Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Occupational Stress and Burnout among University Teachers in Pakistan and Finland

Occupational stress in universities is alarmingly widespread and, globally, university teachers are under stress due to a growing competitive environment. Therefore, there is a need to identify job stressors and to help universities to improve their work environment. This study investigates psychosocial concomitants of occupational stress and burnout among university teachers in Pakistan and Finland. Female teachers in both countries experienced more stress than male teachers. The percentage of sick leave due to burnout was significantly higher in Pakistan. In Pakistan, young university teachers were especially at risk of burnout. Workplace bullying was significantly more frequent in Pakistan. In both countries, good family relationships had a reducing effect on the link between workplace bullying and stress symptoms.
“You sir are a hypocrite”: responses to Pence’s MLK Day tweets as attention intervention

ABSTRACT On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018, Twitter users utilized the “retweet with comment” feature to question the authenticity of Vice President Pence’s messages. Through the use of the rhetoric of social intervention (RSI) model, this study investigates Pence’s rhetorical naming and explores intervention strategies Twitter users employed to challenge or confirm his naming. It finds that seven tactics were present in a primary attention-shift intervention which casts Pence as hypocritical. The findings suggest that Twitter enhances citizens’ democratic voice by providing a platform for people to challenge traditional political power structures. The study also contributes to understanding of political authenticity by noting one way that the public interacts with politicians online, and the scope of the RSI model is extended to social media platforms.
Discrete pascal transform-based authentication schemes for DICOM images

With the prolific evolution of biomedical images from analogue to its current digital form, it has become vital that the security of each of these images remain uncompromised. However, with widely available powerful digital image editing software, these images may fall vulnerable to untraceable modification leading to undesirable implications such as insurance and forensic fraud. The loss of credibility of these sensitive-natured images is also a detrimental effect to the use of information technology in healthcare services such as telemedicine. Hence, it is essential to employ countermeasures which can authenticate these images in digital form. Therefore, one can determine that the digital image has not been tampered with. In this thesis, three watermarking-based authentication methods in the Discrete Pascal Transform domain are presented; two of which are fragile watermarking algorithms and the third, an adaptation of Varsaki et al.’s self-authentication scheme. Verification experiments of these three schemes show remarkable watermarking capability. Two of the proposed schemes were efficient in providing authentication for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images. The key contributions of this research are: • A novel technique proposing authentication using odd and even embedding in the Discrete Pascal Transform domain, and • A novel technique proposing authentication using quantization-based embedding to strengthen the fragility of the scheme against attacks, and • The modification of Varsaki et al.’s scheme which originally authenticated colour images, to self-authenticate DICOM grayscale images. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the three proposed schemes and considerations for further work in view of possible extensions of the proposed schemes.
Intergenerational Caregiving: The Role of Attachment and Mental Representation of Caregiving in Filial Anxiety of Middle-Aged Children

ABSTRACT Adult children may experience filial anxiety when anticipating the need to care for their aging parents. To investigate the extent to which attachment and mental representation of caregiving predict filial anxiety, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 304 middle-age adults with at least one living parent aged 65 or more. Results suggest that the variance in filial anxiety is mainly accounted for by the mental representation of caregiving and then by attachment. These findings suggest that mental representation of caregiving and attachment are important dimensions to consider when adult children feel unprepared and worried with the need to care for their aging parents.
Modelling wine tourism experiences

ABSTRACT Wine experiences contributed to attracting tourists to the destinations, in particular in Portugal where wine is worldwide renowned. This research aims to understand what drives tourists to visit a destination to live a wine experience and how this experience may improve the image and retain tourists. This model conceptual in its essence was applied in an emergent wine region in Portugal – Lisbon. Data were collected in 16 wineries from a random sample of 314 visitors in an emergent wine region, and structural equation modelling (SEM) was applied. Structural equation modelling was used to test hypotheses and validate the conceptual model. Results show that motivation positively influences the wine experiences, which in turn is explained by the dimensions presented in the study. Furthermore, the wine experience influences image and satisfaction positively and the brand equity negatively. From the managerial perspective, implications are discussed as well as the main limitations, and then suggestions for further research are provided.
Exploring the Relationship among University Teachers' Emotional Intelligence,
Emotional Labor Strategies, and Teaching Satisfaction

