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Mutual manufacturing service selection and routing problem considering customer clustering in Cloud manufacturing

ABSTRACT Considering the globalization concept, all companies around the world are able to communicate with each other, share their technologies, and eliminate their production incapability issues. To achieve this goal, Cloud manufacturing system has been proposed. One of the most important issues in Cloud manufacturing is service composition, in which composition of cloud services is determined to meet customer orders. This paper considers a single-product supply network over one period in Cloud manufacturing system with the goal of service composition optimization. The network is designed in a layered structure considering transportation and production services and customers can be classified in specific clusters. A new algorithm is proposed to assign the services to the network layers, and the problem is formulated as a mixed integer model with the objective of maximizing the profit of the network. Also as the problem has an NP-hard origin a meta-heuristic algorithm is exploited to solve it.
Skateboarding, Helmets, and Control

Skateboarding has a global reach and will be included for the first time in the 2020 Olympic Games. It has transformed from a subcultural pursuit to a mainstream and popular sport. This research looks at some of the challenges posed by the opening of a new skatepark in Hong Kong and the introduction of a mandatory helmet rule. It explores attitudes to helmets in skateboard media, the local government, and among the skateboarders who use the new skatepark. It argues that helmet use is not only an issue of safety but also an issue of control. From the skateboarders’ perspective, it is about participant control over their sport, and from a government perspective, it is about accountability. The contrast between the two approaches is explored through the concepts of edgework and audit culture. As skateboarding continues to become a mainstream sporting activity, such issues of control will prove to be more relevant and must be negotiated in partnership. The growth in new skateparks, many of which are concrete, underlines the need for this discussion. It is argued that helmet use will continue to be a site of conflict as skateboarding becomes further incorporated into a mainstream sport, and that how helmets are represented in skateboarding will come to indicate who has control over the sport.
The Impact of Traditional and Departmentalized Classroom Instructional Settings on Fifth Grade Students' Reading Achievement.

The purpose of this quantitative casual-comparative research was to provide educators data pertaining to reading and the influence of classroom instructional setting on reading test scores. This study investigated if learning in a departmentalized instructional setting had a subsequent positive effect on fifth grade students’ reading achievement as measured by the 2015 Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment, as opposed to fifth grade students who were exposed to a traditional instructional setting. Data was collected from the accountability office of the selected school district. Fifth grade students in a departmentalized or traditional regular education classroom participated in this study. The convenience sampling of 737 students were from grade K-5, non-Title I elementary schools in the suburban area of the school district. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was conducted to determine if there was a statistically significant difference between mean reading scale scores of fifth grade students who were taught using different instructional settings while controlling for prior achievement. The statistical analysis of this study showed no significant difference in reading achievement scores between students taught in a traditional or departmentalized instructional setting. Therefore, recommendations for further research were provided.
Understanding Design Research–Practice Partnerships in Context and Time: Why Learning Sciences Scholars Should Learn From Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Approaches to Design-Based Research

Several points of contrast are highlighted between design-based research (DBR) as often practiced within the learning sciences and design partnerships inspired by cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). It is argued that learning scientists can improve their work by learning from CHAT-inspired DBR in 4 particular ways: (a) by recognizing the oversimplification involved in the notion that classroom learning environments can be engineered; (b) by embracing open-ended partnerships driven more by long-term social aims than short-term funding opportunities; (c) by dispelling the myth of the heroic designer from our literature; and (d) by carefully examining and publishing about projects and partnerships that prove unsuccessful, or studying how successful projects fade and degrade over time.
Mentoring Latinx Students through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies at a Predominately White Institution

Latinx students are enrolling in four-year higher education institutions (HEIs) at a rapidly increasing rate. However, an alarmingly low number complete their degrees. Institutional barriers such as racism, language discrimination, cultural conflict, privilege of citizenship, and lack of role models present challenges to degree completion for Latinx students. One important yet understudied mechanism of support is mentorship. Within a Latinx-dedicated mentoring program, this qualitative case study identified mentoring practices perceived by Latinx student mentees and their program mentors as facilitating degree completion. This study also determined the alignment of the identified practices with the framework of culturally sustaining pedagogies. Using culturally sustaining pedagogies as a framework can offer a theoretical base for mentoring programs supporting Latinx mentees’ persistence toward degree completion. Culturally sustaining mentoring based on the concepts from this study may be used to increase the graduation rates for Latinx students in other HEIs
Effective Transparency and Institutional Trust in Honduran Municipal Governments

