Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effects of bilingual placement and middle school transition on the sense of school belonging in Hispanic students

The Effects of Bilingual Placement and Middle School Transition on the Sense of School Belonging in Hispanic Students. (August 2010) Emilie A. Ney, B.A., The University of Richmond Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Jan Hughes Because bilingual programs provide a secure environment likely to promote school belonging, it was hypothesized that Hispanic students in a bilingual program would experience higher belonging than those in regular education and that they would experience a steeper drop in belonging at the transition to middle school. Participants were 277 Hispanic and White elementary and middle school students who were followed longitudinally from grade 4 to 6. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to compare the mean levels of school belonging across groups and measure the change in school belonging at the transition. Results suggested that Hispanic students both in bilingual and in regular education had higher belonging than White students and that groups did not differ in their change in belonging at the transition to middle school.
Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music

Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chana considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music into a saleable abject, and describes the upset which this caused in musical culture. He asks: what goes on in a recording studio? How does this affect the music? Do we listen to music differently from our forebears because of reproduction? Repeated Takes relates the growth and development of the industry, both technically and economically; the effects of the microphone on interpretation in both classical and popular music; and the impact of all these factors on musical styles and taste. This highly readable book also traces the connections between the development of recording and the rise of new forms of popular music, and discusses arguments among classical musicians about microphone technique and studio practice.
The Puffin Book of Stories for Five-year-olds

"The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds" edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year olds! Fifteen exciting stories from some of our best-loved authors, including Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling and Francesca Simon. This brilliant collection is full of magic, mayhem and adventure! Find out how the camel got his hump, how Jimmy learnt to vanish and what Horrid Henry got up to on holiday.Perfect for seven-year-olds to share or read alone. With a gorgeous cover illustrated by Nick Sharratt. Wendy Cooling was educated in Norwich and then spent time travelling the world. On her return to England she trained as a teacher, and taught English in London for many years. She left teaching to work on the promotion of books and reading as Head of the Children's Book Foundation (now Booktrust), and later founded Bookstart, the national programme that helps to bring books to young readers.
Chemical Abstract から電子ジャーナルへ

Preelectronic Age. After starting on Biochemistry in graduate school (1968), the only idea in my mind for finding references was looking into bibliographies. Then, searching the Chemical Abstract for key word (s) in Medical Library was found to be ordinary and rational. Request for a reprint to the author was noticed in the most traditional and more economical but time wasting way, and it gave also a delight by finding the author's autograph on the reprints. Soon after majoring in Anesthesiology in 1972, the Index Medicus came to be one of my retrieval materials. In those days, specially ordered cards in B-6 size has played a definite role for the arrangement of the literature.Dawn of Electronic Age. In the middle of 1990s, e-mail and the Internet provided me with a new tool for searching literature. Download of literature from the Medline saved me from retyping on cards of my personal computer. Around millennium, the PubMed Central came to serve in a public. Then full text electronic journal became available in our university and saved me from finding room to keep too many papers. Finally card type program in my computer has taken over the cards in B-6 size. Will full text electronic journal be something? Without full elctronization of old literatures or books, it might be merely a strong tool for technological research workers but not for academic scientists since science should be founded on the science of the past.
The effects of natural scene statistics on text readability in additive displays

The minimum contrast needed for optimal text readability with additive displays (e.g. AR devices) will depend on the spatial structure of the background and text. Natural scenes and text follow similar spectral patterns. Therefore, natural scenes can mask low contrast text – making it difficult to read. In a set of experiments, we determine the minimum viable contrast for readability on an additive display. Reading performance was assessed with an RSVP task. Text was additively overlaid on algorithmically generated images that mimicked natural scene statistics. When the text to background contrast ratio was below 1.6:1, participants’ reading rates decreased rapidly. At low contrast ratios (<1.4:1), this effect was slightly mitigated for out of focus backgrounds, which reduced power from masking frequencies. Above 1.6:1, reading rate did not significantly increase but subjective quality ratings did. These results help inform the possible requirement for the development of additive display systems for consumer products.
Combining accelerometry-based motion artifact cancellation with pulse oximetry processing

