Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Qualitative Exploration of the Factors that Led Hispanic/Latina Middle School Students to Select a STEM High School Education in New York City

There is a significant gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers as well as in the STEM workforce that continues to expand, ultimately impacting the global economy. In response to this crisis, this qualitative study sought to identify the factors that led Hispanic/Latina middle school students to select a STEM high school education. For this study, a purposeful sample of twentyfive ninth-grade Hispanic/Latina students participated from two designated STEM private high schools located in a densely populated Hispanic/Latino area in the Bronx. Participants anonymously responded to The Middle to High School STEM Experience questionnaire (see Appendix A and Appendix B), with a Qualtrics instrument to supply the data. A qualitative analysis of the results followed. The results illuminated the essential roles that intrapersonal skills and external barriers play in the success of participants. In light of these results, there should be a greater focus on increased funding, early exposure to STEM, experiential learning, and the identification of role models for Hispanic/Latina students. Additionally, this study may help to advance the long overdue need to explore factors motivating young Hispanic/Latinas to enter STEM education and careers to achieve growing STEM workforce demands. Recommendations for further research include conducting a broader research project with a larger sample size that also involves public school students from the New York City Department of Education in order to make the findings more generalizable. Document Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Education (EdD) Department Executive Leadership First Supervisor Janice Kelly Second Supervisor Fran Wills Subject Categories Education This dissertation is available at Fisher Digital Publications: https://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/education_etd/389 A Qualitative Exploration of the Factors that Led Hispanic/Latina Middle School Students to Select a STEM High School Education in New York City
Family triangulation experiences of Turkish young women

This study aims to explore Turkish young woman’ family triangulation experiences. The phenomenological research design of the qualitative tradition was utilized. The sample of the study comprised 10 Turkish young women who were selected through convenience sampling. During the data collection, semi-structured interviews were preferred. Data analysis were also conducted via content analysis. Participants reported insufficient problem/conflict solving ability of their parents where causes mediator role of children. Holding a parental role, defending the one parent as participants perceive he/she is weak, and feeling caught in the middle were the factors in relation to mediating pattern. A number of participants described the children and fathers in their own families as scapegoats. Coalitions were one of the most frequently reported theme and mainly indicated mother-children pulled in and father ‘outsider’ form of a triangular relationship. Triangulated children expressed emotional reactance of angry, distant and disappointment as they play a mediating role during the conflicts. Only one participant was able to act without dragging into conflicts and maintained a balanced position of triangulation. Moreover, all findings of the current study were briefly discussed in the context of the value of children theme as it is the fact that material/economic expectations of parents sharply decrease, and emotional expectations increase from children.
Hyperlocal online deliberation and civic governance : a sociotechnical perspective

This dissertation concerns the role of online deliberation in hyperlocal governance, that is the self-governance of a small geographically bounded neighbourhood or community. The research has three closely related but distinct purposes: to assess the impact of online technology in terms of the emergent character of self-governance; to describe the social and technological relations that produced the observed impact; and to suggest explanations that link those socio-technical relations with the observed governance effects. The work draws upon concepts at the intersection of theories from human-centred computing, especially those that relate to online deliberation, and from political science, where direct deliberative democracy offers an evaluative benchmark for democratic governance. This interdisciplinary theoretical framework provides the basis for a case-based analysis of empirical observations of online interactions relating to hyperlocal governance. The study describes and analyses patterns of "governance conversation" observed in interactions on local e-mail lists, and shows how they facilitate the pluralist deliberation required to manage complex local governance problems. The analysis suggests how geographic proximity presents both distinctive opportunities and constraints for online deliberation that aspires to support direct, democratic process and practice.
Is the Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale Valid and Reliable for African American Adolescents?

ABSTRACT Background: Health promotion/education strive to promote healthful conditions that improve quality of life based on the perceptions of those whose lives are affected Though health promotion/education might have instrumental value in reducing risks for premature morbidity and mortality, their ultimate value lies in contributions to quality of life. Life satisfaction (LS) has been defined as an individual’s assessment of their quality of life based upon personal criteria and linked to adolescent health risk behaviors and developmental assets. Purpose: We investigated the psychometrics of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale [BMSLSS] with an adolescent sample of African Americans (N = 1,658) from four mid-sized cities in the United States. Reliability and validity of the BMSLSS has not been determined for samples of exclusively African American adolescents. Methods: Data analysis included calculating mean ratings, standard deviations and effect sizes (Cohen’s d) and inspecting the scale’s internal structure, reliability, and relationships to other variables. Results: Evidence of internal structure, internal consistency reliability, and hypothesized relationships to other variables for participants were determined. Translation to Health Education Practice: The BMSLSS is a useful indicator of LS for research and health education assessment purposes among African American adolescents where brevity of psychometric measures is imperative.
Realizing powerful writing pedagogy in U.S. public schools

