Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sınıf Öğretmeni Adaylarının Özyeterlik İnançlarının Değerlendirilmesi

Bu calismanin amaci, sinif ogretmeni adaylarinin ozyeterlik inanclarinin farkli degiskenler acisindan degerlendirilmesidir. Calisma kapsaminda, ozyeterlik inancinin alt boyutlari “ogrenci katilimi”, “ogretim stratejileri” ve “sinif yonetimi” olarak belirlenmis ve bu alt boyutlarda ogretmen adaylarinin kendilerini ne duzeyde yeterli hissettikleri belirlenmeye calisilmistir. Arastirma, nicel ve nitel arastirma yontemlerinin bir arada kullanildigi karma desen modelindedir. Bu cercevede nicel veriler, Capa, Cakiroglu ve Sarikaya (2005) tarafindan Turkce’ye uyarlanan “Ogretmen Ozyeterlik Inanci Olcegi’ ile elde edilmistir. Nitel verilere ise ogretmen adaylarinin hazirladiklari ozdegerlendirme raporlari ile ulasilmistir. Arastirmanin calisma grubunu Ege Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi Temel Egitim Bolumu Sinif Ogretmenligi dorduncu sinifta ogrenim goren otuz ikisi kiz ve onikisi erkek olmak uzere toplam kirk dort ogrenci olusturmaktadir. Arastirma sonucunda, ogretmen adaylarinin kendilerini “ogrenci katilimi” ile “ogretim stratejileri” boyutlarinda oldukca yeterli; “sinif yonetimi” alt boyutunda ise biraz yeterli bulduklari belirlenmistir. Ogretmen adaylarinin oz-yeterlik algilarinin cinsiyet degiskenine gore hem toplam olcekte hem de alt olceklerde anlamli bir farklilik gostermedigi bulunmustur. Arastirmada elde edilen nitel bulgular nicel bulgularla paralellik gostermektedir.
EFEK EKSTRAK KULIT BUAH RAMBUTAN TERHADAP KADAR MDA DAN SOD TIKUS YANG DIPAPAR ASAP ROKOK

Asap rokok merupakan polutan bagi manusia dan lingkungan. Asap rokok mengandung senyawa radikal bebas yang akan menyebabkan stres oksidatif. Pada kondisi stres oksidatif, radikal bebas menyebabkan peroksidasi lipid membran sel dan merusak organisasi membran sel. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kadar MDA dan SOD pada tikus yang dipapar asap rokok dan diberi ekstrak kulit buah rambutan. Penelitian dilakukan pada 30 ekor tikus putih jantan galur Wistar yang dibagi menjadi 6 kelompok, yaitu kelompok A (normal), B (negatif), C (positif) dan D, E, F merupakan kelompok perlakuan ekstrak kulit buah rambutan dengan dosis secara berturut-turut 3, 6, 12 mg/200 gramBB dan paparan asap rokok selama 14 hari. Untuk mengetahui perbedaan kadar MDA dan SOD setiap kelompok dilakukan analisis data menggunakan uji one way anova dan uji lanjut LSD. Hasil analisis statistik menunjukkan kadar MDA pada kelompok A tidak berbeda nyata dengan kelompok C dan E. Kelompok D tidak berbeda nyata dengan kelompok F. Aktivitas SOD pada kelompok A berbeda nyata dengan kelompok lainnya. Aktivitas SOD kelompok C tidak berbeda nyata dengan kelompok E. Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah ekstrak kulit buah rambutan dosis 6 mg/200 gramBB dapat menurunkan kadar MDA dan meningkatkan aktivitas SOD pada tikus yang dipapar asap rokok.
Modern portfolio theory : foundations, analysis, and new developments + website

A through guide covering Modern Portfolio Theory as well as the recent developments surrounding it Modern portfolio theory (MPT), which originated with Harry Markowitz's seminal paper "Portfolio Selection" in 1952, has stood the test of time and continues to be the intellectual foundation for real-world portfolio management. This book presents a comprehensive picture of MPT in a manner that can be effectively used by financial practitioners and understood by students. Modern Portfolio Theory provides a summary of the important findings from all of the financial research done since MPT was created and presents all the MPT formulas and models using one consistent set of mathematical symbols. Opening with an informative introduction to the concepts of probability and utility theory, it quickly moves on to discuss Markowitz's seminal work on the topic with a thorough explanation of the underlying mathematics. Analyzes portfolios of all sizes and types, shows how the advanced findings and formulas are derived, and offers a concise and comprehensive review of MPT literature Addresses logical extensions to Markowitz's work, including the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, portfolio ranking models, and performance attribution Considers stock market developments like decimalization, high frequency trading, and algorithmic trading, and reveals how they align with MPT Companion Website contains Excel spreadsheets that allow you to compute and graph Markowitz efficient frontiers with riskless and risky assets If you want to gain a complete understanding of modern portfolio theory this is the book you need to read.
Etude photophysique des protéines fluorescentes photoconvertibles utilisées en microscopie de super-résolution

