Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Professional communities of teacher educators: the characteristics that promote their success

ABSTRACT This study examined Communities of Practice (CoPs) composed of senior teacher educators. Our goals were: (1) to identify factors that contribute to or hinder the success of CoPs, (2) to consider the characteristics that help CoP coordinators be effective leaders. The research used qualitative data-collection and analysis. It targeted inter-organizational CoPs supported by the MOFET institute in Israel, interviewing 23 participants and 12 coordinators of 13 different CoPs. Factors perceived as contributing to a community’s successful functioning were: choosing a topic relevant to community members, engaging in activities that contribute to participants’ professional development and establishing positive interpersonal relationships between community members. Hindering factors were essentially the absence of the aforementioned characteristics and technical difficulties. Participants claimed that community coordinators needed to balance their own leadership with participants’ initiatives, while addressing the community’s needs. The findings suggest that inter-institutional CoPs can serve as a framework for educational leaders’ professional development and may inform their planning.
Love on the Brain :? Exploring the Influence of Lyrics on Sexting and Risky Sexual Behavior

Love on the Brain”: Exploring the Influence of Lyrics on Sexting Savannah Leigh Kroff School of Family Life, BYU Master of Science While some research has been done on the influence of music lyrics on sexual behaviors in general, none has explored the lyrical influence on sexting. The goal of the current study is to explore the longitudinal influence of sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics on adolescent sexting behaviors. Participants were 125 14-year-old adolescents who were recruited from high schools in Texas. Participants completed questionnaires on music preferences, sexual behaviors and impulsivity and were given BlackBerry devices through which frequency of sexual text message utterances was obtained. Music preferences were then quantitatively analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) software. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to explore the influence of both sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics on sexting behavior. Additionally, biological sex and impulsivity were explored as moderators. Analyses revealed that 40.65% of adolescents participated in some form of sexting at Time 3 (42.81% at Time 1) but that music lyrics had little direct influence on sexting. However, biological sex appeared to moderate the relationship between sexual lyrics and sexting such that males were much more likely to participate in sexting when exposed to sexual lyrics where females were not. These and other results are discussed as well as implications for parents and the need for further research on sexting and the behavioral influence of musical lyrics.
Alcohol and illicit drug consumption and the association with risky sexual behaviour among Swedish youths visiting youth health clinics

Aims: High alcohol consumption and use of illicit drugs among young people is of great concern and there is a need to identify arenas where this group can be reached by preventive measures. The aim of the present study was to study prevalence of risky alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, and risky sexual behaviour (RSB) among young people visiting youth health clinics in Stockholm county. Another aim was to explore the association between risky alcohol consumption, illicit drug use and RSB. Methods: During autumn 2016, an anonymous questionnaire comprising questions about alcohol, illicit drugs and risky sexual behaviour was given to visitors at 11 youth health clinics in Stockholm county. Results: A total of 328 youths (M = 18.8 years, 89% girls) answered the questionnaire. Results show that 61.7% had risky alcohol consumption and 41.8% had tried illicit drugs. Risky sexual behaviour was more prevalent among respondents with risky alcohol consumption, and it was more common among non-students than students. Conclusions: Findings indicate that a large proportion of visitors at youth health clinics in Stockholm county has a risky alcohol consumption and experiences of other drugs, and also that risky alcohol consumption is associated with three of five RSB outcomes. Non-students seemed to be a particularly exposed risk group with regard to both risky alcohol consumption and RSB. Overall, the results indicate that youth health clinics are an important arena for alcohol prevention.
Thirty Years of Regional Climate Modeling: Where Are We and Where Are We Going next?

The year 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the development of the first regional climate model (RCM), and here an overview is provided of the progress in regional modeling research and of the main challenges lying ahead. RCMs were primarily developed to provide fine‐scale climate information for impact studies, but they have evolved into general and multipurpose modeling tools. Among the main achievements in RCM research the focus is on: the development of community RCMs applicable to a wide variety of studies and regional contexts; the increase of model simulation length up to centennial scales and spatial resolutions up to convection‐permitting scales (few kilometers), leading to a better understanding of regional to local climate change signals; the development of fully coupled Regional Earth System Models; the inception of intercomparison projects culminating in the international Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment; the extensive use of RCM simulations for impact assessments; and the involvement of the scientific community from developing countries in climate modeling research. Among the outstanding issues in need of more attention are the Added Value of using this downscaling technique; various technical aspects concerning RCM simulations; and uncertainties in RCM‐based climate projections. Future directions in RCM research are discussed, with highlight on: transition to convection‐permitting modeling systems; further development of Regional Earth System Models including the human component; next phase of the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment project; and use of RCMs in the distillation of actionable information for contribution to climate service activities. A brief historical overview of regional climate modeling is also presented.
An Ontology to Standardize Nutritional Epidemiologic Research Output: From Paper-Based Standards to Linked Content

