Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“Hairless, odourless, bleached, and clean”: Exploring Women’s Experiences of the Vagina in Connection with Vaginal Cleansing Products

“HAIRLESS, ODOURLESS, BLEACHED, AND CLEAN”: EXPLORING WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF THE VAGINA IN CONNECTION WITH VAGINAL CLEANSING PRODUCTS Amanda L. Jenkins University of Guelph, 2019 Advisor: Dr. Kieran O’Doherty Vaginal cleansing products such as douches, sprays, wipes, powders, washes, and deodorants are part of a 2 billion industry in North America. Within Canada, use of vaginal washes and wipes in particular is on the rise among younger generations of women. According to a Nielson Consumer Data Report, Canadian women spent almost 6.8 million dollars on vaginal wipes in 2015. However, medical literature increasingly suggests there are adverse health risks associated with some of these products, including higher risks of women being susceptible to bacterial vaginosis and cervical cancer. Given the popularity of vaginal cleansing products despite potential health concerns it is important to explore the role these products play in women’s experiences of the vagina and how these experiences are constructed in relation to broader cultural meanings of women’s bodies. Therefore, this dissertation critically examines how women who use vaginal cleansing products construct, manage, and feel about their vaginas in relation to the messages they receive around vaginal health and hygiene. Drawing on interviews with 31 women who were currently using or had previously used vaginal cleansing products, this dissertation employs a critical discourse analysis to examine the multiple and overlapping constructions of the vagina within participants’ accounts that framed their use of vaginal cleansing products in different ways. This includes an examination of three distinct constructions, the clean vagina, the dirty vagina, and the healthy vagina, and how these were connected to vaginal cleansing products being viewed as necessary or unnecessary. Of these three constructions, my analysis focuses, in particular, on how the clean vagina is idealized by many participants in such a way that vaginal cleansing product use becomes a necessary beauty practice in removing vaginal odour, discharge, and menstrual blood. I show how the clean vagina is a powerful beauty ideal to the extent that some women rationalized and justified their use of vaginal cleansing products despite being aware of or experiencing negative health consequences associated with these products. Thus, I demonstrate how use of vaginal cleansing products is a beauty practice that some women feel pressured to perform within a society where vaginas are predominantly constructed as dirty, shameful, and inadequate.
The Snowball Effect: Exploring the Influence of Changes in Academic Performance on Student Success in Co-enrolled Courses

Researchers have paid considerable attention towards understanding why students experience academic difficulties in college, particularly with regards to student persistence (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). While much of the research on retention in higher education focuses on institutional factors, including social support structures, financial aid, and campus climate (Mayhew et al., 2016; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Tinto, 1997), there remain several questions regarding how the design and organization of a college curriculum can impact college student success. Disciplines Curriculum and Instruction | Higher Education Comments This proceeding was published as DeMonbrun, R. M. , & Brown, M. G. , & Teasley, S. D. (2018, June), The Snowball Effect: Exploring the Influence of Changes in Academic Performance on Student Success in Co-enrolled Courses. Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. https://peer.asee. org/31124. © 2018 American Society for Engineering Education. Posted with permission. This conference proceeding is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/edu_conf/8
Glaciares de Argentina: Resultados Preliminares del Inventario Nacional de Glaciares

Glaciers are strategic water reserves in solid state and are crucial components of the hydrological cycle in mountain regions. Despite their importance, there was no precise information on the number, location and size of glaciers in Argentina. In 2010, the National Law 26639 on “Minimum Standards for the Preservation of Glaciersand the Periglacial Environment” was promulgated. Its main objectives are the protection of glaciers, which are considered strategic reserves of water resources, and the development of the National Glacier Inventory to identify glaciers and periglacial geoforms, recording and collecting all the necessary information for their proper protection, control and monitoring. The inventory and monitoring of the condition of glaciers is carried out by the Argentine Institute for Snow, Ice and EnvironmentalSciences (IANIGLA-CONICET) in collaboration with the Argentine Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The inventory is organized in three levels of different complexity and spatial extension. This paper summarizes the preliminary results of level one, which consists in the identification, mapping and characterizationof glaciers (clean ice glaciers, debris-covered glaciers, snowfields and rock glaciers) through satellite images. The satellite-based mapping is validated through field campaigns in selected areas. Of the 70 basins and subbasins delimited for the inventory, 64 have been studied. As of February 2017, the number of glacial and periglacialgeoforms inventoried amounts to 15,482, covering a total area of 5743 km2.
Intersections between connectivity and digital inclusion in rural communities

