Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Academic Self-Efficacy, Ethnic Identity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status on Academic Performance

Student academic success is a primary concern for schools across the nation. This correlational research study explored the relationships of variables (e.g. academic self-efficacy, ethnic identity, gender, and socioeconomic status) among 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students' (N = 169) academic performance. Multiple regression analyses were used to examine the possible relationships between the predictor variables, grade point averages (GPAs), and Mississippi Curriculum Test2 (MCT-2) and we found academic self-efficacy and gender of the students to be statistically significant.
Foundational Values in University Education: An Historical Understanding of Values in Practice

Foundational values in a university classroom: Understanding values in practice explores the way in which philosophy of education and ethics is a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purpose of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work. Philosophy of education and ethics inform thinking and actions and although this is well recognized, values philosophy of education and ethics are seldom brought to the forefront of inquiries as practices in higher education are developed. This book argues that by putting philosophy of education and ethics firmly on the agenda of those who teach work and learn in higher education, the academic profession can open up new spaces for moral education conversations and potentially transform the way in which they practice. Foundational values in a university classroom: Understanding values in practice is key reading for university lecturers, those with responsibility for leadership and management of higher education. There are few books that directly address the broad and complex question of foundational values in a university classroom: Understanding values in practice in teaching in higher education, yet at the same time, values are widely recognized as permeating all our practices. In this sense, an accepted part of academic life remains in the realm of “taken for granted” rather than being consciously and explicitly explored and practiced. The book deals with the idea of values in both a philosophical and practical manner. It is based on original research and uses both empirical data and theory to address teaching values in higher education and the current values of the higher education system. It explores what academics have valued historically in teaching and also addresses the major reforms of the 21st century. Reforms have essentially changed the nature of African higher education but have made little real difference to the outcomes for student learning and society, whereas teaching with values in all subjects has the potential to radically alter student experiences.
Tailoring Health Messages: Customizing Communication With Computer Technology

Through the use of new technologies researchers and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that are customized based on the unique needs interests and concerns of different individuals. These are examples of tailored health messages which can be highly effective in assisting individuals in understanding and responding to health concerns. This book discusses the process of tailoring and its use in health communication programs. Moreover it presents a theoretical and public health rationale for tailoring and supports its position with empirical evidence. It is noted that tailored health promotion messages are any combination of information and behavior change strategies intended to reach one specific person based on characteristics that are unique to that person related to the outcome of interest and derived from an individual assessment. Hence it measures a participants needs interests and concerns and uses that information to create health messages and materials to fit that person. The step-by-step approach in creating tailoring programs is described in this book.
I will pay someone to do my assignment: an analysis of market demand for contract cheating services on twitter

Abstract Contract cheating providers exist as businesses with a single shared intention, to profit on a student’s inability to fulfil academic requirements for themselves. For contract cheating providers to make money, the correct market conditions are required. First, providers need to be able to offer the expertise that students request. Second, students need to be financially able to pay for specialist support across a diverse range of different areas. If students are unable to meet the price or require expertise that providers do not offer, the transaction is not going to be completed. Therefore, an examination of the demand-side of the contract cheating process in terms of subject matter expertise and the price of offers is important. The research presented in this paper is based on the analysis of 1579 Twitter messages (tweets) that contract cheating providers engaged with. The study aims to examine price variation and the type of assignments students seek to outsource. For typical requests such as essay writing, students are shown to be willing to pay $33.32 per 1000 words. Some services carry a premium, particularly where a student wishes to hire an impersonator to take an examination for them. The student demand for paid help is seen to be highest in the mathematics field, suggesting that students feel under-equipped and under-supported in this area. The paper concludes by discussing further implications of this research and strategies for the minimisation of contract cheating.
Teachers’ Big Five personality traits, emotion regulation patterns, and moods: mediation and prototype analyses

ABSTRACT Research knowledge about the role of teachers’ personality in shaping their mood is still limited. The present study explores the associations between teachers’ five broad personality traits (known as the ‘Big Five’), emotion regulation (suppression and reappraisal), and mood. Data collected from a sample of 113 Israeli teachers were analysed using structural equation modelling analysis and cluster analysis. Path model analysis indicated that suppression mediates the relations between teachers’ conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism on one hand, and their negative mood on the other, and that reappraisal mediates the relations between teachers’ conscientiousness and neuroticism on one hand, and their positive mood on the other. Cluster analysis revealed associations between three personality types of teachers with their emotion regulation and mood. The study clarifies the role that teachers’ personality traits play in determining their affective life.
The Challenges of March and Simon's Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue

March and Simon pushed the study of organizations into the mainstream of academic writing about business. We outline central ideas discussed by the book and its pioneering role in studying cognitive processes underlying boundedly rational human beings. Through their representational approach, March and Simon defined and explicated key mechanisms of individual and organizational decision&#8208;making. Organizations provided an empirically&#8208;based understanding of human behavior and coordination, and set up core scientific criteria for creating the cumulative body of management and organization research. We summarize the papers presented in this special issue and point out contributions by Organizations that have been understated, forgotten or ignored in management studies.
Morphological and Semantic Processing in Developmental Dyslexia

This chapter examines the theoretical and empirical foundations of the roles of morphological and semantic skills in developmental dyslexia. Morphemes are the minimal units of meaning by which we create new words in any given language (e.g., “magic”+“ian” = “magician”). Semantics is the study of meaning, broadly speaking. In this chapter, we review data on children’s access to meaning at the word and sentence level in tasks, primarily in the oral modality. This review is important because of two common assumptions. The first is of the dominant role of phonological skills in dyslexia, an assumption that has limited the scope of empirical exploration into other potentially implicated factors. The second is that people with dyslexia have a strength in morphology and semantics, a speculation with surprisingly little empirical foundation. We first review the theoretical background for these speculations. We then present the available research evidence, focusing specifically on children with dyslexia, for alphabetic, morphosyllabic, and abjad writing systems. We then review explanatory mechanisms, before turning to cross-linguistic dimensions. We conclude with a broad discussion of these theories and findings, including clinical implications.
Creating Visibility: Considering LGBT Older Adults in the Canadian Caregiving Context

CREATING VISIBILITY: CONSIDERING LGBT OLDER ADULTS IN THE CANADIAN CAREGIVING CONTEXT Haley Watson Committee: University of Guelph, 2019 Dr. Kimberley Wilson (Advisor) Dr. Robin Milhausen Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults are at a greater risk of physical and mental illness when compared to heterosexual/cisgender older adults, largely due to stigma and discrimination. LGBT older adults may also avoid or delay seeking care from formal healthcare systems due to historical discrimination, increasing the demand on informal caregivers as this population continues to age. The current study aimed to explore LGBT older adults’ (aged 65+) experiences with informal caregiving and healthcare services, contributing to the gap of Canadian research on this topic. The data of 50 participants were gathered using an online mixed methods survey and then analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. The results indicate that LGBT older adults have unique needs in healthcare environments, especially in regard to their interactions with care providers. Participants had robust social networks, many of which contained other LGBT members with whom informal caring duties could be shared; however, the anticipated need of formal healthcare services remained. As LGBT older adults continue to age and subsequently may rely on more formal services, translating these results into policy and practice to improve their experiences is of utmost importance.
Assessing the Implementation of one of the Principles of Child Friendly School
Model in Public Primary and Secondary Schools in Enugu State.

Child Friendly School Model is an innovative strategy developed in United Nations level to enhance grassroots education for all children irrespective of race, nationality, gender, or physical disabilities. This model was developed to meet the requirements of trendy education practices in schools especially in developing countries including Nigeria. The purpose is to help salvage the salient lapses in some areas in basic educational system, such as poor enrolment and increase in school dropouts in public schools. To meet the objectives of enhancing grassroots education, Child Friendly School Model follows fundamental principles that guide its system and management. One of these principles is that schools must have healthy and health-seeking environments. Unfortunately, many public schools in Enugu State do not implement this principle. Survey design guided this study. The population of this study was the entire teachers and school heads in primary and Secondary Public Schools in Enugu State. 600 respondents were sampled, using stratified random sampling technique. Out of this, 300 respondents each were drawn from both Primary and Secondary Schools. A structured questionnaire containing 14 items was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using mean scores with standard deviations, derived from a 4-point rating scale. The results revealed that public schools in Enugu State do not have healthy and health-seeking environments. School children do not receive medical attention in the school, there are no adequate first Aid supplies, and sick-bays are not available in the school among other problems.
The view from the top: social acceptance and ideological conservatism among sexual minorities

