Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Band Project: A Model for Service Learning

Real-world experiences, such as situated learning, fieldwork, and student teaching have been among the most prevalent examples employed in teacher preparation programs. Despite the increasing evidence in support of service learning in music teacher preparation, there are a limited number of models specific to instrumental music education. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of participants in one such model, called Band Project. Participants included preservice music educators, young band students, and one lead teacher who also served as the instrumental music teacher at the school. The research question that guided this investigation was as follows: In what ways do participants in an afterschool band project describe their experience? Four themes emerged from analysis of data: (a) Relationships and Community, (b) Challenges and Tensions, (c) Aspirations, and (d) Transformations. Findings reinforced the importance of service learning for preservice music educators, particularly amid growing concerns for cross-cultural awareness, inclusion, and social justice in music teacher preparation.
The experience and impact of fatigue in patients with systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and their partners : a qualitative study

Background: Severe fatigue is one of the most disabling symptoms of systemic auto-immune diseases and has a major impact on quality of life of patients. How patients’ fatigue is experienced by partners and how it affects the quality of life as a couple has yet been underexplored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the experience and impact of severe fatigue in patients and partners, facing a systemic auto-immune disease, as individuals and as couples. Methods: Data for this study were collected using a qualitative, cross-sectional design. Eligibility criteria required patients to be diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) or related diseases, experience fatigue on a daily or regular basis and couples to communicate in Dutch. This study contained nine adult heterosexual couples, whom were separately interviewed about their experience with patients’ severe fatigue and the impact on quality of life, using a semi-structured interview scheme. After obtaining all transcriptions, inductive and deductive coding was used to identify categories and data-patterns. Results: Severe fatigue did not only have a major impact on quality of life of patients, but also on their partners’ life. Among other aspects of quality of life, fatigue had the largest impact on cognitive functioning, activities of daily living and employment status in patients. For partners, patients’ fatigue caused above all the most impact on daily activities and the partner relationship. Clear differences between partners’ quality of life were found. In couples, communication, acceptance and knowledge of the disease were reported as important outcomes for relational satisfaction. Conclusion: Severe SLE-related fatigue was more disabling for patients than for partners, while the impact was comparable in couples for some domains. Communication, acceptance and knowledge of the illness were important outcomes for relational satisfaction within couples. Exploring the interpretation of efficient communication should be subject of future research in order to successfully develop self-management interventions for couples facing SLE-related fatigue.
Investigation of spatiotemporal variability of melt pond fraction and its relationship with sea ice extent during 2000–2017 using a new data

Abstract. The accurate knowledge of variations of melt ponds is important for understanding Arctic energy budget due to its albedo-transmittance-melt feedback. In this study, we develop and validate a new method for retrieving melt pond fraction (MPF) from the MODIS surface reflectance. We construct an ensemble-based deep neural network and use in-situ observations of MPF from multi-sources to train the network. The results show that our derived MPF is in good agreement with the observations, and relatively outperforms the MPF retrieved by University of Hamburg. Built on this, we create a new MPF data from 2000 to 2017 (the longest data in our knowledge), and analyze the spatial and temporal variability of MPF. It is found that the MPF has significant increasing trends from late July to early September, which is largely contributed by the MPF over the first-year sea ice. The analysis based on our MPF during 2000–2017 confirms that the integrated MPF to late June does promise to improve the prediction skill of seasonal Arctic sea ice minimum. However, our MPF data shows concentrated significant correlations first appear in a band, extending from the eastern Beaufort Sea, through the central Arctic, to the northern East Siberian and Laptev Seas in early-mid June, and then shifts towards large areas of the Beaufort Sea, Canadian Arctic, the northern Greenland Sea and the central Arctic basin.
A Critical Narrative Review of Research about the Experiences of being Muslim in New Zealand

The paper reviews and integrates findings from our programme of research on acculturation and intercultural relations with, for and about members of New Zealand’s Muslim community. Our objectives are to act as a conduit for Muslim voices, sharing findings about their experiences, aspirations and challenges, while increasing overall awareness about diversity-receptiveness in New Zealand. We describe how New Zealand Muslims see themselves in terms of their religious, ethnic and national identities; the challenges they face, including coping with discrimination and cultural change; the resources they access, particularly religion, family and community; and their pathways to positive psychological and social outcomes. We also examine how New Zealanders perceive and receive Muslims in the wider community.
Videos in the medical student objective structured clinical examination: A systematic review

