Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ignorance Is Bliss: A Game of Regret

Existing models of regret aversion assume that individuals can make an ex-post comparison between their choice and a foregone alternative. Yet in many situations such a comparison can be made only if someone else chose the alternative option. We develop a model where regret-averse agents must decide between the status quo and a new risky option that outperforms the status quo in expectation, and learn the outcome of the risky option, if unchosen, with a probability that depends on the choices of others. This turns what was previously a series of single-person decision problems into a coordination game. Most notably, regret can facilitate coordination on the status quo { an action that would not be observed if the agents were acting in isolation or had standard preferences. We experimentally test the model and find that regret-averse agents behave as predicted by our theory.
The Secret of Human Existence Homeostasis: Spiritual Intelligence is the Hope of All Humanity

Positive psychology is based on a theory that stems from how the individual learns and how achieves a healthy, convincing, good and enjoyable life. The positive, and its commitment to care and development, leads to the understanding of the human being, the world and others around him, and even changes his negative thinking towards life as a whole. Positive psychology has defined as the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that empower individuals, institutions and societies to flourish. This has been based on the belief that human beings wish to lead a human life full of value and meaning in which they realize their ambitions and employ In which their human abilities to reach true satisfaction and happiness, and improve their general humanitarian experience in all areas of human value such as social relations, work, and even play [1]. Perhaps one of the most important psychological strengths in humans is intelligence, which has received a great deal of attention from psychologists over time, and even considered the IQ is the first factor of success and excellence, and that the highest people in intelligence reach the highest levels of success in education, work and various areas But scientists have recently discovered that other types of intelligence play an important role in success, especially in reality. Many intelligent people stumble and spend their lives in fear and tension, and others less intelligent take important and successful positions in life [2].
College Students’ Feedback on a Student Bereavement Leave Policy

Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined how grieving college students perceived the effectiveness, benefits, drawbacks, and areas of improvement of a student bereavement leave policy, Grief Absence Policy for Students (GAPS). Though GAPS facilitated students’ grief, data indicated that the policy could benefit from improvements in the accommodations allowed, implementation process, and provision of ongoing support. We offer practical recommendations for student affairs professionals seeking to support grieving students through an innovative policy.
The Fatalistic Decision Maker: Time Perspective, Working Memory, and Older Adults’ Decision-Making Competence

Prior research indicates that time perspective (TP; views of past, present, and future) is related to decision-making style. By contrast, no prior study considered relations between TP and decision-making competence. We therefore investigated associations between dimensions of the Swedish Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI) and performance on the Adult Decision-Making Competence (A-DMC) battery in a sample of older adults (60–90 years, N = 346). A structural equation model involving four A-DMC components as indicators of a general DMC factor and the six TP dimensions as the predictors revealed a significant negative association between the Present Fatalistic dimension and DMC. Given that age-related differences were apparent in DMC and that Present Fatalistic orientation increased with age, we tested a model by which the age-related differences in DMC were mediated by age-related differences in Present Fatalistic attitudes and in working memory. The results were consistent with full mediation of the age effects, with Present Fatalistic and working memory jointly accounting for a substantial amount of the variance in DMC (51%). The finding that DMC among older adults, in particular more cognitively demanding aspects such as applying decision rules, can be undermined by increased present fatalistic attitudes and declines in working memory is discussed in terms of theoretical frameworks highlighting the contribution of both motivational and cognitive factors to effective decision making.
Assistive Technology Service Delivery in Rural School Districts

Little is known about the implementation of assistive technology (AT) services for students in rural areas. This study investigated the AT service delivery in 10 rural districts across six states. The results indicated that students use AT across functional areas, but considerably fewer number of devices than do those not living in rural areas. AT experts attended a low percentage of IEP meetings, and the AT expertise of related service personnel is rated highly. Teachers reported that rural students have access to the technology they need; however, they also indicated they needed more training on available technology for their students.
Millennial knowledge workers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of Millennial knowledge workers’ emotional intelligence (EI) on their subjective career success (SCS) through their protean career attitudes (PCAs) and psychological empowerment (PE). Design/methodology/approach Survey methodology was used to collect data from 623 Millennial knowledge workers in 42 Turkish Information Technology companies. Participants answered the surveys at three different points within a 12-week period. Measures of EI, PCAs, PE and SCS were analyzed using structural equation modeling and the bootstrapping method. Findings The empirical results provide support for the author’s proposed model that positive relations between EI and Millennial knowledge workers’ SCS are mediated by their PCAs and PE. Research limitations/implications To generalize the study findings, future research should be conducted for Millennial knowledge workers in different cultures and countries. Practical implications Particularly for Millennial knowledge workers, managers need to be aware of positive influence of EI on employees’ SCS and should consider implementing policies and procedures that recognize EI as a key ingredient for their SCS. Additionally, human resource professionals should aim to create an organizational culture around career development, in addition to career attitudes trainings, and provide career growth opportunities to retain Millennial talent. Finally, organizational development professionals should establish work environments that increase employee empowerment and thus improve SCS. Originality/value The findings advance the understanding of how Millennial knowledge workers’ EI can influence their SCS through focusing on PCAs and PE. The results underpin the self-determination theory, contextualist action theory of career development and job design theory.
The development of 3- to 6-year-olds’ symbolic representation ability in a block construction activity

