Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Students' Sensory Modalities and Acceptance of using FUNancial.S.Battle (FSB) as Learning Method In Accounting Education

Accounting educators uses various techniques in making the subject interesting including introducing of accounting games in class. However, previous study shows that students’ improvement is varied. Therefore this paper aims to explore students' ability to absorb learning financial statement using board game known as FUNancial.S. Battle (FSB) with their sensory modalities, VAK (visual, auditory, kinesthetic). 64 students enrolled for Financial Accounting 2 (FAR160) subject was chosen to participate in this study, as they have enough basic knowledge about financial statement. They were given set of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) representational system preference test before playing the FSB game, once finished, another set of questionnaire was given to get their feedback about the game. Results were then analysed using SPSS to find whether there is any relationship between students' VAK and their acceptance of using board game as learning method in understanding the preparation of financial statement. Result shows that students with kinesthetic ability preferred using games better than the others. Since this area of study was rarely found in Malaysia, further study need to be done to confirm the finding. Furthermore sample of students should involve those majoring in accounting and also non-accounting students to see the difference. Further analysis should be done in future research to find out the significant relationship between sensory modalities and FSB game acceptance.
Giving Time: Examining Sector Differences in Volunteering Intensity

Sector differences in prosocial motivations and behaviors among workers receives a great deal of attention in public administration scholarship. Extant literature consistently finds public sector workers are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering, than their peers in the private sector. Less attention has been paid to the sector gap in volunteerism along the intensive margin. Using time-diary data, which accounts for potential social desirability bias, from a nationally representative sample, this study investigates the gap between public sector workers and their private sector counterparts. The results suggest that public sector workers spend more time, on an average day, volunteering than observably similar private sector peers, and the difference cannot be explained by other observable differences between public and private sector workers. The gap in volunteer intensity is largest at the local level and among teachers. The implications of these results for research and practice are discussed.
Under the Radar: Strategies Used by Black Mothers to Prepare Their Sons for Potential Police Interactions

The current qualitative study explores the experiences of Black mothers who prepare their sons for potential police encounters. Police presence in the Black community has historically elicited feelings of mistrust and fear among Black Americans, and those sentiments resonate today. The discrete incidents of police violence in the United States have been exposed due to an increase in media documentation of the phenomenon. Increased awareness of police violence has also provided insight into the impact that police encounters can have on Black families. A focus group was conducted with six Black mothers with sons ranging in ages from 11 to 33 years. Results highlighted strategies that participants shared with their sons to prepare for a potential police encounter, which included knowing the harsh realities of being Black, regulating their behavior, reframing negative schemas about police, and utilizing family and community supports. Participants believed that sharing strategies and instructions with their sons could enhance safety during a potential police encounter.
Exploring How Fourth-Grade Emerging Bilinguals Learn to Write Opinion Essays

ABSTRACT The population of emerging bilinguals (EBs) is rapidly growing across the United States leaving many teachers wondering how best to teach these students to read and write effectively in English. Concurrently, and as a result of the Common Core State Standards, elementary school students are required to produce more sophisticated writing than ever before. For example, all students in Grades K-5 are expected to write an opinion essay that requires an understanding of the topic in order to generate an opinion and the ability to craft evidence to support this opinion. The purpose of this study was to determine how EBs develop as writers of opinion essays. A multiple case study was conducted in a 4th grade English as a Second Language classroom where students (N = 6) were taught to write opinion essays in English. Data sources included interviews, classroom observations, and multiple student writing and work samples that were conducted and collected over the course of six weeks. Three specific categories emerged from the data including: (a) a more knowledgeable other, (b) the need for two-step graphic organizers, and (c) the value of partner talk/collaboration. Implications and recommendations of these findings are provided for both educators and researchers.
Wearable Technologies and Journalism Ethics: Students' Perceptions of Google Glass

Technologies change the reporting landscape on a regular basis. Students must be active ex-plorers of new technologies to think through uses for reporting. Capstone course students participated in surveys along with small group training sessions to examine whether Google Glass could be useful for journalism. Fifty-six students in two capstone journalism courses completed surveys with Likert-type scale and open-ended questions to measure (1) new technology attitudes, (2) ease of use, (3) usefulness of the technology, (4) subjective norms and (5) image. Pretest results indicate high levels of perceived usefulness of Glass for reporting, yet only one student specifically asked to use the device for a story. Two themes emerged from the pretest open-ended responses: (1) output quality questions and (2) ethical concerns. While wearable technologies have similar capabilities to smart phones recording in public, student’s ethical concerns appeared to play a role in the actual use of the new device.
Relation between Self-efficacy and Creative Thinking at Writing Skill Learning

