Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Running Header: BODY-IMAGE DISCREPANCIES, PERSONALITY, AND SELF-TALK. A new approach to regulation of body-image discrepancies: examining associations between self-talk and personality

Body image discrepancies influence both body dissatisfaction and likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviours, such as eating disorders. What is poorly understood, however, are the cognitive mechanisms by which individuals seek to reduce discrepancies, that is, the way in which they regulate their pursuit or avoidance of projected selves. Furthermore, individuallevel antecedents of goal-directed self-talk (e.g., personality, goal states) have received limited previous examination. Thus, the present study examined predictors of individuals’ use of motivationally adaptive versus inhibitive ways of self-regulating, and how these might differentially relate to body-image discrepancies. An opportunistic sample of 116 individuals (49 males, 67 females), completed a battery of questionnaires measuring body fatness discrepancies, self-talk, conscientiousness and neuroticism. Personality dimensions were related to self-talk in the manner expected, with conscientiousness positively related to informational self-talk, and neuroticism predicting the use of more controlling, pressurising, and amotivational self-talk. Contrary to hypotheses, ideal-actual discrepancies predicted the use of less informational self-talk, and more controlling and amotivational self-talk. This suggests that in the context of body image discrepancies, the pursuit of the ideal self is regulated in a more controlling way when the goal state is distal. By identifying for the first time the relationships between goal-discrepancies and how individuals interpret their associated cognition, this study should serve as a starting point for further research examining the modification of body image concerns through targeted cognitive interventions.
Seasonal chlorophyll a fluxes between the coastal Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay

We measured chlorophyll a (chl a) fluxes between San Francisco Bay and the coastal ocean for 2 d in March 2002, October and November 2002, and June 2003; 1 d during neap tide and 1 d during spring tide. We applied harmonic analysis to velocity and chl a data to model scalar and velocity fields during a spring-neap cycle. We then integrated these data over the fortnightly period to calculate net dispersive fluxes. The net flux consisted of an advective and dispersive component. Dispersive flux was decomposed into physical mechanisms such as tidal pumping, steady circulation and unsteady circulation. Net flux was large and directed out of San Francisco Bay during spring, large and into the estuary during summer, and effectively zero during fall surveys. The direction of advective flux was always out of the estuary and the magnitude depended on advective speed and mean chl a concentration. Dispersive flux was of a similar magnitude to advective flux each season and changed direction seasonally. Based on historical records and simultaneous observations, we conclude the reversal of the dispersive flux is most likely due to difference in phytoplankton growth conditions (or difference in timing of blooms) in the coastal ocean and estuary. During the spring, phytoplankton bloom in the estuary, creating a net seaward flux. In summer, during upwelling, phytoplankton bloom in the coastal ocean, driving a net flux into the estuary. Tidal pumping accounted for 79% of spring, 63% of fall and 93% of summer dispersive flux. Steady fluxes were about 1 order of magnitude smaller than tidal pumping, and unsteady fluxes yet another 1 order of magnitude smaller. The dominance of tidal pumping implies that seasonal variability of ocean- estuary exchange is set almost entirely by variation in the gradient of chl a concentrations between the ocean and the estuary such that the variability of ocean-estuary exchange is set by variation in the occurrence of estuarine and oceanic blooms.
Exploring Student Success Factors in a Remedial Mathematics Course: A Qualitative Study of Medical Imaging and Nursing Students at a Small, Private College.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the factors described by medical imaging and nursing students as contributing to the successful completion of a remedial mathematics course at small private college. A case study method was used to answer the one research question: what factors do medical imaging and nursing students describe as contributing to the successful completion of a required remedial mathematics course? The case study included eleven student participants, three faculty who taught remedial mathematics, and supporting documents. The student participant sample included both medical imaging and nursing students. Data was gathered primarily through individual interviews with the student participants. There was one focus group that included all three of the faculty. Other documents that were related to the case were gathered and analyzed. Data was analyzed using an inductive and deductive approach, coding, and constant comparison. Findings show that students had a self-awareness that they needed to seek help in order to pass the course. Once they made the decision to seek help, they obtained help from a variety of academic support services and resources available at the college. Students in this study had motivation that was career-driven. Students also believed that there was a commitment from their faculty to help them be successful in the course. The required math lab was described by all eleven of the student participants as beneficial to understanding the material. All student participants talked about some level of support they received from their peers. Finally, the amount of time that each student participant put into practicing the math problems so that they could understand the material was described as critical for their success. Four conclusions were drawn from the findings of this study: 1) having a career goal and rigorous program entrance requirements served as strong motivators for students to pass the remedial mathematics course;
The effect of digital leadership and innovation management for incumbent telecommunication company in the digital disruptive era

