Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Exploration of the Lived Experience of Women who had Abortions and the Effects of the Abortion Secret on their Relationships: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

xvi CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION . 1 Unintended Pregnancy in the United States . 3 Abortion and the Secret . 4 What is Secrecy? 7 Types of Secrets . 7 Privacy versus Secrecy . 9 Statement of the Problem . 11 Purpose of the Study . 12 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW . 14 Women and Abortion . 15 Types of Abortions . 19 Motivations for Abortion . 19 The Politics of Abortion.22 Secrecy of Abortion . 26 Motivations for Abortion Secrecy . 27 Bowen Family Systems Theory . 29 ix Emotional System . 30 Individuality and Togetherness . 32 Differentiation of Self . 33 Chronic Anxiety . 36 Triangles . 37 Multigenerational Transmission Process . 41 Genogram . 42 Theoretical Framework . 43 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY.46 Phenomenological Research . 47 Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) . 48 Participant Selection . 50 Data Collection . 51 Informed Consent.52 Participant Interviews . 53 Recording . 54 Data Analysis . 54 Initial Noting . 55 Emergent Themes . 55 Theme Connections . 56 Writing the Analysis . 57 Self of the Researcher . 57 Trustworthiness of the Study . 59 x Ethical Considerations and Risks.59 Confidentiality/Benefits to Participants . 61 CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDINGS . 62 Participant Information . 62 Results of Data Analysis . 65 Step 1: Reading and Rereading . 66 Step 2: Initial Noting . 67 Step 3: Developing Emergent Themes . 68 Step 4: Searching for Connections across Emergent Themes . 70 Step 5: Moving to the Next Case . 70 Step 6: Identifying Patterns across Cases . 71 Meaning of Abortion.72 Self-sacrifice . 74 Decision made for self . 75 Decision made for others . 75 Emotional Aftermath of Abortion Secret . 78 Torment . 79 Guilt and shame . 81 Loneliness . 85 Cycle of promiscuity . 87 Secrecy as Protection . 89 Protect self and family . 90 Maintain self-image . 92 xi Dance of Anxiety . 95 Conflicted interests . 95 Eased anxiety . 98 Effects on Relationships . 100 No effects . 100 Interactional changes . 103 Generational Experiences . 104 Teenage pregnancy . 105 Sexual molestation . 107 Marriage . 107 Secrecy . 108 Finding Freedom . 111 Faith . 111 Forgiveness . 111 No judgment.113 Utilization of the Genogram . 114 Merline . 116 Amanda . 118 Annette . 119 Jessie . 121 Jan . 122 Multiple abortions . 123 Summary of Findings . 126 xii CHAPTER V: DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY.129 Strengths and Limitations . 130 Ethical Considerations . 132 Recommendations . 133 Future Research . 133 For Marriage and Family Therapy . 136 For Clinical Practice . 136 Self of the Researcher . 137 Bracketing . 138 Self-sacrifice . 138 Decision made for self .
Low Complexity Online Radio Access Technology Selection Algorithm in LTE-WiFi HetNet

In an offload-capable Long Term Evolution (LTE)- Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) Heterogeneous Network (HetNet), we consider the problem of maximization of the total system throughput under voice user blocking probability constraint. The optimal policy is threshold in nature. However, computation of optimal policy requires the knowledge of the statistics of system dynamics, viz., arrival processes of voice and data users, which may be difficult to obtain in reality. Motivated by the Post-Decision State (PDS) framework to learn the optimal policy under unknown statistics of system dynamics, we propose, in this paper, an online Radio Access Technology (RAT) selection algorithm using Relative Value Iteration Algorithm (RVIA). However, the convergence speed of this algorithm can be further improved if the underlying threshold structure of the optimal policy can be exploited. To this end, we propose a novel structure-aware online RAT selection algorithm which reduces the feasible policy space, thereby offering lesser storage and computational complexity and faster convergence. This algorithm provides a novel framework for designing online learning algorithms for other problems and hence is of independent interest. We prove that both the algorithms converge to the optimal policy. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms converge faster than a traditional scheme. Also, the proposed schemes perform better than other benchmark algorithms under realistic network scenarios.
‘You have to coin new things’: sexual and gender identity discourses in asexual, queer, and/or trans young people’s networked counterpublics

