Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Manajemen Berbasis Sekolah (Alternatif Peningkatan Mutu Pendidikan Madrasah)

This paper is intended to uncover the core issues that exist in madrasah as aroot barrier to the improvement of its quality. The results show that madrasah confronts a dilemma as an educational institution. As an educational institution, madrasah should be given broad discretion in its management, especially in the era of regional autonomy. In todays era of autonomy, one of the concepts that canbe applied to improve the quality of education is the School-Based Management (SBM). The paper argues that although madrasah is under the auspice of the Department of Religion, the concept of School-Based Management (MBS) canbe adopted by madrasah on the basis of its suitability as strategies in coping with madrasahs problems. The implementation of Madrasah-Based Management is intended to improve the quality of madrasah as an Islamic institution.
Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. by Paula England

New Deal coalition. The need for southern votes hamstrung northern Democrats until well into the 1960s. This sad history shows why Rivlin should have given more attention to politics: politics, not ignorance, lies behind many of the problems that she tackles. Education, the deficit, the savings and loan mess, the crumbling infrastructure-all of these problems are unsolved, not because we do not know how to solve them, but because politicians refuse to act on what we know. Thus, solutions to these problems must include advice as to how to fix the political system so that we will no longer have to suffer from such less-thanbenign neglect. In giving such advice, it is not enough to say that some other political system would do better. We also need to know how to get to that other system. Those who are interested in economic policy will find much that is new and stimulating in this book. Unfortunately, they will not find what someone with Rivlin's experience in Washington is uniquely qualified to give-deeper insights into the political economy of policy making. Perhaps in her next book?
Refining the Point(s)-After-Touchdown Decision

I N FOOTBALL, afterscoringa touchdown a team is given the option of trying for one or two extra points. Successfully kicking the ball between the uprights from approximately 19 yards away is worth one point. Such an attempt is almost automatic at the professional level. Alternatively a team may run a regular play starting at the two-yard line. Getting the ball into the end zone on this play is worth two points. National Football League (NFL) teams were successful on 39% of two-point attempts in 1998 and 43% in 1997. Before the 1999 NFL season was even four hours old, one game had turned on a conversion after touchdown decision. With 3:53 remaining in the third quarter, the NewYork Jets cut New England’s lead to 27-22 and coach Bill Parcells decided to attempt a two-point conversion. He stuck with this decision even after a penalty backed them up to the seven-yard line. The attempt failed and so, when a Bryan Cox interception return for touchdown put the Jets up by one point (28-27) with 9:34 remaining in the game, they felt forced to make another two-point attempt. That attempt also failed, and the Patriots ended up winning by two points on a last-minute field goal. Had they simply kicked two one-point conversions the game would have gone into overtime. NFL teams collectively typically attempt more than 100 two-point conversionseveryyear. In addition thereare many other instances when the coach at least considered (or should have considered) trying for two points. Decisions involving point-after-touchdown conversions can only affect close games that is, games in which the two teams are tied or separated by only a couple of
Mathematical Methods And Models For Economists

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The impact of a supplemental reading intervention on the literacy skills of English Language Learners and native English-speaking first grade children

A growing body of research has shown that interventions originally developed to help monolingual students with early reading skills offer the type of instruction necessary and effective for English language learners as well. While the research on effective early reading interventions for English language learners is expanding, the majority of the research focuses on students whose native language is Spanish. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of a supplemental reading program that emphasizes phoneme awareness and phonics with small groups of both native English-speakers and ELLs whose first language is not Spanish. This study utilized a multiple-baseline-across-participants design to investigate the effects of the intervention. Analyses included gain score analysis from pretest to posttest, descriptive and visual analysis of nonsense word probe data, and four different non-overlap indices. Findings indicate that small reading groups composed of ELLs from a variety of non-Spanish language backgrounds and native English-speakers benefitted from the code-oriented intervention, reinforcing the use of evidence-based instruction and more inclusive grouping practices for instruction. When disaggregated by language status, both ELLs and native English-speakers benefitted from the supplemental reading instruction. No consistent pattern was seen for the ELLs between pretreatment receptive vocabulary and gain scores. Educational implications and areas for future research are discussed.
Implicit AND explicit language learning