Self-efficacy is a person's belief in his ability to solve planned activities. Self-efficacy reflects a person’s confidence in their ability to perform tasks creatively and optimistically. The elements to Self-efficacy are mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasion, affecative physiological states. Creative thinking is ability to find new ideas originally that are surprising to define it, and also valuable in sensitivity, and the factors are fluency, flexibility, originality, sensitivity, and elaboration. Learning at class need self-efficacy and creative thinking based, the both have relation that influence. Researcher will reveal it at writing skill learning. This study aims at investigating the relationship between self-efficacy and creative thinking of university students at writing skill learning. The method uses quantitative with correlation of two variables with paired sample test. The subject of the study is 53 third semester students of Arabic Language Education Department of Arabic Literature Faculty of State University of Malang Indonesia at writing skill class . Its coefficient correlation is 0,799 and p-value 0,000. The result of this study indicates significant correlation between self-efficacy and creative thinking at writing skill learning. The Fact, self-efficacy increased so creative thinking increased much and otherwise. The Teacher has important role of writing skill learning as facilitator or instructor so that the students like the learning and enhancement of trust.
Grades versus comments: Research on student feedback

Opinions about whether comments, grades, or both are the most effective forms of feedback vary widely among teachers, school leaders, and even grading and assessment consultants. Thomas Guskey maintains that the truth is not as clear-cut as some suggest. He reviews the research, going back to the 1950s, to better understand when certain types of feedback are most useful. He concludes that grades and comments are not, in and of themselves, beneficial to student learning. Effective feedback, whether in the form of grades or comments, must give students a sense of where they are and what they need to do to improve.
CAROTID BODY TUMOR: SURVEY OF 97 PATIENTS

Background-Carotid body tumor is not a common disease but it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of neck masses at the mandibular angle. Whithout a correct diagnosis the surgeon unexpectedly encounters leading to a fruitless termination in 23.7% of cases. Methods-In this study, medical records of 97 patients with carotid body tumor were reviewed retrospectively. These patients had been referred to the vascular surgery division in a teaching hospital and one of the private hospitals in Tehran from November 1985 to July 2001. Results- Male to female ratio was 1: 2 and the mean age of the patients at the time of presentation was 40 years (range: 10 - 75 years). The most common complaints of the patients at first visit included: neck mass (100%), discomfort in the neck (13.4%), dizziness (4.1%), palpitation (3.1%), hypertension (2.06%), and hoarseness (3.1%). The tumor was bilateral in five patients (5.1%). The mean interval between onset of symptoms and the first visit was 4.6 years. The size of the neck mass was less than 5 cm in 60.8% of cases and greater than 5 cm in 39.2% of cases. The mass was excised in all patients, with ligation of the external carotid artery in 10.3% of cases and ligation of the internal carotid artery and graft replacement in 5.1% of cases with no postoperative consequences. The final pathologic diagnosis included paraganglioma (86.6%), schwannoma (11.3%), and mesenchymoma (2.06%). Three cases (3.1%) were malignant paraganglioma. Conclusion- Many of our patients are referred in late stages with large tumors. However, following a successful resection, complete cure will ensued with no further recurrence.
Transparancy in BCI: the effect of the mapping between an imagined movement and the resulting action on a user's sense of agency

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) allow us to control a device, only using thought. However, the mapping between the mental task and the BCI output is often not very straightforward and therefore not very transparent. A mapping between the mental task and the BCI output is called transparent when the performed action is conform to the mental task. An non-transparent mapping may cause uncertainty about whether the user is the agent of the action and is causing or controlling the outcome. The feeling of being the one who is causing or generating an action, is called sense of agency (Gallagher, 2000). In this project, a BCI-experiment is conducted to discover the effect of the mapping between an imagined movement and the resulting action on sense of agency.
The Dilemma of Dirty Money

Money is generally seen as good, but what about when it is morally tainted? Does this affect whether people want money or how they would spend it? In this article, we review a nascent literature on “dirty money” and then organize these findings using a framework that formalizes the idea that dirty money creates a valuation conflict because it is both “good” (the money part) and “bad” (the dirty part). To show how this conflict is adjudicated, we draw on the self-control literature, which provides a way to think about how dueling impulses come into being and wax and wane over time until one prevails. We conclude by outlining promising directions for future research and considering their broader implications for the field.
ANALISIS SIKAP KONSUMEN TERHADAP PROGRAM CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) BERUPA DONASI PADA BISNIS RITEL ALFAMART

