Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Value of the Goodenough Drawing Test as a research tool to detect developmental delay in South African preschool children

There is a need for simple, cost-effective research tools to detect developmental delay in preschool children in low- and middle-income countries where insufficient resources are often a barrier to detection and management. The Goodenough Draw-a-Person test is freely available, easily administered, and requires limited language ability and equipment; it is thus potentially useful in resource-constrained settings. We aimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Draw-a-Person test to identify developmental delay in 5-year-old preschool children using the Griffiths Mental Developmental Scales-Extended Revised eye-hand coordination subquotient as the gold standard. This was a cross-sectional analysis of drawings by South African preschool children from low-income families, whose Griffiths Mental Developmental Scales-Extended Revised assessments included a human figure drawing. Draw-a-Person test quotients were estimated independently by a developmental paediatrician and two medical officers to calculate inter-rater agreement. The paediatrician’s scores were used to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Draw-a-Person test quotient (<85) to predict developmental delay with the eye-hand coordination subquotient (<75). A total of 125 children were included, with a mean age of 60.8 months (range 59–66 months) of which 48.8% were boys. The mean Draw-a-Person test score was 94 (standard deviation 15) with 28 Draw-a-Person test scores below 85. Applying the Draw-a-Person test cut-off of 85, sensitivity of the Draw-a-Person test to the eye-hand coordination subquotient was 80% and specificity 89%. The area under the receiver operator characteristic curve was 0.87 (95% confidence interval [0.78–0.96]). The Goodenough Draw-a-Person test could thus be a useful research tool for detecting fine motor and visuoperceptual delay in South African preschool children.
Building blocks of emotional attachment: understanding thedevelopment of emotional intimacy between Israeli secularJewish mothers and their children

Through the utilisation of narrative research and semi-structured interviews this research explores the perceptions, values and beliefs held by eight Israeli secular Jewish mothers living in a society which centralises the family unit and its loyalty and commitment to its members. These are located alongside a strong belief in gender equality and an allegiance to the security of the state of Israel, culminating in a positioning of the role of the Israeli Jewish mother as central both to the family and to the Jewish state. This research, positioned within Vygotsky’s social development theory and Bowlby’s attachment theory, which signify the importance of reciprocal interactions between mother and child, aims to identify aspects of Israeli culture which may contribute to the formation of attachment between mother and child. The aim is to identify if, of the traditions, beliefs and customs identified in this research, there are any such features which can be taken out of their Israeli context and be utilised by practitioners working within educational settings supporting parents on issues relating to the attachment formations with their children. By applying a thematic analysis to the transcripts, findings revealed the complexities which exist for the Israeli secular Jewish mother participating in this research and the conflicts, tensions and pressures she faces living in a society in which the ‘lengthening shadows’ of the Holocaust (Elon, 2010, p.232), the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and shifts in societal values play an important role in understanding society’s expectations. Findings highlight the significance of the ‘dugri’ (open and honest) style of talk which exists in Israeli society and the open discussion of conflicts which result in reflectiveness and confident parenting. Furthermore, they emphasise the profundity of the human commitment and emotional bond between mother and child and suggest that to better understand the nature of this bond requires an outlook which expands beyond the realm of attachment theory; an outlook which embraces and signifies the sociocultural and historical experiences which shape this emotional and intimate bond.
Media Literacy for All Ages

This special issue of the Journal of Media Literacy Education explores the role of media literacy across the lifespan. Media literacy education interventions must be designed to meet the needs of individuals of different ages by understanding the life roles and goals that they have across the lifespan. Different pedagogical strategies are required to effectively address the media literacy competencies of young children, teens, adults, parents, and older adults. In old age, media literacy education may support cognitive functioning and social relationships and help people critically assess health-related information and services. Adopting a life course perspective enables the examination of media literacy competencies which unfold over time in response to changing historical conditions, social institutions and policies. This article reviews the literature to identify the current state of media literacy for different age groups, the present and future needs, and the media education content and instructional methods that have been used with children and adolescents, adult, and older people.
Cooperative Caching for Multiple Bitrate Videos in Small Cell Edges