ABSTRACT Emergent gender and sexual identity discourses that circulate on social networking sites in spaces organised around non-normative genders and sexualities (i.e. networked counterpublics) challenge dominant conceptions of gender and sexuality. These emergent discourses increasingly represent sexual and gender identities as pluralistic, potentially infinite, and able to be tailored to the individual. Using interviews with asexual, queer, and trans young people (AQTYP; n = 16), we examined how AQTYP in networked counterpublics appropriate hegemonic norms of identity construction to creatively articulate new sexual and gendered subjectivities. We employ thematic discourse analysis to trace how AQTYP use these labels to navigate and complicate sexual and gender self-labelling imperatives in counterpublic contexts. We conclude that AQTYP engage with gender and sexual identity discourses in online counterpublics in ways that challenge many, but not all, parameters of hegemonic identity discourses. Ultimately, we argue that new understandings of sexuality and gender in AQTYP’s networked counterpublics are a form of queer world-making in which the feelings and relationalities that constitute sexual and gendered subjectivities cannot be considered self-evident, stable, or universal.
ISLAMIC WORK ETHIC AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, VARIABLE TO IMPROVE EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION

Penelitian ini ingin mengungkap seberapa besar pengaruh dari islamic work ethic (IWE) dan Employee Enagagement terhadap employee job satisfaction (kepuasan kerja karyawan). Penelitian ini berlokasi di Perusahaan Amanda Brownies, dimana Perusahaan Amanda Brownies tidak menerima karyawan yang non muslim. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Metode penelitian yang bersifat deskriptif dan verifikatif dengan teknik simple random sampling. Responden dalam penelitian ini adalah karyawan perusahaan Amanda Brownies dengan jumlah sampel 210 karyawan. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linear berganda dengan alat bantu software komputer SPSS 25.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukan adanya pengaruh positif dari islamic work ethic terhadap employee job satisfaction. Selanjutnya, terdapat pengaruh positif dan signifikan dari employee engagement terhadap employee job satisfaction. Terakhir terdapat pengaruh positif dan signifikan dari islamic work ethic dan employee engagement terhadap employee job satisfaction. Hal ini menunjukan bahwa kedua variabel ini bisa mengontrol variabel employee job satisfaction.
A Thematic Analysis of Parents’ Gendered Beliefs About Emotion in Middle Childhood Boys and Girls

This study examined mothers’ and fathers’ (N = 102) beliefs about emotion and emotion expression in boys and girls aged 8 to 12 years using a mixed-methods design. Parents attended two focus group sessions 2 weeks apart. A thematic analysis of the group transcripts resulted in six themes: value in the experience and expression of emotion, vulnerability in the experience and expression of emotion, multiple influences on children’s learning about emotion, distinct expectations for emotion displays at home versus in public, gender roles influence emotion expectations, and generational shift in emotion-related expectations. Identified themes were consistent with previous research, yet new themes emerged relevant to gender and gender roles within society. Implications of gender-related roles and expectancies are discussed.
Success in an Online Giving Day: The Role of Social Media in Fundraising

Social media platforms offer nonprofits considerable potential for crafting, supporting, and executing successful fundraising campaigns. How impactful are attempts by these organizations to utilize social media to support fundraising activities associated with online Giving Days? We address this question by testing a number of hypotheses of the effectiveness of using Facebook for fundraising purposes by all 704 nonprofits participating in Omaha Gives 2015. Using linked administrative and social media data, we find that fundraising success—as measured by the number of donors and value of donations—is positively associated with a nonprofit’s Facebook network size (number of likes), activity (number of posts), and audience engagement (number of shares), as well as net effects of organizational factors including budget size, age, and program service area. These results provide important new empirical insights into the relationship between social media utilization and fundraising success of nonprofits.
Facebooking Alone? Millennials’ Use of Social Network Sites and Volunteering

The younger generation’s widespread use of online social network sites has raised concerns and debates about social network sites’ influence on this generation’s civic engagement, whether these sites undermine or promote prosocial behaviors. This study empirically examines how millennials’ social network site usage relates to volunteering, using the 2013 data of the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort Study. The findings reveal a positive association between a moderate level of Facebook use and volunteering, although heavy users are not more likely to volunteer than nonusers. This bell-shaped relationship between Facebook use and volunteering contrasts with the direct correlation between participation in off-line associational activities and volunteering. Overall, the findings suggest that it is natural to get mixed messages about social network sites’ impacts on civic engagement, and these platforms can be useful tools for getting the word out and recruiting episodic volunteers.
Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review

