Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gendered homophobia in sport and coaching: Understanding the everyday experiences of lesbian coaches

The purpose of this article is to discuss a theory of everyday gendered homophobia as a way of understanding lesbian coaches’ experiences of their profession. I discuss the need to gain a better comprehension of homophobia achieved through deconstructing women’s day-to-day experiences of professional coaching, examining how their lives are individually organized along multiple power lines, namely sexual orientation and gender. Through this, it is possible to connect the macro-structure of sport to the micro- and recognize the everyday inferiorizations that take place within the participants’ lives. The main focus of the article is to explore the power of understanding the everyday and present the key conceptual issues and processes underpinning a theory of everyday gendered homophobia. The conception of everyday gendered homophobia is based upon data from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 professional women coaches who identified themselves as lesbian, from both individual and team sports within the UK.
The X-Bar grammar for stories: Story grammar revisited

The Story Grammar (S-G = Story Grammar) approach suggests a model based on the generative framework for representing both story structure and comprehension (cf.,for example, Rumelhart, 1975, 1977; Mandler and Johnson, 1977; Stein and Glenn, 1979; Thorndyke, 1975). The present paper is an attempt to develop the S-G model in two ways: 1. It suggests a radical revision of the S-G model replacing it with an X-Bar story grammar (XBSG), which incorporates the notion ofthe X-Bar grammar äs developed in sentence level grammar (cf. Jackendoff, 1977). I will argue that several fundamental shortcomings of the S-G (among which are the lack of 'descriptive' and Observational' adequacy) can be overcome by a grammar based on the X-Bar model. 2. Ofgreater importance, it attempts tofill in the most significant deficiency of the traditional story grammar s, namely, the lack ofparsing procedures. Based on causal relations between propositions, the parsing procedures which are proposed take äs their input propositions ofthe story andproduce the tree diagram ofthat story äs their Output. Some empirical evidence, based on summary experiments, is introduced in support of the XBSG and the parsing procedures.
Production of interleukin (IL)‐10 and IL‐12 by murine colonic dendritic cells in response to microbial stimuli

Intestinal dendritic cells (DC) are likely to regulate immunity to gut microflora, but little is known about their responses to bacterial antigens. Therefore, DC from normal murine colon were characterized and their cytokine responses to components of Gram‐negative and/or Gram‐positive bacteria assessed. Cells were obtained by digestion of colonic tissue and contained DC that were identified by flow cytometry as CD11c+ major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II+ cells. Purified DC were obtained by immunomagnetic separation plus cell sorting. DC had the morphology of immature myeloid cells, were endocytically active, expressed low levels of co‐stimulatory molecules and stimulated a weak allogeneic mixed leucocyte reaction. Analysis of flow cytometry data by a sensitive subtraction method allowed measurement of production of interleukin (IL)‐12 and IL‐10 by small numbers of gut DC by intracellular staining. Fewer than 5% of unstimulated DC produced either IL‐10 or IL‐12. IL‐10 production was significantly up‐regulated following stimulation with Bifidobacteria longum, but not after exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or Streptococcus faecium. In contrast, colonic DC produced IL‐12 in response to both LPS and B.longum. Thus, colonic DC can produce both IL‐12 and IL‐10 following bacterial stimulation. Cell wall components from different bacteria stimulate distinct responses and may direct immune responses differentially in the gut.
Eklektisisme dalam Taqnîn Hukum Keluarga di Dunia Islam

The Qurân was revealed with justice and equality for human beings regardless of their sex, race, social class and ethnicity, as cardinal principles and intrinsic values in Islamic sharia. If this is the case, modern Muslim society with Islamic law is necessarily of equality and justice. However, their family laws which are grounded on assumptions of past centuries and have little bearing on contemporary realities have not reflected gender relations. Inequality that occurs within the context of Muslim family laws is one of the subtle but most pervasive areas of discrimination against women. It has resulted in a different set of dynamics that help create new demands in favor of change of laws. This study explores the reform strategy through legal mobilization in the Muslim family laws around the world. The findings of the study reveal that the substantive and pluralistic legal mobilization is important to Muslims, and the reinterpretation and renewal of laws have been mobilizing debates among both proponents and opponents, framed by orientations to the modernists who advocate reinterpretation of the original sources and the traditionalists who insist on literal adherence to the received doctrinal corpus.
FracNoC: A fractal on-chip interconnect architecture for System-on-Chip

Sophisticated on-chip interconnects (OCIs) were recently proposed as a solution to non-scalable shared bus schemes for Systems-on-Chip (SoC) design and implementation. In this paper a new OCI architecture by adapting a fractal topology structure is introduced. Simulations were conducted to compare this topology with two common OCIs, 2D Mesh, and Torus, using a variety of traffic patterns. Results show that this fractal architecture achieves better performance while using little energy budget.
Phytoplankton Blooms: Their Occurrence and Composition Within Virginia's Tidal Tributaries