Caching popular videos at mobile edge servers (MESs) has been confirmed as a promising method to improve mobile users (MUs) perceived quality of experience (QoE) and to alleviate the server load. However, with the multiple bitrate encoding techniques prevalently employed in modern streaming services, caching deployment is challenging for the following three facts: (1) cooperative caching should be explored for MUs located at overlapped coverage areas of MESs; (2) there exists tradeoff consideration for caching either high bitrate videos or high diversity videos; and (3) the relationship between MU perceived QoE and MU received bitrate, known as QoE function, varies in different services. Aiming to maximize the MU perceived QoE, we formulate the multiple bitrate video caching problem, and prove this problem is NP-hard for any given positive and strictly increasing QoE function. We then propose a polynomial complexity algorithm based on a general QoE function, which can achieve an approximate ratio arbitrarily close to 1/2. Specifically, for a linear QoE function, we explore useful property of optimal solutions, based on which more efficient algorithms are proposed. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our solutions via both theoretical analysis and extensive simulations.
Impact of Tourism Development (TD) on Non-Material Well-Being (NMWB) of Residents of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan

This study is undertaken to understand the impact of perceived tourism development on non-material well-beings (NMWB) naming Community Well-Being, Health and Safety Well-Being, and Emotional Well-Being of residents of Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan (India). Present study has adopted the quantitative approach. Interpretation was done on the basis of sample of 200. Exploratory factor analysis was done to identify the factor and the suitability of the scale in the study area. To find the impact of perceived tourism development on non-material well-being Regression analysis was applied. Finding of the study reflects that, tourism has a significant positive impact on the non-material well-being (community well being, emotional well being and health and safety well being) of resident of Chittorgarh (Rajasthan).
Patient praxis: A dialogue between equity practice and research

This Special Issue of International Studies in Widening Participation (ISWP) features papers authored by participants from the 2018 national Writing Program for Equity and Widening Participation Practitioners convened by the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE) at the University of Newcastle. In taking up the guest editorship of this Issue, we have thoroughly appreciated engaging with passionate higher education practitioners from across Australia who have worked with significant effort and focus to publish from their unique perspectives. The authors of these papers carefully unpack and interrogate equity and widening participation policies, practices and personal experiences, to make situated and contextualised contributions to the field. It is a credit to both the participants and the programmers that this Special Issue is possible, given the intentionally challenging character of a project that productively unsettles the conventions of processes of knowledge creation in Australian higher education (HE).
From Cyberspace to Independence Square: Understanding the Impact of Social Media on Physical Protest Mobilization During Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution

ABSTRACT Cyberspace has dramatically affected social and political movements over the last 10 years. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest a strong role for information communications technologies (ICTs) in a changing landscape of organization and mobilization for large-scale social and political movements in countries around the world. This paper analyzes the 2013–2014 Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine using big data collected from open source content including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, forums, and news sites and mixed methods and assess the ramifications and impact of social media on social mobilization. This work compares digital and physical engagement directionality and finds the impact of social media on physical protest turnout is significant and leads to increased numbers of protestors in the streets. The analysis also highlights means of developing and assessing social mobilization through the use of linguistically and regionally categorized social media.
Social Influence and Radicalization: A Social Data Analytics Study

The confluence of technological and societal advances is changing the nature of global terrorism. For example, engagement with Web, social media, and smart devices has the potential to affect the mental behavior of the individuals and influence extremist and criminal behaviors such as Radicalization. In this context, social data analytics (i.e., the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in social data) and influence maximization (i.e., the problem of finding a small subset of nodes in a social network which can maximize the propagation of influence) has the potential to become a vital asset to explore the factors involved in influencing people to participate in extremist activities. To address this challenge, we study and analyze the recent work done in influence maximization and social data analytics from effectiveness, efficiency and scalability viewpoints. We introduce a social data analytics pipeline, namely iRadical, to enable analysts engage with social data to explore the potential for online radicalization. In iRadical, we present algorithms to analyse the social data as well as the user activity patterns to learn how influence flows in social networks. We implement iRadical as an extensible architecture that is publicly available on GitHub and present the evaluation results.
Pathways to work-family synergy: resources, affect and wellbeing

