Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constructing tales of the field: uncovering the culture of fieldwork in police ethnography

ABSTRACT One of the core contributions of the strong tradition of police ethnography is the emergence of a powerful critique of police culture. Through this work, researchers have explored the informal norms that structure police practices and the implications both for the experiences of policing and for central questions of social justice. Yet while research has demonstrated the power of occupational cultures in shaping what professionals consider important and thus what they do, there has been little attention paid to the culture that underpins the work through which police ethnography is produced. This paper explores how ethnographers construct accounts of fieldwork with the police and interrogates the patterned understandings that structure the way researchers think about and do police ethnography. Returning to unpublished fieldnotes generated as part of a major study of policing in the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, it interrogates their connections with published fieldwork ‘confessionals’ to uncover the unarticulated conventions of what has come to constitute authoritative fieldwork. It suggests that accounts of ethnographic fieldwork reproduce a narrative of research in which researchers attempt to conform to the dominant norms of the setting; which emphasises tales of physicality, endurance, risk and action; and in which raw, undirected emotion is excised. This suggests a central irony in police ethnography: the dynamics of police culture it so powerfully criticises are reflected in the construction of the ethnographic process.
Deliberative academic development: the potential and challenge of agency

ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore possibilities and challenges for deliberative academic development. Deliberative academic development refers to a practice that engages members of the university in dialogue about its purposes, ways of organizing and leading higher education, as well as teaching and learning. The paper critically analyses data from focus group interviews with academic developers from four universities within two national contexts. Combining sociological conceptualizations of agency and the framework of ‘epistemic living spaces’, the paper offers insights into challenges and opportunities for deliberative academic development, as well as a framework for studying agency in other contexts.
Handbook of African Educational Theories and Practices: a Generative Teacher Education Curriculum

The abstract, which is often written last, serves two major purposes: it helps a person decide whether to read the work and it provides the reader with a framework for understanding the work if they decide to read it. Thus, your abstract should describe the most important aspects of the study within the length provided by your institution. As appropriate for your research, try to include a statement of the problem, the people you studied, the target variables, the instruments, the design, major findings, and conclusions and theoretical framework. If pressed for space, concentrate on the problem, method, and especially your findings.
Emotional Responses Shape the Substance of Information Seeking under Conditions of Threat

Menacing news inclines individuals to acquire information, and research has explored how emotional reactions such as fear or anger condition this process. While scholars have debated the relevance of fear and anger for levels of attentiveness and learning in politics, fewer studies consider how variation in emotional responses can shape the substance of information searches in times of threat. We posit that heightened fear motivates interest in defense-oriented information among threatened individuals, while heightened anger motivates interest in aggression-oriented information. To test these hypotheses, we focus on international terrorist threat because of its known tendency to elevate both anger and fear. We use data that permit a behavioral measure of information seeking, via an experiment embedded within a Dynamic Process Tracing Environment (DPTE) platform. Within this information-rich context, exposure to terrorist threat motivates a search for relevant information. Furthermore, we find that while an induction to elevate anger prompts more immediate attention to aggression-oriented information, an induction to elevate fear is more effective in steering attention toward defense-oriented information.
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE BDS TEST: INTEGRATION ACROSS THE CORRELATION INTEGRAL

This paper extends and generalizes the BDS test presented by Brock, Dechert, Scheinkman, and LeBaron (1996). In doing so it aims to remove the limitation of having to arbitrarily select a proximity parameter by integrating across the correlation integral. The Monte Carlo simulation is used to tabulate critical values of the alternative statistic. Previously published empirical studies are replicated as well as power tests executed in order to evaluate the relative performance of the suggested alternative to the BDS test. The results are favorable for the suggested alternative.
Self-Regulated Learning Perceptions of Foreign Language Learners: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Anahtar sözcükler Öz-düzenlemeli öğrenme, yabancı dil, cinsiyet, hazırlık sınıfı eğitimi, sınıf Yabancı Dil Öğrenenlerin Öz-Düzenlemeli Öğrenme Algıları: Kesitsel Bir Çalışma Öz: Bu çalışma Türkiye’deki bir devlet üniversitesinde yabancı dil öğrenenlerin özdüzenlemeli öğrenme algılarını araştırmıştır. Çerçeve olarak bir nicel kesitsel model seçilmiştir. Veri aslı Hirata (2010) tarafından geliştirilen bir ölçek aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Çalışma aynı üniversiteden amaçlı olarak seçilmiş 230 katılımcıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Toplanan veri bir bilgisayar programı yoluyla, sayı (n), yüzde (%), ortalama değer (X̄), standart sapma (Ss), Shapiro-Wilk, Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi ve Bağımsız Örnekler T-Testi bakımından analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlar, katılımcıların yabancı dil bilgilerini düzenli kontrol etmede, stres seviyelerini kontrol etmede, öğrenmelerinin kaydını tutmada, yeni öğrendikleri bilgileri var olan bilgileriyle ilişkilendirmede ve öğrenme zamanlarını programlamada problemlerinin olmadığını göstermiştir. Bununla birlikte, sonuçlar katılımcıların özel strateji takip etmede, başarısızlık durumlarında çalışmaya devam etmede, yeni öğrenme yolları denemede ve öğrenme için vakit ayırmada problemlerinin olmadığını göstermiştir. Çalışma ayrıca, cinsiyet, sınıf ve hazırlık eğitimi alıp almama gibi değişkenlerin katılımcıların öz-düzenlemeli öğrenme algılarında bir değişikliğe yol açmadığını göstermiştir. Bu sonuçlardan hareketle, özdüzenlemeli öğrenmeyi teşvik edici aktivitelerin dil öğrenme ortamlarının etkililiğini arttırabileceği önerilebilir.
Being kind to others instead of focusing on ourselves? : Enhancing mental well-being

