Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identifying Predictors of Organizational Commitment Among Community College Faculty Members in Arkansas

Community colleges serve an important function of allowing students to achieve an affordable education closer to home. However, these opportunities often challenge community college faculty members due to smaller budgets and resources, which leads to differentiation in curriculum delivery, underprepared students, increasing workloads, and increasing stakeholder expectations. As such, across the nation, faculty are showing lack of commitment, lowered engagement, and increasing turnover rate. This study sought to determine the predictors of organizational commitment in community college faculty, using Meyer and Allen’s framework of three components of this commitment. Both individual demographic characteristics of faculty, and institution characteristics of degree of urbanization, racial diversity, and student-tofaculty ratio were analyzed to determine whether they predicted levels of organizational commitment in faculty. A survey of faculty from all 22 community colleges in Arkansas showed that few of the identified characteristics predicted organizational commitment, namely race/ethnicity, gender, disciplines taught, and student-to-faculty ratio. However, the data overall showed strong levels of organizational commitment from those surveyed, indicating that faculty in Arkansas differ greatly in a positive manner from national trends.
Late Cenozoic Clockwise Rotations in the Westernmost Part of the Arcuate Qiulitage Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt of Southern Tian Shan Foreland and Its Tectonic Implications

Curvature of fold‐and‐thrust belts (FTBs) is a rather common feature in foreland basins. The problem of how curves in FTBs originate is essential for understanding the propagation of deformation and tectonic history of orogens. In this study, we carried out systematic paleomagnetic studies in the westernmost part of the Qiulitage FTB, southern Tian Shan foreland, where thrusting, strike‐slip fault, and tectonic boundary coexist. Our new results suggest that the study area has been subjected to ~20° clockwise rotations after ~5 Ma. Oroclinal test of the paleomagnetic data across the FTB suggests that oroclinal bending caused by the formation of the curved Qiulitage FTB is the dominate reason for these tectonic rotations. The Kalayuergun dextral strike‐slip transfer fault delimiting the western boundary of the Qiulitage FTB is a thin‐skinned structure accommodating the discrepancy in horizontal displacement on both sides of it. These results also suggest that the formation of the curved Qiulitage FTB should not be older than ~5 Ma, indicating that the southern Tian Shan foreland has experienced significant tectonic shortening since the latest Miocene to early Pliocene. Our new results, together with previous studies on deformation history, estimates of crustal shortening, GPS observations and earthquake records, suggest that the southern Tian Shan foreland has been subjected to significant deformation during the past ~5 million years, and the crustal shortening is still ongoing.
A Three-Phase Current-Fed Push–Pull DC–DC Converter With Active Clamp for Fuel Cell Applications

In this paper, a new active-clamped three-phase current-fed push-pull dc-dc converter is proposed for high-power applications where low-voltage high-current input sources such as fuel cells are used. The proposed converter has the following features: active clamping of the transient surge voltage caused by transformer leakage inductances, natural zero-voltage switching turn-on of main switches using energy stored in transformer leakage inductor, small current rating and zero-voltage and zero-current switching of clamp switches, no additional start-up circuitry for soft starting due to the operating duty cycle range between 0 and 1, and zero-current switching turn-off of rectifier diodes leading to negligible voltage surge associated with the diode reverse recovery. A comparative study along with loss analysis is performed. Experimental results from 5-kW laboratory prototypes of the proposed active-clamped converter and the passive-clamped converter are provided.
THE ANATOMY OF SECRETION IN THE FOLLICULAR CELLS OF THE THYROID GLAND

