Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda

Cultural industries, television among them, are industries that exemplify harsh working conditions and precariousness. Recently, there has been greater attention paid to the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in the creative industries in general and on television specifically. However, the study of minorities in television has generally focused on content analysis and not on the daily experiences of workers in the precarious television labor market itself. This paper offers an in-depth examination of the work process and conditions of ethnic–national minority (Israeli–Palestinians) versus majority creative workers (Jewish Israelis) in a television production, using observations conducted on the set of the Israeli TV series, Fauda (“Chaos” in Arabic) as a case study. Our study’s conclusions emphasize the way groups’ experiences reproduce social hierarchies based on ethnicity, nationality, and gender.
Does Career Resilience Promote Subjective Well-Being? Mediating Effects of Career Success and Work Stress

Drawing on the “top-down” view of life satisfaction, this study investigates the influence of employee career resilience on life satisfaction and examines mediating effects of indicators of career success (i.e., salary, job level, job satisfaction) and work-related well-being (i.e., work stress) on this relationship. Data were collected from a sample of 527 working professionals from various organizations across the central United States. Results revealed that career resilience was positively associated with life satisfaction. Two indicators of career success (job satisfaction and salary) and work stress were found to mediate this relationship. Taken together, these findings signal that career resilience contributes to employee subjective well-being and that both career success and work stress are instrumental in explaining this relationship.
How school districts influence student achievement

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the effects of nine district characteristics on student achievement, explored the conditions that mediated the effects of such characteristics and contributed to understandings about the role school-level leaders play in district efforts to improve achievement. Design/methodology/approach Data for the study were provided by the responses of 2,324 school and district leaders in 45 school districts to two surveys. Student achievement evidence was provided by multi-grade provincial measures of math and language achievement. The analysis of these data included calculation of descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis and regression mediation analysis. Findings Seven of nine district characteristics contributed significantly to student achievement and three conditions served as especially powerful mediators of such district effects. The same three conditions, as well as others, acted as significant mediators of school-level leader effects on achievement, as well. Practical implications District characteristics tested in the study provide a powerful framework for guiding the district improvement work of senior educational leaders. The organizational improvement efforts of both district and school leaders would be substantially enhanced by a better understanding of how to diagnose and improve the status of those conditions acting as significant mediators of the effects of both district and school leadership on student achievement. Originality/value This is one of a very few large-scale quantitative studies examining the extent to which characteristics frequently identified by district effectiveness research explain variation in student learning. It is also one of the very few studies identifying classroom, school and family variables that mediate district effects on such learning. The study also adds to a growing body of evidence about variables which mediate school leaders’ effects on such learning.
Changing expectations mediate adaptation in L2 production

Abstract Native language (L1) processing draws on implicit expectations. An open question is whether non-native learners of a second language (L2) similarly draw on expectations, and whether these expectations are based on learners’ L1 or L2 knowledge. We approach this question by studying inverse preference effects on lexical encoding. L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish described motion events, while they were either primed to express path, manner, or neither. In line with other work, we find that L1 speakers adapted more strongly after primes that are unexpected in their L1. For L2 speakers, adaptation depended on their L2 proficiency: The least proficient speakers exhibited the inverse preference effect on adaptation based on what was unexpected in their L1; but the more proficient speakers were, the more they exhibited inverse preference effects based on what was unexpected in the L2. We discuss implications for L1 transfer and L2 acquisition.
Teacher’s gaze behavior when scaffolding peer interaction and mathematical thinking during collaborative problem-solving activity

Scaffolding is an important teaching action that can target either at student cognitive or socio-emotional processes. The details of these scaffolding events can be examined through teacher visual attention, which interacts with his pedagogical decisions. In this study we use mobile gaze tracking device to investigate the different types of teacher’s gaze behavior while he is scaffolding collaborative problem solving on mathematics lesson. Teacher’s attentional focus during scaffolding events was found to relate to the purpose of the scaffolding event and thus to reflect teacher’s objectives for the interaction with students. This situational nature of teacher gaze implicates the need of contextual use of gaze tracking analysis in the field of education.
PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS HOTS TO PREPARE BETTER ASSESSMENT