This paper proposes a combination of motion artifact (MA) cancellation with pulse oximetry processing. The objectives were to develop motion-resistant pulse oximetry processing relying on using accelerometry-based MA cancellation, and to explore the performance of the proposed processing method in providing arterial oxygen saturation ( %𝑆𝑝𝑂 2 ) when the red and infrared (IR) photoplethysmogram (PPG) were corrupted by a MA. A PPG acquisition system was designed and constructed in the laboratory for the experiments. A three-axis accelerometer was utilized to detect the motion of a finger probe. An acceleration signal corresponding to the longitudinal direction of the finger was used to generate a motion reference signal for active noise cancellation using an adaptive filter. A Savitzky-Golay filter was applied to obtain the normalized first derivative of red and IR PPGs, and to generate a motion reference signal. The MA was eliminated from the normalized first derivative of red and IR PPGs using an adaptive filter, of which the adaptive algorithm was a recursive least square (RLS) method. The appropriate filter order was 16. After the MA cancellation, the normalized first derivative of the red and IR PPGs were expected to be free of MA, and they represented the arterial light absorption. The ratio of red to IR absorption ( 𝑟 𝑎 ) was computed and converted to the %𝑆𝑝𝑂 2 using the saturation equation obtained from the calibration. The experimental results showed that the theoretical concept for combining the accelerometry-based MA cancellation with the pulse oximetry processing was practical. The proposed processing method helped reduce the error of the %𝑆𝑝𝑂 2 measurement when a MA was present, and it had more resistance to MA than conventional pulse oximetry processing.
Question matching based on Fuzzy set

Sentence similarity computing plays an important role in the question answering (QA) system. Because there are many question expressions for one meaning, we present a new approach to match question based on fuzzy set. In this paper, we establish a library of standard questions. Each standard question is relative with a series of Keywords. The main focus of this paper lies with matching of standard questions and questions asked by users. An experimental system based on the proposed method has been built, and the results of our experiments shows the proposed method is effective for question matching.
Re-mediating Vernacular Creativity: Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling (by which I mean the model associated with the Center for Digital Storytelling and adapted by Daniel Meadows for Capture Wales BBC) as a ‘movement’ is explicitly designed to amplify the ordinary voice. It aims not only to remediate vernacular creativity, but to legitimate it as a relatively autonomous and worthwhile contribution to public culture.
The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric: A Study of the Speeches in Herodotus' Histories with Special Attention to Books 5-9

This thesis examines the speeches in Herodotus' Histories, especially in books 5-9, with reference to overriding narrative themes like the self-other polarity (Greeks vs. barbarians/Persians), the themes of freedom and free speech, the relation of speech to power and authority, and the fragility of the Greek coalition. The thesis has a double aim. First, it seeks to present Herodotean rhetoric as an idiosyncratic system, which not only borrows and reworks traditional and contemporary components in a new form, so that they underpin broader narrative themes, but which also influences Thucydidean rhetoric and later rhetorical developments. Second, it investigates the extent to which Herodotean rhetoric can be used to re- evaluate Herodotus' narrative technique and to challenge the model of dialogism ascribed to the Histories. Chapter 1 sheds light on the problematic representation of both Greek and Persian debate in the Histories. It demonstrates the dangerous and slippery nature of rhetoric in circumstances where Greeks lack pan-Hellenic aspirations, with individualistic tendencies leading the way. The following two chapters turn to more specific speech genres, alliance speeches and pre-battle speeches. Through examination of examples of scheming rhetoric, dubious motives and power struggles, chapter 2 demonstrates the difficulty of achieving unity among the Greeks, while chapter 3 unveils the relative character of a type of exhortation which is partly stripped of lofty intentions, reflecting the delicate balance of the relationships between the Greeks. Both chapters 2 and 3 problematize the self-other distinction. Chapter 4 considers examples used in speeches and shows how they represent the circumlocutory nature of rhetoric in both Persia and Greece, as well as the slender Greek alliance. Chapter 5 looks at the implications of allotting speech to individuals and ethnic groups for the self-other distinction, the Greek coalition, and the relation of speech to power and authority.
Selective attentional bias for novel psychoactive substance (NPS) and expectancy-related stimuli among nonproblematic NPS users and never NPS users

