Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing as Perceived by ICU Nurses in Bangladesh and Its Related Factors

This descriptive study purposed to examine Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (TCCN) as perceived by Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses in Bangladesh, and to examine the relationship between TCCN and selected factors (nurses’ age, level of nursing education, length of working experience, continuing education and training, and self-awareness). One hundred and twenty ICU nurses at tertiary level public hospitals in Dhaka city participated in this study. The Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Inventory (TCCNI), and Nurses’ Self-Awareness Questionnaire (NSAQ) were used as data collection tools. The content of each tool was validated by three experts with reliability yielding a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of . 80 for the TCCNI and of . 83 for the NSAQ. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and independent t-test. The results of this study showed that the mean score of nurses’ perception regarding TCCN was high level ( M = 4.14, SD = 0.34). Among the five assumptions of TCCN, four assumptions were at high level, but only one assumption, “knowing a person is a process of nursing allowing for continuous appreciation of persons ” was at moderate level ( M = 3.35, SD = 0.37). Regarding the five selected factors namely nurses’ age, level of nursing education, length of working experience, continuing education and training, and self-awareness, only the nurses’ self-awareness was significantly and moderately correlated with nurses’ perception on TCCN ( r = 0 .42, p < 0 .01). The study showed that the ICU nurses in Bangladesh had high perception or agreement on the TCCN, and that this perception was related to their self-awareness. This research evidence can serve as fundamental data for developing critical care nursing practice in Bangladesh.
Targeting orphaned and vulnerable adolescents with services: Experience with adopting a multisectoral approach in Nigeria

The limited focus and vertical nature of current policies limit their responsiveness to the multidimensional nature of the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa. This article describes the process of engaging stakeholders for multisectoral programming targeting adolescent OVC and measuring changes in their well-being using the child status index (CSI). We employed mixed methods for this analysis. Qualitative data demonstrated that working across sectors was beneficial while CSI scores showed significant improvements across three domains after six months of service provision. We conclude that addressing the needs of adolescent OVC in a holistic and sustainable manner requires a targeted and multisectoral approach.
Text chat during video/audio conferencing lessons: scaffolding or getting in the way?

Private online language tutoring is growing in popularity. An important pre-requisite for development of effective pedagogies in this context is a good understanding of how different modalities can be combined. This study provides a detailed account of how several experienced online teachers use text chat in their English lessons conducted via Skype with their long-term students, and the pedagogical role and interactional effect of these messages. The study investigates the relationship between characteristics of a text message and students’ observable reaction to this message. The study employs a sequential Qualitative-Quantitative design and finds that text chat serves pedagogic and organizational roles in the analysed context and that several characteristics of a text message were correlated with students’ reaction to this message. Specifically, students were more likely to incorporate a text message if (i) it introduced new vocabulary and (ii) if it was produced bi-modally (speaking and typing). The study also finds that teacher typing may have a negative effect on students’ fluency and teacher attention to student language production. The study calls for further research to investigate how written and spoken channels can be effectively combined in one-to-one English lessons via video/audio conferencing lessons.
Learning To Program With Alice

Thisupdated guide supports an innovative approach to fundamental programming concepts. The authors use program visualization to create an easy relationship between program construct and the animation action in a 3D world. For consistency with Java, C++, and other commonly used languages, "questions" are now "functions. " Save and reload bugs have been fixed. Fonts can be scaled larger or smaller. High contrast mode is available for projection in the classroom. A useful how-to guide for programmers interested in learning Alice.
Virtuelle Stellvertreter: Analyse avatar-vermittelter Kommunikationsprozesse.

Eine experimentelle Plattform zur Analyse einer spezifischen computer-basierten Kommunikationssituation wird vorgestellt, die auf dem Einsatz virtueller Stellvertreter (Atavare) zur Uebertragung nonverbalen Kommunikationsverhaltens beruht. Zunaechst wird die Bedeutung des visuellen Kanals fuer die interpersonale Kommunikation dargestellt. Dabei koennen Modellfunktionen, Diskursfunktionen, Dialogfunktionen und sozio-emotionale Funktionen des visuell wahrnehmbaren Verhaltens unterschieden werden. Befunde zur Bedeutung nonverbalen Verhaltens und sozialer Praesenz fuer die computervermittelte Kommunikation werden vorgetragen. Der Aufbau einer avatar-basierten experimentellen Plattform wird geschildert. Erste Ergebnisse aus der Anwendung dieser Plattform fuer den Vergleich zwischen avatar-basierter, audio-video-basierter, audio-basierter und Face-to-Face-Interaktionen werden angefuehrt. Forschungsperspektiven und Entwicklungsaufgaben avatar-basierter Kommunikationssystems werden abgeleitet.
Review: Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia

The book lost impetus for me here and, in the next section Politics at the Games it started to feel repetitive and dated. The last three articles are about the Sydney Games to come, and while they deal with important aspects (Aboriginal involvement in theplanning, the bid process and the politics of funding), it is hard to see how they could be read by overseas readers as other than parochial for their insistence on the local. The time location of all the essays addressed to the Sydney Games cou Id have been better managed. It's not just that now we all know that the anxieties about terrorist attacks, Aboriginal protest and Australian medals were misplaced. In such a wide-ranging collection, issues about Sydney 2000 could have profitably been linked to historical precedents. The essays by Meekison and Godwell on the Aboriginal presence, for ex.ample, could well have been placed in the first section and framed to show how characteristic of Olympic history such exclusions are. I have some minor quibbles with the editing here too for example, why is a Festival of the Dreaming poster reproduced twice, while the bid logo (also mentioned in more thanone essay) is not there at all?
Pulmonary Complications of Antirheumatic Therapies

Over 46.4 million US adults suffer from arthritis. The number of available antirheumatic therapies is increasing rapidly. It is often difficult to differentiate drug effect from lung complications associated with the underlying rheumatologic condition. However, many antirheumatic therapies including methotrexate (MTX), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-&agr;) antagonists, gold compounds, cyclophosphamide, leflunomide, and rituximab have been associated with pulmonary complications. The potential pulmonary complications due to these antirheumatic agents are reviewed. MTX may present with an acute, subacute, and chronic pneumonitis. Treatment involves discontinuation of MTX with the addition of corticosteroids in severe cases. Most patients recover within days of cessation of therapy and have no sustained pulmonary dysfunction. Treatment with TNF-&agr; antagonists increases the risk of pulmonary infections, especially tuberculosis, but can also induce a development of and/or an exacerbation of underlying interstitial lung disease. Etanercept may also be linked to a granulomatous inflammation. Gold-induced pulmonary disease typically presents with a fever and rash in the absence of clubbing or subcutaneous nodules unlike progression of the underlying rheumatologic disorder. The overall incidence of cyclophosphamide lung injury appears low, but can present both as an acute and chronic pneumonitis. Small case series also suggest possible pulmonary complications related to rituximab and leflunomide therapy and should be considered in patients with new pulmonary symptoms that are otherwise unexplained.
On‐line algorithms for minimizing makespan on batch processing machines

We consider problem of scheduling jobs on‐line on batch processing machines with dynamic job arrivals to minimize makespan. A batch machine can handle up to B jobs simultaneously. The jobs that are processed together from a batch, and all jobs in a batch start and complete at the same time. The processing time of a batch is given by the longest processing time of any job in the batch. Each job becomes available at its arrival time, which is unknown in advance, and its processing time becomes known upon its arrival. In the first part of this paper, we address the single batch processing machine scheduling problem. First we deal with two variants: the unbounded model where B is sufficiently large and the bounded model where jobs have two distinct arrival times. For both variants, we provide on‐line algorithms with worst‐case ratio $(\sqrt{5}+1)/2$ (the inverse of the Golden ratio) and prove that these results are the best possible. Furthermore, we generalize our algorithms to the general case and show a worst‐case ratio of 2. We then consider the unbounded case for parallel batch processing machine scheduling. Lower bound are given, and two on‐line algorithms are presented. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 241–258, 2001
Comic Book Conversations as Pedagogies of Possibilities in Urban Spaces

The researchers in this qualitative case study explored the dialogic experiences of elementary school students during Comic Book Club meetings held in their local community resource center. The researchers wanted to know what experiences of dialogism were manifested in children’s conversations about reading, writing, and comic creation and what concepts of dialogism were evident in those experiences. The interview and observation data and artifacts suggest that co-construction of meaning and intertextuality played important roles in the dialogic experiences of the participants. Children’s co-construction of meaning and intertextuality also demonstrated engaged embodiment due to children’s spontaneous enactment of dance and dramatization in the Comic Book Club sessions. The authors believe that the creation of an open ontological dialogic space enabled this liberatory embodiment of children’s mental and physical capacities. They recommend that educators and researchers work to create dialogic spaces in schools and community centers to counter the numbing effects of antidialogic pedagogies that are prevalent in schools.
The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) programme for secondary school headteachers in Malaysia: an evaluative case study

