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The influence of saccadic eye movements on postural stability during standing on an unstable platform

Background: Vision is seen as an important factor in maintaining balance, but different visual conditions, such as following a cue or looking in one direction may increase or decrease body sway. Contradicting results in earlier studies focusing on visual control of posture show the same eye movements' conditions have a different impact on postural stability. Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the influence of different eye movements on standing balance performance. Methods: Thirty-two healthy students (age 22.8 ± 2.7 years) participated in the study. Participants were asked to follow a stationary dot and moving dots in horizontal and vertical directions in low and high frequencies while standing on a stabilometer - an unstable platform which allows movement in the frontal plane. Results: There was no impact of different saccadic speeds (p = .251, partial η2 =.044) nor different directions (p = .287, partial η2 = .039) on a postural sway in young adults. Conclusions: The postural stability is not influenced by visual stimuli in healthy young adults while maintaining balance on an unstable platform.
Studies on farmland woody species diversity and their socioeconomic importance in Northwestern Ethiopia

Study was conducted in the farmlands of Northwestern Ethiopia with the objective of assessing woody species diversity and their socioeconomic importance. Three sites representing three different elevations viz. highland, midland and lowland agroecology were selected. A total of 196 households were randomly selected to collect socioeconomic data. Data on woody species diversity in crop fields was collected by categorizing households as rich, medium and poor and from that categorized household the woody species data were collected from near, medium and far away from homesteads. A total of 39 woody species belonging to 24 families were recorded in the farmlands of the study area. The Shannon diversity index varied from 2.61 to 2.85 and species evenness varied from 0.83 to 0.87 in the study areas. Woody species diversity, richness and abundance were significantly different between rich, medium and poor households at the three study sites. Similarly species richness, abundance and diversity were significantly different among near, medium and far distance farmlands from homesteads. According to the respondents, the main purposes of retaining or planting woody species on their farmland were for soil fertility (35.14%), firewood (24.54%), timber production (11.66%), fencing (8.44%), animal fodder (4.55%), fruit (4.50%), income generation (4.28%), house construction (2.61%), charcoal production (1.61%) and other purposes. Retaining or planting woody species on farmlands significantly contributed for the conservation of biodiversity in the study area.
Implementation and Benchmarking of a Crypto Processor for a NB-IoT SoC Platform

The goal of this Master’s Thesis is to investigate the implementation of cryptographic algorithms for IoT and how these encryption systems can be integrated in a NarrowBand IoT platform. Following 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specifications, the Evolved Packet System (EPS) Encryption Algorithms (EEA) and EPS Integrity Algorithms (EIA) have been implemented and tested. The latter are based on three different ciphering algorithms, used as keystream generators: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), SNOW 3G and ZUC. These algorithms are used in Long Term Evolution (LTE) terminals to perform user data confidentiality and integrity protection. In the first place, a thorough study of the algorithms has been conducted. Then, we have used Matlab to generate a reference model of the algorithms and the High-Level Synthesis (HLS) design flow to generate the Register-Transfer Level (RTL) description from algorithmic descriptions in C++. The keystream generation and integrity blocks have been tested at RTL level. The confidentiality block has been described along with the control, datapath and interface block at a RTL level using System C language. The hardware blocks have been integrated into a processor capable of performing hardware confidentiality and integrity protection: the crypto processor. This Intellectual Property (IP) has been integrated and tested in a cycle accurate virtual platform. The outcome of this Master’s Thesis is a crypto processor capable of performing the proposed confidentiality and integrity algorithms under request. (Less)
Two models of dark triad traits and self-regulation dilemma predicting IP theft through self-deception

1 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 3 Background . 4 Research on Organizational Deviance . 9 Theories of Employee Theft . 10 Person-based theories. 10 Workplace-based theories. 13 Interaction of person and workplace theories. 14 Theories of fraud. 15 Fraud triangle theory. 15 Other fraud theories. 15 Relevant research on the study of organizational deviance. 16 Conceptual Framework . 22 Proposed hypotheses. 24
A Multi-Method Exploration of Coaches’ Implicit and Explicit Approaches to Life Skills Development and Transfer in Youth Sport

