Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding and Application of Culturally Diverse Issues Within University Settings

This qualitative study focused on exploring the knowledge and beliefs of university faculty, staff and students regarding: the effects of multicul- turalism and immigration on their professional lives; the influence of cultural issues within the university setting; and, finally, the teaching and learning needs of culturally diverse students. The major findings include the limited knowledge base held by all groups in the sample about multi- culturalism and immigration with subsequent little effect on their profes- sional lives. However, of the three groups, the student group more readily recognized that they have little preparation for the multicultural interactions that will occur in their future professional practices. Although some faculty members included other teaching experiences and strategies to expose students to diversity, they also admitted to a lack of expertise in this area.
Implicit theories of the characteristics and causes of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder held by parents and professionals in the psychological, educational, medical and allied health fields

Current best practice guidelines advocate a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and management of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, no research has yet examined whether parents and professionals share common beliefs about ADHD. This study examined the implicit beliefs about the characteristics and causes of ADHD held by parents and professionals in the psychological, educational, medical, and allied health fields. A total of 670 participants rated 46 characteristics and 29 causal explanations for ADHD. Principal component analyses identified five characteristic factors and six causal factors. There was a high degree of concordance between the groups in their beliefs about the characteristics and causes of ADHD. However, several important differences were also found. The implications of the overlap and differences between professional and nonprofessional groups, and the scientific literature are considered.
Not all microseconds are equal: fine-grained per-flow measurements with reference latency interpolation

New applications such as algorithmic trading and high-performance computing require extremely low latency (in microseconds). Network operators today lack sufficient fine-grain measurement tools to detect, localize and repair performance anomalies and delay spikes that cause application SLA violations. A recently proposed solution called LDA provides a scalable way to obtain latency, but only provides aggregate measurements. However, debugging application-specific problems requires per-flow measurements, since different flows may exhibit significantly different characteristics even when they are traversing the same link. To enable fine-grained per-flow measurements in routers, we propose a new scalable architecture called reference latency interpolation (RLI) that is based on our observation that packets potentially belonging to different flows that are closely spaced to each other exhibit similar delay properties. In our evaluation using simulations over real traces, we show that RLI achieves a median relative error of 12% and one to two orders of magnitude higher accuracy than previous per-flow measurement solutions with small overhead.
Disease factors associated with spousal influence on diabetic diet: An exploratory comparison of Vietnamese American and White older adults

This study examined whether disease-specific factors were important for how and how often White versus Vietnamese American spouses influenced their partners’ diabetic diet. Results from a cross-sectional survey of 145 older adult spouses whose partners had type 2 diabetes revealed that Vietnamese American spouses used more frequent spousal influence (positive and negative) than White spouses. In addition, most of the factors associated with spousal influence differed for Vietnamese American and White spouses. Findings from this study highlight the importance of proximal and sociocultural factors in understanding older spouses’ influence on their partners’ diabetic diet.
The Visual Computing of Projector‐Camera Systems

This article focuses on real‐time image correction techniques that enable projector‐camera systems to display images onto screens that are not optimized for projections, such as geometrically complex, coloured and textured surfaces. It reviews hardware‐accelerated methods like pixel‐precise geometric warping, radiometric compensation, multi‐focal projection and the correction of general light modulation effects. Online and offline calibration as well as invisible coding methods are explained. Novel attempts in super‐resolution, high‐dynamic range and high‐speed projection are discussed. These techniques open a variety of new applications for projection displays. Some of them will also be presented in this report.
A simple technique for improving camera displacement estimation in eye-in-hand visual servoing

A simple technique for estimating the camera displacement from point correspondences in eye-in-hand visual servoing is presented. The idea for providing more accurate results than existing methods consists of taking into account that the point correspondences used during the camera motion correspond to stationary spatial points, hence exploiting additional information, This is done by first estimating the object Euclidean structure and then estimating the camera displacement from this estimate.
Performance analysis of stereo reconstruction algorithms

Environment mapping is one of the most critical tasks in the development of driving assistance systems and stereo vision has been widely used to accomplish it. However, there are very few datasets that allow assessing the performance of a specific method in a real world application. Most datasets have been created in controlled conditions, thus neglecting scenarios that are impossible to reproduce in a laboratory. In this paper, we present the results of the evaluation of three different dense reconstruction algorithm implementations using a number of well-known strategies that represent different trade-offs in terms of cost, set up time and accuracy. In our tests, we evaluated two variants of the Semi-Global Matching algorithm, and the Efficient Large-Scale Stereo Matching method, as well as different combinations of additional filters in order to assess their influence on the final behavior of the algorithms.
Quantum Spin Hall Insulator State in HgTe Quantum Wells