The current focus on school leader preparation around the world is based upon the belief that school leaders make a difference in both the effectiveness and efficiency of schooling (Hallinger and Snidvongs, 2008). This study is an evaluative case study on the NPQH programme in Malaysia and it sought perceptions of eighteen incumbent secondary school headteachers who are graduates from the Masters degree group of the programme to determine the effectiveness of the programme in their headship practices. The study is a qualitative dominant mixed methods research which used semi-structured interview as its main method and adopted a mixed approach of evaluation models. Overall perception on the NPQH training programme was sought with strengths and weaknesses identified and influence of school context considered. The extent of leadership learning from the time of graduation was also sought from those who were not appointed straight into headship. As NPQH in Malaysia was acknowledged as the proper national level programme in preparing heads, further improvements were indicated in this study. A tentative model for headship preparation in Malaysia, derived from the findings of this study, is presented alongside contribution of this study to the knowledge of school leadership preparation.
Optimal design of fault tolerant sensor networks

The selection of measurements is one of the most important problems in the design of process instrumentation. This paper deals with the design of sensor networks such that the observability of the variables, which are necessary for the process control, remains satisfied in the presence of sensor failures. Pseudo-minimal and minimal sensor sets are organized into an oriented graph which contains all the possible reconfiguration paths for which those variables remain observable. A bottom-up analysis of this graph allows one to compute reliability functions which evaluate the robustness of the observability property with respect to sensor failures. The design of optimal sensor networks thus resumes to finding pseudo-minimal sensor sets such that the mean time before losing the observability property is larger than a pre-defined value.
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. The world of big data can crunch However the indirect implication of a raw material in cdc data processing. He says most common search terms think we'll have lost. At the damnation profoundly surprising conclusions, from make it seems more recently I think. Less as a fascinatingand sometimes profoundly surprising ways not knowing why only one to find knowledge.
Graph Spectra for Complex Networks

This concise and self-contained introduction builds up the spectral theory of graphs from scratch, with linear algebra and the theory of polynomials developed in the later parts. The book focuses on properties and bounds for the eigenvalues of the adjacency, Laplacian and effective resistance matrices of a graph. The goal of the book is to collect spectral properties that may help to understand the behavior or main characteristics of real-world networks. The chapter on spectra of complex networks illustrates how the theory may be applied to deduce insights into real-world networks. The second edition contains new chapters on topics in linear algebra and on the effective resistance matrix, and treats the pseudoinverse of the Laplacian. The latter two matrices and the Laplacian describe linear processes, such as the flow of current, on a graph. The concepts of spectral sparsification and graph neural networks are included.
Using netbooks to support mobile learners’ investigations across activities and places

We explore how small‐format laptops (‘netbooks’) have been used within evidence‐based investigations undertaken by secondary school students, to what extent these are suitable for effectively supporting learners across different locations and contexts, and their implications for open learning. Over the course of seven trials with 300 students and seven teachers we have gathered data on how netbooks have been used in formal and informal learning contexts, bridging school, field locations and home. The netbooks have supported individual, group and class tasks, and acted as both stand‐alone and networked devices. Three themes have emerged: the use of a single device to support inquiries across activities and places; student use and appropriation; and organisation and management. We conclude that netbooks are a category of device that can be highly effective in supporting open learning, although careful consideration is required when considering their deployment and use.
Integrating Feedback into Prospective English Language Teachers' Writing Process via Blogs and Portfolios.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of blogging and portfolio keeping on a group of pre-service teachers’ writing skill in a compulsory writing course at a tertiary level English language teaching (ELT) programme in Turkey. The study specifically looked into to what extent receiving feedback from course instructor and peers created ownership in writing and also to what extent giving feedback to peers’ writing through blogging and portfolios contributed to a group of prospective English language teachers’ writing skill. The study lasted two academic terms (28 weeks) with two groups; namely, portfolio group (30 student teachers) and blog group (29 student teachers). The blog group posted all their written work on personal blogs while the portfolio group kept personal portfolios for their written work. As part of blogging and portfolio keeping both groups also received feedback from course instructor and peers as well as providing feedback to other peers’ writing. Results of the study may suggest that blogs and portfolios emerge as effective tools to integrate feedback practice into writing process, offering course instructors and students ample time and practice outside ordinary English classes as a foreign language (EFL). The study also shows that the practice of blogging and portfolio keeping and specifically receiving and giving feedback both on paper and online contributes to student teachers’ writing skills significantly on basic elements of writing skill such as process, organization, content, language use, vocabulary, mechanics, and accuracy. In addition, receiving teacher’s feedback was reported as the most favourite type compared to receiving and giving peer feedback. Thus blogs and portfolios need to be integrated into writing classes in order to secure better benefits from writing practice in EFL contexts.
Variations in anesthetic requirements with body mass index in patients undergoing trans vaginal oocyte retrieval