Sporadic algal bloom development within a IO year monitoring program in Virginia tidal tributaries of Chesapeake Bay is reviewed. These blooms were common events, characteristically producing a color signature to the surface water, typically short lived, occurring mainly from spring into autumn throughout different salinity regions of these rivers. and were produced primarily by dinoflagcilatcs. The abundance threshold levels that would identify bloom status from a non-bloom presence were species specific, varied with the taxon's cell size, and ranged from ca. 10 to \() cells ml • Among the most consistent sporadic bloom producers were the dinoflagcllatcs Akashiwo sanguinea, Cochlodinium polvkrikoides, Heterocapsa rotundata, Hetcrocapsa triquetra, Karlodinium l'eneficum, Prorocentrum minimum, Scrippsiella trochoidea, the cyanobacterium lvficrocystis aeruginosa, and two categories containing several species of often unidentified Gymnodinium spp. and Gyrodinium spp. Additional bloom producers within these tributaries arc also discussed.
Resilience among single adult female refugees in Hamilton, Ontario

Single adult females remain among the most vulnerable of all refugee populations. However, there is a lack of research on supporting and empowering these women. There is a new interest in identifying factors that reinforce resilience and, ultimately, adjustment to the host country. In line with the current work on resilience, semi-structured, indepth, personal interviews with single refugee women were conducted in the city of Hamilton, Ontario. A grounded theory approach revealed participants’ perspectives on the support received from religious or cultural communities, non-governmental organizations, and the government in terms of their perceived contribution to adaptation. Both informal and formal support, along with individual characteristics, were found to be crucial for reinforcing resilience among these refugees, reflective of a collective resilience model that moves beyond individual and community resilience. Future research should aim to investigate the perspectives of those who did not receive social support from shelters as well as to assess the efficacy of current refugee support services. Les femmes adultes celibataires demeurent parmi les plus vulnerables des groupes de refugies. On remarque cependant un manque de recherches sur le soutien et l’autonomisation de ces femmes. Il y a par ailleurs un nouvel interet pour l’identification des facteurs augmentant la resilience et par consequent la capacite d’ajustement au pays d’accueil. En lien avec ces travaux sur la resilience, des entrevues individuelles approfondies et semi-structurees avec des femmes refugiees celibataires ont ete eff ectuees a Hamilton en Ontario. L’approche basee sur la theorie a mis en lumiere leur point de vue sur le soutien qu’elles recoivent des communautes culturelles et religieuses et des organisations gouvernementales et non-gouvernementales, plus particulierement au niveau de leur adaptation. Le soutien formel et informel, en plus des caracteristiques personnelles, s’averent etre des facteurs importants pour l’amelioration de leur resilience, illustrant un modele de resilience qui va au-dela de la resilience individuelle et des communautes. Les recherches a venir devraient examiner la perception des refugies qui n’ont pas recu de soutien social et evaluer l’effi cacite des services actuels de soutien aux refugies.
Relations Between Achievement Goal Orientations and Math Achievement in Primary Grades: A Follow‐Up Study

The aim of the present study was to investigate children’s achievement goal orientations and their relations to math achievement in the primary grades. The sample consisted of 179 children who were in the 2nd and 3rd grades during the first measurement and in the 3rd and 4th grades during the second measurement. Children’s self‐ratings were obtained on their goal orientations, their math performance was tested and their math grades were taken into account. Teacher ratings were obtained on each child’s effort in class. Children’s self‐reported performance‐avoidance goals were found to be related to their achievement outcomes. Math achievement seems to influence children’s achievement goal orientation rather than vice versa in the primary grades.
Developing a Risk and Needs Assessment Instrument for Prison Inmates

The assessment of inmate risk and need in prison poses a unique challenge to correctional policy makers because it is used for two purposes: classification and case management. Classification and case management require assessment instruments that are designed to predict two separate outcomes: institutional misconduct and community recidivism. The current research examines differences between a prison classification instrument developed to predict misconduct and a case management instrument developed to predict community recidivism using a sample of 414 inmates in Ohio. The results indicated substantial differences between assessment instruments and that separate risk and needs assessments should be conducted. A hybrid assessment system is suggested that seeks to maximize accuracy and efficiency by including select factors from each instrument.
Larvae of the genus Eleodes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae): matrix-based descriptions, cladistic analysis, and key to late instars