ABSTRACT As societies become more connected and digitalised, evidence shows that differences in infrastructure quality are growing between urban and rural areas. The constant catch-up of infrastructure and existing social exclusion factors create a double jeopardy in rural areas. Furthermore, as digital technologies are increasingly embedded into economic, political, social, and personal lives, the disadvantages that occur from disconnection manifest differently depending on the social context of an individual, organisation or community. There is a need to improve our understanding of specific contexts of digitally excluded groups and develop targeted policies and programmes. Drawing from fieldwork in rural communities in Australia, this article examines the relationship between limited connectivity, the local context and socio-economic outcomes in rural areas. We suggest a customised policy framework that is responsive to the diversity and uniqueness of local contexts in connectivity and digital inclusion.
PENGEMBANGAN MODUL KESETIMBANGAN KIMIA BERBASIS PENDEKATAN SAINTIFIK UNTUK KELAS XI SMA/MA

This developmental research aimed to produce scientific approach-based module in chemistry equilibrium topic, determine its validity, practicality, and effectiveness on grade XI students’ learning outcome. It was based on 4-D development model that included defining, designing, and developing stage. Module was validated by expert and tested to senior high school (SMA) students. Research instruments used were questionnaire in the form of validity and practicality sheets and learning outcome test. Validity sheets were completed by 5 chemistry lecturers and 3 chemistry teachers. Practicality sheets were completed by 4 chemistry teachers and 25 grade XI students in public SMA (SMAN) 2 Batusangkar. Data were analyzed with Kappa Moment. The mean score of Kappa Moment for validity was 0.84 indicating a high degree of validity. The mean score of Kappa Moment for practicality were 0.87 (for students) and 0.84 (for teachers) indicating a very high degree of practicality. Effectiveness of the module was obtained from cognitive test score of students in SMAN 4 Padang. Analysis showed that the test score of students taught with module was siginificantly higher than that of students who were not. It can be concluded that the module developed was valid, practical, and effective for senior high school instruction. Key words: chemistry equilibrium, module, scientific approach.
Performance evaluation of a mathematical programming based clustering algorithm for a wireless ad hoc network operating in a threat environment

A distributed sensing network consists of more than one spatially separated sensors, each with possibly different characteristics and not all of them sensing the same environment. The sensors are mobile and change location with time. In this work, we evaluate the operational level performance of a mathematical programming based clustering algorithm that is developed for locating a given number of clusterheads in a wireless ad hoc sensor network such that maximum information can be gathered from the sensors under hostile conditions. This methodology is also compared with a representative approach (MOBIC) from the clustering algorithms that have been proposed in the literature. Both small (30 nodes) and medium sized (60 nodes) networks are used for comparison purposes. As a result of the numerical studies, it is concluded that the CG heuristic performs much better in terms of sensor coverage when compared to the original MOBIC algorithm. During 3 scenarios out of 64, MOBIC provides slightly better coverage, however the objective function values corresponding to these scenarios indicate that the CG heuristic outperforms by 46.06%. According to the packet level analysis performed using OPNET, 94% of the time no packets are lost due to collision during the simulations for both the CG heuristic and MOBIC. In addition, only a small percentage of packets sent by the sensors is lost due to the probability of link failure or the collision of packets transmitted to the same receiver channel of a clusterhead (1.83% for CG and 2.22% for MOBIC).
REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN SEMARANG CITY, INDONESIA

Endowed with rapidly changing physical and socio-economic conditions, Semarang City in Central Java Province serves as an interesting case study of Indonesia’s urban transformation. Secondary data, coupled with field observations and in-depth interviews with key informants and experts, were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative descriptive methods to show complex variations in urban evolution between Semarang’s numerous districts, with changes occurring much faster in some locations than in others. We show that urbanisation proceeds most rapidly where vacant open spaces and investment in various kinds of new public infrastructure are dominant, especially in such districts as Tembalang, Gunungpati, Genuk and Pedurungan. In contrast, transformation processes operate more slowly in Semarang’s saturated inner core.
Students’ Mathematical Communication in Solving Combination Problems

The purpose of this study was to describe students’ mathematical communication ability in solving combination problems. This study involved 27 students majoring in mathematics, Mathematics and natural science faculty who took discrete mathematics subject. Students were asked to solve combination problems. Based on students’ works results, the ability of students were categorized into three categories, namely high ability, medium ability, and low ability. From each ability group, one student was chosen to describe their mathematical communication ability. The research results showed that the student with high ability was able to do written text well, do mathematical expressions well, and gave the correct final answer. while the student with medium ability was only able to do mathematical expressions. The student with low ability was not able to do written text, was unable to do mathematical expressions, and was unable to provide the correct final answer.
Fistule urogénitale à Sikasso: à propos de 150 cas

