Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating the Relationship between Adult Attachment Style and Belief in the Paranormal: Results from Two Studies

Two studies examine the relationship between adult attachment style and various types of paranormal belief. In Study One, 157 participants completed a popular measure of paranormal belief, demographic items, and a four-category measure of adult attachment style. With participants' gender and qualifications controlled for, fearfully attached adults had stronger global as well as specific beliefs in superstitions, Spiritualism, precognition, a New Age philosophy and to a lesser extent psi. In Study Two, 136 participants completed the same paranormal belief and demographics questionnaires, but this time a four-way continuous attachment measure. With demographics again controlled for, preoccupied adults displayed a stronger belief in all paranormal types except psi, superstitions, and extraordinary life forms. In addition, fearful adults were more disposed to believing in precognition and superstition. The role paranormal belief plays as a compensatory and/or controlling mechanism for coping with non-secure adult attachment is discussed. Methodological issues are also considered.
Religion and Mate Selection through Cyberspace: A Case Study of Preferences among Muslims

Researchers who study mate selection have become increasingly interested in whether human mate selection criteria are universal. However, the majority of the published work focuses on Western cultures. In this article, we address this shortcoming by testing some of the hypotheses advanced by evolutionary psychologists on mate preferences among Muslims. Respondents were asked to rate the desirability of 18 characteristics in a potential mate and to rank 13 characteristics of potential mates from most to least important. Overall, the findings reported here are consistent with evolutionary psychologists approach to mate selection. However, a significant finding of this study is that the preference for a religious mate and a mate with similar religious background emerged as the most desirable attributes in a potential mate by both sexes.
The Effects of Incentives on the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey

Response rates have been falling for the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Quarterly Interview Survey, and CE conducted an experiment to see if an incentive could stem the decline. Since each CE household is interviewed 5 times, another question was whether any effect would persist through the last interview a year later. In this experiment, half the sample received prepaid unconditional incentives (a $20 or $40 debit card) prior to the first interview. Response rates for $40 debit card recipients were 4.5 percentage points higher than those of the control group, and the difference, while smaller, persisted across all 5 interviews. Effects were also noted on some data quality and field contact measures.
Performance analysis of Q-factor and polarization for GPON network using optisystem

High speed data rate (HSDR) is a very imperative requirement in today's world and it is increasing according to the customer requirement for various applications such as live broadcasting, video on internet, video conference etc. In this paper, our research is based on how we can design an error free gigabit point to multipoint communication network with the help of fiber Bragg's grating (FBG) technique which reduce the effect of intersymbol interference for point to point (P2P) communication and for the HSDR. At the transmission section we applied an optical meter, Soo we can obtain the polarization for various lengths of the optical fiber in the fiber communication link. For the optical length (L) =40 km the maximum Q-factor obtained is 7.79338 respectively. The polarization starts at 185THz and stops at 200 THz, the vertical linear polarization is (VLP −1, 0, 0) and the horizontal linear polarization is (HLP 1, 0, 0), S1 is 1dBm and S0 is −6.71496dBm respectively.
Trait emotional intelligence: psychometric investigation with reference to established trait taxonomies

This paper sets out the theoretical foundation of emotional intelligence (EI) as a constellation of traits and self‐perceived abilities. The discriminant validity of trait EI is explored in two studies. In study 1 (N = 227), the psychometric properties of the BarOn Emotional Quotient inventory were scrutinized through confirmatory factor analysis and the measure was found to be unifactorial. When the EQ‐i was examined concurrently with the Eysenck Personality Profiler, a clear trait EI factor emerged in Eysenckian factor space. In study 2 (N = 166), a modified version of the EQ‐i was examined concurrently with the NEO PI‐R and a truncated trait EI factor was isolated within the Five‐Factor Model. Results are discussed with explicit reference to established personality models and it is concluded that trait EI can be conceptualized as a distinct composite construct at the primary level of hierarchical trait structures. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Inequality, Diversity and Social Trust in Norwegian Communities

This article examines community effects on social trust in Norwegian communities. The large research literature on social trust agrees that community effects are important, but disagree about which aspects of communities influence social trust. The main current disagreement concerns the relative importance of ethnic diversity and socio-economic factors, such as income inequality within communities and differences in socio-economic standing between communities. We test the competing propositions on a Norwegian dataset consisting of 99 communities and 6,166 survey respondents within those communities arguing that it is particularly interesting to look at the relationship between diversity and social trust in the setting of a wealthy universalist welfare state. It is to our knowledge the first dataset that allows a hierarchical analysis of the determinants of social trust in the Norwegian context. The results of our models show that economic inequality, within and between communities, has a direct negative effect on social trust, but that it is not possible to separate the effects of ethnic diversity and level of unemployment. This study thus lends support to the body of research that first and foremost emphasizes the role of economic inequality in accounts of community differences and social trust.
Do Investors Price Social Responsibility

