Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“Con Mucho Sacrificio, We Give Them Everything We Can”: The Strategic Day-to-Day Sacrifices of Undocumented Latina/o Parents

In this research article, Stephany Cuevas explores how undocumented Latina/o parents are engaged in their children's higher education goals and aspirations. Specifically, she investigates how the constraints created by the consequences of their undocumented immigration status, or their “illegality,” impact this engagement. Through in-depth interviews with fifteen undocumented Latina/o parents with children who successfully applied to, were accepted by, and matriculated to a selective public institution in California, Cuevas finds that undocumented parents make intentional day-to-day sacrificios for their children's educational attainment, prioritizing their children's educational financial needs over their own basic needs. While these engagement behaviors are similar to those of other parent populations, Cuevas argues that these investments come at a higher and more personal cost for undocumented immigrant parents. The findings of this study are essential for reconceptualizing research and practice to consider the impact of an immigration status on Latina/o parental engagement.
Challenges and Rewards of Social Work Pioneers in the “Making” Process: A Qualitative Study

Abstract This article reports on the findings from individual interviews with 20 social worker pioneers who have more than ten years of experience in social work and have been recognized as leaders in the profession. The term “making” in the paper’s title refers to the intervention of the Chinese government, which has been crucial and has gradually “made” social work into a profession. The interview transcripts were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis, which revealed that the social worker pioneers’ ten years of experience in social work affected many aspects of their lives. Three major themes were identified in their experiences. Social worker pioneers faced various challenges over ten years; however, they still found satisfying work in their work environments, including discovering meaning and achieving personal accomplishments. This article offers insights into the experiences of social worker pioneers’ experiences in southern China. The study presents implications for future professional practice, especially in terms of social service practice and ongoing education to particular value to practitioners as well as mechanisms to support the work of social work professionals. The positive aspects of social service jobs may provide a rich area for future research and for the education of social work students.
Industry 4.0 and lean management: a proposed integration model and research propositions

ABSTRACT Lean Management (LM) is one of the most widely used business strategies for the last three decades. Industry 4.0 shows all the promise of the fourth industrial revolution using automation technologies like cyber-physical systems, internet of things and cloud computing. The purpose of this paper is to propose an integration model of Industry 4.0 and LM. A summary literature review of Industry 4.0 and LM is carried out to construct a theoretical model of integration. The previous literature is used to develop and propose an integration model of Industry 4.0 and LM. The horizontal, vertical and end-to-end engineering integration model are integrated with LM methodology. Testable research propositions are proposed between Industry 4.0 and LM. The model proposed is novel and it raises the important issue of integration of LM with Industry 4.0. This is the first paper which proposes the integration framework of LM with Industry 4.0.
Social Distance Between Prisoners and Prison Staff

This article focuses on social distance and explores possible differences between factors that influence social distance in a variety of prison environments. Results from multiple regression analyses show that the perception of procedural justice and legitimacy of prison staff, the presence of violent subculture, and age are the best predictors of social distance. These findings highlight the unstable nature of social distance. Moreover, the presence of social distance varies over time and across different prison settings. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version des Semistrukturierten Interviews zur Erfassung der DSM-5 Persönlichkeitsfunktionen (STiP-5.1)

Zusammenfassung Theoretischer Hintergrund Das alternative Modell für Persönlichkeitsstörungen des DSM-5 führt erstmals ein evidenzbasiertes, dimensionales Konzept für die Diagnostik von Störungen der Persönlichkeit ein. Kriterium A, operationalisiert mit der Level of Personality Functioning Scale, differenziert das Ausmaß von Beeinträchtigungen im Funktionsniveau der Persönlichkeit. Mit dem Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning DSM-5 (STiP-5.1) liegt bereits ein valides, reliables und ökonomisches Interview zur Erfassung von Kriterium A vor. Bisher existiert jedoch keine validierte Form des Interviews in deutscher Sprache. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die psychometrische Evaluation der deutschsprachigen Version des STiP-5.1. Methodik Die Validität und Reliabilität des STiP-5.1 wurde in einer Stichprobe von gesunden Erwachsenen (n=55) und stationär behandelten Patienten mit der Diagnose einer psychischen Störung (n=55) untersucht. Die Konstruktvalidität wurde über Korrelationen mit Fragebögen zu strukturellen Beeinträchtigungen (IPO-16, OPD-SFK) und maladaptiven Persönlichkeitseigenschaften (SKID-II-PF) überprüft. Die Interrater-Reliabilität wurde in einer Teilstichprobe von Gesunden und Patienten (n=50) untersucht. Ergebnisse Bezüglich der Validität wurden hohe Korrelationen (r=0,68–0,78) zwischen STiP-5.1-Ratings und konvergenten Selbstberichtfragebögen festgestellt. In der Teilstichprobe zeigte sich eine sehr gute Interrater-Reliabilität (ICC=0,93). Die Dauer der Interviews betrug durchschnittlich 38 Min. Schlussfolgerungen Mit der deutschen Version des STiP-5.1 liegt ein valides, reliables und ökonomisches Interviewverfahren zur dimensionalen Erfassung von Beeinträchtigungen im Funktionsniveau der Persönlichkeit für Forschung und klinische Praxis vor.
Making a collective impact: A School-to-Work Collaborative model

