Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Conceptualizations of Domestic Violence–Related Needs among Women Who Resettled to the United States as Refugees

Despite robust evidence of the myriad consequences associated with intimate partner violence (IPV), social services in the United States may not adequately account for and respond to variations in how women resettling as refugees conceptualize service and support needs. With this study, the authors sought to develop a more nuanced understanding of needs as expressed by women resettling to the United States as refugees. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with refugee women who resettled to the United States (n = 35) and social services providers (n = 53), including those working in refugee resettlement or domestic violence agencies or community-based organizations. The research team used structural coding and thematic analysis to examine the data, through which they identified four themes: (1) living with enduring consequences of IPV, (2) “I just want them to help me,” (3) “I need you to talk to my husband,” and (4) “How will I pay the rent? ” The study findings point to broader structural concerns shaping women’s resettlement experiences, as well as areas of incongruence between women’s conceptualizations of needs and established practice approaches. Implications for culturally competent and survivor-centered practice are discussed.
Socioeconomic Determinants of Banana Farmers’ Perception to Climate Change in Nyeri County, Kenya.

This study examined the perception of banana farmers in Mt. Kenya region of Kenya (Nyeri County) on climate change and assessed the socio-economic factors that determines their perceptions. Triangulation research design was used to guide the study by integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection and analysis. The sites were purposively selected to include Mukurweini sub-county where banana production has been practiced since 1980. A sample size of 130 respondents were sampled. Simple random sampling was used to select the participating respondents. Field survey techniques were used in the collection of data which was analysed using the SPSS v21. Results showed that about 78.2% of the respondents perceived unpredictable rainfall and increased temperature, while 21.5% perceived no change in rainfall and temperature over the last 20 to 30 years period. Majority (79%), of the farmers highly perceived climate to have changed over the years while 53.5% of the respondents in the study area understood climate change as occurrence of unpredictable rainfall. Perceived effect of high rainfall on banana marketing and trading was reported as low market prices (48.5%), while during low rains (dry seasons) was high market demands with (56.2%). Logit model was used to determine the socioeconomic factors influencing farmers perception and was significant at p<0.001 and correctly predicted 83.5% of both those who perceived and those who never perceived changes in rainfall and temperature in the last 20 to 30 years. Results of the logit model analysis showed that the gender of household head, farming system, type of farming and access to weather information influenced banana farmers perception towards climate change. About 47.7% recommended provision of weather information on the onset of the rainfall period while 49.2% preferred information on rainfall distribution within the seasons in order to respond to climate change issues. This has implications on policy makers in the formulation and integration of the policies on development of climate information.
Tethered women, mobile men: Gendered mobilities of typewriting

In recent years, scholars have turned their attention to the nexus of mobility, space, and communication practices. At the same time, historians of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have amassed a large body of literature on the history of typewriters and their contribution to gendered office work. To date, however, these two strains have yet to converge. This article thus examines intersections between typewriting, gender, and mobility, focusing on the case of portable typewriters to investigate users’ “differential” mobilities before World War II in the United States. In this regard, it reconceives of typewriters as fluid historical objects defined significantly by their social contexts. It calls upon scholars to expand their characterizations of typing beyond thinking only of it as an immobile, desk-based practice and as “women’s work. ” Instead, it draws attention to itinerant male typists as an early class of portable typewriter users who could (and were encouraged to) travel with a typewriter in tow. More broadly, the article also contributes to understandings of mobile media histories beyond mobile phones by demonstrating similar concerns related to portability, usability, and ergonomics in the early 20th century.
GIS-based earthquake-triggered-landslide susceptibility mapping with an integrated weighted index model in Jiuzhaigou region of Sichuan Province, China

