Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Level of Acceptance among Public Institution of Higher Learning towards the Institution of Malay Rulers According to Federal Constitution of Malaysia

This study aims to determine the knowledge, understanding and acceptance among students from Public Institution of Higher Learning (PIHL) towards the institution of the Malay Rulers according to Federal Constitution in the context of ethnic relations in Malaysia. This study involved 422 respondents selected from four PIHLs. Data were collected through questionnaires which were then analyzed using SPSS. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, cross tabulation and correlation coefficient statistics were employed to explain respondents’ backgrounds and to assess students’ knowledge, understanding and level of acceptance towards provisions of the institution of the Malay Rulers inscribed in Federal Constitution. Results from this study have shown that students’ knowledge, understanding and level of acceptance towards provisions of the institution of Malay Rulers inscribed in Federal Constitution is generally high. Demographically, there was no significant difference in terms of their knowledge, understanding and level of acceptance except for the Chinese students. For Malay and Indian students, level of knowledge, understanding and acceptance exceed 75% compared to Chinese students which recorded below 60%. Based on results obtained in this study, several recommendations were made to address issues related to provisions of the institution of Malay Rulers. Next, this study contributes to the field of knowledge due to its quantitative method, which is different from previous studies conducted which was of qualitative nature as well as able to produce a questionnaire instrument for further study. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015. v6n4s1p153
A flexible 5G frame structure design for frequency-division duplex cases

A 5G frame structure designed for efficient support of users with highly diverse service requirements is proposed. It includes support for mobile broadband data, mission-critical communication, and massive machine communication. The solution encompasses flexible multiplexing of users on a shared channel with dynamic adjustment of the transmission time interval in coherence with the service requirements per link. This allows optimizing the fundamental tradeoffs between spectral efficiency, latency, and reliability for each link and service flow. The frame structure is based on in-resource physical layer control signaling that follows the corresponding data transmission for each individual user. Comparison against the corresponding LTE design choices shows attractive benefits.
The Impact of the Physical Environment on Supervisory Communication Skills Transfer

This ethnographic study extends the findings of earlier research that examined the impact of workplace design features on newly acquired communication skills back on the job. The qualitative nature of this earlier study, however, limited quantitative measurement of the design features and learned skills. The present study examined supervisor perceptions about the relative importance of organizational factors affecting transfer, measured relationships between learned skills and workplace design features, and prioritized the importance of the design features to support learned communication skills. Participants in this case study held nonacademic supervisory positions at a major land-grant university. The supervisors had attended a communication skills training workshop and had been applying their learned skills for about 6 months. The findings indicate that workplace design appears to play a vital role in facilitating as well as impeding communication skills transfer in face-to-face interaction with employees. As a case study, organizations should not infer that these findings apply to all work settings as it may depend on the relevancy to the particular work situation and circumstances.
Evaluation of an Australian domestic abuse program for offending males

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine recidivism outcomes for 953 offending men with domestic violence histories, serving community-based sentences and enroled in the domestic abuse program (DAP), provided by Corrective Services New South Wales in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – An intention to treat definition of DAP participation and a quasi-experimental and pseudo-prospective research design compared recidivism outcomes of the treatment group to a propensity score matched control group. Cox and Poisson regression techniques determined survival time to first reconviction and rates of reconvictions adjusted for time at risk. Findings – DAP enrolment was associated with significant improvements in odds of time to first general reconviction (15 per cent) and first violent reconviction (by 27 per cent) compared to controls. Reconviction rates were significantly lower (by 15 per cent) for DAP enrolees. Programme completion was necessary for significant therapeutic effect; 62 per cent c.
Pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward education for sustainability and its relevance to their learning: implications for pedagogical practice

The education for sustainability (EfS) literature espouses participatory, praxis-orientated, place-based and holistic approaches to teaching and learning. The introduction of a first-year EfS unit for pre-service teachers at James Cook University provided an opportunity to explore their attitudes toward EfS and their perceptions of the relevant aspects of the unit to their learning. In this mixed-methods study, pre-service teachers (N = 100) completed a Likert-style survey at the beginning and end of the unit that examined their attitudes toward EfS. Three pre-service teachers were also interviewed to explore further their perceptions and experiences, one semester after completing the unit. Significant improvements were found in pre-service teachers’ EfS self-efficacy, and familiarity with and interest in sustainability issues. Participants also perceived EfS to be relevant to their learning, particularly the praxis-orientated pedagogies in which they engaged, as they believed it developed their knowledge, skills and confidence to teach sustainability in schools. For one pre-service teacher, her experiences of EfS during her practicum enhanced its relevance, as she was able to link theory and practice. The implications of these findings for both teacher education and pedagogical practice for EfS in higher education are also discussed.
Women's Career Success and Work–life Adaptations in the Accountancy and Medical Professions in Britain

