Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The pursuit of a good life in a developing place: a human-centred study among vulnerable migrants in São Paulo-Brazil

This thesis deals with the perceptions of migrants facing vulnerability about the changes in their lives after migrating to a developing context, especially in terms of their agency, fundamental rights and cultural liberty. It emphasises the need to focus more on the impacts of migration on the individuals migrating, and not simply on the impacts on the economies of their places of origin and destination. To further explore this human-centred dimension of migration, the thesis’ theoretical framework is grounded in Amartya Sen’s line of the Capability Approach (CA), adding some contributions from a rights-based approach (Benhabib, & Sassen) and a hybrid multiculturalist framework (Fry & Sansone) in order to advance the discussions on transnational rights and cultural rights raised by Sen and the CA. The context chosen to develop the research was Brazil owing to its contributions to both capability and migration studies, since its particular approach to transnational rights and to multiculturalism brings innovative ways to rethink current international debates in these fields. Following the theoretical framework indicated, the thesis analyses the main findings of a fieldwork with mixed methods (qualitative + quantitative) held with a hundred Latin American and African migrants temporarily living in two charity houses in São Paulo, addressing the key research question of how they perceive changes in their lives after having migrated, in terms of agency, basic rights and cultural liberty. Considering the main needs and difficulties observed during the fieldwork, the thesis concludes with policy recommendations to tackle these challenges.
Adult Fast-Mapping Memory Research Is Based on a Misinterpretation of Developmental-Word-Learning Data

Fast mapping is often used to refer to children’s remarkable ability to learn the meanings of new words with minimal exposure and in ambiguous contexts. It is one thing to claim that children are capable of learning words this way; it is another to claim that this ability relies on a specific fast-mapping neurocognitive mechanism that is critical for early word learning. Yet that claim has recently been made in adult memory research and used as a theoretical justification for research into an adult fast-mapping mechanism. In this review, we explain why the existence of such a mechanism in children is not supported by developmental research and explore the implications for adult fast-mapping data and research.
The Effect of Jazz Improvisation Instruction on Measures of Executive Function in Middle School Band Students

Research investigating links between academic achievement and active music instruction has not previously differentiated between different types of instruction. In the current study, 155 seventh- and eighth-grade middle school band students were divided into two groups. Both groups received 2 months of instruction in jazz phrasing, scales, and vocabulary, but only the experimental group was taught to improvise. All instruction was part of the warm-up routine in regular band classes. All students were tested before and after instruction on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (cognitive flexibility) and the classic Stroop task (inhibitory control). At posttest, eighth-grade students in the experimental group scored significantly better on cognitive flexibility with a smaller percentage of perseverative errors, whereas the treatment had no effect on seventh-grade students on this outcome. Seventh graders, but not eighth graders, in the experimental group increased their posttest scores for inhibitory control, though this result was only marginally significant. In relation to previous research, the current results strongly suggest that far-transfer effects of active music participation depend on the nature of the instruction. Results of prior and future studies should therefore be interpreted in light of the type of music-making engaged by participants.
Investigating the impact/role of the interactive whiteboard on teaching practices in Maltese kindergarten classrooms through an activity theory approach

Technology in the 21st century is changing the face of society as much as it is transforming learning and teaching practices. At kindergarten level children are already immersed in technology, challenging teachers into re-thinking their pedagogies to be able to effectively integrate digital tools into their classrooms, a change which is a complex process. This research investigates if and how the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), as a technology-enabled tool, supports/challenges teachers into transforming their pedagogical practices from the teachers’ perspectives in Maltese kindergarten classrooms. Activity theory (AT) as the main theoretical framework was adopted to examine and analyse the pedagogical activity within this specific sociocultural context, enabling the capture of the whole dynamics of the activities taking place, underlining how the IWB acts as a multimodal tool enabling teaching and learning. The teacher as the facilitator plays a crucial role in the dynamics of this activity system. The findings result from participative observations within ten Maltese kindergarten classes and interviews with the kindergarten educators. They perceive the IWB as an important mediating tool which stimulates and motivates learning while in the process supports and transforms their teaching practices. The tensions which emerged were mainly due to the lack of support both in technical and pedagogical aspects as well as that by school leaders. Lack of training and professional development was predominantly hindering the full potential of the IWB tools. These challenges in some instances acted as the driving forces behind change in pedagogy. The major recommendations arising from this study suggest a clear strategy for a whole school policy for technology uptake, emphasis on continuous professional development, opportunities for sharing of practice, and a shared leadership approach. These factors are influential and determine whether a shift can transpire in how far teachers exploit this curricular integration or use the IWB merely as a substitution, as technology for its own sake.
Age, medication use, and nonfatal agricultural injury