Learning symbols and their arrangement in language involves learning associations across and within modalities. Research on implicit learning and chunking within modalities (e.g. N. C. Ellis, 2002) has identified how language users are sensitive to the frequency of language forms and their sequential probabilities at all levels of granularity from phoneme to phrase. This knowledge allows efficient language processing and underpins acquisition by syntactic bootstrapping. Research on explicit learning (e.g. N. C. Ellis, 2005) has shown how conscious processing promotes the acquisition of novel explicit cross-modal form-meaning associations. These breathe meaning into the processing of language form and they underpin acquisition by semantic bootstrapping. This is particularly important in establishing novel processing routines in L2 acquisition. These representations are also then available as units of implicit learning in subsequent processing. Language systems emerge, both diachronically and ontogenetically, from the statistical abstraction of patterns latent within and across form and function in language usage. The complex adaptive system (N. C. Ellis & Larsen-Freeman, 2009b) of interactions within AND across form and function is far richer than that emergent from implicit or explicit learning alone.
Effects of Visual Cues on Buyer Information Acquisition: An empirical investigation at Yahoo! Auction. What attracts auction buyers?

When sellers auction items on the online auction sites, such as Yahoo! Auction and eBay, they face the dilemma of whether to incur additional monetary cost for better placement and/or emphasis of the items. The purpose of this research is to take a step towards developing an understanding of the effects of the visual cues, in more general terms graphical formats, on auction outcomes. Preliminary measures about the effect of visual cues on the auction outcomes were developed through empirical data collection from Yahoo! Auction. Surveying the Internet auction sites indicates the presence of two commonly found visual cues: Featured listing (i.e. offers that are placed at the beginning of a page), and highlight (i.e. the offers that are being emphasized through an addition of visually pleasing background color). In exploring how each of these visual cues is related to the auction outcomes, we found that few of the cues appeared to increase the number of bids, which is actually the proxy to demand of the bided item. Very often, the seller’s perceived value of item being listed under featured listing and/or item being highlighted failed to justify for the additional cost of having them. One explanation for this amazing result is that majority of the buyers may be bargain hunters and the overwhelming number of items possesses visual cues that resulted in the lost of scannability. As such, buyers tend to engage in extensive search for offers that are better in perceived quality, lower in cost or both, and may totally disregard the visual cues. The finding suggests that design interface theories should attempt to account for the nature of the application, buyer search behavior, and how the visual cues should be priced. It is not necessarily true that visually attractive or pleasing feature may yield favorable buyers’ responses.
Flipped Learning in Flipped Classrooms: A New Pathway to Prepare Future Special Educators

Abstract Preparing high-quality special education teachers is the purpose of special education teacher education programs. Educators are focusing on ways to enhance traditional models of teaching and learning in higher education. One alternative, flipped learning, reverses a traditional model of learning by providing content typically presented during class lectures, outside of class through videos, online modules, and so on. During class, active learning occurs, applying concepts to hands-on activities. This qualitative study explored special education teacher candidates’ perceptions regarding their experiences in a flipped course. To understand participants’ experiences, teacher candidates participated in digitally recorded focus groups. Each transcribed recording was then analyzed using NVivo 11, and content analysis resulted in a variety of themes presented in this study with suggestions for practice and further research.
Beyond Quadtrees: Cell Decomposition for Path Planning using the Wavelet Transform

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Linking organizational innovation, firm growth and firm size

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to study the effect of organizational innovation, in terms of the introduction of both new business practices and new methods of organizing workplaces, on firm growth, along with the moderating role of the firm size in this relationship.Design/methodology/approachA panel sample of 4,125 Spanish innovative firms taken from the Technological Innovation Panel for the period 2009 to 2014 was analyzed. Two-Step System-Generalized method of moments approach and instrumental variables approach with two-stage least squares have been used.FindingsThe findings remark the positive effect of organizational innovation on firm growth in case firms introduce both new business practices and new methods of organizing workplaces. Furthermore, the empirical evidences show that the firm size has a role, although partial, in moderating negatively the effect of introducing both new business practices and new methods of organizing workplaces on firm growth.Originality/valueThe study adds some new theoretical insights and empirical evidences into the literature related to the inertia theory in the perspective of the population ecology, incorporating it with the effect of firm size. Furthermore, the study may represent a further part of the complex literature puzzle that links organizational innovation to firm growth, and the inclusion of the moderating role of the firm size will partially provide a deeper understanding of this link.
Detection of retinal area from scanning laser ophthalmoscope images (SLO) using deep neural network

