Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Other “Authoritarian Personality”

Publisher Summary It is noted with regard to the submissive personality, it is visualized that this personality structure, observable in early adulthood and better explained by social learning than by psychoanalytic theory, is thought to be developed during adolescence from earlier training in obedience, conventionalism, and aggression, as modified by the individual's subsequent experiences. On the other hand, in context to authoritarian personality, authoritarians harbor many double standards and hypocrisies, without realizing it. This chapter illustrates a part of an investigation of general public opinion concerning a variety of social issues. Adult authoritarians tend to be highly ethnocentric and users of the “consensual validation pill” (Newcomb, 1961). They travel in tight circles of like-minded people, they often think their views are commonly held in society, that they are the “Moral Majority” or the “Silent Majority. ” Certain kinds of religious training have sometimes helped produce their ethnocentrism and authoritarianism.
Mechanical Properties of Ternary-Filled Natural Rubber Composites

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of each ternary filler component: carbon black (CB), modified bentonite (M-BNT), and raw bentonite (BNT), and their interactions, on the mechanical properties of natural rubber (NR) composites, using a third degree-simplex lattice mixture design of experiment. The efficiency of the two-step organic modification to produce M-BNT was confirmed by the results of Fourier transform infrared with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Synergistic effect between CB and M-BNT on the mechanical properties of NR composites with ternary filler composition 10/5/0 was observed. Reinforcement of NR matrix using this ternary filler enhanced its tensile properties: strength (69.43%), modulus (47.01%), stress at 100% strain (34.67%), stress at 200% strain (41.88%), and stress at 300% strain (50.82%), as well as its compressive properties: strength (40.89%), modulus (40.05%), stress at 20% strain (41.10%), stress at 40% strain (37.57%), and stress at 60% strain (40.79%). Significant improvement in the mechanical properties was also attributed to the surface modification of M-BNT resulting to better dispersion to NR matrix. The addition of pure BNT filler resulted to lowest tensile and compressive performance due to high clay loading and incompatibility with NR matrix. Trends of the generated contour plots based on reduced hierarchical models demonstrated synergy between CB and M-BNT as well as deterioration of mechanical properties upon addition of pure BNT filler 0/0/15.
A Revolutionary Feeling of Justice? Emotion and Legal Judgement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

This article explores the intellectual history of the concept of “feeling of justice” and related concepts and the attempts to make them central to legal practice in the context of early 20th century Russia. It starts by tracing the emergence of new modes of thinking about judicial emotion in fin-de-siecle Russian Empire and accounts for both international and local influences on these ideas. It further examines the development of these theories after the 1917 Russian Revolution and notes both continuities and ruptures across this revolutionary divide. Finally, the article explores the attempts to put these radical ideas into practice by focusing on the experimental legal model of “revolutionary justice” that was employed in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1922 which highlights the discrepancies between bold utopian projects and harsh material realities of the revolutionary period. Este articulo trata sobre la historia intelectual del concepto de “sentimiento de justicia” y conceptos relacionados, y los situa en el centro de la practica del derecho en el contexto de la Rusia de principios del siglo XX. Comienza situando el surgimiento de nuevas formas de pensar sobre la emocion judicial en el imperio ruso de fin de siglo, y explica las influencias nacionales e internacionales en esas ideas. Ademas, examina el desarrollo de dichas teorias tras la Revolucion Rusa de 1917, y hace notar continuidades y rupturas a lo largo de la fractura revolucionaria. Por ultimo, el articulo analiza los intentos de llevar esas ideas radicales a la practica, atendiendo al modelo juridico experimental de “justicia revolucionaria” que se utilizo en la Rusia sovietica entre 1917 y 1922 y que subraya las discrepancias entre los audaces proyectos utopicos y las duras realidades materiales del periodo revolucionario. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1074
Anticipatory Ear Pain Counseling at a 12-15 Month Preventive Care Visit for Low Income Children

