Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Parent Personality and Positive Parenting as Predictors of Positive Adolescent Personality Development Over Time

We investigated the degree to which parent positive personality characteristics in terms of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability predict similar adolescent personality traits over time, as well as the role played by positive parenting in this process. Mothers and fathers of 451 White adolescents (52% female, mean age = 13.59 years) were assessed on three occasions, with 2-year lags between each assessment. Parent personality and observed positive parenting both predicted 12th graders personality. Additionally, we found evidence for an indirect link between parent personality and later adolescent personality through positive parenting. The results suggest that parents may play a significant role in the development of adolescent personality traits that promote competence and personal well-being across the life course.
Equivalent-circuit modeling of coaxial-connector center-conductor gap

We present results of equivalent-circuit modeling of center-conductor gap in coaxial connectors. We perform broad-band full-wave electromagnetic simulations of the connector interface and then model their results with a simple equivalent circuit. We further show that the model parameters have simple physical interpretation. Our results can be used to improve the accuracy of millimeter-wave scattering-parameter measurements with small coaxial transmission lines.
Lymphomas After Solid Organ Transplantation: A Collaborative Transplant Study Report

We used the Collaborative Transplant Study database to analyze the incidence, risk, and impact of malignant lymphomas in approximately 200 000 organ transplant recipients. Over a 10‐year period, the risk in renal transplant recipients was 11.8‐fold higher than that in a matched nontransplanted population (p < 0.0001). The majority of lymphomas were diagnosed after the first post‐transplant year. Heart‐lung transplants showed the highest relative risk (RR 239.5) among different types of organ transplants. In kidney recipients, immunosuppression with cyclosporine did not confer added risk compared with azathioprine/steroid treatment, whereas treatment with FK506 increased the risk approximately twofold. Induction therapy with OKT3 or ATG, but not with anti‐IL2 receptor antibodies, increased the risk of lymphoma during the first year. Antirejection therapy with OKT3 or ATG also increased the risk. First‐year mortality in renal and heart transplant patients with lymphoma was approximately 40% and 50%, respectively, and showed no improvement in recent years. A pattern of preferential localization to the vicinity of the transplant was noted, and the prognosis of the patient was related to localization. This study highlights the continuing risk for lymphoma with time post‐transplantation, the contribution of immunosuppression to increased risk, and continuing poor outcomes in patients with post‐transplant lymphoma.
Three Models of Ethnographic Research

Three versions of ethnographic research are presented. I call the first of these the “consensus model,” a widely accepted and standardized approach that combines the theoretical assumptions of Blumer’s formulation of symbolic interactionism and a set of data-gathering procedures. Mitchell Duneier’s work is an example of this model. The second approach, the “comparative model,” uses the consensus model while simultaneously developing an abstract, theoretical, conceptually innovative, comparative schema. Erving Goffman serves as an example. I call the third approach the “transferential model. ” This approach also uses the consensus model but in addition requires ethnographers to examine the habitus of group members. To do this, ethnographers immerse themselves in the everyday world of their research participants to grasp the visceral, emotional, and unconscious aspects of group life and/or to discover discrediting aspects of the group. Here the ethnographer becomes loosely comparable to the psychoanalyst: both delve into the invisible and barely discursive elements of individual and group life. This approach was anticipated and developed by others, but in this paper I focus of Wacquant’s variant of this work. I conclude by suggesting that all ethnographic research rests wholly or partially on the assumptions of the consensus model. The other two approaches extend the consensus approach but in doing so employ very different—and very challenging—skill sets.
More Cheers and Fewer Tears: Examining the Impact of Competitive Engineering on Scoring and Attrition in Youth Flag Football

