Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Syntactic Structures and Rhetorical Functions ofElectrical Engineering, Psychiatry, and LinguisticsResearch Article Titles in English and Persian:A Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Study

A research article (RA) title is the first and foremost feature that attracts the reader's attention, the feature from which she/he may decide whether the whole article is worth reading. The present study attempted to investigate syntactic structures and rhetorical functions of RA titles written in English and Persian and published in journals in three disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Psychiatry, and Linguistics. To this end, 750 English and 750 Persian RAs were randomly selected from reputable English and Persian journals in these fields and syntactic structures of their titles were analyzed based on Dietz’s (1995) taxonomy. The results revealed that, despite some similarities, there were some cross-linguistic and crossdisciplinary differences in title structures. The differences were found in title components and title length and style. Generally, English titles were shorter in length than Persian ones. Psychiatry titles were the longest, whereas Linguistics ones were the shortest. Although the majority of titles were single-unit ones, English authors used multiple-unit titles more than Persian ones. Multiple-unit titles were also employed the most in Linguistics RAs. No significant difference was found regarding combinations of multiple-unit titles in the two languages; however, topic-description combinations were the most frequent in Electrical Engineering and Linguistics titles, whereas topic-method ones were the most popular in Psychiatry titles. Moreover, the post-modified nominal group construction was the most frequent syntactic structure across single-unit titles. Such Received: 07/01/2017 Accepted: 24/05/2017 ∗ Corresponding author Journal of Teaching Language Skills, 36(1), Spring 2017 146 findings can contribute to the developments of English for Specific Purposes and provide some information about Persian and English RA titles structures in different disciplines.
Towards a Quality Aware Web Processing Service

Quality information is essential to determine the fitness for use of spatial data and furthermore to correctly interpret the results of spatial analyses. Up to now this aspect is still not sufficiently included in geospatial applications and geospatial web services. This paper discusses a concept for a Web Service with the ability to dynamically generate quality information for the results of spatial analyses by taking into account the quality of the input data. The concept is based on the current ISO quality and metadata standards and OGC web service standards. An implemented prototype together with a use case from forestry shows the practicability and relevance of this concept.
Examining the Mathematical Modeling Processes of Primary School 4th-Grade Students: Shopping Problem

The purpose of this study is to identify primary school students' thinking processes within the mathematical modeling process and the challenges they encounter, if any. This is a basic qualitative research study conducted in a primary school in the city of Kutahya in the academic year of 2015-2016. The study group of the research was composed of 22 students at 4th-grade who were selected with criterion sampling which is a purposive sampling method. The study data were collected with the clinical interview method and reported using the content analysis. It was consequently found that the students constituted two groups as those who provided a realistic solution and those who could not. There were more students who could not provide a realistic solution. Those who couldn't provide realistic solution tried to construct the mental representation of real situation through literal comprehension, which became insufficient in revealing the hidden situations involved in the problem text. Not noticing the hidden actions in the text led them to form a mathematical equation without structuring the problem and thus their solutions were unrealistic. Those who could provide realistic solutions, on the other hand, decide their operations within the context of the characters, time, place and relation between the events in the problem, which enabled the mental representation of the problem text to be critical reading and inferential comprehension focused as well as literal comprehension focused and thus allowed the students to reveal the hidden situations in the text. Accordingly, students posed new problems by gathering the required extra information according to these hidden situations and went for the real model. Thus, analyzing the problem situation is various contexts, students solved according to multiple conditions. It was also seen that students with realistic solutions utilized the validation process to determine the consistencies and inconsistencies of their solutions in real life context while those with unrealistic solutions utilized it to check their operations.
Associations between marijuana use patterns and recreational legislation changes in a large Colorado college student sample

Abstract Background: Many states in the U.S. have changed how they regulated medicinal and/or recreational marijuana. Understanding the impact of these policy changes on marijuana use and perceptions of acceptability and safety of use is needed. The current study examined perceptions and patterns of marijuana use among college students, a population at increased risk for initiation and heavy use. Method: Data include Colorado university students and national sample averages. We used repeated cross-sectional analyses to examine responses to the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment and added marijuana measures. We examined differences in use and norms pre- to post-legalization among Colorado college students. Colorado data were also compared to national summary statistics. Results: Social norms, use initiation, and use recency and frequency in Colorado increased significantly across changes in recreational legislation. Descriptive norms and rates of ever users in Colorado increased faster than national averages. Conclusions: Results suggest recreational legalization increases how quickly social norms become more approving. As marijuana policy continues to change, implementing social norms interventions alongside legislative changes may offset increases in risk for use initiation and frequency by countering increased social norms favorable to use.
The instructor's roles in distance education for library and information Science