1) Background: The use of linked data in Semantic Web are promising approaches to add value to nutrition research. An ontology, which defines the logical relationships between well-defined taxonomic terms, enables linking and harmonizing research output. To enable the description of domain-specific output in nutritional epidemiology, we propose the Ontology for Nutritional Epidemiology (ONE) according to authoritative guidance for nutritional epidemiologic research; 2) Methods: First, a scoping review was conducted to identify existing ontology terms for reuse in ONE. Second, existing data standards and manuscript reporting guidelines for nutritional epidemiology were converted into ontology, and the terms used in the standards were summarized and listed separately in a taxonomic hierarchy. Third, the ontologies of the nutritional epidemiologic standards, reporting guidelines and the core concepts were gathered in ONE. Three case studies were illustrated for its potential applications. (i) annotation of existing manuscripts and data, (ii) ontology-based inference, and (iii) estimation of reporting completeness in a sample of nine manuscripts; 3) Results: Ontologies for “food and nutrition” (n=33), “disease and special population” (n=86), “data description” (n=21), “research description” (n=32) and “supplementary (meta) data description” (n=44) were reviewed and listed. ONE consists of 339 classes (79 new classes to describe nutrition data and 24 new classes to describe the content of nutrition manuscripts). The case studies demonstrated the application of ONE. 4) Conclusion: ONE is a resource to automate data integration, searching and browsing, and can be used to assess reporting completeness in nutritional epidemiology.
Consequences of customer experience quality on franchises and non-franchises models

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify the differences of the influence of customer experience quality on brand equity, brand trustworthiness, perceived quality, perceived risk and purchase intention of franchise customers and non-franchise customers. Design/methodology/approach After developing two questionnaires, the authors collected 523 responses from Brazilian franchise users (Questionnaire 1) and 574 of non-franchise users (Questionnaire 2). The authors proceed to a confirmatory factor analysis, based on covariance (CB-SEM). In order to compare the results between franchises and non-franchises, the authors have performed a multi-group analysis with support of AMOS. Findings The results show that customer experience quality of the franchise customers tends to result in a better purchase intention, giving indications of better quality and brand trustworthiness when compared to non-franchises. This comparison shows indications of the competitive advantage of franchises over non-franchises, justifying the investments that market companies have been making in the development of the customer experience quality. Originality/value The research contributes to the understanding of the impact of the customer experience quality on brand equity, brand trustworthiness, perceived quality, perceived risk and purchase intention that directly affects the performance of the franchises, empirically investigating the customer experience quality in the context of franchises using the adapted EXQ scale. Complementarily, it is compared with non-franchises to observe the differences between them.
Analyse et classification d’exemples illustratifs dans le dictionnaire “Cesselin" en utilisant Google Traduction et un dictionnaire UNL-UWs

Savoir si un exemple dans un dictionnaire bilingue est un proverbe, une expression idiomatique, une collocation ou un simple exemple d'utilisation serait tres utile aux utilisateurs, mais est rarement indique. Dans cet article, nous presentons une classification manuelle et une annotation d'exemples dans un dictionnaire bilingue japonais-francais, le « Cesselin » (145000 entrees), derivees de l'analyse manuelle de 500 entrees, et decrivons les etapes d'automatisation du processus d'annotation. Quant aux proverbes, nous utilisons simplement des dictionnaires de proverbes. Pour les autres cas, notre methode consiste a comparer la traduction (automatique) en anglais d'un exemple original (japonais) et sa traduction (francaise) dans le dictionnaire. La comparaison est basee d'abord sur le nombre de lexemes communs aux deux sorties (anglaises), et deuxiemement sur le nombre de lexemes synonymes, qui peuvent etre trouves en utilisant un grand dictionnaire UNL-UW. Nous montrons notre procedure de classification en detail et son automatisation future.
Parliamentary questions as a control mechanism in coalition governments

