Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Everyday Play: The Formation of Desi Pickup Basketball 27 2. "Who Is Desi? " Understanding Organized Brown Out Basketball 69 3. Racial Ambiguity: Hoopin' in Other Ethnic Leagues 111 4. Getting "Digits": Playing with Heterosexuality and Other Sites of Leisure 145 5. Breaking the Cycle: The Ballplayer Posture and Performances of Exclusion 171 Conclusion 203 Notes 219 Bibliography 235 Index 257 About the Author 267
The pro ﬁ le of deliberate self-poisoning cases presenting at the emergency department of Pelonomi Regional Hospital, Bloemfontein

Background: A common method engaged in suicide is deliberate self-poisoning (DSP). Substances implicated in DSP include prescription and over-the-counter medicines, drugs, household chemicals, agrochemicals and herbal mixtures. Few studies have been conducted on DSP in South Africa, despite its occurrence and high management cost. This study aimed to determine the profile of patients treated for DSP at the emergency department of Pelonomi Regional Hospital, Bloemfontein, between January 2010 and July 2011. A profile of DSP cases will allow practitioners in this region to be aware of the magnitude, causes and common substances used, which will enable them to plan and execute an adequate management protocol to reduce mortality. Methods: This was a retrospective, descriptive study. All DSP patients treated during the 18-month study period were identified from the emergency department register. The clinical files of these patients were reviewed and relevant information captured. Results: In total, 260 DSP patients presented at the emergency department. Files for 212 (81.5%) patients had sufficient information and were included in the study. Two-thirds (66.0%, n = 140) of the patients were female and the highest percentage was in the age group 20 – 29 years (44.8%, n = 94). Most patients were black (81.1%, n = 150). Most resided in areas associated with low socioeconomic status, including informal settlements, farms and townships. The highest percentage of patients took paracetamol (21.7%, n = 46), while 19.3% ( n = 41) ingested household chemicals and 9.9% ( n = 21) antiretroviral medication. Only 81 of the 212 patient files had the reason for the DSP captured. Of these, half (49.4%) reported troubled relationships. Conclusion: This study showed that DSP mostly occurred among females in the age group 20 – 29 years. Most of the patients resided in areas with poor socioeconomic status, and faced relationship, marital, employment and other psycho-socioeconomic problems.
Governing equations of multi-component rigid body-spring discrete element models of reinforced concrete columns

During the past decades, the complexity of conventional methods to perform seismic performance assessment of buildings led to the development of more effective approaches. The rigid body spring-discrete element method (RBS-DEM) is one of these approaches and has recently been applied to the study of the behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings subjected to strong earthquakes. In this paper, the governing equations of RBS-DEM planar elements subjected to lateral loads and horizontal ground motion are presented and used to replicate the hysteretic behavior of experimental RC columns. The RBS-DEM models of columns are made up of rigid components connected by systems of springs that simulate axial, shear, and bending behavior of an RC section. The parameters of springs were obtained using Response-2000 software and the hysteretic response of the models of select columns from the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Structural Performance Database were computed numerically. Numerical examples show that one-component models were able to simulate the initial stiffness reasonably, while the displacement capacity of actual columns undergoing large displacements were underestimated.
Direct Current and Pulsed Direct Current Plasma Nitriding of Ferrous Materials a Critical Review

Abstract Nowadays, the improvement of ferrous materials performance is a problem of high interest. One of well-known wear- and corrosion properties improving technique is plasma nitriding, in which elemental nitrogen is introduced to the surface of a metal part for subsequent diffusion into the material. As a result, a compound, “white” layer and a diffusion zone are formed at the detail’s surface. Most of the authors positively describe the effects of surface ion nitiding. On the other hand, there are also reports on adverse effects of direct current and pulsed direct current plasma nitriding on ferrous materials performance. Therefore, an attempt to provide comprehensive summary on direct current and pulsed direct current ion nitriding and its influence on ferrous materials’ mechanical and corrosion properties has been made. According to the results, some of the technique drawbacks are hard to avoid in mass production.
Title: Population structure and dispersal across small and large spatial scales in a direct 1 developing marine isopod