This paper reports a study by phase contrast and electron microscopy of changes observed in the thyroid gland of the rat at 1, 2, 12, and 24 hours following an injection of thyrotrophic hormone. Examination by phase contrast microscopy reveals that follicular cells contain numerous colloid droplets 1 and 2 hours after injection. By 12 and 24 hours, the colloid droplets are no longer present, and individual follicles appear to be subdividing into smaller units. The droplets are assumed to contain newly synthesized colloid, and their development was studied by electron microscopy. During the period of active secretion, increase in number of the Golgi vesicles leads to enlargement of this organelle. At its periphery small colloid droplets appear to form from large Golgi vesicles. As they form, their content becomes more adielectronic, and fine dense particles less than 75 A in diameter appear in their matrix. Small- and medium-sized droplets lying in the apical region of the cell contain numerous dense particles scattered in their moderately adielectronic content. Large, mature droplets in the same region have a relatively dielectronic content resembling follicular colloid and no longer contain dense particles. The follicular cells appear to utilize apical pseudopodia to release the content of mature droplets into the follicular lumen. Other droplet-like inclusions occur in follicular cells, but they do not seem to be directly concerned with secretion.
Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa. By Mara Selvini Palazzoli. New York: Jason Aronson. 1978. Pp 296. No price stated.

family and the value of helping in its own right the sick family that contains the patient. Minuchin and his colleagues will always have an honoured place in this development. If their attempts to find means of objectively defining, measuring and comparing familiar interaction can be developed, their con tribution will be great indeed. Their style of therapy, warmly involved with the family, challenging and extempore, seems to demand a degree of confidence and flexibility not char acterologically available to all therapists. The authors demonstrate that used skilfully it can be a very effective approach. This volume will have an impact on the thinking and practise ofall who read it.
How to develop student creativity through teaching materials of reaction rate STEM-based?

The purpose of this research is to produce teaching materials (reaction rate) based on STEM to develop student creativity. The research method using is Development Research, the method of development of teaching materials used is Four Steps Teaching Material Development (4S-TMD). This article is the first part of the development of teaching materials that includes the steps of selection and structuring. The selection steps consists of the development of indicators, the selection of concept labels, the selection of concept definitions derived from international textbooks, and the development of aspects of STEM. The steps of structuring is organizing concepts and materials into concept maps, macro structures, and multiple representations. The results of the first two steps of this study are the design of STEM-based teaching materials. The evaluation of the draft of teaching materials is done by an expert lecturer in the field of chemical education to assess the feasibility of teaching materials. The result of the research indicates that the teaching material developed has been in accordance with the curriculum requirement, has guaranteed the scientific truth, the value and the STEM aspect in accordance with the subject, and the concept map, macro structure, multiple representations developed are valid.
Right‐To‐Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State‐Level Synthetic Control Analysis

This paper uses more complete state panel data (through 2014) and new statistical techniques to estimate the impact on violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws, both satisfies the parallel trends assumption and generates statistically significant estimates showing RTC laws increase overall violent crime. Our synthetic control approach also strongly confirms that RTC laws are associated with 13-15 percent higher aggregate violent crime rates ten years after adoption. Using a consensus estimate of the elasticity of crime with respect to incarceration of 0.15, the average RTC state would need to roughly double its prison population to offset the increase in violent crime caused by RTC adoption.
What influences college students’ career information seeking on the internet? A test of the comprehensive model of information seeking

ABSTRACT Issues with unemployment, underemployment, and inadequate preparation have raised concerns about what colleges are doing to ready students for post-graduate careers, but little discussion exists regarding students’ roles in the process. Students play active roles in the anticipatory socialization process, so this study examines the factors that influence college students to seek career information from the Internet, using the comprehensive model of information seeking (CMIS) as a framework. Results demonstrated a good fit to the model, with Internet experience exerting the strongest influence on participants’ Internet self-efficacy, perceptions of information source quality, and, in turn, perceptions of information source usefulness and information seeking intentions. However, several proposed paths were not significant, suggesting the need for replication studies and further research. Results provide theoretical support for the CMIS as a viable framework beyond health information seeking and identify multiple practical applications and opportunities for future research on career information seeking.
Mikulicz’s Syndrome: A case report

