Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
What makes good feedback good?

ABSTRACT HE institutions persistently seek to increase student engagement and satisfaction with assessment feedback, but with limited success. This study identifies the attributes of good feedback from the perspective of recipients. In a distinctive participatory research design, student participants were invited to bring along actual examples of feedback that they perceived as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to 32 interviews with student researchers. Findings highlight the complex interdependency and contextual nature of key influences on students’ perspectives. The feedback artefact itself, its place in assessment and feedback design, relationships of the learner with peers and tutors, and students’ assessment literacy all affect students’ perspectives. We conclude that standardising the technical aspects of feedback, such as the feedback artefact or the timing or medium of its delivery is insufficient: a broader consideration of all key domains of influence is needed to genuinely increase student engagement and satisfaction with feedback.
An overview of Portuguese WordNets

Semantic relations between words are key to building systems that aim to understand and manipulate language. For English, the “de facto” standard for representing this kind of knowledge is Princeton’s WordNet. Here, we describe the wordnet-like resources currently available for Portuguese: their origins, methods of creation, sizes, and usage restrictions. We start tackling the problem of comparing them, but only in quantitative terms. Finally, we sketch ideas for potential collaboration between some of the projects that produce Portuguese wordnets.
Frontier settlement and the spatial variation of civic institutions

Abstract This article considers the “territoriality” of civic institutions. Is the “frontier thesis” – according to which areas of new settlement exhibit higher levels of individualism, political activism, and civic organisation – a description only of the western United States, or is it a manifestation of a more generalisable phenomenon found in other global frontier regions? In order to do this, we examine data on the nature of civic institutions in frontier zones in four countries: Brazil, Russia, Canada and the USA. Taking a wide range of survey items, we find that voluntary activity, social trust, tolerance of outgroups, and civic protest are not unique to the American historical experience, but generalised legacies of frontier life. We suggest that the experience of settlement is conducive to the formation of norms of community solidarity and cooperation, and this observation should encourage a new wave of comparative frontier studies.
Endless Mourning: Racial Melancholia, Black Grief, and the Transformative Possibilities for Racial Justice in Education

In this article, Justin Grinage investigates how black youth experience and contest racial trauma using racial melancholia, a psychoanalytic conception of grief, as a framework for understanding the nonpathologized endurance of black resistance to racism. Examining data from a yearlong ethnographic study, Grinage engages the notion that melancholia is needed for mourning to take place, a crucial distinction that engenders agency in relation to the constant (re)production of racial oppression in the lives of five black twelfth-grade students at a multiracial suburban US high school. Grinage illustrates how racial melancholia structures racial trauma and analyzes its effects on black identity, dismissing pathologizing definitions of racial injury while centralizing the importance of asset-based, healing-centered approaches for enacting racial justice in education.
Distributed scheduling based on due dates and buffer prioritization

The problem of scheduling a semiconductor manufacturing facility is addressed. Several buffer priority and due-date based scheduling policies for nonacyclic flow lines are studied. Not all buffer priority policies are stable, as is shown by a counterexample. However, the first buffer first serve and last buffer first serve policies are stable. Also, the earliest due data and least-slack policies are stable. For systems consisting of several nonacyclic flow lines, several stable buffer priority orderings are exhibited. Some simulation results on the performance of these policies are summarized. <<ETX>>
The effect of perceived authenticity of food towards experience and place attachment at the State Fair

The state fair is a significant event that represents a place, attracting numerous tourists (Nelson, 2009). State fairs offer a wide range of food and beverages that combine various ingredients and flavors. The authenticity and uniqueness of the food at the state fair are important elements that have the potential to motivate people to travel to a destination (Robinson & Clifford, 2012). While a number of studies have attempted to focus on different type of festivals (Roozbeh, Ng, & Boo, 2013), less attention has paid to the state fair and its visitors’ experiences and attachment. Furthermore, research has rarely investigated how food, particularly authentic food at the state fair is important in influencing visitors’ experiences that leads them to have emotionally bond to the destination. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine if the perceived authentic food will influence visitors’ experiences and place attachment in the state fair setting. An online survey was used; 533 responses were analyzed using Mplus structural equation modeling. Results indicated that the initial model proposed in the study was partially supported where perceived authentic food significantly predicted experience and place attachment. In addition, a mediating effect was found in the model as hypothesized; perceived authentic food at the state fair had a significant indirect effect on attachment to the place. However, there was no significant interaction effect of perceived authentic food on the relationships between experience and place attachment. This study expands the literature on festival research particularly at the state fair by focusing on attendees’ perception of food, experience and place attachment. Overall, this study verified that perceived authentic food has significant impacts on experience and place attachment. In addition, the study is among the first to investigate the
The effect of information on EU support and attitude ambivalence

