Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictors of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction among State Agency Rehabilitation Counselors: Oregon.

The job satisfaction and organizational commitment of rehabilitation counselors working in the public rehabilitation agencies in Oregon are the focus of this study. Participants were 63 rehabilitation counselor survey respondents whose agencies agreed to take part in the study. Because of the small population size, Oregon's general (n=120) and blind agency (n=10) counselor responses were combined. Job satisfaction was measured using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. The three components of organizational commitment (affective, normative, and continuance) were examined using the Organizational Commitment Scales. Potential predictor variables examined were: (1) years of service; (2) age; (3) education level; (4) Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) status; (5) conscientiousness; (6) initiative; (7) cooperation; and (8) attendance/punctuality. Results indicate that work behaviors are important predictors of overall job satisfaction and affective attachment of counselors toward the agencies for which they work. Because both job satisfaction and emotional attachment have been linked to higher levels of productivity, Oregon's public rehabilitation agencies are encouraged to develop ways of rewarding those counselor behaviors (conscientiousness and initiative) which are most predictive of job satisfaction and affective commitment. Contains two appendices: (1) Job Satisfaction Items and (2) Organizational Commitment Items. (JBJ) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** PREDICTORS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG STATE AGENCY REHABILITATION COUNSELORS: OREGON
Organization Personality Perceptions and Attraction: The Role of Social Identity Consciousness

The current study explores the theory of symbolic attraction. The theory suggests that social identity consciousness moderates the relationship between symbolic inferences between organizations and attraction to those organizations. The study explored the two dimensions of social identity consciousness (i.e., social adjustment concern and value expression concern) as moderators of the relationship between organization personality perceptions (i.e., boy scout, innovativeness, dominance, style, and thrift) and organization attraction. The results of the study suggest that value expression concern moderates the relationships between boy scout, innovativeness, style, and thrift perceptions and attraction such that the relationships between these variables are stronger among those high on value expression concern. There was no support for social adjustment concern as a moderator of these relationships.
Multilevel Synthesis: From the Group to the Individual

The purpose of this book is to present a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its seventeenth-century origins up to the present day, use it to demonstrate how the multilevel approach can resolve some of the contradictions that have become apparent and achieve a synthesis of the different approaches employed. Part one guides the reader from period analysis to multilevel analysis, examining longitudinal and event history analysis on the way. Part two is a detailed account of multilevel analysis, its methods, and the relevant mathematical models notably as regards the type of variables being used. Numerous examples, examined across successive sections, make the book clear and easy to follow. The theoretical and epistemological treatment of these problems, during which the foundations of sociology and demography are revisited, and the logical development that leads to the most recent approaches, are handled sufficiently rigorously to satisfy social science specialists while remaining accessible for readers new to the field. The whole adds up to a comprehensive account of progress in sociological and demographic savoir-faire, as well as being both a textbook and an assessment of the multilevel analysis that tackles one of the major problems of empirical sociology: that of integrating analysis at the individual and group levels.
Senator Robert Walker's 1844 Letter on Texas Annexation: The Rhetorical "Logic" of Imperialism

Benedict Anderson argues in Imagined Communities that "the magic of nationalism" is that it "turns chance into destiny" and "contingency into meaning. " Furthermore, Anderson suggests that the production of this magic nationalism-of-destiny-and-meaning rests upon the ability to "imagine a community or nation as deep, horizontal comradeship, regardless of actual inequality and exploitation. "1 Senator Robert J. Walker's 1844 Letter on Texas Annexation epitomizes both aspects of this process of imagining a community, as it 1) reconfigures the complex politico-economic and cultural contradictions shaping the crisis of Texas annexation as a manageable, functional, political opportunity to realize the United States' national "destiny," while 2) vigorously avoiding the fact that Texas' slave-based cotton-economy was responsible for profound inequalities. While 30 percent of Texas' white population owned slaves, 72 percent of Texas' real property, and 89 percent of the state's lucrative cotton market, only 2.3 percent of Texas' white population owned 20-or-more slaves (widely considered the general dividing line between small-scale farmers and the "planter aristocracy"); hence, even within the ranks of Texas' slave-holding whites, property and wealth were distributed in a strikingly skewed manner.2 Walker's Letter nonetheless portrays Texas annexation not as an expedient imperialist maneuver to support the politico-economic ambitions of the region's slave-holding elite, but rather as a burning opportunity to extend the "inevitable" promise of the United States' heralded democracy and economic equality. Walker's Letter is therefore a prime example of what Terry Eagleton calls the "actively organizing function of ideology,"3 as it attempts to create both a
A Posture Recognition-Based Fall Detection System for Monitoring an Elderly Person in a Smart Home Environment