With the rapid developments of information technologies, distance education programs in library and information science are increasing across the world. Instructors play very important roles in providing high quality instruction for students. Given this climate, this article briefly compares the traditional education with distance education and discusses the instructor’s roles from multiple perspectives. The related literature is reviewed, which results in the recommendation that instructors should prepare for and perform multiple roles while teaching. Only when much more importance is attached to multiple roles in distance education by instructors themselves, administrators, and accreditors can the quality of distance education, assessment and evaluation be effectively improved in the future. Instructors who are accustomed to delivering lectures in face-to-face classrooms and will teach online should have a good mastery of the multiple teaching roles transformation, be very clear about what roles and responsibilities they should have in distance education, and have the corresponding changing role-related skills and competencies in order to provide the high quality teaching for distance learners.
Production and evaluation of particleboard made of sawdust and sugarcane bagasse with polyurethane resin based on castor oil

Among the goals for sustainable development in Brazil, studies have been conducted to better use of industrial and agricultural waste to promote adequate final disposal of these and generate new materials that minimize the exploitation and use of natural resources. In this work, the proposal is to make and evaluate boards with nominal density of 0.80 g.cm-3 using sugar cane bagasse, sawdust and polyurethane resin derived from castor oil. Thus, three treatments with different percentages of particles and 10% of PU-castor were proposed for the preparation of boards that were pressed with a pressure of 50 kgf.cm-2, a temperature of 100°C and a pressing time of ten minutes. The boards were evaluated for their physical properties (density, moisture content and swelling) and mechanical (static flexure and perpendicular traction) according to NBR 14810: 2-2013 and presented average values density of 936 to 937 kg.m-3, swelling after 24 hours of 5.0 to 7.2%, modulus of resistance to static bending of 22 to 23 MPa and perpendicular traction of 0.71 to 0.87 MPa. The results obtained with the tests indicate the great potential of use of sugarcane bagasse and sawdust to produce boards of high density particles.
Harmful Effects and Management of Indiscriminate Solid Waste Disposal on Human and its Environment in Nigeria: A Review

The rate of solid waste generation has increased to a devastating and uncontrollable rate in Nigeria as a result of human daily and economic activities. Although, the issue of indiscriminate solid waste disposal is a global one. Modernization, high standard of living, increase in population, technological innovation and excessive urbanization over the years has drastically contributed to the generation of municipal waste, through industrial and domestic activities. Due to inadequate waste disposal method, dumping of refusee in an unauthorized places is now the order of the day in the country, both in local and national level and penalties that are placed on defaulters are not been effectively carried out. Environment close to dump sites are exposed to significant and rapid environmental degradation mostly in municipal areas in Nigeria which brings about adverse effect on the general sustainability of urban life, poor agricultural yield, widespread of germs and diseases, extinction of aquatic bodies due to water toxicity and acidification. Apart from the fact that human health is at great risk, life becomes unbearable to dwellers in such environments. The rate of human vulnerability depends on how close the household settlements are to the open areas unlawfully made as dumping sites. When solid wastes are indiscriminately disposed it results to climate change, photochemical reactions, abiotic depletion and extreme weather events like global warming produced by the breakdown of greenhouse gases generated from chemical and radioactive wastes. There are water contamination and water bodies’ blockage, soil and air pollution, communicable and non-communicable diseases in most areas of the country. This paper discusses on the harmful effects of indiscriminate disposal of solid waste on human and its environment in Nigeria and also reviews the possible waste management method and regulations that must guide against this act.
A Structural Constitutive Model for Planar Collagenous Tissues That Integrates SALS-Derived Fiber Orientation Data

Structurally based constitutive models attempt to exploit the tissue composition and structure to avoid ambiguities in material characterization, and offer insight into the function, structure, and mechanics of tissue components. In the structural approach, the tissues total strain energy is assumed to be the sum of the individual fiber strain energies [1–3]. Although theoretically complete, the fiber architecture must be estimated from assumed distributions and “backed-out” from the mechanical data. Thus, fall realization of the structural approach is significantly limited without direct quantitative structural information to either validate structural model predictions or for direct implementation into the model. This limitation of the structural constitutive modeling approach motivated the development of the following structural constitutive model for planar collagenous tissue that directly incorporates the experimentally measured angular distribution of collagen fibers.
THE EFFECT OF PRIVATE SECURITY POLICE COOPERATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND OCCUPATIONAL COMMITMENT

