Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Internalizing symptoms mediate the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and pain symptoms in a pediatric hematology/oncology sample

ABSTRACT Objective: To examine caregiver ratings of children’s internalizing symptoms as a potential mediator between sleep disordered breathing and pain symptoms. Caregiver depression/anxiety symptoms were further examined as a potential moderator of the mediation model. Methods: Participants were 96 caregivers (82% mothers) of children with cancer, sickle cell disease, or other hematological conditions (M age = 10.45 years; 46.9% female, 78.1% African American). Caregivers completed questionnaires on child patient symptoms during regular clinic visits. Results: As hypothesized, the effect of sleep on pain (β = 0.31) was reduced (β = 0.15) after accounting for child internalizing symptoms (β = 0.17, 95% confidence interval = 0.03 to 0.42). The indirect effect accounted for 54.8% of the total effect. However, caregiver depression/anxiety symptoms were not a significant moderator of this mediation model. Conclusions: Sleep may play an important role in the experience of pain in children with hematology/oncology conditions. A child’s mood may mediate this relationship.
Öğretmen özerkliği ile öğrenci başarısı arasındaki ilişki: PISA örneği

Egitim sisteminin temel uygulayicisi olan ogretmenlerin mesleki konularda belirli bir yetki ve ozgurluk alanina sahip olmalari seklinde tanimlanabilecek ozerklik kavrami, ogretmenlerin karar verme ve ogrenciler ile ilgili konularda ongorulen mesleki secimleri yapabilme ozgurlugu; egitimin planlanmasi, gelistirilmesi ve yonetimi sureclerine katilmalari olarak tanimlanmakta ve calisma ortamiyla iliskilendirilmektedir. Konuyla ilgili yapilmis calismalarda, daha fazla ozerklige sahip olan ogretmenlerin, mesleklerine yonelik daha fazla istekli ve gonullu olduklarini belirten sonuclara ulasilmistir. Dolayisiyla, ogretmen ozerkligi ile ogrenci basarisi arasinda olumlu bir iliski beklenmektedir. Bu calismada, farkli ulkelerdeki ogretmenlerin gorevlerini yerine getirirken sahip olduklari ozerklik duzeylerinin, ogrencilerin akademik basarilariyla olan iliskisi incelenmistir. Bu amacla, 2009 PISA calismasina katilan ulkelerin PISA sonuclari ve PISA anketlerine ait verileri kullanilmistir. Arastirma sonucunda, ogretmen ozerkliginin okul ortaminda yer verilmesi gereken bir unsur oldugu soylenebilir. Ayrica, ogretimin icerigi ile dogrudan ilgili olmayan disiplin ve degerlendirme politikalariyla ogrenci basarisi arasindaki iliskinin, derslerin ve ders iceriginin belirlenmesi maddeleri kadar etkili olmasinin, basari uzerindeki degiskenlerin (okul disiplini gibi) daha genis kapsamda ele alinmasini zorunlu kildigi soylenebilir. Ayrica, ozerklikle ilgili alanin, ogretmen grubunun okul ici ya da okul disi olusuna gore ogrenci basarisi uzerindeki etkisini farklilastirabilmektedir
The Relationship between Self-efficacy Beliefs and Self-regulated Learning Strategies in Korean EFL Learners

Cho, Young Ah & Kim, Youngsu. (2019). The relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulated learning strategies in Korean EFL learners. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 27(3), 53-74. The present study analyzes learners' self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulated learning strategy use in an L2 English learning context, mainly focusing on Korean high school students. One-hundred and seventy-three participants were assigned to high-, medium-, and low-proficiency groups. Three instruments were administered, a background questionnaire, the Questionnaire of English Self-Efficacy, and the Questionnaire of English Self-Regulated Learning Strategies. The results reveal that there were significant differences among groups in terms of self-efficacy beliefs for listening, speaking, reading, and writing, showing that high-proficiency learners held a higher sense of self-efficacy than mediumand low-proficiency learners. The study also indicates that there were significant differences among groups when looking at self-regulated learning strategy use. Successful learners employed more self-regulatory skills than others. Additionally, a positive correlation was found between self-efficacy and self-regulation. Based on the results, pedagogical implications are suggested.
Contribution of Parental Attention and Peer Association toward Adolescent Students’ Character

Teenagers are the age of identity and character formation. This study aims to analyze the contribution of parental attention and peer association toward students’ character. A descriptive study with a quantitative approach, the study involved a population of teenage (eighth grade) students at SMP (Junior High School) Al-Azhar Syifa Budi Parahyangan in the academic year 2018/2019. A total of 48 students were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through questionnaire and analyzed with correlation and regression tests. The results showed significant contribution of parental attention and peer association to the students’ character. The implications of this research are addressed to parents, teachers, and school as the parties responsible for the character building of teenage students.
Breast injuries reported by female contact football players based on football code, player position and competition level