Introduction: The use of video in objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) may serve as a means of facilitating assessment, as a component of the exam itself or utilised as a tool in other ways. The aim of this review was to summarise the evidence currently supporting the uses of video in relation to the OSCE process. Methods: A systematic search of Pubmed, Medline, EMBASE, Scopus and PsychInfo was conducted on 12 April 2017 using the subject heading “(OSCE OR objective structured clinical examination) AND (video OR recording)”. To be deemed eligible, the paper had to be a primary research paper, involve the analysis of OSCEs conducted for medical students and involve the use of video technology. Results: Thirty-six articles met eligibility criteria. Twenty-four investigated the use of video within OSCEs as a means of facilitating the exam, nine detailed cases where video was integrated as a part of an OSCE and three utilised videos in some other way. Of those that investigated the use of video as a means of facilitation, only one compared the use of video to traditional in-room examiners. Other articles in this category demonstrated good inter-rater reliability between different assessors marking via video. Conclusion: There is currently limited evidence regarding the usefulness and educational benefit of introducing video into the assessment of clinical skills, and minimal research evaluating the use of video compared to traditional live examiners as a means of facilitating the assessment of students currently exists. Preliminary results demonstrated reasonably high inter-rater reliability. This should be a topic of future research.
An electrophysiological analysis of the time course of phonological and orthographic encoding in written word production

ABSTRACT Recent evidence suggests that individuals generate written words based on both spelling and sound. The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the relative time course of orthographic and phonological activation. We adopted Chinese as a target language in which spelling and sound are largely dissociated. Native speakers of Chinese Mandarin were presented with coloured pictures and wrote down colour and picture names as adjective–noun phrases. Colour and picture names were either phonologically related, orthographically related, or unrelated. EEG revealed phonological effects in the 200–500 ms time window, starting at 206 ms after picture onset, and orthographic effects in the 300–400 ms time window, starting at 298 ms. The results of our study suggest that activation of phonological codes takes place approximately 100 ms earlier than access to orthographic codes, which provides evidence for phonological encoding as early sources of constraint in written word production.
The unfolded protein response and HLA-B27 misfolding : implications for ankylosing spondylitis.

The unfolded protein response (UPR) detects the presence of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequently relieves ER stress by increasing the folding capacity of the ER. The secretory pathway substrate HLA-B27 is highly associated with the chronic inflammatory disease ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and has a tendency to misfold in the ER. Here, we show that overexpression of HLA-B27 and non-disease associated HLA-B7 in immortalised cell lines leads to heavy chain misoxidation, which is accompanied by upregulation of BiP and splicing of XBP1, a key step in the IRE1 pathway of the UPR which is increasingly being linked with intestinal inflammation. We also demonstrate that different cell lines respond to different ER stress stimuli in distinct ways. We establish that HT1080 cells inefficiently induce a UPR in response to tunicamycin and that this has consequences for cell survival. However, inefficient activation of the UPR in HT1080 cells can be overcome by secondary signals, since co-administration of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein leads to activation of XBP1. Furthermore, we show that genistein can inhibit UPR induction of BiP in response to a range of ER stresses indicating that the cancer drug genistein can inhibit or activate the UPR depending on the environment and cell type. This has implications for inflammatory disease since regulation of the UPR is important in determining a cell’s tendency towards apoptosis.
Exploring Health Communication: Language in Action

Part I: Spoken Health Communication 1. The practitioner-patient relationship: Doctor-patient encounters 2. Spoken interaction between non-physician personnel and patients 3. Patients' narratives of health and illness Part II: Written Health Communication 4. The patient record 5. Print media representations of health 6. The patient information leaflet Part III: Computer-mediated health communication 7. Electronic health communication: peer-to-peer online interaction 8. Seeking online help from health professionals
Analysis of active and passive metamaterials

