Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bridging the Divide: The Integration of Nature-Based Learning and Technology Together in Education

This qualitative research study examined the challenges, benefits, and outcomes associated with the integration of nature-based learning and technology together in education, guided by the research question: How is a small sample of primary/junior elementary educators in Canada integrating nature-based learning and technology together to support students’ learning and development, and what outcomes do they observe from students? Convenience sampling was used to contact an elementary teacher and an outdoor education technician who integrate nature-based learning and technology together in their practice in the Greater Toronto Area. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with these educators, and the transcripts were reviewed to reveal three main themes. The findings suggest that naturetechnology integration has benefits for students in relation to academics, socio-emotional development, and engagement. The findings also propose that program goals, staff initiative, and access to resources are necessary supports for nature-technology integration. Finally, it was revealed that educators encounter challenges related to resources and staff initiative. The implications of these findings suggest that pre-service and in-service teachers require more knowledge and preparation to integrate nature and technology together, and that there needs to be increased support for this integration amongst all stakeholders including ministries of education, administrators, and teachers.
Path Analysis on the Determinants of Visual Inspection Acetic Acid Utilization on Early Detection of Cervical Cancer: Application of Health Belief Model Theory

Background: Cervical cancer was a serious health problem for women and VIA screening provided many benefits to women, which was to detect early cervical cancer. This study aimed to de­ter­mine the determinants that influence the use of VIA with the theory of Health Belief Model on women of reproductive age. Subject s and Method: This was an analytic observational study with a case-control approach, con­ducted in the working area of Wongsorejo Public Health Center, Banyuwangi, East Java from March to April 2019. The sampling technique used was Fixed Disease Sampling, with a ratio of 1:3. Sam­ples from 150 women reproductive age who had not used VIA screening and 50 women who had conducted VIA screening. Independent variables were perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, cues to action, self-efficacy, knowledge, attitudes, access to services and husband's support. The dependent variable was the use of VIA. Data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by path analysis. Results : The use of VIA screening was directly affected and has a positive effect on perceived vul­ne­rability (b= 1.45; CI 95%= 0.50 to 2.40; p= 0.003), perceived severity (b= 0.86; CI 95%= -0.16 to 1.88; p= 0.099), perceived benefit (b= 1.61; CI 95%= 0.52 to 2.68; p= 0.003), cues to ac­tion (b= 1.21; CI 95%= 0.05 to 2.37; p= 0.040), high efficacy (b= 1.26; CI 95%= 0.27 to 2.26; p= 0.012), attitude (b= 1.83; CI 95%= 0.81 up to 2.85) and husband support (b= 1.59; CI 95%= 0.63 to 2.55). The use of VIA screening was indirectly influenced by access to health ser­vi­ces and knowledge. Conclusion: The use of VIA screening was directly influenced by perceived vulnerability, per­cei­ved severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to act, self-efficacy, attitude and husband sup­port. And it was indirectly influenced by access to services and knowledge. Keywords : VIA, Cervical Cancer, Health Belief Model, Path Analysis Correspondence : Elfania Arumma Sunarta. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Jl. Ir. Sutami No. 36 A, Surakarta, Indonesia. Email: elfaniaas@gmail.com. Mobile: +6282272434301 Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior (2019), 4(1): 32-42 https://doi.org/10.26911/thejhpb.2019. 04.01. 04
Depressive Symptoms and Achievement Goals: Parental Rejection as a Moderator

This present study investigated the longitudinal relations between depressive symptoms and achievement goals and whether maternal and paternal rejection moderated these relations. A sample of 436 early adolescents ( X ¯ age = 13.19, 58.33% girls) filled in scales measuring the depressive symptoms (Time 1), parental rejection (Time 2; 1 year later), and achievement goals (Time 2). Early adolescents’ depressive symptoms were positively related to performance-avoidance goals and negatively related to mastery and performance-approach goals. Furthermore, the father’s rejection was positively related to the adolescents’ performance-avoidance and negatively related to mastery goals, whereas maternal rejection was not related to achievement goals. Finally, maternal rejection moderated the association between depressive symptoms and performance-avoidance goals 1 year later. The implications of these results for future studies and educational practices are discussed.
Student’s Descriptive Text Writing In SFL Perspectives

