Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analisis Karya Tulis (Skripsi) Tugas Akhir Mahasiswa Program Studi Administrasi Pendidikan Periode 2008/2009 dan 2009/2010

Penelitian laboratorium ini berjudul Analisis Karya Tulis (Skripsi) Tugas Akhir Mahasiswa Program Studi Administrasi Pendidikan Periode 2008/2009 dan 2009/2010. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan kekurangan dan kelemahan yang banyak dilakukan oleh mahasiswa dalam membuat karyatulis (skripsi). Metoda yang diguakan dalam penelitian ini adalah explorasi (penggalian) terhadap aspek-aspek yang ingin diungkap dan dianalisis dengan rumus persentasi. Dari analisis yang telah dilakukan tingkat kesalahan yang ditemukan terkait pada semua aspek karya ilmiah. Tertinggi pada aspek penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia, Sedang pada aspek cara mengutip, rendah pada aspek bagian kesimpulan dan penulisan daftar pustaka dan sangat rendah pada aspek struktur laporan, konsistensi format dan isi karya tulis.Kesalahan penggunaan bahasa ditemukan pada semua jenis karyatulis dan termasuk dalam kategori tinggi. Penelitian ini memberikan gambaran bahwa peranan pembimbing masih belum maksimal. Kata Kunci : Analisis, karya tulis, skripsi
Inertial Force Feedback for a Locomotion Interface

Inertial force feedback was implemented for a locomotion interface, the Treadport. The purpose was to make locomotion on the Treadport more like locomotion on the ground. The feedback force was applied to the user by a mechanical tether. Psychophysical experiments were performed to determine whether users preferred inertial force feedback to other types of control for the case of accelerating from rest. The results showed that all eleven subjects preferred inertial force feedback when compared to a spring force or no force.
Patterns in primary midwife-led care in the Netherlands : trends and variation in intrapartum referrals

Het onderzoek beschrijft bevallingen van vrouwen met een ongecompliceerde zwangerschap in heel Nederland, begeleidt door eerstelijns verloskundigen. In de jaren 2000-2008 werden deze vrouwen steeds vaker tijdens de bevalling naar het obstetrische team in het ziekenhuis verwezen, voornamelijk vanwege niet-urgente redenen. Dit betekende ook een toename van obstetrische behandelingen zoals medicinale pijnbestrijding, stimulatie van de weeen, of continue elektronische monitoring van het ongeboren kind. Het bleek dat de veranderingen in de zorg niet gepaard gingen met andere uitkomsten voor het kind: in deze gezonde groep vrouwen bleef het risico op perinatale sterfte of lage Apgar scores onverminderd klein. Tegelijkertijd nam bij vrouwen die van hun eerste kind bevielen het aantal keizersneden toe. Bijkomende nadelen van deze veranderingen in de zorg zijn een toenemende versnippering van de zorg tijdens de bevalling door de verwijzingen van eerste naar tweede lijn, en een grotere kans op morbiditeit ten gevolge van de medische behandelingen. Positief is dat de toegankelijkheid tot pijnbestrijding tijdens de baring is verbeterd voor vrouwen. Opvallend waren de grote verschillen tussen verloskundigen praktijken in de mate waarin zij vrouwen tijdens de bevalling verwijzen naar het obstetrisch team. Verloskundigen lijken te verschillen in de wijze waarop zij beslissingen nemen tijdens de baring. Ook de samenwerking met het lokale ziekenhuis kan daarop van invloed zijn: ook ziekenhuizen verschillen sterk in verloskundig beleid, zo blijkt uit de Zorgbalans van het RIVM. Om optimale kwaliteit van de verloskundige zorg aan vrouwen met een normale zwangerschap te realiseren is het belangrijk dat de kansen op een normale bevalling worden geoptimaliseerd, en dat niet alleen wordt gelet op het terugdringen van babysterfte. Dit kan gerealiseerd worden binnen de eerste lijn, zonder grote veranderingen in de organisatie van de verloskundige zorg in Nederland. Wel kan de taak van de eerstelijns verloskundige eventueel worden uitgebreid om de continuiteit van zorg tijdens de bevalling te verbeteren. Net als in andere Europese landen, kan zij dan de begeleiding van haar clienten langer voortzetten als behandelingen zoals pijnbestrijding nodig zijn in niet-urgente situaties.
Architectural blueprints--the '4+1' view model of software architecture