This descriptive and analytic study used a secondary data set to describe and compare medication use and agricultural injury experiences between younger (≤54 years old) and older (≥55 years old) farmers; and to examine the relationship between the use of specific classes of medication and reported agricultural injury. The study sample included a total of 316 farmers, age 26 to 80 years old; 103 older farmers (33%), and 210 younger farmers (66%). This cohort of farmers sustained a total of 318 nonfatal agricultural injuries. No statistical difference was found in the mean number of injuries sustained by older and younger farmers. The injury rate for the whole cohort of farmers was 41.95 injuries/100 years; older farmers’ injury rate was 38.35 injuries/100 person-years, while younger farmers’ was 44.01 injuries/100 person-years. Older farmers were more likely to report taking a medication than the younger farmers (OR: 3.08; 95% CI: 1.94-4.92). Older farmers had statistically significant greater odds of reporting the use of several medication classes/subclasses than the younger farmers, including: hormones; cardiac medications such as: ACE inhibitors, blood pressure medications, alpha blockers, and beta blockers, and finally central nervous system medications such as pain medications. Older farmers were also found to report taking more medications than younger farmers. Multiple logistic regression analysis using GEE was used to examine the association between using specific classes of medication and agricultural injury, taking into consideration a myriad of confounding factors. Agricultural work exposures associated with injury included noise (OR 1.39, 95% CI: 1.02-1.90), chemical/pesticide use (OR 1.88, 95% CI: 1.39-2.55), heavy lifting (1.55, 95% CI: 1.06-2.28) and raising livestock (OR 1.49, 95% CI: 1.08-2.06). Medication classes significantly associated with an increased risk for agricultural injury included taking two different types of heart medications: beta blockers (OR 2.30,
A Research Note on Income Pooling in Partnerships: Incorporating Nonresident Children

Income pooling is a common behavior among couples. However, cohabiting and married individuals in more complex families, namely those with stepchildren, are less likely to pool incomes. Similarly, income pooling might be unlikely when there are nonresident children, who could potentially draw resources outside the household, yet prior work has largely overlooked the role of nonresident children. We take advantage of a unique data set, the Family and Relationships Study, which allows us to not only identify shared and unshared children (i.e., stepchildren) within the household but also unshared children outside the household. Focusing on cohabiting and married individuals (N = 4,408), we find that those with resident unshared children are less likely to pool incomes but that nonresident children are unrelated to income pooling. The results confirm that household-level complexity is a key factor in couples’ economic decision making.
A Multidimensional Investigation of Sexuality in Older Adults Within a Successful Aging Model

A Multidimensional Investigation of Sexuality in Older Adults Within a Successful Aging Model Allyson S. Graf, M.A. Sexual well-being in later life has traditionally been evaluated in relation to age-related physical limitations and sexual dysfunction. This study developed a multidimensional model of sexual well-being by investigating sexual interest, sexual attitudes (general and age-specific), and agespecific sexual knowledge in relation to more commonly-used indicators of sexual well-being (e.g., frequency and sexual satisfaction). Using a racially-diverse, U.S. sample of adults (N = 367, Mage = 54.40), structural equation modeling was used to test these associations (AGFI = .967; TLI = .994; and RMSEA = .031). Sexual interest (β = .53), attitudes (β = -.11 and .17), and knowledge (β = .09) accounted for 33.1% of the variance in a latent construct of sexual wellbeing. Multi-group comparisons revealed a different pattern of associations by gender with the model accounting for more variance in women’s sexual well-being than men’s (40.1% vs. 25.9%). Sexual interest contributed significantly to both men’s (β = .46) and women’s sexual well-being (β = .60). Men’s sexual well-being was also influenced by their general sexual attitudes (β = .19), but not by either age-specific measure. Sexual attitudes did not contribute to women’s sexual well-being, but age-specific sexual knowledge contributed significantly (β = .13). These findings demonstrate the importance of considering more than physical capability when studying sexuality beyond the childbearing years. Further, beyond sexual interest, men and women appear to differ slightly in what impacts sexual well-being. Because these particular constructs are subjective and social in nature, it may reflect differences in sexual socialization.
MENINGKATKAN MINAT DAN HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA PADA PERKULIAHAN ELEKTRONIKA DASAR MELALUI DIGITAL GAME-BASED LEARNING