This research aims to analyze the attitudes of consumers regarding the cognitive, affective, and conative components toward Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program in the form of Donations Alfamart retail business. This research is a descriptive quantitative research using three box analysis method to measure each component of consumer attitudes toward donation program. This research using a sample of as many as 200 respondents. The results of this study suggest that the cognitive attitude (81,42%), have the highest index which means that consumer knowledge and trust on donation program is very high. Most consumers already know and have felt the benefits of donation program. The affective component is also of high index value (80,3%) which means that consumers feel happy and proud about donating. The conative component shows high index value too (71,1%), but not as high as the cognitive and affective components. This research suggests that PT. SAT (Sumber Alfaria Trijaya) should maintain programs that have been considered the good by community through informing the program via payment receipt, banners and posters which contain the results of the CSR activities that have been carried out in order to help people who are less fortunate.
Influencing Factors on Infant Mothers’ Happiness

아리스토텔레스는 행복이란 인간이 추구하는 목적의 전 부, 최고의 좋음, 이성에 의해 인격적 덕성이 최상에 지향 된 삶이라 표현하였으며, 모든 사람이 행복에 이르러야 한 다고 말하였다(Jo, 2015). 최근 우리나라 행복지수에 관한 설문조사에서 응답자 중 44.2%가 행복하기 위해 가장 필 요한 것으로 ‘가족’이라고 답하여(KSURVEY, 2014) 우리 나라 사람은 행복한 삶을 행복한 가정에서부터 출발한다고 생각하는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 가정의 행복 중 자녀의 출산과 양육의 과정에서 경험하는 부모됨을 중요한 행복의 □ 원 저 □ 한국모자보건학회지 제23권 제4호(2019년 10월) J Korean Soc Matern Child Health 2019;23(4):220-231 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21896/jksmch.2019. 23.4. 220 pISSN 1226-4652ᆞeISSN 2384-440X
Beyond the Body Count

I position critical ethnographic researcher field notes as an opportunity to document the physical and ideological violence that white settler states and institutions on the school-prison nexus inflict on the lives of girls of color generally and Black girls specifically. By drawing on my own field notes, I argue that critical social science researchers have an ethical duty to move their inquiries beyond conventions of settler colonial empirical science when they are wanting to create knowledges that transcend traditions of body counts and classification systems of human lives. As first responders to the social emergencies in girls’ lives, researchers can make palpable spatialization of institutionalized forms of settler epistemologies to convey more girl-centered ways of speaking against quantifiable hierarchies of human life.
An analysis of Conversational Implicature in Avengers: Age of Ultron movie script

Language is an effective communication tool and has an important role for humans. As a tool of communication, the language used by humans to interact between each other in the community because people living in the community. Onestudy that deals with verbal communication is pragmatics. Pragmatics talks about people’s intended meaning, their assumption, their purpose or goals andalso the kind of action. This study attempts to analyze pragmatically theconversational implied meaning or simply called implicature on the dialogue of Avenger: Age of Ultron Movie Script based on Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its maxims. The main objective of this research is to discover how utterance can go beyond itsliteral meaning by the disobeying or flouting of some principles by the speakerin dialogue because flouting maxims particularly salient way of getting a hearer to draw an inference and hence recovers an implicature or implied meaning. There are three research problems being observed namely: (1) What are type of the conversational implicatures that occur in dialogue of Avenger: Age of Ultron Movie Script (2) What are type of flouting maxims that violated by the chararcters in the dialogue in Avenger: Age of Ultron Movie Script (3)What is the most dominant type of the conversational implicature and the most dominant type of flouting maxims in Avenger: Age of Ultron Movie Script. This research is using descriptive qualitative method. It is intended to investigate that three research problems inrelation flouting maxim and conversational implicature. The data are theutterances in the dialogue of Avenger: Age of Ultron movie script that contain implicature. After analyzed the datas, the total of the utterance which flout the maxim are 18 which means they generate 18 conversational implicatures in the dialogue The Avengers: Age of Ultron movie script. There are; flout the maxim of quality (1), flout the maxim of quantity (10), flouts the maxim of relevance (6), and flout the maxim manner (1). The type conversational implicature is divided into two types. There are generalized conversational implicatures (1) and particularized conversational implicatures (17).
Use of a competency framework to explore the benefits of student-generated multiple-choice questions (MCQs) on student engagement

