Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PREDICTION OF EMPLOYEE QUALITY OF WORK LIFE BASED ON THE LEADERSHIP STYLES (TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL) AT THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

This study aims at predicting the employee quality of work life based on the transformational and transactional leadership styles among employees at the Ministry of Education in Tehran City. The research is descriptive with correlative type. The statistical population consists of all 550 employees at the Ministry of Education during 2011-2012 and 188 ones are selected through the simple random sampling according to Morgan Table. Bass & Avolio leadership style questionnaire (1999) with 41 questions and Waltons questionnaire (1973) with 28 questions are the data collection tools in this research. The obtained results of regression through SPSS and LISREL computer software package are as follows: There is a positive and significant relationship between the transformational and transactional leadership styles with employee quality of work life and also the results indicate that the obtained beta in regression is equal to 0/24 for transformational leadership style and 0/68 for transactional leadership style. Therefore, the independent variables are able to predict the variance of dependent variable and the regression equation is significant as follows: quality of work life = (30/367) + (1/021) Transformational leadership quality of work life = (16/883) + (0/998) transactional leadership
Language Learning Strategies and English Proficiency: A Study of Chinese Undergraduate Programs in Thailand

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of language learning strategies by undergraduate students: the extent of use of language learning strategy categories in the Oxford Taxonomy, and the relationship between the use of language learning strategies and English proficiency. Two hundred fifty four Chinese undergraduate students (123 male and 131 female) in Assumption University participated in the study. The results showed that the students were medium users of overall strategies, Compensation Strategy was the most frequently used, and Memory Strategy category was the least used. A positive correlation was found between the use of language learning strategies and the English proficiency, which were indicated by students’ grades and self-efficacy. Suggestions are offered for future research.
Investigation of the electric field components of tDCS via anisotropically conductive gyri-specific finite element head models

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is considered as one of the promising techniques for noninvasive brain stimulation and brain disease therapy. In this study, we have investigated the effect of skull and white matter (WM) anisotropy on the induced electric field (EF) by tDCS in two different montages; one using a pair of clinically used rectangular pad electrodes and the other 4(cathodes)+1(anode) ring electrodes. Using a gyri-specific finite element (FE) head model, we simulated tDCS and investigated the radial and tangential components of the induced EF in terms of their distribution over the cortical surface besides the distribution of the transverse and longitudinal components within WM. The results show that the tangential component of the EF on the cortical surface seems to be the main cause of the cortical stimulation of tDCS. Also WM anisotropy seems to increase the dispersion of the transverse component of the EF that affects the dispersion of the EF magnitude within the WM region.
Using Student Test Scores to Award Merit Pay: A Look at the 2012 Pay-for-Performance Program for Idaho Schools

In the fall of 2012, Idaho implemented a plan to award bonus pay to schools whose students demonstrated academic growth based on the Betebenner (2008) method. This study examined the relationship of the amount of bonus paid to a school, the percentage of students from low income families associated with a school, and the location of the school (urban, suburban, town, or rural). Using hierarchical set regression, a statistically significant negative relationship was found between the percentage of students eligible for subsidized meals and per pupil school bonus pay. When school location was added as a predictor, rural school location emerged as a positive predictor of the amount of per pupil bonus money received by a school. The percentage of students eligible for subsidized meals also predicted whether a school received any bonus money.
Rivaroxaban differentially influences ex vivo global coagulation assays based on the administration time

Summary It was the objective of this study to quantify the effects of rivaroxaban administration on global coagulation parameters associated with routine clinical procedures, we collected plasma samples from patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery receiving rivaroxaban at various time points after drug administration. Forty-seven patients received rivaroxaban (10 mg daily) for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. Blood samples were collected at four different time points: A) before surgery; B) before drug administration at day 4–5 after surgery (steady state of rivaroxaban); C) 2 hours (h) after drug administration and D) 12 h after drug administration. The prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), thrombin time (TT), antithrombin (AT) level, fibrinogen level by Clauss method (FibC), and derived fibrinogen (dFIB) level were assessed with various reagents. At 2 h after rivaroxaban administration, the PT and aPTT clotting times were significantly prolonged to different extents up to 1.4 fold, whereas 12 h after drug administration, no significant effect was observed. Rivaroxaban administration had no influence on the TT or the FibC concentration. The dFIB assay was differentially affected by rivaroxaban when different reagents were tested. The AT assay dependent on thrombin activity was not influenced by rivaroxaban, whereas the AT levels dependent on factor Xa activity were significantly increased by rivaroxaban. Clinicians should be aware of the time-dependent influence of rivaroxaban on factor Xa-dependent routine coagulation assays. Therefore, routine coagulation parameters should be assessed directly before drug administration to keep the interaction of rivaroxaban low.
The Mathematical Content Knowledge and Attitudes of New Zealand Pre-service Primary Teachers

