Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Where did Composition Studies Come from?

Composition Studies emerged as a scholarly research discipline during the 1970s as (a) empirical methods became available to investigate the problem of meaning in discourse and, concomitantly, (b) the work of an international writing research community became institutionalized in the form of new journals and graduate programs. Distinguishing their efforts from prior histories of the field, the authors argue that the development of composition studies needs to be understood as part of a broader intellectual history affecting linguistics and literary studies, as well as composition. Reviewing basic tenets of formalism, structuralism (including both constructivism and social constructionism), and dialogism as root epistemologies organizing the recent histories of these disciplines, the authors conclude with a discussion of the dominant and often parallel themes that have characterized evolving conceptions of language, text, and meaning in composition, literature, and linguistics since the 1950s.
Assessment of Children with Attention and Reading Difficulties Using the Pass Theory and Cognitive Assessment System

This study evaluated the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) characteristics of children assessed for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD referred), children with a Reading Disability (RD), and children in Regular Education (RE). The Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) was used to assess PASS processes for the 119 children (48 in ADHDR; 23 in RD; and 48 in RE groups). The results showed that the ADHDR group had lower Planning scores than the RE group (effect size = 0.6). The RD group had lower Successive scores than the RE group (effect size = 1.1) and the ADHDR group (effect size = 1.2), and lower Simultaneous scores than the RE group (large effect size of 0.9). The implications for using PASS theory to assist in the identification process as well as for the design of interventions for children with ADHDR and children with RD are discussed.
Changes During Incubation Within Double-Yolked Duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) Eggs: Yolk Position, Mortality, Hatchability and the Importance of an Optimal Egg Size

Double-yolked (DY) and single-yolked (SY) duck eggs (n = 1318 for both) were candled and weighed on Days (d) 2, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22 and 25 of incubation and yolk/embryo position was recorded on d2, d8 and at post-mortem. From d8 only eggs with live fertile yolk(s) remained in the incubator. On d2, 99.39% of yolks in DY eggs were in the adjacent position and by d8 yolk positions changed to parallel position in DY1F (one fertile yolk) and DY2F (two fertile yolks) eggs, 14.1 and 88.62%, respectively (p<0.001). Thus yolk position is associated with yolk fertility. In eggs with two infertile yolks yolk position remained adjacent in 88.21% of the eggs. Early (d1-d8), mid (d9-d21) and late (>d22) embryonic mortality was significantly higher in DY compared to SY eggs (p<0.001). Early mortality was higher in DY1F eggs (31.58, vs. 12.03% DY2F eggs; p<0.001). Late mortality was higher in DY2F eggs (70.38, vs. 51.03% DY1F eggs; p<0.001). Hatchability of fertile SY eggs was 87.2% (1001/1148). Single ducklings hatched from 11 of 437 DY1F eggs (2.52%) and from two of 449 DY2F eggs (0.44%). The egg weight of hatched DY eggs tended towards the SY egg norm suggesting an optimal DY egg size and associated yolk volume for the successful production of viable ducklings.
A Realistic Empirical Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of UML in Software Maintenance

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard for object-oriented software analysis and design modeling. However, few empirical studies exist that investigate the costs and evaluate the benefits of using UML in realistic contexts. Such studies are needed so that the software industry can make informed decisions regarding the extent to which they should adopt UML in their development practices. This is the first controlled experiment that investigates the costs of maintaining and the benefits of using UML documentation during the maintenance and evolution of a real, non-trivial system, using professional developers as subjects, working with a state-of-the-art UML tool during an extended period of time. The subjects in the control group had no UML documentation. In this experiment, the subjects in the UML group had on average a practically and statistically significant 54% increase in the functional correctness of changes (p=0.03), and an insignificant 7% overall improvement in design quality (p=0.22) - though a much larger improvement was observed on the first change task (56%) - at the expense of an insignificant 14% increase in development time caused by the overhead of updating the UML documentation (p=0.35).
Role of histamine as a putative inhibitory transmitter in the honeybee antennal lobe

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« Femme au volant… » : effet de la menace du stéréotype et de la colère sur les performances des femmes à une tâche liée à la conduite automobile

