Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Initial Training for Engineering Educators

Elizabeth leads the Engineering Management and Statistics competencies at Iron Range Engineering, an ABET-accredited project-based engineering education program of Minnesota State University, Mankato. She enjoys helping student engineers develop entrepreneurial mindsets through project-based and experiential learning. Her research interests include improving engineering education through faculty development, game-based learning, and reflection. Elizabeth was a Certified Public Accountant and Controller in a manufacturing company; her Ph.D. in Organization and Management is from Capella University, Minneapolis. Elizabeth and her husband have a photography business in northern Minnesota.
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Competition and Interdisciplinary Teams in Student Learning

Colonel Aaron Hill is an Assistant Professor and Design Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from West Point, a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Missouri S&T, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Aaron has served in the military for 23 years as an Engineer Officer with assignments around the world to include Afghanistan, Egypt, and BosniaHerzegovina. He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer Representative for Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball. His passion for teaching and developing tomorrow’s leaders resulted in his selection in 2009 for the American Society of Civil Engineers New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Outstanding Young Alumni Award for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Safety and tolerability of oral lisdexamfetamine in adults with methamphetamine dependence: a phase-2 dose-escalation study

Objectives To examine the safety of an agonist-type treatment, lisdexamfetamine (LDX), at 250 mg/day among adults with methamphetamine (MA) dependence. Design A dose-escalating, phase-2, open-label, single-group study of oral LDX at two Australian drug treatment services. Setting The study was conducted at two Australian stimulant use disorder treatment clinics. Participants There were 16 participants: at least 18 years old, MA dependent for at least the preceding 2 years using ICD-10 criteria, reporting use of MA on at least 14 of the preceding 28 days. Interventions Daily, supervised LDX of 100–250 mg, single-blinded to dose, ascending-descending regimen over 8 weeks (100–250 mg over 4 weeks; followed by 4-week dose reduction regimen, 250–100 mg). Participants were followed through to week 12. Outcomes Primary outcomes were safety, drug tolerability and regimen completion at the end of week 4. Participants were followed to week 12. Secondary outcomes included: change in MA use; craving; withdrawal; severity of dependence; risk behaviour; change in other substance use; medication acceptability; potential for non-prescription use; adherence and neurocognitive functioning. Results Fourteen of 16 participants (87.5%) completed escalation to 250 mg/day. Two participants withdrew from the trial in the first week: one relocated away from the study site, the other self-withdrew due to a possible, known side effect of LDX (agitation). There was one serious adverse event of suicidal ideation which resolved. All other adverse events were mild or moderate in severity and known side effects of LDX. No participant was withdrawn due to adverse events. MA use decreased from a median of 21 days (IQR: 16–23) to 13 days (IQR: 11–17) over the 4-week escalation period (p=0.013). Conclusions LDX at a dose of up to 250 mg/day was safe and well tolerated by study participants, warranting larger trials as a pharmacotherapy for MA dependence. Trial registration number ACTRN12615000391572.
Bulk Recombination Lifetime of Minority Carrier in Compensated p-Si Solar Cell

A numerical study has been carried out to extract bulk recombinations lifetime of minority carrier in Fe contaminated p-type compensated silicon solar cell. In this paper it has demonstrated that the compensation will lead to a substantial increase in both intrinsic and Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) lifetime for minority carrier in p-Si. The utmost importance of this result is the control of compensation level that will facilitate strong improvements in silicon solar cell efficiencies.
Exploring relationships among Korean Children's Depression, Smartphone Addiction, and School Life Satisfaction: Focusing on Partial Least Square (PLS) Path Modeling

Abstract The spread of smartphone in Korea causes several side effects and raises concerns. Especially, recently the addiction to smartphone of elementary school children has been paid attention to by their parents, teachers, and so on. After literature review, this research presented hypotheses that depression would affect children's addiction to smartphone positively and school life satisfaction (SLS) negatively, in turn their addiction to smartphone would affect SLS negatively. We employed Partial Least Square (PLS) path modeling to test the hypotheses. We found that all hypotheses were supported. The findings of this study suggest that their families and school authorities should make valid measures to lessen children's depression for preventing addicting to smartphone and, in turn, increasing SLS. Key Words : elementary school children, depression, addiction to smartphone, school life satisfaction, PLS path modeling Received 7 October 2013, Revised 2 November 2013Accepted 20 December 2013Corresponding Author: Jihyuk Joo (Far East University) Email: hyukjoo@kdu.ac. krⒸ The Society of Digital Policy & Management. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.otg/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ISSN: 1738-1916 properly cited.
Sediment movement on Aligadde Beach, Uttara Kannada District, west coast of India

To understand the erosional and accretional behaviour of Aligadde Beach, monthly measurement of beach profiles over a period of three years (November, 1988 to December, 1991) disclose spatial as well as temporal changes in beach configuration in response to different environmental process variables. In the present study, Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and volume changes have been compared to better understand the on-offshore sediment movement. Monthly observations during November, 1988 to February, 1990 revealed a net gain of 34.6 m 3 m -1 in sediment, and the overall for November, 1988 to December. 1991 showed a net gain of 58.0 m 3 m -1 . During the southwest monsoon season (June-August), however, major loss of sediment was observed. Accumulation or removal of sediment on or offshore is ascribed to waves and tides, and longshore to convergence or reversal of longshore currents. The observed longshore currents revealed reversal trends; i.e., west to east during the southwest monsoon and northeast monsoon seasons and east to west during the rest of the year. The study revealed that the beach morphology undergoes cyclic seasonal changes in response to the changing wind and wave climate in three distinct phases: (1) major erosional phase (seaward sediment movement) during May-August, (2) accretional period (landward sediment movement) during fairweather season, and (3) a minor erosional phase during December-February.
trade and poverty: the case of Iran