This article presents a model for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. This use of multiple views allows to address separately the concerns of the various ‘stakeholders’ of the architecture: end-user, developers, systems engineers, project managers, etc., and to handle separately the functional and non functional requirements. Each of the five views is described, together with a notation to capture it. The views are designed using an architecture-centered, scenariodriven, iterative development process.
The influence of the place-value structure of the Arabic number system on two-digit number processing - Representational, developmental, neuropsychological and computational aspects

43 INTRODUCTION . 44 How to observe unit-based null effects in two-digit number comparison . 45 1. Use of small unit distances in the stimulus set . 45 2. Use of no or only a few within-decade trials . 46 3. Ignore congruity effects in magnitude comparison . 46 Objectives . 47 METHOD . 48 Participants . 48
Development of an efficient parallel wavefront reconstructor: With implementation on a GPU

In 2018 the European extremely large telescope (E-ELT) a telescope with a diameter of 42 meter build by European Southern Observatory (ESO), is planned to see first light. Such a large telescope requires adaptive optics (AO) systems to compensate for atmospheric turbulence. An essential element of AO control is wavefront reconstruction. Wavefront reconstruction is the process of converting the measured slopes into phases. The slopes are measured by a wavefront sensor consisting out of a grid of separate sensor segments. When N defines the number of sensor segments, the computational effort to calculate the wavefront reconstructor scales with order O(N2) for standard vector matrix multiply (VMM) methods. Taking into consideration that for the E-ELT, N is in the range of 40.000, makes wavefront reconstruction computational infeasible. This thesis proposes to use the vast amount of computational power that parallel computing offers to compute the wavefront reconstruction. To make effective use of parallel computing, it is required that a wavefront reconstructor is designed which consist out of a set of independent sub problems. This is achieved by treating every sensor segment as a separated problem, by identifying low order local models and by applying Kalman filtering on neighbouring measurements. The localised approach introduces a linear order in computational complexity and coarse grained parallelism. The tradeoff lies in noise sensitivity. Still the accuracy of the reconstructor does not drop for signal-to-noise (SNR) ratios of 80 dB and higher, when compared to a global Kalman filter. To reduce noise sensitivity further, more measurements per segment could be taken into account. An alternative would be to introduce state exchange in the form of diffusion algorithms. It is demonstrated that diffusion algorithms can give a gain of over 20 dB SNR. This is very promising, however in its current form diffusion algorithms are still computational too complex and future research should resolve this issue before being applicable. To show that the algorithm tightly fits the parallel computing structure it was implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU). On the GPU it was feasible to perform a single reconstruction for a grid size of 50× 50 in 0.47 millisecond. Extrapolating the results allowed us to reason that 16 modern GPUs or a single future GPU is capable of reconstruction the wavefront of E-ELT sized grids at kilohertz rate. Master of Science Thesis W.A. Klop
Minéralogie des silicates de calcium présents dans des mortiers anciens à Tournai

Cette etude est destinee a clarifier l’evolution au niveau de la composition et des techniques de fabrication des mortiers a chaux utilises dans les structures archeologiques decouvertes sous le niveau de sol actuel de la cathedrale de Tournai (Belgique) qui remonte au xiie siecle. La recherche s’inscrit dans un projet interdisciplinaire plus large qui vise a etudier la transition des villes et des territoires ruraux Romains a Post-Romain et leur transformation jusqu’au Moyen Âge (Brulet et Verslype, 2001). Les resultats presentes, concernent la mineralogie des mortiers et indiquent que celle-ci peut varier selon l’hydraulicite du liant, qui a son tour est mis en relation avec les conditions de cuisson du calcaire dans les fours a chaux anciens. Cette etude est donc particulierement interessante lorsqu’il s’agit de comprendre et de clarifier la connaissance empirique possible de l’interdependance de la temperature de cuisson et de l’hydraulicite de la chaux utilisee a Tournai. Il est en effet possible que pour certaines applications ou durant certaines epoques de l’histoire cette connaissance fut exploitee.
Actionable information delivery