Au regard de la theorie de la menace du stereotype (Steele & Aronson, 1995), cet article examine le role mediateur des emotions de peur et de colere dans la chute de performance des groupes stigmatises. En se basant sur les theories fonctionnelles et cognitives des emotions (Mackie & Worth, 1989 ; Oatley & Johnson-Laird, 1987), les auteurs postulent que la peur et la colere, par le traitement non adapte de la tâche qu’elles generent, interviendraient dans l’effet deletere observe sur les performances. Une etude realisee sur une tâche liee a la conduite automobile met en evidence, par une tâche de decision lexicale, l’implication de la colere dans la chute de performance de femmes en situation de menace du stereotype. Conformement a nos hypotheses, les resultats montrent d’une part que les femmes en situation diagnostique des capacites de conduite obtiennent des performances inferieures au test de conduite qu’en non diagnostique, et d’autre part que cette chute de performance s’explique par une plus grande intensite de colere chez les femmes menacees. Ces resultats sont discutes en termes de consequences du traitement cognitif resultant de l’apparition de colere.
Examining Trust and Risk in Mobile Money Acceptance in Uganda

Mobile money adoption can contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Uganda but the factors affecting its sustainable adoption remain largely unknown. This paper explores the extent to which mobile money users’ trust and risk perceptions affect mobile money services adoption of in Uganda. A survey was conducted with 438 mobile money users from Uganda and data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). From the results, we obtained new empirical evidence for applying trust and risk perceptions for analyzing mobile money acceptance. We found that mobile money users rely on the structural soundness of mobile money services providers and their ability to provide mobile money services with low perceived risk. Performance expectancy, perceived risk and structural assurance significantly influenced behavioral intention to adopt mobile money. Trust belief did not significantly influence behavioral intention. These results help us to understand and promote mobile banking services in underdeveloped countries, which is of practical and scientific interests. We finally provide practical implications for mobile money services providers, commercial banks and central banks in Africa.
Knowledge Base as a Predictor of Follow‐Up Compliance After Colposcopy

Objectives Our aim was to determine patient knowledge of cervical dysplasia and colposcopy at an inner-city obstetrics and gynecology clinic and the relationship of this knowledge base to compliance. Methods One hundred six women presenting for colposcopy at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's obstetrics and gynecology clinic during an 8-month period were given questionnaires testing their knowledge of Papanicolaou smears, colposcopy, cervical dysplasia, and cervical cancer. Their medical records were reviewed 12 to 19 months later for patient demographics and follow-up compliance. Results Mean patient score on the nine-question test was 3.5 ± 1.7 (score range, 0–8). Answers to individual questions showed that 32.1% of patients understood the purpose of a Papanicolaou smear, 52.8% understood the nature of colposcopy, and 24.4% could identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer. Overall compliance with planned follow-up was 54.7%. We saw no relationship between test scores and follow-up compliance. Correct answers to individual questions did not correlate with improved compliance. Age, parity, intercurrent pregnancy, and history of previous colposcopy were not predictive of compliance. Follow-up compliance correlated with the colposcopic impression of the severity of disease [79.2% for patients with high-grade lesions versus 46.9% for all others (p = .005)]. A statistical trend was observed in relation to the severity of the initiating cytological diagnosis. Conclusions Patient knowledge was poor, as demonstrated by our questionnaire. Compliance did not correlate with questionnaire scores but rather correlated with the colposcopic impression of severity of disease. Increased knowledge in patients, therefore, may not necessarily increase compliance.
Space-time codes with controllable ML decoding complexity for any number of transmit antennas

We construct a class of linear space-time block codes for any number of transmit antennas that have controllable ML decoding complexity with a maximum rate of 1 symbol per channel use. The decoding complexity for M transmit antennas can be varied from ML decoding of 2<sup>lceillog2</sup> <sup>Mrceil-1</sup> symbols together to single symbol ML decoding. For ML decoding of 2<sup>lceillog2</sup> <sup>Mrceil-n</sup> (n = 1,2,hellip) symbols together, a diversity of min(M, 2<sup>lceillog2</sup> <sup>Mrceil-n+1</sup>) can be achieved. Numerical results show that the performance of the constructed code when 2<sup>lceillog2</sup> <sup>Mrceil-1</sup> symbols are decoded together is quite close to the performance of ideal rate-1 orthogonal codes (that are non-existent for more than 2 transmit antennas).
The high‐redshift galaxy population in hierarchical galaxy formation models

We compare observations of the high-redshift galaxy population to the predictions of the galaxy formation model of Croton et al. and De Lucia & Blaizot. This model, implemented on the Millennium Simulation of the concordance Lambda cold dark matter cosmogony, introduces 'radio mode' feedback from the central galaxies of groups and clusters in order to obtain quantitative agreement with the luminosity, colour, morphology and clustering properties of the present-day galaxy population. Here we construct deep light cone surveys in order to compare model predictions to the observed counts and redshift distributions of distant galaxies, as well as to their inferred luminosity and mass functions out to redshift 5. With the exception of the mass functions, all these properties are sensitive to modelling of dust obscuration. A simple but plausible treatment agrees moderately well with most of the data. The predicted abundance of relatively massive (∼M * ) galaxies appears systematically high at high redshift, suggesting that such galaxies assemble earlier in this model than in the real Universe. An independent galaxy formation model implemented on the same simulation matches the observed mass functions slightly better, so the discrepancy probably reflects incomplete or inaccurate galaxy formation physics rather than problems with the underlying cosmogony.
Retroactive Inhibition in Incidental Learning: Another Dud