Descriptive text is one of genres which is demanded be mastered by high school students in Indonesia. This requires teachers to be able to deliver it well in the classroom. However, research discovered that many teachers still have limited knowledge of how to effectively teach genres in the classroom. This qualitative case study was intended to diagnose a student’s descriptive text writing through SFL perspectives to find out what problems encountered in her text writing. It is expected that after finding the problems, the teacher could design a pedagogical plan to deal with them. The results showed that the student’s major problems in writing descriptive text lied on three aspects: the inability in adjusting the social function of the text, difficulty in writing the descriptive text with a chronological schematic structures, and the difficulty in filling the text with appropriate language features such as the use of unspecific participant. Therefore, taking everything into consideration, the researcher proposed Discovery Learning model to be used in teaching descriptive text in the classroom due to its strengths.
Industrial Foundations as Long-Term Owners

Short-termism has become a serious concern for corporate governance, and this has inspired a search for institutional arrangements to promote long-term decision-making. In this paper, we call attention to long-term ownership by industrial foundations, which is common in Northern Europe but little known in the rest of the world. We use a unique Danish data set to document that industrial foundations are long-term owners that practice long-term governance. We show that foundation ownership is highly stable compared to other ownership structures. Foundation-owned companies replace managers less frequently. They have conservative capital structures with low financial leverage. They score higher on an index of long-termism in finance, investment, and employment. They survive longer. Overall, our paper supports the hypothesis that corporate time horizons are influenced by ownership structures and particularly that industrial foundations possess characteristics that promote long-termism. Policymakers, business owners, and managers interested in promoting long-term governance models should therefore reconsider the role of ownership structure.
Global Dimensions of U.S. Monetary Policy

This paper is a partial exploration of mechanisms through which global factors influence the tradeoffs that U.S. monetary policy faces. It considers three main channels. The first is the determination of domestic inflation in a context where international prices and global competition play a role, alongside domestic slack and inflation expectations. The second channel is the determination of asset returns (including the natural real safe rate of interest, râ? ) and financial conditions, given integration with global financial markets. The third channel, which is particular to the United States, is the potential spillback onto the U.S. economy from the disproportionate impact of U.S. monetary policy on the outside world. In themselves, global factors need not undermine a central bank's ability to control the price level over the long term -- after all, it is the monopoly issuer of the numeraire in which domestic prices are measured. Over shorter horizons, however, global factors do change the tradeoff between price-level control and other goals such as low unemployment and financial stability, thereby affecting the policy cost of attaining a given price path.
Social Capital Versus Cultural Capital Determinants of Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study of the African Continent

Entrepreneurship literature has examined the effects of social capital and cultural capital on entrepreneurial outcomes. However, the articulation of these concepts has not been clearly resolved. We employ a unique dataset of entrepreneurs from 51 African countries, introducing the level of slave trade as both a measurement of mistrust and a proxy for social capital. We use majority religion as a proxy for cultural capital. We found that social capital has a significantly positive impact on entrepreneurship only through its moderating effect on cultural capital. Results have significant policy implications for the articulation of social and cultural capital.
Default Risk and Cross Section of Returns

Prior research uses the basic one-period European call-option pricing model to compute default measures for individual firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn higher return than big firms only if they have higher default risk and value stocks earn higher returns than growth stocks if their default risk is high. In this paper we use a more advanced compound option pricing model for the computation of default risk and provide a more exhaustive test of stock returns using univariate and double-sorted portfolios. The results show that long/short hedge portfolios based on Geske measures of default risk produce significantly larger return differentials than Merton’s measure of default risk. The paper provides new evidence that mediates between the rational and behavioral explanations of value premium.
Mobile learning in higher education: A comparative analysis of developed and developing country contexts

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast characteristics of use and adoption of mobile learning in higher education in developed and developing countries. A comparative case study based on a survey questionnaire was conducted with 189 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) from Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Adelaide in Australia. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was employed as the theoretical framework. The results indicated that higher education students in developed and developing countries use a range of technologies for learning, with major differences between Uganda and Australia. The study concludes that mobile learning in higher education in developed and developing country contexts is still at an experimental stage with students using mobile devices in pedagogically limited ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Polymeric membranes functionalized by poly(ionic liquid)s and palladium nanoparticles : application for CO² capture and catalytic membranes

Polymeric support membranes were modified via photo-grafting by poly(ionic liquid)s (polyILs), featuring in the capability to separate CO2 from other gases and to stabilize metallic nanoparticles (MNPs). For CO2 capture, a thin polyIL-IL gel layer was homogenously coated on support hollow fibers. The composite fibers show high CO2 permeance and reasonable CO2/N2 selectivity. For the catalytic membrane, palladium NPs were generated inside a grafted polyLI layer. Compared to colloidal palladium system in a batch reactor, the catalytic membrane, as a contactor membrane reactor, is more efficient in terms of reaction time (ca. 2000 times faster), selectivity and MNP retainability. Theoretical study on reactor modeling, concentration & temperature profiles, and production capacity was done for an overall understanding of the catalytic membrane.
Disaggregated Capital Expenditures