Sport is considered a viable context for positive youth development, including the acquisition of life skills. However, research indicates that sport participation alone does not necessarily amount to consistent developmental outcomes (Coakley, 2011). Therefore, it is important to understand how sport can be structured by coaches, as direct influencers of the structure and delivery of sport programs, to facilitate the development of skills that youth can use to thrive in life. Using the Bean et al. (2018) continuum, this thesis explored coaches’ implicit and explicit approaches to life skills development and transfer in youth sport. A multiple case study design was employed comprised of nine cases, each consisting of one coach and at least two of his/her athletes, who were members of a youth sport team (i.e., baseball, rugby, soccer, and sailing), operating in the National Capital Region. Data were collected from the coaches via preand post-season interviews and in-season journaling, as well as from athletes via post-season interviews. The results indicated that the coaches went beyond the implicit/explicit dichotomy. The coaches were found to predominantly and consistently use implicit approaches and inconsistently use explicit approaches, with dilemmas and factors reported influencing their explicit practices. The results have implications for future research and applied efforts towards coaches’ integration of the explicit approaches to teaching youth life skills development and transfer within their coaching practices to maximize positive youth development through sport. COACHING APPROACHES TO LIFE SKILLS ix
TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD INTEGRATING LOCAL WISDOM IN THE TEACHING OF WRITING

Local wisdom has been a national agenda today. Local genius in the teaching of language is urged to be integrated in the teaching and learning. Since teachers’ perception may interfer the success of the teaching and learning, an investigation to their beliefs was applied in this paper. Writing teachers from English Department Lambung Mangkurat University were the subjects of this research. A modified questionnaire was given to the research participants. The answers from them were extracted and analyzed to picture their perception in integrating local wisdom in the teaching of writing. Based on the result of the study, it was found that there are several aspects of teachers’ perception in teaching writing; namely the teaching materials, teaching techniques, the instructional media, teaching assessment and local wisdom internalization. There are some factors which influence the teachers’ perception in teaching writing; the teachers experience in learning and in professional coursework by attending in-service training or workshops and sharing ideas with colleagues, the contextual factors, and self-evaluation or reflection on classroom practices. Keywords: local wisdom, teaching of writing, perception
Theories into Practices: Bloom’s Taxonomy, Comprehensive Learning Theories (CLT) and E-Assessments

The development of novel and innovative technologies to an extent has enriched the means of how assessments are done. Researchers and academics alike explore and leverage on the employment of an assemblage of technologies to design their assessments which are critical in gauging the students’ learning outcomes. However, the manifestation of technology in the context of teaching and learning necessitates reconceptualization of existential and fundamental theories which scaffold learning process. Thus, this paper provides a critical and contextualised exploration of the eminent Bloom’s Taxonomy, Comprehensive Learning Theories (CLT) and e-assessments with its underpinning and groundwork concepts, ensuing its feasibility and application in the blended learning environment.
Teachers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Formative Assessment in Primary Schools

The continual and swift reforms the education system in Kosovo has endured in the recent decade have continuously challenged the teaching staff. The aim of this study is to ascertain whether there is a connection between the teachers’ attitudes towards formative assessment and the application of this assessment method. The alternative hypothesis is that there is a statistically significant correlation between the teachers’ attitudes and actions towards formative assessment. Results indicate that a connection between the teachers’ attitudes and practices towards formative assessment, r=0.620, is noticeable. Tellingly, t-test results indicate that there are differences between attitudes towards formative assessment and its implementation in practice. The average of the teachers’ attitudes towards formative assessment is higher than the average of teachers who apply formative assessment.
Playing the Good Behavior Game during a Peer-Tutoring Intervention: Effects on Behavior and Reading Fluency of Tutors and Tutees with Behavioral Problems.

Children with externalized behavioral problems (BP) are at increased risk of being affected by a lack of social skills and academic engagement, and reading difficulties can frequently occur. Peer-tutoring (PT) interventions demonstrably promote both positive behavior and academic outcomes. To foster these effects, using interdependent group-reward contingencies appears to be a promising approach – especially for children with BP. In the current single-case study, a paired and repeated reading strategy was supplemented with the German version of the Good Behavior Game (GBG). A multiple-baseline design was used for evaluation. The study examined how the academic engagement, respectful behavior, disruptive behavior and reading fluency of four tutors and four tutees with BP (second and third grades) developed when the GBG was played in addition to PT. The results reveal that the tutors and tutees showed more academic engagement and less disruptive behavior. With regard to the tutees’ reading fluency, significant small to medium effects can be attributed to the GBG.
Code Switching in Bilingual Classes: A case Study of Three Lecturers at Bunda Mulia University