FLORIAN STOECKEL: The Effect of Information on EU Support and Attitude Ambivalence (Under the direction of Liesbet Hooghe.) The ambivalence of EU citizens towards the European integration project is an attitude dimension which has largely been neglected, but promises to answer important puzzles. In this paper I measure ambivalence in individual level support for the EU based on how respondents answer two items on the EU. I show empirical support for that more self-assessed and more objective knowledge on the EU decrease ambivalence in EU support. This effect persists among highly educated people, which is taken as evidence that the dependent variable measures ambivalence instead of how nuanced people’s attitudes are. I also show that a strong attachment to both one’s country and the EU (”a dual identity“) decreases ambivalence. The relationships are confirmed when tested by using a heteroskedastic regression in which ambivalence is understood as response variation. A final analysis reveals that standard predictors (economic rationality, identity, political cues) explain attitudes towards the EU much more for unambivalent Europeans than for ambivalent ones.
The Interactions between Soil-Biosphere-Atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model Multi-Energy Balance (MEB) option in SURFEX n Part 1: Model description

Land surface models (LSMs) are pushing towards improved realism owing to an increasing number of observations at the local scale, constantly improving satellite data-sets and the associated methodologies to best exploit such data, improved computing resources, and in response to the user community. As a part of the trend in LSM development, there have been ongoing efforts to improve 5 the representation of the land surface processes in the Interactions between the Surface Biosphere Atmosphere (ISBA) LSM within the EXternalized SURFace (SURFEX) model platform. The Force-Restore approach in ISBA has been replaced in recent years by improved realism with respect to for example, multi-layer explicit physically-based options for sub-surface heat transfer, soil hydrological processes, and the composite snowpack. The representation of vegetation processes 10 in SURFEX has also become much more sophisticated in recent years, including photosynthesis and respiration and biochemical processes. It become clear that the conceptual limits of the composite soil-vegetation scheme within ISBA have been reached and there is a need to explicitly separate the canopy vegetation from the soil surface. In response to this issue, a collaboration began in 2008 between the High-Resolution Limited Area Model (HIRLAM) consortium and Météo-France with 15 the intention to develop an explicit representation of the vegetation in ISBA under the SURFEX platform. A new parameterization has been developed called the ISBA Multi-Energy Budget (MEB) in order to address these issues. ISBA-MEB consists in a fully-implicit numerical coupling between a multi-layer physically-based snowpack model, a variable-layer soil scheme, an explicit litter layer, a bulk vegetation scheme, and the atmosphere. It also includes a feature which permits a coupling 20 transition of the snowpack from the canopy air to the free atmosphere. It shares many of the routines and physics parameterizations with the standard version of ISBA. This paper is the first of two parts: 1 Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. , doi:10.5194/gmd-2016-269, 2016 Manuscript under review for journal Geosci. Model Dev. Published: 27 October 2016 c © Author(s) 2016. CC-BY 3.0 License.
Mother-Adolescent Communication in Low-Income, Latino Families during Language Brokering: Examining the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load

ABSTRACT Low-English proficiency parents often have their bilingual children translate, called language brokering. Brokering can be stressful for low-income, Latino adolescents, who are already at-risk for depression. We tested the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in a new context (in 100 low-income, Latino mother-adolescent dyads who engaged in language brokering) and extended TRRL by proposing security- and threat-based behaviors and appraisals can be represented by interaction goals. We examined mother warmth, mother brokering interaction goals of supporting and monitoring the adolescent, adolescent brokering feelings, and adolescent depressive symptoms. Mothers’ support goal was a protective factor against adolescent depression, but only when adolescents also inferred mothers pursued this goal. Adolescent positive brokering feelings were also a protective factor, as when positive feelings were high, the positive association between negative feelings and depression was not present. Findings supported TRRL propositions about relational maintenance, security-based goals, emotional reserves, and mental health.
Age and Input Effect in Simultaneous Bilingual: Turkish and Italian