Competitive engineering (CE) is a structurally-based competitive climate process designed to create more positive youth sport experiences. CE uses four implementation strategies (i.e., modifying sport structure, rules, facilities and equipment) in order to attain four athlete engagement goals (i.e., increase action and scoring, enhance personal involvement, keep scores close and maintain positive social relationships) designed to enhance intrinsic motivation outcomes. This exploratory study provided a preliminary test of CE by developing solutions to an existing attrition problem confronting a flag football league, with the specific purpose being to assess the effectiveness of a delayed-rush rule and a junior football equipment modification on scoring and attrition. Participants were 47 players who competed in a 3rd/4th grade flag football league and completed a short survey following the season. Results revealed scoring increased over 100% and attrition decreased by more than 50% compared to the previous season. Player survey data supported the rule and equipment modifications and their ability to minimize physicality and injury concerns and promote scoring opportunities.
Associations Between Social Relationships and Emotional Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Social relationships may enhance emotional health in older age. The authors examined associations between social relationships and emotional health using data from the Milwaukee African American sample of the second Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II) study, 2005-2006 (n = 592). Self-reports indicated good, very good, or excellent emotional health, distinguished from fair or poor. Social relationships were measured by relationship type (family or friend), contact frequency, and levels of emotional support and strain. Control variables included demographic characteristics, types of lifetime and daily discrimination, neighborhood quality, and other social factors. In adjusted results, each increase on a family emotional support scale was associated with 118% greater odds of reporting better emotional health (odds ratio [OR] = 2.18, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.43, 3.32]). Friend emotional support also was associated with better emotional health (OR = 1.59, CI [1.07, 2.34]). Daily discrimination substantially reduced reported emotional health; family and friend support buffered this effect.
Reducing opportunistic behaviour through a project alliance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how a project alliance contract is conducive to the development of cooperative relationships between client and contractor organizations involved in a complex project. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal case study of a complex construction project was conducted in which the contract was changed at the end of the negotiation period from a design-build into a project alliance form. Findings – Data show that opportunistic behaviour is reduced when there is an incentive structure, as is to be found in project alliances, for client and contractor organizations to cooperatively realize the project. However, it is not sufficient for project partners to agree upon an appropriate incentive structure. For cooperative relationships to develop, they also have to put substantial efforts into reducing their remaining inclinations to make use of opportunities that arise to deviate from the alliance contract. Practical implications – It is shown that both principals and contractors not only need to carefully select staff for such projects; they also have to work with the people employed such that appropriate attitudes are reinforced and rewarded. Developing cooperative relationships in project alliances needs the surrounding working methods to offer support. Originality/value – The longitudinal character of the case study offers exceptional opportunities for studying the dynamics in preventing and overcoming the deteriorating patterns of opportunistic behaviour that organizations regularly face in many traditional and design-build projects
Effect of Sequence Variation in Plasmodium falciparum Histidine- Rich Protein 2 on Binding of Specific Monoclonal Antibodies: Implications for Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

ABSTRACT The ability to accurately diagnose malaria infections, particularly in settings where laboratory facilities are not well developed, is of key importance in the control of this disease. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) offer great potential to address this need. Reports of significant variation in the field performance of RDTs based on the detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) (PfHRP2) and of significant sequence polymorphism in PfHRP2 led us to evaluate the binding of four HRP2-specific monoclonal antibodies (MABs) to parasite proteins from geographically distinct P. falciparum isolates, define the epitopes recognized by these MABs, and relate the copy number of the epitopes to MAB reactivity. We observed a significant difference in the reactivity of the same MAB to different isolates and between different MABs tested with single isolates. When the target epitopes of three of the MABs were determined and mapped onto the peptide sequences of the field isolates, significant variability in the frequency of these epitopes was observed. These findings support the role of sequence variation as an explanation for variations in the performance of HRP2-based RDTs and point toward possible approaches to improve their diagnostic sensitivities.
Four models of international field placement

English Twenty-one US social work programs with international placements were surveyed to assess: information about participating students; screening processes; student preparations; and supervision. Four models of international placements were identified: independent, neighbor, on-site and exchange. The information is provided to assist programs in developing international placements. French Vingt-et-un programmes de travail social américains offrant des stages internationaux ont été examinés pour avoir une idée des étudiants qui y participent, des procédures de sélection, des préparatifs pour les étudiants, et de la supervision. Quatre modèles des stages internationaux ont été identifiés: indépendant, voisinant, sur place et échange. Des informations sont fournies pour aider dans le développant des stages internationaux. Spanish Se encuestaron veintiún programas de trabajo social en Estados Unidos dotados con colocaciones internacionales para las prácticas de campo. Se evaluó: 1) la información acerca de los estudiantes participantes, 2) el proceso de selección, 3) la preparación de los estudiantes, y 4) la supervisión. Se identificaron cuatro modelos de colocación internacional: independiente, vecino, doméstico (on-site) y de intercambio. La información se dirige a asistir en el desarrollo de colocaciones de prácticas internacionales.
Temporal and spatial analysis of SST and ocean fronts in the Korean Seas by NOAA/AVHRR