This article investigates trust in Honduran Municipal Governments and shows that transparency and municipal services quality impact on trust. We posit the Theory of Effective Transparency: relevant information should be reported; transparency should be based on unbiased information; and municipal data should be comparable with other municipal governments. Municipalities where one political party has an overall majority are trusted more, and audited financial statements generate a positive impact on trust. Engagement and participation also affect trust. As a practical implication, municipal governments should increase trust by involving citizens in municipal issues. Finally, quality of democracy is connected with greater trust.
Perseverance and passion for achieving long-term goals: transcultural adaptation and validation of the Grit-S scale / Perseverancia y pasión por la consecución de objetivos a largo plazo: adaptación transcultural y validación de la escala Grit-S

Abstract The objective of this study was to undertake the transcultural adaptation and validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) to measure university students’ levels of perseverance and passion for achieving long-term goals. To accomplish this, the Grit-S scale was linguistically and culturally adapted from English to Spanish via the Translation, Review, Adjudication, Pre-testing and Documentation method. After that, the adapted scale was administered to a convenience sample of 1,129 university students comprised of 29.6% males and 70.4% females with a mean age of 21, and finally, its psychometric properties were analysed and compared to the original version. The results reveal acceptable values for the internal consistency of the total scale (α = .71) and outstanding fit indexes for the proposed two-factor structural model (i.e., Consistency of Interest and Perseverance of Effort) (RMSEA = .041, CFI = .96), and the parameters of transcultural adaptation were similar to those in its original version.
The Informal Workplace Learning Experiences of Virtual Team Members: A Look at the Role of Collaborative Technologies.

This qualitative study explored how collaborative technologies influence the informal learning experiences of virtual team members. Inputs revealed as critical to virtual informal learning were integrated, collaborative technological systems; positive relationships and trust; and organizational support and virtual team management. These inputs foster the processes and events within which informal learning occurs. Processes include learning from and with others. Events include virtual mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing, criticism, problem solving, document creation/editing, and planning.
The implication of formal educational activities in old age and its relation to psychosocial indicators / La implicación en actividades educativas formales en la vejez y su relación con indicadores psicosociales

Abstract This study analyses some psychosocial dimensions (level and type of activity, self-perceived health, self-efficacy in relation to ageing and social support) in non-dependent older people. The sample comprises students of a university programme for older people (PUM) as well as older people who did not participate in the educational activity. Results show similarities and differences between both groups; namely, the older people on the PUM programme were more physically active and participated more in formal activities. Three profiles of older people were identified: a less active group, with lower scores in the indicators assessed; a second group who were socially active, particularly at a family level, with intermediate levels in the dimensions analysed; and a third group who were very active at a formal level (principally made up of the PUM students) and with the best self-efficacy indices in relation to ageing and self-perceived health. Involvement in formal educational activities is related to more satisfactory and positive profiles in old age, and is a highly relevant resource for the promotion of well-being at this stage of life.
A dynamic systems approach to development: Applications.

Part 1 From the dynamics of motor skill to the dynamics of development: dynamic pattern formation - a primer, J.A. Scott Kelso et al dynamic systems in development - action systems, Eugene C. Goldfield on the development of walking as a limit-cycle system, Jane E. Clark et al new ways to think about old questions, Mary Ann Roberton behavioural chaos - beyond the metaphor, Steven S. Robertson et al. Part 2 Can dynamic systems theory be usefully applied in areas other than motor development? : dynamic approaches to infant perception and action - old and new theories about the origins of knowledge, George Butterworth behavioural and emotional states in infancy - a dynamic perspective, Peter H. Wolff complementary processes in the perception and production of human movements, Bennett I. Bertenthal and Jeannine Pinto the dynamics of action and interaction, Darren Newtson a dynamic systems model of cognitive growth - competition and support under limited resource conditions, Paul van Geert toddlers' achievement of co-ordinated action with conspecifics - a dynamic systems perspective, Carol 0. Eckerman systems and language - implications for acquisition, Michael Tucker and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek commentary - the strange attractiveness of dynamic systems to development, Richard N. Aslin.
The Fate of Borderline Patients. Successful Outcome and Psychiatric Practice. New York (Guilford) 1990.