This study reports on acceptability judgment (AJ) and translation data from 10 simultaneous Turkish-Italian bilinguals with age-matched Turkish and Italian monolinguals as control group. The linguistic property investigated is postverbal subjects occurring with unaccusative verbs. The results of the AJ task in Turkish revealed significant difference between groups. However, in the Italian AJ task, significant variability was found in younger bilinguals. Only bilinguals participated in the translation task. In translation into Turkish, always pragmatically appropriate sentences were produced. When translating into Italian significant variability was found in younger bilinguals and those enrolled in Turkish schools.
Impact of New Teacher Induction on Beginning Teachers

ii Dedication . iii Acknowledgements . iv List of Tables . x Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Background, Context, History, and Conceptual Framework for the Problem . 1 Statement of the Problem . 4 Purpose of the Study . 5 Research Questions . 6 Rationale, Relevance, and Significance of the Study . 6 Definition of Terms. 7 Assumptions, Delimitations, and Limitations . 9 Assumptions . 9 Delimitations . 10 Limitations . 11 Summary . 11 Chapter 2: Literature Review . 13 Conceptual Framework . 15 Quality new teacher induction . 17 Quality mentoring . 19 New teacher retention . 20 Review of Research Literature and Methodological Literature . 21 Self-efficacy . 22 New teacher induction . 31
Decision Tree Analysis on J48 Algorithm for Data Mining

The Data Mining is a technique to drill database for giving meaning to the approachable data. It involves systematic analysis of large data sets. The classification is used to manage data, sometimes tree modelling of data helps to make predictions about new data. This research is focussed on J48 algorithm which is used to create Univariate Decision Trees. The research study also discuss about the idea of multivariate decision tree with process of classify instance by using more than one attribute at each internal node. The core concept behind the topic is to get depth knowledge with new areas of research by explore more about data, information, knowledge, data mining techniques, and tools. All the results with experiment on Weka are finally examined.
Neural and cognitive mechanisms affecting perceptual adaptation to distorted speech

The majority of everyday communication occurs in the presence of distortions, such as background noise, yet the human ability to understand speech in adverse listening conditions is remarkably robust. Past research has investigated perceptual adaptation to different speech conditions, however, our knowledge of the individual differences and the associated cognitive and neural mechanisms affecting perceptual adaptation is still limited. The work described in this thesis therefore aimed to advance our understanding of this research area, with specific focus first on determining the extent to which adaptation to one distortion generalises to another, second, determining the underlying cognitive mechanisms of this adaptation process and finally determining what role, if any, the left ventral premotor cortex plays in adaptation. This thesis presents results from eight experiments, two behavioural and six using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as the primary research tool. Results from experiments 1 and 2 (behavioural) show that measures of verbal intelligence, specifically vocabulary knowledge, working memory and general cognitive functioning underpin the perceptual learning process, providing support for statistical learning to occur and assist adaptation to distorted speech. Additionally, the results suggest participants possess a general skill that enables generalisation of learning from one adverse listening condition to another. Experiments 3 to 8 used TMS to modulate perception of speech in noise in a bilateral superior temporal region. However, no effect of using this protocol was found when applied to the left ventral premotor cortex whilst participants adapted to time-compressed speech. The results of the experiments described in this thesis are considered in the context of our current understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with perceptual adaptation to distorted speech. It is believed that the results will contribute significantly to existing knowledge due to use of novel research methodologies e.g., use of multiple distortions, multiple speakers and TMS.
Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use?

Opioid use claims many thousands of lives each year. This article considers the diffusion of prescription opioid (PO) use within family households as one potential culprit of the proliferation of these medications. In an analysis of hundreds of millions of medical claims and almost 14 million opioid prescriptions in one state between 2010 and 2015, we show that the use of POs spreads within family households. We also show that the treatment effect of exposure to a family member’s PO use is driven by an increase in PO consumption for medical conditions that members of treated and untreated families experience at nearly identical rates. This pattern of results suggests household exposure causes an uptick in patient demand for prescription opioids. We use an instrumental variable estimation strategy to address the well-known challenges to estimating a causal effect of intra-household contagion, such as genotypic similarities among family members, assortative matching in partner selection, and clustering of health conditions within households. The results spotlight the salience of the most ubiquitous social structure, the family household, in accelerating opioid consumption to unprecedented levels. The findings also suggest that rather than direct social influence between physicians, the spread of prescription behavior in physician networks may be driven by shifts in patient demand that propagate through the patient sharing network.
Sobre agendas de investigación y universidades de desarrollo

