Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Online fraud victims’ experiences of participating in qualitative interviews

Abstract Institutional Review Boards often raise concerns about qualitative research with vulnerable populations such as crime victims, and assume that research with vulnerable populations will be distressing for participants. It is therefore vital to examine whether participants do in fact experience adverse effects stemming from their participation. The existing research is clear that some members of vulnerable populations do feel distressed when they participate in research; however, in most cases, this distress is outweighed by the benefits of participation, such as a sense of having contributed to community awareness raising. This literature is, however, predominantly quantitative. In addition, it overwhelmingly focuses on violent trauma, providing no insight into participants’ experiences of research on non-violent traumatic events. The current study addresses these shortcomings by examining the research participation experiences of victims of online fraud. Specifically, an online questionnaire designed to elicit qualitative data was administered to victims of online fraud who had previously participated in a semi-structured qualitative interview. Among other findings, the study suggests that perceptions about the outcomes of research, in addition to the research process, influence victims’ satisfaction with their participation in qualitative research.
Performance and abnormal cell flagging comparisons of three automated blood cell counters: Cell-Dyn Sapphire, DxH-800, and XN-2000.

OBJECTIVES To compare two hematological analyzers-the DxH-800 (DxH; Beckman-Coulter, Miami, FL) and XN-2000 (XN; Sysmex, Kobe, Japan)-with the Cell-Dyn Sapphire (SAPH; Abbott, Santa Clara, CA). METHODS We analyzed 4,375 samples. Slide reviews were made in the presence of blast, abnormal lymphocyte, and immature granulocyte (IG) flags or nucleated RBC (NRBC) count. RESULTS The analyzers exhibited excellent correlations for CBC and neutrophils but displayed a limit correlation for lymphocytes. The XN did not miss circulating blasts (0.5%-95% in microscopy). For NRBCs, the XN demonstrated a sensitivity of 90%; DxH, 74%; and SAPH, 29%. Only the XN demonstrated a correlation with microscopy, permitting a WBC six-part differential until 15% of NRBCs. The XN and DxH gave useful IG counts with a cutoff less than 5% and a WBC level more than 2,500/mm(3). For abnormal lymphocytes detection, only XN demonstrated sensitivity of more than 95%, but its specificity of 54% requires adaptation. CONCLUSION The XN increases the sensitivity of abnormal cell detection compared with the other counters, permitting a seven-part differential between predefined levels, decreasing the slide review from 20% to 9%.
Teaching and Coaching Caregivers in a Guatemalan Orphanage to Promote Language in Young Children

Providing evidence-based early intervention (EI) to caregivers is an effective way to promote development in young children. EI services in the United States have decreased risk factors associated with language impairment (LI) as they help improve both short and long-term outcomes for both caregivers and children. The positive results for EI services in the U.S. may generalize to Latin American countries, namely Guatemala. Guatemala has one of the weakest education systems in its region as well as poor access to early childhood services for low-SES and other disadvantaged groups. The purpose of this study was to provide brief EI services to a Guatemalan orphanage by training caregivers to implement naturalistic language support strategies with the young children they care for who are at risk for language impairment. Results indicate a brief caregiver-implemented intervention program was effective for teaching caregivers to implement language support strategies. Recommendations are made for future research as well as implications for policy and practice. Additional research is needed to determine how to facilitate maintenance over time.
Explaining sexual minorities’ disclosure: The role of trust embedded in organizational practices

This paper reports on an empirical study that demonstrated how organizational inclusion practices and employees’ trust in their organization and supervisors affect their willingness to share personal information that could potentially lead to workplace discrimination. The findings are based on data obtained from 431 sexual- and gender-minority employees using an anonymous online survey. The results reveal that trust in the organization and the supervisor fully mediates the relationship between organizational policies and practices and workplace disclosure. In other words, in organizations where policies and practices generate trust, employees are more willing to disclose their minority identity. Our analysis also reveals how trust in the organization and the supervisor interacts with psychological variables associated with the workplace disclosure decision.
Analyzing Factors Affecting Users' Behavior Intention to Use Social Media: Twitter Case

Advancement of technology and the Internet proliferation have visible effects in the world. One of the most important effects is the increased social media usage among the Internet users. For this purpose, factors having impacts on users’ behavior intention to social media usage are investigated within the scope of the study. A research model based on technology acceptance model 2 is proposed and revised by the taking social media platforms into consideration. The effects of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, social influence, facilitating conditions, playfulness, and trust are measured. Data collected from 462 respondents are analyzed by structural equation modeling technique. According to results of the measurement and structural model validities, a fit and acceptable model is achieved to measure the related effects of variables. The results of study reveal the both direct and indirect positive impacts of the factors on users’ behavior intention to use social media.
Investor Sentiment , Expectations , and Corporate Disclosure ∗