: This study aims at describing code switching used by the lecturers in the bilingual classes at Bunda Mulia University. The data is collected by recording the classes. The research questions are formulated as follows: (1) What are the types of code-switching used by the lecturers in the bilingual classes at Bunda Mulia University? (2) What motivates the lecturers to code switch in the bilingual classes at Bunda Mulia University? The recording is transcribed to identify the types of code switching and the motivations for code switching. Tthe objectives of the research are the following: To find out the types of code switching used by the lecturers in the bilingual classes at Bunda Mulia University and To find out the motivations of the lecturers to code switch between the languages in the bilingual classes at Bunda Mulia University. The result of this study is expected to contribute some knowledge about code switching in classroom setting to the students of language. The information comprises of code switching types usually produced by the lecturers in the process of teaching and learning activity in the bilingual classes. The data is analyzed in terms of Poplack‟s framework in Hammers (1980), Hoffman‟s (1991), and Saville Troike‟s (1986). The result of the study revealed that the lecturers mostly used the intersentential code switching. The reasons for code switching are to make the students understand more easily the content of course, to clarify the content and to quote somebody else‟s words or to quote an idea from a source of reference.
An investigation of perceived family phubbing expectancy violations and well-being among U.S. older adults

Phubbing refers to the nonverbal behavior of glancing at, or using, one’s mobile phone during a face-to-face (FtF) interaction, whereby the mobile-phone-checking behavior is perceived to breach expectations of attention or etiquette. In general, phubbing can negatively affect interpersonal relationships and well-being. When younger family members’ phubbing behavior is perceived by older adult relatives as a violation of their conversational expectations, these older adults may feel ignored and disrespected. This study may be the first to investigate the associations between intergenerational family phubbing expectancy violations and indicators of well-being among older adults. Survey data were derived from a sample of U.S. Internet users aged 65 or above (n = 679). The results suggested that both perceived frequency of family phubbing and family phubbing expectancy violations were inversely associated with mattering and indicators of well-being. Study limitations and potential directions for future research are discussed.
Civic engagement in the Indonesia health sector

The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of religiosity on civic engagement in the health sector through giving advocacy for people with AIDs, mental health, cancer and disability. ,The authors achieve this aim by proposing a structural equation model, which was derived based on literature. The data collection involved an on-line purposive sampling survey, which targeted young people who intend to work in the health sector. The survey asked about the experience and perception of 610 respondents in Indonesia. ,The results indicate that the respondents with high religiosity were identified to be more caring towards those who suffer from mental health, AIDs, cancer and disability. However, the highly religious were less motivated by empathy in conducting civic engagement in the health sector. In this study, the impact of religiosity on civic engagement was found to be stronger for those who identified with low materialism. ,The study contributes to the discussion on altruistic theory by challenging the widespread assumption that feelings of empathy drive civic engagement. The results extend the discussion on how to promote civic engagement in the health sector for young people with high materialism attitude.
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

Decolonizing design is a fashionable concept often discussed as theory but rarely enacted as practice. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Arturo Escobar, a Colombian-American anthropologist interested in post-capitalist realities, attempts to change this. He narrates a series of processes and approaches that designers – and even those who are not – can use to decolonize ourselves and develop an autonomous design discipline in a pluriverse. To define pluriverse, Escobar uses the anti-globalization group EZLN’s (Ej ercito Zapatista de Liberaci on Nacional) explanation: “a world where many worlds fit” (XVI). He elaborates with the concept of autonom ıa (autonomy), a set of conditions that evolve collectively from within communities. With these concepts as a framework, Escobar explores actionable models for decolonizing Juan Carlos Rodr ıguez Rivera is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts. juan@thejohncharles.com © 2019 Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2019. 1664496
Relationship between musculoskeletal state and vertical jump ability of young basketball players

The aim of this study was to evaluate the musculoskeletal state and jumping ability and to analyse the relationships between fundamental movement patterns and the jumping height of male junior level basketball players. Fifty four Under 18 (U-18) years basketball players were evaluated according to FMS 21 and 100 point scale and height of Squat (SJ) and Countermovement jump (CMJ). Spearman and Pearson correlations were carried out to identify whether a relationship existed between FMS scores and the height of SJ and CMJ. The moderate correlations were found between height of both jumps and FMS score (SJ, r = 0.375; CMJ, r = 0.498), whereas the sub-tests show a reliable correlation between the Deep Squat (DS) score and CMJ height (r = 0.315). A higher height of CMJ was also associated with the scores of In-line Lunge (r = 0.357) and Active SLR (r= 0.291). The basis of the findings we can conclude that improvement of the jump ability can be achieved by the enhancement of the overall musculoskeletal state, which can be identified through the composite FMS score or by “Deep squat“, “In-line Lunge“ and “Active SLR“ sub-tests.
Wearable-based Severity Detection in the Context of Parkinson’s Disease Using Deep Learning Techniques