La microscopie de super-resolution PALM (microscopie de localisation apres photo-activation) est un outil performant pour l'etude des cellules a l'echelle nanometrique. Dans ses applications avancees, la microscopie PALM permet l'etude quantitative et dynamique des objets et evenements biologiques. Ces applications sont cependant limitees par le comportement photophysique complexe des proteines fluorescentes photoconvertibles vert a rouge (PCFPs) utilisees comme marqueurs. En particulier, les transitions repetees et stochastiques des PCFPs entre un etat sombre et un etat fluorescent (scintillement) ainsi que l'incompletude de photoconversion compliquent l'extraction d'informations quantitatives.Nos travaux combinant cristallographie aux rayons X des proteines et microscopie de localisation ont permis de mettre en evidence le role central d'un acide amine conserve au sein des PCFPs, l'arginine 66, dans le controle du scintillement et du photoblanchiment de la forme rouge de deux PCFPs populaires: mEos2 et Dendra2.D'autre part, des resultats preliminaires suggerent que dans leur formes vertes et dans les conditions d'illumination classiques PALM, les PCFPs entrent dans un etat sombre de long temps de vie ce qui ralentit la photoconversion.Nos resultats ouvrent la porte a la conception raisonnee de nouvelles PCFPs optimisees pour les applications quantitatives et dynamiques du PALM.
Enhancing the Reading Engagement of University English Language Learners: An Action Research Project

II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . IV TABLE OF CONTENTS . V LIST OF FIGURES . IX LIST OF TABLES . X CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA . 1 1.2 ENGLISH IN SABAH . 4 1.3 READING IN MALAYSIA. 5 1.4 RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY . 9 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. 10 1.6 THE RESEARCH SETTING . 11 1.7 OUTLINE OF THE THESIS . 12 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE . 14 2.
Cognitive linguistics and translation : advances in some theoretical models and applications

This volume contains a collection of papers which discuss the contributions of cognitive linguistics to translation. It constitutes the first attempt to unify previous isolated works on both disciplines. The papers compiled in the present volume purport to investigate the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on the formulation of a cognitive translation theory. They provide a picture of the different theoretical and applied models which originate at the crossroads between both disciplines, and suggest ways in which they can take advantage of the synergy between them.
Skeptical Linguistic Essays

Paul Postal is a distinguished Research Professor at New York University whose specialties are syntactic theory, English syntax, and the foundations of linguistics. This volume consists of an introduction and two groups of essays, each with a connecting theme. The first, positive group, contains five previously unpublished studies of English syntax. These include a long study of so-called 'locative inversion', two investigations related to raising to non-subject status, an argument for the existence of a hitherto ignored nominal grammatical category and a study of vulgar negative polarity items. Each investigation of specific English details is argued to have significant theoretical consequences. The link between them is that each chapter reveals how much of even a well-studied language remains mysterious. Part One ends with a new theoretical essay that argues in a novel fashion for the controversial conclusion that it is literally impossible for a natural language to have a generative grammar due to a variety of theoretically neglected phenomena including so-called direct speech and metalinguistic uses. The second, negative group of papers, contains seven essays each of which seeks to show that aspects of contemporary linguistic activity are in part contaminated by elements of what is called 'junk linguistics'. Postal uses the term to denote work which advances proposals, puts forward claims and asserts deep results which, he argues, can only be accepted by ignoring serious standards of inquiry and scholarship. The fact that much of this work is nonetheless currently considered not only serious but prestigious reveals, Postal says, the problem to exist at the core of the field, not its periphery. These chapters include long, detailed studies of the strong crossover phenomenon and English passive structures as well as documentation of "junk linguistic" aspects in National Science Foundation refereeing, work on the foundations of linguistics, and even in widespread terminological usages. The negative section final chapter briefly lists personal suggestions for dealing with this problem.
Desarrollo y comparación de sistemas de reconocimiento biométrico de personas usando características de la forma de andar