Background: Determine the usefulness of ear pain anticipatory counseling for young children with public health plans to reduce visits for acute otitis media (AOM) and shift visits from urgent care/emergency department (UC/ED) settings to primary care clinic (PCC) settings. Methods: We documented the AOM visit distribution and incidence rates by setting according to race/ethnicity from the EPIC electronic medical record system for 12 months following the enrollment of eligible 12-15 month old children in a single blind randomized control trial of ear pain counseling. Results: Among the 310 children enrolled in the study, 30.6% of participants had at least 1 AOM visit and 4.5% had 3 or more AOM visits. The overall incidence was 490 AOM visit episodes per 1000 child years with rates of 232 in PCC and 226 in UC/ED settings. The difference in the proportion of Hispanic children with at least 1 AOM visit (33.5% 52/155) compared to Non-Hispanic children (24% 25/106) approached significance (p=0.08). The counseling intervention did not reduce the proportion of children with at least 1 AOM visit (counseling: 29.0%: 45/155; control: 32.3% 50/155 p=0.54); the proportion of children with 3 or more AOM visits (counseling: 5.8%: 9/155; control: 3.2% 5/155 p=0.41); or the AOM visit incidence rates (counseling: 471; control: 510) and did not shift AOM visits from the UC/ED to PCC setting. Conclusions: Anticipatory ear pain counseling in a hospital based PCC serving children enrolled in public plans does not reduce PCC or UC/ED AOM visit incidence rates.
Automatic recognition of argumentation structure in short monological texts

The aim of this thesis is to develop approaches to automatically recognise the structure of argumentation in short monological texts. This amounts to identifying the central claim of the text, supporting premises, possible objections, and counter-objections to these objections, and connecting them correspondingly to a structure that adequately describes the argumentation presented in the text. The first step towards such an automatic analysis of the structure of argumentation is to know how to represent it. We systematically review the literature on theories of discourse, as well as on theories of the structure of argumentation against a set of requirements and desiderata, and identify the theory of J. B. Freeman (1991, 2011) as a suitable candidate to represent argumentation structure. Based on this, a scheme is derived that is able to represent complex argumentative structures and can cope with various segmentation issues typically occurring in authentic text. In order to empirically test our scheme for reliability of annotation, we conduct several annotation experiments, the most important of which assesses the agreement in reconstructing argumentation structure. The results show that expert annotators produce very reliable annotations, while the results of non-expert annotators highly depend on their training in and commitment to the task. We then introduce the 'microtext' corpus, a collection of short argumentative texts. We report on the creation, translation, and annotation of it and provide a variety of statistics. It is the first parallel corpus (with a German and English version) annotated with argumentation structure, and -- thanks to the work of our colleagues -- also the first annotated according to multiple theories of (global) discourse structure. The corpus is then used to develop and evaluate approaches to automatically predict argumentation structures in a series of six studies: The first two of them focus on learning local models for different aspects of argumentation structure. In the third study, we develop the main approach proposed in this thesis for predicting globally optimal argumentation structures: the 'evidence graph' model. This model is then systematically compared to other approaches in the fourth study, and achieves state-of-the-art results on the microtext corpus. The remaining two studies aim to demonstrate the versatility and elegance of the proposed approach by predicting argumentation structures of different granularity from text, and finally by using it to translate rhetorical structure representations into argumentation structures.
Visualizing the UI impact of Methods for Program Comprehension

Software developers spend 58% of their time comprehending source code. Most methods to support this task are limited to providing abstract views on a system’s building blocks and connections. However, this perspective is fundamentally different to the user view on a running software system. Indeed, it was found in a study that developers working with UI systems use the UI as a starting point to comprehend the software. However, there is a lack of techniques that help developers to map user view to the source code. We developed a first simple prototype to automatically generate documentation that includes links to the user view and performed a qualitative user study with 24 participants. The results indicate the feasibility of the development of such prototype and provide insights into perceived advantages and limitations. This indicate that this research direction has the potential to change the way we understand software in future.
Flashield: a Hybrid Key-value Cache that Controls Flash Write Amplification