This paper investigates how firms react strategically to investor sentiment via their disclosure policies in an attempt to influence the sentiment-induced biases in expectations. Proxying for sentiment using the Michigan Consumer Confidence Index, we first show that analysts’ estimates of future earnings are relatively more optimistic when the consumer confidence index is high, and that this effect is concentrated amongst long-horizon earnings estimates. Analyzing the reaction of management disclosure policy to sentiment, we then show that during periods of low sentiment managers issue more long-horizon earnings forecasts, and that these forecasts tend to walk up analyst estimates. In contrast, during periods of high sentiment, managers reduce the number of long-horizon forecasts. We propose that, over the long horizon, the association between firm disclosure policies and sentiment reflects firms’ desire to maintain optimistic earnings valuations. In contrast, over the short horizon, when imminent earnings announcements serve as a disciplining mechanism, we provide evidence showing that managers’ forecasts guide sentiment-driven analyst estimates towards realized earnings. ∗ We thank Paul Asquith, Malcolm Baker, Dirk Jenter, Leonid Kogan, S. P. Kothari, Jon Lewellen, Jeremy Stein, Ross Watts, J. P. Webber and seminar participants at MIT, University of Southern California, Washington University and Boston College for their helpful suggestions. 1 MIT Sloan, E52-437, Cambridge, MA 02142. E-mail: nbergman@mit.edu 2 MIT Sloan, E52-325, Cambridge, MA 02142. E-mail: sugatarc@mit.edu
Proposed New Electrolytic Conductivity Primary Standards for KCl Solutions

An absolute determination of aqueous electrolytic conductivity has been made for 0.01 molal (m) and 0.1 m potassium cliloride solutions, over the temperature range of 0 to 50 °C in 5 degree intervals. A cell with a removable center section of accurately known length and area was used for the measurements. Values were adjusted to be in conformity with the ITS-90 temperature scale. The overall uncertainty over the entire temperature range is estimated to be 0.03%. Values at 25 °C for 0.01 and 0.1 m are 0.00140823 and 0.0128246 S/cm, respectively. It is proposed that these values be adopted as primary standards for aqueous electrolytic conductivity, replacing the demal scale.
The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector

This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; especially, we examine the effects of the interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender wage gap. The empirical findings show that individual compensation is significantly and positively related to firms' profits-per-employee even when controlling for group effects in the residuals, individual and firms' characteristics, industry wage differentials and endogeneity of profits. Wage-profit elasticity is found to be 14 percent and it is insignificantly different between genders. With respect to the overall gender wage gap (on average women earn 28 percent less than men), the results show that within firms there is no gender discrimination and that 12 percent of this gap can be explained by the wage-profits profile and by the fact that women are more likely to be employed in less profitable firms than men.
The Effects of Reading Bilingual Books on Vocabulary Learning.

This study investigated the effects of reading bilingual books on vocabulary learning. Eighty-two Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners read different versions of the same text: English-only text, English text with target words glossed, English text followed by the Chinese text, and Chinese text followed by the English text. A pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest were used to measure incidental vocabulary learning. The findings showed that (a) all four groups made significant gains in lexical knowledge, (b) those who read glossed text and bilingual text had significantly durable knowledge gain, (c) the participants who read glossed text or read the English version of the text before the Chinese version had significantly higher scores text in the immediate posttest than the participants who read the English-only text, and (d) the participants who read bilingual texts had significantly higher scores on the delayed posttest than those who read the English-only text.
Performance Evaluation of On Demand Routing Protocols AODV and Modified AODV (R-AODV) in MANETS

In mobile ad hoc networks, there is no centralized infrastructure to monitor or allocate the resources used by the mobile nodes. The absence of any central coordinator makes the routing a complex one compared to cellular networks. The Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing algorithm is a routing protocol designed for ad hoc mobile devices. AODV uses an on demand approach for finding routes. AODV and most of the on demand ad hoc routing protocols use single route reply along the reverse path. Due to rapid changes of topology the route reply may not arrive to the source node resulting in sending several route request messages and degrading the performance of the routing protocol. The extended AODV called Reverse Ad Hoc On Demand Vector (R-AODV) protocol uses a reverse route discovery mechanism and performs well when link breakage is frequent. In this paper we compare the QoS parameters such as Throughput, Delay and Packet Delivery ratio of both traditional AODV and R-AODV using TCP New Reno as the traffic source. Simulation results show that R-AODV performs well when link breakage is frequent.
Topogenic analysis of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoprotein, gp160, in microsomal membranes

