Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Social Media in Korean Media and Product Consumption

In the era of the Korean Wave 4.0, it is essential to investigate how social media usage influences Korean media consumption and then affects the future intention to consume K-Culture products. This study showed that the path of social media usage-Korea-related knowledge-Korean media consumption-the future intention to consume K-Culture products did not exist, and that the path of social media usage-Korea-related knowledge-the future intention to consume K-Culture products occurred. The implications and limitations were discussed.
The established chemokine-related prognostic gene signature in prostate cancer: Implications for anti-androgen and immunotherapies

Background Prostate cancer (PCa) was one of the most common malignancies among men, while the prognosis for PCa patients was poor, especially for patients with recurrent and advanced diseases. Materials and methods Five PCa cohorts were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Gene Expression Omnibus databases, and the biochemical recurrence (BCR)-related chemokine genes were identified by LASSO-Cox regression. The chemokine-related prognostic gene signature (CRPGS) was established, and its association with PCa patients’ clinical, pathological and immune characteristics was analyzed. The association between CRPGS and PCa patients’ responses to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and immunotherapy was analyzed. The CRPGS was compared with other previously published molecular signatures, and the CRPGS was externally validated in our real-world AHMU-PC cohort. Results Four recurrence-free survival (RFS)-related chemokine genes (CXCL14, CCL20, CCL24, and CCL26) were identified, and the CRPGS was established based on the four identified chemokine genes, and TCGA-PRAD patients with high riskscores exhibited poorer RFS, which was validated in the GSE70768 cohort. The CRPGS was associated with the clinical, pathological, and immune characteristics of PCa patients. Low-risk PCa patients were predicted to respond better to ADT and immunotherapy. By comparing with other molecular signatures, the CRPGS could classify PCa patients into two risk groups well, and the CRPGS was associated with the m6A level, as well as TP53 and SPOP mutation status of PCa patients. In the AHMU-PC cohort, the CRPGS was associated with the advanced pathology stage and Gleason score. Conclusions The identified chemokine genes and CRPGS were associated with the prognosis of PCa, which could predict PCa patients’ responses to anti-androgen and immunotherapies.
A Multi Case Study of Community College Discipline Faculty's Participation in a Disciplinary Literacy Professional Learning Community.

A MULTI CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISCIPLINE FACULTY’S PARTICIPATION IN A DISCIPLINARY LITERACY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY Kristen Howell Gregory Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Thomas Bean Many students enter college with inadequate reading, writing, and critical thinking skills to successfully navigate discipline-specific college-level coursework (Duff, 2010; Hyland, 2006; Lea & Street, 1998; Tsui, 2002). As such, college faculty, and specifically community college faculty, are challenged to meet the multiple literacy needs of their students while still maintaining high expectations within their discipline-specific courses. One option is for discipline faculty (e.g., history) to integrate disciplinary literacy instruction within their courses. As discipline faculty are deemed experts in their content area and often not trained in literacy, professional development focused on disciplinary literacy could provide the knowledge and experience for faculty to make this pedagogical shift. This multi-case study investigated the impact participating in a disciplinary literacy learning community had on community college discipline faculty’s perceptions, self-efficacy, and practice regarding incorporating disciplinary literacy instruction within their courses. Ten faculty from a large, multi-campus mid-Atlantic community college participated in three discipline-specific learning communities, where they learned about Moje’s (2015) 4E framework for teaching disciplinary literacy, collaborated with their peers, enhanced an assignment to
‘All these things don’t take the pain away but they do help you to accept it’: making the case for compassion-focused therapy in the management of persistent pain

Background: People with persistent pain are frequently offered a pain management programme (PMP) as part of their care plan. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles often underpin PMPs and has a good evidence base; nevertheless, more recent systematic reviews have suggested that its effectiveness is limited. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a form of ‘third-wave CBT’ that offers an alternative and complementary view of pain, encouraging the person to be alongside their experience of pain and respond to it using skills of compassion they have learnt. Method: The current research explored the effectiveness of a 12-week CFT group for people who experience persistent pain. Research interviews explored CFT members’ experiences of the CFT group. Feedback was collected on the facilitators’ experience of running the group and questionnaire data collected on participants’ mood, pain disability, acceptance of chronic pain and levels of self-criticism and self-reassurance. Results: Interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis that revealed five master superordinate themes representative across all interviews. These were then triangulated with data from the questionnaires and facilitator feedback. Conclusion: In people whose persistent pain was compounded by a significant psychological component, a CFT group approach helped reduce feelings of isolation, improve ability to self-reassure, learn new ways of coping and develop a growing acceptance of the limitations associated with their pain. The possible implications for future clinical practice are considered.
#Globalcitizen: An Explorative Twitter Analysis of Global Identity and Sustainability Communication