Abstract Darkling beetle larvae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) are collectively referred to as false wireworms. Larvae from several species in the genus Eleodes are considered to be agricultural pests, though relatively little work has been done to associate larvae with adults of the same species and only a handful of species have been characterized in their larval state. Morphological characters from late instar larvae were examined and coded to produce a matrix in the server-based content management system mx. The resulting morphology matrix was used to produce larval species descriptions, reconstruct a phylogeny, and build a key to the species included in the matrix. Larvae are described for the first time for the following 12 species: Eleodes anthracinus Blaisdell, Eleodes carbonarius (Say), Eleodes caudiferus LeConte, Eleodes extricatus (Say), Eleodes goryi Solier, Eleodes hispilabris (Say), Eleodes nigropilosus LeConte, Eleodes pilosus Horn, Eleodes subnitens LeConte, Eleodes tenuipes Casey, Eleodes tribulus Thomas, and Eleodes wheeleri Aalbu, Smith & Triplehorn. The larval stage of Eleodes armatus LeConte is redescribed with additional characters to differentiate it from the newly described congeneric larvae.
Austrian Insights on Strategic Organization: From Market Insights to Implications for Firms

A review of the strategy and organizations literature suggests that insights from Austrian economics are beginning to influence our thinking about market-level dynamics (Dickson, 1992; Jacobson, 1992; Hill and Deeds, 1996; Young et al., 1996; Roberts, 2000). Surprisingly, however, there are few, if any parallel efforts devoted to developing implications of the Austrian view at the level of the firm. Yet without such efforts there is a significant risk of overdeveloping our accounts of how the actions of entrepreneurial managers combine with other forces to create market turbulence, while under-attending to the specific strategies and organizational forms that firms’ managers adopt to compete effectively in these kinds of markets. In this essay, we argue that the principal tenets of Austrian economics suggest the possibility of fresh strategic and organizational thinking at the firm level. In particular, they provide the seeds of a novel theory of strategy that relies on a logic of sensing and seizing opportunities in turbulent markets, rather than a logic of positioning in relatively stable markets (Porter, 1985) or a logic of resource leverage in incrementally changing markets (Barney, 1991; Wernerfelt, 1984). This Austrian-based theory would focus on seeking out (rather than avoiding) uncertainty, and on managers who are especially alert to opportunities derived from unlikely sources. Along parallel lines, Austrian economics also suggests a theory of organization that relies on structures and processes that enable experimentation and flexibility. Pushing these ideas a step further, an Austrian orientation (perhaps uniquely) implies the confluence of strategy and organization. Indeed, in turbulent settings the organization itself may be the strategy.
The Rett Syndrome Complex

Communicative functions and their relationship with overall developmental level and autistic features were studied in eight young women with disorders in the Rett syndrome complex, three with the classical variant and five with variants with partially preserved/regained speech. The Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales, individual structured observation, and a specially designed structured interview covering early pre-linguistic and linguistic development, current receptive and expressive language and non-verbal communication skills, were used. Autistic features were evaluated in accordance with the DSM-IV. Low levels of communicative abilities and overall functioning were demonstrated. In most cases, the communicative abilities did not reach the level expected on the basis of overall development. Joint attention behaviours and expressions of communicative intent were rare. However, six of the eight subjects showed clear examples of social interaction abilities. ‘Eye pointing’, as distinct from ‘eye communication’, was demonstrated only in a minority of the cases. The level of communicative function at developmental arrest did not predict later language ability. It is suggested that intervention should focus on developing further the joint attention behaviours, intentional communications and communicative functions spontaneously used by individuals with disorders in the Rett syndrome complex.
CULTURAL AND ISLAMIC VALUES IN RELATION WITH DEATH

This paper is based on my observations of Algerians’ common reactions to tragic experiences of death and mourning, the field, and information taken from various written sources. My approach is not based on contrasting Arab society with the West. Yet, I am not focusing on the Muslim world as a whole where various traditions, cultures and sects present different questions and complexities. Rather, my choice has been to write about death in the Arab and Sunni world in general and, the Algerian society in particular, by researching in hospital institutions and collecting people’s views of death and dying. By screening Sunni religious beliefs and ancestral values and traditions, I hope to understand the behavior of Algerian people when faced with a serious crisis such as kidnapping, death and mourning.
Teaching Pragmatic Competence: A Journey from Teaching Cultural Facts to Teaching Cultural Awareness

