Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Potential for Music Therapy to Support 21st Century Education Goals

School engagement is a global crisis predicted to intensify in the context of COVID-19. As a consequence, education agendas have increasingly adopted whole-child and inclusive approaches, leading to new mandates and curriculums designed to curb the associated individual and social outcomes of school dropout. Yet, teachers are often left to implement these initiatives with little to no support, and within the context of competing neoliberal aims. The subsequent pressure on teachers undermines whole-child and inclusive approaches, and has led to calls for increased teacher support. This includes support in novel teaching and learning approaches which meet the needs of a greater range of students. To investigate the potential role that music can play in this space, the present paper explores the experiences and attitudes of six Norwegian educators who attended two university-accredited continuing education courses on the use of music therapy with adolescents. Interviews sought to explore whether teachers gained new insights into the use of music in the contemporary Norwegian school context. Results showed that teachers did grow their understanding of how music can be used in schools, with a focus on the ability to use music to teach the new Norwegian curriculum. Findings also revealed the challenges faced by teachers wanting to use music in this way. Overall, results suggest music does offer great potential in contemporary school contexts, particularly when its implementation is informed by music therapy theory. Findings have implications for schools, educators, and policymakers.
Assessing the Determinants of Performance in the Recycling Business: Evidence from the Italian Context

This study aims to shed light on the elements that can influence the performance of green businesses, more specifically organizations active within the recycle business. After have defined and identified which are the green businesses, it focuses on the Italian recycling business, studying also whether green practices of a green business can influence the organizations’ performance. Thanks to a quantitative methodology applied, the results show that big and old organizations where public entities are present within the shareholders demonstrate better economic results. The originality of the study lies in the link between green practices and green business suggesting which is the efficient structure and driving elements of the recycling organizations. These findings offer several contributions to theory, practice and for policymakers.
Three-dimensional geometry and kinematics of experimental piggyback thrusting

The three-dimensional geometry and kinematics of piggyback stacks of imbricate thrust sheets are illustrated and discussed using a single model shortened in a squeeze box. Strike-parallel geometric elements simulated include lateral ramps, eyed sheath folds, splays, and thrust/thrust interference. Fine details of these structures were exposed by eroding a shortened wedge of sand using a newly developed vacuum-eroding technique. A kinematic analysis of the model shows a stepwise increase in imbricate thrust spacing and/or a decrease in rate of nucleation of imbricate thrusts in the direction of thrust transport. Despite the steady forward advance of a rear wall, the piggyback wedge accreted episodically, recording different strain domains in longitudinal cross sections. Strain partitioning in single layers by bed-length balancing showed an increase in layer shortening with volume loss and a corresponding decrease in imbricate thrusting and ramp folding with depth.
Seismic structure and anisotropy of the Juan de Fuca Ridge at 45°N

A seismic refraction experiment was conducted with air guns and ocean bottom seismometers on the Juan de Fuca Ridge at 45°N, at the northern Cleft segment and at the overlapping rift zone between the Cleft and Vance segments. These data determine the average velocity structure of the upper crust and map the thickness variability of the shallow low-velocity layer, which we interpret as the extrusive volcanic layer. The experiment is unique because a large number of travel times were measured along ray paths oriented at all azimuths within a small (20 km by 35 km) area. These travel times provide evidence for compressional velocity anisotropy in the upper several hundred meters of oceanic crust, presumed to be caused by ridge-parallel fracturing. Compressional velocities are 3.35 km/s in the ridge strike direction and 2.25 km/s across strike. Travel time residuals are simultaneously inverted for anisotropy as well as lateral thickness variations in the low-velocity layer. Extrusive layer thickness ranges from approximately 200 m to 550 m with an average of 350 m. The zone of the thinnest low-velocity layer is within the northern Cleft segment axial valley, in a region of significant hydrothermal activity. Layer thickness variability is greatest near the Cleft-Vance overlapping rift zone, where changes of 300 m occur over as little as several kilometers laterally. These low-velocity layer thickness changes may correspond to fault block rotations in an episodic spreading system, where the low side of each fault block accumulates more extrusive volcanics.
STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE SAWTOOTH SALIENT OF THE MONTANA DISTURBED BELT