Metamaterials are composite materials acting as effectively continuous media, which are capable of realizing entirely new phenomena such as negative refraction and transformation optics. This class of new materials may therefore in principle make available concepts such as the perfect lens and invisibility cloaks. These materials are thus promised to achieve electromagnetic properties which most certainly go beyond materials found in nature, or ever encountered before, except from perhaps in science fiction. Such media may in general be built up of both active and passive components. New physical phenomena may require new physical models. A thorough investigation should therefore be made regarding the well established mathematical models from earlier research on electromagnetic properties of continuous, as well as structured media. This thesis contributes in various ways to the development of a solid theoretical framework, which can be used in the analysis of such novel materials. Two lines of inquiry are followed. The first part of the thesis considers isotropic, possibly active media, which are described by given material parameters; a permittivity (ω) and a permeability μ(ω). A mathematical framework based on Fourier-Laplace analysis is introduced for representing the response from such media in terms of (possibly complex) frequencyand transversal wavenumber components. The idealization of monochromatic plane waves may for active systems be dangerous due to the presence of growing waves, and the possibility of approaching this limit is investigated by deforming the integration surface in complex frequency-complex wavenumber space. We also give the most general criterion for absolute instabilities. The general theory is used to analyze example media with weak or strong gain. In particular it is used to show the existence of isotropic media which in principle exhibit simultaneous refraction, meaning they refract positively and negatively at the same time. In the second part, the importance of spatial dispersion in metamaterials consisting of passive components is considered. We discuss the importance of higher order multipole terms in homogenization theories for metamaterials. While it is common to include polarization, magnetic dipole and perhaps electric quadrupole
A Proposed Theory Life Cycle Model: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

In this article, we draw on the product life cycle framework to propose an adapted model for evaluating the evolution of a theory. The product life cycle was designed as an economic analysis tool, and its intuitive usefulness led to its adaptation for a variety of disciplines. Nevertheless, it has not been applied to theory. We propose a five-stage model of theory development: (1) emergence, (2) development, (3) maturity, and (4) decline toward (5) death or reemergence. The proposed model is then tested by applying it to work motivation theory. We conclude by offering implications and recommendations for using the theory life cycle model in research, teaching, and practice.
Multi-response based personalized treatment selection with data from crossover designs for multiple treatments

Abstract In this work we propose a novel method for treatment selection based on individual covariate information when the treatment response is multivariate and data are available from a crossover design. Our method covers any number of treatments and it can be applied for a broad set of models. The proposed method uses a rank aggregation technique to estimate an ordering of treatments based on ranked lists of treatment performance measures such as smooth conditional means and conditional probability of a response for one treatment dominating others. An empirical study demonstrates the performance of the proposed method in finite samples.
Examining Self-Reported Physical Contact With Minors Among Pedophile Support Forum Users

Minimal research has considered the extent to which pedophile social support forum users disclose physical relationships with minors in the course of their posts. As these forums cater to those who express sexual interests in minors, the users may be at higher risk for contact offenses and require unique treatment and supervision. To address this gap in the literature, this study utilized a quantitative analysis of the posts from 806 users from four separate pedophile support forums to identify the correlates of self-disclosed contact with minors. The findings demonstrated that although most users do not disclose physical contact, those who do share several common traits, specifically fantasies of minors, mentions of relationships with minors, and a sexually suggestive username. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of the role of online forums and potential clinical treatment are discussed in detail.
Job factors contributing to the job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction of primary principals in one Ministry of Education district in Western Australia

Recent changes in the Western Australian education system, resulting from the release and implementation of Better Schools in Western Australia: A Programme for Improvement (1987), have induced significant changes in the nature of the Western Australian primary principalship. Within this context of change, this research explores job factors contributing to the job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction of primary principals in one Ministry of Education district in Western Australia. Studies based on Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, conducted in educational and non-educational settings, in addition to previous principal job satisfaction research were important in the development of the study's conceptual framework and research questions. Data to address the research questions were collected through a modification of Flanagan's critical incident technique. During interview sessions, eighteen primary principals were each asked to provide four sequences of events: two relating to periods of job satisfaction, and two sequences relating to periods of job dissatisfaction. An a posteriori approach to content analysis revealed that eleven job factors contributed to
Low-Profile Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna With Wide 3 dB Beamwidth