ABSTRACT This study proposes and tests a model of work-family synergy that addresses some of the shortcomings observed in the literature. We examine pathways that enhance work-family synergy (positive energy and mood states) and overall wellbeing for employees who report to a supervisor. Individual level data for 1534 working Americans who responded to the National Study for the Changing Workforce were examined using structural equation modelling and mediation techniques. Overall support for the proposed work-family synergy model was found. Only one significant gender difference was found but further study is needed. Supervisor and coworker support mediated relationships between work-resources and work-family synergy which, in turn, was related to wellbeing. Depression mediated the work-family synergy with job satisfaction relationship. The findings inform individuals and organizations on the importance enhancing and sustaining work-family synergy because of its relationship to job satisfaction and wellbeing.
Growth expectations through innovative entrepreneurship.The role of subjective values and and duration of entrepreneurial experience

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a model suggesting that innovation may act as a motivating force that increases entrepreneurs' growth expectations, in which entrepreneurs' growth expectations are shaped by their subjective values and entrepreneurial experience moderates this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducts statistical analysis on a sample of 11,579 entrepreneurs from 24 countries who participated in the IIIP survey of innovation in 2011 under the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project. Findings The results suggest that entrepreneurs involved in innovative entrepreneurship are more likely to have higher growth expectations, with subjective values playing a direct and indirect role in entrepreneurs' expectations of firm growth. Additionally, the results indicate that the duration of entrepreneurial experience moderates the relationship between strategic orientation and confidence in innovation. This finding suggests there is feedback between having beliefs about the benefits of innovation and being an innovative entrepreneur, resulting in an over-estimation at least in comparative terms regarding firm growth rates. This relationship is stronger for novice entrepreneurs since experienced entrepreneurs tend to be more cautious about their expectations of growing. Originality/value This study deepens our understanding of the complex processes through which organizational-level decisions ultimately influence individual-level factors. The present findings contribute to progress in this task by suggesting that strategies aimed at cultivating innovation feed entrepreneurs' subjective values of innovation as well as expectations of growth. Although the duration of entrepreneurial experience moderates the relationship between acting as an innovative entrepreneur and subjective values of innovation, the results suggest that entrepreneurs' expectations are primarily driven by their internal perceptions of reality. Palabras clave Palabras clave de autor: Entrepreneurs; Growth; Decision making; Entrepreneurial orientation; Motivation; Small firm/new venture strategy
Investigating the Integrated Psychosocial Model of Criminal Social Identity (IPM-CSI) within a sample of community based youth offenders

ABSTRACT The current study aimed to explore the correlates of CSI in a single study, using the recently validated MDSI (Measure of Delinquent Social Identity). Path analysis was conducted among a sample of opportunistically selected youth offenders (N = 536; age range from 12 to 17 years), separately for boys (n = 348; M age = 15.28 years) and girls (n = 188; M age = 15.23 years). Findings showed a positive significant relationship between interpersonal manipulation and in-group affect (β = .08) for boys, and a positive significant relationship between interpersonal manipulation and in-group ties (β = .21) for girls. Among boys, the findings revealed a negative significant relationship between self-esteem and cognitive centrality (β = −.13). For girls only, a negative significant relationship was identified between living with parents and associating with criminal friends (β = −.20). Limitations and advantages, including practical implications, of the current research are discussed, highlighting directions for future research.
Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity

Abstract Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause. In this article, we draw on social movement and transformative learning to reflect on our experiences of learning and unlearning as white settler-colonialists researching allyship in the Standing Rock struggle against an oil pipeline in the United States. Our text is also shaped by our own experience as activists within a local Indigenous-led movement to protect ocean and land from the Trudeau–Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. First we introduce ourselves, our research project, context and argument. We then position our work within social movement and transformative learning scholarship, critique notions of allyship and then solidarity. We argue for the unlearning of colonial practices and mindsets which centre our particular white colonial knowledge, leadership, privilege, power and bodies and learning towards decolonising solidarity. To illustrate this process, we present three personal vignettes that speak about the start of our own 'unlearning of ourselves', and learning of decolonising solidarity. We conclude the article with a discussion of how best we believe learning towards decolonising solidarity might proceed in social movements.
Measuring Gratitude in Adolescents: The Validity of the Vietnamese Adaptation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) and the Revised Short Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test (S-GRAT

Conclusion 4 School-based gratitude programs have been increasingly conducted, aiming to help students develop the habits of gratitude that have been identified as the stepping stones to greater happiness and success. The research studies on outcomes of these interventions will certainly bound up with the use of valid and reliable instruments to measure gratitude. The aim of this article was to validate the Vietnamese translation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) and the Revised Short Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test (S-GRAT).
Broadening borders to build better schools