ABSTRACT The Sawtooth salient is an assemblage of interlocking arcuate thrusts and associated folds. Subsurface and surface data show a transition from the northerly strike of the thrust faults of the Sawtooth salient to a northwesterly strike in the Sun River reentrant to the south. Two zones of thrust faulting have been mapped in the subsurface using 500 miles of seismic reflection data. The western zone consists of five major thrust faults dipping 25-30 degrees westward with 1-7 miles of displacement. The eastern zone consists of thrust faults with similar dips but an order of magnitude less displacement. Some of these thrusts can be traced directly to surface exposures to the north. Surface mapping and data from 20 boreholes in the area provided control for the seismic interpretation. Forward and inverse seismic modeling and formulation of regionally consistent structural and tectonic models provided further constraints for processing and interpreting the seismic data. Displacements and fault angles were determined from geologic cross-sections generated via an analytical ray-tracing inversion of selected seismic lines. Surface exposures, well data and seismic data reveal that Paleozoic units in thrust plates dip nearly vertically toward the truncation by the underlying thrust fault. Displacement transfer patterns mapped in the adjacent Sawtooth Range are similar to patterns interpreted from the seismic data and provide detailed examples to aid seismic interpretation. The ability to accurately map strike closure for structural hydrocarbon traps is dependent on understanding the structure within the transfer zones. Geometric and kinematic analysis of the fault transfer zones indicates that displacement on adjacent faults occurred contemporaneously.
Atmospheric CO2 and climate from 65 to 30 ka B.P.

Using new and existing ice core CO2 data from 65 ∼ 30 ka a new chronology for CO2 is established and synchronized with Greenland ice core records to study how high latitude climate change and the carbon cycle were linked during the last glacial period. Atmospheric CO2 rose several thousand years before abrupt warming in Greenland associated with Dansgaard‐Oeschger events, 8, 12, 14, 17, four large warm events that follow Heinrich events. The CO2 rise terminated at the onset of Greenland warming for each of these events. Atmospheric CO2 is strongly correlated with the Antarctic isotopic temperature proxy with an average time lag of 720 ± 370 yr (mean ± 1σ) during the time interval studied. The new data and chronology should provide a better target for models attempting to explain CO2 variability and abrupt climate change.
Readiness and Motivation of ASHAs towards Their Participation in Non-Communicable Disease Control Programmein North India:A Cross Sectional Study

Background: ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activist)role is evolving beyond maternal and child health workers. They are engaged in NCD (Non-communicable Diseases)control activities. This study investigated their preparedness for this new task.The aim of the study was to assess the preparedness (knowledge, attitude, practices & patient navigation) of ASHAs in delivering community-based NCD prevention and control services under NPCDCS (National Programme for Prevention & Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases & Stroke)program. And the study also assessed the challenges faced by ASHAs in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities towards common NCDs. Settings and Design: Cross sectional descriptive conducted in Delhi. Method: Total 464 ASHAs randomly selected from 54 Primary Health Centres from 3 districts of Delhi. A self-administered, pre-tested, validated and piloted semi structured questionnaire was filled by enrolled ASHAs. It assessed their knowledge, attitude and practices related to NCD screening.Statistical analysis used: descriptive statistics, chi square test and logistic regression analysis were used. Results: Two-third ASHAs had moderate to good knowledge about NCDs. They had positive inclination towards NCD screening and risk mitigation. Their practices for hypertension and diabetes screening were adequate but common cancer screening practices were inadequate. Challenges encountered in performing these tasks were lack of appropriate referral linkages, minimal supportive supervision and no ear marked incentives. Conclusions: ASHAs showed willingness to work for NCD control provided they have optimum training, supportive supervision from their superiors, and screening facilities in functional state and appropriate incentives for the new tasks.
Performance Evaluation of Different Storage Technologies on Storage Stability of White-Coloured Sweet Potato Roots Under Farmers’ Conditions in Tanzania