ABSTRACT In this theoretical article, I argue that classroom teachers are in an ideal position to help students make sense of and take action regarding pressing social issues. Yet according to past research, writing instruction in the United States tends to focus on short, formulaic assignments that do not require criticality or connect to real-world events. Additionally, this trend is more pronounced for historically underserved students, particularly students of color and/or students with lower socioeconomic statuses. To address this problematic trend, I propose a powerful writing pedagogy (PWP) that blends evidence-based practices with methods for increasing authenticity, while emphasizing critical composition pedagogy, resulting in a theoretically comprehensive pedagogy that provides necessary skills and strategies, connects to students’ lives, responds to sociopolitical realities, and provides opportunities to impact actual, intended audiences. PWP illustrates that striving for social justice, increasing authenticity, and supporting skill and strategy development are mutually supportive goals for writing instruction.
Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Short Work–Family Enrichment Scale on Underrepresented Samples

The psychometric properties of the new short version of the work&#8211;family enrichment scale were tested on two underrepresented samples: (1) M&#257;ori employees, the indigenous people of New Zealand and (2) Sri Lankan employees. Both groups have not been well explored in the work&#8211;family field. We examine the measurement properties of the short measure for work&#8211;family and family&#8211;work enrichment and using structural equation modeling, investigate its associations with toward emotional exhaustion and stress (sample 1 n&#160;=&#160;215) and emotional exhaustion and cynicism (sample 2 n&#160;=&#160;143). Results support the new measure and provide initial evidence of the beneficial impact of work and family roles in underexplored populations. This highlights greater universality and cross&#8208;cultural validation.
The mediating role of avoidance coping upon the relationship between early maladaptive schemas, anxiety and depression

This study examined the mediating role of Maladaptive Emotion-focused coping (MEFC) on the relationship between Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS), anxiety, and depression. Relationships between Young's, (2003) 15 EMS, maladaptive coping strategies, and psychological distress were examined in a university population (N = 236; 117 women and 119 men between the ages of 18-52 M = 22.39, SD = 6.77). EMS were categorized by the Young's Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-SF). Adaptive and maladaptive forms of coping strategies were assessed with the Coping Orientation to Problem Experience (COPE). Lastly the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) was used to assess anxiety and depression. A multiple regression indicated that EMS accounted for a greater amount of variance accounted for in anxiety and depression than MEFC. Even though a multiple regression did indicate a relationship between EMS and MEFC, MEFC did not mediate the relationship between EMS and anxiety or depression. On the contrary, a post hoc analysis revealed that EMS completely mediated the relationship between MEFC and psychological distress (i.e. anxiety and depression). Post hoc analysis also reveals that MEFC was a stronger predictor of anxiety
Do Older Teachers Benefit More From Workday Break Recovery Than Younger Ones?

Age has not received much attention in research on work stress recovery. The present study addressed this research gap by studying whether age moderates the relationship between recovery experiences (detachment from work and relaxation) during workday breaks and recovery outcomes (need for recovery and job burnout) among teachers. Both lunch breaks and breaks between classes offer teachers recovery opportunities during workdays. The cross-sectional data were collected via an electronic questionnaire among Finnish class and subject teachers (N = 769) working in publicly funded comprehensive schools (83% female, mean age 49.8 years). Moderated hierarchical regression analyses showed that older subject teachers benefitted more from break detachment and relaxation than their younger colleagues in terms of lower levels of exhaustion and sense of inadequacy at work. In addition, break detachment was more strongly related to a lower need for recovery among older subject teachers. These moderator effects were not found among class teachers who had fewer opportunities to detach and relax during workday breaks than subject teachers. In conclusion, age seems to play a minor role in internal recovery occurring during workdays among teachers.
How language type influences patterns of motion expression in bilingual speakers

Expression of motion shows systematic inter-typological variability between language types, particularly with respect to manner and path components of motion: speakers of satellite-framed languages (S-language; e.g. German) frequently conflate manner and path into a single clause, while verb-framed language speakers (V-language; e.g. Spanish) typically express manner and path in separate clauses, a pattern that also becomes evident in bilinguals’ expression of motion events in each language type. However, less is known about intra-typological variability within each language type, particularly for the expression of motion events among bilingual speakers. In this study, we examine motion descriptions produced by two groups of bilinguals – with Polish as first language – learning a second language that belongs to the same (Polish–German) or a different language type (Polish–Spanish), in comparison to monolinguals in each language (German, Spanish, Polish). Our results, based on written descriptions of animated motion scenes, showed evidence for both inter-typological and intra-typological variation in the expression of motion, with greater attunement to first-language (L1) patterns in learning a language of the same type, and closer alignment to second-language (L2) patterns in learning a language that belongs to a different language type.
Place and Sentiment-based Life story Analysis

