Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Art detectives: young children’s behaviour in finding and interpreting art elements within picture books

ABSTRACT Picture book illustrations can provide the opportunity for critical examination of a work of art. There is a growing body of research focusing on how we can respond creatively to the illustrations in picture books as art objects. This study aimed to reveal how children interpret art elements based on various artistic techniques within picture books and how children use these elements when interpreting their own stories. In line with this aim, three picture books for preschool children were examined together along with a study group of four children attending summer school in a private kindergarten in the province of Ankara, Turkey. The research observations were recorded via photographs, audio-video recordings, and written notes. Qualitative data related to the children’s interpretations of art elements in the picture book illustrations were analysed descriptively. The results showed that the children paid closest attention to the elements of colour and shape within picture books, and that these art elements were also those that they placed the strongest emphasis on in their own work.
Motion perception in central field loss

Motion information is essential in daily life because it provides cues to depth, timing, object identification, and self-motion, as well as input to the oculomotor system. As the peripheral visual field is exquisitely sensitive to motion, we investigated the periphery of individuals with central visual field loss (CFL) to determine whether speed and direction discrimination are intact in this population. We compared CFL participants' (N = 8), older (N = 6), and young controls' (N = 6) ability to discriminate motion speed and direction in a two-spatial-alternative forced-choice design. Participants viewed moving dots on the left and right of a fixation marker and judged which side had the faster speed or more clockwise direction. For the young control group, we repeated the experiment with the stimulus limited to thin strips of fixed width at eccentricities of 5°, 10°, and 15°. There was no significant difference in mean speed or direction discrimination thresholds of CFL participants and older controls for either velocity. Young controls had significantly lower thresholds than the CFL group for both tasks. We did not find an effect of visual acuity, viewing eccentricity, or scotoma location on individuals' ability to discriminate speed or direction. Our results indicate that for high-visibility stimuli moving at 5°–10°/s, speed and direction discrimination are intact in the periphery of individuals with CFL.
Negotiating the reuse of health-data: Research, Big Data, and the European General Data Protection Regulation

Before the EU General Data Protection Regulation entered into force in May 2018, we witnessed an intense struggle of actors associated with data-dependent fields of science, in particular health-related academia and biobanks striving for legal derogations for data reuse in research. These actors engaged in a similar line of argument and formed issue alliances to pool their collective power. Using descriptive coding followed by an interpretive analysis, this article investigates the argumentative repertoire of these actors and embeds the analysis in ethical debates on data sharing and biobank-related data governance. We observe efforts to perform a paradigmatic shift of the discourse around the General Data Protection Regulation-implementation away from ‘protecting data’ as key concern to ‘protecting health’ of individuals and societies at large. Instead of data protection, the key risks stressed by health researchers became potential obstacles to research. In line, exchange of information with data subjects is not a key concern in the arguments of biobank-related actors and it is assumed that patients want ‘their’ data to be used. We interpret these narratives as a ‘reaction’ to potential restrictions for data reuse and in line with a broader trend towards Big Data science, as the very idea of biobanking is conceptualized around long-term use of readily prepared data. We conclude that a sustainable implementation of biobanks needs not only to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, but must proactively re-imagine its relation to citizens and data subjects in order to account for the various ways that science gets entangled with society.
Organizational Capabilities, Export Growth and Job Creation: An Investigation of Korean SMEs

In the new global economy, export promotion and job creation have become two central issues for economic sustainability. This study aims to raise awareness of the importance of organizational capabilities in job creation through exports. By emphasizing the role of exports in shaping a linkage between organizational capabilities and job creation, this research focuses on how to improve exports that benefit employment creation in the context of Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using survey data of 414 SMEs collected by jointly working with the Korea Federation of SMEs and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, this study employs a structural equation model to investigate a mediation model that links organizational capabilities to job creation through export growth. The main findings of this study are that both technological and manufacturing capability positively influence export growth; export growth has a positive effect on job creation, fully mediates a positive linkage between technological capability and job creation and also plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between manufacturing capability and job creation. Finally, the present study contributes to the literature on exports and job creation and also provides useful information for SME operators and policymakers.
Creating a Fine-Grained Corpus for a Less-resourced Language: the case of Kurdish

Kurdish is a less-resourced language consisting of different dialects written in various scripts. Approximately 30 million people in different countries speak the language. The lack of corpora is one of the main obstacles in Kurdish language processing. In this paper, we present KTC–the Kur-dish Textbooks Corpus, which is composed of 31 K-12 textbooks in Sorani dialect. The corpus is normalized and categorized into 12 educational subjects containing 693,800 tokens (110,297 types). Our resource is publicly available for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license 1 .
Agriculture Education Curriculum Adoption by Ugandan Secondary School Teachers Fostered by the INGO Field of Hope.