Kurangnya minat belajar mahasiswa dalam perkuliahan Elektronika Dasar di Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika FKIP Universitas Samawa menyebabkan ketidakmampuan mahasiswa dalam memahami berbagai konsep dasar dalam Rangkaian Elekronika yang selanjutnya berdampak pada hasil belajar mahasiswa. Untuk mengatasi rendahnya minat belajar dan hasil belajar mahasiswa tentang rangkaian elektronika dasar perlu dilakukan terobosan baru. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh metode digital game-based learning (DGBL) dalam meningkatkan minat belajar dan hasil belajar mahasiswa pada mata kuliah Elektronika Dasar. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas yang dilakukan sebanyak dua siklus. Data dianalisis dengan statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan metode DGBL dapat meningkatkan minat dan hasil belajar mahasiswa.
Fit perceptions, work engagement, satisfaction and commitment

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between fit (organization and job) perceptions and work engagement (WE). Design/methodology/approach The authors deployed a two-wave survey among 377 clerical employees of the specialist lending division of a large UK bank, with the waves separated by 12 months. Findings The results show a positive relationship between person organization (PO) and person job (PJ) fit perceptions (at Time 1) and WE (at Time 2). Job satisfaction (JS) and affective commitment (AC) dual-mediate these relationships. The effect of PO fit on WE manifests primarily via AC, while the effect of PJ fit manifests primarily via JS. Practical implications The study indicates that organizations should consider the fit of employees to their jobs and the organization when designing interventions intended to increase WE. Also, potential synergies exist between organizational interventions designed to influence employee attitudes focused on similar units of analysis: e.g., PJ fit with JS or PO fit with AC. Originality/value This study provides the first investigation of the dual-mediation, via JS and AC, of the effects of both PJ and PO fit on WE. Furthermore, the use of a time-lagged design strengthens the evidence for the novel hypotheses of this study and enables verification of findings in the extant literature.
Efficient Processing and Delivery of Multimedia Data

The explosion of multimedia data on the Internet in recent years has greatly enriched people’s online experience. However, it also poses a great challenge to analyze and process, and then deliver such content to the worldwide audience. This dissertation presents novel approaches to improve the overall efficiency of the stack by tailoring software design to hardware properties, as well as optimize systems by exploiting workload characteristics using learning-based approaches. First, to improve the caching performance of the flash-memory caches for content delivery network, this thesis proposes RIPQ, a framework for efficient and advanced caching with flash memory. Traditional implementations of these algorithms generate random writes that perform poorly on flash devices, decreasing the device’s performance and lifespan. RIPQ overcomes this issue by aggregating small writes, colocating items with similar priorities, and perform lazy updates to achieve low overhead. By providing a priority queue interface, it allows a variety of caching algorithms to be easily implemented. Second, this thesis proposes Chess, which uses popularity prediction for higher quality video streaming. Although better encodings improve video streaming, they are also compute-intensive, and it is infeasible to encode all videos uploaded to Facebook with the highest quality codec. However, because the accesses to videos are highly skewed, we may obtain most of the benefit by only running the computeintensive encoding on a small portion of popular videos, and the challenge lies in how to accurately and scalably run popularity prediction to detect those videos beforehand. Chess meets this demand by designing an approximate but fast base predictor with the access history information, and using an online learning method to combine multiple such predictors as well as the social signals to boost accuracy. Lastly, this thesis investigates how to accelerate deep learning models on manycore CPUs. Deep learning is now widely used for analyzing multimedia data, but it iii is compute-intensive, which constitutes its major bottleneck. The manycore CPU, combining both high FLOPS and a flexible computing model, is a promising solution to this problem. However, existing frameworks are still mainly optimized for GPU, and do not run efficiently on this architecture. To overcome this issue, this thesis proposes Graphi , the first attempt to accelerate the execution of computation graphs for deep learning models on this architecture. Graphi determines the optimal parallel settings with a profiling step, runs concurrent operations with low contention, and further reduces execution makespan with critical-path first scheduling. This thesis demonstrated that these techniques can achieve significant speedups over TensorFlow on manycore CPUs.
Hubungan Psychological Well-Being dengan Loneliness pada Mahasiswa yang Merantau

