Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relation of High-School Mathematics to College Marks and of Other Factors to College Marks in Mathematics

The data of this study involve 387 students of the class of 1930 in the college of Arts and Science and the School of Business Administration at the University of Oregon. The purpose of the study was twofold: (i) to obtain data throwing light on the relation between the amount and the quality of training in high-school mathematics and subsequent marks in academic subjects and (2) to obtain data throwing light on the relation between the most promising predictive factors and college marks in mathematics, with a view to furnishing a means of prophesying the probable achievement of individual students in college mathematics.
Compelling Identity: Selves and Insecurity in Global, Corporate Management Development

Adopting a post-structuralist analytical framework, this article fuses two seminal notions, Alvesson and Willmott's identity regulation in organizations and Collinson's emphasis on insecurity within processes of identity construction, to unravel subjectivities and the production of identity in two global, corporate management development programs. Drawing on interviews and observation in the settings, the article contrasts discursive practices in the two programs. It then examines the micro-processes of program participants' identity work in each context, using as a heuristic tool Collinson's theory of conforming, dramaturgical and resisting selves. Contributing to critical studies in management education, this framing draws attention to the dynamics of power in shaping identities within management development. The study suggests new notions of how identity regulation and insecurity interact, relating to two `ideal types' or models of management development emerging in the fieldwork.
Mathematical Modelling to Investigate a Wolbachia Intervention to Reduce Dengue Transmission

The introduction of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes into the population has recently been proposed as an alternative strategy against dengue. Although laboratory experiments have shown that the Wolbachia bacterium can reduce the levels of dengue virus in mosquitoes, it is also important to assess the performance of Wolbachia in reducing the incidence of dengue in human populations.In this thesis, deterministic mathematical models of human and mosquito populations in which either one or two dengue serotypes circulate are developed. We adapt these models to enable the investigation of dengue disease dynamics in the absence and presence of Wolbachia in order to assess the performance of Wolbachia as a strategy to reduce human dengue incidence. When studying the situation in which a single dengue serotype is present in the population, we consider scenarios where dengue is introduced into the human population once and multiple times.
Perceptions of surveillance: Reflexivity and trust in a mediatized world (the case of Sweden)

Even though the field of surveillance studies has expanded during the last decade, there is still a need for studies that empirically explain and contextualize people’s perceptions of the increasingly mediatized ‘surveillance society’. This article provides a ‘middle range’ social theorization, following Giddens, as well as an updated empirical account, based on a nationwide Swedish survey, of how various forms of surveillance are perceived as social phenomena. Through factor analysis three dimensions are elaborated: state surveillance, commercial surveillance and mediated interveillance. The article argues that the realm of interveillance blurs the line between systemic and social trust, and thus calls for context-specific modes of routinized reflexivity. Whereas such modes of boundary maintenance may potentially run across social lines of division, the results suggest that the management of interveillance primarily constitutes an instance of sociocultural structuration.
Exploratory Factor Analysis With Small Sample Sizes

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is generally regarded as a technique for large sample sizes (N), with N = 50 as a reasonable absolute minimum. This study offers a comprehensive overview of the conditions in which EFA can yield good quality results for N below 50. Simulations were carried out to estimate the minimum required N for different levels of loadings (λ), number of factors (f), and number of variables (p) and to examine the extent to which a small N solution can sustain the presence of small distortions such as interfactor correlations, model error, secondary loadings, unequal loadings, and unequal p/f. Factor recovery was assessed in terms of pattern congruence coefficients, factor score correlations, Heywood cases, and the gap size between eigenvalues. A subsampling study was also conducted on a psychological dataset of individuals who filled in a Big Five Inventory via the Internet. Results showed that when data are well conditioned (i.e., high λ, low f, high p), EFA can yield reliable results for N well below 50, even in the presence of small distortions. Such conditions may be uncommon but should certainly not be ruled out in behavioral research data. * These authors contributed equally to this work
Responses of the rat dorsal column system to mechanical stimulation of the hind paw

