Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The acquisition of French vocabulary in an interactive digital gaming context

Prêt à Négocier (PàN) is an interactive digital information gap game designed to help French students improve their interaction skills. In this study, we examined the effects of its use on improving French learners’ vocabulary. Following a pretest/posttest design, we compared the development of 20 French words between an experimental and a control group. Although both groups followed a similar trajectory in vocabulary learning, some participants benefited from the proposed game-based pedagogy more than others due to individual differences. Our findings highlight how interactive and meaningful games such as PàN can complement and enhance the learning of second/foreign language (L2) vocabulary.
Once Hurt, Twice Hurtful: How Perceived Regard Regulates Daily Marital Interactions

A daily diary study examined how chronic perceptions of a partner's regard affect how intimates interpret and respond to daily relationship stresses. Spouses each completed a diary for 21 days. Multilevel analyses revealed that people who felt less positively regarded read more into stressful events than did people who felt highly regarded, feeling more hurt on days after acute threats, such as those posed by a moody or ill-behaved partner. Intimates who felt less valued responded to feeling hurt by behaving badly toward their partner on subsequent days. In contrast, intimates who felt more valued responded to feeling hurt by drawing closer to their partner. Ironically, chronically activated needs for belongingness might lead people who are trying to find acceptance to undermine their marriage.
Research on efficient online planning of emergency logistics path based on double-layer ant colony optimization algorithm

ABSTRACT In order to scientifically plan the path of emergency logistics vehicle the path planning method needs to be studied. At present, the distribution efficiency is low. In this paper, an efficient online planning algorithm for emergency logistics path based on double ant colony optimization is proposed. The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm can improve the distribution efficiency.
Phishing for Suitable Targets in The Netherlands: Routine Activity Theory and Phishing Victimization

This article investigates phishing victims, especially the increased or decreased risk of victimization, using data from a cybercrime victim survey in the Netherlands (n=10,316). Routine activity theory provides the theoretical perspective. According to routine activity theory, several factors influence the risk of victimization. A multivariate analysis was conducted to assess which factors actually lead to increased risk of victimization. The model included background and financial data of victims, their Internet activities, and the degree to which they were "digitally accessible" to an offender. The analysis showed that personal background and financial characteristics play no role in phishing victimization. Among eight Internet activities, only "targeted browsing" led to increased risk. As for accessibility, using popular operating systems and web browsers does not lead to greater risk, while having up-to-date antivirus software as a technically capable guardian has no effect. The analysis showed no one, clearly defined group has an increased chance of becoming a victim. Target hardening may help, but opportunities for prevention campaigns aimed at a specific target group or dangerous online activities are limited. Therefore, situational crime prevention will have to come from a different angle. Banks could play the role of capable guardian.
Communities of practice in healthcare: A framework for managing knowledge sharing in operations

Communities of Practice (CoPs) have been adopted by several industries, in particular healthcare, and researchers have proposed explanatory frameworks and guidelines for development. However, operations managers are left with sparse research-based advice on how to develop CoP due to a lack of empirical studies from such a context. In response this paper proposes and tests a framework for intentional development of CoPs in healthcare operations. The proposed framework is structured in six steps which incorporate seven factors for CoP development as identified in the literature. A double case study test demonstrates that the proposed framework can be applied to develop CoPs within operations, resulting in knowledge sharing between CoP participants, creation of new knowledge, and improvement of practice. In particular, the tests find the following steps to be especially crucial for CoP development: an introduction to the manager of the functions and benefits of CoPs to ensure resource allocation (e.g. time to participate and a meeting room), choosing a practice with relevance for manager and employees, appointing a coordinator, and inviting employees to participate voluntarily. This paper contributes to CoP theory with explanations of how and why specific actions develop CoP within operations. The contribution to practitioners is a step-by-step framework to intentionally develop CoPs within operations to improve knowledge sharing and practice improvement.
Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women

This text takes a close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong and Simi Bedford are the writers Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi considers. African womanism, an emerging model of female discourse, is at the heart of their writing. In their work, female resistance shifts from the idea of palava, or trouble, to a focus on consensus, compromise and co-operation; it tackles sexism, totalitarianism, and ethnic prejudice. Such inclusiveness, Ogunyemi shows, stems from an emphasis on motherhood, acknowledging that everyone is a mother's child, capable of creating palava and generating a compromise. Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centred on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the new woman in these novels. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to exile to woman writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties - to self and other, children and nation. Such fragmented personalities characterize the postcolonial condition in their writing. Mapping geographies of pain and endurance, the work opens a space for addressing the palava between different groups of people. This book also counters the shortcomings of prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a narrative of the Nigerian world.
TITLE The Attributional Explanation of Academic Performance by Kindergarteners and Their Teachers