ABSTRACT Politically, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people are recognized as distinctively liberal. However, a small yet persistent proportion of the LGBT population identifies as ideologically conservative. Theories of political conversion suggest that LGBT people demonstrate attitudinal liberalism primarily because of a shared group consciousness that results from political and social stigma. Recent research, however, suggests the liberalizing effects of conversion experiences are mitigated when one views society as accepting of one’s minority identity. Consistent with recent theorizing, I suggest ideological conservatism is a response when one does not share a politicized group identity, a sense of identity-based oppression, or when one experiences social acceptance. I test this assertion across two identity categories, sexuality and race, using a unique data set of LGBT adults in the United States. The results are consistent with my hypotheses in that ideological conservatism is negatively associated with LGBT and racial minority group consciousness. Further, experience with injustice in the form of discriminatory treatment is negatively associated with ideological conservatism. However, the belief that society accepts one’s minority identity is associated with conservatism.
Dual Stream Models of Auditory Vocal Communication

Vocal communication sounds in non-human primates have often been considered as precursors of speech. Indeed, both speech and monkey calls consist of similar acoustic-phonetic elements, including harmonic tones, band-passed noise bursts, and frequency-modulated sweeps. These elements are concatenated into word-like auditory objects. In rhesus monkeys, as well as humans, these communication sounds are represented mostly in anterior regions of superior temporal cortex, which form a ventral processing stream. Posterior regions of superior temporal cortex, by contrast, are the starting point for an auditory dorsal stream, which is responsible for auditory-motor control. Voice sounds, which are non-verbal sounds for the expression of emotions that can also be used to identify speakers and their characteristics, form a partly overlapping category of communication sounds. They too are represented in dual-processing streams in the brains of humans and non-human primates, and may be an important stepping-stone in the evolution of language.
Category learning is constrained by training context and prior experience

Everyday behaviors like interpreting a child’s squeal as thrilled or terrified or understandingdiverse acoustic signals from different talkers to each be the word “thanks” rely oncategorization. Learning to treat perceptually distinct objects as functionally equivalent changeshow we structure our knowledge about the world. Category learning is a major areaof research that spans from cellular neuroscience to human behavioral methods to philosophy.Despite the breadth of research on category learning, much still remains unknown about howhumans create and reorganize mental representations of categories. Even so, the majorityof research on perceptual category learning focuses on visual categories. In this dissertation, Iwill focus on auditory category learning. Sound presents unique learning challenges that areimportant for understanding speech learning, music perception, and everyday listening.This dissertation investigates how humans build on existing knowledge to learn new soundcategories. Chapter 1 presents a theoretical framework on the interaction of sensory experience,perceptual representations, and category learning. Chapters 2 and 3 uncover how factors of thecurrent learning context affect category learning. Chapter 4 examines how existing perceptualrepresentations influence how learners form categories within a perceptual environment.Chapters 5 and 6 investigate how experience with statistically structured sensory informationinfluences similarity-based perceptual representations and the effect of this experience onsubsequent category learning. A neural network model presented in Chapter 7 serves as a startingpoint in understanding the underlying computational mechanisms that allow sensory experienceto shape perceptual representations, which then influence higher-level cognition, such as theprocesses involved in category learning. This research advances understanding of both auditoryand visual categorization by revealing how category learning is both constrained by priorexperience and influenced by regularities and the context of the current learning environment.
Manajemen Pengembangan Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran (MGMP) Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Kompetensi Profesional Guru PAI

Teacher professionalism is an important component that can determine success in the teaching and learning process in the classroom. In an effort to improve teacher professional competence there are several programs that can be done, one of them is by empowering Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran (MGMP) for PAI teachers. MGMP is an opportunity for teachers to be able to develop themselves and innovate in developing the quality of learning in the classroom. This research is a literature review that aims to understand MGMP management as an effort to improve the professional competence of PAI teachers. The results of this study are MGMP requires planning, organizing, mobilizing and monitoring so that the objectives of the MGMP programs can contribute positively to the development of professional competencies for PAI teachers.
Which types of feedback do CBT students in training value most?