This article examines gendered career paths in two feminizing and highly qualified professions. Quantitative data show that in medicine the profession is internally segregated by sex, as women tend to opt for the family friendly but clinically inferior specialty of general practice. In accountancy internal segregation by sex is considerably less evident but women fail to rise through organizational hierarchies. Qualitative interviews with qualified doctors and accountants suggest that sex discrimination is to some extent still an issue but that the major factor underlying these different gendered career trajectories is that women still retain the major responsibility for domestic work and caring. They also suggest that doctors have been able to exercise more control over their working hours than accountants and that even when accountants work part-time, they work longer hours than contracted. Part-time work is also seen as seriously career-limiting. In our conclusions, we briefly examine the gender equality implications of these contrasting self-regulated and market-driven adaptations to occupational feminization.
Personal Values Before and After Migration

We investigated the process of value change in a migration context. Specifically, in a longitudinal panel design with around 19 months between measurement points, 145 Ingrian–Finnish migrants from Russia to Finland completed the same measures of personal values both before and after migration. As expected, the importance of both Universalism and Security values increased after migration, whereas the importance of Power and Achievement values decreased. Although this pattern of value change was reliable at the level of the group, any two migrant’s value change profiles shared only 2% of their variance, suggesting divergent patterns of value change across migrants. At the level of the individual, the structure of value change was similar to the typical between-subjects structure of values.
Where is the answer?: the importance of curiosity in pervasive mobile games

Today games are increasingly recognized not only for their entertainment value, but also for their positive impact on social interaction, educational potential, technical interests, publicity and economical power. A new game genre of pervasive games extends a virtual game world into the real world environment, allowing players to move seamlessly from one to the other. Our research is focused on identifying the elements that are important in a pervasive playful application that can trigger the interest of different individuals towards the reflection and understanding of the knowledge surrounding them. Our findings suggest that stimulating the curiosity of players is one of these key elements, and that it should be considered in the design of serious mobile games with pervasive characteristics, while looking to enrich the informal learning. In addition, mobile phones are well accepted as play tools. These results are based on the feedback given by 45 players of our game entitled SciMyst, which is a mobile adventure game with pervasive and multiplayer characteristics. In SciMyst the player has to solve different types of enigmas, which are based on the information from the real world. The player is required to become familiar with the surroundings in order to succeed, and at the same time s/he is learning from the environment in a playful manner. The game was in action and the data collection took place during SciFest 2007, a science festival in Joensuu, Finland, in March 2007.
α‐Adrenergic effects on low‐frequency oscillations in blood pressure and R–R intervals during sympathetic activation

The present study was designed to address the contribution of α‐adrenergic modulation to the genesis of low‐frequency (LF; 0.04–0.15 Hz) oscillations in R–R interval (RRi), blood pressure (BP) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) during different sympathetic stimuli. Blood pressure and RRi were measured continuously in 12 healthy subjects during 5 min periods each of lower body negative pressure (LBNP; −40 mmHg), static handgrip exercise (HG; 20% of maximal force) and postexercise forearm circulatory occlusion (PECO) with and without α‐adrenergic blockade by phentolamine. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity was recorded in five subjects during LBNP and in six subjects during HG and PECO. Low‐frequency powers and median frequencies of BP, RRi and MSNA were calculated from power spectra. Low‐frequency power during LBNP was lower with phentolamine versus without for both BP and RRi oscillations (1.6 ± 0.6 versus 1.2 ± 0.7 ln mmHg2, P = 0.049; and 6.9 ± 0.8 versus 5.4 ± 0.9 ln ms2, P = 0.001, respectively). In contrast, the LBNP with phentolamine increased the power of high‐frequency oscillations (0.15–0.4 Hz) in BP and MSNA (P < 0.01 for both), which was not observed during saline infusion. Phentolamine also blunted the increases in the LBNP‐induced increase in frequency of LF oscillations in BP and RRi. Phentolamine decreased the LF power of RRi during HG (P = 0.015) but induced no other changes in LF powers or frequencies during HG. Phentolamine resulted in decreased frequency of LF oscillations in RRi (P = 0.004) during PECO, and a similar tendency was observed in BP and MSNA. The power of LF oscillation in MSNA did not change during any intervention. We conclude that α‐adrenergic modulation contributes to LF oscillations in BP and RRi during baroreceptor unloading (LBNP) but not during static exercise. Also, α‐adrenergic modulation partly explains the shift to a higher frequency of LF oscillations during baroreceptor unloading and muscle metaboreflex activation.
Correlation of L‐type amino acid transporter 1 and CD98 expression with triple negative breast cancer prognosis