This report presents a study designed to, determine if 5=54ar olds possess the understanding of causation that conforms to the Weiner et al. (1971) achievement model. Furthermore, this paper studies the similarities between the attributional explanations of 5-year olds and their teachers. Twenty, eight 5-year old students, largely part-Hawaiian, from a single kindergarten were asked to explain the outcome of a story in terms of achievement determinants. Their four teachers were each given a questionnaire for each child and asked to explain a given performance in terms of a rating sale of achieve. ment dimensions. Results show outcome (positive or negative), sex, and income to be significantly related to the children's attributional choices. Income and IQ were found to be significantly related to teacher responses. Children's choices of task and ability did not predict teacher responses; choices of luck and effort were significantly related to teacher rat)ngs. :The data indicate awareness of the causal'nature of. achievement in kindergarten-aged children and considerable agreement between. teacher and student responses.
0 Multiple Scattering of Elastic Waves in Granular Media : Theory and Experiments

Leonardo Trujillo1,2, Franklin Peniche3 and Xiaoping Jia4 1Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas 2The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste 3Departamento de Física y Electrónica, Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 4Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux Divisés et des Interfaces (LPMDI), Université Paris–Est 1Venezuela, 2Italy, 3Colombia, 4France
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics Labour Market Imperfections , International Integration and Selection

Although a large body of literature has focused on the e¤ects of intra rm di¤erences on export performance, relatively little attention has been devoted to the interaction between rmsselection and international performance and labour market institutions in contrast with the centrality of the latter to current policy and public debates on the implications of economic globalisation for national policies and institutions. In this paper, we study the e¤ects of labour market unionisation on the process of competitive selection between heterogeneous rms and analyse how the interaction between the two is a¤ected by trade liberalisation between countries with di¤erent unionisation patterns. Keywords: rm selection, labour market unionisation, gains from trade J.E. L. Classi cation: F12, R13, J51 Catia Montagna, University of Dundee, UK. Email: c.montagna@dundee.ac. uk. Antonella Nocco, University of Salento (Lecce), Italy. Email: a.nocco@economia.unile. it. We are grateful to Nicola Coniglio for helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.
Improving Upper Extremity Myoelectric Prosthesis Functionality Through the Use of Intramuscular EMG Signals

The prevalence of upper extremity amputation is increasing in the United States. To meet the demand of decreased functionality associated with upper extremity loss, prosthetic design has become increasingly complex, allowing for an high number of operable degrees-of-freedom (DOFs). Unfortunately, the ability to control this increased mechanical capability is limited. Pattern recognition using EMG signals obtained from surface electrodes is the state-of-the-art for myoelectric prosthetic control; however, it is limited in its ability allow for natural, simultaneous control of multiple DOFs. Recognizing this limitation, some researchers have focused efforts on creating control algorithms based on intramuscular signals. Despite initial reports that demonstrated no improvements in the classification accuracy, more recent literature presents intramuscular EMG signals as potentially useful drivers of classifying multiple, simultaneous DOFs. As opposed to surface-based signals, intramuscular signals are generated from a much smaller conduction volume, dependent on the type of electrode used. A novel combined control strategy incorporating both intramuscular and surface EMG signals may have the potential to leverage advantages from
Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Is Required for the Antinociceptive Effects of Thiamine and Benfotiamine Hurt