Sweet potatoes' high perishability after harvesting is one of the major factors limiting their potential. This is exacerbated by the lack of appropriate storage methods. This study aimed to evaluate different storage technologies for the storage stability of white-coloured sweet potato roots under farmers’ conditions in Tanzania. The study was carried out at the Crop Science laboratory at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) for 77 days in a completely randomized experimental design. The experiment included four treatments: improved traditional raised, woven Polypropylene Bags, bamboo buckets, and ventilated bags. Each treatment was replicated three times. Physiological loss in weight, hardness, total soluble solids, colour, and beta-carotene content were measured at the Food Science laboratory at SUA during the experiment storage period. Analysis of variance and comparison of means for the sample collection was performed using GenStat® Executable release 16 Statistical Analysis Software. White-coloured sweet potato roots stored in ventilated bags and the improved traditional raised platform resulted in a weight loss of 49.4% and 68.7%, respectively. It was also observed that the improved traditional raised platform had a significantly high total soluble content /concentration, with a value of 21.27% while Ventilated bags resulted in a Total soluble solid content of 17.02 %, which was significantly low. Furthermore, results show that Ventilated bags had the lowest beta carotene content (8.72 µg/g) compared to other treatments. The findings of this study strongly suggest that storing white-coloured sweet potato roots in ventilated bags is an appropriate method. In the context of the current study, further research on different sweet potato roots packaging materials is recommended
Conference Proceedings from the International Conference on Student-led Research and Innovation in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The present study examines threats and warnings in speech among Dominican speakers of Spanish and American speakers of English. The study employed a spoken discourse completion task (DCT), following the approach used by Nelson et al., (2002). The collected data was then coded and analyzed with consideration to the study’s research questions; investigating which warning/threatening strategies are used most commonly by Dominican Spanish and American English Speakers, the similarities and differences in the rates of usage of indirectness strategies among the participant groups, and examined the relationship between the politeness parameters in a given situation and the level of indirectness in threats among both participant groups. The key finding from the study was that Dominican Spanish speakers produce threats and warnings with a higher level of directness than American speakers. Findings suggest that Dominican Spanish speakers and American English speakers employ mostly similar strategies when producing a threat or warning, with both groups most commonly employing the strategy of offering reason. However, the Dominican Spanish group displayed overall higher levels of directness than the American English participants.
Exchange Rate Risk Measurement and Management: Issues and Approaches for Firms

Measuring and managing exchange rate risk exposure is important for reducing a firm's vulnerabilities from major exchange rate movements, which could adversely affect profit margins and the value of assets. This paper reviews the traditional types of exchange rate risk faced by firms, namely transaction, translation and economic risks, presents the VaR approach as the currently predominant method of measuring a firm's exchange rate risk exposure, and examines the main advantages and disadvantages of various exchange rate risk management strategies, including tactical versus strategical and passive versus active hedging. In addition, it outlines a set of widely accepted best practices in managing currency risk and presents some of the main hedging instruments in the OTC and exchange-traded markets. The paper also provides some data on the use of financial derivatives instruments, and hedging practices by U.S. firms.
NE Atlantic continental rifting and volcanic margin formation

Abstract Deep seismic data from the Hatton-Rockall region, the mid-Norway margin and the SW Barents Sea provide images of the crustal structure that make it possible to estimate the relative amounts of crustal thinning for the Late Jurassic-Cretaceous and Maastrichtian-Paleocene NE Atlantic rift episodes. In addition, plate reconstructions illustrate the relative movements between Eurasia and Greenland back to Mid-Jurassic time. The NE Atlantic rift system developed as a result of a series of rift episodes from the Caledonian orogeny to early Tertiary time. The Late Palaeozoic rifting is poorly constrained, particularly with respect to timing. However, rifted basin geometries, inferred to be of this age, are observed at depth in seismic data on the flanks of the younger rift structures. Intra-continental rifting in Late Jurassic-Cretaceous times caused c. 50–70 km of crustal extension and subsequent Cretaceous basin subsidence from the Rockall Trough-North Sea areas in the south, to the SW Barents Sea in the north. In late Early to early Late Cretaceous times, new rifting occurred in the Rockall Trough and Labrador Sea associated with the northward propagation of North Atlantic sea-floor spreading. When sea-floor spreading was approached in the Labrador Sea the Rockall rift apparently became extinct. The final NE Atlantic rift episode was initiated near the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary, lasted until continental separation near the Paleocene-Eocene transition, and caused c. 140 km extension. The late syn-rift and the earliest sea-floor spreading periods were affected by widespread igneous activity across a c. 300 km wide zone along the rifted plate boundary. The deep seismic data provide lower-crustal structural geometries that represent boundary conditions for a better mapping and understanding of the extensional thinning of the crust. The crustal geometries question extension estimates previously made from basin subsidence analysis, and aid in the definition of bodies of magmatic underplating beneath the outer volcanic margins.
Rocky shore environments in the Upper Silurian of Gotland, Sweden

Abstract The Ludlovian Hemse Group (Hemse Beds) of Gotland, Sweden, shows excellent examples of stromatoporoid biostromal reefs which are punctuated by evidence of episodic erosion. These result in irregular unconformities exhibiting sea stacks, shallow cliffs and planar erosion surfaces; these are interpreted as representing the development of carbonate rocky shorelines. Eroded reef surfaces are overlain by a variety of calcarenites and calcirudites, with the coarse grained and conglomeratic portions associated with the stacks and cliffs. Eroded surfaces are smooth and vary from planar to scalloped. Rare, eroded auloporid and bryozoan colonies encrust erosion surfaces and imply a fully marine environment, although under physically stressful conditions. The stromatoporoid biostromes were associated with rocky shores at various stages during the evolution of a biostromal reef complex. Rocky shores are poorly reported from Silurian rocks, but such environments have been recognised at several horizons in the.
Cortical thickness and Subcortical volume changes differ between Parkinson disease subtypes