Pada zaman sekarang, banyak mahasiswa merantau demi menempuh pendidikan yang lebih baik. Hal tersebut terjadi karena penyebaran pendidikan yang belum merata di Indonesia, pendidikan yang baik banyak terdapat di Pulau Jawa. Perpindahan ke lingkungan baru dapat menyebabkan mahasiswa tersebut mengalami perasaan loneliness. Pada beberapa penelitian sebelumnya, terlihat adanya hubungan pada psychological well-being dengan loneliness. Jadi penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat hubungan antara psychological well-being dengan loneliness pada subyek yang berbeda yaitu mahasiswa rantau. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan teknik pengambilan data accidental sampling. Subyek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa rantau berusia 18-21 tahun di Jakarta. Alat ukur penelitian ini adalah dengan menggunakan kuisioner psychological well-being berdasarkan skala Ryff dan alat ukur loneliness. Kuisioner dibagikan kepada 405 orang responden dengan laki-laki sebanyak 108 orang dan perempuan 297 orang yang mewakili mahasiswa yang merantau di Jakarta. Berdasarkan hasil olah data dengan menggunakan SPSS 22.00 ditemukan bahwa korelasi antara psychological well-being dengan loneliness (r= -0.659; p=0.000<0.005) yang berarti terdapat hubungan negatif yang signifikan antara psychological well-being dengan loneliness. Setiap dimensi psychological well-being juga memiliki hubungan yang negatif dan signifikan terhadap loneliness.
Cross-Modal Peer Polyvictimization and Teen Dating Violence

ABSTRACT Research suggests that polyvictimization, or exposure to multiple types of victimization, has significant negative consequences for adolescents. Given emphasis on peer and dating relationships in adolescence, as well as changing ways that aggression manifests online, multiple types of peer victimization across physical and digital spaces may be especially consequential for teen dating violence (TDV) perpetration. Recent data on 5,647 adolescents is used to examine the relationship between peer polyvictimization and three forms of TDV. Negative binomial regression models are leveraged to assess the relationship between polyvictimization and each form of TDV. The results indicate that peer polyvictimization is associated with an increase in all types of TDV, while experiences of especially high polyvictimization are particularly related to increased risk for TDV perpetration. Prevention and intervention strategies for TDV may benefit from identifying those at greatest risk for peer abuse across social relationships and both on- and offline domains.
‘Show us you care!’ The gendered psycho-politics of emotion and women as political leaders

This article deploys a new psycho-political approach to examine the relationship between female political leadership and the emotionalisation of political culture by focusing on the case study of the media coverage of the former UK Prime Minister Theresa May. The article argues that the emotional turn in political culture is a gendered phenomenon because it reinforces deeper fears and fantasies about irrational femininity and the inherent instability of female political leadership and women in the public sphere.
An effective learning culture: Using high performance work systems to strengthen the relationship between communities of practice and knowledge creation in Africa

ABSTRACT This paper sought to demonstrate how communities of practice can coalesce with high performance work systems to develop an Africanized learning culture that promotes interaction among employees and empowers them to create innovative knowledge for competitive performance. A total of 622 individual participants were selected from medium- and large-sized organizations (>200 employees) to complete data collection questionnaires. Structural equation modeling (path analysis coefficients) revealed that both components (hard and soft) of high performance work systems have significant mediating effects on the relationship between communities of practice and knowledge creation. However, adoption of the soft component of high performance work systems in knowledge creation seemed to be more relevant to African social learning practices and operational contexts.
Study of Individual Work Performance: Perceived Organizational Support, Organizational Based Self Esteem, and Work Engagement

The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of perceived organizational support, organizational based self-esteem, and work engagement on individual work performance. The study uses a quantitative approach, the population of the Ministry of Transportation employees of the Republic of Indonesia with a total sampling technique so that all 228 respondents. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire and processed using SEM. The results of the study proved that there was a positive and significant effect on perceived organizational support, organizational based self-esteem, and work engagement on individual work performance. The findings of this study prove that the impact of corporate based self-esteem on individual work performance through work engagement has more role than the effect of perceived organizational support on individual work performance through work engagement. The next researcher hopes to be able to deepen other ministries regarding perceived organizational support for individual work performance through work engagement.
Generalized Power Allocation (GPA) Scheme for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Based Wireless Communication System

This paper presents a Generalized Power Allocation (GPA) scheme for different users in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) based wireless communication system. The power allocation to the users becomes complex with the increased number of users. There are some conventional schemes for power allocation in NOMA but they have to optimize some parameters arbitrarily. In this paper, a simple but effective power allocation scheme has been formulated and tested by simulations. The proposed GPA scheme does not need any parameter adjustment. Theoretical power distribution to different users of NOMA has been calculated using the proposed GPA technique. The calculated powers of individual users with the proposed scheme are different and more distributed than the arbitrary power allocation scheme which satisfies the basic condition of NOMA. The total of calculated powers with GPA scheme shows only 01% variation with the arbitrary power allocation scheme which shows the consistency of GPA scheme with other schemes. The performance of NOMA based wireless communication system with GPA scheme has been simulated under various conditions using Matlab. The simulated BER performance for NOMA based wireless communication system using different modulation techniques show similar results with other conventional schemes which validates the formulation of GPA scheme.