CANNON, EMMA CATHERINE. Agriculture Education Curriculum Adoption by Ugandan Secondary School Teachers Fostered by the INGO Field of Hope (Under the direction of Dr. Joy Fleming). As developing nations struggle to educate their youth, relevant curriculum is often a barrier to the development of young minds, which shapes the futures of the individual students. While most developing countries rely on agriculture for survival, many youth are not interested in learning about agriculture or pursuing agriculture careers. While numerous studies have investigated how and why educational policy reforms are not effective on large scales through a countrywide adoption of new curriculum, this study sheds light on how an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) can have a locally relevant impact with a small-scale curriculum adoption and implementation process through the lens of Rogan and Grayson’s (2003) Framework for Curriculum Implementation in Developing Countries. Through qualitatively interviewing eight teachers who adopted and implemented the program, the following seven themes emerged: shift from theoretical to practical applications, motivations of teachers, barriers, curriculum meets students’ needs, survival, curriculum adoption and changed teaching habits, and shift from negative to positive perceptions of agriculture. It is recommended that further research be conducted to understand if students are more likely to be interested in agriculture careers after being taught the curriculum, which engages them in critical thinking, project-based learning, and hands-on approaches. It is also recommended that Field of Hope seek continued partnership with Uganda’s Ministry of Education to explore a country-wide adoption of the curriculum. © Copyright 2019 by Emma Cannon All Rights Reserved Agriculture Education Curriculum Adoption by Ugandan Secondary School Teachers Fostered by the INGO Field of Hope by Emma Catherine Cannon A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Agricultural and Extension Education Raleigh, North Carolina 2019
The Chromatin Environment Around Interneuron Genes in Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells and Their Potential for Interneuron Reprograming

Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), also known as NG2 glia, arise from neural progenitor cells in the embryonic ganglionic eminences that also generate inhibitory neurons. They are ubiquitously distributed in the central nervous system, remain proliferative through life, and generate oligodendrocytes in both gray and white matter. OPCs exhibit some lineage plasticity, and attempts have been made to reprogram them into neurons, with varying degrees of success. However, little is known about how epigenetic mechanisms affect the ability of OPCs to undergo fate switch and whether OPCs have a unique chromatin environment around neuronal genes that might contribute to their lineage plasticity. Our bioinformatic analysis of histone posttranslational modifications at interneuron genes in OPCs revealed that OPCs had significantly fewer bivalent and repressive histone marks at interneuron genes compared to astrocytes or fibroblasts. Conversely, OPCs had a greater degree of deposition of active histone modifications at bivalently marked interneuron genes than other cell types, and this was correlated with higher expression levels of these genes in OPCs. Furthermore, a significantly higher proportion of interneuron genes in OPCs than in other cell types lacked the histone posttranslational modifications examined. These genes had a moderately high level of expression, suggesting that the “no mark” interneuron genes could be in a transcriptionally “poised” or “transitional” state. Thus, our findings suggest that OPCs have a unique histone code at their interneuron genes that may obviate the need for erasure of repressive marks during their fate switch to inhibitory neurons.
Language Dynamism: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Political Discourse

Politicians constantly strive to manipulate language in a way that communicates their intentions without upsetting their audience. The present study is a political discourse analysis of the inaugural speeches of political leadersPresidents and Prime Ministers of four countries selected from three continents across the world. The selected countries are Nigeria, Liberia, United States of America, and United Kingdom, and the selected speeches are that of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and George Weah of Liberia, Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump of the United States of America, and Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May of the United Kingdom. The study is a qualitative and quantitative survey text analytical research. It utilizes inaugural speeches as primary data and literature in the field of political discourse as secondary data. Meaning was analyzed using Fairclough’s (2010) CDA approach as well as Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar. Furthermore, analysis was done in the three dimensions of Description (text analysis), Interpretation (processing analysis), and Explanation (social analysis). Research findings showed that the speeches communicated the messages of the leaders based on their sociocultural and sociopolitical reality. It however also reveals some general features of political discourse which cut across cultures, countries and continents. Although there were trends that were peculiar to each country, there were more features such as, context, personality, gender, state of the nation, etc. that served to individually distinguish speakers. In conclusion, the research submits that the combination of different approaches to language analysis facilitated a wholesome interpretation of the considered speeches, including the discourse and sociocultural practices. In addition, context is of immense importance when
Religious identity in the workplace: A systematic review, research agenda, and practical implications