Thiamine (Vitamin B1) is an essential vitamin that must be obtained from the diet for proper neurological function. At higher doses, thiamine and benfotiamine (S-benzoylthiamine O-monophosphate, BT)–a phosphorylated derivative of thiamine– have antinociceptive effects in animals and humans, although how these compounds inhibit pain is unknown. Here, we found that Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP, ACPP) can dephosphorylate BT in vitro, in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons and in primary-afferent axon terminals in the dorsal spinal cord. The dephosphorylated product S-benzoylthiamine (S-BT) then decomposes to O-benzoylthiamine (O-BT) and to thiamine in a pH-dependent manner, independent of additional enzymes. This unique reaction mechanism reveals that BT only requires a phosphatase for conversion to thiamine. However, we found that the antinociceptive effects of BT, thiamine monophosphate (TMP) and thiamine–a compound that is not phosphorylated–were entirely dependent on PAP at the spinal level. Moreover, pharmacokinetic studies with wild-type and Pap mice revealed that PAP is not required for the conversion of BT to thiamine in vivo. Taken together, our study highlights an obligatory role for PAP in the antinociceptive effects of thiamine and phosphorylated thiamine analogs, and suggests a novel phosphatase-independent function for PAP. Citation: Hurt JK, Coleman JL, Fitzpatrick BJ, Taylor-Blake B, Bridges AS, et al. (2012) Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Is Required for the Antinociceptive Effects of Thiamine and Benfotiamine. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0048562 Editor: Alexander Binshtok, The Hebrew University Medical School, Israel Received August 24, 2012; Accepted September 27, 2012; Published October 31, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Hurt et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS067688). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: M.J.Z. and P.V. are listed as inventors on a patent application (US Patent 2010/0266,569) that was licensed to a commercial entity for the purpose of developing PAP protein as a treatment for pain. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. * E-mail: zylka@med.unc. edu
THE EFFECTS OF INTERLINGUAL AND INTRALINGUAL SUBTITLES ON SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING / ACQUISITION : A STATE-OFTHE-ART

The disciplinary field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has witnessed an increasing interest in the investigation of the effects of subtitled and captioned audiovisual materials on domains of language learning/acquisition. In this context, this paper seeks to provide a systematic review of recent studies related to language learning aspects aided by the instructional/experimental use of subtitled and captioned materials. The present paper draws on relevant literature in the field of SLA that interfaces with subtitling/captioning, while outlining their goals and main findings. This paper also aims to unveil which dimensions have merited scholar attention the most in the last two decades. Finally, some considerations are made regarding possible avenues for future research, taking into account the existing literature and underinvestigated issues.
Embryology Day 3 embryo selectionbymetabolomic profiling of culture medium with near-infrared spectroscopy as an adjunct to morphology : a randomized controlled trial

study question: Is the selection of a single Day 3 embryo by metabolomic profiling of culture medium with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy as an adjunct to morphology able to improve live birth rates in IVF, compared with embryo selection by morphology alone? summary answer: The live birth rate after embryo selection by NIR spectroscopy and morphology is not significantly different compared with the live birth rate after embryos were selected by morphology alone. what is known already: The elevated incidence of pregnancy and neonatal problems associated with a high-twinning rate after IVF can only be successfully reduced by the transfer of one embryo. Current embryo assessment methods are unable to accurately predict the reproductive potential of an individual embryo. Today, a number of techniques are said to be more accurate at selecting the best embryo. One of these new technologies is metabolomic profiling of spent embryo culture media with the use of NIR spectroscopy. study design, size and duration: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial was conducted between 2009 and 2011, and included 417 couples undergoing IVF with a single embryo transfer. Randomization was performed centrally just before Ovum Pick-Up (OPU), using a computerized randomization program. Both patient and physician were unaware of the treatment allocation. To ensure blinding, the allocations were placed in consecutively numbered, opaque envelopes. Patients were randomized (1:1) into either the control group (embryo selection by morphology only) or the treatment group (embryo selection by morphology plus NIR spectroscopy of embryo culture medium). participants/materials, setting and methods: At OPU, 208 patients were randomized to the morphology only group and 209 patients were randomized to the morphology plus viability score group. On Day 3, 163 patients in the control group and 146 patients in the treatment group met the inclusion criteria. The study was conducted in an academic hospital with IVF laboratory and three non-academic hospitals. main results and the role of chance: Patient demographics and baseline characteristics were distributed equally over the two groups, except for embryo fragmentation, which was significantly higher in the treatment group. In the intention to treat analysis, the live birth rates were 31.7 and 26.8% for the control group and the treatment group, respectively (relative risk 0.84; 95% confidence interval 0.63–1.14, P 1⁄4 0.27). In the per protocol analysis, the live birth rates were 31.3 and 29.5% for the control group and the treatment group, respectively (relative risk 0.94; 95% confidence interval 0.67–1.32, P 1⁄4 0.73). For the treatment group, the embryological technician’s independent choice (by morphology) of which embryo to transfer was recorded 138 times. In 75.4% (104 of 138) of the transfers, the embryo with the best morphology did not have the highest viability score. The live birth rate of these 104 transferred embryos was 30.8%.
Trajectory errors diagnosed with the MPTRAC advection module driven by ECMWF operational analyses