Recent theory predicted that the quantum spin Hall effect, a fundamentally new quantum state of matter that exists at zero external magnetic field, may be realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells. We fabricated such sample structures with low density and high mobility in which we could tune, through an external gate voltage, the carrier conduction from n-type to p-type, passing through an insulating regime. For thin quantum wells with well width d < 6.3 nanometers, the insulating regime showed the conventional behavior of vanishingly small conductance at low temperature. However, for thicker quantum wells (d > 6.3 nanometers), the nominally insulating regime showed a plateau of residual conductance close to 2e2/h, where e is the electron charge and h is Planck's constant. The residual conductance was independent of the sample width, indicating that it is caused by edge states. Furthermore, the residual conductance was destroyed by a small external magnetic field. The quantum phase transition at the critical thickness, d = 6.3 nanometers, was also independently determined from the magnetic field–induced insulator-to-metal transition. These observations provide experimental evidence of the quantum spin Hall effect.
An Oscillatory Short-Term Memory Buffer Model Can Account for Data on the Sternberg Task

A limited number (7 ± 2) of items can be held in human short-term memory (STM). We have previously suggested that observed dual (theta and gamma) oscillations could underlie a multiplexing mechanism that enables a single network to actively store up to seven memories. Here we have asked whether models of this kind can account for the data on the Sternberg task, the most quantitative measurements of memory search available. We have found several variants of the oscillatory search model that account for the quantitative dependence of the reaction time distribution on the number of items (S) held in STM. The models differ on the issues of (1) whether theta frequency varies with S and (2) whether the phase of ongoing oscillations is reset by the probe. Using these models the frequencies of dual oscillations can be derived from psychophysical data. The derived values (fθ = 6–10 Hz ; fγ = 45–60 Hz) are in reasonable agreement with experimental values. The exhaustive nature of the serial search that has been inferred from psychophysical measurements can be plausibly explained by these oscillatory models. One argument against exhaustive serial search has been the existence of serial position effects. We find that these effects can be explained by short-term repetition priming in the context of serial scanning models. Our results strengthen the case for serial processing and point to experiments that discriminate between variants of the serial scanning process.
Genetic Variation of X-STRs in the Wichí Population from Chaco Province, Argentina

Abstract The Wiehí people from Chaco Province inhabit the region called Impenetrable Chaqueño, where the climatic conditions are extreme. Besides scarce communication with the main urban centers, the cultural patterns of the Wichí cause these communities to live in certain degree of isolation. The effect of this situation is an increased genetic differentiation from other populations, as it was observed through autosomal and Y chromosome markers. However, the genetic variation of X chromosome has not yet been fully analyzed. The patterns of allele distribution of different markers of X chromosome can be highly informative in comparative studies, because its special features make this chromosome a potential source to uncover ethnic differences. The aim of this study was to assess the variation of X chromosome present in the Wichi population living around Misión Nueva Pompeya, in Chaco Province, and to identify particular variation of X-repetitive markers (short tandem repeats, X-STRs) in Chaco Amerindians. We genotyped Wichí for 10 noncoding X-STRs and compared them with a Mocoví population and with published data on individuals coming from European immigration. We found high homozygote proportion and linkage disequilibrium values for the X chromosome in the Wichí population. The data showed the Wichí to be more distant from nonnative people than was the Mocoví population analyzed for comparison. We also found certain differences with Mocoví, possibly due to a higher genetic flow of the latter with nonnatives. A process of genetic drift seems to be enhanced by the social behavior of the Wichí, since they live apart from other native and nonnative groups. The geographic isolation and the extreme environmental conditions can also be considered as major factors contributing to the population differentiation. Although we found no new allele or undescribed variation, the whole pattern of variation for these markers gives the Wichí a particular population identity.
Induction of the gap-pgk operon encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and 3-phosphoglycerate kinase of Xanthobacter flavus requires the LysR-type transcriptional activator CbbR

In a previous study, a gene (pgk) encoding phosphoglycerate kinase was isolated from a genomic library of Xanthobacter flavus. Although this gene is essential for autotrophic growth, it is not located within the cbb operon encoding other Calvin cycle enzymes. An analysis of the nucleotide sequence upstream from pgk showed the presence of a gene encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and the 3' end of an open reading frame encoding a protein which is 50% identical to transketolase encoded by cbbT of X. flavus. Gene fusions between pgk and lacZ demonstrated that the gap and pgk genes are organized in an operon. Induction of the Calvin cycle in heterotrophically growing cells resulted in a sixfold increase in phosphoglycerate kinase activity in parallel with the appearance of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase activity. This superinduction of phosphoglycerate kinase did not occur in an X. flavus strain in which cbbR, encoding the transcriptional activator of the cbb operon, was disrupted. The failure to superinduce the gap-pgk operon is not caused by the absence of a functional Calvin cycle, since the expression of this operon in an X. flavus strain with a defective ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase enzyme was the same as the expression in the wild type. It is therefore concluded that the expression of both the cbb and gap-pgk operons is controlled by CbbR.
Correlates of Breast Self‐Examination in a Sample of College Women: Analyses of Linear Structural Relations1