Abstract Sustainable development (SD) has become a popular catchphrase in contemporary development discourse. However, in spite of its pervasiveness and the massive popularity it has garnered over the years, the concept still seems unclear as many people continue to ask questions about its meaning and history, as well as what it entails and implies for development theory and practice. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discourse on SD by further explaining the paradigm and its implications for human thinking and actions in the quest for sustainable development. This is done through extensive literature review, combining aspects of the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and the Recursive Content Abstraction (RCA) analytical approach. The paper finds and argues that the entire issue of sustainable development centres around inter- and intragenerational equity anchored essentially on three-dimensional distinct but interconnected pillars, namely the environment, economy, and society. Decision-makers need to be constantly mindful of the relationships, complementarities, and trade-offs among these pillars and ensure responsible human behaviour and actions at the international, national, community and individual levels in order to uphold and promote the tenets of this paradigm in the interest of human development. More needs to be done by the key players—particularly the United Nations (UN), governments, private sector, and civil society organisations—in terms of policies, education and regulation on social, economic and environmental resource management to ensure that everyone is sustainable development aware, conscious, cultured and compliant.
in Tertiary Partnerships for Learning and Belonging in Tertiary Education: A social capital analysis

Social capital refers to the benefits that accrue from social connections and networks. Most frequently linked with the work of Bourdieu and Putnam, the concept has found expression in the disciplines of sociology, political science and economics. In this chapter we explore the application of social capital to tertiary education practices. Specifically we examine the ways in which bonding, bridging and linking social capital can be applied to the common academic practices of student peer mentoring and staff peer observation of teaching. Findings from a range of studies show that the explicit development of trust, reciprocity, information sharing and cooperation in student and staff networks can improve learning experiences and enhance belonging. A social capital analysis of these partnerships suggests that investing in these types of partnerships amongst students and staff offers scalable, sustainable and cost-effective opportunities to strengthen tertiary education.
Validity and reliability of the Polish version of the Academic Motivation Scale: a measure of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and amotivation

The Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) is a measure of motivation in education. The AMS is based on the self-determination theory, which subdivides motivation into amotivation, extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. The main purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the Polish version of the AMS and to identify motivation to study of Polish university students. The first sample consisted of 1592 Polish university students (653 males, 939 females) majoring in physical education, physiotherapy, tourism and recreation, sport or sport and tourism management. The second sample consisted of 49 Polish university students (13 males, 36 females) of tourism and recreation. The AMS was validated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s α was used to estimate reliability and internal consistency of the scale. The AMS showed adequate levels of internal consistency (Cronbach α values above .78) and temporal stability (mean test-retest correlation = .88). Additionally, the fit indices of CFA were satisfactory (χ 2 / df = 4.95, GFI = .927, AGFI = .910, RMSEA = .050). Female students scored higher than males on four motivation subscales and lower on amotivation. The results confirmed the original seven-factor and 28-item structure of the Polish version of the AMS. The results support the use of the Polish version of the AMS as a tool for assessing university students’ motivation. Validity and reliability of the Polish version of the Academic Motivation Scale
Fat Words or Useful Concepts?: Consensus and Variation in Conceptions of Problematic Drinking in Contemporary Sweden

The aim of this study was to bring to light the meanings attributed to four concepts denoting problematic drinking—“alcoholism,” “alcohol dependence,” “alcohol misuse,” and “risky drinking”—and to investigate whether individuals’ preferences for using these concepts vary depending on their demographic characteristics, their stakeholder group membership, and their own drinking habits. These questions were examined by means of a vignette experiment, in which Swedish social workers, health care staff, journalists, researchers, and the general public (n = 863) read a series of 10 randomly constructed fictitious cases (vignettes; n = 8,630) and made judgments about which of the four concepts best portrayed the case descriptions. Results based on multilevel multinomial logistic regression showed that alcoholism was the concept chosen for the “heaviest” and most problematic drinking, whereas risky drinking was most often employed to describe moderate drinking habits that resulted in few negative consequences. The concepts alcohol misuse and alcohol dependence were positioned between alcoholism and risky drinking, and while misuse was linked to drinking large quantities and to more negative consequences, dependence was more frequently used to describe vignettes that involved depictions of craving. Moreover, the respondents’ conceptual choices were affected by their own gender, age, drinking habits, and stakeholder group membership. Taken together, the study’s findings reveal both consensus and variation in the respondents’ choice of concepts, indicating that while these concepts may to some extent be employed for making meaningful distinctions between different types of problematic drinking, there is substantial variation in the way the concepts are employed.
Forearm muscle profiles in tennis players