Digital technology drives the changing more exponential across all industry. Telecommunication is one of industries that having significant impact of digital disruption. Thus, it become the issue for incumbent telecommunication company to sustain their future business. The incumbents require to re-inventing its strategy to anticipate the rapid changing in digital disruption. Two big challenges for incum-bents are how to take the opportunity in digital disruption through innovation management? and how to accelerate internal digital transformation lead by digital leadership capability. This study aims to examine the effect of digital leadership and innovation management for incumbent telecommunication company in Indonesia in facing the digital disruption and transform into digital telco. This study uses quantitative method in incumbent telecommunication company in Indonesia with sample of 100 respondents. The statistical test used is Partial Least Square (PLS). The result of hypothesis testing found that both digital leadership and innovation management effect to sustainable competitive advantage, where the digital leadership have a greater influence in driving innovation management. This research has implication for incumbent telecommunication company in Indonesia in its effort to transform into digital telco and increase sustainable competitive advantage in disruptive era through strengthening the digital leadership and innovation management.
The current situation and relationship of positive psychological qualities and well-being of employees in Enterprises

To investigate the status and relationship of positive psychological qualities and well-being of employees in Enterprises Methods 342 employees were tested by the Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R), Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS), General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) and Oxford Happiness Test-Revised (ROHS). Results (1) the scores of Optimistic, self-efficacy, hope and subjective well-being were (21.72 ± 3.17), (26.33 ± 5.03), (24.24 ± 3.21) and (39.61 ± 9.90). (2) In the optimism aspect, there was no significant difference between male and female, but there were significant differences based on marriage (t=2.82, p <0.01) , if only child (t=2.78, p<0.01) and grow place (t=2.79, p<0.01). In the hope and self-efficacy aspects, there was no significant difference based on gender, marriage, if only child and grow place. In the well-being aspect, the score of urban employees was higher than that of rural employees (t=2.50, p<0.05) and there was no differences in other factors. (3)There were significant positive correlation between optimism, self-efficacy, hope and well-being (r=0.42, 0.47, 0.40, p<0.01). (4) Supposing the subjective well-being as independent respectively, and hope, optimism, self-efficacy as dependents, we can get an regression equations. Explain rates of optimism and self-efficacy to well-being were 34.1%. Conclusion Optimism and self-efficacy were positively correlated with well-being, no matter considered alone or together.
On the Effect of Goal Setting on Self-Directed Learning, Achievement Motivation, and Academic Achievement among Students

This study aimed to investigate the effect of goal setting on self-directed learning, achievement motivation, and academic achievement in students. All secondary school students at eighth grade in Semnan city in 2015 constituted the population of the study. From among this population, the number of 40 students with the lowest scores in self-directed learning and achievement motivation was randomly selected as the sample. Then, these students were equally placed in two experimental and control groups. In the next stage, the pretest was administered to both groups and the experimental group received nine training sessions of self-directed learning. It is noteworthy that the control group received no intervention. In this study, pretest-posttest along with control group design was used. Fisher, King & Tague's Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale and Herman's Questionnaire Measure of Achievement Motivation along with students' grade point average scores (first semester as the pretest and second semester as the posttest) were used for data collection purposes. Next, data analysis was performed using multivariate MANCOVA and univariate ANCOVA. The results showed that teaching of goal setting had a significant effect on the improvement of self-directed learning and achievement motivation; however, it had no significant effect on students' academic achievement. According to the obtained results, it is recommended that goal setting be taught to promote self-directed learning and achievement motivation.
Sulfation and Carbonation Competition in the Treatment of Flue Gas from a Coal-Based Power Plant by Calcium Hydroxide

Abstract In this work, a gas containing CO2 and SO2 at the usual concentrations on the coal combustion flue gas reacted with calcium hydroxide to evaluate and quantify the influence of SO2 on the CO2 capture and vice versa. This influence was quantified with a continuous gas analyzer and by thermogravimetry (TG). Results show that the CO2 retained increases in general as its concentration does and decreases as the SO2 concentration increases. A similar behavior was found for the SO2 retention at different CO2 concentrations being more relevant the influence of the presence of SO2 on the CO2 capture than the opposite one. Results suggest that for a high CO2 capture, SO2 should be eliminated previously. With respect to the reaction process it was found that the desulfurization product clearly identified was CaSO3·½H2O; in the reaction between Ca(OH)2 and CO2, CaCO3 is mainly obtained, the complex CaO·CO2 being another possible product synthesized in low amount. Gas analyzer shows that SO2 and CO2 react simultaneously and that a part of the CaCO3 reacts with the SO2 and releases CO2. Sulfation values calculated by TG and from the gas analyzer are very similar but the amount of CO2 captured is not possible to know clearly by TG due to the synthesis and decomposition of CaCO3 during the process. The study of the evolution of the sorbent porosity in the process reveals that the presence of both acid gases produces a lower blockage of the pores than when only one gas is present probably due to the generation of new pores in the reaction of CaCO3 and SO2.
Understanding multistage experiments