Abstract. A Mw=6.5 earthquake struck the Jiuzhaigou region of Sichuan Province, China, at 21:19 LT on Tuesday, 8 August 2017, and triggered a large number of landslides. For mitigating the damages of earthquake-triggered landslides to individuals and infrastructures of the earthquake-affected region, a comprehensive landslide susceptibility mapping was attempted with an integrated weighted index model by combining the frequency ratio and the analytical hierarchy process approaches under a GIS-based environment in the heavily earthquake-affected Zhangzha town of the Jiuzhaigou region. For this purpose, a total number of 842 earthquake-triggered landslides were visually interpreted and located from Sentinel-2A images acquired before and after the earthquake at first, and then the recognized landslides were randomly split into two groups to establish the earthquake-triggered landslide inventory, among which 80 % of the landslides were used for training the integrated model and the remaining 20 % for validation. Nine landslide controlling factors were considered including slope, aspect, elevation, lithology, distance from faults, distance from rivers, land use–land cover, normalized difference vegetation index and peak ground acceleration. The frequency ratio was utilized to evaluate the contribution of each landslide controlling factor to landslide occurrence, and the analytical hierarchy process was used to analyse the mutual relationship between landslide controlling factors. Finally, the landslide susceptibility map was produced by using weighted overlay analysis. Furthermore, an area under the curve approach was adopted to comprehensively evaluate the performance of the integrated weighted index model, including the degree of model fit and model predictive capability. The results demonstrated the reliability and feasibility of the integrated weighted index model in earthquake-triggered landslide susceptibility mapping at a regional scale. The generated map can help engineers and decision makers assess and mitigate hazards of the earthquake-triggered landslides to individuals and infrastructures of the earthquake-affected region.
Are clinicopathological factors predictive of bactibilia in biliary tract diseases

Background: Biliary tract disease is very common in Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir and because of this we got prompted to undertake a study to find out the association between presenting features and bactibilia. Methods: The study was conducted prospectively on 121 patients of various biliary tract disorders in the Department of Surgery, Government Medical College Jammu, India prospectively over a period of one year from March 2003-February 2004. Details of age, history, radiology, operation and postoperative course were noted and information obtained recorded on special forms. All the patients included in this study were given single shot of preoperative antibiotic at the induction of anaesthesia and antibiotics modified postoperatively on the culture report. Results; After recording the observations made while managing these patients of biliary tract disease the results were analysed and entered into the individual patient’s protocol. The age range of our series of 121 patients was 15-74 years with a mean age of 42.5 years. There were 100 females and 21 males with male to female ratio of 4.7:1. Abdominal pain was the commonest symptom (98.3%) followed by dyspepsia (47.1%), abdominal lump (16.5%), jaundice (9.9%) and cholangitis (3.3%). Most of the patients had more than one presentation. Out of 121 cases 42(34.7%) turned out to be culture positive and rest of the cases turned out to be culture negative. In culture positive cases aerobes were identified in 38 (34.1%) and anaerobes were identified in 10 (8.2%) patients. The results of gram stain of bile were compared with bile cultures. Out of 121 patients gram staining was positive in 51(42.1%) patients. Among these patients bile cultures were positive in 42 (82.3%) patients. Conclusion: It was concluded that the presence or absence of bactibilia can predict possibility to stratify patients in low and high risk group so that necessary pre-emptive measures be taken.
What Does Social Justice Look Like When Sitting With Clients? A Qualitative Study of Teaching Clinical Social Work From a Social Justice Perspective

ABSTRACT The profession of social work emphasizes social justice in its service delivery, yet there is a paucity of literature on how to teach clinical practice from a social justice perspective. This qualitative study with Canadian social work educators (n=12) suggests the following ways in which educators taught clinical social work from a social justice perspective: (1) integrating critical social theories in conceptualizing clinical practice, (2) engaging in transformative pedagogies, and (3) navigating professional commitments. While addressing various forms of social injustices is a mandate for all social workers, enactment of social justice within clinical practice remains an area of concern. Results suggest concrete ways in which social work educators can engage students in developing their commitment to social justice.
Rainfall–runoff modelling using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks

Abstract. Rainfall–runoff modelling is one of the key challenges in the field of hydrology. Various approaches exist, ranging from physically based over conceptual to fully data-driven models. In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven approach, using the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, a special type of recurrent neural network. The advantage of the LSTM is its ability to learn long-term dependencies between the provided input and output of the network, which are essential for modelling storage effects in e.g. catchments with snow influence. We use 241 catchments of the freely available CAMELS data set to test our approach and also compare the results to the well-known Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model (SAC-SMA) coupled with the Snow-17 snow routine. We also show the potential of the LSTM as a regional hydrological model in which one model predicts the discharge for a variety of catchments. In our last experiment, we show the possibility to transfer process understanding, learned at regional scale, to individual catchments and thereby increasing model performance when compared to a LSTM trained only on the data of single catchments. Using this approach, we were able to achieve better model performance as the SAC-SMA + Snow-17, which underlines the potential of the LSTM for hydrological modelling applications.
Correlation of Learning Motivation with Self Regulated Learning at SMA Negeri 1 Tasikmalaya City