In the past few decades society has placed increasing demands on managers of firms to change corporate policy and to make decisions in ways that are deemed socially responsible by society. The scope of activities under the corporate social responsibility umbrella has in cluded environmental issues, the involvement of women and minorities in management, investing in South Africa, pollution control, ethical treatment of animals, nuclear testing and other related issues. Society's demands in these areas have inspired (and in some cases even coerced) both managers of corporations and portfolio managers of investment funds to respond. Many of the leading mutual fund investment companies now offer funds that are ethically screened. The Society Investment Forum reports that the value of socially responsible investment funds exceeded $600 billion by the end of 1991. A new stock index, the Domini 400 Social Index, has been constructed to measure the performance of the stocks of 400 corporations that have passed multiple social screens. Coupled with the demand for increasing corporate social re sponsibility, there has been a move away from the traditional view that managers make decisions that are in their common shareholders' best interests to a stakeholder concept where managers make decisions for and serve a much broader group of claim-holders than just share holders. Joichi Aoi, Chairman of the Board at Toshiba Corporation, has argued that today's managers need to broaden their perspective beyond the traditional shareholder thinking:
Surface and contour-preserving origamic architecture paper pop-ups

Origamic architecture (OA) is a form of papercraft that involves cutting and folding a single sheet of paper to produce a 3D pop-up, and is commonly used to depict architectural structures. Because of the strict geometric and physical constraints, OA design requires considerable skill and effort. In this paper, we present a method to automatically generate an OA design that closely depicts an input 3D model. Our algorithm is guided by a novel set of geometric conditions to guarantee the foldability and stability of the generated pop-ups. The generality of the conditions allows our algorithm to generate valid pop-up structures that are previously not accounted for by other algorithms. Our method takes a novel image-domain approach to convert the input model to an OA design. It performs surface segmentation of the input model in the image domain, and carefully represents each surface with a set of parallel patches. Patches are then modified to make the entire structure foldable and stable. Visual and quantitative comparisons of results have shown our algorithm to be significantly better than the existing methods in the preservation of contours, surfaces, and volume. The designs have also been shown to more closely resemble those created by real artists.
Assessing fitness-for-duty and predicting performance with cognitive neurophysiological measures

Progress is described in developing a novel test of neurocognitive status for fitness-for-duty testing. The Sustained Attention & Memory (SAM) test combines neurophysiologic (EEG) measures of brain activation with performance measures during a psychometric test of sustained attention and working memory, and then gauges changes in neurocognitive status relative to an individual’s normative baseline. In studies of the effects of common psychoactive substances that can affect job performance, including sedating antihistamines, caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, and prescription medications, test sensitivity was greater for the combined neurophysiological and performance measures than for task performance measures by themselves. The neurocognitive effects of overnight sleep deprivation were quite evident, and such effects predicted subsequent performance impairment on a flight simulator task. Sensitivity to diurnal circadian variations was also demonstrated. With further refinement and independent validation, the SAM Test may prove useful for assessing readiness-to-perform in high-asset personnel working in demanding, high risk situations.
An experimental study of prospective memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder

The aim of the present study was to investigate prospective memory (PM) function in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). An event-based PM task was administered to 30 OCD patients and 30 healthy adult participants. For OCD patients, PM instruction produced significantly more cost in terms of reaction time (RT) during the ongoing task. A significant group–experimental condition interaction in ongoing task RTs was found, which suggests that PM instruction loaded an extra cost onto OCD patients' ongoing activities, and this was independent of the execution of the PM intention. Comparing the PM task RTs between patients and healthy adults also revealed a significant group difference. These results suggest that OCD patients experience difficulties during PM tasks, and these difficulties originate from overmonitoring the stimuli for PM cues.
Hippocampal-Cerebellar involvement in enhancement of performance in word-based BRT with the presence of background noise: an initial fMRI study