As its price per bit drops, SSD is increasingly becoming the default storage medium for hot data in cloud application databases. Even though SSD’s price per bit is more than 10× lower, and it provides sufficient performance (when accessed over a network) compared to DRAM, the durability of flash has limited its adoption in write-heavy use cases, such as key-value caching. This is because key-value caches need to frequently insert, update and evict small objects. This causes excessive writes and erasures on flash storage, which significantly shortens the lifetime of flash. We present Flashield, a hybrid key-value cache that uses DRAM as a “filter” to control and limit writes to SSD. Flashield performs lightweight machine learning admission control to predict which objects are likely to be read frequently without getting updated; these objects, which are prime candidates to be stored on SSD, are written to SSD in large chunks sequentially. In order to efficiently utilize the cache’s available memory, we design a novel in-memory index for the variable-sized objects stored on flash that requires only 4 bytes per object in DRAM. We describe Flashield’s design and implementation, and evaluate it on real-world traces from a widely used caching service, Memcachier. Compared to state-ofthe-art systems that suffer a write amplification of 2.5× or more, Flashield maintains a median write amplification of 0.5× (since many filtered objects are never written to flash at all), without any loss of hit rate or throughput.
Comparative study of 940 nm and 1450 nm near infrared sensor for glucose concentration monitoring

In order to manage their blood glucose level, diabetics have to test their blood glucose level regularly. Unfortunately, the current blood glucose measurement device is uncomfortable, painful, event costly for the diabetics; therefore, a lot of effort is given to develop a noninvasive blood glucose meter. We studied the potential of two near infrared wavelength i.e. 1450 and 940 nm as glucose sensor. Each sensor consists of a light emitting diode (LED) as light source, a photodiode that is sensitive to that wavelength, transimpedance amplifier, and filters. An acrylic box size 5cmx1cmx5cm was used as glucose solution container. The LED and photodiode were located at each side of box width, at 1 cm distance. The container was than filled with various concentrations of glucose solution, and the sensor output voltages were measured. The results show that for glucose concentration 0 to 500 mg/dl, the output voltages of the 1450 nm sensor tend to lower when the glucose concentration is higher, therefore it has the potential to be used as glucose sensor. Different result is obtained from the 940 nm sensor where the output voltages were remained the same when the glucose concentration was varied.
Consumer Ethnocentrism: Construction and Validation of the CETSCALE

The concept of consumer ethnocentrism is introduced and a corresponding measure, the CETSCALE, is formulated and validated. Four separate studies provide support for the CETSCALE's reliability and convergent and discriminant validity. A series of nomological validity tests show consumer ethnocentrism to be moderately predictive of theoretically related constructs.
Solid State Reaction Synthesis and Characterization of Lithium Lanthanum Titanate Lithium-Ion Conducting Solid Electrolyte with Different Li to La Content

Lithium Lanthanum Titanate, Li3xLa(2/3)-x□(1/3)-2xTiO3, with three different compositions of (i) x = 0.097 (Li0.29La0.57TiO3), (ii) x = 0.117 (Li0.35La0.55TiO3), and (iii) x = 0.167 (Li0.50La0.50TiO3) were prepared via solid state reaction synthesis sintered at 1150 °C for 36 hours. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed that all samples can be indexed to a cubic perovskite structure with lattice parameter a of about 3.86 Å. Morphological analysis using SEM showed that the samples are relatively dense and the calculated relative density of the LLTO samples range from about 94% to as high as 99% with increasing trend as Li content increases. Room temperature conductivity and its temperature dependence up to 120 °C were investigated. LLTO sample with x =0.117 revealed the highest total ionic conductivity at room temperature of about 1.69 x 10-03 S/cm which can be a promising solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
Lateral Migration of Particles Under Poiseuille Flow