ABSTRACT Background: Novel psychoactive substance (NPS) use has emerged as a new trend in the recreational drug market with increasing prevalence and availability rates. Little evidence has focussed on psychologically based cognitive/motivational processes that may increase the likelihood of continuing NPS use leading to habitual behavior patterns/dependence. One such process, highlighted in studies examining a plethora of addictive behaviors, concerns users’ preferential attention (attentional bias) to concern-related stimuli. Methods: The current study assessed whether current NPS users compared to never NPS users showed differential attentional processing of (i) NPS-related words, (ii) NPS positive expectancy words, and (iii) NPS negative expectancy words in a modified Stroop task. Results: For NPS users, only negative expectancies captured increased attention—the semantic nature of the word interfered with the secondary task of color-naming the ink within the Stroop task. In addition, the magnitude of this attentional bias was significantly different from zero (the point of no registered interference). Finally, we found no association between attentional biases for all word types and severity of problems associated with NPS use in NPS users. Conclusions: Among nonproblematic NPS users, expectancy-based cognitions may be characterized by highly accessible negative NPS expectancies that are salient for attentional capture and preoccupation.
A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation

Language documentation collections contain valuable and unique resources on the languages and cultures of the people represented in the collection. To allow users to understand and use one particular collection, this article provides a guide to the language documentation project “Farming, food and yam: language and cultural practices among Ikaan speakers,” deposited in the Endangered Languages Archive. It gives a bird’s eye view of the collection, showing the project background, the conventions and workflows, and the structure and content of the resources. In addition, it provides a glimpse behind the scene, outlining motivations, observations, thoughts on the collection, and future plans. This article thus contextualizes the collection by placing it in its wider research and community context.
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film

A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, "From Caligari to Hitler" was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis," and "The Blue Angel," has never gone out of print. Now, over half a century after its first appearance, this beautifully designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction, and updates the book further with a new bibliography, index, and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian, film theorist, or cinema enthusiast.In "From Caligari to Hitler," Siegfried Kracauer--the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin--made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis," and "The Blue Angel," he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film. In "From Caligari to Hitler," Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film. Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew, he escaped the rise of Nazism, fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later, in anguish after Benjamin's suicide, he made his way to New York, where he remained until his death in 1966. He wrote "From Caligari to Hitler" while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Art's film division. He was also on the editorial board of Bollingen Series. Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes, "From Caligari to Hitler" remains Kracauer's best-known and most influential book, and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his "Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality in 1997. "
Agile corpus creation

Abstract In the past decades language corpora have become indispensable tools for linguistic research and the development of linguistic theory. However, it is not yet widely acknowledged that the quality of corpus-based research and theories depends crucially on the quality of the corpora, not only in terms of their content and size but especially as far as the accuracy and richness of the annotations are concerned. Neither has much systematic thought gone into the effectiveness of the traditional corpus creation process regarding this problem. This paper proposes a novel approach to corpus creation – agile corpus creation – that addresses the problem of simultaneously maximizing corpus size as well as the quality and quantity of manual and automatic annotations while minimizing the time and cost involved in corpus creation. The central aspects of agile corpus creation lie in the reorganization of the traditional linear and separate phases of corpus design, data collection, data annotation and corpus analysis and in the recognition of potential sources of errors during corpus creation.
Human and Computer-Generated Essay Grades