Self regulated learning is a constructive process that is active in setting learning goals. This ability should be owned by every individual to become a successful learner. Another thing students must have in order to be successful in the process and learning outcomes is motivation. This research was conducted to investigate the correlation between motivational of biology learning with self regulated learning (SRL) in grade X MIPA 9 SMA Negeri 1 Kota Tasikmalaya. The research was carried out in April 2019. The research method used was correlation. The population of this research was all students of X MIPA 9 as many as 30 people. Samples were taken using saturated sampling techniques so that the entire population was sampled. The research instrument used in this study was Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) consists of 2 parts namely motivational belief and self regulated learning strategies. The data analysis technique used was bivariate correlation regression test. Based on the results of the study can be concluded that there is a significant simultaneous correlation between motivational of biology learning and with self regulated learning (R= 0,761; R2 = 0,580). It means that the contribution from motivational of biology learning towards SRL is 58%.
Big Sibling Size And Access To Kabul University

Purpose - A number of researches have been carried out in the past studying relationship between family size and its impact on educational achievements that have shown contradictory results . No published study has been found about the student’s sibling size and access to universities in Afghanistan. This study aims to estimate the average sibling size and sibship composition in students at Kabul University, and compare it with the national average sibling size. Methodology - A cross sectional descriptive study with simple and short questionnaire was designed to include all students of 2nd to 5th year students of Kabul university (N=11447) that is the oldest and most populous university in Afghanistan comprising different spectra of the community. Only descriptive statistics were used. Findings - The average sibling size was about 7.09, students from families with one to three siblings consisted only 5.8 % of all students. Male students belonged to families with more male siblings and female students belonged to families with more female siblings than their opposite gender. The average students ’sibling size was close to the national average of sibling size of approximately the same age group (6.9). Significance - Although it was a descriptive study, it shows that large sibling size did not prevent thousands students attaining Kabul University; which contradicts the belief that large sibling size is a barrier to education.
Continuum Modeling and Simulation in Bone Tissue Engineering

Bone tissue engineering is currently a mature methodology from a research perspective. Moreover, modeling and simulation of involved processes and phenomena in BTE have been proved in a number of papers to be an excellent assessment tool in the stages of design and proof of concept through in-vivo or in-vitro experimentation. In this paper, a review of the most relevant contributions in modeling and simulation, in silico, in BTE applications is conducted. The most popular in silico simulations in BTE are classified into: (i) Mechanics modeling and scaffold design, (ii) transport and flow modeling, and (iii) modeling of physical phenomena. The paper is restricted to the review of the numerical implementation and simulation of continuum theories applied to different processes in BTE, such that molecular dynamics or discrete approaches are out of the scope of the paper. Two main conclusions are drawn at the end of the paper: First, the great potential and advantages that in silico simulation offers in BTE, and second, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to further validate numerical models developed in BTE.
An Analysis of Acculturation Status and Healthcare Coverage for the Needs of Mental Health Service Utilization among Latinos in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama

Background: The use of mental health services by Latinos is only 7.3%, despite the high prevalence of depression rates of between 27.0% and 38.0% in the United States. Research is limited concerning Latinos’ acculturation status and healthcare coverage on mental healthcare service utilization in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the association of acculturation status and healthcare coverage with mental health service utilization in the Latino population. Methods: During 2011–2012, a Latino Community Health Needs Assessment was administered by a trained bilingual interviewer using participants’ preferred language. Four hundred and eleven community members and leaders participated in the study. Acculturation status and self-reported mental health service utilization were retrieved from the survey instrument. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: In multivariate logistic regression that included gender, education level, healthcare coverage, depression, and acculturation status, individuals with a high acculturation score (3–5) were 1.53 times more likely to utilize mental health services compared to those with a low acculturation score (0–2). Individuals with healthcare coverage were 2.75 times more likely to utilize mental health services compared to those with not having healthcare coverage. Healthcare coverage is only a significant determinant of mental health service utilization. Conclusions: This result underscores the importance of having healthcare coverage for the need of mental health service utilization. Future research should consider the impact of acculturation and healthcare coverage on mental health service utilization.
Contrastive study on the single-file pedestrian movement of the elderly and other age groups