Financial analysts and accounting regulators encourage companies to disclose the disaggregation of total capital expenditures (CAPX) into the portion for sustaining current performance (maintenance CAPX [MCAPX]) and the portion for pursuing additional opportunities (growth CAPX [GCAPX]). Using a hand-collected sample of voluntary disclosures, we document that traditional estimates of disaggregated CAPX components, using currently required financial statement disclosures, are inadequate proxies for actual (disclosed) values of MCAPX and GCAPX. Specifically, we find that estimation errors for disaggregated variables are associated with future financial performance (i.e., changes in sales and earnings), suggesting that disaggregated disclosure information is potentially useful in forecasting. We also find that these estimation errors are associated with analyst forecast revisions of sales and earnings per share, consistent with analysts incorporating disaggregated CAPX information into their forecasts. Our results provide evidence that disaggregated CAPX disclosures are superior to currently required aggregate CAPX disclosure for forecasting firms' financial performance.
The Effect of Network Depth on the Optimization Landscape

It is well-known that deeper neural networks are harder to train than shallower ones. In this short paper, we use the (full) eigenvalue spectrum of the Hessian to explore how the loss landscape changes as the network gets deeper, and as residual connections are added to the architecture. Computing a series of quantitative measures on the Hessian spectrum, we show that the Hessian eigenvalue distribution in deeper networks has substantially heavier tails (equivalently, more outlier eigenvalues), which makes the network harder to optimize with ﬁrst-order methods. We show that adding residual connections mitigates this eﬀect substantially, suggesting a mechanism by which residual connections improve training
THE REFORMS OF NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS IN MALAYSIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Although the impact of education policy reform could inform future policymaking initiatives, studies on education policy reform of student assessment are considered scarce. This study attempts to scrutinise the drivers, impacts, and challenges of education policy reform of the national assessment system in Malaysia based on policy documents and previous empirical studies. The findings indicated that the education policy reform of the Malaysian national assessment system is driven by the decline of pupils’ performance in international large-scale assessments. There are changes in content, format, and structure of the public examinations and assessment delivery procedures. The emergence of school-based assessment shows a paradigm shift from cognitive learning to a more holistic manner. Challenges arise included teachers’ extra workload, teachers’ readiness, lack of reference materials, and time constraints in implementing school-based assessment. Findings inferred the needs in refining the monitoring and coaching system in order to ensure the student assessment implementation does not diverge from the missions of education policy reform. This study is hoped to provide useful insights for future policymaking initiatives, particularly in Malaysia. Keywords: Malaysia, policy reform, public examination, school-based assessment, student assessment. Cite as: Chin, H. , Thien, L. M. , & Chew, C. M. (2019). The reforms of national assessments in Malaysian education system. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(1), 93-111. http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp93-111
Impacts of Land-Use Change on Habitat Quality during 1985–2015 in the Taihu Lake Basin

Habitat quality (HQ) is of great significance to regional sustainable development, which is a key link for regional ecological security and human welfare. Assessing the temporal and spatial evolution of HQ caused by land-use change could provide a scientific basis for regional ecological protection and land management. Here, based on the ArcGIS platform and the InVEST model, this study quantified the spatial and temporal evolutions of land use, landscape patterns, and HQ from 1985 to 2015, in Taihu Lake Basin (TLB). Hotspot analysis tools were used to identify the spatial agglomeration and evolution characteristics of HQ in TLB. The results showed that, (1) the land use and landscape pattern in TLB experienced dramatic change process during 1985–2015, with the dominating conversion being from farmland to construction land, which led to an increase in landscape heterogeneity and fragmentation. (2) The HQ was generally reduced in the past 30 years. In particular, the decline of HQ was extremely severe in the peripheral area of cities and roads, due to urban sprawl. (3) Regarding the spatial distribution of HQ, the northern and eastern areas were generally higher, while the western and southern areas were generally lower. The hotspots areas were mainly located in the southwestern mountain area and west-central lake area, while the cold spots areas were mainly located in urban areas in the north and the east. (4) The area and degree of habitat degradation were both increased significantly due to land-use change, and the degradation of the Taihu Lake was highlighted. Strengthening the ecological environment management and reducing the threat of urban expansion to the HQ is urgently required. This study could help understand HQ of the TLB and provide a scientific basis for decision-makers.
3D SCENE MODELING FOR DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING Matthieu Maitre