El articulo reflexiona en torno al papel que han desempenado las universidades en los paises del sur y del norte. Sostiene que en el contexto actual, momento en el que las relaciones con la tecnologia se han estrechado, las universidades -particularmente del sur- han perdido la posibilidad de disenar sus propias agendas de investigacion. Aboga por la consolidacion de universidades, en contextos de subdesarrollo, que cumplan el papel de agentes de cambio en las relaciones entre tecnologia y sociedad.
Bridging the gap: decomposing sources of gender yield gaps in Uganda groundnut production

Abstract Female plot managers in Sub-Saharan Africa often realize significantly lower crop yields than their male counterparts. Even for legumes, which are often referred to as ‘women’s crops’, yields are significantly lower. This study investigated the underlying causes of this gender yield gap in groundnut production. The analysis is based on survey data from 228 farm households from two groundnut growing regions in Uganda. We used the Blinder-Oaxaca model to decompose factors that contribute to this yield gap. Results show 63% and 44% gender yield gaps for improved and local varieties, respectively, with female plot managers realizing less than their male counterparts. Improved groundnut seeds increase female plot manager’s yields but not the yields of male plot managers. Male advantage and female disadvantage combined account for more than 70% of the yield gap in both improved and local groundnut variety production and exceed pure productivity differences. Labor use differences between female and male plot managers and variety types explain the observed yield gap. Interventions and policies that increase women’s access to productive inputs including improved seed will significantly contribute to closing the yield gap, and thereby increase crop production, food security, as well as women’s incomes.
Powerful postures do not lead to risky behaviors

Recent research has found that a specific manipulation of body postures can influence psychological states associated with power, including an individual’s feeling of power and risk-taking tendency, but the results vary. The purpose of this study is to replicate previous studies. A pilot experiment examined the validity of 10 postures extracted from multiple former studies. Only 4 postures were consistent with former studies. Experiment 1 replicates the study conducted by Carney, Cuddy, and Yap (2010). The results revealed that posture manipulations did not affect the participants’ risk-taking tendency. Experiment 2 is a preregistered experiment to replicate the study of Carney et al. (2010). Different from Experiment 1, data were analyzed with a Bayesian approach. The results of the former study again failed to be replicated, which indicates that the posture manipulations could not yield any effect on both power feelings and individuals’ risk-taking tendency. Thus, we concluded that (a) holding a specific series of body posture perceived as high or low power does not affect individuals’ feeling of power, and (b) holding a specific series of body posture perceived as high or low power does not affect individuals’ risk-taking tendency.
THE ROLE OF INPUT VARIABILITY AND LEARNER AGE IN SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY LEARNING

Abstract Input variability is key in many aspects of linguistic learning, yet variability increases input complexity, which may cause difficulty in some learning contexts. The current work investigates this trade-off by comparing speaker variability effects on L2 vocabulary learning in different age groups. Existing literature suggests that speaker variability benefits L2 vocabulary learning in adults, but this may not be the case for younger learners. In this study native English-speaking adults, 7- to 8-year-olds, and 10- to 11-year-olds learned six novel Lithuanian words from a single speaker, and six from eight speakers. In line with previous research, adults showed better production of the multispeaker items at test. No such benefit was found for either group of children, either in production or comprehension. Children also had greater difficulties in processing multiple-speaker cues during training. We conclude that age-related capacity limitations may constrain the ability to utilize speaker variability when learning words in a new language.
Measuring Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) in Secondary Schools in Pakistan and a Comparison with Factors of a School Growth Mindset Culture

The study adds important contributions to the research literature on organizational citizenship behavior by providing empirical evidence of the leader’s influence as a factor in the development of OCB at the organizational level in government schools (n=34) in Pakistan. Research has shown that where OCB is present, both teachers and leaders increase work diffusion and move toward increasing productivity in their schools. This study meets the current need for reliable measures that operationalize constructs, such as OCB, by testing the validity and reliability of a new measurement scale for school level OCB; using SEM methods and survey responses from secondary school teachers (n= 408). Results revealed the survey reliably operationalizes school level OCB using three-factors named shared leadership, civic virtue, and collaborative problem solving. These factors compared favorably to the construct of a school growth mindset. Implications for schools include directing resources at professional development to increase the school leader’s capacity to promote OCB in their schools.