Abstract This article argues that government parties can use parliamentary questions to monitor coalition partners in order to reduce agency loss through ministerial drift. According to this control logic, government parties have particular incentives to question ministers whose jurisdictions display high policy conflict and high electoral salience and thus hold the prospect of electorally damaging ministerial drift. Multivariate regression analysis of all parliamentary questions in the German Bundestag between 1980 and 2017 supports this hypothesis, showing that cabinet parties address substantially and significantly more questions to ministries held by coalition partners on salient and ideologically divisive issues. This interactive effect does not occur for opposition parties or questions posed to own-party ministers. These findings, as well as the temporal patterns of questioning over the electoral cycle, indicate that control within coalitions is a distinct motivation for questioning ministers that cannot be reduced to existing explanations such as electorally motivated issue competition.
How Newcomers’ Work-Related Use of Enterprise Social Media Affects Their Thriving at Work—The Swift Guanxi Perspective

This study aims to explore the relationship between newcomers’ use of enterprise social media (ESM) and their thriving at work. Adopting the conception of swift guanxi, we propose a model to examine how newcomers’ work-related use of ESM influences their thriving at work through promoting swift guanxi (i.e., mutual understanding, reciprocal favors, and relationship harmony) between newcomers and veterans. A valid sample consisted of 77 new employee-veteran dyads in a large telecom company was used in Smart-PLS to test our research model. The results show that newcomers’ work-related use of ESM positively affects mutual understanding, reciprocal favor, and relationship harmony. Reciprocal favor and relationship harmony exert positive effects on learning and vitality. However, mutual understanding only has a positive effect on learning. Furthermore, swift guanxi mediates the relationships between newcomers’ work-related ESM usage and the two dimensions of thriving. The findings provide new insights for organizations to better manage the use of ESM to improve newcomers’ thriving at work.
Text Summarization via Hidden Markov Models and Pivoted Qr Matrix Decomposition

A sentence extract summary of a document is a subset of the doc-ument's sentences that contains the main ideas in the document. We present two approaches to generating such summaries. The rst uses a pivoted QR decomposition of the term-sentence matrix in order to identify sentences that have ideas that are distinct from those in other sentences. The second is based on a hidden Markov model that judges the likelihood that each sentence should be contained in the summary. We compare the results of these methods with summaries generated by humans, showing that we obtain higher agreement than do earlier methods.
Sensitivity and specificity of early screening for autism

Background Early identification and diagnosis is beneficial for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Universal early screening is recommended by many experts, but disputed because evidence is limited, and sensitivity and specificity in general populations are largely unknown. Aims To estimate the sensitivity and specificity of early population-based screening for ASDs. Method The study was based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. The 36-month cohort questionnaire included the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), a 40-item screening instrument for ASD. Results A total of 58 520 mothers (58%) responded to the questionnaire. By the end of follow-up on 31 December 2015, 385 (0.7%) individuals with ASD had been identified among the responders' children. The distributions of SCQ scores in those with ASD and other children had large degrees of overlap. With the cut-off of 15 recommended in the SCQ manual, screening sensitivity was 20% (95% CI 16–24) for ASD overall. For children with ASD who had not developed phrase speech at 36 months, sensitivity was 46% (95% CI 35–57%), whereas it was 13% (95% CI 9–17) for children with ASD with phrase speech. Screening specificity was 99% (95% CI 99–99). With the currently recommended cut-off of 11, sensitivity increased to 42% for ASD overall (95% CI 37–47), 69% (95% CI 58–79) for ASD without phrase speech and 34% (95% CI 29–40) for ASD with phrase speech. Specificity was then reduced to 89% (95% CI 89–90). Conclusions Early ASD screening with a parent checklist had low sensitivity. It identified mainly individuals with ASD with significant developmental delay and captured very few children with ASD with cognitive skills in the normal range. Increasing sensitivity was not possible without severely compromising specificity. Declaration of interest C.L. receives royalty for the Social Communication Questionnaire, which she has co-authored.
Wang S, Monroig O, Tang G, Zhang L, You C, Tocher DR & Li Y (2014) Investigating long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in teleost fish: Functional characterization of fatty acyl desaturase (Fads2) and Elovl5 elongase in the catadromous