The phenomenon of lateral migration of neutrally buoyant rigid spheres is studied experimentally for Poiseuille Flow. The study relied on the particle migration technique to capture the distribution of particles radial position at different flow parameters. In this thesis, the varying experimental parameters are flow Reynolds number and particle concentration. These two parameters have been reported to have an opposing effect on the migration. Reynolds number is varying at Re=200-1200 and the particle concentration at φ = 0.05-0.5% . The results reveal that an increase in Reynolds number and particle concentration causes the migration to develop at a longer distance from the inlet. The migration is said to be developed when the particles have migrated to the region between the tube-axis and tube-wall. An increase in particle concentration shows a similar effect with the Reynolds number on the migration which the migration develop at a longer distance. An interesting result occurred at high particle concentration, at which the significance of the Reynolds number in altering the migration is decreasing. The study is also conducted to the secondary phenomena following the migration, the generation of inner annulus and the formation of trains of particles. It is shown that the variation of Reynolds number and particle concentration are significantly affected these secondary phenomena.
PCB-3D-Printed, Reliable and Reusable Wells for Impedance Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions

Impedance Spectroscopy (IS) has been shown to be a non-invasive and reliable technique for the electrical characterization of biological materials. This paper presents the design and implementation of reliable, reusable wells that are used to perform IS measurements of aqueous solutions. These reusable wells are detachable, easy to clean and low-cost and they are made up of a platen on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and the chambers are manufactured using 3D-printing technology. In this case, in order to verify its functionality, IS measurements of electrolytic and non-electrolytic aqueous solutions were carried out. Initially, as a reference, the impedance spectrum of a Hanks’ solution was obtained following a proposed measurement protocol. Then, we analyse this spectrum and we propose an Equivalent Electrical Model (EEM) for validating the reusable wells. Finally, IS measurements are carried out on aqueous solutions of molecular D-glucose and sodium chloride prepared in Hanks’ solution and deionized water, by considering physiological concentrations. The parameter values of the EEMs of each solution tested were obtained using genetic algorithms and Matlab and, from these values, it is possible to conclude that the measurements performed are unable to differentiate the physiological concentration of glucose in the aqueous solution used. Also, from these results, it can be concluded that the designed wells are suitable for IS measurements of aqueous solutions and that they can be used in Electrical Cell Impedance Sensing (ECIS) or applications that require electrical characterization of solutions.
Pump-induced scattering in high-power Ti: Sapphire lasers

The influence of pump beam spatial modulation on angular divergence and temporal characteristics of subnanosecond gain-switched Ti: Sapphire laser was investigated. It was shown, that the change of Ti: Sapphire refraction index by pump light may result in considerable change of laser characteristics. Spatial modulation with frequencies > 15-20 mm-1 induce scattering in laser crystal and leads to the increase of angular divergence in lasers with flat resonator mirrors and large Fresnel number. At the same time induced scattering produces coupling of light within laser aperture, which can result in synchronous generation of all active volume and reduced laser pulse duration.
Obstacles to Implementing the HPV Vaccine: Is it Worth Pursuing or Not?

Cervical cancer, along with breast, colorectal, and lung cancer, has become increasingly problematic in Malaysia. The prevalence of cervical cancer in Malaysia is projected to rise in younger women, and Malaysia views this prediction with concern and awareness of the need to take action to prevent the illness among those who are currently healthy. Providing free HPV vaccination is a way to lower the risk of developing cervical cancer among women in Malaysia. However, while Malaysia has been able to provide this vaccination at minimal or no cost, changes in socio-economic circumstances have stretched the demand. This review aims to highlight the probability of HPV vaccination acceptance and the reasons for it. An extensive literature review of acceptance, knowledge, attitude, practice, and decision making about HPV vaccination was performed to describe issues related to vaccination. The evidence presented herein can help identify ways to improve the HPV vaccination program in Malaysia.
WhatsApp is the Message: Out-of-Class Communication, Student-Teacher Relationship, and Classroom Environment