BACKGROUND: A seamless system of transition requires linkages and collaboration between schools and adult service agencies. A shared vision for change is needed including a common understanding of the issues and a joint approach to developing solutions. OBJECTIVE: The Indiana School-to-Work Collaborative developed a multi-component intervention package as a collective impactapproach.TheSchool-to-WorkCollaborativeinteragencytransitionmodelwasdesignedbyusingauthenticstakeholder engagementthroughouttheprocess. METHODS: This study compares the effects of a school-to-work collaborative transition model to improve employment outcomes and agency connections for transition-age youth with disabilities where a community provider employment specialist (e.g., Career Coach) was embedded in the schools. RESULTS: Embedding a Career Coach from an adult employment provider in schools resulted in more work-based learning experiences, better employment outcomes, and more connections to adult service providers compared to schools without a Career Coach. Implementing policy changes from the federal and state levels without preparation time had an impact at the local level that ultimately impacted students and families. CONCLUSION: Strong, effective interagency collaboration can result in a collective impact. Bringing together key stake-holders to design, monitor, and evaluate the model, as well as intended and unintended consequences, can result in policy and procedural changes.
Flipped vs. Traditional: An Analysis of Teaching Techniques in Finance and Psychology

Recently there has been a surge of interest in technology-aided teaching strategies such as the flipped classroom. Given the growing interest in these techniques it is important to critically evaluate their effectiveness. Although most existing research on the flipped classroom suggests an advantage of the flipped approach over a more traditional lecture approach, most of this research has been conducted in ways that preclude definitive conclusions about the relative effectiveness of the flipped approach. We present the results of a study that addressed many of these methodological limitations and compared the effectiveness of the flipped approach to a traditional lecture approach across two semesters in courses from two different disciplines, Finance and Psychology. We found mixed support for the effectiveness of the flipped vs. the traditional approach. In particular, in the Psychology courses the flipped approach resulted in superior performance on quizzes administered immediately after exposure to the material, but resulted in similar performance on exams administered some time after initial exposure. In contrast, in the Finance courses the flipped approach resulted in similar performance on immediately-administered quizzes, but superior performance on later-administered exams.
Producing regularly and irregularly inflected verb forms: behavioural and neuroimaging data from the three Italian conjugations

ABSTRACT The generation of regular and irregular inflected verb-forms has been taken as a crucial test between models of inﬂection in the mental lexicon, namely approaches which invoke different mechanisms for regular and irregular forms (rule-based procedures vs. recovery of whole forms stored in an associative network) and accounts which postulate a single procedure for all forms. An alternative hypothesis suggests that inflectional processes are explained by membership of words to clusters, for instance, Italian inflectional classes (conjugations). In a behavioural and a rapid event-related fMRI experiment, participants overtly generated the past participle of verbs from the three Italian conjugations. Results showed that the cognitive operations and the neural substrate underlying inflectional processes rely on specific properties of inflectional classes. Different patterns of cortical activations elicited by verbs from different conjugations were detected for the first time in the left middle frontal gyrus, left pre-supplementary motor area and left anterior cingulate cortex.
Accelerating computational diffusion MRI using Graphics Processing Units