This paper presents data on the mathematical content knowledge and attitudes of pre-service primary teacher education students. The assessment consisted of nine tasks, including 2-digit computations and proportional reasoning. Students rated their liking for mathematics at three time points: primary, secondary, and when assessed. Fewer than half the students liked mathematics tasks, but some low scorers were positive and some high scorers were negative about mathematics. Most students used algorithmic procedures to solve problems and several consistent misconceptions were identified. Performance was noticeably poor on adding common fractions and converting fractions to percentages using knowledge of common factors. The implications of these findings for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers are presented.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order To Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly

“Wise governments,” an editor in the Economist opined, “will accept that paid sex is ineradicable, and concentrate on keeping the business clean, safe and inconspicuous. ” That third adjective, “inconspicuous,” and its relation to keeping prostitution “ineradicable,” is the focus of this Article. Why should the sex business be invisible? What is it about the sex industry that makes most people want to look away, to pretend that it is not really as bad as we know it is? What motivates politicians to do what they can to hide it while at the same time ensuring that it runs smoothly? What is the connection between not seeing prostitution and keeping it in existence? There is an economic motive to hiding the violence in prostitution and trafficking. Although other types of gender-based violence such as incest, rape, and wife beating are similarly hidden and their prevalence denied, they are not sources of mass revenue. Prostitution is sexual violence that results in massive
Health care utilisation in Indian leprosy patients in the era of elimination.

OBJECTIVE The health care utilisation pattern among Indian leprosy patients accessing a tertiary care centre over an 18 month period was studied. DESIGN A study was conducted at the Dermatology Outpatient Clinic at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, from January 2005 to June 2006. The profile of patients was assessed and a subgroup was interviewed on their healthcare use, including any delays and costs incurred. RESULTS 198 patients presented of which 115 patients (58.1%) were on treatment for leprosy or a leprosy reaction (active) including 35 new patients (17.7%), and 83 (41.9%) patients were not on active treatment (inactive). 81 patients were interviewed in depth, 14 (17.3%) were new patients included among 54 (66.7%) patients with active disease, and 27 (33.3%) with inactive disease. The average delay from the onset of symptoms to starting treatment in those interviewed was 13.4 months, 7.9 months of which was a patient-related delay and 5.4 months of which was the health care system-related delay. In patients who had been released from treatment, 78.6% (22/28) required care after cure. CONCLUSIONS Improved awareness is required to reduce patient-related delays and systems for sustained training need to be in place to tackle the problem of health care system-related delays. Care after cure is a felt need for many patients released from treatment.
Headache in German Children and Adolescents: A Population-Based Epidemiological Study

The aim of the present study was to assess the distribution and characteristics of headache in children aged 7-14 years in Lower Saxony (Germany). For the survey, 8800 households with children were randomly drawn from community registers. Parents received comprehensive questionnaires regarding various aspects of their child's headache history and general health by mail. The response rate was 63.5%. The 6-month prevalence of paediatric headache was 53.2% and increased with age (39% at 7 years to 63% at age 14). Overall, recurrent headache (≥/week) was experienced by 6.5% of the total sample and was significantly more common among older girls (≥11 years) than their male counterparts. Boys and girls did not differ markedly from one another regarding headache occurrence and frequency until the age of 11. Mean age of headache onset was 7.5 years, with onset occurring at a significantly younger age among boys than among girls. In accordance with International Classification of Headache Disorders-II criteria, migraine was diagnosed in 7.5% and tension-type headache in 18.5% of the cases, hence a large proportion of the children had unclassifiable headache. Of the headache disorders, migraine was rated the most disabling, with the highest average intensity, highest frequency, duration of headache often exceeding 2 h and more frequent use of medication. In general, aura symptoms were rare except for visual disturbances (17%). Paediatric headache was strongly associated with other health problems, including other pain symptoms. Paediatric headache was also associated with a history of parental headache.
Distributed Graphical Simulation in the Cloud