Abstract Mikulicz’s syndrome is characterized by the symmetrical enlargement with lymphocytic infiltrations of the parotid salivary glands and the lacrimal glands.Its common causes are lymphoma, and other autoimmune diseases. So far, it has been rarely reported therefore we additionally report one case in a Thai patient. He was a 65-year-old Thai presenting with the gradual enlargement of multiplemasses at both eye brows, both parotid glands and both sides of the cervical lymph nodes within a few months without local or constitutional symptoms.The size of the masses varied, 2-3 cm, firm consistency, no fluctuation, and no tenderness. No lymph nodes at other parts of the body were found on the physical examination, theultrasonography of the upper abdomen and the chest filmexcept the small pretracheal lymphadenopathies found on the computed tomography of the chest. The blood tests for anti-SSA and anti-SSB antibodies were found negative.The microscopic pathology of the cervical lymph node was shown to be the atypical lymphoid hyperplasia, suggestive of Hodgkin disease, mixed cellularity.He was diagnosed as having Mikulicz’s syndrome, with an underlying Hodgkin’s lymphoma, mixedcellularity at least stage IIA. After the multi-drugchemotherapy, allmassesdisappeared within only one course. Because this case had no anti-SSA, anti-SSB antibodies and no kerato-conjunctivitis sicca, it seemed to support the proposal that Mickulicz’ s syndrome and Sjogren’s syndrome are different entities. Key Words: Mikulicz’s Syndrome, Hodgkin’s disease บทคดยอ Mikulicz’s syndrome มลกษณะจำเพาะคอการมตอมนำลายพาโรตดและตอมนำตาโตขนอยางชา ๆ และ สมมาตรเนองจากมเซลลเมดนำเหลองแทรกซมเขาไปสาเหตทพบบอยคอโรคมะเรงตอมนำเหลองและโรคกลม autoimmune อน ๆ จนปจจบนนโรคนกยงพบนอยจงเขยนรายงานนผปวยเปนชายไทยอาย 65 ปมกอนเนองอกท หางควทง 2 ขางตอมนำลายพาโรตดทง 2 ขาง และตอมนำเหลองทคอทง 2 ขางภายในไมกเดอนกอนเหลานโตชา ๆ โดยผปวยไมมอาการทงเฉพาะทและอาการทงระบบขนาดของกอนเนอเหลานประมาณ 2-3 เซนตเมตร คอนขางแขงไมมจดนวมกดไมเจบไมพบตอมนำเหลองโตในทอน ๆ ของรางกายไมวาจะโดยการตรวจรางกาย การตรวจชองทองสวนบนดวยเครองสะทอนคลนเสยงความถสงและการเอกซเรยธรรมดาของปอด ยกเวน มตอมนำเหลองเลก ๆ หนาหลอดลมทพบโดยเอกซเรยคอมพวเตอรของทรวงอกตรวจเลอดหาภม anti-SSA และ anti-SSB แลวไมพบตรวจชนเนอจลพยาธวทยาของตอมนำเหลองจากคอพบวาเปน atypical lymphoid hyperplasia, suggestive of Hodgkin disease, mixed cellularity จงใหการวนจฉยวาเปน Mikulicz’s syndrome โดยมโรคนำเดม คอ Hodgkin’s disease, mixed cellularity at least stage IIA หลงจากไดยาเคมชดทมยาหลายขนาน ปรากฏวากอน ตาง ๆ ยบเกลยงเพยงไดยาเคมชดแรกเทานนเนองจากผปวยรายนไมม anti-SSA, anti-SSB และไมม อาการ kerato-conjunctivitis sicca จงดเหมอนวาผปวยรายนสนบสนนขอเสนอทวา Mikulicz’s Syndrome กบ Sjogren’s syndrome เปนโรคคนละกลมกน คำสำคญ : Mikulicz’s Syndrome, Hodgkin’s disease
Accuracy analysis and deduced strategy of measurements applied to Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) material characterization

Based on the least squares method which is arranged to the problem of fitting theoretical to experimental measured variables, such as phase velocities of acoustic waves and/or resonant frequencies, the environment of the minimum sum of squares (SSQ) has been analyzed, similarly to [1]. This is done by forming a “sensitivity matrix” (or Jacobian matrix: derivatives of measured variables with respect to each searched material parameter) based on a parameter set found in first approximation. As a result of evaluating the SSQ environment the full set of material parameter accuracies is available. In such a way the overall evidence of used experimental method is seen and can be improved if applicable, i.e. an optimum measurement strategy can be developed. The method is used in our case preferentially to angular dependent measurements of surface acoustic wave (SAW) velocities on wafers of single crystal Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS), a promising member of langasite family.
Contribution à la modélisation du comportement multiaxial du béton endommage avec description du caractère unilatéral