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how rural teachers provided a PLC by leveraging virtual technologies to connect educators of like subject disciplines from several schools, foreign and domestic.Design/methodology/approachA phenomenological case study-based approach was leveraged to investigate established vPLCs at schools (Creswell, 2013; Stake, 2010). Qualitative data were collected from multiple sources to obtain rural teacher perceptions on the impact vPLCs had on their practice (Creswell, 2013). FindingsTeacher collaborative teams build relationships comparable to teams that met face to face as part of a similar PLC and PD experience. Participant reflections in this investigation showed that rural educators favored face-to-face meetings; however, vPLCs provided similar teacher experiences to that of the face-to-face PBL model. Results indicated that educators recognized virtual collaboration just as valuable a tool for enabling PLCs than face-to-face collaborations while still offering similarities to improved teacher practice.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was limited to teachers in rural settings in the USA (Texas) and in the Dominican Republic. The research was limited to teacher perceptions of change, and observed changes as part of their participation in a research-based virtual PLC model. The research was limited to the school setting over an academic year.Practical implicationsThe findings from this study have practical implications for rural teachers and school implementation of a professional learning community model.Originality/valueThe promise provided by this study is that vPLCs may provide opportunity for rural schools to provide a job-embedded professional development model (Croftet al., 2010) for otherwise isolated teachers (Barrettet al., 2015).
An evaluation of access to adequate housing: A case study of eZamokuhle township, Mpumalanga; South Africa

Abstract Everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing. The government must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right. The main objective of the research is to examine beneficiaries’ perceptions about their built environment (housing and infrastructure) to determine their level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The main argument made is that lack of adequate housing not only jeopardizes development, but it also creates social and economic challenges. Therefore, lack of adequate housing is a hindrance to sustainable human settlements. The local municipality provides basic services such as refuse removal and water and sanitation. These services are inseparable from housing. There are however serious problems with basic services provided in eZamokuhle, such as poor sanitation and this has a negative impact on the provision of sustainable human settlement in eZamokuhle. The paper calls for the government to commit itself more in providing adequate housing for its citizens as this is the main element of sustainable human settlements.
From inclusion to inclusivity: A scoping review of community music scholarship

This article investigates how community music scholarship has taken up inclusion. Using a modified scoping review methodology, the authors analysed 47 articles published in the International Journal of Community Music from 2008 to 2018, examining how scholars have defined and operationalized the terms ‘inclusion’ and ‘inclusivity’, which were used interchangeably in the literature. The authors found that inclusion was often normatively invoked with no definition or approaches provided. In those articles that provided more detail about inclusion, many focused on musical access, such as removing auditions and not requiring previous music skill or knowledge, and processes of musical inclusion, such as creating a friendly and non-judgmental atmosphere, providing multiple ways of engaging with music-making and cultivating musical leadership among participants. Less frequent in the literature were ideas and approaches focusing on social inclusion through music, including frameworks that aimed to address and change systems that create marginalization; approaches that addressed social barriers to participation, such as transportation and childcare; and approaches that decentralized leadership to create collective responsibility and participation. The authors conclude by examining approaches from other scholarly disciplines, arguing that community music scholarship may benefit for more sustained and deliberate use of the term inclusivity, which points to the ongoing practice and effort towards inclusion. Running head: FROM INCLUSION TO INCLUSIVITY 2
Information Literacy, Young Learners and the Role of the Teacher Librarian

ABSTRACT This paper examines information literacy and young learners in the context of the school environment. An overview of children’s cognitive development and information processing, theories and models of information behaviour, and what defines information literacy is provided. Observation of young children’s use of the Internet for information purposes and the role of the teacher librarian in providing teaching and learning sequences that guide young learners in information literacy skills is also profiled.
Wise Practices and Intercultural Understandings: A Framework for Educator Videoconferencing

Abstract Educators utilize videoconferencing services for a variety of purposes in their classrooms, including offering a means to connect and learn with people of different cultures, geographies, and experiences. However, there has been little research into how educators use videoconferencing in their classrooms. Drawing on technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and intercultural pedagogies, we report and analyze findings from a survey of 117 videoconferencing educators. These educators reported possibilities and challenges for using videoconferencing, particularly for intercultural experiences. We offer a framework for videoconferencing in education drawn from the wisdom of videoconferencing educators and consider implications future teaching and research.