Graphical simulations are a cornerstone of modern media and films. But existing software packages are designed to run on HPC nodes, and perform poorly in the computing cloud. These simulations have complex data access patterns over complex data structures, and mutate data arbitrarily, and so are a poor fit for existing cloud computing systems. We describe a software architecture for running graphical simulations in the cloud that decouples control logic, computations and data exchanges. This allows a central controller to balance load by redistributing computations, and recover from failures. Evaluations show that the architecture can run existing, state-of-the-art simulations in the presence of stragglers and failures, thereby enabling this large class of applications to use the computing cloud for the first time.
Pharmacokinetic Considerations of Formulation: Extended-Release Metoprolol Succinate in the Treatment of Heart Failure

Extended-release (ER) metoprolol succinate is a controlled-release formulation designed to deliver metoprolol succinate at a near constant rate for approximately 20 h, independent of food intake and gastrointestinal pH. Once-daily dosing of ER metoprolol succinate 12.5–200 mg produces even plasma concentrations over a 24-h period, without the marked peaks and troughs characteristically observed with the immediate-release (IR) formulation. This leads to consistent &bgr;1-blockade over 24 h, while maintaining cardioselectivity at doses up to 200 mg daily. Pharmacokinetic studies have also been performed in heart failure patients and have demonstrated that ER metoprolol succinate is associated with a more pronounced and even &bgr;1-blockade over a 24-h period than the IR formulation. The efficacy and good tolerability of ER metoprolol succinate in heart failure patients has now been demonstrated in a large-scale clinical trial.
Theory-Testing, Generalization, and the Problem of External Validity*

External validity refers to the generalization of research findings, either from a sample to a larger population or to settings and populations other than those studied. While definitions vary, discussions generally agree that experiments are lower in external validity than other methodological approaches. Further, external validity is widely treated as an issue to be addressed through methodological procedures. When testing theories, all measures are indirect indicators of theoretical constructs, and no methodological procedures taken alone can produce external validity. External validity can be assessed through determining (1) the extent to which empirical measures accurately reflect theoretical constructs, (2) whether the research setting conforms to the scope of the theory under test, (3) our confidence that findings will repeat under identical conditions, (4) whether findings support the theory being tested, and (5) the confirmatory status of the theory under test. In these ways, external validity is foremost a theoretical issue and can only be addressed by an examination of the interplay between theory and methods.
Participation in Leisure Activities of Jewish and Arab Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Living in the Community

Abstract The study examined factors affecting participation in leisure activities of Jewish and Arab adults with intellectual disabilities living in the community, via the conceptual framework of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF). The secondary analysis of national sample of 520 Jews and 153 Arab adults with intellectual disability incorporated the following ICF factors: body functions (health condition, physical functioning and cognitive functioning), activities, namely, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), participation in employment, and the environmental factor of welfare service utilization. Findings revealed different patterns among Jews and Arabs with intellectual disabilities regarding the roles of physical functioning and cognitive functioning on participation in leisure activities.
Towards a characterisation of saliency on first exposure to a second language

This paper attempts to shed light on the question of what in the input is perceived and processed by the learner, and how it is processed upon first contact with a target language. Subjects were French learners of Polish who had had no contact with Polish or any other Slavic language before the onset of the project. They were tested on a sentence repetition task before receiving any Polish instruction, after 4 hours of instruction, and again after 8 hours. The results suggest that even as little as 8 hours of exposure induces a recognizable interlanguage; that the influence of global input can be predicted by word length, word stress, phonemic distance, transparency, position and frequency; and that the role these factors play evolves over time. Together the results suggest a way to characterise the notion of saliency in the input.
Feasibility of Multi-Year Forecast for the Colorado River Water Supply: Time Series Modeling

The future of the Colorado River water supply (WS) affects millions of people and the US economy. A recent study suggested a cross-basin correlation between the Colorado River and its neighboring Great Salt Lake (GSL). Following that study, the feasibility of using the previously developed multi-year prediction of the GSL water level to forecast the Colorado River WS was tested. Time-series models were developed to predict the changes in WS out to 10 years. Regressive methods and the GSL water level data were used for the depiction of decadal variability of the Colorado River WS. Various time-series models suggest a decline in the 10-year averaged WS since 2013 before starting to increase around 2020. Comparison between this WS prediction and the WS projection published in a 2012 government report (derived from climate models) reveals a widened imbalance between supply and demand by 2020, a tendency that is confirmed by updated WS observation. Such information could aid in management decision-making in the face of near-future water shortages.
Gender role attitudes, relationship efficacy, and self-disclosure in intimate relationships