One major challenge in the medication of patients with Parkinson’s disease is that the severity of the disease, reflected in the patients’ motor state, can not be measured using accessible biomarkers. In this thesis we therefore develop and examine statistical models to detect the motor state of those patients based on sensor data from a wearable device on a minute level. We find that deep learning models consistently outperform classical machine learning models applied on hand-crafted features in this time series classification task. Furthermore, our results suggest that treating this problem as a regression instead of an ordered regression or a classification task works best. For consistent model evaluation and training, we adapt the Leave-one-subject-out validation scheme to the training of deep learning models. We also employ a class-weighting scheme to successfully handle the problem of high class imbalances in this domain. In addition, we propose a customized performance measure that reflects the requirements of the involved medical staff on the model. To mitigate the problem of limited availability of high quality training data, we successfully employ a transfer learning technique which helps to improve the final model performance substantially. Since trust in the model’s predictions plays a crucial role in the adoption of those techniques, we additionally extend our model to quantify prediction uncertainty. Our results suggest that deep learning techniques offer a high potential to automatically detect motor states of patients with Parkinson’s disease with great success.
Conferring Resistance to Digital Disinformation: The Inoculating Influence of Procedural News Knowledge

Despite the pervasiveness of digital disinformation in society, little is known about the individual characteristics that make some users more susceptible to erroneous information uptake than others, effectively dividing the media audience into prone and resistant groups. This study identifies and tests procedural news knowledge as a consequential civic resource with the capacity to inoculate audiences from disinformation and close this “resistance gap. ” Engaging the persuasion knowledge model, the study utilizes data from two national surveys to demonstrate that possessing working knowledge of how the news media operate aids in the identification and effects of fabricated news and native advertising.
Violent Media, Guns, and Mental Illness: The Three Ring Circus of Causal Factors for School Massacres, as Related in Media Discourse

“When something like this happens, everybody says it’s an epidemic, and that’s just not true” (Amanda Nickerson, in Glaberson, 2012). While this reaction to the December 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School[1] is one of the more realistic responses to the event, it also is rather uncharacteristic. When news of a school shooting breaks, most people struggle to come to terms with the tragedy and begin their quest for answers to a number of questions. One of the most elusive answers is to the question of “why” the event has happened (Schildkraut, 2012a). In an effort to answer this question, two groups have emerged as key narrators of the school shootings story. First, the mass media are responsible for breaking the news and providing audiences with information on the shooters, the victims, and the events. Once the audience receives this information, they then turn to the second group – politicians – to report on the response and “official reaction. ” In addition to seeking answers to why these events happen, members of society also rely on their elected representatives and political figures to help put the event in perspective, and to look for ways to prevent the next tragedy. Both of these key narrators are filtered through mass media, as journalists themselves frame and comment upon the tragedies, and as politicians reach their constituents and broader audiences via media reportage. New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte recently weighed in on the tragedy in Newtown, stating, “Ultimately when we look at what happened in Sandy Hook we should have a fuller discussion to make sure that it doesn’t happen again” (Kelly Ayotte, quoted in Associated Press, 2013). While a similar sentiment has been echoed following other mass shootings in schools, both the media and politicians continue to focus on three major themes – guns, mental health, and violent media. This discourse may be supplemented by considerations of individual and sociological causes, including the roles of family, religion, and community. These latter topics, however, play a supporting role to the stories’ main cast of issues around which to frame school massacres. While these stories are presented to the public in a neat, succinct news package or article, the reality is that it’s not quite so simple. Rarely can events so unpredictable and difficult to explain be reduced to a simple narrative; yet this doesn’t stop the media and politicians from trying. This chapter explores the discursive construction of school shootings stories, from how the media covers these events to the themes interwoven through the political rhetoric. Specifically, we examine three prominent school shootings – 2012’s Sandy Hook as well as it’s equally infamous predecessors Columbine (1999)[2] and Virginia Tech (2007)[3] – and how relatively short-lived, random events have turned into unprecedented “media spectacles” (Kellner, 2003, 2008a, 2008b) and moral panics (Burns & Crawford, 1999; Schildkraut, Elsass, & Stafford, 2013; Springhall, 1999).