It is desirable to provide information adapted to users' needs, whether for learning, working or entertaining. However, developing adaptive systems is not an easy task. In developing discourse-based adaptive systems, one difficulty is that the expertise required to write the discourse operators is complex. In this paper, we present a graphical authoring tool, Constructor, that supports document designers in defining the texts to be generated. Constructor allows people knowledgeable about the application domain to author discourse operators. We also hope that it affords a more intuitive visual way to define documents as compared to the currently laborious encoding of discourse operators. We expect that modifying and creating new document specifications becomes an easier task with Constructor. To test our approach and gain understanding of how to support further the authoring process, we have started user studies. We briefly describe here our initial experiment.
First Language Status and Second Language Writing

ii TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF NOMENCLATURE, ABBREVIATIONS, AND SYMBOLS xiv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1 1.1 Rationale for the focus of this study 1 1.2 Research questions and hypotheses 6 1.3 Rationale for the label, “bilingual learners” 8 1.4 Bilingual learners and academic success 11 1.5 Barriers to success 14 1.5. 1 General barriers to success 14 1.5. 2 Barriers to college success 19 1.6 Bilingual learners and institutionalized discrimination 22 1.7 Overview of the remaining chapters 27 CHAPTER 2: REAL WORLD AND RESEARCH GAPS 28 2.1 Education for bilingual learners 28 2.1.1 Immersion models 30 2.1.2 Transitional models 33 2.1.3 Dual language and developmental bilingual education models 34 2.1.4 The case of newcomers 36 2.1.5 Educational models for bilingual learners and the real world gap 39 2.2 Adolescent bilingual learners and current research 41 2.3 L1 knowledge and current research 44 2.3. 1 Incomplete acquisition and attrition of the L1 44 2.3. 2 The role of a strong L1 in L2 academic achievement 47 2.3. 3 Reasons that a strong L1 is academically beneficial 48 2.3. 4 How to maintain and develop students’ L1 50 2.3. 5 The gap in studies relating L1 knowledge to academic achievement for college-level bilingual learners 53 2.4 Closing thoughts 55
Elucidating mechanisms of toxicity and engineering Escherichia coli for tolerance of short chain fatty acids

Many chemical products available today provide essential tools that make the world economy viable. However, the current reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and possibly negatively affects the environment. Therefore, a new method of synthesis for biorenewable and sustainable chemicals is needed. In this treatise, significant advancement in the production of short chain carboxylic acids during bacterial fermentation is described. This work offers new insights into carboxylic acid toxicity and methods for improvement of microbial tolerance that is important for improving productivity, titer, and yields for economical production of biorenewable chemicals. The methods described include metabolic engineering techniques for E. coli strain construction: gene knockouts, gene overexpression, directed evolution for tolerance and E. coli biocatalyst characterization techniques: specific growth rate, membrane fluidity, membrane leakage, membrane lipid analysis, hydrophobicity, carboxylic acid production, transcriptome analysis, intracellular pH, γ-amino butyric acid determination, proton motive force simulation, genome reverse engineering, and biocatalyst zeta potential. These methods allow greater insight into the mechanisms of toxicity of carboxylic acids and how bacteria cells improve tolerance. Hexanoic, octanoic (C8), and decanoic acids are completely inhibitory to Escherichia coli MG1655 in minimal medium. This growth inhibition is pH-dependent and is accompanied by a significant change in the fluorescence polarization (fluidity) and integrity. This inhibition and sensitivity to membrane fluidization, but not to damage of membrane integrity, can be at least partially mitigated during short-term adaptation to octanoic acid. This short-term adaptation was accompanied by a change in membrane lipid
Essays in information economics