We propose a novel computer vision-based fall detection system for monitoring an elderly person in a home care application. Background subtraction is applied to extract the foreground human body and the result is improved by using certain postprocessing. Information from ellipse fitting and a projection histogram along the axes of the ellipse is used as the features for distinguishing different postures of the human. These features are then fed into a directed acyclic graph support vector machine for posture classification, the result of which is then combined with derived floor information to detect a fall. From a dataset of 15 people, we show that our fall detection system can achieve a high fall detection rate (97.08%) and a very low false detection rate (0.8%) in a simulated home environment.
An RSSI gradient-based AP localization algorithm

Recent rapid rise of indoor location based services for smartphones has further increased the importance of precise localization of Wi-Fi Access Point (AP). However, most existing AP localization algorithms either exhibit high errors or need specialized hardware in practical scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel RSSI gradient-based AP localization algorithm. It consists of the following three major steps: firstly, it uses the local received signal strength variations to estimate the direction (minus gradient) of AP, then employs a direction clustering method to identify and filter measurement outliers, and finally adopts triangulation method to localize AP with the selected gradient directions. Experimental results demonstrate that the average localization error of our proposed algorithm is less than 2 meters, far outperforming that of the weighted centroid approach.
Eikenella corrodens Discitis in a Habitual Betel Quid Chewer: A Case Report

Study Design. Case report. Objective. To describe the case of a patient who habitually chewed betel quid and presented with intractable lower back pain owing to L4–L5 discitis caused by Eikenella corrodens. Summary of Background Data. E. corrodens is a normal inhabitant of mucosal surfaces in humans, particularly the oral cavity. Vertebral discitis due to E. corrodens is extremely rare. Discitis caused by E. corrodens in a habitual betel quid chewer has not been reported thus far. Methods. A 52-year-old man had suffered from lower back pain for many years, and it worsened 3 months before admission. He had had severe periodontitis because of habitual betel quid chewing for over 10 years. Results. The patient underwent staged spine surgeries because of the coexistence of L4–L5 discitis and isthmic spondylolisthesis. Tissue culture revealed the presence of E. corrodens. One and half years after the operation, the patient was fully ambulatory but demonstrated mild atrophy in the right thigh compared with the left thigh. Conclusion. E. corrodens discitis is extremely rare. We hypothesize that E. corrodens is a potential causative organism of discitis in patients who habitually chew betel quid.
Application of Constraint-based Technologies in Financial Services Recommendation (invited talk)

Constraint-based recommender systems rely on an explicitly defined set of constraints that are used to take into account product domain properties, customer requirements, and legal requirements. This paper focuses on different aspects of the application of constraint-based technologies in financial service related scenarios. We show how to support the process of defining and maintaining recommendation knowledge and how to efficiently support users when interacting with constraint-based recommender systems. Finally, we discuss psychological issues that have to be taken into account when implementing such types of recommender systems.
Practical Authenticated Pattern Matching with Optimal Proof Size

We address the problem of authenticating pattern matching queries over textual data that is outsourced to an untrusted cloud server. By employing cryptographic accumulators in a novel optimal integrity-checking tool built directly over a suffix tree, we design the first authenticated data structure for verifiable answers to pattern matching queries featuring fast generation of constant-size proofs. We present two main applications of our new construction to authenticate: (i) pattern matching queries over text documents, and (ii) exact path queries over XML documents. Answers to queries are verified by proofs of size at most 500 bytes for text pattern matching, and at most 243 bytes for exact path XML search, independently of the document or answer size. By design, our authentication schemes can also be parallelized to offer extra efficiency during data outsourcing. We provide a detailed experimental evaluation of our schemes showing that for both applications the times required to compute and verify a proof are very small---e.g., it takes less than 10μs to generate a proof for a pattern (mis)match of 102 characters in a text of 106 characters, once the query has been evaluated.
Computational Complexity of the Extended Minimum Cost Homomorphism Problem on Three-Element Domains