Female college students filled out a questionnaire about breast self-examination (BSE) including (a) past and intended frequency of BSE, (b) attitude toward BSE, (c) beliefs about the benefits and costs of BSE, (d) knowledge about BSE, (e) confidence in ability to perform BSE, (f) social influences to perform BSE, (g) personal experiences related to breast cancer, and (h) perceptions of susceptibility to and severity of breast cancer. Results were consistent with a model in which (a) attitude and confidence are the direct causes of BSE, (b) beliefs about the benefits and costs of BSE are the direct causes of attitude, and (c) social influences (e.g., being taught how) and knowledge are the direct causes of confidence.
To reuse or to be reused. Techniques for component composition and construction

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Research Online Research

Abstract The rapid diminishing in the cost of commodity wireless hardware in recent years has prompted the use of multiple radios to improve the capacity of wireless networks. However, the research has shown that the improvement obtained from using multiple radios does not solely depend on the number of radios, but primarily on how these radios can be integrated in a constructive manner. A common way of integration multiple radios is to use a dedicated radio for control. To date, a number of multi-radio MAC protocol are employing a dedicated radio to control and coordinate the other radios, though the approaches are varied from one to another. In this paper, the control separation techniques in the multi-radio multi-channel MAC have been surveyed
USULAN ALAT BANTU PEMINDAHAN BATAKO UNTUK MENGURANGI RISIKO MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS DI PT. XYZ

PT. XYZ merupakan perusahaan yang memproduksi batako . Aktivitas pemindahan batako dari stasiun pengeringan tahap pertama menuju ke stasiun penyiraman dan pengeringan tahap kedua dilakukan secara manual. Berdasarkan hasil kuesioner SNQ , diketahui bahwa para operator mengalami keluhan musculoskeletal disorder s (MSDs) . Metode yang digunakan untuk pemecahan masalah adalah analisa postur kerja dengan metode REBA dan p endekatan biomekanika dengan metode RWL, LI, dan MPL. Hasil yang diperoleh menyatakan bahwa aktivitas tersebut tergolong ke dalam tingkatan risiko sangat tinggi, serta rekomendasi batas berat beban yang seharusnya diangkat oleh operator adalah 6,76 Kg sedangkan nilai indeks LI yang diperoleh sebesar 3,25, serta batas besarnya gaya tekan (Fc) pada segmen L5/S1 adalah 10415,908 N. Keadaan tersebut mengindikasikan bahwa aktivitas tersebut tergolong kedalam kategori berbahaya dan dapat menyebabkan risiko MSDs. Permasalahan MSDs tersebut dipecahkan dengan memberikan usulan alat bantu pemindahan batako yang dirancang secara ergonomis. A lat bantu yang diusulkan berupa trolley dan pallet batako. Analisis setelah penerapan usulan alat bantu diperoleh bahwa aktivitas tersebut tergolong ke dalam tingkatan risiko kecil, dan rekomendasi batas berat beban yang seharusnya diangkat operator menjadi sebesar 25,98 Kg dan nilai indeks LI yang diperoleh lebih kecil dari 1 (LI<1) yakni sebesar 0,85, serta batas besarnya gaya tekan (Fc) pada segmen L5/S1 menjadi sebesar 6049,772 N. Keadaan tersebut men yatakan bahwa aktivitas tersebut sudah tergolong kedalam kategori aman.
Conocimiento del catalán y castellano por parte del alumnado inmigrante

A lo largo de la ultima decada en Cataluna, la heterogeneidad identitaria, linguistica, cultural y etnica ha crecido de manera importante. En consecuencia, nuestras escuelas se han transformado en centros donde la pluralidad etnica, religiosa, cultural y linguistica es cada dia mas evidente. Pero, a diferencia de otros territorios del Estado, una de las caracteristicas fundamentales de nuestro Sistema Educativo es su organizacion bajo los parametros de la educacion bilingue. De esta manera, ademas de un profundo dominio del catalan, lengua propia de Cataluna y lengua usada como vehicular y de aprendizaje en la ensenanza, se persigue un buen conocimiento de la lengua castellana. En este contexto, diferentes estudios ponen en evidencia el papel clave del dominio de la lengua de la escuela tanto de cara a garantizar el exito escolar como para la integracion y la cohesion social. Con este marco de fondo, nos situamos en el caso del Instituto de Educacion Secundaria (IES) de Guissona, en la comarca de la Segarra, donde por circunstancias diversas el fenomeno migratorio ha sido muy importante a lo largo de la ultima decada. El objetivo de nuestra investigacion es el analisis de las competencias linguisticas del alumnado de dicho centro, tomando como referencia el nivel de competencia linguistica de sus iguales autoctonos.En concreto, a partir de una muestra de 28 ninos y ninas inmigrantes que fueron comparados con un grupo de 93 escolares autoctonos de su misma edad y nivel escolar, nuestro trabajo analiza el desarrollo de diferentes habilidades en lengua catalana y castellana.
Resource Allocation for OFDM Broadcast Channels Allowing User-Wise Coding

