Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Use of ‘gay dating apps’ and its relationship with individual well-being and sense of community in men who have sex with men

ABSTRACT There is growing literature and empirical work that is investigating if and how mobile phone and tablet dating apps are influencing the lives of their users. An online questionnaire-based study was developed to investigate how men who have sex with men (MSM) use ‘gay dating apps’ (GDAs), and how such use may relate to different aspects of their lives on an individual and on a collective level. The study included data from 191 MSM living in the UK with varying levels of GDAs use and reasons for using them. Beyond some descriptive information on use of GDAs, the findings showed that, overall, high users of GDAs report a lower sense of community, higher levels of loneliness and lower levels of satisfaction with life. Still, there is some evidence that those MSM who use GDAs mainly for sexual encounters report higher levels of self-esteem and of satisfaction with life compared to those who use GDAs mainly for other reasons. It appears that such GDAs cater effectively for those looking for sexual partners, but may have negative implications for those who look for other types of relationships and interactions.
Terlipressin in Combination with Endoscopic Variceal Ligation for Prevention of Acute Esophageal Variceal Rebleeding

Background: Esophageal and gastric variceal bleeding is a critical complication in patients with liver cirrhosis. Endoscopic variceal ligation( EVL) is the endoscopic hemostatic treatment of first choice for esophageal variceal bleeding. For acute esophageal variceal bleeding,vasoactive drugs( preferably terlipressin) maintained for 3-5 days after EVL is recommended for prevention of early rebleeding. Aims: To investigate the effect of terlipressin in combination with EVL for prevention of acute esophageal variceal rebleeding. Methods: Ninety-six acute esophageal variceal bleeding patients undergoing EVL were randomly divided into two groups. Patients in control group were administered with oral propranolol 10 mg / d for 5 days,while patients in intervention group received terlipressin 1 mg / d i. v. for 5 days. After the 5-day treatment course,patients in both groups were given propranolol for long term maintenance therapy. Rebleeding occurred within 5-day and 3-month was recorded in both groups. Results: Early( 5-day) rebleeding rate was significantly lower in intervention group than in control group( 2. 1% vs. 12. 5%,P 0. 05),while no significant difference was demonstrated in short term( 3-month) rebleeding rate between the two groups( 4. 2% vs. 14. 6%,P 0. 05). Conclusions: Emergency EVL combined with terlipressin is superior to EVL combined with propranolol for prevention of acute esophageal variceal early rebleeding. Its long term efficacy needs to be further explored.
MANAJEMEN REKRUTMEN TENAGA PENDIDIK DI SDIT SA’ADIAH KECAMATAN KUBUNG KABUPATEN SOLOK

This study aims to determine the planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising the recruitment of educators at SDIT Sa’adiah Salayo. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The informants in the study were the chairman of the foundation, the principal, and the head of the administration of SDIT Sa’adiah Salayo. Data collection techniques through participatory observation, in-depth interviews and documentation studies. Data analysis uses the Miles and Huberman model which divides data analysis into three namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Data validity testing techniques using data triangulation and method triangulation. The results showed that the management of the recruitment of educators at SDIT Sa'adiah Salayo, began planning the recruitment of educators including: analysis of needs, preparation of recruitment, and determination of recruitment qualifications. Organizing the recruitment of educators also goes well in the process of recruiting new educators at SDIT Sa'adiah Salayo, which always maintains coordinated cooperation with one another from the foundation to the committee for the recruitment of new teaching staff. The recruitment of educators at SDIT Sa'adiah Salayo includes: dissemination of recruitment announcements for educators, acceptance of applications, selection of educators, and decisions on recruitment of educators. As well as conducting good supervision from the foundation and the principal of the recruitment committee, during the recruitment took place at SDIT Sa'adiah Salayo. Keywords: Recruitment Management and Educators.
The influence of school accountability incentives on Advanced Placement access: Evidence from Pennsylvania

This study employed hierarchical piecewise growth modeling and two interrupted time series models to examine the effect of introducing an Advanced Placement (AP) school accountability incentive on AP access in Pennsylvania. Specifically, we examined whether adoption of an advanced course access accountability indicator was associated with an increase in AP course offerings initially and in the three years after the policy intervention. We also analyzed if the indicator differentially affected schools we hypothesized as sensitive or nonsensitive to the policy and examined demographic differences between those school groups. Pennsylvania’s AP accountability incentive was associated with an initial increase in schools’ AP course offerings, but the trajectory of change during the post-policy intervention period did not differ from the pre-policy baseline period. Also, the sizeable gap between schools with the most and fewest AP course offerings did not narrow across time. Instead, the gap widened. Our results suggest that adoption of AP school accountability incentives may not be a long-term solution to improving AP access for all schools or narrowing disparities in access between schools. We call for examinations in other states to determine if, and under what conditions, AP accountability incentives increase AP course offerings while narrowing access disparities.
THE CATEGORY OF COLOUR NAMING IN ENGLISH IDIOMS