Le beton en tant que materiau heterogene a matrice fragile possede un comportement mecanique particulier. Au fur et a mesure que se developpe la microfissuration, une forte anisotropie elastique induite accompagnee de deformations anelastiques apparait. De plus, lors du changement de signe des sollicitations exterieures, les microfissures creees peuvent se refermer ce qui est la cause de restaurations partielles ou totales des proprietes elastiques macroscopiques (effet unilateral). Une modelisation elaboree dans le cadre de la thermodynamique dans laquelle s'inscrit naturellement la theorie de l'endommagement est proposee pour decrire ces trois phenomenes. Des identifications basees sur des essais simples sont proposees pour rendre compte des performances et des lacunes de notre modele
Longitudinal analyses of mental health in a cohort of emerging adult men who have sex with men

Purpose: Comparative research indicates that young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are at increased risk for depression or psychological distress when compared to their heterosexual peers. However, less is known regarding potential differences among YMSM with regard psychological distress. This analysis sought to explore within-group heterogeneity in a diverse sample of YMSM. Methods: Growth mixture models were used to examine trajectories of psychological distress in a longitudinal sample of 588 emerging adult YMSM recruited in New York City. Men were enrolled at ages 18-19, and completed four yearly assessments of psychological distress. Race/ethnicity, perceived familial socioeconomic status, and adverse childhood experiences were tested as predictors of trajectory membership. Results: Three distinct trajectories were identified: low and stable distress, moderate and increasing distress, and high but substantially decreasing distress. The majority of YMSM were in the low and stable trajectory. Neglect of basic needs and sexual abuse were associated with a trajectory of high but substantially decreasing distress. Parental depressive symptoms were associated with moderate and increasing distress. Conclusions: Sociodemographics were not associated with trajectory membership. YMSM who experienced childhood adversities were more likely to exhibit substantial improvements in distress over the three years, perhaps attributable to increasing
Retrospective Evaluation of Bacterial Isolates from Clinically Ill Chelonians: 155 Cases

Abstract A wide variety of bacterial organisms can be cultured from captive reptiles and their environments; however, the pathogenicity of these organisms can be difficult to determine. One-hundred fifty-five aerobic bacterial cultures collected from affected sites of clinically ill chelonian patients (114 aquatic, 41 terrestrial) were reviewed and categorized into eight different anatomic locations based on culture site, yielding a total of 183 bacterial isolates. More than 50% of the samples collected were from the integument category (56.1%, 87/155), followed by joints (9.7%, 15/155) and the upper respiratory tract (9 %, 14/155). Integument (80.5%, 70/87), joint (93.3%, 14/15), ocular (100%, 8/8), and lower respiratory samples (100%, 8/8) were predominately collected from aquatic species, whereas upper respiratory samples were predominately collected from terrestrial species (85.7%, 12/15). Gram-negative bacteria predominated, representing 86.3% (158/183) of all isolates and more than 50% of all sampling locations. The most prevalent isolates were Pseudomonas (36%, 66/183) and Escherichia (10.9%, 20/183). Pseudomonas sp. were the most commonly isolated organisms from five of the eight sampling location categories. Pseudomonas and Escherichia were found to be most susceptible to fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides, respectively. Varying levels of multiple antibiotic resistance were seen in all genera cultured.
Targeting Migration inducting gene-7 inhibits carcinoma cell invasion, early primary tumor growth, and stimulates monocyte oncolytic activity