Although Higher-Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) has currently been an ongoing topic of interest among educational researchers, there has been no wide exploration of such notion and its relation to the learning assessment. This instrumental case study aimed to investigate attitudes of Indonesian pre-service English teachers with reference to using HOTS-based test to prepare better assessment. The study was qualitatively conducted to scrutinize the participants’ attitudes on using the HOTS framework in designing more qualified assessment for students. The data were obtained through interview and questionnaire. The total of 10 pre-service teachers participating in the study were purposively chosen regarding their familiarity and comprehension with the study issue. The data were analyzed by employing descriptive qualitative data analysis. The result indicated that in spite of some situational restrictions, all of the participants shared their positive attitude towards HOTS principles to be adopted in providing better assessment from the affective, behavioral and cognitive points of view due to some influencing factors. More researches on the area of HOTS and its implementation on the area of assessment were also expected to furnish more contributive information in this issue.
Science-based laboratory comprehension: an examination of effective practices within traditional, online and blended learning environments

Abstract An increase in online education is causing science educators to evaluate student cognitive understanding after completing virtual, computer-simulated laboratories. Online education has demonstrated comparable learning gains when analysed to those of the traditional classroom, but research is mixed when reviewing students’ ability to manipulate tangible laboratory equipment after participating in online experimentation. The question remains, are students who are exclusively enrolled in online science courses equipped with the cognitive ability to operate laboratory equipment within a physical laboratory? When considering the optimal learning environment for science majors, educators have discovered the blended classroom may provide the perfect opportunity to combine the benefits of face-to-face instruction and feedback with the reinforcement of scientific theory through technology integration. New advances in virtual education provide promising examples of enhancing the online classroom laboratory in all scientific disciplines. Further insight into the blended classroom has the potential to influence the field of education towards an optimal learning environment for science majors in colleges and universities.
Curiosity in leadership: A strategic paradox

In this conceptual paper, we use a paradoxical lens to explore the strategic contradictions of leaders who are required to make balanced paradoxical choices, for example, when decision-making requires the identification of novel and creative solutions to difficult problems. We develop our perspective based on two recent large scale studies that delve into how curiosity is viewed and applied in contemporary firms. The results from these studies suggest a limited level of leader support for curious and enquiring minds; instead, they posit a position of top down decision-making as a means of managing risk. We also review the impact of cognitive bias when leaders consider their choice of decision-making approaches, either to provide exploratory support for curious enquiring minds or to maintain an exploitation position conducive to risk mitigation. We then move on to discuss the importance and relevance of contextual questioning in support of “playfulness,” as a means of enhancing curiosity and encouraging exploration. With curiosity and exploration being essential to the identification of novel solutions, we suggest that contextual questions are integral to paradoxical frames associated with curiosity and risk. Our aim is to contribute to paradox theory by expanding theoretical insights supportive of an integrative approach to contextual questioning enhanced by serious play. In this way, enriching outcomes that are associated with curiosity; most notably when there are paradoxical tensions between curiosity and risk. Finally, we provide three questions as stimuli for further empirical research.
Optimal supervisory control of flexible manufacturing systems. (Synthèse de contrôleurs optimaux pour les systèmes flexibles de production)

Reachability graph analysis is an important technique for deadlockcontrol, which always suffers from a state explosion problem since it requires togenerate all or a part of reachable markings.Based on this technique, an optimal or suboptimal supervisor with high behavioralpermissiveness can always be achieved. This thesis focuses on designing liveness enforcing Petri net supervisors for FMSs by considering their behavioralpermissiveness, supervisory structure, and computationnal complexity.The following research contributions are made in this thesis.1. The design of a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor for an FMSis proposed by solving integer linear programming problems (ILPPs). 2. Structural complexity is also an important issue for a maximally permissivePetri net supervisor. A deadlock prevention policy for FMSs is proposed, which canobtain a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor while thenumber of control places is compressed.3. In order to overcome the computational complexity problem in MCPP and ensurethat the controlled system is maximally permissive with a simple structure, wedevelop an iterative deadlock prevention policy and a modified version.4. We consider the hardware and software costs in the stage of controlimplementation of a deadlock prevention policy, aiming to obtain a maximallypermissive Petri net supervisor with the lowest implementation cost. A supervisorconsists of a set of control places and the arcs connecting control places totransitions. We assign an implementation cost for each control place and controland observation costs for each transition. Based on reachability graph analysis,maximal permissiveness can be achieved by designing place invariants that prohibitall FBMs but no legal markings.5. Self-loops are used to design maximally permissive supervisors. A self-loop ina Petri net cannot be mathematically represented by its incidence matrix. Wepresent a mathematical method to design a maximally permissive Petri netsupervisor that is expressed by a set of control places with self-loops. A controlplace with a self-loop can be represented by a constraint and a selfloopassociated with a transition whose firing may lead to an illegal marking.
Adult-child activities and child development outcomes in developing countries: an empirical investigation in Thailand