В статье подвергаются анализу 205 фразеологических единиц английского языка, имеющих в своем наименовании компонент цвета; рассмотриваются семантическая составляющая ФЕ, ядро цветовой картины мира английского языка, общие модели тематических групп, семантическая организованность фразеологического состава с компонентом цветообозначения.
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and skills towards e-learning in first year medical students

Background: With digitization the e-learning modalities are being increasingly used by medical students. These often help the first MBBS students to overcome limitations of conventional teaching methods like didactic lectures. However, e-learning is not official part of medical education in India and the awareness about its use among medical students need to be evaluated. Aim and objective of the study was to assess the extent to which MBBS first year students use e-resources for learning as well as to assess knowledge, attitude, skills and habits of first MBBS students towards e-learning.Methods: A questionnaire of twenty five questions on various aspects of e-learning was administered to the first MBBS students at two medical colleges. The data generated from responses was compiled and analyzed on SPSS to get insight on various aspects of e-learning.Results: Out of 236 students surveyed 77.97% were aware about the academic websites related to first MBBS subjects. 90.68 % accepted that e-learning helped in understanding topics, 84.32% recommended conventional teaching to be supplemented with e-learning. However there was no statistically significant difference between responses from two groups i.e. female and male students (p>0.05). Conclusions: The majority of first MBBS students use e-resources for learning various topics in anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The e-resources have made a positive impact on overall learning especially anatomy. e-learning can supplement conventional teaching in the first year of medical training.
La percepción de riesgo y su relación con el uso problemático del teléfono móvil en adolescentes

espanolLos objetivos de este trabajo eran conocer que variables se relacionan con el uso problematico del movil y la percepcion de riesgo por parte de los adolescentes. Se elaboro un cuestionario sobre variables sociodemograficas, uso problematico del movil utilizando Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale en Adolescentes (MPPUSA) y una escala ad hoc para valorar la percepcion de riesgo. Han participado 718 adolescentes de la provincia de Cordoba (Espana), con edades entre los 10 y los 18 anos. Los resultados indicaron que el hecho de ser chica, haber tenido mas de dos moviles de media, una edad de inicio temprana y una alta percepcion de riesgo tiene relacion con el uso problematico del movil. Se discuten las posibles razones y la importancia de promover programas de prevencion e intervencion psicoeducativa. EnglishThe objective of this work is to determine those variables that are related to the problematic use of mobile telephones and risk perception by adolescents. A questionnaire was created on various sociodemographic variables, problematic use of the mobile telephone using the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale in Adolescents (MPPUSA) and an ad hoc scale to assess the perception of risk. Participants included 718 adolescents from the province of Cordoba (Spain), aged 10 to 18. The results indicate that being a girl, having had more than two mobiles on average, being younger and having a high risk perception are all related to the problematic use of mobile phones. Potential causes and the importance of promoting psycho-educational prevention and intervention programs are discussed.
Analysis of sleep quality and the influencing factors in rural senior middle school students in Xuzhou

Objective To investigate the sleep quality of middle school students from the rural of Xuzhou and related factors,and to provide theoretic basis for developing middle school students' sleep quality.Methods Totally 1 385 middle school students in Xuzhou were selected by cluster sampling and surveyed with questionnaire including Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI),and self-made general questionnaire.Results There were 36.6% of the students having sleeping problems;the incidence of the sleep disorder of the junior middle school students was lower than that of senior high school students.There was statistical significance by both grades and genders(P0.05). The multiple factor logistic regression analysis demonstrated that sleeping disorders of middle school students were associated with grades,learning burden,noise of environment,taking physical exercise every week and relationships.Conclusion The sleep disorder is serious among middle school students in Xuzhou.So it is necessary to pay more attention to and provide some professional guidance to from the society and schools.
Meaning in Life, Self-Control, Positive and Negative Affect: Exploring Gender Differences Among Adolescents

The present study explores gender differences in adolescence with regard to meaning in life and self-control skills and in relation to positive and negative affect. Participants were 500 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 years. Outcomes revealed that females reported higher negative affect and self-control skills in comparison with males. Moreover, the association between self-control skills and negative affect was stronger among females than among males. In contrast to our assumptions, positive affect was not found to be higher among females although females scored higher in meaning in life than their male counterparts. In addition, self-control skills mediated the association between meaning in life and negative affect, and gender moderated the association between self-control skills and negative affect only among females. Considering these findings, gender seems to be vital in explaining differences in the use of self-control skills and meaning in life and their links to positive and negative affect.
Effects of dietary protein and energy intakes on growth hormone, insulin, glucose tolerance and fatty acid synthesis in young wether sheep