The purpose of this study is to test whether there is a mediating effect of private security officers’ police cooperation perception on the relationship between job satisfaction and occupational commitment. The population of the study includes the private security officers working in Bursa. Random sampling is conducted in the study. As a result of the questionnaire, 702 data were found analyzable. In this study, the Job Satisfaction Scale developed by Weiss et al. (1967), the Occupational Commitment Scale developed by Meyer et al. (1993) and Private Security Police Cooperation Level Scale developed by the researcher were used. According to the result of the study, it was revealed that there is a positive relationship between job satisfaction and occupational commitment, and police cooperation perception partially mediates this relationship.
Accounting for Non-Gaussian Sources of Spatial Correlation in Parametric fMRI Paradigms I: Revisiting Cluster-Based Inferences

In a recent study Eklund et al. (Eklund et al., 2016) employing resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data as a surrogate for null fMRI datasets posited that cluster-wise family-wise error (FWE) rate corrected inferences made using parametric statistical methods in fMRI studies over the past two decades may have been invalid, particularly for cluster defining thresholds (CDTs) less stringent than p < 0.001; principally because the spatial autocorrelation functions (sACF) of fMRI data had been modeled incorrectly to follow a Gaussian form, whereas empirical data suggested otherwise (Eklund et al., 2016). Here we show that accounting for non-Gaussian signal components like those arising from resting state neural activity as well as physiological responses and motion artifacts in the null fMRI datasets yields first and second-level GLM analysis residuals with nearly uniform and Gaussian sACF. Further comparison with non-parametric permutation tests indicates that cluster-based FWE corr.
Necropolítica tropical em tempos pró-Bolsonaro: desafios contemporâneos de combate aos crimes de ódio LGBTfóbicos

Em tempos conservadores pró-Bolsonaro, minorias sociais têm sido alvo de agressões de diferentes ordens, sendo vistas como corpos matáveis, simbolicamente ou não. A partir desse cenário, o objetivo deste trabalho é compreender em que medida há uma rede de cumplicidade que fomenta a manifestação de crimes de ódio LGBTfóbicos na contemporaneidade política brasileira. Para situar o fenômeno teórica e metodologicamente, acionamos o conceito de necropolítica, política de morte que decide quem tem o direito de matar e o de viver. Propomos também a dilatação do conceito de crime de ódio, compreendendo como a morte pode se manifestar para além do óbito, como no controle das subjetividades.
Decrypting The Dependency Relationship Between The Triad Of Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth And Human Development

ABSTRACT:In this paper, we have explored the relationship between three key indicators of the health of any economy, namely, human development index (HDI), foreign direct investment (FDI) and gross domestic product (GDP). Three alternative models were assessed in the study to investigate the dynamics of the cause and effect relationship between the three variables. Thirty countries were selected for the purpose of the study on the basis of a positive change in their HDI ranks from 2012 to 2017. Further, the countries were categorized into countries with very high, high, medium and low HDI ranks. Annual FDI, HDI and GDP data for the period from 1990 through 2016 were used to investigate the nature of the relationship among the selected variables. The proposed models testing the outcome-explanatory variable relationship between FDI, HDI, and GDP were tested using cointegrating regression with panel dynamic least square model (DOLS) and panel fully modified least square model (FMOLS). The findings of the study show that HDI and FDI are the statistically significant variables that positively impact the changes in GDP. Further, the impact of HDI is of larger magnitude than FDI. However, GDP and FDI were not found to exert any statistically significant impact on HDI for the period under the study. Similarly, HDI and GDP were also not found to exert any significant impact on FDI. Before applying DOLS and FMOLS, stationarity was confirmed using five panel unit root tests, namely, LLC, IPS, Fisher-type tests using ADF and PP and Hadri. Thereafter, Pedroni residual cointegration test and Kao residual cointegration test were used to confirm the existence of cointegration among the variables, which is a necessary condition for applying DOLS and FMOLS. The study has key implications for the policymakers in search of models and plans to boost GDPs of their respective countries. Since HDI exerts more than proportionate positive impact on GDP, governments can focus on improving the three components of HDI, namely, life expectancy, adult literacy and education enrolment to promote economic growth. Further, since FDI exerts a positive impact on GDP, policymakers can strategize to make more friendly policies to attract foreign investors.
Delineation of Individual Tree Crowns from ALS and Hyperspectral data: a comparison among four methods