The accuracy of trajectory calculations performed by Lagrangian particle dispersion models (LPDMs) depends on various factors. The optimization of numerical integration schemes used to solve the trajectory equation helps to maximize the computational efficiency of large-scale LPDM simulations. We analyzed global truncation errors of six explicit integration schemes of the Runge-Kutta family, which we implemented in the Massive-Parallel Trajectory Calculations (MPTRAC) advection module. The simulations were driven by wind fields from operational analysis and forecasts of the European Centre for 5 Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at T1279L137 spatial resolution and 3 h temporal sampling. We defined separate test cases for 15 distinct regions of the atmosphere, covering the polar regions, the mid-latitudes, and the tropics in the free troposphere, in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UT/LS) region, and in the mid stratosphere. In total more than 5000 different transport simulations were performed, covering the months of January, April, July, and October for the years of 2014 and 2015. We quantified the accuracy of the trajectories by calculating transport deviations with respect to reference 10 simulations using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme with a sufficiently fine time step. Transport deviations were assessed with respect to error limits based on turbulent diffusion. Independent of the numerical scheme, the global truncation errors vary significantly between the different regions. Horizontal transport deviations in the stratosphere are typically an order of magnitude smaller compared with the free troposphere. We found that the truncation errors of the six numerical schemes fall into three distinct groups, which mostly depend on the numerical order of the scheme. Schemes of the same order differ 15 little in accuracy, but some methods need less computational time, which gives them an advantage in efficiency. The selection of the integration scheme and the appropriate time step should possibly take into account the typical altitude ranges as well as the total length of the simulations to achieve the most efficient simulations. However, trying to summarize, we recommend the third-order Runge-Kutta method with a time step of 170 s or the midpoint scheme with a time step of 100 s for efficient simulations of up to ten days simulation time for the specific ECMWF high-resolution data set considered in this study. Purely 20 stratospheric simulations can use significantly larger time steps of 1100 s and 800 s for the midpoint scheme and the third-order Runge-Kutta method, respectively.
The Empirical Study of the Relationship between CEO Cash Compensation and CEO Power in American Companies Dr .

This research study was conducted to understand the relationship between CEO cash compensation and CEO power in NYSE index companies. The study period selected was from 2005 to 2010. The quantitative research method was used or this research study. The totaled of one hundred and twenty companies were selected for sampling.The research question for this study was: is there a relationship between CEO cash compensation and CEO power? Overall, most of the statistical results found to have the relationship between them. The correlations between CEO salary, bonus, CEO age, CEO shares outstanding, CEO shares value, CEO tenure, CEO turnover, 5 percent management ownership, and 5 percent individual/institutional, were found to be ranged from weak negative to weak positive ratios. In addition, group firm-sized effect have a positive effect on salary in contrary, negative effect on bonuss.
STUDYING LANGUAGE AS A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM

In the past thirty years, a variety of approaches to linguistic analysis have emerged under the name of “functionalism,” including construction grammar, cognitive linguistics, typology and universals research, the usage-based model, and evolutionary approaches to language change. All of these approaches have shed new light of the relationship between grammatical form and meaning in language. In the twenty-first century, these seemingly diverse approaches to language can be integrated into the study of language as a complex adaptive system. *
Brain Structure and Function Cellular composition characterizing postnatal development and maturation of the mouse brain and spinal cord

Abstract: The process of development, maturation, and regression in the central nervous system (CNS) are genetically programmed and influenced by environment. Hitherto, most research efforts have focused on either the early development of the CNS or the late changes associated with aging, whereas an important period corresponding to adolescence has been overlooked. In this study we searched for age-dependent changes in the number of cells that compose the CNS (divided into isocortex, hippocampus, olfactory bulb, cerebellum, 'rest of the brain', and spinal cord) and the pituitary gland in 4-40-week-old C57BL6 mice, using the isotropic fractionator method in combination with neuronal nuclear protein (NeuN) as a marker for neuronal cells. We found that all CNS structures, except for the isocortex, increased in mass in the period of 4-15 weeks. Over the same period, the absolute number of neurons significantly increased in the olfactory bulb and cerebellum while non-neuronal cell numbers increased in the 'rest of the brain' and isocortex. Along with the gain in body length and weight, the pituitary gland also increased in mass and cell number, the latter correlating well with changes of the brain and spinal cord mass. The majority of the age-dependent alterations (e.g., somatic parameters, relative brain mass, number of pituitary cells, and cellular composition of the cerebellum, isocortex, rest of the brain, and spinal cord) occur rapidly between the 4th and 11th postnatal weeks. This period includes murine adolescence, underscoring the significance of this stage in the postnatal development of the mouse CNS.