noise may impose deleterious effects on cognitive processing. However, noise below the threshold level may increase the ability to detect stimuli via stochastic resonance mechanisms (SR). The present study investigates whether task performance is deteriorated or enhanced by 5-dB SNR and, if the task performance is enhanced, whether this facilitation in performance points to a particular neural area that serves to attenuate noise and/or increase effective task performance. The areas of interest are the cerebellum and hippocampus due to their roles in working memory (WM) and their links with attention. Fifteen healthy young Malay adults performed three tasks during fMRI scanning: listening to babble noise (N), WM task in quiet (WMQ), and WM task in noise (WMN). Activated regions during N are bilateral STG and MTG. Both WM tasks produced similar activation in a network of areas in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes. However, the two tasks demonstrated marked differences in the left hippocampus, right posterior cerebellum, and bilateral anterior cerebellum. Moreover, the results obtained from the behavioral task demonstrated that participants responded better in the presence of noise. These results support the hypothesis that the left hippocampus, right posterior cerebellum, and bilateral anterior cerebellum may be involved in attenuating noise and/or increasing attention to task performance, which could be due to SR mechanisms operating in the presence of noise. These results collectively suggest leftward asymmetries during the tasks with the right posterior cerebellum, bilateral anterior cerebellum, and left hippocampus providing compensatory attention processes, at least in the context of this study.
The consequences of terrorism: disentangling the effects of personal and national threat

The events of 11 September 2001 have led to a higher perceived risk of terrorism in the United States. A better understanding of the political consequences of 9/11 requires a more complete accounting of the nature and consequences of perceived threat. Here, the distinction between perceived personal and national risks is examined in terms of two competing hypotheses: (1) The personal threat of terrorism has a pervasive influence even on national decisions and perceptions, in line with its highly arousing nature. (2) The effects of personal threat are highly circumscribed and overshadowed by the impact of perceived national threat, consistent with findings on the meager impact of self–interest and other personal concerns on public opinion. A survey of 1,221 residents of Long Island and Queens, New York, explored the degree to which personal and national threat affect perceptions of the consequences of, and possible solutions to, terrorism. As expected, there was a clear distinction between perceived personal and national threat, although the two are related. Perceived personal threat did not influence the perceived economic consequences of terrorism, although it had a narrow effect on personal behaviors designed to minimize risk. Overall, the findings imply that the effects of personal threat are circumscribed, consistent with past research on the limited personal basis of political judgments. However, the tests of these hypotheses were constrained by a limited set of dependent variables that included national consequences but not policy solutions designed to limit terrorism.
Transformational Leadership and the Integration of Information and Communications Technology into Teaching

Information and communications technology (ICT) has now permeated nearly every facet of society and there is a growing need for school leaders to play a more active role in integrating ICT into teaching. While it is conceivable that transformational leadership, which has been found to be an essential form of leadership in dealing with challenges facing contemporary schools, has effects on efforts to implement school innovations such as ICT integration, to date no such study has been conducted. This study therefore field-tests a questionnaire designed to investigate teachers' perceptions of positive influence of transformational leadership practices on the integration of ICT into teaching.
Model characteristics of competitive activity of different skilled female volleyball players

Цель: определить и сравнить модельные характеристики соревновательной деятельности и интегральную оценку высококвалифицированных и квалифицированных волейболисток. Материал: в исследовании участвовали 49 высококвалифицированных и 53 квалифицированных волейболистки. Результаты: определены показатели соревновательной деятельности (коэффициенты интенсивности, мобильности, агрессивности, эффективности и коэффициент эффективности атака-блок) и интегральная оценка волейболисток разной квалификации и разработана десятибалльная шкала их оценки. Построены модели, а также проведено сравнение модельных характеристик соревновательной деятельности волейболисток. Выводы: зафиксированы существенные различия модельных характеристик соревновательной деятельности у спортсменок высокой квалификации разных амплуа, в то время как у квалифицированных волейболисток различия не так ярко выражены, что свидетельствует об универсальности игроков низшей лиги.
Selection Criteria of Multiphase Induction Machines for Speed-Sensorless Drives Based on Rotor Slot Harmonics

Multiphase (MP) induction machines (IMs) provide important advantages over three-phase (3P) ones. Sensorless speed estimation makes it possible to obtain high-performance control and monitoring without the inconveniences of speed sensors. In 3P IMs, the speed estimation methods based on rotor slot harmonics (RSHs), normally on the principal RSHs (PSHs), are well established. A difficulty of these techniques, in 3P IMs, is that RSHs are usually extremely small. Additionally, as previously assessed concerning 3P IMs, the number of rotor bars should be carefully selected; otherwise, the PSHs might not even arise in the stator current. However, no publications have addressed the magnitude of PSHs in MP IMs, in comparison to 3P ones, or selection criteria of MP IMs for speed-sensorless drives. In this paper, it is shown that in MP IMs larger (easier to detect) PSHs can be obtained, due to the low impedances in their additional stator planes, by appropriately selecting the number of bars and poles so that the PSHs are mapped into such planes. This finding is supported by newly developed stator equivalent circuits, which include the effects of rotor bars. Accordingly, criteria are presented to select MP IMs for speed-sensorless drives. Experimental and finite-element results confirm the theory.
Cosmopolitan minds and metropolitan societies: social exclusion and social refusal revisited