A group of 16 Romney wether sheep fitted with rumen and abomasal cannulae and aged 11 to 12 months was allocated to either high or low crude protein (CP) pelleted diets (220 (HP) and 120 (LP) g CP per kg) to give four daily intakes of dry matter (356, 711, 1067 and 1422 g) within each diet, giving two sheep per treatment. Diets were given hourly for 40 days during which time growth rates, plasma concentrations of insulin (I) and growth hormone (GH) were determined, a glucose tolerance test was performed and relative rates of fatty acid (FA) synthesis were determined.Live-weight changes ranged from –46 to 215 g/day and wool growth ranged from 86 to 210 mg per 100 cm2 daily.Plasma GH concentrations were significantly higher (P 0·05 respectively).
Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in an offshore Indian campus of a Malaysian medical school

Background: Educational environment is one of the main determinants of student learning, especially in a student-centered curriculum. This study was undertaken as a mid-program evaluation of the educational environment of a new medical program USM-KLE International Medical Programme (USM-KLE IMP), which is an offshore campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia. The program follows an innovative, integrated, curriculum having Problem Based Learning as prescribed by the Malaysian university, and commenced in 2010. Methods: Towards the end of the academic year 2012-13, the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory was administered to the undergraduate medical students of all three years. Results: Out of 186 students, 177 (95%) responded, 33.33% (n=59) were males and 66.66% (n=118) females. The mean scores in the domains of students’ perceptions of learning, perceptions of teachers, academic self-perceptions, perceptions of atmosphere, social self-perceptions and total mean DREEM scores were 33.2 (Maximum 48), 29.6 (Maximum 44), 21.9 (Maximum 32), 34.1(Maximum 48), 18.1(Maximum 28) and 137(Maximum 200), respectively. The highest score was for the item “the faculty are knowledgeable” with a mean score of 3.44±0.64. Twelve items had scores of more than 3.0, and three items had scores below 2.0. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that the perception of USM-KLE IMP students towards their educational and learning environment is “more positive than negative” and that the program is moving in the right direction.
Peripheral preview abolishes N170 face-sensitivity at fixation: Using fixation-related potentials to investigate dynamic face processing

ABSTRACT The N170 ERP peak has been found to be consistently larger in response to the presentation of faces than to other objects, yet it is not clear whether this face-sensitive N170 is also elicited during fixations made subsequent to the initial presentation. To investigate this question, the current study utilised Event and Fixation-Related Potentials in two experiments, time-locking brain potentials to the presentation of faces and objects (watches) images in participants’ peripheral vision, and to their first fixations on the images. Experiment 1 found that a face-sensitive N170 was elicited by the onset of images but not by a subsequent fixation on the images, and that face inversion did not modulate N170 beyond presentation. Experiment 2 found that disrupting the structure of the peripheral preview (phase-scrambling) led to a face-sensitive N170 at fixation onsets on the intact-images. Interestingly, N170 amplitudes for both faces and objects were significantly enhanced after the peripheral preview was phase-scrambled, suggesting that the N170 in part reflects a category-detection process that is elicited once when an image structure is viewed. These results indicate that neural processing during fixations will be significantly modulated when they are immediately preceded by peripheral previews, and is not specific to faces.
Affect Intolerance is Associated with Insecure Attachment and Reduced Self-Esteem in Adults

Despite the adaptive relevance of emotion, many individuals view their negative emotional experiences to be un-important, unnecessarily distressing and/or intolerable. Two studies were conducted to investigate whether such de-valuing “meta-emotional” views are associated with attachment insecurity, specifically anxious and avoidant attachment, in adults. Self-report questionnaires of meta-emotional philosophy (including “affect intolerance”), attachment insecurity, and self-esteem were collected from two samples: one through Amazon Mturk (N=96), another from students enrolled at a U.S. university (N=166). Correlation analyses demonstrated that affect intolerance was associated with insecure attachment in both studies. In the second study, self-esteem was shown to mediate that relationship, fully for avoidant attachment, and partially for anxious attachment. These findings contribute to a growing body of literature demonstrating that dismissive, intolerant, or devaluing personal views of one’s own negative emotions is associated with deleterious psychological outcomes. Keywords: Emotion; Meta-Emotion; Affect; Self-Esteem; Attachment; Evolution
Gender Bias and Venture Funding: Discussing Bias in the Entrepreneurship Classroom