Several existing resource allocation algorithms for broadcast OFDM channels require separate codewords for each user in each carrier. In channels with short blocks of constant fading values codewords that strech across several carriers are desirable. Thus, we propose an algorithm with low complexity where user-wise coding is possible by avoiding irresolvable decoding dependencies. We show by means of computer simulations that this algorithm outperforms a pure scheduling approach and still exploits significant amounts of the broadcast gain.
Investigating subjectivity : research on lived experience

An Agenda for the Interpretation of Lived Experience - Carolyn Ellis and Michael G Flaherty PART ONE: INTERPRETING TEXTS The Many Faces of Emotionality - Norman K Denzin Reading Persona Archival Research in Intertextual Analysis - Laurel Graham Four Representations of a Year in the Life of Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth Women's Subjectivity and Feminist Stories - Bronwyn Davies PART TWO: CREATING TEXTS Telling and Performing Personal Stories - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner the Constraints of Choice in Abortion The Reflexive Self through Narrative - Carol Rambo Ronai A Night in the Life of an Erotic Dancer/Researcher The Consequences of Poetic Representation - Laurel Richardson Writing the Other, Re-Writing the Self PART THREE: EXPERIENCING SUBJECTIVITY The Erotics of Hermeneutics of Temporality - Michael G Flaherty Wild Life - Gary Alan Fine Authenticity and the Human Experience of 'Natural' Places The Trail Through Experience - Mark Neuman Finding Self in the Recollection of Travel RT FOUR TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SELF Extraordinary Events and Mundane Ailments - Virginia Olesen The Contextual Dialectics of the Embodied Self The Self, Its Voices, and Their Discord - John Gagnon
Using a Partitioned Treatment Design to Examine the Effect of Project WET

Although young people in 50 U.S. states and 21 countries learn about water resources through Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), few researchers have conducted summative evaluations of the program. The authors employed a partitioned, or differential, treatments design in which two groups of 6th-grade students received overlapping but unique lesson components. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors found that classrooms from both groups had similar pre- to posttest gains on a test of the common material, but each group outperformed the other group on tests of the unique material a group experienced.
Coherent noise suppression in velocity inversion 1

Data components with well-defined moveout other than primary reflections are sometimes called coherent noise. Coherent noise makes velocity analysis ambiguous, since no single velocity function explains incompatible moveouts simultaneously. Contemporary data processing treats the control of coherent noise influence on velocity as an interpretive step. Dual regularization theory suggests an alternative, automatic inversion algorithm for suppression of coherent noise when primary reflection phases dominate the data. Experiments with marine data illustrate the robustness and effectiveness of the algorithm.
Data Access Exception Detecting of WS-BPEL Process Based on Workflow Nets

The current workflow nets models of WS-BPEL are feature completed, but almost all of them lack data information, so they cannot be used to detect the data access exception in WS-BPEL. In order to overcome this shortcoming, this paper presents a new type of Petri nets-DWFN(Data workflow nets), which makes the data flow modeling and exceptions detection of WS-BPEL possible. Then the DWFN model of corresponding elements in WS-BPEL and the data access exception detecting algorithm are proposed. Furthermore, we show the effectiveness of this model for checking the data access exception by an example. Overall, the research of this thesis provides effective support to the composition of Web services.
Dealing with the Aftermath: The Needs Acquisition and Behavior Change Model for Couples With a Recovering Alcoholic Partner

This article addresses the application of the Needs Acquisition and Behavior Change approach to providing therapeutic support for couples with a recovering alcoholic partner. The Needs Acquisition and Behavior Change Model was originally developed at the McGill Domestic Violence Clinic. It uses an integrated therapeutic approach combining observation and elucidation of client process, using concepts also described in cognitive-behavioral, motivational, narrative, and emotion-focused models. The Needs Acquisition and Behavior Change Model is distinguished by its focus on how unmet relational needs and the emotions they predict contribute to the maladaptive behaviors which bring clients into treatment. In the context of providing therapy for couples it provides a unique approach that helps clients to understand the origins of their behavior individually and in the context of their dyad and supports them in the formulation of more constructive ways to react to relational concerns both past and present.