ABSTRACT Introduction: Female athletes involved in contact sports are sustaining injuries to their breasts. Limited research, however, has characterised breast injuries reported by female contact football players. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence, causes and perceived performance effects of contact breast injuries reported by females participating in contact football by code, player position and competition level. Awareness and perceptions of these injuries by staff associated with female contact football teams were also examined. Methods: A custom-designed breast injury survey was completed by 297 female Australian Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union (XVs) and Rugby 7s players, and a staff survey was completed by 242 coaching and medical staff associated with female contact football teams. Results: Fifty-eight percent of players reported ever experiencing a contact breast injury and 48% perceived that their injury affected their football performance. Football code and player position were significantly associated with causes of contact breast injury, whereas competition level was significantly associated with perceptions of performance effects. Half of the coaches and medical professionals surveyed were not aware that breast injuries were a problem for female contact football players. Conclusion: Athletes, coaches and medical professionals may benefit from education on the potential for contact breast injuries so that these injuries can be prevented and managed.
Papillary carcinoma in the mediastinal ectopic thyroid tissue accompanying a normal thyroid tissue of the neck: a case report

Herhangi bir yakinmasi olmayan 42 yasinda erkek hastanin tesadufen cekilen posteroanterior akciger grafisinde sag paratrakeal alanda homojen opasite ve toraks tomografisinde posterior mediasten yerlesimli kitle saptandi. Pozitron emisyon tomografide lezyon benign ozellikte idi ve yetersiz I-131 tutuyordu. Kitle torakotomi ile cikartildi. Histolojik incelemede ektopik tiroid dokusunda folikuler varyant gosteren papiller karsinom saptandi. Iki tarafli subtotal tiroidektomi yapildi. Histolojik incelemede tiroid dokusunda malignite saptanmadi. Bu olgu, boyun tiroid dokusunda malignite olmaksizin, mediasten yerlesimli oldugu saptanan tiroid dokusunda folikuler yerlesimli papiller karsinom saptanmasi acisindan nadir gorulen bir olgu olmasi nedeniyle sunulmustur. Anah tar soz cuk ler: Ektopik tiroid dokusu; papiller tiroid karsinomu; toraks goruntulemesi; torakotomi. A 42-year-old male patient’s posteroanterior chest radiography showed homogenous opacity located at right-sided upper paratracheal region and thoracic computed tomography revealed a mass located at posterior mediastinum, which resulted in no complaint. Positron emission tomography showed a benign lesion with an insufficient I-131 uptake. The mass was resected by thoracotomy. Histopathologic examination revealed papillary carcinoma of ectopic thyroid tissue showing follicular variant. Bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy was performed. No malignancy in thyroid tissue was found in the histopathological examination. This case was presented because of being a rare case with follicular carcinoma in the mediastinal thyroid tissue without any malignancy in the thyroid tissue of the neck.
THE IMPACTS OF BRAND EXPERIENCES ON BRAND LOVE, BRAND TRUST, AND BRAND LOYALTY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Previous studies that studied brand relationships tended to ignore the relationship between brand experience and brand loyalty and the role of brand love and brand trust. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine the effect of brand experience on brand loyalty through brand love and brand trust. For this study, questionnaires were distributed via personal and email, with 300 respondents aged between 18 and 50 using a purposive sampling method. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results found that brand experience has positive brand love and trust, brand love and brand trust have a positive effect on brand loyalty.
Grit, self-efficacy, achievement orientation goals, and academic performance in University students

ABSTRACT The current study investigated the relationships between grit, self-efficacy, achievement orientation goals, and academic performance in parallel and serial mediation models. University student participants (N = 258) responded to an online survey containing demographic items and scales measuring the non-cognitive factors noted above. The results demonstrated that ‘grit’ (i.e. perseverance of effort and consistency of interest) positively associates with academic performance through a sequential pathway of mediators including self-efficacy and achievement orientation goals. Findings supported the positive relationships between mastery, approach goals, and academic performance, as well as the negative association between avoidance goals and academic performance. The model revealed that self-efficacy may play supportive and protective roles by increasing the positive effect of mastery and performance-approach goals and reducing the negative effect of avoidance goals on academic performance, respectively. These novel findings support the contribution of ‘grit’ in predicting various academic outcomes.
Capitalizing Baccalaureate Degree Attainment: Identifying Student and Institution Level Characteristics that Ensure Success for Latinxs