We conducted a systematic review of relevant literature to address how religious and occupational identities relate to each other in the workplace. We identified 53 relevant publications for analysis and synthesis. Studies addressed value differences associated with religion and occupation, identity tensions, unmet expectations, and the connection of religious identity to well-being and work outcomes. Key variables in the connection between religious and occupational identities included personal preferences, the fit between religious identity and job-related concerns, and the organization’s policies, practices and expectations. We highlight the personal and organizational consequences of being able to express religious identity at work and the conditions that promote high congruence between religious identity and its expression in the workplace. From these findings, we develop a research agenda and offer recommendations for management practice that focus on support for expression of religious identity at work while maintaining a broader climate of inclusion.
Institutional work in the maintenance of regional innovation policy instruments: evidence from Wales

ABSTRACT This paper contributes towards growing interest in the role of actors and agency in regional innovation policy processes. While entrepreneurial agency has begun to be explored, the paper broadens this focus to include actor roles in the maintenance of regional innovation policies over time. Drawing on the concept of institutional work, and evidence from Wales, it finds maintenance to be a process of strategic care, involving interplay between structural factors promoting durability, and normative and deterrence practices at the regional level. These practices, it suggests, can contribute towards stability and persistence, but with mixed effects over time.
The Benefit of Slice Timing Correction in Common fMRI Preprocessing Pipelines

Due to the nature of fMRI acquisition protocols, slices cannot be acquired simultaneously, and as a result, are temporally misaligned from each other. To correct from this misalignment, preprocessing pipelines often incorporate slice timing correction (STC). However, evaluating the benefits of STC is challenging because it (1) is dependent on slice acquisition parameters, (2) interacts with head movement in a non-linear fashion, and (3) significantly changes with other preprocessing steps, fMRI experimental design, and fMRI acquisition parameters. Presently, the interaction of STC with various scan conditions has not been extensively examined. Here, we examine the effect of STC when it is applied with various other preprocessing steps such as motion correction (MC), motion parameter residualization (MPR), and spatial smoothing. Using 180 simulated and 30 real fMRI data, we quantitatively demonstrate that the optimal order in which STC should be applied depends on interleave parameters and motion level. We also demonstrate the benefit STC on sub-second-TR scans and for functional connectivity analysis. We conclude that STC is a critical part of the preprocessing pipeline that can be extremely beneficial for fMRI processing. However, its effectiveness interacts with other preprocessing steps and with other scan parameters and conditions which may obscure its significant importance in the fMRI processing pipeline.
What matters? Talking value in Australian culture

“When did the value of culture become solely a matter of the quantifiable benefits it provides, and the latter become subject to input-output analysis in what government budgets refer to as ‘the cultural function’? ”. Moreover, the authors of this significant intervention in the field of cultural value ask, “Why did it happen, and why does it keep happening? ” (Meyrick, Phiddian, & Barnett, 2018, p. vii).
Effects of Oceanic Mesoscale and Submesoscale Frontal Processes on the Vertical Transport of Phytoplankton

The AlborEx experiment was conducted in the framework of PERSEUS EU‐funded project (Grant 287600) and was led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and involved other national and international partners: Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB, Spain); Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS, Italy); and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, ONR Grant N00014‐16‐1‐3130). Glider operations were partially funded by JERICO FP7 project. Part of this work has been carried out as part of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) MedSUB project. CMEMS is implemented by Mercator Ocean in the framework of a delegation agreement with the European Union. S. R. and A. P. acknowledge support from WHOI Subcontract A101339.
Assessing Radarsat-2 Polarimetric SAR for Mapping Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Technique (SCAT) Classes in the Canadian Arctic

With the potential for a greater human presence and increased development of natural resources, culturally and biologically sensitive shorelines in the Arctic may face increasing risk of environmental emergencies. To establish response contingency plans it is necessary to improve upon available shoreline maps. This study assessed the potential for automated classification of Arctic shore and nearshore land covers using polarimetric Radarsat-2 imagery. Repeatability and optimal acquisition parameters (incidence angle and polarization) were evaluated through comparison of multiple incidence angle images acquired over two study areas in the southern Beaufort Sea, Northwest Territories, Canada. Analyses of backscatter coefficients and decomposition parameters showed that shallow angles are generally preferred, and that discrimination of a number of land covers (including: sand, mixed sediment, herbs, shrubs, and wetlands) is possible.
Does the size of Islamic banking matter for industry growth: international evidence