ABSTRACT Symbolic representation refers to the use of physical or psychological processes to represent an object in a symbolic form. The present study investigated the development of children’s symbolic representation using a new measure of children's block constructions. Ninety children (44 girls) in three age groups (3-4, 4-5, and 5-6 years) were randomly assigned to reproduce an example of ancient Chinese architecture using either two-dimensional pictures or a three-dimensional scale model. Children in the 3-4 age group produced significantly better constructions in the pictures condition. This picture-superiority effect disappeared in the 4-5 age group. In the 5-6 age group, there was better dimensionality in children's constructions when they used a scale model as the referent. The data identified the age of 4-5 as a critical period for the development of children's symbolic representation to transfer relational information from a scale model to their construction.
Strategic circumvention of regulations: the judicialization of the Brazilian private health system

Abstract The article aims to advance the understanding of the successive circumvention of regulations by organizations, to determine whether it is possible to characterize them as purposeful actions, while the institutional literature analyzes decoupling and circumvention as sporadic activities. It analyzes the responses adopted by health plan companies to favor their interests, responses that often fail to comply with the rules of the institutional context, and which boosted the phenomenon known as ‘judicialization’. The study analyzed 158 lawsuits collected from the electronic archives of the Court of Justice of São Paulo, where beneficiaries sue health plan companies because of treatment coverage denial. Using correspondence and thematic analysis, some associations between denials and allegations showed to be significant, suggesting companies’ strategic patterns. It was possible to identify different strategic practices adopted by companies to avoid complying with institutional guidelines, and to observe that certain regulatory features can contribute to non-compliance strategies. The article contributes to the institutional literature by identifying organizational practices meant to successively circumvent and confront institutional prescriptions, indicating that health plan companies apparently design specific strategies to respond to beneficiaries’ demands.
Altered Patterns of the Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation and Functional Connectivity Between Deficit and Non-Deficit Schizophrenia

Objective: A limited number of studies have previously reported on the regional activity [amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF)] and functional integration [functional connectivity (FC)] of the whole brain in deficit schizophrenia (DS). The present study investigates the resting-state characteristics of the fractional ALFF (fALFF) and the FC in both DS and non-deficit schizophrenia (NDS) patients, and further explores their correlations with neurocognitive features. Methods: Demographic, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and neurocognitive data were collected from 33 DS and 41 NDS male patients, as well as in 40 male healthy controls (HCs). The voxel-wise fALFF was measured to evaluate regional cerebral function. Regions with differences in fALFF between DS and NDS patients were used as seed points in whole-brain FC analysis. Partial correlation analysis was conducted to examine associations between the fALFF or the FC of altered regions and neurocognitive assessments. Results: Both patient groups showed decreased fALFF in the sensorimotor area, visual cortex, and frontoparietal pathway, but increased fALFF in the precuneus and middle cingulate gyrus when compared with the HCs. Moreover, the NDS group demonstrated higher fALFF than HCs in the left thalamus, caudate, and hippocampus. Compared with the NDS group, the fALFF of the visual cortex was specifically increased, but that of the bilateral insula, the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACG), and the regions extended to the frontotemporal cortex was decreased in the DS group. Numerous abnormal FCs of nerve pathways were found between the two patient groups, mainly concentrated in the frontooccipital, frontotemporal, insula-visual cortex, as well as the temporooccipital pathway. Correlation analysis indicated that, in the DS group, the FC value between the left insula and the visual cortex was positively correlated with cognitive flexibility. In the NDS group, the fALFF of the right insula was negatively correlated with speech fluency, and the FC value between the ACG and the visual cortex was positively correlated with visual spatial memory. Conclusion: The present study demonstrates different altered patterns of fALFF and FC between male patients with DS and NDS. The specific altered regions of the salience network (SN) associated with impaired neurocognition in male DS patients suggest novel insights into the pathogenesis of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.
Principals’ Perceptions on Admission Services in Kwara State Secondary Schools, Nigeria: A Phenomenology Approach