1. Introduction to the Study. 2. The Borderline Patients: Definitions and Earlier Studies. 3. General Results and Outcome on Major Variables. 4. Suicide and Suicidal Behavior. 5. Parental Morbidity, Subsequent Morbidity, and Striking ``Borderline'' Characteristics in Borderline Patients. 6. Personality Subtypes among the Borderline Patients. 7. The Impact of Life Events: Early Loss, Incest, and Parental Brutality. 8. Gender Differences and Factors Affecting Women's Outcomes. 9. Substance Abuse and Its Effects on Outcome. 10. Other Factors Affecting Outcome. 11. Outcomes for the Borderline Patients: Correlations and Case Vignettes. 12. Disorders Presenting with Psychosis. 13. Outcome Patterns. 14. Effects of Therapist and Type of Therapy. 15. Counterintuitive Results. 16. Afterword.
Database Streaming Compression on Memory-Limited Machines

An Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to Nova Southeastern University In Partial Fulfillments of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Database Streaming Compression on Memory-Limited Machines by Damon Bruccoleri March 2018 Dynamic Huffman compression algorithms operate on data-streams with a bounded symbol list. With these algorithms, the complete list of symbols must be contained in main memory or secondary storage. A horizontal format transaction database that is streaming can have a very large item list. Many nodes tax both the processing hardware primary memory size, and the processing time to dynamically maintain the tree. This research investigated Huffman compression of a transaction-streaming database with a very large symbol list, where each item in the transaction database schema’s item list is a symbol to compress. The constraint of a large symbol list is, in this research, equivalent to the constraint of a memory-limited machine. A large symbol set will result if each item in a large database item list is a symbol to compress in a database stream. In addition, database streams may have some temporal component spanning months or years. Finally, the horizontal format is the format most suited to a streaming transaction database because the transaction IDs are not known beforehand. This research prototypes an algorithm that will compresses a transaction database stream. There are several advantages to the memory limited dynamic Huffman algorithm. Dynamic Huffman algorithms are single pass algorithms. In many instances a second pass over the data is not possible, such as with streaming databases. Previous dynamic Huffman algorithms are not memory limited, they are asymptotic to O(n), where n is the number of distinct item IDs. Memory is required to grow to fit the n items. The improvement of the new memory limited Dynamic Huffman algorithm is that it would have an O(k) asymptotic memory requirement; where k is the maximum number of nodes in the Huffman tree, k < n, and k is a user chosen constant. The new memory limited Dynamic Huffman algorithm compresses horizontally encoded transaction databases that do not contain long runs of 0’s or 1’s.
The ethics of selection quotas in South African sport1

This article explores and unpacks the public debate on the ethics of applying selection quotas to South African international sport sides to achieve transformation, with special attention to cricket and rugby, the Proteas and Springboks respectively. I claim that for quotas to be morally called for, the racial transformation they are in service of must be morally required. Following an earlier article of mine on the subject of transformation in South African sport, I briefly reject two manifestations of the goal of having the sides’ racial demographics match those of the country as a whole, and proceed to defend and develop two different transformational requirements: the ending of ongoing racial bias and the provision of equality of opportunity. I argue that while there may be a place for alternative forms of affirmative selection, the case for rigid quotas is marginal at best. While I do not argue for the claim here, it neither follows from this, nor do I believe, that the use of quotas is morally wrong. I argue only that the case for them is not particularly strong and depends, particularly, on the extent to which ongoing racial bias in selection persists.
Evaluation of the railway management model by using a new integrated model DELPHI-SWARA-MABAC

The functioning of each traffic system depends to a great extent on the way the rail transport system operates. Taking into account the aspect of market turbulence and the dependence on adequate delivery when it comes to freight transport and traffic in accordance with a yearly Timetable in passenger traffic, transport policies are changing with time. Therefore, this document is considering the railway management models on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the purpose of evaluating these models, a new hybrid model has been applied, i.e. the model which includes a combination of the Delphi, SWARA (Step-Wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) and MABAC (Multi-Attributive Border Approximation Area Comparison) methods. In the first phase of the study, the criteria ranking was determined based on 16 expert grades used in the Delphi Method. After that, a total of 14 decision-makers determined the mutual criteria impact, which is a prerequisite for the application of the SWARA Method used to determine the relative weight values of the criteria. The third phase involves the application of the MABAC Method for evaluating and determining the most suitable variant. In addition, a sensitivity analysis involving the application of the ARAS, WASPAS, SAW and EDAS methods has been performed, thus verifying the previously obtained variant ranking.
Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation as correlates of Academic Stress among Secondary School Students