Mental well-being is defined as experiencing a happy and meaningful life that is embedded in a positive social environment. One possibility to promote well-being is to engage in prosocial behavior. Literature suggests that performing kind acts to others can enhance mental well-being, even more so than being kind to yourself. The current study aims to test the effects of an ​act of kindness intervention on mental well-being in a single blind randomized controlled trial. A total of 254 participants were randomly assigned to three different conditions: (1) the intervention group, participating in the ​acts of kindness intervention (​n​ = 85), (2) an active control group, performing acts of self-kindness (​n​ = 85), and (3) a wait list control group (​n​ = 84). Mental well-being was measured at baseline, post-test (6 weeks after baseline) and a 6-week follow-up (12 weeks after baseline). A one way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) reported that the level of mental well-being was significantly more increased in the intervention condition than in the wait-list control group, due to improvements in emotional and psychological well-being. The effects were still visible at the 6-week follow-up. However, there were no significant differences in mental well-being between the group engaging in kindness to others and the group performing kind acts to themselves. The results of the study support the use of kindness interventions to promote mental well-being. It contributes to the growing body of literature on kindness interventions by being the first of its kind that is conducted in the general Dutch population. Moreover, the outcome reveals potential topics for further research, ​because there is still ​little known about the working mechanisms of kindness interventions and the effects of self-kindness.
Issues and challenges of the applications of context to enhance information fusion: panel summary

During the 2015 SPIE DSS conference, nine panelists were invited to highlight the trends and use of context for information fusion. This paper highlights the common issues and trends presented from the panel discussion. The different panelists highlighted methods of filtering methods, data aggregation, and the importance of context for realtime analytics. Using the panelist perspectives, the review organizes the common issues and themes as well areas of future analysis of content and context enrichment from information fusion.
The long reach of prejudiced places? Stereotype expectations and motivation to pursue education among previously- and never-incarcerated black men

ABSTRACT In America, Black men are often stereotyped as criminal. Previously-incarcerated Black men must contend with this negative group stereotype and with the knowledge that their incarceration status confirms this image to others. The present study is one of few to examine the psychological consequences of incarceration status among Black men. Drawing on our social-contextual theory of prejudice, we investigate the role of previous incarceration on Black men’s expectations about being stereotyped by educators, beliefs about the utility of education to better their circumstances, and motivation to seek education. Previously- (vs. never-) incarcerated Black men reported greater stereotype expectations, which mediated their utility beliefs and motivation. We discuss incarceration as a “prejudiced place” with lasting and disparate psychological and educational consequences.
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTERS IN SURABAYA: A COMPARISON OF LEADERSHIP STYLE AND VERTICAL DYAD LINKAGE