Le Reseau des acteurs de l’histoire et la memoire de l’immigration (RAHMI) a lance en 2008 un programme experimental de collecte pour recueillir la memoire oubliee de populations immigrees engagees dans la vie de la region. Differents groupes de personnes ont ete vises par cette collecte qui a permis d’enregistrer des recits de vie dont ceux de Republicains espagnols s’etant exiles en France entre 1936 et 1939, et ayant participe a la resistance francaise. Le projet MATRICIEL (PEPS CNRS UPE 2016) s’est interesse a la migration de ces Republicains espagnols sous l’angle des lieux mentionnes dans leurs recits, et des sentiments associes a ces lieux. Le projet visait a placer la parole des migrants au premier plan de l’analyse ; les objets d’etude choisis : les lieux, designes par un nom propre : Barcelone, ou un nom commun : camp d’internement, et les sentiments associes distingues par leur polarite : positive ou negative, contribuent a valoriser les archives orales pour la construction d’une memoire de l’immigration. Il s’agit dans cet article de presenter la demarche mise en place pour une analyse pluridisciplinaire de ce corpus de recits de vie, qui combine des methodes et outils du traitement automatique des langues et de la cartographie. L’identification des lieux noms communs mentionnes dans les recits a ete menee grâce a un modele d’apprentissage supervise. L’identification puis la representation cartographique des lieux noms propres ont mis en evidence la repartition spatiale des parcours de vie des temoins, determines par le contexte historique et les choix personnels. L’annotation semi-automatique en sentiments ajoute une polarite aux recits. En perspective, l’analyse des types de lieux noms communs permettra d’evaluer la granularite utilisee par les temoins pour decrire les espaces vecus, et leur localisation contribuera a preciser la spatialite des recits.
Left Ventricular Remodeling in Diabetic Patients with and without Hypertension

Aim: The current study was designed to assess left ventricular (LV) mass in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) using 2-dimensional echocardiography (2DE). Subjects and methods: The study included 165 patients (mean age 56.5 ± 12.5 years, 69.7% males) divided into 3 equal groups. I: included patients with DM only, II: included patients with hypertension only and III: included patients with both. Additional 35 normal subjects were added as control group. LV dimensions, wall thickness, systolic function and mass were assessed by 2DE. Results: Compared to normal’s, Group I and Group III patients showed signi fi cant increase of LV dimensions, wall thickness and mass (all p<0.0001). Comparison between Group I and Group III showed no signi fi cant difference in all values except for LV wall thickness which was signi fi cantly higher in Group III than Group I (1.3 ± 0.2 cm vs 1.4 ± 0.2 cm; p<0.006). In Group II patients, LV wall thickness, mass and mass index were signi fi cantly higher than in Group I (p<0.001) while LV dimensions showed no signi fi cant difference between both patient groups. All patients in Group I, II and III showed signi fi cant reduction in LV fractional shortening than normal’s (28.6 ± 7.0 vs 35.7 ± 7.1; p<0.0001) with no signi fi cant difference between the three groups. Conclusion: DM is an independent risk factor for the increased LV mass and impaired systolic function regardless of association with hypertension or not.
Understanding the customer experience-loyalty link: A moderated mediation model

Multiple studies have focused on Customer Experience and its relationship with Customer Loyalty. Despite such attention, two research gaps are still open with reference to the Experience-Loyalty link: the mediating role of Customer Satisfaction and the moderating role of consumer characteristics. This study employs a moderated mediation analysis of the relationship between Customer Experience and CustomerLoyalty by including Customer Satisfaction as a mediator and Shopping Enjoyment as a moderator. An online survey on almost three thousand consumers is run with reference to grocery retailing. Results show the role of Customer Satisfaction as a mediator. Shopping Enjoyment interacts with the Negative Affective Customer Experience dimension in its relationship with Customer Satisfaction.
Phased-Array Transmission for Secure mmWave Wireless Communication via Polygon Construction

