled. The production of streams requires the strong tidal fields associated with close interactions between pairs of galaxies, and is usually associated with merging pairs of galaxies, or fast, close encounters with the cluster's central galaxy. Once streams are formed, they begin to decay as they are disrupted by the tidal field of the cluster. We find that streams have decay timescales which are ≈1.5 times their dynamical time in the cluster.
SNARE proteins are essential in the potentiation of NMDA receptors by group II metabotropic glutamate receptors

• Activation of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) enhances NMDA receptor (NMDAR)‐mediated currents in cortical pyramidal neurons. • In this study, we found that group II mGluR‐induced enhancement of NMDAR currents was associated with increased NMDAR surface expression and synaptic localization. • Inhibition of SNAP‐25 or knockdown of syntaxin 4 blocked the enhancement of NMDAR currents by group II mGluRs. • Group II mGluRs increase the activity of Rab4 small GTPase. Rab4 knockdown or dominant negative Rab4 abolished the enhancing effect of Group II mGluRs on NMDAR currents. • These results suggest that SNARE proteins and Rab4 are key molecules involved in the enhancement of NMDAR exocytosis and function by group II mGluRs. Identification of key molecules involved in NMDAR up‐regulation could provide novel drug targets for schizophrenia treatment.
Towards a Tutuist Ethics of War: Ubuntu, Forgiveness and Reconciliation

ABSTRACT In a recent article in Politikon, Colin Chasi outlined and analysed Desmond Tutu’s ethics, teasing out the implications of these to just war theory. Chasi, who follows a Metzian interpretation of Tutu’s ethics, concluded that Tutuism offers little guidance for war ethics. In this article, I wish to respond to Chasi and argue that his interpretation of Tutuist ethics is not charitable enough. I present two sets of arguments to support this view. Firstly, Tutuist Ubuntu can morally justify violence when this promotes social harmony. Secondly, Tutu’s moral reformation theory can be used as guidance for an ethics of war, to the extent that a principle derived from it is that morally acceptable acts of war are those acts that can restore peace following conflict.
Survey on high performance analytics of bigdata with apache spark

This paper lays attention upon the advantages of Apache Spark over Hadoop MapReduce and analysis of real time data using time-series analysis. As Hadoop MapReduce is a widely used and famous execution engine for working with the storage and analysis of large datasets. In MapReduce, the data is read from the disk and the result is written to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) after a particular iteration and then the data is read from the HDFS for the next iteration. This whole process consumes a lot of disk space and time as well. The users had been objecting the problem of high latency and fault tolerance of the entire system. To overcome the issues and disadvantages of MapReduce, Apache Spark was developed. Apache Spark is an open-source project that ensures lower latency queries, iterative computations and real time processing on similar data. This paper also focuses on time-series analysis in Hadoop and Spark environment which processes and does analysis of real-time data and generates a pattern out of it to get a clearer glimpse of the statistics and characteristics of data thus making Spark even more efficient over MapReduce.
Synergistic Anticancer Effect of Tocotrienol Combined with Chemotherapeutic Agents or Dietary Components: A Review