The worldwide population is aging, and countries are facing ongoing challenges in improving the safety of elderly pedestrians. In this work, the single-file movement of the elderly is experimentally compared with that of different age groups. The findings indicate that the age is not the only factor influencing pedestrian dynamics. The heterogeneity of the crowd composition and familiarity among neighboring pedestrians also have significant effects. The existence of three regimes in the relationship between headway and speed is confirmed. In the strongly constrained regime, the slope of the relationship between the headway and speed of the elderly is bigger than that of the young, which means that the elderly are more sensitive to the spatial headway than the young when adapting their speeds. However, the difference of the slopes in the weakly constrained regime is small, which indicates a weak dependency between age and the adaption time. The elderly need a longer headway during the transformation of the motion state. Besides, the ‘active cease’ behavior of pedestrians, which is explained with the least effort principle, is observed in the experiment. The findings offer empirical data of the elderly under high densities and can be useful for the improvement of the pedestrian modelling and the construction of elderly friendly facilities.
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review

ABSTRACT Previous research offers equivocal results regarding the effect of social networking site use on individuals’ self-esteem. We conduct a systematic literature review to examine the existing literature and develop a theoretical framework in order to classify the results. The framework proposes that self-esteem is affected by three distinct processes that incorporate self-evaluative information: social comparison processes, social feedback processing, and self-reflective processes. Due to particularities of the social networking site environment, the accessibility and quality of self-evaluative information is altered, which leads to online-specific effects on users’ self-esteem. Results of the reviewed studies suggest that when a social networking site is used to compare oneself with others, it mostly results in decreases in users’ self-esteem. On the other hand, receiving positive social feedback from others or using these platforms to reflect on one’s own self is mainly associated with benefits for users’ self-esteem. Nevertheless, inter-individual differences and the specific activities performed by users on these platforms should be considered when predicting individual effects.
Kashaev-Reshetikhin Invariants for SL2(C) at Roots of Unity

Author(s): Chen, Kai-Chieh | Advisor(s): Reshetikhin, Nicolai | Abstract: An important milestone of the theory of knot invariants is the Reshetikhin-Turaev functor introduced in [RT]. This construction could generate tangle invariants from quantum groups. Later, Kashaev and Reshetikhin generalizes this construction [KR1] based on the idea of the holonomy braiding, the braiding defined for C-colored diagrams. The purpose of this work is to have some discussion of this construction. There are three parts in this thesis: first the full description of the construction is provided. Then in the second part, some examples computed via Mathematica are shown. And some properties and theorems are given in the end.
Occupational Stress in Landing Platform Dock (LPD) Project Workers of PT. PAL Indonesia

Introduction: Occupational stress is a condition in which the body responds physiologically, psychologically, and also behaviorally towards stressor. It can have negative effect on the workers and the workplace. The objective of this research is to study occupational stress and factors related to it in workers at Landing Platform Dock (LPD) project, especially Merchant Ship Division of PT PAL Indonesia. Methods: this research is an observational descriptive research. The subjects of the research are all the 32 workers of the project. The variables are occupational stress, individual characteristic, and work environment. Data was analyzed to discover the correlation between variables using contingency coefficient and Spearman correlation. Results: of the total 32 workers, 21.8% suffer from mild stress, 68.8% suffer from moderate stress, and 9.4% suffer from severe stress. Statistical test results show that there is a moderate correlation between level of education (coefficient -0.446), workload (coefficient 0.533), and relationship at work (coefficient 0.494) toward occupational stress. Meanwhile, personality factor (coefficient 0.334) and marital status (coefficient 0.231) have a weak impact on occupational stress. Furthermore, age (coefficient 0.146) has an extremely weak impact on occupational stress. Conclusion: factors that highly contributes to occupational stress are education level, workload, and relationship at work. Other factors such as age, personality type, and marital status only have a small correlation with occupational stress in these workers.Keywords: individual characteristic, occupational stress, work environment
An Asymptotic F Test for Uncorrelatedness in the Presence of Time Series Dependence

We propose a simple asymptotically F‐distributed Portmanteau test for zero autocorrelations in an otherwise dependent time series. By employing the orthonormal series variance estimator of the variance matrix of sample autocovariances, our test statistic follows an F distribution asymptotically under fixed‐smoothing asymptotics. The asymptotic F theory accounts for the estimation error in the underlying variance estimator, which the asymptotic chi‐squared theory ignores. Monte Carlo simulations reveal that the F approximation is much more accurate than the corresponding chi‐squared approximation in finite samples. The asymptotic F test is as easy to use as the chi‐squared test: there is no need to obtain critical values by simulations. Furthermore, it has more accurate empirical sizes and substantial power advantages, comparing to other competitors.