In this study we investigated the impact of emotional intelligence on university teacher satisfaction with emotional labor strategies as mediators. In order to evaluate this relationship, three scales were used WLEIS, TELSS and TSS for emotional intelligence, emotional labor strategies and teaching satisfaction respectively. The data was collected from 449 university teachers including both adjunct and permanent. Structured equation model and phantom model were utilized to analyze the mediating effect of emotional labor strategies on emotional intelligence and teaching satisfactions. In this study second-order factor of emotional intelligence was used and findings showed that emotional intelligence has a significant positive relationship with teaching satisfaction whereas surface acting and deep acting have negative impact on teaching satisfaction. However, expressions of naturally felt emotions have a positive insignificant relationship with the dependent variable. Surface acting and deep acting when worked as a mediator, they resulted in negative association between emotional intelligence and teaching satisfaction. Generally, this research revealed that emotional intelligence was critically important for the satisfaction of teachers with their work. This study would also help the university management to incorporate those emotional labor strategies which would in turn enhance teaching satisfaction. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Emotional labor strategies, Teacher satisfaction, University, Pakistan.
An Efficient Design Approach of BCD to Excess-3 Code Converter Based on QCA

— A new hierarchical design is built by using Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) [1] [2] [7] circuits. Now a day, the world is running towards the digital life and meanwhile the electronic devices are becoming very lesser in size. Presently, the digital circuits are implementing through one of the high performance complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies i.e. Nanotechnology. Quantum dot is a Nano-scale device and ultra-low power consumption compared with transistor-based technologies, it’s a very powerful tool which intern makes the design smarter to the further level i.e., Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA). Quantum dot Cellular Automata is one of the emerging technologies and it is a new architecture which transfers information only through the interaction between the cells. This paper represents the fundamental concepts of QCA which also includes the basic cells, wires and its types, majority gates, clocking levels, basic logic gates and its significance. The main motto of this project is to introduce an efficient design approach of BCD to Excess-3 code converter which is having nine (three input) majority gates, two inverter gates, in which combinedly includes 164 cells had been implemented and better simulation results are obtained by making use of QCA designer tool.
Future Processor Hardware Architectures for the Benefit of Precise Particle Accelerator Modeling

Emerging processor architectures such as graphical processing units (GPUs) and Intel Many Integrated Cores (MICs) provide a huge performance potential for high performance computing. However developing software that uses these hardware accelerators introduces additional challenges for the developer. These challenges may include exposing increased parallelism, handling different hardware designs, and using multiple development frameworks in order to utilize devices from different vendors. During this work the Dynamic Kernel Scheduler (DKS) was developed, to provide a software layer between the host application and hardware accelerators. DKS handles the communication between the host and the device, schedules task execution, and provides a library of built-in algorithms. Algorithms available in the DKS library will be written in CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenMP. Depending on the available hardware, the DKS can select the appropriate implementation of the algorithm. The author used DKS to enable co-processor usage in applications such as OPAL (Object-oriented Particle Accelerator Library), musrfit and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Image reconstruction application. These applications are developed at Paul Scherrer Institut, and ETH Zurich for particle accelerator modeling and experimental data analysis, and used by the world wide user community. The achieved results show that substantial speedups in application execution times can be achieved using co-processors compared to CPUs and with the help of DKS the process of integrating new processors in existing applications is simplified and more maintainable. The potential of the new hardware architectures is further demonstrated by porting to CUDA application for multibunch tracking (mbtrack) developed at SOLEIL (French national synchrotron facility). This application is used at PSI for the detailed study of coupled bunch instabilities and transient beam-loading. By using the computational power of GPUs the necessary simulations can be executed on the GPU instead of a larger computing cluster that would be required otherwise.
Exploring Topic Effect on Syntactic Complexity of English Writings

This paper aims to explore topic effect on syntactic complexity in Chinese EFL learners’ and English native speakers’ writings. To this end, the paper examined 600 argumentative essays on two topics, using 14 measures of syntactic complexity to investigate whether there is significant difference in topic effect on EFL writings and ENS writings. Four dimensions are included in these 14 syntactic complexity measures, which are length of production unit, amount of subordination, amount of coordination and degree of phrasal sophistication. Results showed strong topic effect on both Chinese EFL writers and ENS writers in terms of length of production unit and particular structure. The topic effect differs in amount of coordination in that the Chinese EFL group produced different amount of coordination in the two topics, while the ENS group did not show significant difference in this aspect.
Expertise and Non-binary Bodies: Sex, Gender and the Case of Dutee Chand