ABSTRACT Is doing activities with young children important for their development? This study aims to examine the effects of adult-child activities on cognitive and non-cognitive development in pre-school children in developing countries by using Thailand as a case study. The adult-child activities of interest are reading, storytelling, singing, outings, and playing. Using national representative secondary data on children aged 3–4 years from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS4) of Thailand, our results show that while the level of children‘s participation in these activities is relatively high compared to other developing countries, the proportion of children with “normal” cognitive and non-cognitive development is still low. We find that only singing, outings, and playing have positive statistical effects for children who live with both parents (with playing having the highest positive effect), but for children who do not live with both parents or live with others, the positive effect remains only for singing. On the other hand, storytelling, singing, and outings seems to have statistically significant positive effects for non-cognitive outcomes among children who live with both parents (with outings having the highest positive effect). No activities have statistically significant effects on non-cognitive development of children who do not live with both parents. The recommendations call for greater attention on advocating adult-child activities in the context of developing countries.
Self-structuring data learning approach

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical self-structuring learning algorithm based around the general principles of the Stanovich/Evans framework and “Quest” group definition of unexpected query. One of the main goals of our algorithm is for it to be capable of patterns learning and extrapolating more complex patterns from less complex ones. This pattern learning, influenced by goals, either learned or predetermined, should be able to detect and reconcile anomalous behaviors. One example of a proposed application of this algorithm would be traffic analysis. We choose this example, because it is conceptually easy to follow. Despite the fact that we are unlikely to develop superior traffic tracking techniques using our algorithm, a traffic based scenario remains a good starting point if only do to the easy availability of data and the number of other known techniques. In any case, in this scenario, the algorithm would observe and track all vehicular traffic in a particular area. After some initial time passes, it would begin detecting and learning the traffic’s patters. Eventually the patterns would stabilize. At that point, “new” patterns could be considered anomalies, flagged, and handled accordingly. This is only one, particular application of our proposed algorithm. Ideally, we want to make it as general as possible, such that it can be applies to numerous different problems with varying types of sensory input and data types, such as IR, RF, visual, census data, meta data, etc.
Empathy: simple and inevitable? Development education and narratives of African poverty

This article critically examines how the concept of empathy is mobilized in the rhetoric of development education, and explores different ways of conceptualizing empathy as a pedagogical ideal and an affective experience. Its premise is that the concept of empathy has been insufficiently probed within academia, even though paradigm shifts in development have made the concept central to development education. In reference to narratives of African poverty, the article critiques literature depicting empathy as simple or inevitable within development education. It seeks to open up new possibilities for conceptualizing a form of empathy that prioritizes nuance and self-reflexivity. The article intends to contribute to development education by advocating more respectful, dialogical and self-aware cross-cultural engagement.
Undergraduate Critical-Thinking Development: Permitted, Prompted, or Pushed?

ABSTRACT:This qualitative study explores undergraduate critical-thinking development from the perspective of students, faculty, and academic affairs administrators. We interviewed three different student cohorts at the end of both the first and second semesters of their first year at a selective liberal arts university in south/central Texas. We also interviewed all faculty members who taught these students, as well as the entire academic affairs staff that provided oversight during the year of the study. We found three distinct and viable approaches to critical-thinking development, but one stood out from the others as the most reliable means to stimulate early development.
Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice

Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice for Deployment addresses WSNs deployment, a mandatory and critical step in the process of developing WSNs solutions for real-life applications. The authors address simple approaches to deploy static WSNs, then exploring more sophisticated approaches to deploy mobile WSNs. Featuring detailed investigations of deployment-related issues such as deployment cost, coverage, connectivity, sensors reliability, and harsh deployment environments, this book will equip you with the basics and an advanced view of both the theoretical and practical aspects, along with knowledge of the guidelines for WSNs deployment.Provides both the theoretical basis and practical applicationsFeatures an in-depth discussion of deployment-related issuesCovers basic concepts and terminologies as well as highlighting open problems in the research areas to help you solve your deployment-related issues
Exploring Departmental-Level Fundraising: Relationship-Based Factors Affecting Giving Intention in Arts Higher Education