(1) Background: global citizenship is often associated with pro-social and pro-environmental attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Much of this research relies on questionnaire studies, whereas studies drawing on naturally occurring daily communications are under-used. In this paper, we analyse the content that users publish on Twitter related to the issue of global identity and citizenship. (2) Methods: we assessed word frequencies and associated hashtags of 35,237 tweets marked with the hashtag #globalcitizen. A sentiment analysis was conducted to investigate the moods and emotions of the tweets. (3) Results: in line with expectations derived from social identity theory, we found that associated words and hashtags were more often linked to themes of common good/disadvantaged groups than they were to the topic of nature and environment. Providing evidence for an empowerment function of global citizenship, the sentiment analysis suggests that global citizenship is related to rather positive emotions. (4) Conclusion: these findings reveal how identity constructions in social media predict associated contents and possibly pathways to social change.
Orthography and punctuation problem in Turkey within the context of the curricula and textbooks

In this study, the orthography and punctuation problem was evaluated within the context of the curricula and textbooks. The data obtained from both sources were assessed by way of document reviews, and consequently, it was seen that the orthography and punctuation topics existed as learning outcomes only in the curricula for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. No learning outcomes related to orthographic or punctuation rules were found in the curricula from the 6th grade to the 12th grade. The picture of the topic of orthographic and punctuation rules in the textbooks is even more blurred. These two topics were included in the textbooks for the first five grades in line with the learning outcomes of the curriculum. No activities related to orthographic and punctuation rules were seen in the textbooks for the 6, 7 and 8th grades. As a matter of fact, this situation ironically matches the curricula. As for the textbooks for the high school, even though the curriculum does not include, there are activities related to orthographic and punctuation rules. This complex situation is naturally reflected upon the teaching applications as well. Thus, the orthography and punctuation problems starting from the primary school continues through the secondary school and high school. The results of this study were compared with those of the studies in the literature, conducted on the orthography and punctuation mistakes of students. Key words: Curricula, orthographic rules, punctuation marks, textbooks, writing education.
Use of physical restraint in nursing homes in Spain and relation with resident characteristics: a retrospective multi-centre cohort study with a self-organised maps approach

Abstract This is a retrospective cohort study based on data from five nursing homes which aims to appraise how physical and cognitive characteristics of nursing home residents were associated with the use of restraints, and to provide information on their prevalence in Spain. The goal was to assess, in a visual way, the possible interactions between the nursing homes residents’ characteristics and their association with the use of restraints. Motivation, risk factors, characteristics of the residents analysed by validated rating systems that assess mobility, level of dependence, cognitive condition and nutritional status, and their association with the use of restraints, were described by means of linear and non-linear multivariate approaches in the form of self-organised maps. Findings showed that the prevalence of restraints was high when compared to other developed countries. The visual analysis reinforced the knowledge that a greater impairment was associated with the use of restraints and vice versa. However, the residents’ characteristics were not always associated with the use of restraints. Subjective factors seem to play a relevant role in decision-making, so it is important to assess risk factors continuously and determine the actual need for the use of restraints from an individual perspective by basing the criteria on specific objectives, and on consistent, reproducible and reliable methods. Initiatives to minimise these subjective factors should be promoted. Likewise, a clear definition of physical restraints should be offered at each centre. In addition, effective legislation that clearly states the need, alternatives and motivation for the use of restraints is needed.
Combining targeted and systematic prostate biopsy improves prostate cancer detection and correlation with the whole mount histopathology in biopsy naïve and previous negative biopsy patients