In the Korean seas, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Thermal Fronts (TF) were analyzed temporally and spatially during 8 years from 1993 to 2000 using NOAA/AVHRR MCSST. As the result of harmonic analysis, distributions of the mean SST were 10~25°C, and generally SST decreased as latitude increased. SST increased in the order as following; the South Sea (20~23°C), the East Sea (17~19°C), and the West Sea(13~16°C). Annual amplitudes and phases were 4~11°C, 210~240° and high values were shown as following; the West Sea (A1, 9~11°C), the Northern East Sea (A5, 8~9°C), the Southern East Sea (A4, 6~8°C), the South Sea (A3, 6~7°C), the East China Sea (A2, 4~7°C) and phases; A3 (238~242°), A4 (235~240°), A5 (225~235°), A1 (220~230°), A2 (210~235°), respectively. Both of them were related inversely except the area A2, therefore the rest areas were affected by seasonal variations. TF were detected by Sobel Edge Detection Method using gradient of SST. Consequently, TF were divided into 4 fronts; the Subpolar Front (SPF) based on the Cold Water Mass (low SST and salinity Subartic Water), resulting from the North Korea Cold Current (NKCC) and the East Sea Proper Cold Water in the middle and low layer, and the Warm Water Mass (high SST and salinity Subtropical Water), resulting from the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) in area A4 and 5, the Kuroshio Front (KF) based on the Kuroshio Current (KC) and shelf waters in the East China Sea (ESC) in A2, and the South Sea Coastal Front (SSCF) based on the South Sea Coastal Water (SSCW) and TWC in A3. Also, the Tidal Front was weakly appeared in A1. TF located in steep slope of submarine topography. Annual amplitudes and phases were bounded in the same place, and these results should be considered to influence of seasonal variations. Keywords-component; NOAA/AVHRR; SST; Thermal Fronts; Harmonic Analysis; Sobel Edge Detection Method
Arabic Text Categorization Based on Arabic Wikipedia

This article describes an algorithm for categorizing Arabic text, relying on highly categorized corpus-based datasets obtained from the Arabic Wikipedia by using manual and automated processes to build and customize categories. The categorization algorithm was built by adopting a simple categorization idea then moving forward to more complex ones. We applied tests and filtration criteria to reach the best and most efficient results that our algorithm can achieve. The categorization depends on the statistical relations between the input (test) text and the reference (training) data supported by well-defined Wikipedia-based categories. Our algorithm supports two levels for categorizing Arabic text; categories are grouped into a hierarchy of main categories and subcategories. This introduces a challenge due to the correlation between certain subcategories and overlap between main categories. We argue that our algorithm achieved good performance compared to other methods reported in the literature.
RESEARCH: Spirituality and Religiousness Predict Adaptation to Vision Loss in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Religiousness and spirituality have been found to be related to positive adjustment but have not been studied in the context of vision loss adaptation in adulthood and are rarely examined together in the same analyses. The present study examined the effects of these personal resources and social support in adapting to vision impairment. Participants (N = 195) were middle-aged and older adults with recent-onset vision loss. The effects of religiousness (i.e., intrinsic and extrinsic orientation) and spirituality on the Adaptation to Vision Loss Scale (Horowitz & Reinhardt, 1998) scores were examined using structural equation modeling. Spirituality predicted better adaptation, extrinsic religiousness was negatively related to adaptation, and intrinsic religiousness was not significantly related to the outcome. Findings suggest that it is important for researchers to include measures of both religiousness and spirituality because they may exert differential effects on psychosocial outcomes. Practitioners should also consider religiousness and spirituality as important personal resources that may foster the process of adaptation.
Strategic complexities and opportunities in Welsh youth justice: exploring YJB Cymru

Purpose – The paper presents and discusses the findings of a Strategic Insight Programme placement that explored the Youth Justice Board for Wales (YJB Cymru), a division of the YJB for England and Wales since the abolition of the regional structure in April 2012. The focus of the placement was on exploring the role of YJB Cymru in the development of youth justice policy and practice in the unique, partially devolved context of Wales. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted over a six-month period from February to July 2013. A multiple methods design was adopted, consisting of semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders (YJB Cymru staff, Welsh Government staff and Youth Offending Team staff), observations of policy and practice mechanisms (YJB Cymru meetings, YOT projects) and documentary analysis of YJB Cymru publications. Findings – Thematic analyses demonstrated that YJB Cymru has an increasingly important role in policy and practice develop.
The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America

Abstract Racial domination, like all forms of domination, works best when it becomes hegemonic, that is, when it accomplishes its goal without much fanfare. In this paper, based on the Ethnic and Racial Studies Annual Lecture I delivered in May 2011 in London, I argue there is something akin to a grammar – a racial grammar if you will – that structures cognition, vision, and even feelings on all sort of racial matters. This grammar normalizes the standards of white supremacy as the standards for all sort of social events and transactions. Thus, in the USA one can talk about HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities), but not about HWCUs (historically white colleges and universities) or one can refer to black movies and black TV shows but not label movies and TV shows white when in fact most are. I use a variety of data (e.g., abduction of children, school shootings, etc.) to illustrate how this grammar works and highlight what it helps to accomplish. I conclude that racial grammar is as important as all the visible practices and mechanisms of white supremacy and that we must fight its poisonous effects even if, like smog, we cannot see how it works clearly.
To valerse por si misma between race, capitalism, and patriarchy: Latina mother-daughter pedagogies in North Carolina