Pragmatic competence is one of the essential competences taught in the second language classroom. The Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB, 2012a), the standard document referred to in any federally funded program of ESL teach- ing in Canada, acknowledges the importance of this competence, yet at the same time notes the limited resources available to help ESL teachers address it in the classroom. Informed by the theoretical construct of communicative competence and its application to second language learning, the article offers an exemplar of the whats and hows of teaching pragmatics in the ESL classroom. The article stresses the importance of making explicit to the learners the sociolinguistic and sociocultural variables that underlie native speakers’ linguistic choices. It is hoped that ESL learners will thus develop a better understanding of the reasons that make native speakers choose one linguistic expression rather than others when performing a certain linguistic act. The speech act of complimenting is used here as an exemplar.
The relationship of personality characteristics and burnout among nurses

BACKGROUND: People's personality and psychological factors usually affects job satisfaction or job dissatisfaction and so level of burnout. In this study the role of personality characteristics in nurses' burnout is examined. METHODS: It is a correlation study. The statistic population is consisted of all nurses in a state hospital of Shahr-e Kord who've been working there during 2007. One hundred of them were selected by simple random method and then Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment) and NEO personality characteristic (neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience) questionnaires were distributed among them. Out of 100, 75 questionnaires were completed and returned. Also multiple regression method was used to statistically examine the relation between personality characteristics and burnout. RESULTS: The study findings showed that neuroticism has positive relation with emotional exhaustion and extraversion has negative relation with emotional exhaustion (p < 0.05). Neuroticism has a positive relation with depersonalization and agreeableness has a negative relation with depersonalization (p < 0.05). Extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness have negative relation with reduced personal accomplishment (p < 0.05). All of these relationships were meaningful. CONCLUSION: Since nurses' health plays as an important role in effectiveness of their health care for patients, it is important to consider their personality characteristics, because incongruity between personality and work place increases their burnout. KEY WORDS: Job stress, burnout, personality characteristics.
Relationship between Learning Motivation and Academic Emotions of Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers

Pre-service learning differs from classroom learning, an investigation is necessary to determine whether this logic is applicable to Pre-service early childhood teachers. Accordingly, we adopted a random sampling method for conducting a questionnaire survey, and 322 valid questionnaires were retrieved. Causal path analysis was conducted using learning motivation as the independent variable and positive and negative academic emotions as the dependent variables. The results show that learning motivation has no effect on positive academic emotions, although it has a positive effect on negative academic emotions. The academic emotions experienced in Pre-service learning differ from the emotions experienced in classroom learning. Our findings indicate that before commencing teaching practice, Pre-service early childhood teachers may have overly optimistic attitudes regarding teaching training, and they may have strong aspirations to become qualified teachers through studying. However, this overly optimistic self-cognition could cause them to experience anxiety in real teaching situations.
Are flatter diurnal cortisol rhythms associated with major depression and anxiety disorders in late adolescence? The role of life stress and daily negative emotion

Abstract Alterations in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis functioning have been associated with major depression disorder (MDD) and some anxiety disorders. Few researchers have tested the possibility that high levels of recent life stress or elevations in negative emotion may partially account for the HPA axis alterations observed in these disorders. In a sample of 300 adolescents from the Youth Emotion Project, we examined associations between MDD and anxiety disorders, dimensional measures of internalizing symptomatology, life stress, mood on the days of cortisol testing, and HPA axis functioning. Adolescents with a past MDD episode and those with a recent MDD episode comorbid with an anxiety disorder had flatter diurnal cortisol slopes than adolescents without a history of internalizing disorders. Higher reports of general distress, a dimension of internalizing symptomatology, were also associated with flatter slopes. Negative emotion, specifically sadness and loneliness, was associated with flatter slopes and partially accounted for the associations between comorbid MDD and anxiety disorders and cortisol. The associations between past MDD and cortisol slopes were not accounted for by negative emotion, dimensional variation in internalizing symptomatology, or levels of life stress, indicating that flatter cortisol slopes may also be a “scar” marker of past experiences of MDD.
Evaluating the diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating cathepsin S in gastric cancer

To evaluate whether serum Cathepsin S (Cat S) could serve as a biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer (GC), Enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect serum Cat S in 496 participants including healthy controls and patients with benign gastric diseases, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer and lung cancer. The levels of serum Cat S were significantly increased in cancer patients, especially in GC patients. The qRT-PCR, Western blotting, and immunohistochemical staining revealed the overexpression of Cat S in GC cell lines and tissues. The diagnostic value of serum Cat S for GC patients from controls resulted in an AUC of 0.803 with a sensitivity of 60.7% and a specificity of 90.0%. Moreover, the levels of serum Cat S were associated with GC tumor volume, lymphoid nodal status, metastasis status, and stages. Moreover, the patients with high levels of serum Cat S had a poorer overall survival. Univariate analysis revealed Cat S expression was a prognostic factor. The knockdown of Cat S significantly suppressed the migration and invasion of GC cells. This study suggested serum Cat S may be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of GC.