Earlier detection and treatment of the retinal disease are crucial to avoid preventable vision loss. Scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (SLOs) can be used for early detection of retinal diseases and the SLO can image a large part of the retinal image to diagnose it in a better way. Eyelashes and eyelids are also imaged with the retinal image during the image process used to exclude the artefacts of the retinal image. The proposed SLO approach automatically extracts both the true retinal area and artefacts of the image based on image processing and machine learning approach. Superpixel and Deep Neural Network (DNN) are used to reduce the complexity of image processing tasks, the result is being provided with a primitive image pattern. The framework performs the calculations of textural and structural-based information of features and this approach results in effective analysis of retinal area and the artefacts.
Prominenza frasale e tipologia prosodica : un approccio acustico

Ad un esame degli studi sulla prominenza prosodica si riscontrano notevoli problemi di uniformità terminologica, soprattutto a livello dell’identificazione dei fenomeni che fanno parte dell'ambito di indagine. Numerosi studiosi hanno sottolineato più volte come nelle analisi dei fenomeni prosodici si trovi una rilevante eterogeneità tra i termini utilizzati per indicare lo stesso fenomeno, che, da studio a studio e nel tempo, tendono ad assumere differenti connotazioni e riferimenti (Bertinetto, 1981; Jensen, 2004; Spencer, 1996; Taylor, 1992; Wightman, Ostendorf, 1994). Sembra quindi opportuno, prima di affrontare la descrizione vera e propria del lavoro svolto, definire chiaramente il fenomeno oggetto di questo studio, la prominenza frasale nella lingua parlata, identificandone le proprietà e i tratti fondamentali che contribuiscono ad una sua definizione. Una delle più note e citate definizioni di prominenza di deve a Terken (1991: 1768):
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries

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Los retos del docente AICLE

AICLE es mucho más que enseñar en inglés, porque enseñar en un idioma extranjero no es lo mismo que enseñar un idioma extranjero, ni lo mismo que enseñar en la lengua materna. Un buen nivel de inglés de los docentes no es una garantía de una enseñanza bilingüe de calidad. La formación metodológica en AICLE es fundamental para promover un aprendizaje lingüístico y cognitivo adecuado a las necesidades de cada alumno. Por tanto, es uno de los retos más importantes de la educación bilingüe para garantizar su sostenibilidad a largo plazo.
Scaling Up Concurrent Analytical Workloads on Multi-Core Servers

Today, an ever-increasing number of researchers, businesses, and data scientists collect and analyze massive amounts of data in database systems. The database system needs to process the resulting highly concurrent analytical workloads by exploiting modern multi-socket multi-core processor systems with non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architectures and increasing memory sizes. Conventional execution engines, however, are not designed for many cores, and neither scale nor perform efficiently on modern multi-core NUMA architectures. Firstly, their query-centric approach, where each query is optimized and evaluated independently, can result in unnecessary contention for hardware resources due to redundant work found across queries in highly concurrent workloads. Secondly, they are unaware of the non-uniform memory access costs and the underlying hardware topology, incurring unnecessarily expensive memory accesses and bandwidth saturation. In this thesis, we show how these scalability and performance impediments can be solved by exploiting sharing among concurrent queries and incorporating NUMA-aware adaptive task scheduling and data placement strategies in the execution engine. Regarding sharing, we identify and categorize state-of-the-art techniques for sharing data and work across concurrent queries at run-time into two categories: reactive sharing, which shares intermediate results across common query sub-plans, and proactive sharing, which builds a global query plan with shared operators to evaluate queries. We integrate the original research prototypes that introduce reactive and proactive sharing, perform a sensitivity analysis, and show how and when each technique benefits performance. Our most significant finding is that reactive and proactive sharing can be combined to exploit the advantages of both sharing techniques for highly concurrent analytical workloads. Regarding NUMA-awareness, we identify, implement, and compare various combinations of task scheduling and data placement strategies under a diverse set of highly concurrent analytical workloads. We develop a prototype based on a commercial main-memory column-store database system. Our most significant finding is that there is no single strategy for task scheduling and data placement that is best for all workloads. In specific, inter-socket stealing of memory-intensive tasks can hurt overall performance, and unnecessary partitioning of data across sockets involves an overhead. For this reason, we implement algorithms that adapt task scheduling and data placement to the workload at run-time. Our experiments show that both sharing and NUMA-awareness can significantly improve the performance and scalability of highly concurrent analytical workloads on modern multi-core servers. Thus, we argue that sharing and NUMA-awareness are key factors for supporting faster processing of big data analytical applications, fully exploiting the hardware resources of modern multi-core servers, and for more responsive user experience.
A Primer on Coordinate Descent Algorithms