Introduction Education today is trapped in the belief that high course on any kind of test, may be ability or performance, have something to do with becoming a wise, intelligent and well educated person. It assumes that if teachers teach academic subjects and if students learn the specified content area, they will some-how become. It has linkage with the issue of academic achievement (Kaur, 2012).
What Do We Envy? How Internal and External Self-Relevance Shape Envious Reactions to Upward Comparisons

What do people envy? According to emotion theory, people envy what is self-relevant to them, because self-relevance of a situation is a necessary precondition for every emotion to arise. However, self-relevance is vaguely defined. Self-relevance can be defined by what is important to people themselves, i.e. internally self-relevant, and by what is important to people’s social groups, i.e. externally self-relevant. Both forms of self-relevance should influence envy. Envy comes in two distinct forms: benign envy, promoting upward motivation, and malicious envy, promoting hostility. I predicted that internal and external self-relevance would differentially shape benign and malicious envy. Internal self-relevance should increase benign envy and decrease malicious envy. External self-relevance should decrease benign envy and increase malicious envy. I conducted seven studies to test these hypotheses. In all studies, values, as prototypes of what is self-relevant to people, operationalized self-relevance. In the first set of studies, I measured internal and external self-relevance of values in a within-subjects design. In the second set of studies, I manipulated internal and external self-relevance of a value in a between-subjects design. In every study, I then measured participants’ envious reactions towards an ideal person who embodied a certain value. The data consistently showed that high internal self-relevance leads to more benign envy and low internal self-relevance leads to more malicious envy. In sum, people envy what is important to them, but they also envy what is not important to them. More precisely, when people envy what is important to them, benign envy arises fostering upward motivation. When people envy what is not important to them, malicious envy arises fostering harmful behavior, probably because it implies external self-relevance. A more detailed understanding of self-relevance is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of emotions. My research thus provides important implications for emotion research and beyond.
THE INFLUENCE OF BLENDED LEARNING-BASED GUIDED INQUIRY LEARNING MODEL AND SELF EFFICACY ON STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC LITERACY

This quasi-experimental study is devoted to determining the influence of Blended Learning-based Guided Inquiry learning model and Self-Efficacy on students’ scientific literacy. To achieve this goal, this study involved 148 students at Grade X of Senior High School SMA Wirabakti as the population by employing a Treatment by Level 2 x 2 design. The sample, on the other hand, went through the Multi-Stage Random Sampling technique, i.e., sample randomly taken from the population without considering any levels. Further, this study also relied on several data sources, including (1) the data of students’ scientific literacy skill collected from a multiple-choice test with five options; (2) the data of self-efficacy collected from a questionnaire with five items of always (score 5), often (score 4), sometimes (score 3), rarely (score 2), and never (score 1). The collected data were then analyzed using the two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA 2x2). The results reveal that the Blended Learning-based Guided Inquiry learning model and Self-Efficacy do significantly influence students’ scientific literacy, by which this model serves as one of the proper learning models applied in the learning process that can improve scientific literacy. Article visualizations:
Investigating Attitude towards Role Play and its Subjective Value in Predicting Arabic Language Proficiency among UiTM Students

Role play activities contribute to learners’ performance if they actively participate in a group. Learners may gain confidence when given a proper and clear role in role play which enhances their motivation levels. This study adopts Byram (2004) resultative and motivational hypothesis and Eccles et al. (1983) Expectancy-Value theory as underlying theories to investigate the relationship between attitude toward role play and subjective role play value to account for Arabic language proficiency. The data were analyzed using more recent confirmatory analysis which is now available in SmartPLS 3.2. 6 called consistent PLS (PLSc). Using a sample of 331 students from UiTM campuses at Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang, the analysis showed that these theories support a sound framework for predicting Arabic language proficiency. Additionally, Arabic language proficiency was significantly influenced by attitude towards role play and subjective role play value. Attitude toward role play and subjective role play value are found to be positively influencing Arabic language proficiency. The R2 was measured as 0.308 for Arabic language proficiency. Therefore, it is believed that these findings will be considered as a useful source of information to lecturers, teachers, institutions, and management in supporting role play practices and thus enhancing Arabic language proficiency among UiTM students.
Climates for Ethnic and Racial Diversity: Latina/o Sorority and Fraternity Member Perspectives

This qualitative critical narrative inquiry explored how members of Latina/o sororities and fraternities perceived campus climates for racial and ethnic diversity at predominantly White institutions. Using the multicontextual model for diverse learning environments, findings point to the significance of participants’ recognition of a misalignment between the espoused and enacted commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity in relation to how they perceived the campus climate for racial/ethnic diversity. Implications for research and practice are discussed.