Admission service is an essential service that is needed for the implementation of school programmes and for students’ academic success in secondary schools. Therefore, this study investigated principals’ perceptions on admission services in secondary schools. The research design adopted for the study is phenomenology approach. The participants of the study consist of all principals in Kwara state secondary schools. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were used to select 20 principals as participants needed for the study. Instrument titled “Interview Protocol on Admission Services IPAS” was used to elicit views on admission services from the participants. Findings of the study revealed that effective admission service had a link with students’ academic achievement in school. Specifically, it indicated that students who went through initial admission screening, such as entrance examination and oral interview performed excellently when given admission. Also, their views revealed that admission service was one of the fundamental services in school system and its importance cannot be underestimated. Finally, it was suggested that proper planning of admission process should be put in place to ensure good admission service exercise in the school system.
Gender Lender: Noun Borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in Northern Australia

This paper explores borrowing of nouns between two unrelated Australian languages with a long history of contact: Mudburra, a language with no grammatical gender, and Jingulu, which has four genders and super-classing. Unusually, this case involves extensive borrowing in both directions, resulting in the languages sharing 65% of their nouns. This bi-directional borrowing of nouns allows us to simultaneously examine the behaviour of gender where (i) nouns from a language with no gender have transferred into a language with a gender system, and (ii) nouns from a language with gender have transferred into a language with no gender system. Previous work in this area has been interested in the how nouns are categorised in scenario (i) (Deuchar et al., 2014; Jake et al., 2002; Liceras et al., 2008; Parafita Couto et al., 2015; Poplack et al., 1982), and whether there is any evidence for the development of a gender system in the recipient language in scenario (ii) (Aikhenvald, 2003; Corbett, 1991; Heath, 1978; Matras and Sakel, 2007; Seifart, 2012; Stolz, 2009; Stolz, 2012). We show that Mudburra nouns borrowed into Jingulu are assigned gender on the basis of their semantics, with gender superclassing effects and morpho-phonological massaging. Some of the borrowings into Mudburra, on the other hand, demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of Jingulu morpho-syntax which speaks to a high degree of bilingualism between Mudburra and Jingulu over an extended period.
Comparison between the Learning Styles of Medical Students in the Preclinical Versus Clinical Years at the Faculty of Medicine Suez Canal University

Background: The Field of learning styles is complex, over 70 different learning style models identified in a recent review. The literature seems to suggest that diagnosing students’ learning styles can be an easy and effective process because students can identify their own learning styles and score higher on tests when they are complimented with a teaching style that matches their learning style. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the learning styles of the undergraduate medical students in the preclinical versus clinical years at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University in order to help them to maximize their learning. Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive cross sectional study. All medical students (from first year to sixth year) during the academic year 2012/2013 were included in the study (total comprehensive sample) then comparison between the learning styles of medical students in the preclinical versus clinical years was done. A self-administered anonymous VARK (Visual, Auditory, Read and write, Kinesthetic) questionnaire was used to identify their learning styles. The questionnaire was translated into Arabic to facilitate its administration. Results: Seven hundred and twenty nine students responded to the questionnaire. TTest for comparing means of continuous data was used. The results showed that there is a statistically significant difference (p= 0.022) between the learning styles of students in the pre-clinical and clinical years despite those students in both the preclinical and clinical years preferred to use the unimodal learning style. Conclusion: The study concluded that students in the preclinical years have different learning styles than students in the clinical years and that it is important to increase the awareness of both the faculty and students about learning styles and its importance and implications.
Timing it Right: Balancing Inpatient Congestion versus Readmission Risk at Discharge