ABSTRACT Islamic banking, which has witnessed unprecedented growth in the last quarter of the century is hypothesized to be able to contribute to the development of the financial sector and thus to economic growth through tools inherent to this faith-based model of banking. We test the hypothesis that a higher relative presence of Islamic banking is beneficial to the growth of external finance dependent industries. Using data for 28 industries in 14 countries with dual banking systems, we find that the absolute and relative size of Islamic banking do have a positive impact on industry growth. The results are robust to controlling for the quality of finance as well as for the degree of competition in the banking industry.
Subtropical Coastal Lagoon from Southern Brazil: Environmental Conditions and Phytobenthic Community Structure

The chapter is about the study of environmental conditions and the structure of the benthic diatoms community in Peixe Lagoon, which is inserted in a National Park in southern Brazil. The study was carried out covering four seasons from 2011 to 2012. The system is shallow (<60 cm) located parallel to the coastline, and it is connected to the ocean through a single channel, which occurs naturally or through human action. In this lagoon, during the study, the water temperature ranged between 15.3 and 32.1°C, and the dissolved oxygen presented higher value in the winter (12.5 mg.L − 1 ) and lower value in the summer (7.5 mg.L − 1 ). The lagoon ranged from mesotrophic to hypereutrophic conditions. The salinity varied between 1.3 and 36.2%, and these variations were mainly related to meteorological conditions. The community of diatoms in Peixe Lagoon is composed by 62 taxa distributed in 30 genera composed largely of marine, brackish, and few freshwater species. Among the attributes of the community, composition better reflects the environmental variations. The opening and closing of the channel, salinity, temperature, and the action and direction of the wind are variables influencing the dynamics of the microphytobenthic community.
The Norms of Sign Language Interpreting in Turkey: A pre-investigational study on the field

2006 yilindan beri meslek olarak taninmasina ve de 2007 yilindan itibaren sosyal hizmetler bunyesinde ucretsiz ceviri hizmeti sunmak adina isaret dili tercumanlarinin devlet tarafindan ise alinma- sina ragmen, ulkemizde isaret dili tercumanligi gelismekte olan bir meslek dali olmakla birlikte daha yeni yeni gundeme gelen bir arastirma alanidir. Gunumuzde, Turkiye’deki isaret dili tercumanlarinin cogunun KODA (Sagir Bireylerin Cocuklari) olmasinin yani sira yeni tercumanlar yetistiren bir universite bolumu de bulunmamaktadir. Bununla birlikte isaret dili tercumanligi, ceviribilim alaninda calisan Turk akademisyenlerin cok azinin ilgisini bu zamana kadar cekmistir. Bu makale yazarin devam etmekte olan tez calismasinin on bulgularini paylasmayi amaclamaktadir. Soz konusu yuksek lisans tezinde yazar, Turk Sagir toplumu ve isaret dili tercumanliginin gecmis ve gunumuzdeki dinamikleri ile ilgili detayli bilgi vermekle birlikte Turkiye’de isaret dili tercumanligi alaninda hukum suren mevcut normlari ortaya koymaktadir ve on yedi isaret dili tercumani ile yapilan yari-yapilandirilmis gorusmeler ile elde edilen veriler isiginda isaret dili tercumanlarinin benimsedikleri rolleri tartismaktadir. Ancak soz konusu tez uzerinde calismalarin devam etmesi sebebiyle arastirma verileri kapsamli olarak bu makaleye dahil edilmese de, makale tez calismasinda kullanilan isaret dili tercumaninin rolu ile ilgili literatur incelemesini ve Gideon Toury’nin (1995) ceviri normlarina dayanan kuramsal cercevesini icermektedir. Bu calismada Toury’nin ceviri normlari, Moira Inghilleri’nin (2003) bu kavramlari sozlu ceviriye uyarladigi calismasi ornek alinarak kullanilmistir. Alan ve zaman limiti sebebiyle bahsi gecen daha buyuk arastirma verilerinin sinirli kisminin verilmis olmasina ragmen bu calisma, mevcut normlarin isaret dili tercumanlarinin kendi rollerini algilama sekillerini nasil yonlendirdigi ve bu durumun tercumanlarin mesleki konumu uzerindeki etkileri ile ilgili boyle bir calismanin yapilabilecegini gostermektedir. Bu calisma isaret dili tercumanligi alanindaki arastirma ve uygulamalarin ceviribilim kuramlarindan faydalanabilecegini gostermesi ile de ozellikle universitelerde isaret dili tercumanligi bolumlerinin acilmasinin bu gunlerde tartisma asamasinda oldugu Turkiye gibi ulkelerde alana katki saglamayi hedeflemektedir.