I present three essays on Information Economics. The first essay consists of analyzing high-frequency price dynamics around earnings announcements for the largest 1,500 U.S. stocks between 2011 and 2015. Price discovery following earnings surprises mostly occurs in the after-hours market, following the earnings announcement, and is generally complete by 10 a.m. Eighty percent of the price response to earnings surprises in the after-hours market occurs upon arrival of the first trades. Price reactions are largely explained by earnings surprises and not by order flow, consistent with the theoretical view that news can incorporate prices instantly. In the second essay, co-authored with Oliver Boguth and Vincent Grégoire, we show that in an effort to increase transparency, the Chair of the Federal Reserve now holds a press conference following some, but not all, Federal Open Market Committee announcements. Press conferences are scheduled independently of economic conditions and communicate little information. Evidence from financial markets demonstrates that investors lower their expectations of important decisions on days without press conferences, and we show that they shift attention away from these announcements. Both channels prevent effective monetary policy, as the committee is averse to surprising markets and aims to coordinate market expectations. Correspondingly, we show that announcements without press conferences convey less price-relevant information. In the third essay, co-authored with Adlai J. Fisher and Jinfei Sheng, we construct indices of media attention to macroeconomic risks including employment, growth, inflation and monetary policy. Attention rises around macroeconomic announcements and following changes in fundamentals over quarterly, annual, and business cycle horizons. The effect is asymmetric, with bad news raising attention more than good news. Increases in aggregate trade volume and volatility coincide with rising attention, controlling for announcements. Finally, changes in attention prior to the unemployment announcement predict both the announcement surprise and stock returns on the announcement day. We conclude that media attention to macroeconomic fundamentals provides useful information beyond the dates and contents of macroeconomic announcements.
The Usefulness of Optimum Experimental Designs

Optimum experimental designs were originally developed by Kiefer, mainly for response surface models. This survey of recent developments emphasizes potential or actual usefulness. For linear models the construction of exact designs, particularly over irregular design regions, is stressed, as is the blocking of response surface designs. Other important areas include systematic designs that are robust against trend and designs for mixtures with irregular design regions : several industrial examples are mentioned. Both D- and c-optimum designs are found for a non-linear model of the economic response of cereal production to fertilizer level, the c-optimum design being for the conditions of maximum economic return. Locally optimum and Bayesian designs are both described. Similar results for generalized linear models lead to designs for the LD 95 in a logistic model in which male and female subjects respond differently. Designs with structure in the variance suggest alternatives to the potentially wasteful product designs of Taguchi. Designs for sequential clinical trials to include random balance are presented. The last section outlines some applications, including life testing and models in which time is a factor.
Development of a very short-term prediction system for windpower generation

Accurate forecasts are vital to efficient power system operation. This makes power systems forecasting research an important task. Windpower is presently the fastest growing power generation sector in the world; however, windpower is intermittent. Accurate forecasts are required to make the best use of this rapidly emerging technology. In fact, before large-scale penetration of windpower into a power system can be successfully managed it is important to be able to predict the rapid fluctuations of wind on a short time scale. This thesis concentrates upon wind parameter prediction on the "very short-term" time scale. In traditional (meteorological) forecasting, very short-term wind prediction has been relatively unnecessary. Very short-term forecasts of wind parameters were difficult to accurately obtain and were considered to be a low priority. However, as windpower penetration increases, the requirement for accurate forecasts also increases. The research for this thesis covered a variety of possible techniques, which are discussed and critiqued. It was found that a forecasting system built using intelligent techniques showed great promise and the majority of the work went into developing and improving upon an Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) forecasting model. ANFIS is an intelligent system that is a hybrid between an artificial neural network and a fuzzy expert system that is capable of learning patterns and developing fuzzy rules and membership functions. A large number of forecasting systems were developed and tested and subsequently, changes to the ANFIS model were instituted that enable more accurate very short-term wind parameter prediction. During this research one of the major obstacles was the lack of fine resolution time series data. This was possibly the largest single obstacle and it could not be remedied with any traditional techniques. The present probabilistic modelling techniques could not produce adequate results from a single time series due to the inherent data correlation between subsequent data points. Thus, a novel data generation system needed to be developed. This thesis considers why windpower is important, what effect it has on a power system, the present techniques used for wind prediction and how an intelligent system may be more beneficial. It also provides two separate case studies that were used to test and develop prediction models. The models were all developed on data that would be readily available at any windfarms (without the need for additional equipment installation) and yet the results still manage to significantly outperform the present industry practice.
The impact of a math mentoring program to prepare new elementary teachers to teach mathematics