The orientation in cellular membranes of the 856 amino acid envelope glycoprotein precursor, gp160, of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 was investigated in vitro. Variants of the env gene were transcribed using the bacteriophage SP6 promoter, translated using a rabbit reticulocyte lysate, and translocated into canine pancreatic microsomal membranes. Immunoprecipitation studies of gp160 variants using antibodies specific for various gp160-derived polypeptides provided evidence that the external (cell surface) domain of gp160 begins at the mature amino terminus of the protein and continues through amino acid 665. A stop-transfer sequence (transmembrane domain) was identified in a hydrophobic region COOH-terminal to amino acid 665 and NH2-terminal to amino acid 732. Protease protection experiments demonstrated that gp160 possesses a single cytoplasmic domain COOH-terminal to residue 707. Membrane extraction studies using carbonate buffer provided evidence that the 29 amino acid hydrophobic domain (residues 512-541) of gp160 was unable to serve as a stop-transfer sequence. Finally, we propose that the cytoplasmic tail of gp160 forms a secondary association with the microsomal membranes.
A Cross-Section of Voter Learning , Campaign Interest and Intention to Vote in the 2008 American Election : Did Web 2 . 0 Matter ?

THE 2008 American presidential election was notable for many reasons, including ethnic, gender, and financial components (Federal Election Commission, 2009) as well as a robust Democratic primary contest and the highest turnout rate in 40 years (McDonald, 2008). Also, during this campaign, ratings remained competitive among many print and broadcast media (Stelter & Pérez-Peña, 2008) despite the growth of an increasingly diverse mediascape. As part of this process, the Internet continued to expand as a news source and Web-based technologies became more available, interactive, and replete with user-generated political content (Pew Research Center, 2010). These political and media developments seemed so interrelated that Sanson (2008, p. 162) wrote that this election cycle “marks the first presidential campaign defined by new media. ” Given these features, the 2008 American election provides a useful opportunity to empirically analyze and compare the effects of different forms of traditional and online media. The purpose of this study is therefore to measure the political influences of citizens’ exposure and attention to a variety of media platforms. Decades of political communication research on traditional media outlets have generally found positive relationships between such media use and key political variables of political knowledge, involvement, and participation (see Drew & Weaver, 2006; Zhao & Chaffee, 1995). Nonetheless, debates between media malaise and media mobilization scholars have never been perfectly reconciled largely due to distinctions in content rather than format type (Aarts & Semetko, 2003; Cappella and Jamieson, 1997). Considering the more recently diffusing Web 2.0 applications (O’Reilly, 2005), a good body of scholarship has come to position the Internet as a political tool that has the potential to invigorate certain aspects of American democracy (Boulianne, 2009; Gil de Zúñiga, Puig-I-Abril, & Rojas, 2009).
The Language Family Relation of Local Languages in Gorontalo Province (A Lexicostatistic Study)

This study aims to find out the relation of language family and glottochronology of Gorontalo language and Atinggola language in Gorontalo Province. The research employed a comparative method, and the research instrument used a list of 200 basic Morris Swadesh vocabularies. The data source was from documents or gloss translation of 200 basic vocabularies and interview of two informants (speakers) of Gorontalo and Atinggola languages. Data analysis was done by using the lexicostatistic technique. The following indicators were used to determine the word family: (a) identical pairs, (b) the word pairs have phonemic correspondences, (c) phonetic similarities, and (d) a different phoneme. The results of data analysis reveal that there are 109 or 55.05% word pairs of the word family out of 200 basic vocabularies of Swadesh. The results of this study also show that the glottochronology of Gorontalo language and Atinggola language are (a) Gorontalo and Atinggola languages are one single language at 1.377 + 122 years ago, (b) Gorontalo and Atinggola languages are one single language at 1,449 - 1,255 years ago. This study concludes that (a) the relation of the kinship of these two languages is in the family group, (b) glottochronology (separation time between Gorontalo language and Atinggola language is between 1.4 to 1.2 thousand years ago or in the 12 th – 14 th century. Keywords : relation, kinship level, local language, Gorontalo Province, lexicostatistics study
Analysis of writing programmes for academics: application of a transactional and systems approach

ABSTRACT In an international culture of performance-based funding systems for higher education institutions (HEIs), research productivity and output are essential for the ability of HEIs to continue. While many institutions have performance targets for the next performance assessment, few institutions have an operational strategy for how staff are to produce research publications. A transactional and systems approach to academic writing may be helpful in identifying how academics’ structures and beliefs influence their writing productivity. This paper aims to provide an overview and analysis, using a transactional and systems approach, of a selection of theory-based writing programmes available for academics. The authors summarise the strengths and weaknesses of each these programmes and demonstrate the gap in academic writing programmes which currently exists, based on the transactional and systems approach. The paper provides recommendations in terms of strategic development to support academic to increase their research and scholarly output.
Probing the Local Dynamics of periodic orbits by the generalized Alignment Index (Gali) Method