Several recent investigations have been concerned with the response of cells in the gracile nucleus to mechanical stimulation of the skin (Gordon & Paine, 1960; Kruger, Siminoff & Witkovsky, 1961; Perl, Whitlock & Gentry, 1962). The aim of the present study has been to explore the nucleus, using inputs which were not only reproducible and of known characteristics, but in which each primary receptor unit fired only one impulse. Particular attention has been paid to the suggestion that the nucleus is functionally organized in its rostro-caudal axis (Gordon & Paine, 1960) and, since the stimulus parameters and the activity in the primary units were determined in these experiments, it has been possible to investigate the modification of signals from receptors by the nucleus. In this study the problem of setting up a known input in primary neurones has been approached by stimulating a small but fairly uniform area of skin with mechanical pulses which had a short rise time, were brief in duration, and were adequately damped so that each fibre fired only one impulse at a predictable time after each pulse; the amplitude of the pulses could be controlled. The results of this study are related to those obtained by Armett, Gray, Hunsperger & Lal (1962), who have used a similar technique to investigate dorsal horn cells responding to mechanical stimulation of the cat pad. A preliminary account of some of this work has already appeared (McComas 1962).
Investigation of 3-D mechanical properties of blood vessels using a new in vitro tests system: results on sheep common carotid arteries

In order to investigate the three-dimensional (3-D) mechanical properties of blood vessels, a new experimental device is described allowing in vitro static and dynamic measurements on segments of arteries with high technical performances. Static tests are applied to sheep common carotid arteries. Considering a thick-walled cylindrical model of orthotropic material under large deformations, a classical 3-D approach based on strain energy density is used to calculate the resulting mechanical behavior law in radial and circumferencial directions and stresses distribution throughout the wall thickness. Results are presented with reference to unloaded and zero-stress initial state thanks to simple measurements of inner and outer circumferences. A particular ratio relating the two main stresses (circumferential and longitudinal) is calculated that put into the forth the progressive modifications in the direction of the predominant stress in the wall and the specific radial location where these changes occur. The authors observe that this point location is a function of the test conditions of the specimen, i.e., stretching length and level of pressure.
Considerations in the selection and use of technology with people who have cognitive deficits following acquired brain injury

Abstract Cognitive deficits are known to be a common sequelae following acquired brain injury. The presence and severity of cognitive deficits is one of several factors that will influence a person's potential for rehabilitation, the type of rehabilitation required for that person, and eventually that person's capability to live independently and be engaged in vocational activity. The use of technology can influence this potential through enabling a person to adapt or compensate for long-term cognitive deficits and thereby reduce the functional consequences of those deficits. Rehabilitation of such individuals therefore needs to address the use of technology to enable the individual to perform at optimum functional ability. Occupational therapists working in the field of cognitive neurorehabilitation would appear to be ideally placed to address such needs.
Two-site Interaction of Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells with Activated Calcineurin*

Transcription factors belonging to the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) family regulate the expression of cytokine genes and other inducible genes during the immune response. The functions of NFAT proteins are directly controlled by the calcium- and calmodulin-dependent phosphatase calcineurin. Here we show that the binding of calcineurin to NFAT is substantially increased when calcineurin is activated with calmodulin and calcium. FK506·FKBP12 drug-immunophilin complexes inhibited the interaction of NFAT with activated calcineurin much more effectively than they inhibited the interaction with inactive calcineurin, suggesting that part of the interaction with activated calcineurin involved the enzyme active site. We have previously shown that NFAT is targeted to inactive calcineurin at a region distinct from the calcineurin active site (Aramburu, J., Garcia-Cozar, F. J., Raghavan, A., Okamura, H., Rao, A., and Hogan, P. G. (1998)Mol. Cell 1, 627–637); this region is also involved in NFAT binding to activated calcineurin, since binding is inhibited by an NFAT peptide spanning the calcineurin docking site on NFAT. The interacting surfaces are located on the catalytic domain of the calcineurin A chain and on an 86-amino acid fragment of the NFAT regulatory domain. NFAT binding to the calcineurin catalytic domain was inhibited by the calcineurin autoinhibitory domain and the RII substrate peptide, which bind in the calcineurin active site, as well as by the NFAT docking site peptide, which binds to a region of calcineurin distinct from the active site. We propose that, in resting cells, NFAT is targeted to a region of the calcineurin catalytic domain that does not overlap the calcineurin active site. Upon cell activation, displacement of the autoinhibitory domain by calmodulin binding allows NFAT to bind additionally to the calcineurin active site, thus positioning NFAT for immediate dephosphorylation at functional phosphoserine residues.
Teaching students about plagiarism using a web-based module