In this letter, a low-profile circularly polarized (CP) narrow-slots slotted-patch antenna for wide 3 dB axial-ratio beamwidth (ARBW) performance is presented. It consists of two pairs of narrow slots along the diagonal lines of a square patch with a single feed. These pairs of narrow slots are conceived and placed to serve as magnetic dipoles with quarter-wavelength separation, forcing the amplitude of the orthogonal electric field components to be equal across a wide angle. The 3 dB ARBW of the CP antenna is a strong function of the mutual magnetic field, which is feasible to alter with different parameters of the slot. The location, dimensions, and gap between the slots are tuned to achieve wide 3 dB ARBW. Measured results of the fabricated prototype exhibit 3 dB ARBW of 226° with ARmin of 0.52 dB and 198° with ARmin of 1.61 dB in two principal planes at $\boldsymbol{\varphi } = \text{0}^\circ $ and $\boldsymbol{\varphi } = \text{90}^\circ $, respectively. The antenna offers impedance bandwidth of 85 MHz (2.448–2.533 GHz) and CP bandwidth (CPBW) of 23 MHz (2.474–2.497 GHz). The minimum peak gain is 3.87 dBic in the broadside direction.
Autonomy-supportive language in the syllabus: supporting students from the first day

ABSTRACT An autonomy supportive classroom enhances the learning climate and improves academic motivation. Alternatively, a controlling classroom environment constricts the learning climate and hinders academic motivation. The current study evaluated whether autonomy supportive or controlling language presented in a class syllabus influenced students’ perceptions of a college course. Students were randomly assigned to read a syllabus written with either autonomy supportive or controlling language. After reading, participants rated their perceptions of the learning climate, intrinsic motivation, satisfaction of their basic psychological needs, and intentions to take the class. Analyses revealed that students who viewed the autonomy-supportive syllabus had a more overall positive perception of the course compared to students who read the controlling syllabus. The findings suggest language within a course syllabus can influence student’s early perceptions of and intentions toward taking a course, but not their reported level of intrinsic motivation. Implications for instructors and future directions are discussed.
Educating for Engagement: The Influence of Physical Therapist Education on Lifelong Learning and Professional Engagement

Healthcare professions educational programs have a responsibility to develop professionally engaged lifelong learners. Knowledge of the factors important to the development of these desirable characteristics may inform educational leaders’ decisions about program and curriculum design. This study aimed to investigate the relation between level of education and an orientation towards lifelong learning and future professional engagement. In addition, the influence of learners’ type of motivation for continued learning, and learning goal orientation on this relation was also assessed. A cross-sectional survey of learners from a single healthcare profession, physical therapy was conducted to investigate these relations. Physical therapist learners from across the United States at all levels of formal professional and post-professional education were included invited to participate in the anonymous online survey. Path analysis was used to analyze the relations between the included factors. A total of 251 usable responses were included in the analysis. Results suggest that physical therapist learners increase their orientation toward lifelong learning and future professional engagement as they advance through the physical therapy education continuum. Furthermore, having greater autonomous and less controlled motivation increases this relation. Mastery goal orientation also had a positive direct effect on lifelong learning and professional engagement but this effect was independent of learners’ current level of education. Implications for educational leaders in the physical therapy profession are discussed along with recommendations for future research. EDUCATING FOR ENGAGEMENT xi
Biophilic Architecture for Restoration and Therapy within the Built Environment: A Review

Can ‘restoration and therapy in design’ signify something more than the places like hospitals and healing gardens? Can those restorative environments be brought inside the working and living environments to mitigate the psychological problem at the source? The main objective of this paper is to look at the strategies and developments of Biophilic design with respect to therapy and restoration in order to achieve sustainability in terms of quality of life within the immediate built-environment. The paper explores the mental health issues under the domains of built-environment and indoor environment with respect to their connection with nature. Biophilic design has gained a favourable momentum within the last four decades and is now visualised as a medium that bridges the gap between humans and the nature. Out of a variety of measures of sustainable environmental design, biophilic design focuses on the end-results of naturally nurtured or inspired habitats and workplaces. It embodies strategies of Green and Intelligent buildings, works as a mitigation strategy for foul indoor environment and establishes the vision that veristic sustainability can only be achieved if there is qualitative control over human physiological prosperity and psychological health. In context of work efficiency, preference and productivity within the indoor environment, it is seen as a promoter of constructive thoughts and enhancer of creativity. The paper aims to enlist biophilic design and retrofitting strategies, which can improve cognitive function, reduce stress and provide mental peace within the built environment.