ABSTRACTThe compression ef Þ ciency of Distributed Video-Coding(DVC)suffersfromthenecessityoftransmittingalargenum-berofkey-frameswhichareintra-coded. Thispaperdescribesanew3Dmodel-basedDVCapproachwhichreducesthekey-framefrequency. The decoder Þ rst recoversa 3D model fromthe key-frames. It then predicts the intermediate frames byprojectingit onto2D imageplanesand applyingimage-basedrenderingtechniques. Thispaperalsointroducesanewquasi-DVC method relying on a limited point tracking at the en-coder. It greatly improves the prediction PSNR, while onlyslightly increasing the encoder complexity. It also allowsthe encoder to adaptively select the key-frames based on thevideo motion-content.Index Terms  Video coding, Stereo vision1. INTRODUCTIONDistributed Video Coding (DVC) is a recent approach whichis being investigatedas a possible alternative to classical pre-dictive coders for applications requiring low-complexity en-coders as well as error resilience. By moving the motion-compensationstage to the decoder,it keeps the encodercom-plexity to a minimum and bene Þ ts from compression basedonbothspatialandtemporalcorrelations. Moreover,sincetheframes are encoded independently, it avoids temporal propa-gationof errors.Previous studies [1, 2] have shown the potential of DVCbut also noted the compression gap remaining between DVCand predictive coding. It is in part due to the poor per-formanceof block-basedmotion-compensationwhen appliedto distant key-frames. Key-frames need to be sent sparselybecause of their high bitrate cost. This makes the motionÞ elds between them often too complex to be approximatedby spatially blockwise-constant and temporally piecewise-constantmotion Þ elds. Thisalsorequiresmotionvectorstobesearched inside large regions, which increases the likelihoodof large errors.
Teleconference channel assignment

The Institute for Data Processing at the Technical University of Munich develops an online teleconference system. At the moment the system consists of separate devices and algorithms, which were implemented in previous works. This includes the recording hardware such as the microphone array and the software for the speaker localisation, separation and recognition. In this thesis I connected the algorithms at the recording side to make channel assignment possible. Channel assignment means to put every speaker at an own audio channel to support the human hearing system at the playback side via 3D-sound. The other task of this thesis is to evaluate the teleconference system, in special the speaker identification approach. This is done in two ways. The first compares the developed recognition system to an offline speaker diarization algorithm from the ICSI, to have a minimal reachable threshold for the Diarization Error Rate. This is also used to find the best parameters for the recognition task. In the second evaluation simulated and real conferences are tested to achieve a quality statement about the whole teleconference system in view of the channel assignment.
PENGARUH PENGELUARAN PEMERINTAH DAN INVESTASI TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DAN TINGKAT KEMISKINAN DI KABUPATEN/KOTA PROVINSI BALI

The economic development of region is series of activities carried out consciously and continuously to realize better and more shared situation. Some of factors that cause decline in poverty levels are government spending, investment, economic growth. By looking at the decline in poverty rates in Bali, the researchers want to conduct research on the effects of government spending and investment on economic growth and poverty levels. Data collection through BPS. Path analysis was used. The results of the analysis show that government spending and investment have a positive and significant direct influence on economic growth. Government expenditures have a negative and significant direct influence on poverty levels. Investment has a positive but not significant direct influence on poverty levels and economic growth has a positive and significant direct influence on poverty levels. Government spending and investment do not have an indirect effect on the level of poverty through economic growth.
The effects of pornography on sexual minority men’s body image: an experimental study

ABSTRACT Pornography’s effects on sexual minority men have not been extensively researched. Studies specifically examining its effects on body image in both heterosexual and sexual minority men have reported conflicting findings and have only used correlational and qualitative methods. This is this first known experimental study to investigate the impact of pornography on sexual minority men’s body image. Eighty-seven sexual minority men were recruited for an online study. Participants were randomly assigned to watch either a pornographic video or nature video, and then completed three questionnaires assessing male genital self-image, drive for muscularity, and social physique anxiety. Results indicated that participants exposed to pornography did not report greater social physique anxiety, greater drive for muscularity, or reduced genital body image compared to participants exposed to the nature video. Self-reported history of pornography use was not associated with scores on the body image measures utilized. These results contradict previous findings indicating a positive correlation between pornography use and body dissatisfaction in sexual minority men, and further research is needed to explore these discrepancies.