The following research delivered a web-based module about plagiarism and paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism in both a blended method, with live instruction paired with web presentation for 105 students, and a separate web-only method for 22 other students. Participants were graduates and undergraduates preparing to become teachers, the majority of whom were pursuing certification in elementary education. After the module, students practised paraphrasing with their own written example, then took a Likert-scale survey about their perceptions of the module and provided demographic information. The majority of students expressed a high level of satisfaction with not only the module itself but also their own increased knowledge about paraphrasing and plagiarism. Graduate students and students in the live group felt that pairing an instructor with the module furthered their understanding of paraphrasing. Students who identified themselves as having cheated felt that they had better learned how to paraphrase from the module compared with students who reported themselves as never having cheated. Responses from the web group were low considering the amount of students invited to participate. Students in the live group who had instructor-led discussion felt it contributed to their understanding of paraphrasing, while students in the web group wished for more instructor-led interaction. Outcomes on the student-written paraphrase were weaker than anticipated, with only half of the group producing good or excellent paraphrases.
Student Neighborhoods, Schools, and Test Score Growth

Schools and neighborhoods are thought to be two of the most important contextual influences on student academic outcomes. Drawing on a unique data set that permits simultaneous estimation of neighborhood and school contributions to student test score gains, we analyze the distributions of these contributions to consider the relative importance of schools and neighborhoods in shaping student achievement outcomes. We also evaluate the sensitivity of estimated school and neighborhood contributions to the exclusion of an explicit measure of the other context, indicating the extent to which bias may exist in studies where either measure is unavailable. Taken together, results of these analyses provide substantial insight into the influences of two of the most important contextual settings in students’ lives.
Influence of form and Concentration of the Osmolytes in Liquid Inoculants Formulations of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

Laboratory investigations were conducted to identify suitable form and to determine the suitable dose of application of osmolytes for liquid inoculant formulations of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) viz., Azotobacter sp. , Azospirillum sp. , Acinetobacter sp. , Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. Osmolytes such as four grades of polyvinyl pyrrollidone (PVP), four grades of polyethylene glycol (PEG), and glycerol were added to broth at three different concentrations (0.5%, 1.0% and 2.0%). Supplementing the specific media with 2 % Glycerol for Azotobacter sp. , 2 % PVP K-15 for Bacillus sp. , 1 % PEG 400 for Azospirillum sp. , 2 % PVP K-15 for Pseudomonas sp. , and 2 % PEG 4000 for Acinetobacter sp. resulted in the highest population densities.
The Impact of Institutional Mission on Student Volunteering

This study examined patterns and predictors of volunteering among students at a liberal arts college with an institutional culture that strongly promotes community service. Results showed that predictors varied across four different types of volunteering: community service, social action, religious service, and service to the college. Year in school, academic performance, and familiarity with the college’s mission statement were the most consistent predictors, but only familiarity with the mission was significantly associated with all types of volunteering. Thus, one way to increase volunteering may be to promulgate an institutional mission statement emphasizing service to others.
Heuristic Inquiry

This article is a presentation of heuristics as an approach to human science research. In its purest form, heuristics is a passionate and discerning personal involvement in problem solving, an effort to know the essence of some aspect of life through the internal pathways of the self. The private and imaginative nature of heuristic inquiry introduces a unique challenge in research investigations and in philosophical conceptualizations of human science. When utilized as a framework for research, it offers a disciplined pursuit of essential meanings connected with everyday human experiences. Through discussion of its inherent processes and values, we hope to develop a fresh perspective for the understanding and application of a heuristic approach to scientific investigation. Our aim is to awaken and inspire researchers to make contact with and respect their own questions and problems, to suggest a process that affirms imagination, intuition, self-reflection, and the tacit dimension as valid ways in the search for knowledge and understanding. We do not intend for this article to present a "how-to-do" focus. We believe that that competence and skill can be learned only through practice. We also do not plan to include summaries of completed heuristic research. A few such studies are included in our reference list (Craig, 1978; Jourard, 1968; Moustakas, 1975; Pearce, 1971. A list of the titles of heuristic studies completed by graduates of the former Merrill-Palmer Institute and the Center for Humanistic Studies in Detroit, Michigan are available through the senior author of this article.
Appropriated Poetry

The development of transcription poems is presented along with the authors’ borrowing from found poetry to create the research poetry form archival or artifact poetry. Archival poetry has roots in the arts such as the traditional poem centos, contemporary found poetry, and appropriation in the arts. Appropriated poetry exemplars are included. The authors advocate for a space they term good enough poetry for researchers to write what at first might be “inferior,” but what might develop into refined poetry. The following areas are discussed: (a) merit, (b) who should write poetry, (c) becoming a research poet, and (d) accessibility.
Parents Who Adopt Deprived Children Have a Difficult Task