Current advanced manufacturing processes are composed of multiple complex stages which prohibit experimenters from conveniently employing traditional statistical experimental designs due to restrictions on randomisation. In this paper, we demonstrate, and summarise how split plot design and its variants have been used for multistage experimentation, and present several multistage experiment scenarios with comments for practitioners and researchers.
A finite-volume method based on compact local integrated radial basis function approximations for second-order differential problems

In this paper, compact local integrated radial basis function (IRBF) stencils reported in [Mai-Duy and Tran-Cong (2011) Journal of Computational Physics 230(12), 4772-4794] are introduced into the finite-volume/subregion - collocation formulation for the discretisation of second-order differential problems defined on rectangular and non-rectangular domains. The problem domain is simply represented by a Cartesian grid, over which overlapping compact local IRBF stencils are utilised to approximate the field variable and its derivatives. The governing differential equation is integrated over non-overlapping control volumes associated with grid nodes, and the divergence theorem is then applied to convert volume integrals into surface/line integrals. Line integrals are evaluated by means of the middle point rule (i.e. second-order integration scheme) and three-point Gaussian quadrature rule (i.e. high-order integration scheme). The accuracy of the proposed method is numerically investigated through the solution of several test problems including natural convection in an annulus. Numerical results indicate that (i) the proposed method produces accurate results using relatively coarse grids and (ii) the three-point integration scheme is generally more accurate than the middle point scheme.
EVALUATION OF CROPPING SYSTEMS AND PESTICIDES AS STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING FLOWER THRIPS IN SNAP BEANS IN MWEA-TEBERE, CENTRAL KENYA

Field experiments were carried out in Mwea-Tebere, central Kenya with the objective of comparing the effectiveness of cropping systems and pesticides in suppressing flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande and Megalurothrips sjostedti Trybom on Snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L) variety Samantha. The cropping systems treatments were Snap beans grown with maize (Zea mays) as margin crop, Snap beans grown with maize (Zea mays ) as intercrop, untreated Snap beans or Snap beans sprayed with a pesticide Thiacloprid . The treatments were laid out in completely randomised design with four replicates. Flowers and pods were collected from ten randomly selected plants per plot for identifying and counting the number of thrips. The results indicate that there was significant difference (P<0.5) between the four treatments. The lowest number of Megalurothrips sjostedti and Frankliniella occidentalis adults thrips and larvae was recorded in those plots treated with Z. mays as intercrop ,while the highest number was in the Snap bean sole plots ( untreated) in both plantings . In addition, Snap bean plots treated with Z. mays as a margin crop had moderate number of thrips. Thiacloprid treated plots had the lowest number of M. sjostedti but the number of F. occidentalis was marginally affected by this pesticide in the two plantings. In general, M. sjostedti population was higher than that of F. occidentalis in both plantings. Snap bean plots treated with Z. mays as intercrop showed the highest percentage of marketable pods whereas the untreated plots (Snap bean sole) had the highest number of severely damaged pods, which are least marketable. Thrips natural enemies were high in plots treated with Z. mays as intercrop, margin crop and sole crop but least in the Thiacloprid treated plots.
Mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughter against human papillomavirus in Taiwan

The uptake of HPV vaccination is < 10% in Taiwan and little is known about mothers’ intention to vaccinate daughters against HPV. The aims of this study were to explore mothers’ reasons for and against vaccinating their daughters against HPV. A total of 511 women were obtained from a regional hospital in central Taiwan. Descriptive analysis and multivariate logistic regression were employed. The authors found the most frequent reason given by mothers for not vaccinating their daughters was “vaccination price is too high”. Mothers with high intention to vaccinate their daughters were more likely than low-intention mothers to believe that HPV vaccination is safe and effective and to accept recommendations from others and the media. When mothers were asked whether they were willing to pay for vaccinating their daughter if HPV vaccination were not free, the percentage of high-intention mothers dropped from 88.9% to 69.8%, and the percentage of low-intention mothers dropped precipitously from 60.2% to 17.9%. Findings can be used by policy makers in Taiwan to plan appropriate activities and strategies to encourage mothers to have daughters receive the HPV vaccine.
Self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations of fundamental and harmonic plasma radio emission mechanisms