ABSTRACT Baccalaureate degree completion is essential for future development as a nation. Latinxs are the largest minority group in the country and by 2050 nearly one out of every three individuals will be of Latinx descent. While Latinx enrollment may increase, the proportion completing college is not comparable. This study explored the pre-college student characteristics and institutional environments through a capital theoretical perspective (Bourdieu, 1986) that fosters degree attainment measured six years after initial enrollment. The national (459 institutions), longitudinal study of 15,745 Latinx students quantitatively examined the impact of differing institutional contexts while accounting for individual characteristics. High school GPA and the number of college applications submitted are positive key factors while concerns about financing college have a negative effect at the student-level on predicting Latinx six year degree attainment. The institutional graduation rate and compositional diversity positively influence graduation. Results further illustrate that campus context matters. Disaggregated results revealed distinct predictors among each of the subgroups. Implications inform postsecondary institutional practices by highlighting mechanisms of inequity embedded within the system of higher education and how to enact transformational change.
Taking Their First Steps: The Distribution of New Teachers in School and Classroom Contexts and Implications for Teacher Effectiveness

Novice teachers’ professional contexts may have important implications for their effectiveness, development, and retention. However, due to data limitations, descriptions of these contexts are often unidimensional or vague. Using 10 years of administrative data from the Los Angeles Unified School District, we describe patterns of new teacher sorting using 24 context measures organized along three dimensions—intensity of instructional responsibilities, homophily, and colleagues’ qualifications—and use school-level survey data to measure a fourth dimension. professional culture. Relative to more experienced teachers, novice teachers have placements that are more challenging along the first three dimensions, and composite measures of the dimensions are differentially predictive of teachers’ outcomes. This suggests that policymakers should carefully consider placements to better support novice teachers.
An exploration of the concept of forgiveness in Young Adults

There is limited research on the concept of forgiveness in young adults in romantic relationships, even though, it is undeniable that forgiveness promotes healthier relationships and social bonds. This study aimed to explore how young adults view, experience and understand forgiveness in romantic relationships. Three females and three males participated in semi-structured interviews in order to obtain individual experiences of forgiveness. Interviews were then transcribed using thematic analysis. Three themes were found: ‘sense of belonging’, ‘forgive and forget’ and ‘emotion’. The themes demonstrates there are various factors affecting forgiveness. It seems to be that the emotion felt for the offender is the one factor mostly expressed to impact forgiveness. Future research should focus on how the concept of forgiveness is viewed differently in different cultures.
Perceptions and Clinical Applications of Feedback Type if Dental Hygiene

Purpose/Objectives: The study assesses whether or not feedback type and feedback delivery method play a significant role in students’ learning and clinical performance. The study explores Ego Stroking Sandwich feedback and Non-Sandwich feedback as the feedback types and Instructors feedback vs. Scoring guide feedback as the feedback delivery method. Students’ perceptions and clinical applications were considered as part of the study.
The Emergence of Proto‐Institutions in the New Normal Business Landscape: Dialectic Institutional Work and the Dutch Drone Industry

ABSTRACT In the current business landscape, in which technology-enabled entrepreneurship is part of the New Normal, regulatory institutional structures are in constant flux. Previous studies have framed the challenges facing entrepreneurs in mature organizational fields as avoiding the power of overbearing regulators long enough to establish the legitimacy of their ventures. In fields typified by New Normal conditions, however, regulatory frameworks for evaluating new technology-enabled ventures are often still lacking. Regulators may choose to actively reach out to entrepreneurs to arrive at a better understanding of the radical technological changes and high-frequency entrepreneurial behavioural adaptations that occur in these settings. To grasp how novel regulatory institutional structures come about in the New Normal business landscape, we conducted a processual study of the emergence of a new technology that is the Dutch remotely piloted aircraft systems (drone) industry between 2000 and 2018. Our findings show that regulatory proto-institutions result from dialectic institutional work in the form of structured interactions between entrepreneurs and regulators. Specifically, we present a process model that reveals how new regulatory structures evolve in contexts where high levels of technological and behavioural change induce systemic uncertainty, and enlarge the interdependence between entrepreneurs and regulators. We suggest that our process theory of proto-institutional emergence generalizes towards other organizational fields in which technology-enabled entrepreneurship has become the main driver of growth. Theoretically, our findings speak to the literatures on institutional work, proto-institutional emergence, and the New Normal business landscape.
‘Nothing about us without us’: sex education by and for people with intellectual disability in Australia

ABSTRACT People with an intellectual disability experience a protective regime when it comes to their sexuality. Families, carers, services and others mediate their experiences and act as gatekeepers through policies and practices that focus on the regulation and management of sexuality. Sex education has traditionally been ‘for’ people with intellectual disabilities provided ‘by’ health professionals, teachers and other professions who position themselves as experts with the power to shape the sex education, information and learning opportunities that people with an intellectual disability access. This paper presents an alternative programme developed in collaboration with people with intellectual disabilities, which uses the stories of people with an intellectual disability and is facilitated by people with intellectual disabilities as peer educators. Crip theory rejects approaches to understanding the disability experience that privilege particular characteristics of disability experience over others including cognition. This paper argues this idea can offer a ‘way in’ for people with intellectual disabilities to research, debate and progress sexual rights within the current sexual rights vacuum in international law and policy. The paper demonstrates how an Australian peer education programme provides a liberating sex education for those involved through a focus on rights and use of peer education.
Gender-diverse practitioners in early years education and care (EYEC): a cross-cultural study of Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China

ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether practitioners’ gender subjectivities influence pedagogies and practices in early years education and care (EYEC) settings and whether an increase of men’s participation can improve gender diversity in EYEC. It draws on poststructuralist theories, understanding gender as the product/outcome of the social formation of subjects and the process of subjectification. This is illustrated through accounts for how individual practitioners from Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China discursively construct their gender subjectivities, in accordance with the respective cultural discourses that shape work with young children in EYEC in the three contexts. Thirty-four practitioners from 17 EYEC settings (1 male and 1 female practitioner from each setting) in the cities of Edinburgh, Hong Kong, and Tianjin were interviewed. The study finds that participant practitioners’ constructions of gender subjectivities vary within and across contexts, and gender-binary discourses are to different extents prevalent in all three contexts. This paper argues for a cross-cultural approach to gender-sensitive teacher training, to interrogate popular discourses that advocate for men to fulfil complementary roles in EYEC to women and to challenge gender binary thinking that persists in EYEC and beyond.
Who Do Multiracials Consider Part of Their Racial In-Group?

We propose that Multiracials have flexible racial in-groups in that Multiracials can potentially consider members from three target racial groups as in-group members: same-race Multiracials, racial component Monoracials, and different-race Multiracials. Across three studies, we find that Black/Whites and Asian/Whites consider racial component Minorities (i.e., Blacks or Asians) and different-race Multiracials who share their Minority identity (i.e., Black/Asians) as in-group members in addition to, but to a lesser extent than, same-race Multiracials (i.e., Black/Whites or Asian/Whites). Moreover, participants who reported frequently encountering discrimination related to their Black or Asian backgrounds were more likely to consider individuals who share their Minority background as in-group members. Implications for Multiracials’ psychological well-being and the broader intergroup literature are discussed.
TEACHING ENGLISH IN SAUDI ARABIA: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

This paper will reflect three major issues related to the teaching of English in Saudi Arabia. Firstly, it will discuss the present status of education and ELT in Saudi Arabia, secondly, it will state various challenges of teaching English, and finally, it will attempt some remedies that can be recommended to tackle those challenges.
A meta-analysis of the relationship between father involvement and problem behaviour among preschool children

ABSTRACT The meta-analysis presented in this paper was conducted with the aim of clarifying the differences in the research on the relationship between father involvement and problem behaviour among preschool children, and also to analyze the reasons behind these research differences. By applying a literature retrieval and screening strategy, 41 studies were sourced, with a total of 269 independent samples and 22635 participants. The meta-analysis found a low negative correlation between positive father involvement and the externalizing problem behaviour of preschool children, and the same correlation between such involvement and internalizing problem behaviour. Negative father involvement was found to be moderately positively correlated with the latter behaviour. The moderating effects of each variable emerged as different, complex, and interactive. The implications of these findings are that families, kindergartens, communities and the government should work together to guarantee father involvement and improve the quality of the latter.
High Fiber Caribbean Diets with Low-Intermediate GI Improve Glycemic Control, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Indicators in Overweight Persons with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Control Study

This study focused on the effect of consumption of indigenous Caribbean foods with low and intermediate glycemic index (GI) high fiber contents on glycated haemoglobin (A 1c), insulin, fasting blood glucose, homocysteine (tHCY), high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), homeostasis model assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) and lipoprotein profile levels in overweight persons with type 2 diabetes. The methodology followed a randomized controlled parallel design, which compared two dietary treatment modalities in adult Jamaicans who were overweight and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (mean age 42.5 ± 2.0 years, 55% females, mean A1c 9.30 ± 0.56%) over six months. The intervention group (n=32) underlined the consumption of low-intermediate-GI foods, whereas the control group (n = 33) were not so advised and consumed a high-GI diet. Attempts were made to ensure that both groups were isocaloric with 45-50% of energy from carbohydrates. Consumption of low-intermediate GI foods resulted in significant reductions (p<0.005) in A 1C compared to participants who consumed high GI foods (-0.84 ± 0.26 vs. -0.35 ± 0.04%), hs-CRP (-0.52 ± 0.17 vs. -0.17 ± 0.31 mg/dL) and tHCY (-1.32 ± 0.39 vs. -0.59 ± 0.38 µmol/L). Insulin sensitivity, HDL-C and triglycerides significantly improved in participants who consumed the low-intermediate-GI diet. The data strengthen the metabolic benefits of meal plans that emphasize the consumption of low and intermediate GI high fiber foods, particularly, indigenous Caribbean complex starchy foods.