THE IMPACT OF A MATH MENTORING PROGRAM To PREPARE NEW ELEMENTARY TEACHERS TO TEACH MATHEMATICS by Kathleen Bodie Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert J. Starratt This qualitative case study examined the effect the first year of an elementary mathematics induction program had on the mathematics content knowledge and pedagogy, confidence, classroom practice, and student achievement for six new elementary teachers in a suburban school district. The study also examined which components of this job-embedded professional development program influenced the teachers’ practice the most. Data was collected from the six volunteer teachers through semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, journals, and student assessment results. The major findings from the study showed that: (1) teachers’ perception of their instructional practice, particularly their ability to question student thinking, math content knowledge, and confidence to teach mathematics improved as a result of the program; and, (2) teachers benefited the most from the opportunity to regularly observe their mentor teach a mathematics lesson, followed by the opportunity to discuss mathematics and related pedagogical issues with their cohort and mentor. Implications from the findings include the benefit of instituting content-focused, job-embedded professional development during a new teacher’s first year in a district that provides regular opportunities for new teachers to observe a skilled veteran teacher teach a mathematics lesson and to have peer discussions regarding the teaching of mathematics. Limitations of the study included the role of the Assistant Superintendent as researcher and developer of the program and the small sample size. Recommendations for future study include the following: the effect on teaching practice after the second year in the math mentoring program; the effect of the program on mentors; the effect of mathematics self-efficacy on mathematics teaching self-efficacy and student achievement.
TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXTS BY USING MIND MAPPING AT MAS DARUL HIDAYAH

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of Mind Mapping to teach reading comprehension in hortatory exposition texts at MAS Darul Hidayah in Academic Year 2013/2014. It is a pre-experimental study. The Year-11 students of MAS Darul Hidayah become the population and sample of this research. They are 28 students. Based on the data calculation and analysis, the effectiveness of Mind Mapping technique to teach Year-11 students of MAS Darul Hidayah in Academic Year 2013/2014 is medium. The students had improvement in reading comprehension even though total of the students who reached target score were not many. This improvement was the effect of the application of Mind Mapping . Keywords: Teaching, reading comprehension, Mind Mapping Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menginvestigasi keefektifan Mind Mapping dalam mengajar pemahaman membaca teks hortatory exposition di MAS Darul Hidayah pada Tahun Akademik 2013/2014. Penelitian ini adalah merupakan studi pre-eksperimen. Para siswa tahun 11 dari MAS Darul Hidayah menjadi populasi dan sampel pada penelitian ini. Mereka berjumlah 28 siswa. Berdasarkan perhitungan dan analisis data, keefektifan teknik Mind Mapping yang diajarkan kepada para siswa tahun 11 MAS Darul Hidayah Tahun Academik 2013/2014 adalah medium. Para siswa mengalami kemajuan dalam pemahaman membaca walaupun jumlah siswa yang mencapai target skor tidak banyak. Peningkaatan pemahaman membaca ini adalah efek dari aplikasi Mind Mapping. Kata kunci: Mengajar, pemahaman membaca, Mind Mapping
The body in mind

mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought, and language use, owlands argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment. It is not simply an internal process of information processing; equally significantly, it is an external process of information processing. This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition.