Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-component professional development for early interventionists.

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Multimedia Streaming Rate Optimization in Peer-to-peer Network

To my father AKM Rafiqul Islam and mother Umme Hani Chowdhurani ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Yi Cui for his support, advice, and for giving me the freedom and opportunity to work on this exciting and challenging project. I would also like to thank Prof. Xue, who was always willing to spend time on technical discussions during the course of this project. I express my sincere gratitude to the other members of my dissertation committee-Profs. Gokhale, Robinson, and Pence-for providing with suggestions to refine my research ideas. I would like to thank Prof. Pence for his invaluable input while writing my dissertation and during the preparation of my defense. I am forever grateful to Prof. Ashish Khisti for helping me with the theoretical aspect of my thesis. During the course of our collaboration, Ashish has become a friend to me and he was always available to verify the theoretical foundations of my thesis. I would also like to thank Ashish for hosting me as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto. Discussions with him was invaluable and has formed the backbone of my thesis. Lastly, my ultimate gratitude goes to my family for providing me with their never-ending love and support. I cannot express in words, the sacrifices my parents have made for my education. I would like to acknowledge my siblings-Showkat, Johora, and Awlad-for their encouragement. I especially would like to acknowledge my brother Showkat for guiding me throughout my academic career. Needless to say, I would not be the person I am today without his tireless support and guidance. I would like to thank Jannath for believing in me, for her constant encouragement and emotional support through good-times and bad. It has been an incredible journey with her and I am looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter in my life.
Saliency guided region proposal

Hierarchical grouping and window scoring are two important branches of region proposal. Each branch has its advantages and disadvantages. We propose a novel region proposal framework based on saliency detection to integrate their advantages. We first use salient region detection method to divide an image into salient regions and non-salient regions. In salient regions, we use hierarchical grouping method to generate proposals. On the contrary, in the nonsalient regions, we use window scoring method. At last, linear combination is employed to fuse the different scores of these two methods. Experiments show that our method achieves the superior quality to the state-of-the-arts.
INTERNALISASI KARAKTER RELIGIUS DI SEKOLAH MENENGAH PERTAMA NURUL JADID

This research examines the internalization of religious characters in Nurul Jadid Junior High School. The purpose of this research is describe the internalization of religious characters in Nurul Jadid Junior High School, including understanding the definition of internalization and religious character, the method of developing the internalization of religious characters, knowing the strategy of internalizing religious characters in Nurul Jadid Junior High School, and SMP Nurul Jadid's efforts in internalizing religious characters. This is a qualitative research design using the fenomological approach. Strategy implementation of the internalization of religious characters in SMP Nurul Jadid can through two implementations, namely intrakurikuler and extracurricular activities based on “Panca Kesadaran and the Trilogy Santri” as a benchmark of character development that became the foundation of the main boarding schools of Nurul Jadid.
Pedagogical Rationale for Flipped Learning and Digital Technology in Second Language Acquisition

This chapter will explore the background of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) with a focus on how CALL methodologies and digital technology have enabled the implementation of flipped learning methods. The chapter briefly explores the beginning of CALL and its growth through current mobile technology uses. Successive sections explore learner autonomy and digital technology, language learner motivation, sociocultural learning theory, communicative language learning and teaching, language learning strategies, and finally, task-based language learning. Each of these pedagogical foundations of second language acquisition are explored with suggestions for practical application of the methodologies that are directly tied to or supportive of flipped learning and digital technology integration.
Athletic Trainers' Perceptions and Experiences with Interprofessional Practice

INTRODUCTION Understanding athletic trainers’ (ATs) perceptions of and experiences with interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) can help improve their interactions with other healthcare professionals. The purpose of this study was to explore ATs’ perceptions (beliefs, benefits, barriers), experiences and recommended strategies related to IPCP.METHODS 314 ATs (139 male, 175 female) completed an online survey that collected participant demographics in addition to sections about participants’ perceptions experiences related to IPCP and recommended strategies implementation of IPCP.RESULTS Participants reported the primary sports medicine team should include ATs, orthopedic physicians and physical therapists (PTs) with the AT serving as the point person. Athletic trainers reported interacting most frequently with other ATs, orthopedic physicians and primary care physicians using a combination of direct and indirect communication methods. The primary benefits of IPCP included providing comprehensive patient care, building understanding of each other’s professions and professional growth. Barriers to collaboration centered on limited knowledge of providers’ scopes of training, inadequate communication, work setting, work schedules and providers’ attitudes toward each other and collaboration. Strategies to facilitate IPCP focused on building relationships with providers, establishing regular communication and understanding each other’s scope of training.CONCLUSION Currently, ATs interact with other healthcare providers and have positive perceptions of IPCP. It is recommended that ATs build on the current relationships and aim to enhance them through purposeful communication.
Web hyperlinks reflect business performance: A study of US and Chinese IT Companies

Les hyperliens des sites Web d'entreprises de technologie de l'information (TI) aux Etats-Unis et en Chine sont examines. Le nombre de liens vers le site Web d'une compagnie demontre une correlation significative avec les revenus et les benefices de la compagnie. Les deux ensembles de coefficients de correlation pour les deux pays etaient etonnamment semblables, bien que les deux groupes de sites Web presentaient des caracteristiques tres differentes. La correlation remarquee est utile pour l'exploration des donnees Web et pour ameliorer nos connaissances de la nature des hyperliens du Web. Diverses mesures ont ete prises pour ameliorer la fiabilite des donnees recueillies. La question de la collecte des donnees pour la recherche webometrique a ete egalement examinee.
SOLICITATION OF ONLINE SOCIAL SUPPORT: SELF-DISCLOSURE OF EATING DISORDER PATIENTS

This paper focuses on the online construction of self-disclosure of individuals suffering from eating disorders and demonstrates how strategies of soliciting online social support are mediated within the public sphere. McCormack (2010) indicates that participation of individuals suffering from eating disorders in online support groups, where they anonymously share their feelings and issues via the Internet, is more accessible and non-costly compared to offline settings. This serves as motivation for data to be collected from the discussion forums on the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) website. Relevant posts of self-disclosure containing instances of online solicitation of support dated from January 2018 to March 2018 were analysed using the computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA) method and North’s (1997) Strategies of Soliciting Social Support. The findings reveal that the sharing of experience is regarded as the most frequent strategy of soliciting support opted by ED patients. This result in a lengthier posts where detailed explanation of their problems were disclosed. It appears that the strategy utilized in online support-solicitation is merely a channel used in portraying the actual state of the support-seekers in handling their illness. In addition, as ED is perceived to be uncommon and unprioritized in Asia (Miller & Pumariega, 2001), the possibility of getting help from various channels may be scarce. Thus, this study’s outcome provides a vivid image on how online social support discussions can be considered as one of the potential effective platforms to help individuals in the Southeast Asia who suffer from ED in their recovery process. Keywords: Computer-mediated discourse, eating disorders, online social support, self-disclosure, soliciting. Cite as: Zulkarnain, N. A. & Mohd Jan, J. (2019). Solicitation of online social support: Self-disclosure of eating disorder patients. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(1), 344-364. http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp344-364
Cultural distance and international tourists’ intention to visit a destination

ABSTRACT Drawing on literature about travel motivation and travel risk, this paper examines how cultural distance influences international tourist’s intention to visit a destination country. Structural equation modeling is utilized to analyze the responses from 729 potential tourists in China. The data supports a model suggesting that cultural distance has bidirectional effects on tourists’ intention to visit a destination country through exerting influences on tourists’ novelty perception and risk perception of this country. Finally, it is suggested to make reasonable use of cultural distance in destination marketing practice.
Sexual Identity Management Strategies and Occupational Well-Being: A Latent Profile Analysis

