Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance on the Multisource Interference Task Moderates the Relationship Between Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

We examined performance on the Multisource Interference Task (MSIT) as a moderator of the relationship between traumatic experience and posttraumatic stress symptom (PTSS) severity. A college sample (N = 108) completed the MSIT, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST), and self-report questionnaires. Both MSIT and WCST performance were examined in moderation models to demonstrate the specificity of MSIT performance as a moderator. Absolute processing speed during the MSIT significantly moderated the relationship between number of traumatic experiences and PTSS severity. Moderation was not demonstrated for WCST performance, relative processing speed during the MSIT, or absolute or relative MSIT error rates. Implications for research and practical applications are discussed.
Newly Credentialed Athletic Trainers' Perceptions of Professional Preparation for Their Role as Collegiate Graduate Assistants

The professional preparation of newly credentialed athletic trainers (ATs) has been passionately debated. Understanding how newly credentialed ATs feel they are prepared will help enhance professional preparation. Explore newly credentialed ATs' perceptions of their professional preparation for their role. Phenomenological qualitative. Phone interviews with graduate assistant ATs in the collegiate setting. Nineteen collegiate graduate assistants (15 female, 4 male; average age = 23 ± 0.15 years; National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I: 13, II: 3, III: 2, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics: 2; postprofessional athletic training program: 6). Participants were recruited via an e-mail from the National Athletic Trainers' Association database sent to all certified students. Data were collected via phone interviews, which were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Interviews were conducted until data saturation occurred. Data were analyzed through phenomenological reduction, with data coded for common themes and subthemes. Credibility was established via member checks and peer debriefing. Two themes emerged: facilitators and barriers. Overall, participants felt academically prepared for their role, but preparedness was often dependent on the facilitators of academic rigor, hands-on opportunities in clinical education, and their preceptor. Barriers included a lack of rigor in the academic setting, lack of active opportunities in clinical education, the culture of clinical experiences, and incongruence. Incongruence existed when students were exposed to all the competencies during didactic education, but never gained experience with some skills (eg, rehabilitation, documentation, communication) if situations never arose or they were not actively involved clinically. Athletic training students are being exposed to a variety of learning experiences academically, but often do not gain clinical experience if situations do not arise or preceptors do not allow active participation. To ensure new ATs are prepared, academic programs need to ensure rigor and place students with preceptors who provide active learning opportunities.
Minimally Invasive Surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Anterior and Posterior Techniques

Purpose: Surgical gold standard for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is open posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion. This approach causes significant soft tissue disruption and paravertebral muscle detachment. This review attempts to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of minimally invasive (MIS) surgery for AIS. Methods: The results of MIS for adult scoliosis are briefly reviewed as the rationale for its application to AIS. A review of the two currently available MIS techniques for AIS is then given, including indications, surgical technique, and results in the literature. Results: Thoracoscopic anterior spinal fusion and instrumentation (TASF) offers similar results and complication rates with decreased blood loss but is technically demanding and has limited indications. The posterior MIS technique seems to offer similar results and complication rates, decreased blood loss and shorter length of hospital stay, at the expense of a longer operative time. Conclusion: Both TASF and posterior MIS are valid alternatives to the gold standard. They have proven similar results and short-term safety to open posterior fusion, with the added theoretical advantage of a less traumatizing exposure and improved cosmesis. While TASF has fallen out of favor due to its technical challenges, specific instrumentation and limited indications, posterior MIS does not suffer from these drawbacks. The limited amount of literature on this technique warrants studies with further follow-up, demonstrating its long-term safety before recommending its routine use.
Effectiveness of the Community–Academia Student Tutoring (CAST) program in enhancing students’ practice placement readiness

Introduction Occupational therapy programs include practice education, which is a vital aspect of professional practice preparation. We evaluated the effectiveness of the Community–Academia Student Tutoring program for enhancing occupational therapy students’ perceived readiness for their practice placement, thus reducing their feelings of anxiety. Method The study included 84 first-year undergraduate occupational therapy students aged 21–35 years, of whom 43 participated in the Community–Academia Student Tutoring group program and the rest comprised the control group. Participants completed the Student Self-Competency and Readiness for Fieldwork questionnaire prior to their first practice placement. Findings Anxiety was related to the Student Self-Competency and Readiness for Fieldwork’s components and total score. The Community–Academia Student Tutoring group scored significantly higher (p < .05) than the controls in the Evaluation and Communication with Patients components of the questionnaire, after controlling for anxiety level. Implications It appears that it is possible to enhance students’ readiness for their practice placement through a structured and intensive community-based mentoring program that is guided by faculty and includes activities of briefing and debriefing, such as the Community–Academia Student Tutoring program.
Mathematics Performance of Students in a Philippine State University