13 Marine organisms generally exhibit one of two developmental modes: biphasic, with distinct 14 adult and larval morphology, and direct development, in which larvae resemble adults. 15 Developmental mode is thought to significantly influence dispersal, with direct developers 16 expected to have much lower dispersal potential. However, in contrast to our relatively good 17 understanding of dispersal and population connectivity for biphasic species, comparatively 18 little is known about direct developers. In this study, we use a panel of 8,020 SNPs to 19 investigate population structure and gene flow for a direct developing species, the New 20 Zealand endemic marine isopod Isocladus armatus . On a small spatial scale (20 kms), gene 21 flow between locations is extremely high and suggests an island model of migration. 22 However, over larger spatial scales (600km), populations exhibit a clear pattern of isolation- 23 by-distance. Because our sampling range is intersected by two well-known biogeographic 24 barriers (the East Cape and the Cook Strait), our study provides an opportunity to 25 understand how such barriers influence dispersal in direct developers. Our results indicate 26 that I. armatus exhibits significant migration across these barriers, and suggests that ocean 27 currents associated with these locations do not present a barrier to dispersal. Interestingly, 28 we do find evidence of a north-south population genetic break occurring between Māhia and 29 Wellington, two locations where there are no obvious biogeographic barriers between them. 30 We conclude that developmental life history largely predicts dispersal in intertidal marine 31 isopods. However, localised biogeographic processes can disrupt this expectation. 32
Damping reduction factors and code‐based design equation for structures using semi‐active viscous dampers

This study uses a semi‐active viscous damper with three different control laws to reshape the structural hysteresis loop and mitigate structural response, referred to as 1–4, 1–3 and 2–4 devices, respectively. The 1–4 control law provides damping in all four quadrants of the force‐displacement graph (it behaves like a standard viscous damper), the 1–3 control law provides resisting forces only in the first and third quadrants, and the 2–4 control law provides damping in the second and fourth quadrants. This paper first outlines the linear single degree of freedom structural performance when the three types of semi‐active viscous dampers are applied. The results show that simultaneous reduction in both displacement and base‐shear demand is only available with the semi‐active 2–4 device. To enable guidelines for adding a 2–4 device into the design procedure, damping reduction factors (RFξs) are developed, as they play an important role and provide a means of linking devices to design procedures. Three methods are presented to obtain RFξ and equivalent viscous damping of a structure with a 2–4 semi‐active viscous damper. In the first method, the relationship between RFξ and the damping of a semi‐active structure can be obtained by calculating the area under the force‐deformation diagram. The second and third method modified the Eurocode8 formula of RFξ and smoothed results from analysis, respectively. Finally, a simple method is proposed to incorporate the design or retrofit of structures with simple, robust and reliable 2–4 semi‐active viscous dampers using standard design approaches. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
THE TERRITORY BETWEEN SPEECH AND SONG : A JOINT SPEECH PERSPECTIVE

Title The Territory Between Speech and Song: A Joint Speech Perspective Authors(s) Cummins, Fred Publication date 2020-04 Publication information Music Perception, 37 (4): 347-358 Publisher University of California Press Link to online version https://online.ucpress. edu/mp/article/37/4/347/106220/The-Territory-Between-Speech-and-Song-A-Joint Item record/more information http://hdl.handle. net/10197/11921 Publisher's statement All rights reserved. Publisher's version (DOI) 10.1525/mp.2020. 37.4. 347
Employability development opportunities (EDOs) as measures of students’ enhanced employability

Purpose – Empirical studies in relation to employability development opportunities (EDOs) and university students’ enhanced employability are few, especially in Nigeria. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of university students’ engagement with EDOs and to empirically establish the extent of the relationship between these EDOs and students’ enhanced employability. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 600 final-year university students in Nigeria with the use of an adapted questionnaire. The 29 items on the questionnaire were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis in which 28 loaded under six factors which were used for further analysis. Findings – Results indicate that at Nigerian universities students are engaging with all the EDOs to a moderately sufficient extent. Findings also show that there is a significant positive relationship between EDOs and students’ enhanced employability. Besides, considering the relative contribution of each of the EDOs to students’ enha.
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods

The effect of malting conditions on pearl millet malt quality was investigated. Grains were steeped for 24 h at different temperatures of 25, 30 and 35 °C and germinated at 25 °C for 24, 48 and 96 h. Generally, malt quality parameters such as malting loss, diastatic power, αand β-amylase activity, free amino nitrogen (FAN), water extracts were significantly affected (P<0.05) by steeping temperature and germination time. Malting loss, FAN, hot water extract, diastatic power of the malt increased with increase in germination time as well as steeping temperature However germination time from 24 h onwards to 48 h exerted more pronounced enhancing effect on malting loss (140%), hot water extract (145%) and FAN (41%) of the malt. A steeping temperature of 30-35 °C and germination time of 4 days were found to be optimal for pearl millet malting as these conditions resulted in high diastatic power, αand β-amylase activity, hot water extract, FAN and moderate malting loss.
Contrast with Those in Essential Hypertension in Man