This paper is focused on the assessment of gait recognition on a constrained scenario, where limited information can be extracted from the gait image sequences. In particular we are interested in assessing the performance of gait images when only the lower part of the body is acquired by the camera and just half of a gait cycle us available (SFootBD database). Thus, various state-of-the-art feature approaches have been followed and applied to the data. A comparison with a standard and ideal gait database (USF database) is also carried out using similar experimental protocols. Results show that good recognition performance can be achieved using such limited data information for gait biometric (around 85% of rank 5 identification rate and 8.6% of EER). The comparison with a standard database shows that different feature approaches perform differently for each database, achieving best individual results with MPCA and EGEI methods for the SFootBD and the USF database respectively.
Embedding Student Clickers in an Introductory Management Information Systems Course

The challenges associated with teaching a core introductory management information systems (MIS) course are well known (large class sizes serving a majority of non-MIS majors, sustaining student interests, encouraging class participation, etc.). This study offers a mechanism towards managing and (hopefully) overcoming these challenges through the use of a simple and effective teaching innovation referred to as classroom response systems (a.k.a., clickers). Although clickers are not necessarily new (they have been around for some time), recent enhancements, such as radio-frequency technology and integration with other presentation software, have made them easier to manage, with greater reliability and flexibility. This paper presents a case study of the implementation and integration of clickers into an introductory MIS course. The system benefits, lessons learned and effective practices of integrating the technology in a large lecture format are provided.
An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Understanding Diffusion Dynamics of Open-Source (OS) Software in the Presence of Upgrades

There is an increasing interest in the evolution of open-source software (OS). Researchers as well as practitioners are trying to better understand factors that impact the diffusion of OS. This paper presents an agent-based model of OS diffusion. Specifically, we investigate how software upgrade cycle affects firms’ OS adoption. In addition, we also incorporate factors such as variability in OS support costs, interoperability issues and network structure that have not been systematically studied in prior OS research. Simulation results demonstrate the individual and interaction effects of these variables on the rate of OS diffusion. High variability in OS support costs and more frequent introduction of major upgrades encourage OS diffusion. The rate of diffusion is also influenced by the degree of cliquishness in the network structure. Interoperability issues hinder OS diffusion when proprietary software (PS) is currently the dominant standard. However, if other factors encourage OS diffusion and a critical mass of OS adopters is reached, then interoperability issues encourage OS diffusion. The impact of interactions between network structures and other factors on diffusion dynamics is also illustrated.
Phrase extraction and rescoring in statistical machine translation

The lack of linguistically motivated translation units or phrase pairs in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PB-SMT) systems is a well-known source of error. One approach to minimise such errors is to supplement the standard PB-SMT models with phrase pairs extracted from parallel treebanks (linguistically annotated and aligned corpora). In this thesis, we extend the treebank-based phrase extraction framework with percolated dependencies – a hitherto unutilised knowledge source – and evaluate its usability through more than a dozen syntax-aware phrase extraction models. However, the improvement in system performance is neither consistent nor conclusive despite the proven advantages of linguistically motivated phrase pairs. This leads us to hypothesize that the PB-SMT pipeline is flawed as it often fails to access perfectly good phrase-pairs while searching for the highest scoring translation (decoding). A model error occurs when the highest-probability translation (actual output of a PB-SMT system) according to a statistical machine translation model is not the most accurate translation it can produce. In the second part of this thesis, we identify and attempt to trace these model errors across state-of-the-art PB-SMT decoders by locating the position of oracle translations (the translation most similar to a reference translation or expected output of a PB-SMT system) in the n-best lists generated by a PB-SMT decoder. We analyse the impact of individual decoding features on the quality of translation output and introduce two rescoring algorithms to minimise the lower ranking of oracles in the n-best lists. Finally, we extend our oracle-based rescoring approach to a reranking framework by rescoring the n-best lists with additional reranking features. We observe limited but optimistic success and conclude by speculating on how our oracle-based rescoring of n-best lists can help the PB-SMT system (supplemented with multiple treebank-based phrase extractions) get optimal performance out of linguistically motivated phrase pairs.
Determining Communication Needs of ESL Workers: Implications for Customizing Computer Courseware.