We report on the findings from an in-class experiment that represents a learning innovation which can enable classroom-based conversations about bias in the domain of entrepreneurship. More specifically, the present learning innovation explores gender bias in venture funding with regard to entrepreneurship. In an introduction to entrepreneurship class, we randomly assigned students to one of the three experimental conditions—students evaluated an executive summary for a venture either written by a woman, or a man, or one in which the gender was neutral (i.e., the control group). Students acted as if they were considering an investment and reported whether, for example, the executive summary was well written as well as how much equity they would want in the venture as a potential investor. Overall, these results provide evidence consistent with the inference that the students sampled in this study did not use gender as a decision-making heuristic when evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities. We discuss the results of our experiment and describe (a) how to replicate this activity, (b) how to discuss this in the classroom, and (c) how to adapt this activity to explore other types of bias (e.g., race, ethnicity, weight-based, etc.).
Use of problems in a didactic embryology course: outcome

Background: Problem based learning (PBL)was being implemented in medical schools since 1950 but there was a debate among the medical teachers regarding the outcome of the PBL in concern to basic science knowledge. Aim of the study: The present study was aimed to evaluate various merits and demerits of the didactic lecture (DL) and PBL in the field of medical education and to motivate novice for self-directed learning Material and methods: There was separate PBL session in addition to their routine scheduled lectures. At the end of experiment students were interviewed and given Likert’s type close ended Questionnaire to express their opinion. Result: Students were in the opinion that trivial detailed should be avoided to teach basic science subjects. They had mention that PBL was good for small group discussion, clinical correlations, exchange of ideas self-directed learning and critical thinking skill. Majority of them expressed needs, guidance from teachers to learn, a complex subject like embryology and didactic lectures helps them to know the, depth of a particular topic. Students had mentioned that they did not learn basic concept of the particular topic by PBL. Therefore, they expressed that PBL session should be conducted after DL. Conclusion: PBL can be implemented in small group, to improve the communication skill, critical thinking even in the conventional curricular medical schools but DL cannot be replaced by PBL. Therefore, hybrid problem based learning (HPBL) will be a better strategy to learn basic science subjects.
The Impact of Performance Funding on Community College Degree Completion, Certificate Completion, and Transfer Rate: A Difference-in-Differences Approach

THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE FUNDING ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEGREE COMPLETION, CERTIFICATE COMPLETION, AND TRANSFER RATE: A DIFFERENCEIN-DIFFERENCES APPROACH Matthew J. Okerblom Old Dominion University, 2019 Director: Mitchell R. Williams Historically, state funding of higher education institutions has been allocated through enrollment, but there has been a recent trend towards a different model, performance funding. Performance funding is a model based on the attainment of designated metrics with the intent on improving student outcomes. The metrics used for these programs have often not aligned with the mission and characteristics of different institutions, especially that of community colleges. Although, several past performance funding models failed to improve student outcomes, much has been learned regarding program improvement. Texas implemented a performance funding model in 2013 which included a focus on community colleges and metrics specifically related to their institutional mission. Using a difference-in-differences approach, the impact Texas’ performance funding model had on associate degree completion, certificate completion, and transfer-out rates was evaluated. The study utilized IPEDS data from 2010 to 2017 and compared the preto postdifferences in Texas to California. The results of the study found performance funding had no statistically significant impact on associate degree completion, certificate completion, or transferout rates, even after controlling for race/ethnicity, gender, age, enrollment, degree of urbanization, tuition and fees, and financial aid. The study recommends further research on programs with 50% or more of appropriations based on performance. If this research confirms that performance funding does not improve student outcomes, state legislatures need to consider the evidence from the results of this study and previous research and no longer pursue performance funding models.
Prospective Kindergarten and Primary school teachers’ attitudes and beliefs on Differentiated Teaching during their Teaching Practice

The aim of this proposal is the investigation of the beliefs of fourth-year students in the Department of Primary Education and the Department of Pre-School Education at the University of Ioannina – who constitute our research sample – on the issue of the implemented functionality of Differentiated Teaching within the context of Teaching Practice. The structured questionnaire was used as our research tool. The research conclusions showed that future teachers receive adequate training in the theoretical and implemented functionality of differentiated teaching but nevertheless they also revealed the limited use made of differentiated teaching during Teaching Practice and ultimately the adoption of traditional forms of instruction. While the research findings are limited, they constitute a trigger for further investigation of the issue in the teaching departments of our country. This would be especially important since the Curriculum in the Teaching Departments of the Universities, and Teaching Practice too could be reshaped in such a way that future teachers are well prepared to implement the things they were taught during their undergraduate studies.