BACKGROUND: To explore the different patterns of cortical thickness and subcortical volume changes between Parkinson disease (PD) subtypes by structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS: We enrolled 48 clinically con�rmed PD patients, including 23 tremor dominant (TD) and 25 postural instability gait dominant (PIGD) subtypes, and 32 matched healthy control (HC) volunteers were also collected, all subjects underwent 3.0 Tesla high-resolution structural MRI scanning. Cortical thickness and subcortical volumetric analysis were estimated using an automated Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT12) toolbox. Results: Compared with the HC group, PIGD patients had signi�cantly thinning cortical thickness in multiple brain regions, such as bilateral inferiorparietal, paracentral, precuneus, superiorfrontal, caudalmiddlefrontal, posteriocingulate, parahippacampal, lateraloccipital and right superiortemporal, supramarginal and parsorbitals. TD patients had slightly thinning focal cortical thickness in bilateral posteriocingulate, left inferioparietal and right precuneus. PIGD patients had thinner cortical thickness in left caudalmiddlefrontal, parahippacampal and right isthmuscingulate and lateraloccipital than TD patients. In addition, subcortical volume atrophy was identi�ed in the bilateral hippocampus and bilateral amygdala of the patients with PIGD, only right hippocampus changes were found in the TD group. Moreover, the largest area under the ROC curve of hippocampus and atrophy ratio, cortical thickness in region of interest (ROI) and combination of hippocampus ratio, atrophy ratio and cortical thickness in ROIs which for distinguish PIGD from TD were 0.733, 0.912 and 0.999 respectively. Conclusions: Morphometric abnormalities were greater in the PIGD than that in the TD subtype, the disparate patterns of cortical and subcortical degeneration had a potential possibility to distinguish the PD subtypes by MRI perspective in clinical practice.
Digital co-creation: Mission (im)possible?

Copyright ©2022 the contributors. This is a Version of Record of a book chapter published by Routledge in Public Innovation and Digital Transformation on 9 August 2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230854. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Substorm variations in the magnitude of the magnetic field - AMPTE/CCE observations

By using AMPTE/CCE energetic particle data, 167 ion injections that are essentially dispersionless over a nominal energy range of 25 keV to 285 keV have been cataloged. The ion, electron, and magnetic field signatures of these events are the kind normally associated with substorms in the near-Earth magnetotail. We have examined the total magnetic field strength variations over the course of these events to identify the dependence on dipole latitude. The change in is poorly correlated with magnetic latitude. We interpret this result as indicating that during periods of substorm activity, the latitudinal position of the current sheet varies significantly within the 32° wedge centered on the dipole equator traversed by CCE. On the other hand, the changes in are well correlated with the local field properties themselves. This study therefore indicates that even in the near-Earth magnetotail out to 8.8 RE (CCE apogee), the local field measurements are a better guide to the determination of one's position relative to the current sheet during a substorm than the magnetic latitude. Statistical relationships between Δ and both and |Bx| (in GSM coordinates) are consistent with the changes in that one would expect from a disruption/diversion of the cross-tail current. The radial gradient of the reduction of the cross-tail current during substorms appears to be negative, although the evidence is not conclusive. Finally, the local time variation of the statistical relationships is consistent with Birkeland current segments of the substorm current wedge which have a large extent in local time.
APOE ε4 effects on hippocampal atrophy in the healthy elderly reflect future cognitive decline

The APOE ε4 allele is the primary genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A cardinal problem in determining APOE ε4’s effect on cognition and brain structure in older individuals is dissociating prodromal changes – linked to increased AD risk – from potential phenotypic differences. To address this, we used cognitive and neuroimaging data from a large cohort of cognitively normal 69-86 year-olds with up to 8 yearly follow-ups to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal differences between APOE ε3/ε3 homozygotes and ε3/ε4 heterozygotes. Although we found a significant age-by-genotype interaction in right hippocampal volume, once our analyses were conditionalised by future diagnosis to account for prodromal mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD, this effect was no longer observed. Likewise, longitudinally, rate of hippocampal atrophy was determined not by genotype, but by future diagnosis. Thus, we provide direct evidence in support of the prodromal hypothesis of APOE ε4 on brain structure.