How do institutions respond to expert contests over epistemologies of sex and gender? In this article, I consider how epistemological ascendancy in debates over the regulation of women athletes with high testosterone is established within a legal setting. Approaching regulation as an institutional act that defines forms of embodied difference, the legitimacy of which may be called into question, I show how sexed bodies are enacted through and as part of determinations of expertise. I focus on proceedings from 2015 when the Court of Arbitration for Sport was asked to decide whether an Indian sprinter, Dutee Chand, could compete as a female athlete. Despite acknowledging that sexed bodies are unruly, the court ultimately endorsed the use of testosterone as seemingly essential to women’s athletic performance, thereby reasserting a two-category model of biological difference. The legitimacy of these regulatory efforts was established through the concurrent narrowing of expertise and the body, a process that is also revealed to be gendered.
Standards and Their (Recurring) Stories: How Augmented Reality Markup Language Was Built on Stories of Past Standards

This article focuses on the role of past standards stories and how they are deployed strategically in ways that shape the process of standards creation. It draws upon an ethnographic study over multiple years of standards meetings, discussions, and online activity. Building on existing work that examines how standards are shaped by stories, this study follows the development of Augmented Reality Markup Language and maps how the story of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) became the key story that actors utilized and debated to push for participation, agreement, and material development of the standard. The authors present several different ways the recurring HTML story was effective at various points in the process as a diagnostic tool, promissory future, empirical evidence, and confidence building measure. Understanding these strategic deployments serves as an empirical example of how recurring stories of the past can shape standards development. These mappings illustrate how standards can be built on past standards sociologically as well as technologically and also broadens our theoretical tools for understanding the importance of stories in the sociology of standards.
Family Incarceration and Bullying Among Urban African American Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Exposure to Delinquent Peer Norms, Trauma, and Externalizing Behaviors

The present study examined whether having had an incarcerated adult family member was associated with youth bullying perpetration. The study also examined whether exposure to delinquent peers’ norms, trauma, and externalizing behaviors mediated the link between adult family member’s incarceration and bullying perpetration. The study sample consisted of 638 African American adolescents, aged 13 to 21, in Chicago’s Southside. Major findings indicated that 46.8% of the study participants reported bullying perpetration (i.e., at least 1 to 2 times in the past 30 days). Moreover, an adult family member’s incarceration history was found to be positively associated with having peers who endorsed delinquent norms, trauma, and externalizing behaviors, which were linked to youth’s bullying perpetration. Programs addressing youth bullying need to consider the family dynamics.
Blind People’s Multiple Identity And Impression Management In Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

This research aims to uncover the multiple identities of 40 blind people and develop a model of their impression management that may be different from the impression management of nondisabled people. Blind people as subjects of this study are those who experience blindness in adulthood but were able-bodied before. Changes in physical conditions are followed by psychological changes that affect the way they communicate with their social environment, which is marked by impression management efforts. Using an interpretive perspective, more specifically a dramaturgical approach relying largely on observation as its method, the study reveals that the blind’s impression management is related to their self-confidence. The lower self-confidence they possess, the higher effort of impression management they make. The blind’s impression management is conducted in two strategies: first, by not using a personal front like black eyeglasses and a white stick; and secondly, by involving a performance team. These findings reinforce the distinction between the blind and the able-bodied people in their impression management. The nondisabled people usually use the personal front when managing the impression on the front stage. Based on finding that the blind’s impression management is distinctive in nature, this study has enriched Goffman's dramaturgical theory.
A corpus-based analysis of word order variation in Yami relative clause construction

Yami relative clauses (RCs) can either precede the head noun, for example, kanakan ‘child,’ as in ko ni-ma-cita o [ji yakneng] a kanakan ‘I saw the child who cannot hold still’, functioning as restrictive RCs ([RC] + a + Head NP), or follow it as in ko ni-ma-cita o kanakan a [ji yakneng] ‘I saw that child, who cannot hold still’, functioning as nonrestrictive RCs for complementation strategy (Head NP + a + [RC]). The VARBRUL results demonstrate that head final RCs are predominant in Yami, and Yami speakers use them to connect the given referent with the previous discourse to convey given information. The study found that Subject head nouns outnumber other grammatical roles of head NPs, and that Subject head noun with Subject RC construction is produced more than any other RC constructions, which indicates that Yami RCs are used to modify the Subject for topic continuity.
Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Poverty Measurement and Analysis: The Practice and the Potential

This paper highlights the key characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis, examines the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and analyzes the potential for combining the two approaches in analytical work on poverty. The paper's main conclusion is that sole reliance on either only the quantitative approach or only the qualitative approach in measuring and analyzing poverty is often likely to be less desirable than combining the two approaches. this is because there are limits to a purely quantitative approach as well as a purely qualitative approach to poverty measurement and analysis. Each approach has an appropriate time and place, but in most cases both approaches are required to address a problem's different aspects and to answer questions which the other approach cannot answer as well or not at all. Three key ways to combine the quantitative and qualitative approaches are: (1) integrating methodologies; (2) confirming, refuting, enriching, and explaining the findings of one approach with those of the other; and (3) merging the findings of the two approaches into one set of policy recommendations.
Internet Of Things: Architecture,Issues and Applications