Objective Guidelines for previous negative biopsy (PNB) cohorts with a suspicion of prostate cancer (PCa) after positive multiparametric (mp) magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) often favour the fusion-guided targeted prostate-biopsy (TB) only approach for Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) ≥3 lesions. However, recommendations lack direct biopsy performance comparison within biopsy naïve (BN) vs. PNB patients and its prognostication of the whole mount pathology report (WMPR), respectively. We suppose, that the combination of TB and concomitant TRUS-systematic biopsy (SB) improves the PCa detection rate of PI-RADS 2, 3, 4 or 5 lesions and the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP)-grade predictability of the WMPR in BN- and PNB patients. Methods Patients with suspicious mpMRI, elevated prostate-specific-antigen and/or abnormal digital rectal examination were included. All PI-RADS reports were intramurally reviewed for biopsy planning. We compared the PI-RADS score substratified TB, SB or combined approach (TB/SB) associated BN- and PNB-PCa detection rate. Furthermore, we assessed the ISUP-grade variability between biopsy cores and the WMPR. Results According to BN (n = 499) vs. PNB (n = 314) patients, clinically significant (cs) PCa was detected more frequently by the TB/SB approach (62 vs. 43%) than with the TB (54 vs. 34%) or SB (57 vs. 34%) (all p < 0.0001) alone. Furthermore, we observed that the TB/SB strategy detects a significantly higher number of csPCa within PI-RADS 3, 4 or 5 reports, both in BN and PNB men. In contrast, applied biopsy techniques were equally effective to detect csPCa within PI-RADS 2 lesions. In case of csPCa diagnosis the TB approach was more often false-negative in PNB patients (BN 11% vs. PNB 19%; p = 0.02). The TB/SB technique showed in general significantly less upgrading, whereas a higher agreement was only observed for the total and BN patient cohort. Conclusion Despite csPCa is more frequently found in BN patients, the TB/SB method always detected a significantly higher number of csPCa within PI-RADS 3, 4 or 5 reports of our BN and PNB group. The TB/SB strategy predicts the ISUP-grade best in the total and BN cohort and in general shows the lowest upgrading rates, emphasizing its value not only in BN but also PNB patients.
Investigating processes of change in beliefs and practice following professional development: multiple change models among in-service teachers in China

ABSTRACT In-service professional development aims to change what experienced teachers do and think, using innovations to improve teaching and learning. Teachers’ beliefs and classroom practice are linked, but how they interact is less certain, and how they are changed by professional development is presented in the research literature by various models: linear change from beliefs to classroom practice or vice versa, and cyclical or interactive models. The process of change in beliefs and classroom practice for a group of experienced in-service English teachers at universities in China was investigated during and after a professional development course. Qualitative case study methodology was used, with data collected from interviews and observations of teaching, and then analysed and interpreted inductively for emerging patterns. The findings suggest that the change process for experienced teachers is both more complex, more varied and less certain that presented in existing models. Multiple models of change in beliefs and classroom practice were present in the data, including linear change in different directions, and no change. In-service teacher educators are recommended to plan for this multiplicity of models of change in beliefs and classroom practice by taking into account each teacher’s experience and existing teaching context.
Transmission pathways of campylobacter spp. at broiler farms and their environment in Brandenburg, Germany

Broiler meat is widely known as an important source of foodborne Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli infections in humans. In this study, we thoroughly investigated transmission pathways that may contribute to possible Campylobacter contamination inside and outside broiler houses. For this purpose we carried out a comprehensive longitudinal sampling approach, using a semi-quantitative cultivation method to identify and quantify transmissions and reservoirs of Campylobacter spp. Three german broiler farms in Brandenburg and their surrounding areas were intensively sampled, from April 2018 until September 2020. Consecutive fattening cycles and intervening downtimes after cleaning and disinfection were systematically sampled in summer and winter. To display the potential phylogeny of barn and environmental isolates, whole genome sequencing (WGS) and bioinformatic analyses were performed. Results obtained in this study showed very high Campylobacter prevalence in 51/76 pooled feces (67.1%) and 49/76 boot swabs (64.5%). Average counts between 6.4 to 8.36 log10MPN/g were detected in pooled feces. In addition, levels of 4.7 and 4.1 log10MPN/g were detected in boot swabs and litter, respectively. Samples from the barn interior showed mean Campyloacter values in swabs from drinkers 2.6 log10MPN/g, walls 2.0 log10MPN/g, troughs 1.7 log10MPN/g, boards 1.6 log10MPN/g, ventilations 0.9 log10MPN/g and 0.7 log10MPN/g for air samples. However, Campylobacter was detected only in 7/456 (1.5%) of the environmental samples (water bodies, puddles or water-filled wheel tracks; average of 0.6 log10MPN/g). Furthermore, WGS showed recurring Campylobacter genotypes over several consecutive fattening periods, indicating that Campylobacter genotypes persist in the environment during downtime periods. However, after cleaning and disinfection of the barns, we were unable to identify potential sources in the broiler houses. Interestingly, alternating Campylobacter genotypes were observed after each fattening period, also indicating sources of contamination from the wider environment outside the farm. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that a potential risk of Campylobacter transmission may originate from present environmental sources (litter and water reservoirs). However, the sources of Campylobacter transmission may vary depending on the operation and farm environmental conditions.
Automatic Analysis of Document Sentiment