In this paper we study the computational complexity of the extended minimum cost homomorphism problem (Min-Cost-Hom) as a function of a constraint language, i.e. a set of constraint relations and cost functions that are allowed to appear in instances. A wide range of natural combinatorial optimisation problems can be expressed as extended Min-Cost-Homs and a classification of their complexity would be highly desirable, both from a direct, applied point of view as well as from a theoretical perspective. The extended Min-Cost-Hom can be understood either as a flexible optimisation version of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) or a restriction of the (general-valued) valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP). Other optimisation versions of CSPs such as the minimum solution problem (Min-Sol) and the minimum ones problem (Min-Ones) are special cases of the extended Min-Cost-Hom. The study of VCSPs has recently seen remarkable progress. A complete classification for the complexity of finite-valued languages on arbitrary finite domains has been obtained in [Thapper and Zivny, STOC'13]. However, understanding the complexity of languages that are not finite-valued appears to be more difficult. The extended Min-Cost-Hom allows us to study problematic languages of this type without having to deal with with the full generality of the VCSP. A recent classification for the complexity of three-element by Min-Sol [Uppman, ICALP'13], takes a step in this direction. In this paper we generalise this result considerably by determining the complexity of three-element extended Min-Cost-Hom.
Rotor-Router Walks on Directed Covers of Graphs

In the paper "Transience and recurrence of rotor-router walks on directed covers of graphs", published in ECP volume 17 (2012), no. 41 there is an error in the proof of Corollary 3.8. This corollary is essential for the transient part in the proof of Theorem 3.5(b). We fix this error by constructing a new rotor-router process, which fulfills our needs, and for which the statement of Corollary 3.8. holds.
The Relationship between Personality and Depression in Expectant Parents

Several studies assessed the relationship between depression and dimensions of temperament/character using the Cloninger's model of personality and the TCI-R. The aim of this study is clarify the relation between depression and personality in men and women who are expecting a baby. The Temperament and Character Inventory—Revised Form and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered to 65 pregnant women and 37 husbands during the last quarter of pregnancy. ANOVAs showed that pregnant women had higher levels of depression, reward dependence, and self-transcendence than the expectant fathers. Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis in the pregnant women group showed that harm avoidance and self-directedness were significant predictors of the level of depression. In the expectant fathers, only self-directedness was a significant predictor of depression. Low TCI-R self-directedness is a strong predictor of depression in expectant parents during pregnancy regardless of gender, and high TCI-R harm avoidance is an additional predictor of depression in expectant mothers.
Experimental Comparison of Feature Subset Selection Methods

In the field of machine learning and pattern recognition, feature subset selection is an important area, where many approaches have been proposed. In this paper, we choose some feature selection algorithms and analyze their performance using various datasets from public domain. We measured the number of reduced features and the improvement of learning performance with chosen feature selection methods, then evaluated and compared each method on the basis of these measurements.
Energy expenditure of freely swimming adult green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and its link with body acceleration

SUMMARY Marine turtles are globally threatened. Crucial for the conservation of these large ectotherms is a detailed knowledge of their energy relationships, especially their at-sea metabolic rates, which will ultimately define population structure and size. Measuring metabolic rates in free-ranging aquatic animals, however, remains a challenge. Hence, it is not surprising that for most marine turtle species we know little about the energetic requirements of adults at sea. Recently, accelerometry has emerged as a promising tool for estimating activity-specific metabolic rates of animals in the field. Accelerometry allows quantification of the movement of animals (ODBA/PDBA, overall/partial dynamic body acceleration), which, after calibration, might serve as a proxy for metabolic rate. We measured oxygen consumption rates () of adult green turtles (Chelonia mydas; 142.1±26.9 kg) at rest and when swimming within a 13 m-long swim channel, using flow-through respirometry. We investigated the effect of water temperature (Tw) on turtle and tested the hypothesis that turtle body acceleration can be used as a proxy for . Mean mass-specific () of six turtles when resting at a Tw of 25.8±1.0°C was 0.50±0.09 ml min–1 kg–0.83. increased significantly with Tw and activity level. Changes in were paralleled by changes in respiratory frequency (fR). Deploying bi-axial accelerometers in conjunction with respirometry, we found a significant positive relationship between and PDBA that was modified by Tw. The resulting predictive equation was highly significant (r2=0.83, P<0.0001) and associated error estimates were small (mean algebraic error 3.3%), indicating that body acceleration is a good predictor of in green turtles. Our results suggest that accelerometry is a suitable method to investigate marine turtle energetics at sea.
Evaluation of the general health of the infertile couples

Background: The prevalence of infertility is variable between 5-30% around the world. In Iran, more than 2 million couples suffer from infertility. Infertility causes depression, anxiety, social isolation and sexual dysfunction. Objective: This descriptive study was undertaken to determine general health in infertile couples. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty infertile couples attending Yazd Research and Clinical Center for Infertility were randomly selected during March till September 2009. The GHQ-28 questionnaires were completed by researchers, based on face to face interview. It contains 28 items, which have been divided to four sub- items. The results come out by scoring the patients answer from 0 to 84. All data were analyzed by Chi-square and t-test in SPSS software. Results: GHQ scores of all sub-scales and total in women were more than men, which shows general health condition in women is worse than men. There was no relation between the duration of infertility and general health scores. Conclusion: This study suggests that the infertility has significant effect (p=0.001) on health situation of infertile couples, especially infertile women. They are at risk of somatic symptoms (p=0.0001), social dysfunction (p=0.0001) and severe depression (p=0.0001). GHQ could provided help and support in order to improve the health situation of infertile couples.
The Divorce Adjustment Inventory-Revised