L'objectif de cette étude était d'analyser les aspects épidémiocliniques, thérapeutiques et anatomopathologiques de la fistule urogénitale (FUG). L'étude rétrospective porte sur les cas de FUG admis dans le Service de Chirurgie Générale et Gynéco-obstétrique entre le 1er janvier 2014 et le 30 décembre 2015 y compris les 5 premières campagnes du projet fistule-Mali. La FUG occupe 19,53% de nos activités urologiques. L'âge moyen au 1er mariage: 16,57 ans. La majorité (96,70%) de nos patientes étaient analphabètes et non salariées provenant à 85,36% des communes rurales. La stagnation du travail était l'étiologie dominante avec 91,50% de mort-né. Les patientes étaient primipares à 43,33% et, parmi elles 53,60% n'ont effectué aucune consultation prénatale. Le taux de divorce lié à la maladie était estimé à 7,30%. La plupart des patientes ont bénéficié d'une fistulorraphie simple dont 121 par voie basse, 26 par voies hautes et 3 par la voie mixte. Les résultats ont été satisfaisants chez 65,33% et mauvais chez 34,66% des patientes. Les fistules type I et type V ont montré les plus forts taux de succès comparés aux fistules types IV. La fistule urogénitale demeure un réel problème de santé publique. Le traitement est surtout chirurgical et son pronostic est compromis par l'étroitesse du champ, la complexité des lésions et l'état du tissu environnant. L'accent doit être mis sur la promotion socioéconomique des filles et l'accessibilité aux soins obstétricaux d'urgence. La recherche et les échanges doivent continuer afin de faciliter la mise au point d'une classification standard.
Wavelet Quasilinearization Methods for Fractional Differential Equations

The main objective of this thesis is to develop numerical methods for solving nonlinear fractional ordinary differential equations, nonlinear fractional partial differential equations, and linear and nonlinear fractional delay differential equation. Some methods are proposed by utilizing wavelets operational matrix methods and quasilinearization technique, these methods are used for the solution of nonlinear fractional differential equations, we call these methods as wavelet quasilinearization techniques. According to the wavelet quasilinearization techniques, we convert the fractional nonlinear differential equation to fractional discretize differential equation by using quasilinearization technique and apply wavelet methods at each iteration of quasilinearization technique to get the solution. We established a technique by utilizing both the Haar wavelet and Picard technique for solving the fractional nonlinear differential equation. While some methods based on the wavelets methods and method of steps, used for the solution of linear and nonlinear fractional delay differential equation. These techniques converts the fractional linear or nonlinear delay differential equation on a given interval to an fractional linear or nonlinear differential equation without delay over that interval, by using the function defined on previous interval, and then apply the wavelet method on the obtained fractional differential equation to find the solution on a given interval. The same procedure provides the solution on next intervals. We also developed a method, Gegenbauer wavelet operational matrix method, by using Gegenbauer polynomials. The Gegenbauer wavelet matrix, Gegenbauer wavelet operational matrix of fractional integration and Gegenbauer wavelet operational matrix of fractional integration for boundary value problems are derived, constructed and utilized for the solution of fractional differential equations. The convergence and supporting analysis of our methods are also investigated. The comparison analysis of methods with other existing numerical methods is also performed.
Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)

The quality of discourse structure annotations is negatively influenced by the numerous difficulties that occur in the analysis process. In contrast, referential annotation resources are considerably more reliable, given the high precision of the existent anaphora resolution systems. We present an approach based on the Veins Theory (Cristea, Ide, Romary, 1998), in which successful reference annotations of texts are exploited in order to improve arbitrary structural analyses; in this way, the large amount of corpora annotated at reference level can be used for the acquisition of discourse structure annotation resources.
PENGARUH KOMPENSASI FINANSIAL, BUDAYA ORGANISASI DAN KEPEMIMPINAN TERHADAP TURNOVER INTENTION KARYAWAN KOPERASI ASADANA SEMESTA DENPASAR

Turnover intention is the tendency of employees leaving the organization for some reason. Turnover intention will hinders the company’s operational activities, so this research to know about the influence of financial compensation, organizational culture and leadership against turnover intention at Asadana Semesta Cooperative in Denpasar. The theoretical basis used is the theory of reasoned action that explains the reasoned actions that are influenced by the intention, while the intention is influenced by the belief. The sample in this research is all employee’s at Asadana Semesta Cooperative, They are 47 employee’s but not include the leader. Sample research methods that used in this research is saturated sampling which is the whole population used as a sample. Those are using likert scale 5 points to measure 20 points of statement. The analytical technique that used is multiple linier regression analysis. Analysis result show that compensation, organizational culture and leadership have a negative effect for turnover intention. The company expected to sive more attention for siving the fair compensation and improving the quality of a leader to prevent the high number of turnover employee’s within the company.
Acquisitions of Financially Constrained Targets