As originally formulated, the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI) method of chaos detection has so far been applied to distinguish quasiperiodic from chaotic motion in conservative nonlinear dynamical systems. In this paper, we extend its realm of applicability by using it to investigate the local dynamics of periodic orbits. We show theoretically and verify numerically that for stable periodic orbits, the GALIs tend to zero following particular power laws for Hamiltonian flows, while they fluctuate around nonzero values for symplectic maps. By comparison, the GALIs of unstable periodic orbits tend exponentially to zero, both for flows and maps. We also apply the GALIs for investigating the dynamics in the neighborhood of periodic orbits, and show that for chaotic solutions influenced by the homoclinic tangle of unstable periodic orbits, the GALIs can exhibit a remarkable oscillatory behavior during which their amplitudes change by many orders of magnitude. Finally, we use the GALI method to elucidate further the connection between the dynamics of Hamiltonian flows and symplectic maps. In particular, we show that, using the components of deviation vectors orthogonal to the direction of motion for the computation of GALIs, the indices of stable periodic orbits behave for flows as they do for maps.
Are New Zealand universities underperforming? An analysis of international enrolments in Australian and New Zealand universities

Abstract International education is widely recognised as providing a range of positive outcomes for students, universities, and both the source and destination countries. New Zealand politicians, however, see international education as a means of generating significant export earnings able to subsidise the local provision of university education. New Zealand universities have been criticised as underperforming in comparison to their Australian counterparts in attracting revenue from international students. This article explores the evidence of that observation by examining the patterns of enrolment by international students in New Zealand and Australian universities. The analysis identifies significant drivers of the international student enrolments in Australia and discusses potential strategic and policy implications for international education in New Zealand that respond to these drivers.
PENGARUH PENERAPAN PRE-LECTURE QUIZ (PLQ) PADA PEMBELAJARAN KIMIA TERHADAP MOTIVASI DAN PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA SMA N 1 KALASAN KELAS XI TAHUN AJARAN 2015/2016

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya perbedaan motivasi dan prestasi belajar kimia siswa yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan penerapan PLQ dengan siswa yang mengikuti pembelajaran tanpa penerapan PLQ dengan taraf signifikansi 5% di kelas XI SMA N 1 Kalasan tahun ajaran 2015/2016 jika pengetahuan awal siswa dikendalikan secara statistikPenelitian ini termasuk penelitian eksperimen dengan desain quasi experiment yakni Non-Equivalent Group Design dengan satu faktor, dua sampel dan satu kovariabel. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas XI semester 2 SMA N 1 Kalasan tahun ajaran 2015/2016 yang berjumlah 136 siswa yang terbagi dalam lima kelas. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 53 siswa yang terbagi dalam dua kelas yaitu kelas eksperimen yang melaksanakan pembelajaran dengan penerapan PLQ (A1) dan kelas kontrol yang melaksanakan pembelajaran tanpa penerapan PLQ (A2). Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berupa instrumen perlakuan dan instrumen pengambilan data. Instrumen perlakuan meliputi Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP) dan soal PLQ untuk materi asam basa, sedangkan instrumen pengambilan data meliputi soal prestasi belajar kimia dan angket motivasi belajar kimia yang diisi oleh peserta didik. Uji teknik analisis data untuk uji persyaratan hipotesis digunakan uji normalitas dan homogenitas. Pengujian hipotesis menggunakan uji Mankova.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa terdapat perbedaan motivasi dan prestasi belajar kimia siswa antara kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol apabila data pengetahuan awal dikendalikan. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan PLQ dapat dikatakan berpengaruh dalam upaya meningkatkan motivasi prestasi belajar kimia siswa.
Short article: Verb aspect and perceptual simulations

Two experiments investigate the influence of verb aspect on situation representations. The results demonstrate that comprehenders use verb aspect as a cue to regulate the activation of ongoing simulations of situations over time. Experiment 1 measured word-by-word reading as well as sensibility judgements on sentences in which a target object word had been replaced by a picture. For the past imperfective sentences, participants were faster to process the picture, the two words following the picture, and the sensibility judgements when objects were pictured in use rather than not in use. However, this in-use facilitation was limited to processing of the picture for the past perfect sentences. Experiment 2 served as a control to ensure that the use effect and its interaction with verb aspect were a result of contextual manipulations rather than surface features of the pictures themselves. The results are interpreted within the framework of perceptual simulations during language comprehension.