In this study, we adopted the latent profile analysis (LPA) to examine whether the sexual identity management profiles relate to different occupational well-being including job satisfaction, emotional exhaustion, and depressive symptoms. A total of 225 Hong Kong Chinese full-time employees were recruited online. Four profiles were identified, namely, passive (n = 31), integration dominant (n = 81), hiding (n = 21), and balanced (n = 92). Results suggest that integration-dominant employees tended to report higher job satisfaction but lower emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms. In contrast, employees with hiding profiles (i.e., high on counterfeiting and avoidance but low on integration) reported the lowest job satisfaction and highest emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms. The limitations and implications of this study were also discussed.
Queer information literacies: social and technological circulation in the rural Midwestern United States

ABSTRACT Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people living in rural communities have unique needs related to cultural and information access about their identities. A growing body of literature is concerned with the experiences of rural LGBTQ people’s experiences and their use of information and communication technologies for supporting identity and community. However, there is opportunity to better understand relationships between various information sources and how information access itself lends to the creation of queer communities. Seeing the need for a more holistic understanding of the LGBTQ information landscape, this study builds on existing work with rural LGBTQ people, and asks how do rural LGBTQ people get access to information about sexual and gender identity and how is that information embedded through the practice of circulation? Drawing from ethnographic research in a rural region of the Midwestern United States, this study proposes the concept of queer information literacy: a process through which LGBTQ people find, recognize, share, and create information related to their sexual and gender identities. Using queer information literacy as a framework, the paper shows how disparate information access results in the formation of different, and often conflicting, LGBTQ experiences.
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF RHETORICAL STYLE IN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTION IN LAW STUDIES WRITTEN BY INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS

This research is aimed at finding the most dominant move, step and the most common pattern of rhetorical style in Research Article Introduction in Law Studies Written By International Authors. The documentation technique and checklist were used in this research. Fifteen English RA introductions by International authors were analyzed by using disourse analysis technique, using quantitative as well as qualitative method and following Swales’s CARS Model (1990). The results show that the authors dominantly use Move 1 (Establishing a territory) and Step 2 of Move 1 (Making Topic Generalisation). The fifteen articles mostly have the same model in leading to understanding to the article introduction. In addition, International authors of English RAs in Law Study prefer describing the phenomena and found the problem based on it to describing the previous research. The most common pattern is Complete Pattern. The articles which belong to Complete Pattern have three moves. While the one which has two moves belong to Semi complete and the one which has one move only belong to incomplete pattern. In conclusion, the articles in the three journals are categorized into appropriate articles in term of discourse structure.
Examining Police Presence, Tactics, and Engagement as Facilitators of Informal Social Control in High-Crime Areas

Abstract The systemic model of social disorganization advocates that communities can help regulate disorder and crime by exerting informal social control. This paper examines the avenues through which police might contribute to that social process. Building upon past research, we compare the amount of police presence observed by residents versus residents’ awareness of and satisfaction with police–community engagement and tactics used as mechanisms for promoting safety, confidence in police, and social cohesion, and ultimately informal social control. Results of a structural equation model using data from a panel community survey in 71 high-crime areas suggest that simply seeing the police is not enough. The results suggest that tactics police use in neighborhoods and most notably, how those strategies are interpreted by residents living there can be a conduit to facilitate social cohesion and informal social control. The results have implications for police resource allocation and best practices in crime hot spots.
Detecting and Predicting Accounting Irregularities: A Comparison of Commercial and Academic Risk Measures

SYNOPSIS: Although a substantial body of academic research is devoted to developing and testing risk proxies that detect accounting irregularities, the academic literature has paid little attention to commercially developed risk measures. This is surprising given the general consensus that academic risk measures have relatively poor construct validity. We compare the commercially developed Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) and Accounting Risk (AR) measures with academic risk measures to determine which best detects financial misstatements that result in Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions, egregious accounting restatements, and shareholder lawsuits related to accounting improprieties. We find that the commercially developed risk measures outperform the academic risk measures in all head-to-head tests for detecting misstatements. The commercial measures also perform as well as or better than the academic measures in new tests that predict future accounting irregularities using numbers.
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL IDEAS: SOME SPADEWORK AT THE FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION 1