A study was undertaken to determine the kinds of communication that occur in the workplace and are needed for workers to be effective, for the purposes of developing English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction for workers. Five hourly employees of an automobile parts company were interviewed. Communication needs identified included common explanatory, questioning, and reporting needs concerning machines, materials, and workers. Common problems resulting from poor communication, communication needs beyond the workplace, and important work-related concepts that need to be taught were also identified. Implications are drawn for the development of customized computer software to teach work-related ESL. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education) (MSE) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** Determining Communication Needs of ESL Workers: Implications for Customizing Computer Courseware Mary I. Jarvis Wayne State University U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) . This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY
Behavioral Profiling of Scada Network Traffic Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Abstract : Mixed traffic networks containing both traditional ICT network traffic and SCADA network traffic are more commonplace now due to the desire for remote control and monitoring of industrial processes. The ability to identify SCADA devices on a mixed traffic network with zero prior knowledge, such as port, protocol or IP address, is desirable since SCADA devices are communicating over corporate networks but typically use non-standard ports and proprietary protocols. Four supervised ML algorithms are tested on a mixed traffic dataset containing 116,527 dataflows from both SCADA and traditional ICT networks: Naive Bayes, NBTree, BayesNet, and J4.8. Using packet timing, packet size and data throughput as traffic behavior categories, this research calculates 24 attributes from each device dataflow. All four algorithms are tested with three attribute subsets: a full set and two reduced attribute subsets. The attributes and ML algorithms chosen for experimentation successfully demonstrate that a TPR of . 9935 for SCADA network traffic is feasible on a given network. It also successfully identifies an optimal attribute subset, while maintaining at least a . 99 TPR. The optimal attribute subset provides the SCADA network traffic behaviors that most effectively differentiating them from traditional ICT network traffic.
An FPGA Configuration Stream Architecture Supporting Seamless Hardware Accelerator Migration

Most of the available commercial Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) use an addressable memory organized around an array of N-bit words of Static RAM (SRAM) cells. Such configuration memory is traditionally programmed by writing, to each word, the corresponding bit-stream data at runtime. In the growing domain of Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration, this leads to long reconfiguration time of dynamic regions. We propose a novel approach to task relocation in an FPGA-based reconfigurable fabric, allowing for offline design, routing and unfinalized placement of hardware IPs and dynamic placement of the corresponding bit-streams at runtime.
Relational aspects of reference interactions : a qualitative investigation of the perceptions of users and librarians in the academic library

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Designing and Analyzing Language Tests

Designing and Analyzing Tests with accompanying CD-ROM gives you a solid grounding in language assessment theory, practical guidance on developing and administering tests, and shows you how to use Excel for statistical analysis of procedures. Language teachers often have to develop or choose tests or other assessments for their classes without any training. With this book and CD-ROM you learn how to choose from ready-made tests, or to adapt existing tests to better meet your needs. It gives you the tools you need to write your own tests and to analyze them. The book is organized in two Parts: Part 1 focuses on language assessment theory, and guidance on developing and administering tests. Part 2 introduces the use of Excel for analyzing language test data.
Perception of speaker identity and its relation to the phonological features (Speech) -- (国際ワークショップ"Asian workshop on speech science and technology")

In perceptual speaker identification, it is known that the identification accuracy depends on the contents of the stimuli presented to the listeners. In our previous experiments, we found that the stimuli containing a nasal sound are effective for speaker identification by listening, and that coronal sounds are more effective than labial ones. In this present study, we investigated the effects of the stimulus contents again, this time focusing on the vowels in CV monosyllabic stimuli. Through the experiment we obtained the following outcomes: 1) nasal sounds gained significantly higher scores than oral sounds, although the difference between the sonorants and the obstruents was not significant; 2) alveolar nasals were more effective than the labial nasal; 3) palatalisation of a consonant improved speaker identification performances; and 4) back vowels were more effective than front vowels significantly. These tendencies imply the following phonological grounds: 1) [+nas] is more important than [+son]; 2) [+nas] comes under [PLACE] as to the judgment of the speaker identity; 3) [son] may lie under [nas] in the identification of the speakers, and 4) [-ant] and [+back] are also important for speaker identification.
Examining Information Problem-Solving Instruction: Dynamic Relationship Patterns Mediated by Distinct Instructional Methodologies

Information problem-solving (IPS) is a central focus of information literacy instruction on the K-12 level, and school media specialists are employing various instructional methodologies during the teaching process.The use of different methodologies has the potential to mediate dynamic teaching/ learning relationships in distinct ways. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships within two IPS methodologies: problem-based learning (PB) and participatory simulation(PS). Participant observation was employed to record and describe the broad patterns of relationships that were mediated by each methodology. The results of the study give greater insight into the role that methodology plays in mediating interactions between the elements of an instructional system.
The Relation between Methods of Graphing Student Performance Data and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis investigated the effects on achievement of type of graphing paper employed in displaying student performance data collected over time. The data source was 15 controlled studies with 16 effect sizes. The average weighted unbiased effect sizes for 6-cycle and equal interval paper, respectively, were . 53 and . 46. Hedges's analogue to analysis of variance indicated this difference was not statistically reliable. Implications for special education practice are discussed.