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allows uniquely the study of the human brain non-invasively and in vivo. Advances in dMRI offer new insight into tissue microstructure and connectivity, and the possibility of investigating the mechanisms and pathology of neurological diseases. The great potential of the technique relies on indirect inference, as modelling frameworks are necessary to map dMRI measurements to neuroanatomical features. However, this mapping can be computationally expensive, particularly given the trend of increasing dataset sizes and/or the increased complexity in biophysical modelling. Limitations on computing can restrict data exploration and even methodology development. A step forward is to take advantage of the power offered by recent parallel computing architectures, especially Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are massive parallel processors that offer trillions of floating point operations per second, and have made possible the solution of computationally intensive scientific problems that were intractable before. However, they are not inherently suited for all types of problems, and bespoke computational frameworks need to be developed in many cases to take advantage of their full potential. In this thesis, we propose parallel computational frameworks for the analysis of dMRI using GPUs within different contexts. We show that GPU-based designs can offer accelerations of more than two orders of magnitude for a number of scientific computing tasks with different parallelisability requirements, ranging from biophysical modelling for tissue microstructure estimation to white matter tractography for connectome generation. We develop novel and efficient GPUaccelerated solutions, including a framework that automatically generates GPU parallel code from a user-specified biophysical model. We also present a parallel GPU framework for performing probabilistic tractography and generating whole-brain connectomes. Throughout the thesis, we discuss several strategies for parallelising scientific applications, and we show the great potential of the accelerations obtained, which change the perspective of what is computationally feasible.
Government termination in multilevel settings. How party congruence affects the survival of sub-national governments in Germany and Spain

ABSTRACT Past studies on government survival in parliamentary democracies have been limited to national governments. However, most societies live in a multilevel polity where different policies are decided at distinct governmental layers. So far, the conditions triggering sub-national governments’ termination have remained unexplored. Our paper makes a twofold contribution to the literature. First, we explicitly focus our analysis on the sub-national government level. Second, we expand the analytical scope by assuming a multilevel setting, in which the survival of sub-national governments is dependent on both the party composition of the national government (vertical congruence) and their sub-national peers (horizontal congruence). We test the impact of both congruence measures on the early termination risk of regional governments. Our analysis is complemented by including “traditional” factors from national government termination literature, such as structural attributes of governments and their bargaining environment, into empirical modelling. Analysing a novel dataset on 494 regional governments in Germany and Spain we find that the risk of sub-national government termination is related to varying levels of vertical congruence. Furthermore, we find interesting explanatory variation between the two countries with regard to the effect size of economic performance, regional authority and congruence.
“Being on the Other Side of the Table”: A Qualitative Study of a Community-Based Science Learning Program With Latinx Families

Building upon a Freirean notion of dialogic education, the purpose of this multi-case study was to explore what happened when secondary science teachers came together with Latinx parents for their children’s science learning in the context of a community-based science learning program. Constant comparative analysis of data revealed similarities and differences among the cases that were analyzed in three categories: recognition, adaptation, and pro-action. Implications are that in-depth exposure to content-based cultural immersion programs with parents can be beneficial for teachers to cultivate a broader vision of science (and other content area) teaching linked to students’ lives and communities.
Esl teachers’ and students’ perceptions towards communicative language teaching in Malaysian secondary schools

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) develops communicative competence of the learners in the second/foreign language. It focuses on learners? needs to improve their communicative skills. In recent years, many Asian countries adapted CLT to be used in their English classes. However, CLT implementation faced several challenges in many East Asian countries. By reviewing previous studies in this regard, the researcher found that although it is essential to consider teachers? and students? perceptions as well as challenges and instructional practices of CLT, few studies focused on teachers? and students? perceptions, their challenges and teachers? instructional practices. In this study, Malaysian secondary teachers? and students? perceptions, their challenges and teachers? instructional practices of CLT were investigated. An explanatory mixed method was used for collecting the required data. In the first phase quantitative data were collected by questionnaire, and then for further clarification observations and interviews were conducted. Results of the qualitative part were used to clarify the quantitative results. First, participants? perceptions about the CLT principles were investigated by conducting survey, then teachers? instructional practices were examined by observing the CLT classes, and finally teachers? challenges regarding the CLT were investigated through semi-structured interviews. Participants of the study were 152 teachers and 380 students. Among them a sub-sample of 30 teachers and 30 students were chosen for conducting the semi-structured interviews and finally 30 classrooms were observed to evaluate teachers? instructional practices. Results of the study shows that, overall students and teachers held favourable perceptions about CLT, and several situational constraints like big classes, students? level of proficiency, lack of facilities and lack of in-service trainings hindered CLT implementation in this country. Moreover, based on the results obtained some inconsistencies were observed between teachers? perceptions and their instructional practices. Findings of the study signified the importance of adapting CLT into the Malaysian ESL context.
Effects of biliteracies on bilingual cognitive functions