Thompson, P. W. (2008). Conceptual analysis of mathematical ideas: Some spadework at the foundations of mathematics education. In O. Figueras, J. L. Cortina, S. Alatorre, T. Rojano & A. Sepulveda (Eds.), Plenary Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Vol 1, pp. 31-49). Morelia, Mexico: PME. Available at http://pat-thompson.net/PDFversions/2008ConceptualAnalysis.pdf.
Quantifying the attentional impact of working memory matching targets and distractors

ABSTRACT Various theoretical proposals have been put forward to explain how memory representations control attention during visual search. In this study, we use the first saccade on each trial as a way to quantify the attentional impact of multiple types of representations held in working memory. Across two experiments, we found that a search target maintained in working memory was attended over 20 times more frequently than a non-memory-matching distractor. In addition, an item matching an additional object represented in working memory was attended 2 times more frequently than a non-memory matching distractor. These findings show that there is a measurable attentional impact of items maintained in working memory for a future task, however, such representations have a much weaker attentional impact than working memory representations of search targets.
Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life

In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by presenting an in-depth analysis of two case studies: that of former Lieutenant Peter, who fully transitions to civilian life, and of Sergeant Emma, who opts for a hybrid outcome, combining a civilian job with working as an instructor in the military. We will argue that the narrative and embodied process of transition are intertwined in self-identity work, and that attention to the specifics of this entanglement can be useful for professionals who counsel military personnel who transition to civilian life.
Personality Traits and Level of Motivation towards ICT Integration in the L2 Learning Context

Today’s digital age offers the Digital Natives unmatched efficiency of learning languages and other fields of knowledge via the use of technology. Many educational policies including the Malaysia Education Blueprint (2013-2025) have taken initiatives to implement ICT in learning to cater to the various learning styles of the Digital Natives. However, findings have shown that the implementation process has not been easy as majority of teachers expressed reluctance in integrating ICT in their lessons as required. This study attempted to find out the levels of ICT integration, personality traits and motivation among undergraduates in the ESL context. Seventy-two undergraduates majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) were involved in this quantitative study. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Results show that their level of ICT integration in learning was high. Their level of motivation in integrating ICT in L2 learning was high as well. Next, the sample was reported to score the highest in Openness to experience, followed by Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Extraversion towards ICT integration in L2 learning while low scores were obtained for Neuroticism. Findings also indicated that there was a significant, moderate, positive relationship between their level of motivation, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness traits and their ICT integration in L2 learning. These findings present vital implications for program developers at the tertiary level as well course coordinators in facilitating pre-service teachers to leverage ICT in their teaching practice.
Power, spaces and capabilities: rethinking communication for development in climate change-related natural resource management : The case of the Ngoyla Mintom projects in Cameroon

This thesis examines the nature and role of communication between various stakeholders in climate change-related natural resource management, precisely the WWF and World Bank Ngoyla-Mintom sustainable forest management projects in East Cameroon. My aim is to interrogate the enduring conceptual dichotomy between modernization and participation in Communication for Development (C4D) theorizing by foregrounding an analytical framework that situates C4D at the intersection of power, capabilities and spaces. I employ a Foucauldian definition of power as discourse and power as diffused rather than concentrated. I argue that power, by its very character, opens up possibilities for resistance from competing discourses. Resistance is made possible through capabilities that afford social actors the opportunities to contrast and confront their discourses against hegemonic discourses through communication. The tussle of discourses contained in the capabilities approach implies and necessitates spaces: literal or figurative arenas where these conversations occur. Such spaces can be “closed”, “invited” or “organic” and are also products and arenas of power and or resistance. Considering this, I argue that the important question is not whether a given C4D process is participatory or diffusionist/modernizationist. Rather, the critical question is, how does the intersectionality of power, spaces and capabilities influence C4D processes? Findings from this qualitative study show that communication within the projects is characterised by competing discourses of policy actors and local inhabitants backed by NGOs in which policy advocacy emerges as resistance. In this process, spaces and capabilities feature as important factors in the contest of discourses where on-going communication fits neither the modernization nor the participation mould. I conclude that while modernization and participation may still be relevant for theorizing about C4D, within a development intervention like Ngoyla Mintom, C4D can be multidimensional and contested, participatory at times, media-centric at times and networked with different actors in different spaces at different scales.