Background: Various techniques have been described for ultrasound guided trans-vaginal oocyte retrieval (TVOR). No single technique has been found to be superior to others. In many centers, paracervical block (PCB) is used, either alone or in conjunction with sedation for pain relief during TVOR. This aim of this study is to evaluate the variations in anaesthetic requirements with body mass index (BMI) in patients undergoing transvaginal oocyte retrieval (TVOR). Methods: This study comprised of 70 women aged between 20 to 40 years. All patients were classified according to WHO classification into four groups on the basis of their BMI. Parameters like effectiveness of paracervical block (PCB), requirement of additional anesthetic drug (propofol), time required for surgery and numbers of oocytes retrieved were studied for each group. The correlation of all these parameters with BMI was noted and statistically evaluated. Results: PCB alone was not sufficient and all patients required additional propofol for successfully completing the procedure. The requirement of propofol increased with increase in BMI of the patients. The amount of rescue propofol required in patients with BMI>30 was significantly higher as compared to females with BMI 30) undergoing TVOR. The requirement of additional propofol and time taken to successfully conduct the procedure is significantly high in patients with high BMI. These alterations in anesthetic parameters with change in BMI have vital implications and they should be taken into consideration while managing obese patients undergoing TVOR.
MENINGKATKAN KONEKSI MATEMATIS SISWA SMP MELALUI PENDEKATAN OPEN-ENDED DENGAN SETTING KOOPERATIF TIPE NHT

The problem raised in this research is that students' ability in making mathematical connections is still relatively low. This is because some of the theories in the learning of teachers still enjoy this way of learning, meaning that the students are only recipient of information without inspiration to active. Therefore, the authors are interested to conduct research by applying an NHT cooperative model setting to improve mathematical connection ability of junior high school students. This study aims to determine whether the knowledge of mathematical connections of junior high school students using learning methodology is better than junior high school students using ordinary learning. This research was conducted in SMP Krida Utama Padalarang Class VII, with research method the research used is quasi-experimental method. The sample of this research is taken two classes namely class VII A as experiment class and class VII B as control class. The research instrument is a set of mathematical connection test questions consisting of 5 test questions, and then tested by using a statistical test of differential. Based on the results of research and data processing, the authors conclude that the ability of mathematical connections of junior high school students whose learning using open-ended approach with learning model setting NHT type cooperative learning is better than the mathematical connection ability of junior high school students whose learning using ordinary learning.
Understanding the Rate of Acid Reactions: Comparison Between Pre-Service Teachers and Grade 10 Students

A two-tier multiple choice diagnostic instrument on the stoichiometry and rate of acid reaction was administered to 611 Grade 10 students and 171 pre-service teachers. The results showed that the Grade 10 students and pre-service teachers had alternative conceptions related to the properties of different acids affecting their rates of reaction, and the particles in the resulting mixtures at the end of the reactions. The study stresses the importance of identifying and clarifying the pre-service teachers’ understanding of the concepts that they will teach as this may have consequences on their future students’ learning of chemistry. (96 words)
Mitigating spectrum sensing data falsification attack in ad hoc cognitive radio networks

In a cognitive radio ad hoc network, there is no central authority. Hence, distributed collaborative spectrum sensing (CSS) plays a major role in achieving an accurate spectrum sensing result. However, CSS is sensitive to spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack, in which a malicious user falsifies its local sensing report before disseminating it into the network. To capture such abnormal behavior of a node, we present an approach for detecting SSDF attack based on dissimilarity score. A secondary user (SU) computes the dissimilarity score of its neighbors from the messages received from its h‐hop neighbors. Further, we also present how the proposed scheme can be used on the sequence of sensing reports to detect and isolate the malicious SUs on the fly.