Abstract The newly revised Divorce Adjustment Inventory (DAI-R) is validated across two samples of divorced families. The DAI-R is a parent report instrument that assesses child adjustment and family functioning after separation. This inventory is a 42-item, empirically derived instrument that was found to be predictive of different criterion measures of child adjustment and family functioning. Five patterns of divorce were identified in a factor analysis. The five factors did not correlate with each other. Scales were developed based on each factor and found to have internal consistency, with Cronbach alphas ranging from . 65 to . 84. The construct validity of the inventory was established with separate measures of family functioning and child adjustment in each sample: the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), the Bloom Family Assessment Scale (FAS), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Parent Evaluation Form (PEF). Significant correlations were found between DAI-R factors and the above measures. Implications for the early detection and treatment of divorce maladjustment and for divorce adjustment programs are noted along with recommendations for future research. The relation of the identified factors with current conceptual models in the field is also discussed.
Improving the accessibility of the traditional lecture: an automated tool for supporting transcription

The lecture is in its multiple forms the most commonly used method for transferring information in the University curriculum, yet there are serious questions regarding its effectiveness and accessibility in relation to disabled students and those for whom English is not their first language. Although there has been substantial progress that has been made in the area of Automatic Speech Recognition, current systems are still below the level required for accurate transcription of lectures. The Semantic and Syntactic Transcription Analysing Tool is a step forward in the production of meaningful post-lecture materials, with minimal investment in time and effort by academic staff. This paper reports on the results of a study to assess the validity of SSTAT.
Uplink rate distribution in heterogeneous cellular networks with power control and load balancing

Load balancing through proactive offloading users onto small cells is critical for tapping the potential of dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). However, the impact of such offloading on the uplink performance is not well understood, primarily due to the lack of tractable models. Uplink power control and spatial interference correlation further complicate the mathematical analysis as compared to the downlink. In this paper, we propose a tractable and general model to characterize the uplink SIR and rate distribution in a K-tier HCN as a function of the association and power control parameters. Using the developed analysis, it is shown that the optimal degree of channel inversion (for uplink power control) increases with load imbalance in the network. Minimum path loss association is shown to maximize uplink rate coverage. Moreover, with minimum path loss association and full channel inversion, uplink coverage is shown to be invariant of infrastructure density.
Deoxyribonueleate solutions: Sedimentation in a density gradient, partial specific volumes, density and refractive index increments, and preferential interactions

Density increments (∂ρ/∂c2)°μ in solutions of NaDNA in NaCl and CsDNA in CsCl were determined over a wide range of salt concentrations; calf thymus DNA, fragmented by sonic irradiation to a molecular weight of 4–6 × 105 was used. The partial specific volume v̄2° of NaDNA at 25°C was found to ho 0.500 ml/g in water, and that of CsDNA 0.440 ml/g. Both values increase with increasing NaCl and CsCl concentration. Refractive index increments under various experimental conditions were also determined. The relevance of the density increments (at constant, chemical potential of diffusible solutes) to equilibrium sedimentation in a density gradient and the evaluation of molecular weights is discussed. Distribution coefficients of diffusible components, sometimes referred to as preferential solvation or net hydration, were derived from the density increments and partial volumes and compared with direct experimental results, whenever available, from membrane distribution and isopiestic distillation. The thermo‐dynamic significance of the distribution coefficients as well as possible interpretations in terms of specific molecular mechanisms are considered.
An object-oriented user interface management system

The George Washington User Interface Management System (GWUIMS) has been designed as a test bed for comparing user interface models, as a tool for rapidly prototyping highly interactive graphic user interfaces, and as a vehicle for investigating the applicability of knowledge-based technology to user interface design. The GWUIMS was designed and implemented using the object-oriented programming paradigm and consists of a variety of object classes representing different levels of abstraction, Responsibility for lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels of both input parsing and feedback are distributed throughout these classes. We include a description of the GWUIMS and a brief scenario to demonstrate its capabilities. A description of the implementation is followed by a discussion of the future application of knowledge representation techniques and the evolution towards an intelligent assistant for the user interface designer.