Abstract In this paper four different delineation methods based on airborne laser scanning (ALS) and hyperspectral data are compared over a forest area in the Italian Alps. The comparison was carried out in terms of detected trees, while the ALS based methods are compared also in terms of attributes estimated (e.g. height). From the experimental results emerged that ALS methods outperformed hyperspectral one in terms of tree detection rate in two of three cases. The best results were achieved with a method based on region growing on an ALS image, and by one based on clustering of raw ALS point cloud. Regarding the estimates of the tree attributes all the ALS methods provided good results with very high accuracies when considering only big trees.
Dynamic Multistage Testing: A Highly Efficient and Regulated Adaptive Testing Method

This study introduced dynamic multistage testing (dy-MST) as an improvement to existing adaptive testing methods. dy-MST combines the advantages of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and computerized adaptive multistage testing (ca-MST) to create a highly efficient and regulated adaptive testing method. In the test construction phase, multistage panels are assembled using similar design principles and assembly techniques with ca-MST. In the administration phase, items are adaptively administered from a dynamic interim pool. A large-scale simulation study was conducted to evaluate the merits of dy-MST, and it found that dy-MST significantly reduced test length while maintaining the identical classification accuracy with the full-length tests and meeting all content requirements effectively. Psychometrically, the testing efficiency in dy-MST was comparable to CAT. Operationally, dy-MST allows for holistic pre-administration management of test content directly at the test level. Thus, dy-MST is deemed appropriate for delivering adaptive tests with high efficiency and well-controlled content.
Defining our experience : a psychosocial analysis of the racial, gendered and subjectivity of black women employees in the British Prison Service

Prison occupation literature portrays an axiomatic image of the white male prison officer, which has a significant impact on mainstream society’ s perception of the people who work in prisons. This image of the prison employee inadvertently renders black women ‘invisible’and places them on the margins of the organisation. This thesis takes a different approach to examining prison occupation by applying new and varied views of being black female prison employees, by combining intersectionality theory and organisational psychodynamics to explore the psychosocial experience of this group of staff. Their perspective as gendered and racialised subjects provides an insightful account of what it ‘feels’ like to be black, women, and employees in the British Prison Service. Intersectionality highlights the ways in which gender and race are socially constructed categories that interact and influence relational dynamics at the individual, group, and organisational level. Through the multiple, and sometimes complicated, intersections of race, gender, employee status and hierarchy, my analysis exposes organisational and interactional dimensions of power, privilege and oppression prevalent in participants’ narratives. An organisational psychodynamic framework was applied to delve beneath the surface of interpersonal relationships and prison culture, to uncover the dynamic forces that block the free expression of gendered and racialised identity, and the acceptance and acknowledgment of difference. Twenty-four interviews were completed with seventeen participants, seven of whom were interviewed twice. All the participants worked for the British Prison Service. The black women in this study displayed a high level of awareness of their multiple identities and shared their experience, which illuminated how they negotiated the challenges they encountered as a result of their ‘outsider within’ position. The data from this research also revealed a cultural-historical and psychosocial characteristic defined as ‘Strong Black Woman’ that was consciously/unconsciously instigated to overcome adversity and challenges within this occupational space.
Firm Characteristics, Cross-Sectional Regression Estimates, and Asset Pricing Tests

I test a number of well-known asset pricing models using regression-based managed portfolios that capture nonlinearity in the cross-sectional relation between firm characteristics and expected stock returns. Although the average portfolio returns point to substantial nonlinearity in the data, none of the asset pricing models successfully explain the estimated nonlinear effects. Indeed, the estimated expected returns produced by the models display almost no variation across portfolios. Because the tests soundly reject every model considered, it is apparent that nonlinearity in the relation between firm characteristics and expected stock returns poses a formidable challenge to asset pricing theory. (JEL G12, C58)
Utilizing A Practitioner-Led Action Research Study to Improve Urban Students’ College Readiness and Pursuit

This practitioner-led action research study was conducted at a high-poverty urban school and investigated how participation in a comprehensive school program affects underrepresented urban students’ college readiness and pursuit. Particularly, this action research study revealed that urban students who participated in the Comprehensive College Readiness Access and Success Program (CCRASP) have statistically significant higher rates of SAT participation, SAT scores, FAFSA completion, and postsecondary applications compared to other urban students who never participated in CCRASP. As researchers seek to produce scientific knowledge that school leaders, policy makers, school counselors and educators can use to improve urban school systems, this action research study further solidifies current urgencies to re-visit urban schools’ academic and counseling support services.