Teaching and understanding mathematics is a significant concern in any educational system. Largish efforts are made by various researchers to find out the causes of students’ performance in the subject. Despite every one of these endeavors issues still, endure. The researchers used a descriptive-correlational design to gather data through an adopted survey tool for study habits and attitudes. The study was conducted at the Cebu Technological University San Francisco Campus, Cebu, Philippines. The respondents were the 52 Education students who were enrolled in the mathematics program; they answered the survey of study habits and attitudes. The gathered data were treated using frequency, simple percentage, weighted mean, Pearson r, and t-test. It was found out that there is a significant positive high correlation between the study orientations of the students considering their academic performance in terms of their Graded Point Average (GPA) in Mathematics subjects. It was concluded that the study orientations of students differ. The researchers recommend conducting a further study on the effectiveness of the developed research-based study strategies.
Computational studies of DNA repair: Insights into the function of monofunctional DNA glycosylases in the base excision repair pathway

The information contained within DNA as a sequence of nucleobases is required for life of most organisms, yet can get altered when the nucleobases are damaged upon exposure to many internal (hormones) and external (ultraviolet sunlight, pollutants) sources. As a result, repair pathways exist to combat the potentially detrimental effects of DNA damage. Nonbulky nucleobase damage (nucleobase oxidation, alkylation and deamination) is commonly removed by the base excision repair (BER) pathway, which involves several enzymes. The first BER enzymes are the DNA glycosylases, which are responsible for identifying the damaged base, flipping the base into the enzyme active site and removing the damaged nucleobase from the sugar–phosphate backbone. Due to the stability of many forms of damaged DNA, the DNA glycosylases must achieve great catalytic power. Understanding the mechanistic details associated with DNA glycosylases is essential for developing detection and treatment strategies for many diseases as abnormal glycosylase function has been associated with cancers, metabolic dysfunctions, neurodegeneration and epigenetic programming during embryo development. Molecular level insight into the function of a wide range of DNA glycosylases has been obtained from computational chemistry, including quantum mechanical cluster calculations, combined quantum mechanics‐molecular mechanics approaches and molecular dynamics simulations. By discussing some of the modeling that has been performed to date on monofunctional DNA glycosylases, the key contributions of the field of computational chemistry to broadening our understanding of the function of this important enzyme family, as well as the critical interplay between traditional biochemical experiments and computer calculations, is highlighted.
Three Globalizations Shaping the Twenty-first Century: Understanding the New World Geography through Its Cities

In this article we attempt to understand the new world geography through its cities by treating corporate globalization from the perspective of cities insofar as they are central to the global networks that make large-scale economic processes possible. To this end, we draw on a conceptual and empirical extension of world city network research to describe the major globalization phases that have been shaping the twenty-first century. After situating our world city network research in the much broader field of research on globalizing cities, we retell the narrative of the extensive, intensive, and Chinese globalization phases as reflected in the office networks of 175 of the world’s largest producer services firms across 707 cities. A purposeful combination of connectivity and multivariate analysis is used to reveal cumulative, interacting, overlapping, and unfolding geographies of global economic patterns. We argue that these three key globalizations are shaping the global context of economic processes in the twenty-first century and describe the urban geography of each of these globalizations to understand their broader meanings within today’s global economy.
The Effect of Driver Service Quality on Passenger Satisfaction in Public Transportation

Transportation has become the main means in human life to facilitate daily activities. One of the unique land Transportation’s mode is public transportation as transportation in a large area. Generally, the management of public transportation is carried out by the private sector but does not make public transportation provide better service. The complaints that often occur in this mode are the tendency that people do not obey traffic rules, passenger capacity that is not following what they should, pickpockets and others. The objective of this paper to prove the effect of driver service on the level of passenger satisfaction. This research used a quantitative method with a survey strategy. The research population is Passenger of public transportation in route Mandailing Natal to Panyabungan Selatan. The sample was selected with the Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling technique. The measurement of the sample is 295 respondents. The sample was certain with the Slovin formula in a 5% standard of error. Then, data was collected with a questionnaire instrument that has been tested for validity and reliability. Data were analyzed with regression in t-test and F test. This research was found that service quality by the driver has a direct effect on passenger satisfaction in partial and simultaneous.
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: BANKS’ RISK AS THE MEDIATING VARIABLE