This monograph presents a class of algorithms called coordinate descent algorithms for mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers outside the field of optimization. This particular class of algorithms has recently gained popularity due to their effectiveness in solving large-scale optimization problems in machine learning, compressed sensing, image processing, and computational statistics. Coordinate descent algorithms solve optimization problems by successively minimizing along each coordinate or coordinate hyperplane, which is ideal for parallelized and distributed computing. Avoiding detailed technicalities and proofs, this monograph gives relevant theory and examples for practitioners to effectively apply coordinate descent to modern problems in data science and engineering.
Explorations of life in several languages

This thesis is a qualitative research study exploring questions of how individuals construct living life in several languages, and of relational issues that arise. It pays attention to subjectivity and its interconnection with language. The study brings together perspectives from linguistics, translation literature, cultural theory, discursive psychology and systemic psychotherapy to consider issues of bilingualism / multilingualism at individual, family and societal levels, and to challenge the ongoing negativity associated with it. Five autobiographies and twenty-four research interviews with individuals who live in several languages form the research data. These insider accounts are treated as both referential and performative, and analysed using a synthesised grounded analysis and discursive analytic approach. It was found that individuals experience themselves differently in each language and construct their languages differently. The study identifies the discursive work individuals carry out in relation to these dissimilarities, such as the way they draw on a construct of a doubled identity, and conceptualise entry into a new language as performance. Individuals use their languages to make salient their own and others' identities. In Britain, speaking a minoritised language acts as a marker of difference and intersects with racialisation, helping to construct ethnicity and cultural identity. Although challenging, individuals develop strategies of hybridisation in enabling contexts, using the interaction between their different languages to create new perspectives, and see their multiplicity as advantage. Issues for families speaking several languages are discussed. Parents found first languages lent intimacy to parenting relationships; second languages conferred distance which helped avoid unhelpful interactions. The concept of 'mother tongue' is constitutive, perceived as language for mothers, and contributes to fathers using their first languages less. The thesis argues how crucial it is for psychotherapists to explore the differential effects of language on subjectivity and relationships, neglected to date, and for the importance of supporting bi/multilingualism.
Teaching and Learning of College Mathematics and Student Mathematical Thinking: Are the Lines of the Same Track?.

Studies related to school mathematics have shown that students who scored well on standardized tests often are unable to successfully use memorized facts and formulae in real-life application outside the classroom. The outcome of TIMSS and PISA studies further emphasizes the importance of mathematics teaching and learning in the Malaysian education system. Various measures have been taken by the Ministry of Education to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics in schools. However, issues related to college mathematics have yet to be addressed.In the past decade, universities have been bogged down with ranking systems(such as Times Higher Education University Rankings, QS ranking) and Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching related to issues such as studentsgraduating on time (GOT). In this paper, we investigate the finer points of mathematics teaching and learning. Our premise is that practical knowledge (common sense) and mathematics knowledge are closely related in the learning of mathematics in college.Three case studies are discussed in this paper to highlight this premise. These studies revealed that college students gradually practices rote learning and their final grades do not reflect the development of mathematical thinking. Furthermore, the teaching approach that focuses on computation deters students from fully developing their understanding of why or when they should be applied. Teaching instructions should shift teAchinG And leArninG of colleGe mAthemAticS An d Student mAthemAticAl thinKinG : Are the lineS of the SAme trAcK ? Parmjit Singh1* Teoh Sian Hoon2 Nor Syazwani Rasid3 Nurul Akmal Md Nasir4 Cheong Tau Han5 Norziah Abdul Rahman6 Universiti Teknologi MARA E-mail: *parmj378@salam.uitm. edu.my Corresponding Author Received: 13 November 2016 Accepted: 1 December 2016