Our previous report suggested that increased serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity plays a central part in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension in man. In the present study, we investigated whether such findings can be seen in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The results suggested that serum carboxypeptidase N and kallikrein, rather than ACE, plays a central part in this experimental model. The ACE activity was decreased rather than increased in spontaneously hypertensive rat when compared with that in Wistar-Kyoto rats.
Comparing Japanese and International Studies

It is known that people with intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD) have more deficits in syntactic than other linguistic abilities. However, only a few studies on the syntactic development of people with IDD have been conducted in Japan. As a result, basic studies, accumulated data and the development of assessment methods have been deficient in Japan compared to other countries. This review compared international research findings with studies conducted in Japan. The results indicated that various factors affect the acquisition of syntactic knowledge, including the type of disability and the educational environment, which have not been sufficiently investigated. Based on the results, we have discussed the need to conduct future studies in Japan. It is suggested that future studies need to undertake the following tasks. (1) Developing scales for assessing language development to objectively and comprehensively evaluate syntactic development. (2) Investigating factors affecting syntactic development in people with IDD from perspectives other than the mental age (MA) and intelligence quotient (IQ), including the type of disability, life experience, and cognitive development, among others. (3) Investigate syntactic development in IDD people based on their stage of development, i.e., before or after acquiring grammar. <Key-words> intellectual disabilities, syntax, language development, language disorder s1721386@s.tsukuba. ac.jp (Manami KOIZUMI; Japan) Asian J Human Services, 2019, 16:119-135. © 2019 Asian Society of Human Services Received
Global Engineering Criteria for the development of the global engineering profession

Engineering professionals and students need to be prepared for the increasing use of advanced technology and appropriate skills and attributes in their future workplaces; this is primarily due to the process of globalisation of engineering education and the increasing mobility of engineering professionals around the world. As a result, there is an urgent need to revitalise existing engineering professional criteria implemented for engineering programmes worldwide. In addition to the essential engineering (hard) and professional (soft) skills, engineering criteria must include global skills that will help engineering professional to work globally. The current criteria implemented for the assessment of engineering professional skills in different countries are reviewed in this article. The author endeavours to propose a 3-dimensional Global Engineering Criteria model that can be implemented worldwide for the assessment and accreditation process of engineering programmes. The necessity and advantages of this model are also described in this article.
2 Current Research on Dengue

Dengue is the most important arbovirus disease of humans, in terms of both morbidity and mortality (1). Since the end of World War II, the incidence of dengue disease has increased greatly. Coincident with that increase has been the emergence and spread of a severe and fatal form of the disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHFI DSS), as a major public health problem in many areas of the tropics. Today DHF is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children in many countries of Southeast Asia (2), and in recent years it has become increasingly important in the Pacific Islands and the Americas. Three factors are primarily responsible for the increased epidemic dengue activity. First, there has been a continuous trend toward urbanization in many areas of the tropics, especially in Asia, since World War II (3). Second, there has been a near complete breakdown of effective mosquito control in these same urban centers, making conditions ideal for transmission of domestic mosquito-borne diseases. Last, with the advent of the jet airplane in the early 1960s, there has been a consistent increase in air travel by man, and this has provided the ideal mechanism for transportation and spread of dengue viruses between population centers of the world. Thus, viremic humans are primarily responsible for introduction of new dengue virus strains and serotypes into areas made permissive by lack of mosquito control. It is unlikely that this set of circumstances, which is so favorable to the spread of epidemic dengue, will change in the near future. Consequently, the prospects are good for continued and frequent epidemic dengue and DHF in most populated areas of the tropics. The increased importance of dengue as a public health and economic problem in recent years has led to an expansion of research on this disease. Major advances have been made in our knowledge of the epidemiology
The Economic Consequences of Becoming a

A growing body of research links the rise in lone parent families to growing income inequality and poverty (Burtless 1999; Chevan and Stokes 2000; Martin 2006). These studies suggest that changing family structures and in particular the rise in lone parent families accounted for up to two-fifths of the rise in US family income inequality (for a review see McLanahan and Percheski 2008). However, as these studies use cross-sectional data they are not able to tell how well-off lone parent families would have been had they not become lone parents: those that become lone parents have been poor even if they were had not had children, or if they had remained living with a partner. In this chapter we address the question: to what extent is becoming a lone parent associated with worse economic outcomes for women? We do so by tracking women over a long period of time to see how they are influenced by (i) transitions to motherhood and (ii) partnership status. As authors such as Esping-Andersen (2009) have noted this first transition, the transition to parenthood, and its influence on women’s employment and earnings appears to have an important impact of lone parent’s later outcomes. Yet while a great deal of previous research has examined the effect of motherhood on women’s earnings and employment (e.g. Harkness and Waldfogel 2003) far fewer studies have looked at the subsequent influence that these losses have on lone mothers’ economic outcomes. The economic consequences of partnership status and, of particular relevance here, partnership dissolution, have been much more widely studied. These studies, with few exceptions, find that women, and in particular women with children, face substantial income losses as a result of partnership breakdown (Page and Stevens 2004; Jenkins 2008; Brewer and Nandi 2014). While partnership breakdown and divorce are important routes into lone parenthood, a large share of those that experience lone motherhood become lone parents because they give birth to a child without co-residing with a partner. These “birth
Biofidelity Evaluation of Thoracolumbar Spine Model in THUMS