This study seeks to investigate the impact of intellectual capital on banks’ financial performance with banks’ risks as the intervening variable. By using the purposive sampling technique, we selected 30 sample firms from publicly listed Indonesian banks in 2015–2017. This study generated the research data from banks’ financial statements in those years. We then analyzed our data by using the Partial Least Square. The results demonstrate that banks’ risks do not mediate the relationship between intellectual capital and banks’ financial performance. Meanwhile, intellectual capital negatively affects operational risk and market risk. In addition, credit risk negatively affects banks’ financial performance, and liquidity risk negatively affects banks’ financial performance. Lastly, intellectual capital does not affect banks’ financial per­form­ance.
Clean energy generation and material recovery potentials from solid wastes generated in Omu Aran community

The present method of waste disposal in Omu Aran is a direct open dumping and burning at various unapproved dumpsites. The study was conducted at selected five major dumpsites within Omu Aran community, to investigate the existing waste management systems, characterize solid wastes generated, and estimate the rate of solid waste generation. An exploratory study design was adopted for a period of one year, January 2018 to January 2019. Five (5) randomly selected spots of 1sq.m were located on each of the five (5) major dumpsites in Omu Aran. For each of the dumpsites, solid wastes were collected from top to the depth of 300 mm in each of the five (5) selected one- sq.m spots. Estimated waste generated was about seventy-four tons (73,744.92 kg) with generation rate of 0.496 kg/person. Total amount of material recyclable was about thirty-two tons (32,447.76 kg; about 44 %) and energy recovery material, to attain zero-waste, integrated waste management scheme was over forty one ton (41,297.16 kg; about 56 %). The combustible components of solid waste generated in Omu Aran community (kg/day), energy content (kJ/day) and electricity generation potential (MW) were presented. Estimated energy content of solid wastes from the Omu Aran dumpsite was 1097.999 GJ/day. This implies that there is possibility of electricity generation up to 12.708 MW from daily steam production. Considering the high material recyclability, reusability and energy recovery potentials from solid wastes generated in Omu Aran community, it was recommended that the Irepodun Local Government Authority adopts sustainable and integrated waste management options of waste minimization from the source, reuse, recycling of solid waste generated within the large community.
The Effect of Instructional Leadership and Distributed Leadership on Teacher Self-efficacy and Job Satisfaction: Mediating Roles of Supportive School Culture and Teacher Collaboration

Research evidence regarding the relative effects of instructional leadership and distributed leadership on teacher job satisfaction and self-efficacy is limited; it is even less evidential when the indirect effects of mediation variables between school leadership and teacher outcomes, including supportive school culture and teacher collaboration, are added to the total effects. In this study, the six aforementioned variables are added to one model focusing on both the direct effects instructional and distributed leadership have on teacher job satisfaction and self-efficacy, and the indirect effects through the mediation variables of supportive school culture and teacher collaboration. Using the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey data, this research applied a rigorous structural equation model (SEM)with the design-based approach using the balanced repeated replication (BRR) weights. The results suggest that distributed leadership and instructional leadership are both positively and directly associated with teacher job satisfaction and teacher self-efficacy, respectively. Meanwhile, distributed leadership is positively and indirectly associated with both teacher job satisfaction and self-efficacy, while instructional leadership is indirectly associated with teacher job satisfaction through the mediation effects of supportive school culture and teacher collaboration.
Politicization of the Bureaucracy across and within Administrative Traditions

ABSTRACT It is frequently claimed within the politicization literature that while governments around the world are increasingly politicizing senior public service appointments, the nature and extent of this politicization varies across administrative traditions. To date, however, differences across administrative traditions have received little empirical scrutiny; research tends to be more comparable than comparative. Using data from an expert survey systematically measuring the merit-, political-, and personal-recruitment of senior public servants in 20 countries, this article examines differences across and within the Nordic, Westminster, Germanic and Napoleonic administrative traditions, in addition to the alternative Anglo-American and Southern European traditions. Various tests show meaningful variation in politicization across administrative traditions, with the starkest differences found between the Nordic and Napoleonic traditions. The results also show less variation among the countries comprising the Nordic tradition than that found within the other traditions.
Should Academics Debunk Conspiracy Theories?