Objective: To investigate the muscle strength profile of the forearm in experienced tennis players and non-tennis players, including establishment of reproducibility data for dynamometer testing of grip strength, forearm and wrist torque. Methods: Grip strength was evaluated using a mechanical handgrip dynamometer. Pronation/supination and wrist exten- sion/flexion performance was tested using an isokinetic dynamometer. Ten subjects (mean age 22.9 ± 1.8 yrs) took part in reproducibility testing. For the main study, twelve tennis players (mean age 24.6 ± 9.3) and twelve controls (mean age 22.2 ± 1.2) were evaluated using the same protocol. Results: Reproducibility values showed variability between testing sessions, highlighting that caution be employed when using this equipment. Average maximum grip strength of tennis players was significantly higher ( p< 0.0001) in the dominant arm (51.19 kg) compared to their non-dominant arm (45.03 kg). Pronation in the dominant arm was significantly higher than the non-dominant arm in both subject groups. Wrist extension was stronger in the dominant arm compared to the non-dominant arm in both subject groups. Conclusion: Reproducibility of test protocol needs to be addressed if it is to be used in future comparative studies. This study indicates that prolonged asymmetrical sporting activity produces muscle profile asymmetries between and within limbs. The functional significance of these findings requires further investigation.
When Passion Appears, Exercise Addiction Disappears

Abstract. There are approximately 1,000 published articles on exercise addiction, which is characterized by exaggerated training yielding adverse effects. In contrast, there are less than 20 identified cases of exercise addiction in the literature. Recently, it was reported that there is an association between exercise addiction and passion. To test the impact of the latter on exercise addiction, we reanalyzed the combined data from two recent studies. High- and low-exercise volume groups differed in exercise addiction even after controlling for age and sex ( p < .001). However, after adding obsessive and harmonious passion as continuous predictor variables, the statistical significance vanished, whereas both predictors emerged as significant ( p < .001). Further, when controlled for the effect of passion, the correlation between exercise addiction and weekly exercise volume turned out to be negative. Therefore, a conceptual confound between the presumed risk of exercise addiction and passion could render the results of several hundreds of published works questionable. The current findings send an important message to scholars in the field: Studying exercise addiction without controlling for passion may yield false results.
A Comparison of Eighth Grade General Education Students’ ELA Scores in Co-teaching and Regular Classrooms

This causal comparative, ex post facto quantitative study compared the Georgia Milestones English Language Arts (ELA) scores of 8th-grade general education students taught in a coteaching classroom compared with scores of students taught in a regular classroom. The research focused on a comparison of the academic performance of two groups on statewide standardized assessments in ELA over 2 consecutive years, 2017 and 2018. The study contributes to the limited research regarding student achievement of general education students in co-teaching classrooms. This study was based on Vygotsky’s social development theory. The research questions examined the differences in the academic performance of general education students taught in a co-teaching classroom over a 2-year period, 2017 to 2018. The subjects in this study comprised four 8th-grade English Language Arts classes, n = 238: 125 general education students taught in a co-teaching classroom with 2 certified teachers, and 113 general education students taught in a regular education classroom with one certified teacher. The statewide Georgia Milestones ELA scores from 2017 and 2018 were analyzed using t-tests. The results revealed no statistically significant differences in the scores of the 2 groups in either of the academic years examined, and the null hypotheses were failed to be rejected.
The metabolic responses of high intensity intermittent exercise in healthy untrained adults

Sustaining a healthy body weight relies on maintaining energy balance. Energy balance describes the relative energy intake (dietary) to the energy expenditure (cellular energy and physical activity). In order to decrease adiposity, energy balance needs to be shifted negative, heightening energy expenditure so that it outweighs energy intake. The most malleable and cost effective method of energy balance manipulation is increasing physical activity. Diet and food intake can also be manipulated to reduce energy intake, however this can become quite costly and time consuming, particularly for those who are time poor and uneducated in healthy and low calorie foods. High intensity interval training (HIIT) has been shown to increase fat loss more effectively than continuous moderate intensity training (Tremblay et al., 1994; Trapp et al., 2008; Macpherson et al., 2011; Gremeaux et al., 2012), which is optimal for fat oxidation rates and was once considered the best exercise type employed to lose body fat. A recent study attributed this enigma to the rapid burst of intense exercise with the slight restorative effect of interspersed work and passive rest. Although the aforementioned studies were training studies, this study used single bouts of workload matched HIIE and moderate intensity, continuous exercise (CON) and found similar levels of fat utilisation between the two trials as well as significantly greater plasma and urine purine nucleotides post HIIE compared to CON, potentially resulting in greater energy loss. This thesis aims to measure metabolic profiles for a range of HIIE models to understand the mechanism and determine which may be best at inducing an energy deficit that can lead to elevating energy expenditure, hence more rapid reductions in fat mass observed with HIIT.
From Being NICE to Being Tired: Essays in Health Economics

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