Background: Leadership style and Vertical Dyad Linkage have a significant influence on organization’s performance, especially public health service providers. Leadership style is one factor that will influence the performance and management of primary healthcare center (PHC). Aim: This study aims to investigate the influence of leadership style and leader-member exchange to the performance of PHC.Methods: The research is an observational study with a cross-sectional design. There were 27 PHCs involved in the study. Each PHC was represented by 11 respondents including the directors, five health program coordinators, and their five members. Data were collected with questionnaires and then analyzed using Multinomial Logistic Regression (α=0.05). Results: The results of the research show that (37.05%) of PHCs use supportive leadership style, and (33.33%) of them use participative leadership style. Most of the Vertical Dyad Linkage of PHC were imbalanced social overinvestment (40.7%), and the work performance showed enough performance (59.3%). Path-Goal leadership had the most influence on the performance of PHC.Conclusions: Excellent performance of PHC is related to achievement-oriented leadership style. Work performance of PHC can be improved by improving real neutral leader-member exchange. Furthermore, identifying employees’ maturity can be chosen as the leadership style. Employees’ self-esteem can be developed to improve the work performance of PHC. Keywords: Leadership style, Vertical Dyad Linkage, Performance of primary healthcare centre.
Perceptions of Childhood Relation with Parents Related to Current Functioning

PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDHOOD RELATION WITH PARENTS RELATED TO CURRENT FUNCTIONING Peter O. Lielbriedis Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, 1999 Director: Dr. W. Larry Ventis, W&M This study investigated the relationships between perceptions of childhood relationships with parents, certain current self-conscious emotions, current religious orientation, and current risk-taking behaviors. The study also sought to develop models that would predict risk-taking behavior based on the other variables. At an eastern university, 174 students (79 males) completed the Test of SelfConscious Affect, Religious Life Inventory, Clark-Parent Child Relations Questionnaire, and the Past Frequency scale of the Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events Questionnaire. Of these, 30 students were solicited from on-campus religious organizations. The data did not show an inverse relationship between “positive parenting” and shame proneness or risk-taking behavior. Significant direct relationships were found between negative parenting behaviors and shame proneness and negative parenting behaviors and risk-taking behaviors. It did not show an inverse relationship between ends-oriented religiosity, but it did show a direct relationship between means-oriented religiosity and risk-taking behaviors. It did not show a direct relationship between shame proneness and risk-taking behavior; instead it showed that guilt proneness was inversely related to some risk-taking behaviors. Gender differences were also shown. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. In general, the results suggest that the effects of negative parental behaviors on children may be more direct than positive parental behaviors. Problems and limitations are discussed. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Psalm 127: 1 (NAS) Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Discourses influencing OU students' participation in, and engagement with, online collaborative learning

Constructivist learning theories have inter-subjectivity at their core, and collaborative learning, where learners work together to build knowledge, is widely considered good pedagogy. In distance learning, collaboration usually occurs online. The Open University includes online collaborative learning across the curriculum, but there is evidence of non-participation, and some students report they do not wish to collaborate. There is little published data on student attitudes towards collaborative learning. This study investigated Open University students' talk and practice around online collaborative learning, and placed it in the context of learning discourses within the University and elsewhere. It was conducted using focus groups, quantitative analysis of social presence during online collaborative learning activities, discourse analysis of University scholarship texts, and evaluation of policy and practice in UK education. Identified issues included lack of trust in other students, cost-benefit analysis including expectation of extrinsic reward through assessment, and reluctance to both share knowledge and value knowledge of other students. Collaborative activities were viewed as discrete tasks to be completed, and to demonstrate transferable skills rather than as learning processes. There was little social presence during the activities, which it is argued indicates lack of engagement with the community. It is suggested that presenting knowledge as bounded within a tightly defined and assessed curriculum conflicts with the exploratory nature of collaborative learning, and can discourage student participation and engagement. There is also conflict between the employability agenda and collaboration as a constructive learning tool. It is recommended that learning collaboratively is presented as an ethos rather than as discrete, formal, product-focused and assessed activities. Group trust and cohesion should be fostered. These recommendations are not limited to the Open University or to online learning.
The power of pragmatism: how project managers benefit from coaching practice through developing soft skills and self-confidence

My instinct as practitioner, a project manager and a coach, originated the idea of using coaching practice to develop project managers’ soft skills: an empirical, pragmatic suggestion where soft skills needs and ideal development methods lack clear definition. The academic aim was to understand the benefits of coaching to the coach, using project manager participants and an action research methodology. Interpretivist data analysis was originally planned, but the findings eventually emerged using pragmatism and abduction: focusing upon perceived personal growth of the project managers acting as coaches, learned and applied soft skills and aspirations to be more supportive or collaborative with colleagues.
Literacy Needs Assessment of Artisans in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria

Artisans form a large percentage of the workforce in the informal sector of Nigeria’s economy and the importance of their activities to the growth of the economy cannot be overemphasized. They play an active role in the primary production and exchange of good and services and serve as dynamic promoter of entrepreneurial spirit among the populace. However, in spite of the potentials and inherent benefits that accrue from various services provided by artisans, there is lack of knowledge on their state of literacy skills and what might be of priority to them in terms of literacy acquisition. This study, therefore, assessed the literacy needs of artisans in Ibadan metropolis. The study adopted a quantitative research approach and the participants comprised 200 artisans who were randomly selected within Ibadan metropolis. The instrument used for the study was a self-designed questionnaire which was developed and subjected to content validity by experts in the field of adult education, measurement and evaluation. The instrument was pilot-tested with road transport workers and reliability coefficient of 0.75 was obtained. The data collected for the study were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and mean score. The study revealed that the literacy status of artisans is high and they ranked the need for acquisition of more technical skills in their profession and acquisition of basic literacy skills as 1st and 2nd among other literacy needs in order of priority to them. It was also revealed that artisans’ perceived effect of literacy acquisition on their livelihood is positive (Weighted Average = 3.33). Therefore, it was recommended that there should be a conscious effort by all stakeholders at providing an avenue for artisans to upgrade their technical skills in order to keep abreast with the latest development in their profession and this should incorporate basic literacy skills acquisition alongside it.
Humility, ruptures, and rupture repair in clinical supervision: a simple conceptual clarification and extension

ABSTRACT We contend that supervisor humility, a critical variable for effective supervisory practice, has a particular impact on the rupture repair process and its implementation; it may well be preeminent in determining whether any supervisor repair effort meets with success or failure. Building on our earlier supervisor humility/rupture repair proposals, we further propose a simple humility/repair clarification and extension grounded in the idea that, though requisite and foundational, humility in and of itself is not enough. We subsequently give focus to what we label as the humility/rupture context, which involves four components: (a) the activating (rupture) event, (b) the type of humility needed for rupture repair, (c) the form of needed corresponding comfort, and (d) the corresponding opportunity that accordingly gets either addressed or missed. Just as humility can be categorized as relational, cultural, or intellectual, we believe that supervision ruptures in turn often tend to be relational, cultural, or intellectual in nature. We examine how that is so in what follows, providing case examples to that effect and offering a more specific, potentially researchable view about some seemingly crucial variables that increasingly render the likelihood of successful supervision rupture repair far more likely.
Transportation Systems Analysis Models And Applications

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A Coalitional Game Mechanism of Tasks Execution Considering Trust Relationship among CRPs in Clouds

Cloud Resource Providers (CRPs) can form CRPs coalitions for executing large scale application tasks by pooling their resources together in cloud computing. However, forming such CRPs coalitions is a challenging problem especially when the trust relationships among CRPs have to be taken into account. Aiming at this problem, we model the formation of CRPs coalitions by considering the trust and reputation of the participanting CRPs in clouds in this paper. An algorithm TCFA for coalition formation is proposed, which can enable the CRPs with high reputation to join into a coalition reducing the cost of execution and guaranteeing the maximum profit for the participanting CRPs. Furthermore, we prove that the formed coalition determined by TCFA is stable, which means that the CRPs that are the part of the coalition do not have incentives to break away from it. Meanwhile, we prove that TCFA can produce a Pareto optimal solution. The results of simulation experiments show that our algorithm TCFA not only can produce stable coalitions structure composed of CRPs with higher reputation, but also can obtain higher individual profit among coalitional members.
The Onto-Semiotic Approach: Implications for the Prescriptive Character of Didactics.

Presentamos una síntesis del Enfoque Ontosemiótico (EOS), sobre el conocimiento y la instrucción matemáticos, resaltando los problemas, principios y métodos de investigación en didáctica de las matemáticas que se abordan con este marco teórico. Se argumenta que la didáctica, como disciplina científica y tecnológica, debe abordar los problemas epistemológico, ontológico, semiótico-cognitivo, educativo-instruccional, ecológico y de optimización de la instrucción, así como la formación de profesores. El EOS asume principios antropológicos, pragmáticos y semióticos para investigar estos problemas, además de principios socioculturales para abordar los problemas educativo-instruccionales. La noción de idoneidad didáctica proporciona un criterio sistémico para tratar el problema de optimización de los procesos de instrucción matemática.
The effects of religiosity on real earnings management decision under obedience pressure

This paper examines the effects of obedience pressure on real earnings management. This study also investigates whether the association between obedience pressure and real earnings management is moderated by individual’s religiosity level. This study found that individuals under obedience pressure were more likely to perform real earnings management than control group. However, religiosity did not significantly mitigate the association between obedience pressure and real earnings management. There is no significant effect of individual’s religiosity level on real earnings management decision.