ABSTRACT This article addresses the question, ‘Should scholars debunk conspiracy theories or stay neutral? ’ It describes ‘conspiracy theories’ and two senses of ‘neutrality,’ arguing that scholars should be neutral in the sense of being fair and openminded. While that does not exclude the possibility of debunking, it does mean that the motive should be to assess rather than to debunk. This article also responds to a particular group of social scientists who have argued that conspiracy theories are ‘unhealthy,’ and suggests that their perspective may be reasonably representative of social scientists working on conspiracy theories. Maintaining that the arguments given for pathologizing conspiracy theorists are poor ones, it suggests that social scientists have not shown a tendency to treat conspiracy theories reasonably or fairly, and further suggests that they are therefore unlikely to be helpful in assessing conspiracy theories unless they reform their attitude. Greater appreciation for the philosophical literature on this issue may help social scientists come to appreciate that conspiracy theories ought to be evaluated on their particular merits, not pathologized and dismissed as generally unhealthy.
The Relationship between Left Ventricular Function Indices in Tissue Doppler Imaging and Exaggerated Blood Pressure Response During the Exercise Stress Test

Background: Studies have indicated that exaggerated hypertension during activity and stress can be a good predictor of the incidence of hypertension. This study tries to evaluate left ventricular (LV) function by tissue Doppler to assess early changes in ventricular compliance before the onset of Hypertension (HTN) in patients with exaggerated blood pressure response during the exercise test. Materials and Methods: In this case-control study, 40 patients without a history of hypertension with systolic blood pressure less than 140/90 which referred for exercise test, were included. The exercise test was performed for all patients. Patients who had exaggerated blood pressure during the stress test were considered as cases and the controls with normal blood pressure responses. Then standard echocardiography and Tissue Doppler imaging performed and indices of LV systolic and diastolic were recorded. Results: The LV mass in cases and controls were 174.9±50.78 and 152.9±33.59, respectively (P=0.114), and LV mass index in cases and controls were 127.4±13.5 and 79.8±15.75, respectively (P=0.023). Moreover, the LV Myocardial Performance Index were 0.68±0.11 and 0.48±0.06 in cases and controls, respectively (P<0.001). The heart rate, E/A, EE, E Velocity and S velocity were measuremented. Except E/A (P=0.009), there was no significant difference between the other variables measured between the cases and controls (P>0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that using 2D conventional echocardiography as a noninvasive method if performed in prestigious centers can evaluate systolic and diastolic function Tissue Doppler parameters very well in the early stages of heart disease caused by HTN.
Participation Motivation of Visitors of Local Food-Themed Gastronomy Festival

Local food Gastronomy festivals Visitors motivation Tourism Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate visitors’ motivation factors for attending local food-themed gastronomy festival and to contribute to the existing literature. In accordance with this purpose, literature review was conducted and the scale used by Çela, Lankford and Lankford (2007) was used to collect data. Primary data was collected from 415 participants attending to Kahramanmaras and Anatolian Local Products Festival organized by the local government between the dates 14th and 29th April 2018 in Karadeniz Ereğli, Zonguldak. By using a convenience sampling technique, collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, independent sample t-test, and ANOVA. Striking results showed that students and 21-25 age group participated in for pleasure; retirees, bachelor's degree and above participants and 46-50 age group participants participated in for enlightenment, and employers participated in for an experience. In addition, when the satisfaction levels of participation in the festival were examined, it was found that 56-60 age group participants, women and employees were more satisfied.
An Adaptive Sliding Mode Variable Admittance Control Method for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot

As passive rehabilitation training with fixed trajectory ignores the active participation of patients, in order to increase the active participation of patients and improve the effect of rehabilitation training, this paper proposes an innovative adaptive sliding mode variable admittance (ASMVA) controller for the Lower Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot. The ASMVA controller consists of an outer loop with variable admittance controller and an inner loop with an adaptive sliding mode controller. It estimates the wearer’s active muscle strength and movement intention by judging the deviation between the actual and standard interaction force of the wearer’s leg and the exoskeleton, thereby adaptively changing admittance controller parameters to alter training intensity. Three healthy volunteers engaged in further experimental studies, including trajectory tracking experiments with no admittance, fixed admittance, and variable admittance adjustment. The experimental results show that the proposed ASMVA control scheme has high control accuracy. Besides, the ASMVA can not only increase training intensity according to the active muscle strength of the patient during positive movement intention (so as to increase active participation of the patient), but also increase the amount of trajectory adjustment during negative movement intention to ensure the safety of the patient.