ABSTRACT Student engagement in large Life Sciences classes can be problematic, especially with the course work done outside formal class contact hours. To enhance student engagement with the content outside class time, we designed an assignment spanning one semester that required students to author MCQs. We used Bloom’s taxonomy to evaluate the MCQs. Additionally, we derived a three-level framework to analyse the demands on the student question-setters by determining the competencies required to construct the MCQs. This two tier analysis of MCQs allowed us to gauge the level of student engagement with course materials. The three-level competency framework referred to students’ foundational domain knowledge at level 1 to application and prediction of cellular functions in normal and abnormal situations, within a topic at level 2 and across different topics at level 3. From 40 sample MCQs, slightly over 50% targeted mid- to high-level Bloom’s taxonomy. Slightly under 50% of the questions required attainment of level 2 and 3 competencies for construction. However, we noted a high level of academic engagement and some level of cognitive engagement among several students which are consistent with self-reports in an anonymous student survey conducted after the semester. We suggest that using a competency framework to analyse student-authored MCQs can make explicit students’ efforts at constructing MCQs.
Collaboration in a multimedia environment: world-building and design strategy in music production

This practice-based MPhil submission contains two elements, video recordings of my current practice in collaborative art, and an exegesis that contextualizes this practice. As part of this research, three artists from different backgrounds have worked together on the transformation of a musical album into a stage performance. The transformation of a symbolic space into a Multimedia Environment has been realized through the development of three prototypes. This iterative design process, based on improvisation, is described and evaluated from the perspective of the reflective practitioner. The artefact as practical element discussed in this exegesis is presented on an accompanying DVD. The advance and democratization of technology continuously provides new opportunities for artists to express themselves, as well as for audiences to experience and engage with works of art in new ways. This development gives rise to questions regarding human-technology interaction and has been generating an increase of interest in collaborative design and the distribution of creativity. This is clearly visible in the fields of filmmaking and game design, in which the construction of ‘story worlds’ and complex narrative structures has led to the development of network-based and nonlinear models for production and distribution of media. As part of an emerging discourse on design strategy for decentralized music production, this research expands the notion of transmedia storytelling and the appropriation of the concept of world-building in the field of music production. As a result, this research presents key issues regarding design strategy and collaboration in a Multimedia Environment, in particular, key issues related to the transformation and distribution of resources, the synchronisation of design processes, and support of involvement and engagement of participants. This research has led to the conclusion that the construction of ‘story worlds’ as a design strategy in artistic practice, and the field of music production in particular, supports the distribution of creativity and the development of a participatory structure.
Older Adults’ Recalled Memorable Messages about Aging and Their Associations with Successful Aging

Using the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging (CEMSA), this study examined how one’s own age-related communication and memorable message characteristics indirectly predict successful aging, via aging efficacy. Older adults with higher dispositional hope recalled memorable messages as (a) higher in positivity, (b) higher in efficacy, and (c) more likely to contain a theme of aging not being important or being a subjective state that can be overcome with the right mindset. Older adults were classified as engaged, bantering, or disengaged agers, based on their own age-related communication. Uniquely for CEMSA’s development and the blended role of hope theory within it, memorable message efficacy indirectly predicted greater successful aging, via heightened aging efficacy.
Try before you buy: a small business employer (SME) perspective of international student mobility in England

ABSTRACT Attracting international students has become a strategic priority for UK immigration policy as well as for British universities. However, research shows that there are emergent intercultural barriers that challenge international students' carrier aspirations and inhibit their ability to find employment. Also, small business employers (SMEs) are becoming a significant force in the post-Brexit UK economy and integral to creating innovation and employment opportunities. Despite this significance, we do not know what SME owners view the value of international students and how these perceptual discourses shape international student experience and mobility. In response, this research investigates small business employer discourses relating to international student employability. We base our data collection in strategically important North East of England and draw from semi-structured in-depth interviews with small business employers from the region. Our findings discuss their perception of international students as well as universities and discuss how these prevailing discourses influence international students' employability. We specifically show how socio-cultural dispositions of international students, dominant British employer and market discourses, and universities strategic pursuits interplay and contribute to challenges international students confront within the highly competitive and dynamic higher education environment.