Tocotrienol (T3), unsaturated vitamin E, is gaining a lot of attention owing to its potent anticancer effect, since its efficacy is much greater than that of tocopherol (Toc). Various factors are known to be involved in such antitumor action, including cell cycle arrest, apoptosis induction, antiangiogenesis, anti-metastasis, nuclear factor-κB suppression, and telomerase inhibition. Owing to a difference in the affinity of T3 and Toc for the α-tocopherol transfer protein, the bioavailability of orally ingested T3 is lower than that of Toc. Furthermore, cellular uptake of T3 is interrupted by coadministration of α-Toc in vitro and in vivo. Based on this, several studies are in progress to screen for molecules that can synergize with T3 in order to augment its potency. Combinations of T3 with chemotherapeutic drugs (e.g., statins, celecoxib, and gefitinib) or dietary components (e.g., polyphenols, sesamin, and ferulic acid) exhibit synergistic actions on cancer cell growth and signaling pathways. In this review, we summarize the current status of synergistic effects of T3 and an array of agents on cancer cells, and discuss their molecular mechanisms of action. These combination strategies would encourage further investigation and application in cancer prevention and therapy.
Cortical Bone Mechanical Properties Are Altered in an Animal Model of Progressive Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which leads tocortical bone loss and increasedporosity,increases therisk of fracture. Animal models have confirmed that these changes compromise whole bone mechanical properties. Estimates from whole bone testing suggest that material properties are negatively affected, though tissue-level assessmentshavenot been conducted. Therefore, the goal of the present study was to examine changes in cortical bone at different length scales using a rat model with theprogressive development of CKD. At 30 weeks of age (∼75% reduction in kidney function), skeletally mature male Cy/+ rats were compared to their normal littermates. Cortical bone material propertieswere assessed with reference point indentation (RPI), atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman spectroscopy,and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Bones from animals with CKD had higher (+18%) indentation distance increase and first cycle energy dissipation (+8%) as measured by RPI.AFM indentation revealed a broader distribution of elastic modulus values in CKD animals witha greater proportion of both higher and lower modulus values compared to normal controls. Yet, tissue composition, collagen morphology, and collagen cross-linking fail to account for these differences. Though the specific skeletal tissue alterations responsible for these mechanical differences remain unclear, these results indicate that cortical bone material properties are altered in these animals and may contribute to the increased fracture risk associated with CKD.
La Reforma Integral de la Educación Media Superior en el aula: política, evidencia y propuestas

espanolEn 2008 se puso en marcha la Reforma Integral de la Educacion Media Superior (RIEMS) con el fin de mejorar el logro educativo. A nueve anos de su puesta en marcha, este documento analiza, mediante observacion de la practica docente, el avance en la implementacion de la reforma al interior del aula. Este balance identifica que prevalecen asuntos pendientes: los estudiantes tienen pocas oportunidades de vincular los contenidos con la vida cotidiana, experimentar desafios cognitivos y reflexionar sobre su propio aprendizaje. Si bien la RIEMS, a traves del marco curricular comun (MCC), establecio las competencias docentes buscando integracion, identidad y mejora de la calidad educativa, no ha logrado aun modificar los procesos de aprendizaje en el aula. Los resultados refieren que queda un largo camino por recorrer en las estrategias y las acciones de formacion docente hacia una mejor experiencia educativa en la EMS. EnglishIn 2008, the integral reform of high school education (Reforma Integral de la Educacion Media Superior, RIEMS) was implemented to improve education results. Nine years on, this paper analyzes, through the observation of teaching practice, the progress made in the reform’s implementation in the classroom. This report reveals issues pending resolution: pupils have little opportunity to connect what they are studying to their daily lives, to experience cognitive challenges or to reflect on their own learning. Although the RIEMS, through the shared curricular framework (Marco Curricular Comun, MCC), defined teaching competences seeking integration, identity and higher-quality education, it has not yet modified learning processes in the classroom. The findings show that much more work needs to be done in terms of strategies and teacher training for improved results in high school education.
Functional Limitations and Psychological Distress

This research examines how marital status modifies the relationship between functional limitations and two aspects of psychological distress—depression and anger. Analyses of a multiwave national probability survey show that marriage weakens the relationship between functional limitations and depression, but this moderation is specific to older men. Functional limitations are not significantly related to anger once time-stable confounds are comprehensively controlled, and this association does not differ by marital status. This research shows that marriage may benefit mental health by preventing the deleterious effects of chronic stressors, but marital status intersects with additional social statuses and a life course context in creating these modifying effects. In addition, research that does not consider both internalizing and externalizing mental health outcomes and comprehensively take time-stable confounds into account may present an incomplete depiction of the mental health consequences of stress and social arrangements.