Abstract Feedback is regarded as a highly important component in improving work and learning; despite this, there is a lack of research into what feedback types and characteristics cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) students value. The aim of this current research was to identify which types of feedback are valued most by CBT students during training. Using a budgeting methodology, students were asked to ‘purchase’ feedback types they valued the most in their learning. This was achieved by using budgets of different sizes to distinguish between necessities and luxuries as part of an online study. Out of nine types of feedback provided during CBT training, the written feedback on full session video recordings of their own therapy was identified as most valuable to students’ learning. Written feedback on full session video recordings is highly valued by CBT students. This arguably justifies the workload involved for training courses in providing detailed formative feedback on therapy recordings. Key learning aims (1) To know which aspects of feedback are prioritized by CBT students during training. (2) To explore these preferences using a budgeting paradigm from broader educational literature. (3) To help supervisors and trainers know how to prioritize if time and resources are stretched.
Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives

ABSTRACT Previous studies on the diachrony of wh-interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ-wh interrogatives by cleft-wh and in-situ-wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyzes almost 19,000 wh-interrogatives from a corpus of theater plays dated between 1800 and 2016, demonstrating that not all of these frequency changes constitute actual change. The increase in the usage frequency of several types of wh-interrogatives is partially or entirely due to changes in the degree of orality of theater plays, or changes in word order. Moreover, only some of these changes can be characterized as changes from below, that is, changes in which high-orality texts are affected by the frequency increase first. This notion is also relevant for functional change in wh-interrogatives. Over time, the use of cleft-wh and in-situ-wh interrogatives spread from contexts in which the proposition is highly accessible to low-accessibility contexts. For cleft-wh, this change is moderated by orality, again indicating change from below.
Herbal Compatibility of Fuzheng Huayu Recipe against Pulmonary Fibrosis

Objective To investigate the characteristics of herbal compatibility in Fuzheng Huayu Recipe(Recipe to reinforce the anti-pathogenic qi and dissolve stasis) against pulmonary fibrosis in rats.Methods The pulmonary fibrosis models were made by intratracheal injection of bleomycin(BLM) in male SD rats,and successful models were randomly divided into 16 groups according to orthogonal design.A normal control group was established as well.Changes in body weight and lung coefficient,inflammation and collagen deposition of lung tissues were observed,the hydroxyproline(Hyp) content was assayed,the SOD activity and MDA content were measured.Results Compared with the normal control group,the model groups had pulmonary alveolar wall destroyed with inflammatory cells infiltration and collagen deposition,and lung coefficient,lung Hyp and MDA contents increased,but SOD activity decreased.For decreasing Hyp content,the main effective herb is Gynostemma Pentaphyllammak(Jiaogulan),secondly is Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza(Danshen) and Semen Persicae(Taoren),and Cordyceps(Dongchongxiacao) and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis(Wuweizi) had the combinational effect to some extent.For improving SOD activity,the main effective herbs are Cordyceps Extract and Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza.While Cordyceps and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis had the obvious combinational effect.For decreasing MDA content,Gynostemma Pentaphyllammak had remarkably action,Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza and Semen Persicae,Cordyceps and Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza,Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis had the combinational effects.Conclusion The main effective herbs of Fuzheng Huayu Recipe against pulmonary fibrosis in rats are Gynostemma Pentaphyllammak,Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza,and Cordyceps.Among them,Gynostemma Pentaphyllammak plays the pivot role in inhibiting lung collagen production,Cordyceps and Radix Salvia Miltiorrhiza prominently protect rats from peroxidative injury.
Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Tachyarrhythmias in Children and Adolescents

Background Although radiofrequency catheter ablation has been used extensively to treat refractory supraventricular tachycardia in adults, few data are available on its safety and efficacy in children and adolescents. We reviewed registry data obtained from 24 centers to evaluate the indications, early results, complications, and short-term follow-up data in young patients who underwent this procedure. Methods Standardized data were submitted for 652 patients who underwent 725 procedures between January 1, 1991, and September 1, 1992. The mean length of follow-up was 13.5 months. Results The median age of the patients was 13.5 years, and 84 percent of them had structurally normal hearts. The initial success rates for ablation of atrioventricular accessory pathways (508 of 615 procedures) and atrioventricular-node reentry (63 of 76 procedures) were both 83 percent. Greater institutional experience in performing ablation in children and location of the accessory pathway in the left free wall correlated with.