Fundraising for higher education institutions is becoming more important as there is increasingly limited government funding for public education. With shrinking funding, university programs and departments may be expected to raise more income on their own. This study hypothesizes that higher levels of stakeholders’ (students and alumni) knowledge, awareness, involvement, satisfaction, and relationship with the department and its fundraising efforts are positively associated with fundraising success measured in intention to give and likelihood to recommend others to give. By using mixed methods research design and relationship fundraising as a theoretical framework, the study found that satisfaction and relationship are the most significant variables positively affecting giving intention. The qualitative results can explain why these variables matter to stakeholders’ intentions to give. Using a case study approach of examining one university’s arts administration department fundraising practice and its relationship to stakeholders, this research initiates academic and practical discussion on effective fundraising for higher education units.
Critical Thinking as Discourse

Less than it is an individual ability or skill, critical thinking is a dialogic practice people engage in and commit to, initially interactively and then in interiorized form with the other only implicit. An argument depends for its meaning on how others respond. In advancing arguments, well-practiced thinkers anticipate their defeasibility as a consequence of others’ objections, in addition to envisioning their own potential rebuttals. Whether in external or interiorized form, the dialogic process creates something new, while itself undergoing development. This perspective may be useful in sharpening the definition of the construct of critical thinking and in so doing help to bring together the largely separate strands of work examining it as a theoretical construct, a measurable skill, and an educational objective. Implications for education follow. How might critical thinking as a shared practice be engaged within educational settings in ways that will best support its development? One step is to privilege frequent practice of direct peer-to-peer discourse. A second is to take advantage of the leveraging power of dialogue as a bridge to individual argument – one affording students’ argumentative writing a well-envisioned audience and purpose. Illustrations of this bridging power are presented. Finally, implications for assessment of critical thinking are noted and a case made for the value of commitment to a high standard of critical thinking as a shared and interactive practice.
Urban-Rural Contrasts in Attitudes, Motives and Sport Preferences in Adolescents

This study focuses on the attitudes, motivation for physical activity (PA), structure of sport preferences and physical activity of students of two selected high schools (rural area; urban area). There were several questionnaires employed in this study: Dimension of Attitude for Children and Youth (DIPO-J), Motivation for Physical Activity Questionnaire (MPAM-R) and Sport Preferences Questionnaire. The research group (in total 300 respondents) consisted of 150 students from a rural area and 150 students from an urban area. According to the results, adolescents at both the schools have moderately positive attitudes toward physical education. The most frequently chosen attitude was the one to performance, health and fitness in both girls and boys. The results of the sport preferences survey indicate that the adolescents, in terms of different types of physical activity, preferred most the category “Individual Sports”, in which they placed swimming on the top. In terms of evaluation of PA, we found that boys are more physically active than girls are. After comparing the PA between the rural and urban areas, the respondents from the urban area have scored better in the category “Total PA” than the respondents from the rural area.
Afghanistan and Iraq War Veterans’ Understanding of Followership and Following in the Civilian Workplace

Numerous service personnel who served during the US Afghanistan and Iraq Wars have returned to civilian life. The purpose of this phenomenology study was to examine and explore how these veterans understood the followership phenomenon, their civilian workplace follower roles, and how they defined the word followership through their own lenses. Six veterans who reintegrated from military service into a civilian workplace volunteered for this study. The research analysis identified five themes: (a) my identities (b) organizational principles, (c) organizational knowledge, (d) organizational support, (e) and valuing of supporters. The significance of these findings was the veterans’ follower-centric expression of their lived civilian followership experiences. The study afforded the veterans the opportunity to voice their desire to work in civilian organizations that provide a nurturing culture and environment where they can thrive and become effective followers. The findings can provide policymakers and organizational leaders data to plan training, coaching, and mentoring programs, peer-clubs, and services to express gratitude to veteran-followers as valuable members of the civilian workplace. The findings also provide scholars of Veterans Studies additional empirical data to enhance the knowledge base.