Aims. The simulation of three-wave interaction based plasma emission, thought to be the underlying mechanism for Type III solar radio bursts, is a challenging task requiring fully-kinetic, multi-dimensional models. This paper aims to resolve a contradiction in past attempts, whereby some studies indicate that no such processes occur. Methods. We self-consistently simulate three-waved based plasma emission through all stages by using 2D, fully kinetic, electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations of relaxing electron beams using the EPOCH2D code. Results. Here we present the results of two simulations; Run 1 (nb/n0 = 0.0057, vb/{\Delta}vb = vb/Ve = 16) and Run 2 (nb/n0 = 0.05, vb/{\Delta}vb = vb/Ve = 8), which we find to permit and prohibit plasma emission respectively. We show that the possibility of plasma emission is contingent upon the frequency of the initial electrostatic waves generated by the bump-in-tail instability, and that these waves may be prohibited from participating in the necessary three-wave interactions due to frequency conservation requirements. In resolving this apparent contradiction through a comprehensive analysis, in this paper we present the first self-consistent demonstration of fundamental and harmonic plasma emission from a single-beam system via fully kinetic numerical simulation. We caution against simulating astrophysical radio bursts using unrealistically dense beams (a common approach which reduces run time), as the resulting non-Langmiur characteristics of the initial wave modes significantly suppresses emission. Comparison of our results also indicates that, contrary to the suggestions of previous authors, an alternative plasma emission mechanism based on two counter-propagating beams is unnecessary in an astrophysical context.
European Integration: Between Micro-Regionalism and Globalism

With the Convention on the Future of the European Union (EU) now in progress, it is opportune to examine the processes and forces currently shaping the EU's constitutional development and impacting on governmental arrangements. For some time, debate on the constitutionalization of the EU has focused on whether the EU needs a constitution and, if so, what kind of constitution. It is argued that analysis of these core issues cannot be conducted in isolation from the processes and forces currently shaping the EU, chief among which are micro-regionalization, Europeanization and globalization. Moreover, a comprehensive understanding of the nature and degree of interaction between these processes and forces is required to inform theory and guide constitutional practice. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2003.
Comparative Effect of Visual and Auditory Teaching Techniques on Retention of Word Stress patterns: A Case Study of English as a Foreign Language Curriculum in Iran

This study aimed at investigating the effect of visual (Cuisenaire Rods) and auditory nonsensical monosyllables using Pratt speech processing software as teaching techniques on retention of word stress. To this end, 60 high school participants made the two experimental groups of the study each having 30 students on the basis of their proficiency scores on KET (Key English Test). In one experimental group, Cuisenaire rods were used to teach word stress whereas in the other one, auditory nonsensical monosyllables using Praat speech processing software was used as an auditory aid. Both groups received the same educational content except for the way of presentation. T-test analysis indicated that both experimental groups improve their retention of word stress from pretest to post test. The compassion between the two techniques indicated that visual representation had more effect on word stress retention than auditory representation. Creativity and dynamicity of the two methods can help teachers to attend individual preferences and preferred learning styles.
Fomentando empleados engaged: el rol del líder y de la autoeficacia

Title: Fostering engaged employees: the role of leadership and self- efficacy. Abstract: This study examines the role of supporting leadership and self- efficacy in the development of work engagement. We evaluate the mediat- ing role of self-efficacy between leadership and work engagement in a sam- ple of 271 employees from a Public Administration (City Hall). Results from the Structural Equation Modeling Analysis reveal that self-efficacy mediates the relationship between leadership and work engagement. The perception of having supporting leaders relates significantly with employ- ees" self-efficacy, which in turns, positively relates to work engagement.
The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being since 1950

Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust. Avner Offer argues that well-being has lagged behind affluence in these societies, because they present an environment in which consistent choices are difficult to achieve over different time ranges and in which the capacity for personal and social commitment is undermined by the flow of novelty. His approach draws on economics and social science, makes use of the latest cognitive research, and provides a detailed and reasoned critique of modern consumer society, especially the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being. The book falls into three parts. Part one analyses the ways in which economic resources map on to human welfare, why choice is so intractable, and how commitment to people and institutions is sustained. It argues that choice is constrained by prior obligation and reciprocity. The second section then applies these conceptual arguments to comparative empirical studies of advertising, of eating and obesity, and of the production and acquisition of appliances and automobiles. Finally, in part three, Offer investigates social and personal relations in the USA and Britain, including inter-personal regard, the rewards and reversals of status, the social and psychological costs of inequality, and the challenges posed to heterosexual love and to parenthood by the rise of affluence.