We examine the extent to which bidders’ stock returns at acquisition announcements reflect the financing needs of the target firm. Using a sample of the United States mergers and acquisitions of a period starts in 1985 and ends in 2012, we find that bidders of financially constrained targets pay lower acquisition premiums and earn higher announcement period cumulative abnormal returns than bidders of unconstrained targets. The lower premium and positive stock market reaction are both sources of value for bidders’ shareholders. Our results contrast the findings of the literature that document an insignificant wealth transfer to bidder shareholders.
Humans need not label more humans: Occlusion Copy & Paste for Occluded Human Instance Segmentation

Modern object detection and instance segmentation networks stumble when picking out humans in crowded or highly occluded scenes. Yet, these are often scenarios where we require our detectors to work well. Many works have approached this problem with model-centric improvements. While they have been shown to work to some extent, these supervised methods still need sufficient relevant examples (i.e. occluded humans) during training for the improvements to be maximised. In our work, we propose a simple yet effective data-centric approach, Occlusion Copy&Paste, to introduce occluded examples to models during training - we tailor the general copy&paste augmentation approach to tackle the difficult problem of same-class occlusion. It improves instance segmentation performance on occluded scenarios for"free"just by leveraging on existing large-scale datasets, without additional data or manual labelling needed. In a principled study, we show whether various proposed add-ons to the copy&paste augmentation indeed contribute to better performance. Our Occlusion Copy&Paste augmentation is easily interoperable with any models: by simply applying it to a recent generic instance segmentation model without explicit model architectural design to tackle occlusion, we achieve state-of-the-art instance segmentation performance on the very challenging OCHuman dataset. Source code is available at https://github.com/levan92/occlusion-copy-paste.
A Comparison of Online Instructional Strategies Across Key Student Outcomes

Author(s): Ingersoll, George | Advisor(s): Wagoner, Richard L. ; Sax, Linda J | Abstract: The purpose of this study is to compare student outcomes associated with alternate strategies of delivering online instruction in higher education. More so than traditional classroom education, different strategies for online education may vary widely in format and approach. To date, most research pertaining to online education has focused on comparisons between online and traditional classroom instruction, with few studies dedicated to comparing different strategies of online education. This makes it difficult for educators to effectively choose between the many diverse options for structuring their online programs and courses. This study begins the process of addressing this issue by investigating whether different strategies of online instruction may have variable effects upon several key student outcomes.To this end, this study conducted an experiment using a single lesson in which the strategy of instruction varied across treatment groups while other key variables: the instructor, content, materials, and timeframe were all held constant. The experiment was conducted with the help of 425 undergraduate student volunteers who were randomly assigned among five treatment groups. Each group was exposed to a different instructional strategy: (1) traditional classroom instruction for control, (2) hybrid, or blended, instruction (3) synchronous instruction through videoconference, (4) asynchronous instruction with pre-recorded video, and (5) asynchronous instruction with text and slides. The effects of these different instructional strategies were evaluated using measures of the participants' comprehension, engagement, satisfaction, and lesson completion rates. In terms of comprehension and satisfaction, the classroom and hybrid groups had the highest average scores. Conversely, the two asynchronous online groups scored highest on rates of participation, comment quality scores, and lesson completion. The synchronous online group scored the lowest on the assessment of comprehension and on the average quality of discussion comments, but was significantly above the two asynchronous groups on several measures of satisfaction. These variable results suggest that there is no one "best" instructional strategy for maximizing all student outcomes, but that differences in the instructional strategies' effects upon student outcomes do exist. Hence, the most effective strategy depends heavily on context and upon which student outcomes the educator is seeking to maximize.
Speak Out Your Risk Dialectal Effects on Merger Decisions

The “biological code” of a language can be measured by tone patterns and pitch heights, which are recognized to foster and promote certain personal traits like self-confidence and risk tolerance. Guided by linguistic and financial research, this study examines the impact of Chinese dialects on CEOs’ merger decisions. We hypothesize that CEOs in China who speak different dialects may have different tendencies to engage in risky activities, like mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As). Results suggest that CEOs who speak dialects with fewer rising tones and higher pitch are more likely to undertake M&amp;As, while CEOs who speak dialects with more rising tones and lower pitch are less likely to undertake M&amp;As. The results are robust to various specifications, including the impact of local economic and regional cultural factors. Additionally, firms’ performances after M&amp;As are evaluated. The results suggest that CEOs’ overconfidence and high-risk tolerance are likely to cause M&amp;As to be less successful in the long run.