This paper presents two secure transmission algorithms for millimeter-wave wireless communication, which are computationally attractive and have analytical solutions. In the proposed algorithms, we consider phased-array transmission structure and focus on phase shift keying (PSK) modulation. It is found that the traditional constellation synthesis problem can be solved with the aid of polygon construction in the complex plane. A detailed analysis is then carried out and an analytical procedure is developed to obtain a qualified phase solution. For a given synthesis task, it is derived that there exist infinite weight vector solutions under a mild condition. Based on this result, we propose the first secure transmission algorithm by varying the transmitting weight vector at symbol rate, thus resulting exact phases at the intended receiver and producing randomnesses at the undesired eavesdroppers. To improve the security without significantly degrading the symbol detection reliability for target receiver, the second secure transmission algorithm is devised by allowing a relaxed symbol region for the intended receiver. Compared to the first algorithm, the second one incorporates an additional random phase rotation operation to the transmitting weight vector and brings extra disturbance for the undesired eavesdroppers. Different from the existing works that are only feasible for the case of single-path mmWave channels, our proposed algorithms are applicable to more general multi-path channels. Moreover, all the antennas are active in the proposed algorithms and the on-off switching circuit is not needed. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectivenesses of the proposed algorithms under various situations.
The Added Value of Latinx and Black Teachers for Latinx and Black Students: Implications for Policy

A research synthesis points to the added value—benefits to social and emotional development, as well as learning outcomes—for students of color taught by teachers of color. Given ongoing education debates, policymakers can use this evidence base to craft legislation aimed at increasing the ethnoracial diversity of the U.S. educator workforce. To begin, historical research shows how Latinx and Black teachers have supported their Latinx and Black students’ social and emotional development during state-sanctioned school segregation. Contemporary qualitative and quantitative research highlights how teachers of color improve social and emotional development, as well as learning, for their students of color. Implications for Higher Education Act (HEA) are discussed.
The fashionable scientific fraud: Collingwood’s critique of psychometrics

In his review of Charles Spearman’s The Nature of ‘Intelligence’ (1923), R. G. Collingwood launched an attack upon psychometrics that was expanded in his Essay on Metaphysics (1940). Although underrated by friend and foe alike, Collingwood’s critique identified a number of defects in the thinking of psychometricians that subsequently became entrenched. However, his main complaint was that psychology generally (and, by implication, psychometrics) was a ‘fashionable scientific fraud’. This charge was inspired by his more general views on logic and metaphysics, which, however, as I argue, are logically unsustainable. Ironically, other elements of his philosophy – his ‘fallacy of calculation’ and concept of ‘scale of forms’ – are relevant to psychometrics and tip the scales in favour of his otherwise unwarranted charge.
Machine Learning Models for Automated Heart Disease Prognosis

As reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heart disease is the major cause of death for both sexes and members of most racial and ethnic groups. Cardiovascular disease claims one life in the United States every 34 seconds. The expense of medical services, medications, and lost productivity because of deaths from heart disease causes the United States to lose a significant amount of money each year. At least half of all Americans have one or more of the following three major risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Other significant indicators are the presence of diabetes, obesity (high body mass index), a lack of physical activity, and excessive alcohol consumption. In recent times, the healthcare sector has discovered that machine learning is a practical and reliable decision-making tool. The latter tends to assist doctors in making informed decisions about the heart condition of a patient. It has become increasingly important to develop an effective early-stage cardiac disease prognosis using digital patient information to enhance clinical decision-making. This study intends to find the most accurate machine learning classifiers for these prognostic uses. To predict cardiac disease, several supervised machine-learning algorithms were used and compared in terms of accuracy and performance. The following methods were used in our research: Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Decision Tree, and K Nearest Neighbor. The heart disease dataset from Kaggle has been used to validate this research. The latter was created using data from the 2020 United States national health status survey of more than 410,000 people, performed yearly by the centers for disease control and prevention.
Exploring the psychological health and wellbeing experiences of female veterans transitioning from military to civilian environments

5 DECLARATION . 6 COPYRIGHT STATEMENT . 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . 7 ACRONYMS . 8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 9 1.1 STUDY BACKGROUND 1 . 9 1.2 DEFINITIONS . 11 1.2. 1 PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING . 11 1.2. 2 THE FORCES. 12 1.2. 3 GROUND CLOSE COMBAT (GCC) . 12 1.2. 4 FEMALE VETERAN . 12 1.2. 5 DEPLOYMENT . 13 1.2. 6 POST-DEPLOYMENT . 13 1.2. 7 TRANSITION . 13 1.3 RATIONALE AND RESEARCH QUESTION . 13 1.3. 1 RESEARCH QUESTION . 14 1.3. 2 RESEARCH AIMS . 15 1.4 REFLEXIVE STATEMENT . 15 1.5 OVERVIEW OF THESIS . 18 1.6 SUMMARY . 18 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW . 19 2.