The advent of computerized essay grading brings with it significant questions about the interaction between the grader and the student. An experiment is presented that compares two forms of human essay grading with computerized essay grading. Twenty human graders using either holistic or analytic grading methods marked 15 student essays. These essays were subsequently marked by computer using a grading implementation of latent semantic analysis. There were significant correlations between both holistic and analytic graders and the computerized essay grader.
Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

Introduction: Memory, Modernity, Mass Culture1. Prosthetic Memory2. The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narratives and the 'Melting Down' of Difference3. Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire, and the Interpellative Power of the Past4. America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: The 'Object' of RememberingEpilogue: Towards a Radical Practice of Memory
IMPLEMENTASI IT PADA SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI PT. MASTER GRAFIKA JAKARTA

PT. Master Grafika is a private company engaged in services and trade in the world of printing. PT. Master Grafika still uses the system manually by using Microsoft Excel application in accounting data processing, so in the process of presenting financial information and data search takes a long time. Along with the development of the wheels of PT. Master Graphics requires improvements in its business data management system, making changes from manual recording using Microsoft Excel to more automated. To support the smoothness of the presentation of financial statements, companies need an accounting application system such as by using accounting based software, Zahir Accounting, there are several advantages that are additionally reliable and facilitate users in accounting data processing, Zahir application also has integrated facilities and highly competitive, friendly language equipped with multi languages and data security, the resulting report not only be a financial report but also a business and financial analysis, so that PT. Master Grafika can easily provide financial reports quickly and accurately. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
Patterns and quality of object-oriented software systems

Maintenance costs during the past decades have reached more than 70% of the overall costs of object-oriented systems, because of many factors, such as changing software environments, changing users’ requirements, and the overall quality of systems. One factor on which we have a control is the quality of systems. Many object-oriented software quality models have been introduced in the literature to help assess and control quality. However, these models usually use metrics of classes (such as number of methods) or of relationships between classes (for example coupling) to measure internal attributes of systems. Yet, the quality of object-oriented systems does not depend on classes’ metrics solely: it also depends on the organisation of classes, i.e., the system design that concretely manifests itself through design styles, such as design patterns and antipatterns. In this dissertation, we propose the method DEQUALITE to systematically build quality models that take into account the internal attributes of the systems (through metrics) but also their design (through design patterns and antipatterns). This method uses a machine learning approach based on Bayesian Belief Networks and builds on the results of a series of experiments aimed at evaluating the impact of design patterns and antipatterns on the quality of systems. These experiments, performed on 9 large objectoriented open source systems enable us to draw the following conclusions: • Counter-intuitively, design patterns do not always improve the quality of systems; tangled implementations of design patterns for example significantly affect the structure of classes and negatively impact their changeand fault-proneness. • Classes participating in antipatterns are significantly more likely to be subject to changes and to be involved in fault-fixing changes than other classes. • A non negligible percentage of classes participate in co-occurrences of antipatterns and design patterns in systems. On these classes, design patterns have a positive effect in mitigating antipatterns.
Computational biology approaches for studying gene regulatory network discovery and modelling

The advent of next generation sequencing has increased the gap between genome sequence data and knowledge, enhancing the need for faster means to fill this gap. The development of efficient computational biology methods to handle this gap has never been so important. Gene regulatory networks in particular have been studied widely for their role in controlling cellular behaviour, resulting in manifold phenotypic characteristics. In this thesis, I present novel techniques contributing to the discovery of gene regulatory network connections, through enhanced binding site prediction, binding site multiple sequence alignment and binding site specificity. Another major advantage of computational biology is the ability to simulate the behaviour of gene regulatory networks, in order to study the governing dynamics of such networks. In this thesis, I also introduce a new modelling language bringing computational modelling capabilities into the biological domain to simplify the process of writing a model that can be simulated in silico. I have proved through this work that: first, the devised computational biology techniques can provide cheap yet powerful and efficient techniques to study gene regulatory networks; and second, the techniques presented have novel superiority over current research in this domain.