This article examines mujer-oriented mother-daughter pedagogies that are narrated and discursively embodied, improvised, and contested in the conversations and oral life histories of a group of Latina mothers in rural North Carolina. The teaching and learning that occurs between mothers and daughters through consejos (advice),cuentos (stories) and la experiencia (experience) are wrought with tensions and contradictions yet open with spaces of possibility. Latinas evoked patriarchal ideologies about being a mujer de hogar (woman of the home), while simultaneously negotiating these in discourses about knowing how to valerse por si misma (to be self-reliant). A conceptual framework built around ''funds of knowledge,'' educacion, and third space feminism serves to illuminate how mothers teach daughters to be submissive, rebellious and comforming, all at the same time, as they maneuver between race, patriarchy, and capitalism.
Grief-processing-based psychological intervention for children orphaned by AIDS in central China: A pilot study

A group of 124 children orphaned by AIDS (COA), who resided in two orphanages funded by the Chinese government, participated in a study investigating the efficacy of a grief-processing-based psychological group intervention. This psychological intervention program was designed to specifically help COA process their grief and reduce their psychological distress. Six sessions of group intervention focused on processing grief, reducing traumatic symptoms and psychological distress, and fostering hope about the future. At the three-month post-test, children in both groups (intervention group and control group) reported significant reduction in trauma symptoms and demonstrated similar levels of hope. However, the intervention group reported significantly increased levels of grief processing and decreased levels of trauma symptoms, depression, and threat appraisal. The intervention group also reported subjective improvements in mood, relationships, individual growth, self-confidence, and perceived social support. These outcomes supported the potential efficacy of grief-processing-based psychological intervention to reduce the psychological distress among COA.
Attachment Theory and Group Psychotherapy

ABSTRACTThis article presents an integration of attachment theory and affective neuroscience that helps inform a complementary conceptual framework from which the contributions of the neurosciences can be applied to group psychotherapy. One overarching aim of attachment theory is to understand the neural basis of emotional disorders and the facilitation of affect regulation with the goal of developing more effective treatment interventions. Missing from more traditional models of group therapy has been a cogent articulation of the implicit neural mechanisms involved in explaining how and why interpersonal emotional engagement accounts for the majority of the change process in psychotherapy. The neurosciences now provide us with such an articulation focused on the crucial importance that recurring authentic face-to-face social interaction have on neural processes. Attachment theory has utilized neuroscientific evidence to promote the creation of an enriched group environment that enhances opportunities for.
Paid employment and women’s health: a benefit or a source of rôle strain?

Two contrasting theories of the relationship between paid employment and women's health are examined using data from the 1975 and 1976 General Household Survey. The ‘role accumulation’ hypothesis, which proposes that paid employment has beneficial effects on health, was supported for women without children, and for women over 40 with children. However, the causal ordering is unclear, for there is evidence that ill-health reduces the likelihood of labour-force participation especially among women over 40. When those reporting chronic illness are excluded, the association between being a housewife and short-term illness largely disappears. The contrasting hypothesis, that for married women with children the strain of occupying multiple roles leads to poorer health, was also supported, but only for women under 40 who work full-time and have children. These women reported higher levels of illness, although this was less clear among women working in professional and managerial jobs. It is concluded that full-time work for young mothers may be detrimental for their health unless there are adquate financial resources to help with the burden of maintaining the multiple roles of housewife, mother and employee, or until the sexual division of labour in the home changes.
Analysis of the 5 iron golf swing when hitting for maximum distance

Abstract Most previous research on golf swing mechanics has focused on the driver club. The aim of this study was to identify the kinematic factors that contribute to greater hitting distance when using the 5 iron club. Three-dimensional marker coordinate data were collected (250 Hz) to calculate joint kinematics at eight key swing events, while a swing analyser measured club swing and ball launch characteristics. Thirty male participants were assigned to one of two groups, based on their ball launch speed (high: 52.9 ± 2.1 m · s−1; low: 39.9 ± 5.2 m · s−1). Statistical analyses were used to identify variables that differed significantly between the two groups. Results showed significant differences were evident between the two groups for club face impact point and a number of joint angles and angular velocities, with greater shoulder flexion and less left shoulder internal rotation in the backswing, greater extension angular velocity in both shoulders at early downswing, greater left shoulder adduction angular velocity at ball contact, greater hip joint movement and X Factor angle during the downswing, and greater left elbow extension early in the downswing appearing to contribute to greater hitting distance with the 5 iron club.