Abstract A study was conducted on 72 families with 80 children adopted from Romania. The average age at adoption was 2 years,10 months, and at time of study 8 years. Adoptive parents experienced more family stress than a comparable group of non-adoptive parents. Divided into a group that did not (N = 29) and that did (N = 51) seek professional help, both groups showed less family stress than comparable non-adoptive groups. However, the group of 51 experienced more family stress than the groups (adoptive and non-adoptive) that didn't seek help. Adoptive parents are committed to their task, and resilient to their children's problem behavior. Parental stress and adoption satisfaction are negatively influenced if the child displays behavioral problems, but the age or the health of the child at arrival in the family were not related to parenting stress or adoption satisfaction.
Definiteness and Number in Japanese to German Machine Translation

A signi(cid:12)cant problem when translating Japanese dialogues into German is the missing information on number and de(cid:12)niteness in the Japanese analysis output. The integration of the search for such information into the transfer process provides an e(cid:14)cient solution. Transfer rules, preference rules and default rules are combined. Thereby, grammatical and lexical knowledge of the source language, knowledge of lexical restrictions on the target language, domain knowledge and discourse knowledge are accessible. Eins der signi(cid:12)kanten Probleme in der maschinellen (cid:127) Ubersetzung japa-nischer in deutsche Sprache ist die fehlende Information (cid:127)uber Numerus und De(cid:12)nitheit im japanischen Analyse-Output. Eine e(cid:14)ziente L(cid:127)osung dieses Problems ist es, die Suche nach der relevanten Information in den Transfer zu integrieren. Transferregeln werden mit Pr(cid:127)aferenzregeln und Default-Regeln kombiniert. Dadurch wird Information (cid:127)uber lexikalische Restriktionen der Zielsprache, (cid:127)uber die Dom(cid:127)ane und (cid:127)uber den Diskurs zug(cid:127)anglich.
Student Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective Applied Music Instructors

The lack of a satisfactory instrument for evaluating applied music instruction stimulated this research. A four-factor (rapport, instructional systemization, instructional skill, and musical knowledge), 30-item rating scale for systemizing student evaluations of applied faculty was developed. The facet-factorial scale development procedure was employed. The study produced a scale that seems appropriate to employ in the evaluation of applied faculty. The inter-judge reliability estimates for the scale are sufficiently high (.88 to .96) and the relationship with an appropriate criterion variable, student performance, seems acceptable (.60).
Predicting employment status at 2 years' postdischarge from spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

OBJECTIVES This exploratory study examined the extent to which postinjury employment was predictable when patients were followed up 2 years' postdischarge from a specialist Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Unit. PARTICIPANTS AND DESIGN Seventy-two individuals with SCI for whom there were discharge Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores, 60 complete sets of data were available for Discriminant Function Analysis. RESULTS Using a combination of variables assessed prior to or shortly after discharge from rehabilitation, complemented by psychosocial variables assessed at the time of follow-up, moderate classification accuracy was achieved with respect to employment status at the 2-year follow-up period (72%), with the set of predictor variables being more accurate at predicting those subsequently in paid employment (83%) than those not (67%). CONCLUSIONS The main implication of the study results is that nontraditional variables (i.e., variables other than injury and demographic variables), including, particularly, contextual environmental variables such as community integration, access to transport, and social support, are worthy of further research, especially because many of these are amenable to rehabilitation program interventions, and thus may facilitate the attainment of enhanced rates of postdischarge employment among those living with SCI.
Actin capping protein α maintains vestigial-expressing cells within the Drosophila wing disc epithelium

Tissue patterning must be translated into morphogenesis through cell shape changes mediated by remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton. We have found that Capping protein α (Cpa) and Capping protein β (Cpb), which prevent extension of the barbed ends of actin filaments, are specifically required in the wing blade primordium of the Drosophila wing disc. cpa or cpb mutant cells in this region, but not in the remainder of the wing disc, are extruded from the epithelium and undergo apoptosis. Excessive actin filament polymerization is not sufficient to explain this phenotype, as loss of Cofilin or Cyclase-associated protein does not cause cell extrusion or death. Misexpression of Vestigial, the transcription factor that specifies the wing blade, both increases cpa transcription and makes cells dependent on cpa for their maintenance in the epithelium. Our results suggest that Vestigial specifies the cytoskeletal changes that lead to morphogenesis of the adult wing.