Thoracolumbar spine injuries in motor vehicle crashes are occurring and the mechanisms are poorly understood. It has been hypothesized to be connected to vehicle’s restraint systems but further studies are required to understand and subsequently address the problem in future restraint systems. Finite Element (FE)-Human body models are invaluable tools for crash analysis, however, quality of the response depends on the biofidelity of the model. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate biofidelity of the thoracolumbar spine model in Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS), Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Central R&D Labs . In this thesis work three dynamic and one static thoracolumbar experiments were simulated. THUMS’ ligaments were verified against cadaveric data. Two modified disc material models were inserted in to THUMS and the results compared against experimental data. The Global Human Body Model Concertium model (GHBMC), GHMBC, LLC was also evaluated against cadaveric data from two experiments. All simulations were run in LS-DYNA and pre and postprocessing tasks were performed in LS-PrePost and Matlab. The response of the lumbar FSUs in THUMS’ under the dynamic compression test was similar to the experimental data but was three to four times less stiff. On the other hand, the T12-L5 segment showed fair correlation of reaction force whereas reaction moment was significantly lower. Kinematics of the cadaveric spine under flexion and extension tests was not captured. Reaction moment, shear force and vertical displacement were found to deviate from the response of the cadaveric specimens during the dynamic flexion and shear test. Only horizontal displacement showed good correlation in this test. THUMS performance was good in the static flexion and shear test but poor in flexion only test. Furthermore, the Capsular Ligaments (CL) and the Ligamentum Flavum (LF) in THUMS were found to be about three times shorter and stiffer, respectively. In all the simulations the intervertebral contacts were responsible for the sudden and large increase and vibrations occurring at about the experimental failure point. The modified disc material models improved response of only the lumbar FSUs under the compression test. In conclusion, biofidelity of the thoracolumbar spine model in THUMS is found to be poor and remodelling is necessary. The compliant nature of the intervertebral discs, the shorter length of the CL and higher stiffness of the LF and the smaller initial invetervertebral gap were identified as the main weaknesses of the model.
Effects of cultural and linguistic backgrounds on perceptual voice quality rating

Perceptual voice judgment is a standard procedure in voice quality evaluation. However, the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the judges often affect its reliability. Use of anchors has been shown to improve the reliability of the procedure. Therefore, this study aimed to develop female synthesized anchors in Cantonese, English, and Putonghua and investigate the reliability of perceptual voice rating across speakers of three native languages using an anchor-matching method. Ten native Cantonese speakers, 10 native English speakers and 10 native Putonghua speakers were recruited to rate the severity of breathiness and roughness of pathological voice samples in Cantonese, English and Putonghua. Results showed high intra-rater agreement (average 87.23%) and inter-rater reliability (average 0.94) across listener groups and stimuli sets. The Putonghua listeners in this study demonstrated significantly lower intra-rater agreement than the Cantonese listeners, suggesting possible cultural and linguistic differences in perceptual voice evaluation between Putonghua and Cantonese listeners.
Rainfall erosivity in interrill areas

Deﬁning a suitable erosive factor for interrill erosion has been a long-going discussion that was not resolved by experimental results. In this paper, by using computational ﬂuid simulations of individual raindrop impacts, the relevance of four erosive factors was assessed for a range of soil resistance, rainfall type and water layer depth. Computation results show that the erosivity exponent associated to the erosive factors had a very low sensitivity to soil resistance. This conﬁrms the common practice of separating rainfall erosivity from soil erodibility. The erosivity exponent was found to be very sensitive to the rainfall type. Therefore, an universal exponent could not be found, its value depending on the rainfall type. As a result of the balance between the shear stress development and the protective eﬀect of the water layer, the soil detachment rate was maximum for a speciﬁc water depth. This supports to better account for the water layer depth in erosion models. Overall, the computational approach shows that the choice of an erosive factor may not be of practical importance. It also encourages for new experimental designs, able to evaluate soil detachment by raindrops — and not only the amount of splashed soil.