When to discharge a patient plays an important role in hospital patient flow management as well as the quality of care and patient outcomes. In this work, we develop and implement a data-integrated decision support framework to aid hospitals in managing the delicate balance between readmission risk at discharge and ward congestion. We formulate a large-scale Markov Decision Process (MDP) that integrates a personalized readmission prediction model to dynamically prescribe both how many and which patients to discharge on each day. Due to patient heterogeneity and the fact that length-of-stay is not memoryless, the MDP suffers the curse of dimensionality. We leverage structural properties and analytical solutions for a special cost setting to transform the MDP into a univariate optimization; this leads to a novel, efficient dynamic heuristic. Further, for our decision framework to be implementable in practice, we build a unified prediction model that integrates several statistical methods and provides key inputs to the decision framework; existing off-the-shelf readmission prediction models alone could not adequately parametrize our decision support. Through extensive counterfactual analyses, we demonstrate the value of our discharge decision tool over our partner hospital's historical discharge behavior. We also obtain generalizable insights by applying the tool to a broad range of hospital types through a high-fidelity simulation. Lastly, we showcase an implementation of our tool at our partner hospital, to demonstrate broader applicability through our framework's "plug-and-play" design for integration with general hospital data-systems and workflows.
The Influence of Mother’s Working Status on Exclusive Breastfeeding in the Jabodetabek Region

This study aims to analyze the influence of mothers' working status and other factors on exclusive breastfeeding in the Jabodetabek region (District of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, Tangerang, South Tangerang, and Bekasi), due to the low coverage of exclusive breastfeeding in the region. The data used in this study are sourced from Susenas Kor Main Household Notes, Susenas Module Consumption/Food and Non-Food Expenditure, and Household Income/Receipts March 2016 for Jabodetabek area using logistic regression. The results of this study indicate that education, working status, and parity (number of children) significantly influence mother's tendency to exclusively breastfeed, whereas age, IMD, income, and region/living area have no significant effect on exclusive breastfeeding in the Jabodetabek region. Keywords—Exclusive Breastfeeding, Working status, Age, Education, Parity, IMD, Income, Region of Residence
Investigating the Creativity and Its Influencing Factors among Medical Students

Background: Creativity is among the fundamental and constitutive features of humans, playing an important role in the development and growth of human beings and human civilization. The present study was conducted to investigate the creativity and factors influencing it among medical students. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 320 medical students were randomly selected using stratified random sampling. Guilford's Creativity Questionnaire was used as data collection tool. Chi-Square test, and one-way analysis of Variance were used for data analysis, and the results were presented as frequency distribution tables. Results: Most of the participants (232 students (72.5%)) had moderate levels of creativity. The mean score was obtained as 49.59±5.59, 22.02± 3.29, 35.06± 4.62, 25.81±3.53, and 135.56±13.80, respectively for fluency, elaboration, originality, flexibility, and overall creativity. There was no significant relationship between overall score of creativity with gender, major, educational level, and place of residence, marital status, employment, and term of study (P≥0.05). However, there was a significant relationship between flexibility (P=0.001) and marital status (P=0.045). Conclusions: Given that about three-quarters of the participants had moderate scores while high creativity is indispensable for health care workers, educational planners need to foster this capability among the students.
A Confluence of Worries: Grandparents in Skipped-Generation Households in Thailand

The responsibilities associated with looking after grandchildren can be a source of considerable worry for grandparents if they are their primary caregivers. Most of the research on this topic has been conducted in the United States with grandparents who are caring for grandchildren because of family crisis. In contrast, this study focuses on grandparents in Thailand who are caring for grandchildren due to the migration of their adult children seeking income. Interviews were conducted with 48 grandparents from three provinces in Thailand. Using thematic analysis, we identified the major kinds of worries experienced by these grandparents: family relationships, finances, the risky behavior and safety of their grandchildren, and the future. We explore each of these worries in depth and contrast Thai grandparents’ experiences with those of grandparents in the United States.
Mind Mapping as a Teaching Tool in Higher Education Language Learning Settings

Many instructors willing to undertake teaching in a foreign language are progressively noticing the need to improve the quality of classroom dis­ course and lecturing styles, so that students can capture and process the information delivered more efficiently. Mind­maps can be an important and effective asset to anyone who wants to learn a language. They are considered to be a great way to brainstorm and generate more ideas. They help to create a number of small ideas from one big idea, to see how different ideas could be connected together and to create a plan of action. They break from the traditional way of thinking when learning, and therefore they encourage creativity – and this can be achieved only when there are no restrictions, criticism and judging. The result should be a very creative, new solution to problems, a generation of original, relaxed and informal ideas. The article demonstrates how mind mapping technique can be used to improve lan­ guage skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening in higher education settings; moreover, it concerns positive and negative aspects of the use of mind mapping, purposes it may serve, implications, suggestions, and recommendations for mind mapping strategies for teachers and students.