Expression of Migration inducting gene-7 (Mig-7) is limited to tumor cells and to date not found in normal tissues. Multiple tumor microenvironment factors, such as epidermal and hepatocyte growth factors, in concert with αvβ5 integrin ligation, induce Mig-7 mRNA expression. Gain or loss of Mig-7 protein studies shows that Mig-7 promotes invasion of colon and endometrial carcinoma cells. These data led us to hypothesize that targeting Mig-7 through various methods could decrease invasion, enhance monocyte cell killing of tumor cells, and inhibit disease progression. To begin testing this hypothesis, an in vitro chemoinvasion assay of endometrial carcinoma cells treated with Mig-7–specific or control antibodies was used. Mig-7 antibody significantly reduced invasion by >60% compared with controls. In another approach to test this hypothesis, an in vitro analysis of peptide-stimulated human peripheral blood monocyte cells and their killing of MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells was used. Mig-7 peptide treatment increased monocyte cell tumor necrosis factor expression and killing of MCF-7 cells 30-fold over no peptide stimulation and 3-fold over MUC-1 or control peptide treatments. Furthermore, stably expressing Mig-7–specific short hairpin RNA resulted in significantly reduced Mig-7 protein levels and early primary tumor growth in a xenograft nude mouse model. Reduced phosphorylation of ERK1/2, Akt, and S6 kinase as well as decreased membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase activity were mechanisms through which Mig-7 protein caused these effects. Based on these collective data, Mig-7 expression could be a potential candidate for future targeted cancer therapies. [Mol Cancer Ther 2009;8(8):2412–23]
Large Contractions on Quasi-Metric Spaces with an Application to Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations

In this manuscript, we introduce a new notion: a Berinde type ( α , ψ ) -contraction mapping. Thereafter, we investigate not only the existence, but also the uniqueness of a fixed point of such mappings in the setting of right-complete quasi-metric spaces. The result, presented here, not only generalizes a number of existing results, but also unifies several ones on the topic in the literature. An application of nonlinear fractional differential equations is given.
AbolDeepIO: A Novel Deep Inertial Odometry Network for Autonomous Vehicles

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) suffer from bias and measurement noise, which makes it much more complicated to tackle the problem of inertial odometry (IO). Due to the error propagation over time, while estimating robot position, an inaccurate estimation or a small error will cause the odometry and a localization system unreliable and unusable in a split of seconds. This paper presents a novel triple-channel deep IO network architecture based on the physical and mathematical models of IMUs. The proposed method simulates the noise model in the training phase and becomes robust to noise during testing. Besides, the proposed network architecture also considers the time interval between two consecutive IMU readings (sampling time) so that it is robust to the change of IMU frequency and the missing of IMU information. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work reviewing and analyzing the existing IO methods used by the deep-learning-based visual-IO approaches. The proposed network architecture outperforms all the existing solutions on the IMU readings of the challenging Micro Aerial Vehicle dataset and improves the accuracy by approximately 25%.
Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco’s Rent Control Expansion

Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control in San Francisco to study which types of landlords bear the burden of decreased rental payments versus substitute away from supplying rent-controlled housing. We find rent control leads to a long-run decrease in the supply of rental housing. This effect is more pronounced among properties managed by corporate landlords versus individual landlords. Raising revenue for rental subsidies through rent control appears to be regressive, since corporations can evade the tax burden of rent control more easily, likely due to their superior access to capital.
Newsvendor Model as an Exchange Option on Demand and Supply Uncertainty

Using a contingent claims framework, we develop a single period model in the context of an exchange option in a discounted value maximization setting. Given this framework, we study the classic problem of determining stockpiling levels prior to demand realization when the procured/produced levels are subject to random yield variations. In this set up, both demand and yield variables are modeled as Wiener processes. A pure noise (zero drift) process initially models yield dynamics. Later, we consider improving the average yield rates, subsidized through increasing unit costs in a constrained cost environment. In either case, “yield adjusted” critical fractiles, the optimal order/production levels, and their corresponding expected values are established. As a special case, we relax the yield uncertainty constraint and instead use the long‐term average yield estimate to assess the yield's impact on production/procurement levels. In this context, we establish that the above results collapse to the well‐known Black‐Scholes/Merton (1973) option‐pricing model. Given the original framework of this study, we show the counterintuitive results that unit profits, due to improved average yield rates, may actually decrease. We also demonstrate that a reliable metric to justify yield improvements is the relative net positive marginal unit profit. Our paper also provides detailed comparative statics, both analytically and numerically. These results provide useful insights into policy making by identifying operating regions where the expected marginal unit profits warrant yield improvement. The results provided can readily be generalized to other economic‐based Newsvendor model parameters.