Recent past year’s research on architecture standardization of IoT (Internet of thing) is going on, not yet concluded about standardization, It is still open and debatable how to make a standard platform. Thousands of researcher’s and Engineers are concentrating on IoT architecture standardization. Few open source community have already started working on IoT architecture for standardization. Yet lot of improvement is needed. Even some organization are collaborating and coming up with standardization. This will give base IoT Architecture standardization or Initial architecture which can evolve one of the solutions for making standardization. Seminar report gives full-fledged and complete modularity for IoT architecture. Depending on user application any unwanted module can be removed and addition of any number of modules to the architecture can be done easily. Mainly concentrates on modularity and scalability of the software. It helps IoT SoC(system on Chip) manufacturer to make hardware platform in-order to fit IoT applications.
Sistematização de instrumento de estratificação de risco familiar: a Escala de Risco Familiar de Coelho-Savassi

A Escala de Risco Familiar de Coelho-Savassi (ERF-CS), instrumento de estratificacao de risco familiar, e utiliza Sentinelas de Risco da ficha A do SIAB e outros identificaveis na rotina das equipe de saude da familia (eSF), para determinar seu risco social e de saude, refletindo o potencial de adoecimento de cada nucleo familiar. A escala mostrou-se util na reorganizacao da demanda e promoveu uma percepcao mais apurada, objetiva e qualificada do risco das familias, impactando positivamente o trabalho em equipe. A Escala e util para o planejamento de acoes na eSF, territorializiacao e percepcao da relacao entre os fatores de risco. Ha um amplo potencial de aplicacao da ERF-CS, com necessidade de sistematizacao e padronizacao. Neste artigo, as sentinelas de risco foram avaliadas e discutidas pelos autores, resultando em uma definicao clara e precisa dos termos, bem como a justificativa para a insercao de cada evento como um indicador a ser pontuado pela Escala. Foram definidos os criterios de pontuacao para as familias e sugeridas formas de aplicacao pratica da Escala nas eSF.
Dropout and narcissism: an exploratory research about situational factors and personality variables of the psychotherapist

The premature interruption of psychotherapeutic treatments is a significant phenomenon, with rates that can be above 50%, although differences emerge among studies. In general, the variables related to the psychotherapists have a significant effect on the treatment and a greater extent than the situational variables. In this study a multi-method research has been conducted to test the situations of impasse ending in dropout and the relationship between these situations and the covert narcissistic dimension of the therapist. Each participant was administrated the Impasse Interview, asking the therapist to focus on a salient or recent dropout case, and the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale. The linguistic analysis of the interviews carried out with T-Lab produced 4 thematic clusters. Furthermore, as for the covert narcissistic dimension, 11 therapists reported a score below the average (Group A) and 9 scoring in the average (Group B). Finally, the association between the four clusters and the two groups of therapists was investigated. The therapeutic alliance and the emotional reaction of the therapist, influenced by his narcissistic dimension, represent key variables for the outcome of the therapy.
Status of Agricultural Food Sector: Basis for A Proposed Continuity Plan

This study described the status of agriculture in the province of Nueva Ecija. It determined the current situation of the farming business in Nueva Ecija in terms of agricultural land use, its statistical profile on agriculture, crops grown by cities and municipalities and the presence of support agencies in maintaining th e continuous development of farming and other forms of agriculture therein. Based on its agriculture profile, land, mostly irrigated shares the biggest portion in terms of its usage for food production. Rice, corn, onion and tomatoes are the major crops being grown in cities and municipalities. Findings revealed that rice and corn share the biggest in domestic consumption . For support agencies, bank and business agencies are found in support for farmers while the government mostly provides seminars. It was also revealed that other seeds for crops are introduced as a farmer’s option and lesser in choosing for an investment in their income. As their contingency plan, farmers opt to sell and engage in driving rather than farming during lean months. Pest attacks constitute the main problem encountered by farmers, while seeding management is a priority. The above findings point to certain sustainability that requires improvement and a continuity plan to match up with the continuous supply of goods from the farms to the demands of an increasing population for its consumption. Keywords— Agriculture profile, continuity plan, farming business, production and consumption, sustainable agriculture, support agencies .