In this paper, we examine the dynamics of social exclusion from a psychosocial perspective, taking the system of care, representing society-as-a-whole, as a perverse system that excludes whilst simultaneously seeking to include. Our focus is as much upon the predicament of the system of care as it is upon the plight of the troubled ‘refuser’ who takes up the antisocial position and refuses to join in. We revisit the legend of Diogenes the Cynic to explore a particular kind of ideological clash in the encounter between the in-group and the outsider. We explore the nature of the transaction between, on the one hand, ‘metropolitan’, ‘city-state’ systems of care, which defensively and, we argue, offensively define their boundaries in ways that exclude (or that set unacceptable terms for the invitation to include) and, on the other hand, the excluded, ‘cosmopolitan’ seekers (or avoiders) of different kinds of asylum: ‘citizens of the uni-verse’ who withhold their allegiance to any particular earthly power. In doing so, we explore the nature and quality of the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘them’ that is established across a boundary by the particular ways in which the boundary is defined. We observe that the very real psychosocial problems associated with the homeless, the dangerous and the disordered are complex and chronic; and go on to explore the ways in which ‘we’, the safely housed and socially ordered, have a collective and shared responsibility for the co-creation of our shared problems. We conclude with an invitation to conceptualise more ‘cosmopolitan’ forms of hospitality for those who refuse to ‘come in from the cold’ on the ‘metropolitan’ terms more usually offered.
Mismeasuring Women: A Critique of Research on Computer Ability and Avoidance

Among secondary-school-aged children (eleven to eighteen years), boys are at least three times more likely than girls to use a computer at home, participate in computer-related clubs or activities at school, or attend a computer camp. ' This 3:1 pattern continues through the postsecondary years. In 1985, though approximately fourteen thousand out of twenty-six thousand bachelor's degrees in computer science were awarded to women, women earned only two thousand out of seven thousand master's degrees.2 Approxi-
An Examination of Takeovers, Job Loss and the Wage Decline within UK Industry

"This paper investigates the effects of takeovers on workers' employment prospects and wages in the UK for the years 1987-1995. We address directly the idea that takeovers involve a 'breach of trust' with employees. Our results provide no support for the breach of trust hypothesis and rather suggest shareholders and workers in the post-acquisition joint entity are locked in a form of 'equal misery' following the execution of the takeover. " Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2004.
Layout extraction and verification methodology for CMOS I/O circuits

This paper presents a layout extraction and verification methodology which targets reliability-driven I/O design for MOS VLSI chip, specifically to guard against electrostatic discharge (ESD) stress and latchup. We propose a new device extraction approach to identify devices commonly used in CMOS I/O circuits including MOS transistors, field transistors, diffusion and well resistors, diodes and silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs) etc. Unlike other extractors, our extractor identifies circuit-level netlist based on the specified ESD stress condition. In addition, novel techniques are proposed for the identification of parasitic bipolar junction transistors (BJTs).
Análise fatorial do Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) em uma amostra de professores de instituições particulares

# ABSTRACT. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was projected to evaluate the Burnout Syndrome in working people. This article analyses the psychometric behaviour (reliability and construct validity) of the MBI in a sample of 563 teachers, workers from p rivate institutions of elementary, high school and college levels in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre-RS. The factorial analysis identified three factors originally related to the three dimensions identified in the inventory: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization a nd professional accomplishment. The three factors explained in this study 47% of the total variance of the answers by the individu als subjected to MBI. All of them reached a satisfactory level of consistence, and the factor 1 (emotional exhaustion) and the fact or 2 (professional accomplishment) could function independently. As for the factor 3 (depersonalization), in the present study it is used in an explanatory level, contributing to a wider understanding concerning the configuration of Burnout in teachers.
The Singularities of Redundant Robot Arms

A robot arm is redundant if it has extra degrees offreedom. In such cases the kinematic function is a mapping from a higher-dimensional joint space to a lower-dimensional work space. The manipulator may have singular configurations, which are singularities of the kinematic function. At or near the singularities, the robot may be difficult to control. The redundancy may help to avoid some singularities, but other singularities may be unavoidable. To help in the robot design and in order to devise a controlling strategy that would avoid singularities, it is important to know analytically which singularities are avoidable. This paper gives some tools for classifying singularities. The singularities of 3-joint manipu lators operating in 2-dimensional work spaces are classified, and an analysis is performed for case studies, with various manipulator designs.