There have been two procedures used to demonstrate the influence of retroactive inhibition (RI) on incidentally learned items: (a) two groups are exposed to the same material and one group is instructed to learn while the other is not; (b) two groups, presented with two simultaneous classes of stimuli, are instructed to learn only one but later tested for retention of both. A previous replication of a study using the latter procedure yielded negative results. The present paper criticizes this study on statistical grounds. Based upon the performance of 15 experimental and 15 control Ss, the data did not show RI influences on incidentally learned items. It is suggested that procedure (b) is possibly a fruitless research approach.
Evaluation of Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills of Health Care Manager Candidates: A Structural Equation Modeling

Management in the field of health is a position in which the roles are in the forefront that are related to interpersonal relations and the role of communication skills and emotional intelligence is important in success of managers. For this reason, communication skills and emotional intelligence form an important issue for the students who are studying health care management. The aim of this study is to specify the communication skills and emotional intelligence level of students and evaluate this relation. The work group of the study is formed by 284 students studying at Hacettepe University, Department of Health Care Management. Descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling were used in data analysis. At the end of study, the emotional intelligence of female students were determined higher than the male students’ and according to the Structural Equation analysis, a significant positive relation was found between communication skills and emotional intelligence of students.
Rapid Expression and Purification of 100 nmol Quantities of Active Protein Using Cell‐Free Protein Synthesis

Two strategies for ATP regeneration during cell‐free protein synthesis were applied to the large‐scale production and single‐column purification of active chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT). Fed‐batch reactions were performed on a 5–10 mL scale, approximately 2 orders of magnitude greater than the typical reaction volume. The pyruvate oxidase system produced 104 nmol of active CAT in a 5 mL reaction over the course of 5 h. The PANOx system produced 261 ± 42 nmol, about 7 mg, of active CAT in a 10 mL reaction over the course of 4 h. The reaction product was purified to apparent homogeneity with approximately 70% yield by a simple affinity chromatography adsorption and elution. To our knowledge, this is the largest amount of actively expressed protein to be reported in a simple, fed‐batch cell‐free protein synthesis reaction.
Diverse politics, diverse news coverage? A longitudinal study of diversity in Dutch political news during two decades of election campaigns

Although diverse political news has been recognized as a requirement for a well-functioning democracy, longitudinal research into this topic is sparse. In this article, we analyse the development of diversity in election coverage in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2012. We distinguish between diversity for party and issue coverage, and look at differences between diversity in newspapers and television news. Results show that news diversity varies over time. Diversity for party types increased over time. We found no clear trend for diversity of issue dimensions. Compared to newspapers, television news is more diverse for party types but less diverse on issue dimensions. The question concerning whether these findings are an indicator of structural bias is discussed.
A pilot investigation into unimpaired and dyslexic Persian children's word naming and spelling: Implications for models of reading and counselling

There is now a growing body of research examining developmental dyslexia in different languages and writing systems. The phonologically transparent Persian orthography is normally transcribed with two distinct spellings, words spelled with vowels (letters) transcribed as a fixed part of the spelling (transparent) and words spelled with vowels (diacritics) omitted (opaque). This peculiarity of Persian would enable one to examine the impact of transparency, as well as the possible psychological factors associated with verbal punishment in Persian schools on the development of reading and spelling. Twenty-nine Persian children (22 male and 7 female) classified as being developmentally dyslexic (mean age 9.4, SD = 1.4) were compared with 49 unimpaired male children (mean age 9, SD = 1.3) on two main aspects of reading Persian opaque and transparent spellings, namely: Spelling and word naming. The results showed an expected impairment on all aspects of reading between unimpaired and children with dyslexia. However, performance of both groups of participants was impaired when performing tasks with opaque as opposed to transparent spellings. There was also a strong correlation between the recorded number of times the dyslexic child was verbally punished and the number of errors on the spelling and naming of transparent and opaque words. These results are supportive of the impact of spelling transparency, as well as psychological variables as factors in the development of reading and spelling.
Is there more in a happy face than just a big smile?