Although previous research has examined the effects of bilingualism on cognitive functions, specific biliteracy effects have not been investigated. This thesis looks at the effects of script on three major components of cognitive functions: executive control, mental rotation and hemispheric variance in distinguishing morphological markers. The research is composed of three studies, each focusing on a different aspect of cognitive functions. Study I compare's English monolinguals, Arabic monolinguals, English/Maltese bilinguals and English/Arabic bilinguals. The groups are tested using several executive control tasks (TEA and AX-CPT), concentrating on the fact that, like English, Maltese uses the Latin script, while Arabic uses its own. Maltese has the advantage of sharing a wide range of linguistic characteristics with Arabic, however is the only Semitic language to be written in the Latin script. Results revealed no significant effects of biliteracy on the executive control tasks related to inhibition and switching. In Study II, mental rotation is examined using three Corsi Block Tapping task; Forwards, Backwards and Rotated. The tasks were utilised in order to compare the English, Arabic, and Maltese groups on mental rotation. The results found that both Arabic speaking groups outperformed on the Rotated Corsi, while the English monolinguals and English/ Maltese bilinguals did not. This showed that while script does make a difference for mental rotation, it is an aspect of linguistic diversity, specifically the Arabic script, and not biliteracy. Further comparisons were done on Chinese monolinguals and bilinguals and led to the same conclusion, that the effects found on the mental rotation task are specific to the Arabic script. Further research on late Arabic learners revealed that the mental rotation effect is found after only one year of Arabic study. Study III utilised a visual and an auditory lexical decision task in order to investigate whether there are differences in hemispheric usage between the groups when making linguistic judgments. Previous research had suggested that Semitic languages, employ the use of both hemispheres of the brain in distinguishing morphological markers, whereas English readers rely on the left hemisphere (Ibrahim, Israeli, & Eviatar, 2007). The script differences between Maltese and Arabic helped determine whether the previous results were linked to the directionality of the script or the morphemes themselves. Results reiterated that both Semitic languages, Maltese and Arabic, showed no hemispheric preference in Maltese and Arabic respectively, however both groups and the English monolinguals showed a left hemispheric preference in English. The three studies report unique finding on an aspect of bilingualism that has not been examined, biliteracy. While the results did not show biliteracy effects on cognitive functions, linguistic diversity was shown to have an effect on both mental rotation and hemispheric variance in distinguishing morphological markers.
UTAUT Model: Intention to Use Social Media for Learning Interactive Effect of Postgraduate Gender in South-West Nigeria.

Social media are emerging technology which came into existence out of fun to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for teaching and learning globally. However, despite its usefulness and relevance to learning the intention to use social media for learning by postgraduate gender in Southwest Nigeria has not been confirmed. Therefore, the study used UTAUT model to established the intention to use social media for learning based on the interactive effect of postgraduate gender in south-west Nigeria. The study was a descriptive research of cross-sectional survey method and purposive sampling was used to sample 2,458 postgraduate students across the universities in South-west, Nigeria. Stratified sampling technique was used to select postgraduate students along gender and area of study. The questionnaire adapted was administered on 2,458 postgraduate students (1530 males and 928 females). Mean scores were used to answer research questions and t-test analysis was used to test research hypothesis. The findings of the study were that postgraduate students used Linkedin, Technorah, Blogger, Flickr, Myspace, Instagram, etc, postgraduate students had positive perception towards social media and intention to use for learning. The study concluded that postgraduate students’ use social media for learning due to positive perception they had towards usefulness and ease of use of social media. It was however recommended that the use of social media should be encouraged in facilitating learning irrespective of students’ gender and area of study
Learning on the Job: The Impact of Job Tenure and Management Strategies on Nursing Home Performance

This study investigates linear and nonlinear effects of job tenure on organizational performance and explores how administrators’ job tenure can moderate the relationship between three key managerial strategies—innovative management, participatory management, and external management—and performance. Using archival performance indicators available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in combination with a recent survey of nursing home administrators, we find that job tenure has a linear and nonlinear relationship with two different performance dimensions, respectively. Also, more experienced managers are better able to manage external environments and share power internally to achieve better outcomes.
A Study of Conjunctions and Codeswitching among Some Ewe-English Bilinguals.

Received: May 14, 2019 Accepted: June 15, 2019 Published: July 31, 2019 Volume: 2 Issue: 4 DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2019. 2.4. 4 The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the Ewe language realizes cohesion by means of conjunctions in comparison with English as well as the similarities and differences in the way the two languages realize cohesion in this regard. The findings revealed that both English and Ewe realize cohesion by conjunction almost the same way. The only major difference is that conjunctions in Ewe turn to be phrasal rather than single lexical items. Moreover, the study revealed that conjunction choice in Ewe-English bilingual constructions (codeswitching) does not depend on the matrix language (Ewe) of the bilingual. Constraints such as preference for simplicity, speech speed and uniformity are responsible for conjunction choice. These findings show that the matrix language model has limitations and that the second languages of bilinguals are capable of informing the choice of some grammatical items in bilingual constructions (codeswitching). KEYWORDS