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous, aggressive cancer for which there is no effective chemotherapy or targeted therapy. We aimed to evaluate L‐type amino acid transporter (LAT) 1 and CD98 expression immunohistochemically in patients with breast cancer, especially TNBC. Out of 129 patients, LAT1 was positive in 56 patients (43.4%), and CD98 was positive in 41 patients (31.8%). The positive ratio of LAT1 expression in luminal A cases was 7.9%, 30.0% in luminal B cases, 71.4% in HER2 cases and 64.0% in TN cases. HER2 and TN subtypes expressed LAT1 and CD98 at higher levels than luminal A and B subtypes (both P < 0.001). LAT1 and CD98 expression correlated with tumor size (LAT1, P = 0.010; CD98, P = 0.007), nuclear grade (LAT1, P < 0.001; CD98, P < 0.001) and Ki67 labeling index (LAT1, P < 0.001; CD98, P = 0.001). LAT1 and CD98 expression was negatively associated with ER and PgR (both P < 0.001). In TNBC, the 5‐year disease‐free rate of CD98+ (63.6%) or LAT1+/CD98+ (61.9%) patients was significantly worse than that of CD98− (89.3%) patients or those with no co‐expression of LAT1 and CD98 (89.7%), respectively (P = 0.014, P = 0.009). The 5‐year survival rates of CD98 positive/negative patients were 77.3% and 100% (P = 0.050), respectively, whereas that of patients with LAT1+/CD98+ (76.2%) was significantly worse (100%) (P = 0.040). Multivariate analysis confirmed that CD98+ or LAT1+/CD98+ expression were risk factors for relapse in TNBC (P = 0.023, P = 0.019). Thus, in the present study we show that LAT1 and CD98 expression are prognostic factors. Inhibition of these proteins might provide a new therapeutic strategy in TNBC. (Cancer Sci 2012; 103: 382–389)
Perfusion of myocardial segments of the right ventricle: Role of the left coronary artery in infarction of the right ventricle

In a series of 88 human hearts, from individuals aged between 24 h and 94 yr (x= 61.09 ± 21.96), the coronary arterial distribution of the right ventricle was studied using a modified Selvester's system of segmentation. Postmortem angiographies and microdissection techniques were used. The analysis of the six segments of the right ventricle shows that the three anterior segments, basal, mesial, and—less frequently—apical, present a type of irrigation that is practically constant and is dual. The postero‐basal and postero‐mesial segments are irrigated almost exclusively by the right coronary artery. In the remaining segments the vascularization was of mixed type, although a considerable degree of exclusive arterial perfusion was observed in the antero‐apical segment. The segmental analysis allows us to conclude that although arterial vascularization of the right ventricle depends fundamentally on the right coronary artery, the anterior interventricular artery irrigates more than 20% of the right ventricular myocardium. Results from segmental analysis are compared with data from clinical and necropsic studies. Clin. Anat. 14:142–148, 2001. © Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Understanding Economic Change in the Cities: A Review of Evidence and Theory

This paper reviews the conventional literature on urban change, to map out knowledge boundaries and to set up a research agenda. It starts by outlining the processes and emerging patterns of urban socioeconomic reorganisation, identified by researchers independent of their methodological stance. This essentially descriptive analysis is put under scrutiny on the basis of the theoretical interpretations available by mainstream economics. This discussion provides a range of theoretical insights into the fundamental changes cities have undergone and the factors that affect economic development, as well as an evaluation of the explanatory frameworks available in conventional urban economic analysis.
Numerical simulation of mid-latitude ionospheric E-region based on SEEK and SEEK-2 observations

Abstract. Observational campaigns of the mid-latitude ionospheric E-region with sounding rockets and ground-based instruments were conducted in 1996 (SEEK) and 2002 (SEEK-2). Both of them were successfully conducted to bring important findings about the mid-latitude E-region and quasi-periodic (QP) VHF radar echoes. The observational results in the SEEK and the SEEK-2 are compared with numerical simulations and discussed in this paper. While sporadic-E (Es)-layers are actually formed by the observed neutral wind, it is difficult for the constant wind shear to produce the sharp Es-layer gradient. However, once they are formed in the lower E-region, they cannot easily be dissipated by the simple diffusive motion. The polarization electric field, calculated under the condition at the rocket launch time, shows similar amplitude and structure to the measurement around the Es-layer altitude. The structure of the plasma density and the electric field above the Es-layer observed in the SEEK-2 showed a wave-like pattern up to an altitude of 150 km. Considering a mapping of the polarization electric field generated within the Es-layers, gravity waves are the possible source of the wave-like structure of the measured electric fields and sub-peaks of the electron density above the main Es-layers. Fluctuation of the measured magnetic field is reproduced by Hall or field-aligned current driven by the polarization electric field. The current theoretical models for QP echoes and the polarization electric field are basically verified by the discussion in this paper. Keywords. Ionospheric irregularities – Mid-latitude ionosphere – Numerical simulation studies
Development of A Fully Coupled, Unstructured Grid, Coastal Morphodynamic Model System