Happy faces involve appearance changes in the mouth (the smile) and eye region (e.g., narrowing of the eye opening). The present experiments investigated whether the recognition of happy faces is achieved on the basis of the smile alone or whether information in the eye region is also used. A go/no-go task was used in which participants responded to happy faces and withhold a response to nonhappy distractors. The presence/absence of the expressive cues in the eyes did not affect recognition accuracy but reaction times were slightly longer for smiles without expressive cues in the eyes. This delay was not obtained when the top and the bottom halves of the faces were misaligned, or when the distractor was changed from a top-dominant to a bottom-dominant facial expression (i.e., from anger to disgust). Together, these results suggest that the eyes may have a modest effect on speeded recognition of happy faces although the presence of this effect may depend on task context.
Effects of a Supplemental Vocabulary Program in Third-Grade Reading/Language Arts

ABSTRACT The author examined the effectiveness of a vocabulary intervention that employed structured, supplemental story read-alouds and related oral-language activities. Within each of 7 Title I schools across 2 sites, 15 third-grade teachers were randomly assigned to either use the intervention (treatment condition) or continue their usual practice (control condition). Trained test examiners administered oral and sight vocabulary pre- and posttests and reading achievement posttests. At 1 site, students in treatment, compared with control, classrooms performed significantly higher in vocabulary and reading achievement. In the other site, the intervention was not more effective. Contextual factors and student characteristics appeared to affect the results.
Behavioral responses to anxiety: Self-reliance, counterdependence, and overdependence

Abstract This article builds on the original foundations of attachment theory and traces the strategies for achieving felt security into the adulthood years. The theoretical case is made for a link between a secure, self-reliant strategy and healthy adulthood functioning. This self-reliant strategy counteracts the health risk factors of social isolation and separation in human relationships. The strategy results in an enduring personality characteristic of self-reliance, a paradoxical pattern of behavior characterized by flexibility and bonding in relationships which appears rather autonomous. This article proposes a work-related measure of self-reliance which also incorporates the two insecure, unhealthy strategies for achieving felt security. These strategies are the dismissing strategy, which results in a counterdependent pattern of behavior, and the preoccupied strategy, which results in an overdependent behavior pattern. Preliminary reliability and validity data concerning the Self-Reliance Inventory.
Temporal, personal and spatial variability in dermal exposure.

A database of dermal exposure measurements (DERMDAT) comprising data from 20 surveys was created. The majority of dermal exposure measurements were from agricultural settings in which workers' exposure to pesticides was investigated. Other data came from studies of workers exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g. coke-oven workers and paving workers) and from studies of subjects exposed to complex mixtures (rubber industry). The database contains approximately 6400 observations. Grouping the workers by job title, factory and body location and excluding groups with more than 25% data below the limit of detection, or with less than two workers with at least two repeats, resulted in 283 groups with 1065 workers and 2716 measurements. Analyses of variability showed median values of the total, within- and between-worker geometric standard deviations of respectively 2.55, 1.98 and 1.47, strikingly similar to what has been published previously for respiratory exposure. Within-worker variability ((w)S(2)y) was in general higher than between-worker variability ((b)S(2)y) in dermal exposure levels. Agricultural groups of re-entry workers showed very little to no between-worker variability, while industrial groups did show some variability in individual mean exposures (range (b)S(2)y=0.15-0.29). When the between-body-location component (bl)S(2)y) was also addressed, it turned out to be the most prominent component (median (b)S(2)y=0.004; median (w)S(2)y=0.12; median (bl)S(2)y=0.34). In agriculture the between-body-location component was smaller than in industry. Day-to-day variability in dermal exposure levels appeared to be significant for specific locations, but not for the average of several body-location. Underlying exposure scenarios (transfer and deposition) also played an important role.
An agile process model for product derivation in software product line engineering

Software product lines (SPL) and Agile practices have emerged as new paradigms for developing software. Both approaches share common goals; such as improving productivity, reducing time to market, decreasing development costs and increasing customer satisfaction. These common goals provide the motivation for this research. We believe that integrating Agile practices into SPL can bring a balance between agility and formalism. However, there has been a little research on such integration. We have been researching the potential of integrating Agile approaches in one of the key SPL process areas, product derivation (PD). In this paper, we present an outline of our Agile process model for PD that was developed through industry‐based case study research. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Embodied Space in Early Blind Individuals

The impact of sensory experience during early life on space perception and control of action has only been scarcely studied. The visual system typically provides the more accurate and reliable spatial information of our surrounding and is then usually considered as the frontrunner sense when spatial processing is at play. The study of visually deprived individual therefore offers a unique opportunity to investigate the role that vision plays in shaping how we process our surrounding space. However, aside quantitative differences between sighted and blind people in their perceptual skills, visual deprivation may also result in qualitatively different ways of processing non-visual information (Eimer, 2004).