ABSTRACT Drawing from the intimacy process model and data from 5,042 individuals who remained partnered across Waves 1 and 2 of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam), this study examined the contributions of traditional gender role attitudes and relationship efficacy in predicting levels of self-disclosure within an intimate relationship. Independent samples t-tests demonstrated females scored higher than males on self-disclosure and relationship efficacy measures but lower on traditional gender role attitudes. An ordinary least squares regression analysis revealed relationship efficacy was a stronger predictor of self-disclosure compared to traditional gender role attitudes, which were not associated with self-disclosure. The findings suggest attitudes with an interpersonal motivational system may be especially important for setting the intimacy process into motion within an intimate union.
The RFC2 Gene, Encoding the Third-Largest Subunit of the Replication Factor C Complex, Is Required for an S-Phase Checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

ABSTRACT Replication factor C (RF-C), an auxiliary factor for DNA polymerases δ and ɛ, is a multiprotein complex consisting of five different polypeptides. It recognizes a primer on a template DNA, binds to a primer terminus, and helps load proliferating cell nuclear antigen onto the DNA template. The RFC2 gene encodes the third-largest subunit of the RF-C complex. To elucidate the role of this subunit in DNA metabolism, we isolated a thermosensitive mutation (rfc2-1) in the RFC2 gene. It was shown that mutant cells having the rfc2-1 mutation exhibit (i) temperature-sensitive cell growth; (ii) defects in the integrity of chromosomal DNA at restrictive temperatures; (iii) progression through cell cycle without definitive terminal morphology and rapid loss of cell viability at restrictive temperatures; (iv) sensitivity to hydroxyurea, methyl methanesulfonate, and UV light; and (v) increased rate of spontaneous mitotic recombination and chromosome loss. These phenotypes of the mutant suggest that the RFC2 gene product is required not only for chromosomal DNA replication but also for a cell cycle checkpoint. It was also shown that the rfc2-1mutation is synthetically lethal with either the cdc44-1 orrfc5-1 mutation and that the restrictive temperature ofrfc2-1 mutant cells can be lowered by combining either with the cdc2-2 or pol2-11 mutation. Finally, it was shown that the temperature-sensitive cell growth phenotype and checkpoint defect of the rfc2-1mutation can be suppressed by a multicopy plasmid containing theRFC5 gene. These results suggest that the RFC2gene product interacts with the CDC44/RFC1 andRFC5 gene products in the RF-C complex and with both DNA polymerases δ and ɛ during chromosomal DNA replication.
Theoretical model of coping among relatives of patients in intensive care units: a simultaneous concept analysis.

UNLABELLED This paper reports the development of a theoretical model of relatives' coping approaches during the patient's intensive care unit stay and subsequent recovery at home by performing an analysis of concepts generated from two empirically grounded, theoretical studies in this area. BACKGROUND When supporting relatives of intensive care unit patients, it is important that nurses have access to evidence-based knowledge of relatives' coping approaches during the period of illness and recovery. METHOD Simultaneous concept analysis was used to refine and combine multiple coping concepts into a theoretical model of coping. The concepts were generated in two previous empirical studies of relatives' coping approaches during mechanically ventilated patients' intensive care unit stays and recovery at home. FINDINGS The theoretical model was developed in 2004-2005 and illustrates the effectiveness of different coping approaches in relation to each other and to social support. Definitions summarizing each coping approach and containing the knowledge gained through the simultaneous concept analysis method were also formulated. CONCLUSION This middle-range theory of relatives' coping approaches may make a valuable contribution to international intensive care unit nursing practice, especially as it is based on empirical studies and may therefore serve as a basis for the development of future clinical guidelines. However, the theoretical model needs to be empirically validated before it can be used.
Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Dersine İlişkin Bir Tutum Ölçeği Geliştirme Çalışması

The purpose of the present study was to report the development of a new instrument to measure students’ attitudes in pre-service teacher education towards an Educational Measurement and Evaluation course. The scale was applied to 242 undergraduate teacher education students from Ankara University and Hacettepe University, Ankara in Turkey. Results of factor analysis addressed the three dimensional constructs of the scale. The subscales showed high internal consistency: . 92, . 90, and . 82. The internal consistency correlation of the total scale was . 95.