A new fully coupled, unstructured grid, three-dimensional coastal morphodynamic model system is developed in this research. Based on two original independent models, i.e. the original unstructured-grid version of the third generation spectral wave model Simulating WAves Nearshore (UnSWAN) and the original Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM), the development of this model system is achieved by accomplishing the following procedures: Coupling UnSWAN with FVCOM to enable the full representation of the wave-current interaction in the nearshore region, by building a new wave-current coupling scheme based on the vortex-force (VF) approach to represent the wave-current interaction and developing a new coupling module to facilitate the communication between UnSWAN and FVCOM in the parallel computing and realise the model coupling procedure. A GLS turbulence model is also modiﬁed to better reproduce wave-breaking generated turbulence, together with a roller transport model to account for the eﬀects of surface wave roller. An alternative wave model based on Mellor et al. is also implemented in the present model system. The original advection-diﬀusion (AD) module is modiﬁed for the representation of particle suspension and subsequent transport under the combined ﬂows. In this module, the contribution of wave-induced stokes drift to particle transport is included which is absent in the original FVCOM model. A new bed load transport module based on the SANTOSS formulae is built to represent various processes within the oscillatory boundary layer. Based on the semi-unsteady "half-cycle" concept, this SANTOSS formulae distinguish the sediment transports during the positive “crest” and the negative “trough” half-cycles and have the advantages over the traditional steady ’equilibrium’ transport formula that many wave-induced unsteadiness eﬀects are included, including the wave asymmetry, sediment grain size eﬀects and etc. Finally, the wave, circulation, suspended sediment and bed-load transport modules are integrated into the fully coupled, three-dimensional coastal morphodynamic model system, in which a sediment continuity (Exner) equation is also included to resolve the morphology evolution.
Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies

This note considers the problem of information consensus among multiple agents in the presence of limited and unreliable information exchange with dynamically changing interaction topologies. Both discrete and continuous update schemes are proposed for information consensus. This note shows that information consensus under dynamically changing interaction topologies can be achieved asymptotically if the union of the directed interaction graphs have a spanning tree frequently enough as the system evolves.
Metabolic and molecular responses to leucine‐enriched branched chain amino acid supplementation in the skeletal muscle of alcoholic cirrhosis

Skeletal muscle loss (sarcopenia) is a major clinical complication in alcoholic cirrhosis with no effective therapy. Skeletal muscle autophagic proteolysis and myostatin expression (inhibitor of protein synthesis) are increased in cirrhosis and believed to contribute to anabolic resistance. A prospective study was performed to determine the mechanisms of sarcopenia in alcoholic cirrhosis and potential reversal by leucine. In six well‐compensated, stable, alcoholic patients with cirrhosis and eight controls, serial vastus lateralis muscle biopsies were obtained before and 7 hours after a single oral branched chain amino acid mixture enriched with leucine (BCAA/LEU). Primed‐constant infusion of l‐[ring‐2H5]‐phenylalanine was used to quantify whole‐body protein breakdown and muscle protein fractional synthesis rate using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Muscle expression of myostatin, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) targets, autophagy markers, protein ubiquitination, and the intracellular amino acid deficiency sensor general control of nutrition 2 were quantified by immunoblots and the leucine exchanger (SLC7A5) and glutamine transporter (SLC38A2), by real‐time polymerase chain reaction. Following oral administration, plasma BCAA concentrations showed a similar increase in patients with cirrhosis and controls. Skeletal muscle fractional synthesis rate was 9.63 ± 0.36%/hour in controls and 9.05 ± 0.68%/hour in patients with cirrhosis (P = 0.54). Elevated whole‐body protein breakdown in patients with cirrhosis was reduced with BCAA/LEU (P = 0.01). Fasting skeletal muscle molecular markers showed increased myostatin expression, impaired mTOR signaling, and increased autophagy in patients with cirrhosis compared to controls (P < 0.01). The BCAA/LEU supplement did not alter myostatin expression, but mTOR signaling, autophagy measures, and general control of nutrition 2 activation were consistently reversed in cirrhotic muscle (P < 0.01). Expression of SLC7A5 was higher in the basal state in patients with cirrhosis than controls (P < 0.05) but increased with BCAA/LEU only in controls (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Impaired mTOR1 signaling and increased autophagy in skeletal muscle of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis is acutely reversed by BCAA/LEU. (Hepatology 2015;61:2018‐2029)