Aim/Purpose: To study associations between elementary-, middle- and high-school students’ perceptions of classroom environment and student-teacher relationship and their out-of-class communication practices via WhatsApp app. Background: Communication between students and teachers is usually extended beyond the classroom’s time and space. This communication, referred to as out-of-class communication (OCC), may impact students’ academic, social, and emotional development. Today, OCC is facilitated via social media and instant messaging services, which may have impact on its nature. Methodology: Methodology was quantitative in nature. Data was collected using an online questionnaire (implemented on Google Forms, http://forms.google.com , during June-July 2016. Participants (n=300), from 5th-12th grades (11-18 years old), were recruited in schools in a few Arab villages in northern Israel, with the assistance of their teachers. Contribution: The present study expands the growing body of knowledge about student-teacher communication via online social networks, specifically regarding out-of-class communication. We identify the unique aspects of WhatsApp-based out-of-class communication, which shed light on student-teacher relationship at large. Findings from this study may assist educators (while in training and/or professional development programs) to reflect upon their own educational agenda and to check if and how they and their students can benefit from OCC. Findings: Overall, we identify WhatsApp’s important, unique role in promoting good student-teacher relationship and positive classroom environment. Recommendations for Practitioners: The findings regarding the unique contribution of WhatsApp to student-teacher out-of-class communication should be taken into consideration by policy makers while formulating policies for the use of online social networks in educational settings. Teachers should be aware of the important role this type of communication plays for their students and for their classroom. Both teachers and students should communicate respectfully, with teachers serving as role models for their students regarding proper digital behavior. Recommendation for Researchers: This study should be replicated to more populations and to more communication platforms, in order to validate its findings. Impact on Society: The associations between out-of-class communication via online social networks and student-teacher relationship have two main effects on society at large. First, promoting better student-teacher communication could improve learning and teaching. Second, if this communication is to be carried out properly, the students - who are the future citizens - will learn how to behave correctly in the digital age. Future Research: It is advised to explore the studied associations in other populations and regarding other communication platforms. Also, qualitative exploration is advisable, as it may shed more light on the unique aspects of WhatsApp-based student-teacher out-of-class communication.
Teaching Debit Card Skills Using General Case Programming

iv Chapter One: Introduction . 1 Chapter Two: Methods . 5 Participants . 5 Setting . 7 Experimental Design . 7 Materials . 7 Simulated APM . 7 Debit card . 8 Data Collection . 8 IOA . 9 Treatment Integrity . 10 Social Validity . 10 Baseline . 10 Generalization Baseline Probes . 11 Training . 12 Post-Training.13 Generalization . 14 Chapter Three: Results . 21 Social Validity Results . 23 Chapter Four: Discussion . 28 Chapter Five: References . 33 Chapter Six: Appendices.36 Appendix A: Data Collection Example Sheet: Baseline, Post Training, and Generalization Probe Data Collect Sheet for Publix . 36 Appendix B: Treatment Fidelity Checklist: Example: Training for Sunoco . 37 Appendix C: Social Validity Questionnaire . 38
Semivariance Premium and Expected Stock Returns

We find a negative relationship between the individual stocks' semivariance premia, defined as the difference between the risk-neutral and physical expected downside semivariances, and future stock returns. The high-minus-low hedge portfolio earns the excess return of -64 (-46) basis points per month, the characteristic-adjusted return of -58 (-28) basis points per month, and the industry-adjusted return of -73 (-27) basis points per month in equal (value)-weighted returns. They are all economically substantial and statistically significant. Such a negative relationship can not be explained by risk-based asset pricing models. We find that the predictive power of semivariance premium is information-driven and reflects trading activity of informed investors who place large transactions on options.