(2014) Investigating long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in teleost fish: Functional characterization of fatty acyl desaturase (Fads2) and Elovl5 elongase in the catadromous species, Japanese eel Anguilla japonica, Aquaculture, 434, pp. 57-65. NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Aquaculture. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Aquaculture, Title 1 Investigating long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in teleost fish: Functional 2 characterization of fatty acyl desaturase (Fads2) and Elovl5 elongase in the catadromous 3 species, Japanese eel Anguilla japonica 4 5 Authors 6 Abstract 28 The capacity for endogenous production of LC-PUFA from PUFA in euryhaline or 29 diadromous fish is largely unknown other than for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), an 30 anadromous species, which displays a freshwater pattern. The aim of the present study was to 31 characterize the enzymes of the LC-PUFA pathway in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica), the 32 most important catadromous species currently being farmed. cDNAs of two key genes were 33 cloned and functional assays showed they encoded a desaturase (Fads2) with Δ6 and Δ8 34 activity and an elongase (Elovl5) with activity towards C 18 and C 20 PUFA, with activities 35 similar to marine fish and an Δ6/Δ8 activity ratio similar to Atlantic salmon. Furthermore, 36 tissue distribution of the mRNA showed a clear marine pattern with highest expression in 37 brain and eye. Phylogenetic analysis placed the eel cDNAs in line with classical taxonomy. 38 The data suggest that diadromous species display a pattern of LC-PUFA biosynthesis capacity 39 that likely reflects the environmental and nutritional influence of their early life stages rather 40 than those of adult fish. Future studies aim to establish the full range of PUFA desaturases 41 and elongases in Japanese eel and to provide further insight to the importance and relevance 42 of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in fish species and the influence of diadromy.
Subjective well-being in China: direct and indirect effects of rural-to-urban migrant status

Abstract The purpose of this article is to provide a recent investigation on the determinants of subjective well-being among Chinese adults, with particular emphasis on internal migrants who hold a rural hukou and have settled in cities. Based on a sample of 7846 adults stemming from the 2011 wave of CHNS survey, we estimate different happiness functions using ordered probit regressions. We first confirm the influence of traditional demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (i.e. age, marital status, gender, illness/injury, income, and education). Second, our results emphasize the importance of taking into account regional differences, but also the positive impact of leisure time and social connections. Finally, our results highlight that being a rural-to-urban migrant is significantly associated with a decrease in the probability of reporting good or very good life satisfaction. We show that this relationship seems to be shaped by direct and indirect effects, and we identify the mediating role of regional patterns and social relations.
Barreto-Naehrig Curves

Elliptic curves with pairings are useful tools for constructing cryptographic primitives. In this memo, we specify domain parameters of Barreto-Naehrig curves (BN-curves) [8]. The BN-curve is an elliptic curve suitable for pairings and allows us to achieve high security and efficiency of cryptographic schemes. This memo specifies domain parameters of four 254-bit BN-curves [1] [2] [5] which allow us to obtain efficient implementations.
Childhood adversity and behavioural addictions: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation and depression in an adult community sample

Abstract Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) increase developmental vulnerabilities for adult psychopathology, and behavioural addictions in particular. However, our understanding of the common psychological mechanisms underlying various behavioural addictions is currently limited. The present study explores self-report emotion dysregulation and depression severity as candidate transdiagnostic processes for addictions known to be related to ACEs such as gambling, food, and internet (social media) use. A large community sample of working adults (n = 1,231) was surveyed online. Validated self-report assessments of gambling, food, and social media addiction severity were administered. The study found that cumulative ACEs were linked to clinical symptoms of gambling, food, and social media addiction through the mediator of emotion dysregulation. Specific emotion dysregulation mechanisms common to gambling, food, and social media addictions include poor control of impulses when upset, and poor clarity about emotions. Additionally, emotion dysregulation and depression serially mediated the association between ACEs, and food and social media addiction severity. The study specifies emotion- and mood-related clinical targets for clinical assessments and interventions that could benefit adults with a history of ACEs.
An exploratory study of visitors’ motivations at a heritage destination

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine visitors’ motivations for going to the South Luogu Alley, a famous hutong with an over 700-year history in Beijing, China. Design/methodology/approach The study applied a self-administered questionnaire to collect data from visitors on the main street of the South Luogu Alley. Findings It was found that most visitors of the hutong are casual tourists pursuing relaxation, including tension release and spending time with friends and family; seeking authenticity is not visitors’ most important motivation. Research limitations/implications This study used only one hutong to assess visitors’ motivations in hutong tourism, so the results may not be applicable to all hutongs. Practical implications The research on the demographics and different motivations of the South Luogu Alley visitors can be useful to managers of tourism-related organizations. Social implications This study shows that tourists with different motivations for visiting a hutong have varying requirements for authenticity. The reconstruction of some historical hutongs is not always perceived as negative, and the influence of Western cultural elements can be seen as positive if they contribute to the sustainable development of the local culture. Originality/value The term “hutonger,” which includes casual visitors, entertainment seekers, authenticity seekers and pure escapees, based on these respective motivations, is introduced to describe the specific groups of hutong visitors and contribute to the hutong tourism literature.