Sentiment analysis, which deals with the computational treatment of opinion, sentiment, and subjectivity in text, has attracted a great deal of attention. Potential applications include question-answering systems that address opinions as opposed to facts and business intelligence systems that analyze user feedback. The research issues raised by such applications are often quite challenging compared to fact-based analysis. This thesis presents several sentiment analysis tasks to illustrate the new challenges and opportunities. In particular, we describe how we modeled different types of relations in approaching several sentiment analysis problems; our models can have implications outside this area as well. One task is polarity classification, where we classify a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" from textual information alone. We consider a number of approaches, including one that applies text categorization techniques to just the subjective portions of the document. Extracting these portions can be a hard problem in itself; we describe an approach based on efficient techniques for finding minimum cuts in graphs that incorporate sentence-level relations. The second task, which can be viewed as a non-standard multi-class classification task, is the rating-inference problem, where one must determine the reviewer's evaluation with respect to a multi-point scale (e.g. one to five "stars"). We apply a meta-algorithm; based on a metric-labeling formulation of the problem, that explicitly exploits relations between classes. A different type of relationship between text units is considered in the third task, where we investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of U.S. Congressional floor debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. In particular, we exploit the fact that these speeches occur as part of a discussion. We find that the incorporation of information regarding relationships between discourse segments yields substantial improvements over classifying speeches in isolation. Lastly, we introduce and discuss a sentiment analysis problem arising in Web-search applications: given documents on the same focused topic, we wish to rank the subjective documents before objective ones. We present early results with unsupervised approaches that do not assume prior linguistic or domain-specific knowledge.
Performance Model Analysis of Armenian Premier League Soccer Players Using Global Positioning System Technology and Comparison between European Championship

: The aim of this research was to analyze the PPM of Armenian Premier League using 25 GPS 10 Hz (K-Sport, Montelabbate, Italy), in order to compare data from literature from major European championship. In total 25 matches were analyzed from one team militant in Armenian Premier League (10 wins, 10 loses and 5 draws), 33 different players (age 24.3 ± 4.2, height 1.76 ± 4.2 and weight 74 ± 3.5) and in total 270 performances (10.8 for matches). Matches were divided in First Half (T1), Second Half (T2), Second Half Substitution (T2 Sub), Full Match, Full Match Substitution (Full Match Sub) and Total Match (Total) that include all the players detected during a games. Furthermore, all matches were divided even by quarters 0-15, 15-30, 30-45, 45-60, 60-75 and 75-90, only players that played all match were included in this analyses, in order to check the performance decreasing during the time. All data were added in an Excel Spreadsheet in order to build a database, to organize and better analyze data, cataloging events for data, results, and role of players. Average data from Armenian Premier League in comparison with literature data from European and Italian Championship show that in every parameter, the Armenian Premier League is under the average. This is obviously related to the non-high level of the Armenian football that is in fact placed at the 106° place of the FIFA ranking (update 7 June 2019). Physical data represent an indicator of performance but also of the qualitative level of the league and of individual players. For this reason, the use of the match analysis can be decisive to verify the PPM, in order to better evaluate the championships, teams, and players, in order to build an easier search and discovery of talents.
Game-based learning for postgraduates: an empirical study of an educational game to teach research skills

ABSTRACT Research skills are challenging to teach in a way that is meaningful to students and has ongoing impact in research practice. This paper investigates constructivist and experiential strategies for effective learning and deep understanding of postgraduate research skills and proposes a game-based learning (GBL) solution. A (non-digital) game called How to Fail Your Research Degree was designed and iteratively developed. Gameplay loop analysis identifies various learning and game mechanics and contextualises them in relation to GBL theory. Evaluation of gameplay (n = 127) demonstrates effective transmission of intended learning outcomes and positive game experience based on Keller’s Attention-Relevance-Confidence-Satisfaction (ARCS) model. Discussion proposes that the game has high cognitive authenticity, relies heavily on tutor facilitation, can create tension between knowledge and confidence, and is applicable to multiple domains and learning situations. GBL is proposed to be an original and effective approach to teaching high-level, functional learning outcomes such as academic research skills.