Abstract: Using the vector error correction model, the relationship between trade and poverty is examined in this thesis. We have run eight models for two measures of poverty and mean per capita expenditure for six groups of expenditure in Iran from 1984 to 2005. The independent variables used in the models are: non-oil GDP, inflation, export share of GDP and import Share of GDP. Also, we have used three dummy variables to cover the war period, changes in exchange regimes, and the presence of a pro-trade government. The findings suggest that exports increase the means per capita expenditure and indices of poverty of the poor in the long-run, while in the short-run they simply reduce the depth of poverty. Conversely, results show that imports decrease the mean per capita expenditure and increase the poverty measures indicators of all groups in the long-run, while reducing the headcount index by 10% in the short-run. In addition the aggregate measures of trade increase poverty indicator in the long-run, while it reduces the mean per capita expenditure of the wealthier groups, more than poorer groups.
Genetic Variation in Response to Global Warming in a Coral Reef Species, Porites lobata

Climate change due to global warming is one of the worst environmental disasters in the world, which affects all ecosystems and has led to increasing degradation of coral reefs. The increase of sea surface temperature is inversely related to the resistance of corals and is directly associated with their bleaching. High temperature disrupts the symbiotic relationship between coral and algal symbiont and results in coral bleaching. To evaluate the adaptation of corals to heat stress, in this study, we investigated the thermal stress effect on the expression of genes involved in programmed cell death (PCD), cysteinyl aspartate proteases 3 (will be mentioned as Caspas3 hereafter) and anti-apoptotic pathway, B-cell lymphoma 2 (will be mentioned as Bcl2 hereafter) in Porites lobata (Dana, 1846). Corals were incubated at 25°C for 2 weeks (adaptation period) and then exposed to 34°C (heat shock) for 24 and 48 hours. Then, the expression of genes was measured using real-time PCR. The results revealed that both genes were up-regulated at 24 hours after heat induction. Bcl-2 expression (anti-apoptotic gene) was induced at 24 hours and was down-regulated at 48 hours. In contrast, Caspase3 (apoptotic gene) continued to be expressed up to 48 hours. These results might indicate that coral cells are headed towards bleaching and death with increased temperature. The results of this study, regarding the observed expression patterns, can clarify the response of different genes to a thermal stress in coral reefs. The exposure of corals to acute conditions with high temperatures presented the behavior of the desired genes in the studied conditions.
Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Ghanaian Language (Akan; Asante Twi) Version of the Health Literacy Questionnaire.

Background In under-resourced settings, patient competences to manage their own health is sometimes a necessity and high health literacy is needed to obtain a good health outcome. Thus, it is relevant to have a comprehensive measurement tool suitable for populations in such settings. The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) is a tool useful for health literacy assessment covering nine dimensions/scales of health literacy. The HLQ has been translated and validated in diverse contexts but has so far not been assessed in any country in sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to translate this tool into the most common language used in Ghana and assess its validity. Methods We carried out a cross-sectional study using the HLQ concurrently with an assessment of a malaria programme for caregivers with children under five years. The HLQ was translated using a systematic translation procedure. We analysed the psychometric properties of the HLQ based on data collected by face-to-face interview of 1234 caregivers. The analysis covered tests on difficulty level of scales, composite reliability, Cronbach’s alpha and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results Cognitive testing showed that some words were ambiguous, which led to minor rewording of the questionnaire. A nine-factor CFA model was fitted to the 44 question items with no cross-loadings or correlated residuals allowed. Given the very restricted nature of the model, the fit was quite satisfactory: χ2 DWLS (866 df) = 17177.58, p < 0.000, CFI = 0.929, TLI = 0.922, RMSEA = 0.116 and SRMR = 0.099. Composite reliability and Cronbach’s alpha were >0.7 for all scales except Cronbach’s alpha for scale 9, ‘Understanding health information well enough to know what to do’ (0.6). The mean differences between most demographic groups among health literacy scales were statistically significant. Conclusion The Akan-Twi version of HLQ proved relevant in our description of the health literacy levels among the caregivers in our study. This validated tool will be useful to conduct health literacy needs assessments to guide policies addressing such needs. Further work is needed to assess its psychometric properties among other population groups.
The Teacher's Communicative Competence: The First Day of School

Once a year, a unique instructional event occurs in the history of a classroom: the first day of class. This is the teacher's first interaction with the large group. Within this context, students form their first impressions about the teacher and may even make judgments about the teacher's competence. Veteran teachers believe that teacher behaviors during this session set the tone for subsequent sessions; a tone that may extend for the duration of the school year. Inexperienced first year teachers often report that this is the day for which they feel the least prepared and the day for which they have received little, if any, prescription or training. Student teaching and field experiences rarely permit observation of the first day of school. First year teachers have been students on the first day, but they have never been the teacher on the first day. In student teaching, they have learned how to "keep it going," but they have never learned how to "get it going. " As the following quotation suggests, the reality of an impending first day can seriously affect a teacher's self-perception of competence.
Expectancy, value, and attitudinal semantics

A novel single-attribute test between competing expectancy-value models of attitude was devised using subjects' ratings of clusters of statements located at a range of points within a three-dimensional semantic space with expectancy, value and attitude as the co-ordinates. The data provided strongest support for a model using bipolar scoring for evaluation and unipolar scoring for expectancy.
Localized orbital description of electronic structures of extended periodic metals, insulators, and confined systems: Density functional theory calculations

We present a simple and general method for construction of localized orbitals to describe an electronic structure of extended periodic metals and insulators as well as confined systems. Spatial decay of these orbitals is found to exhibit exponential behavior for insulators and power law for metals. While these orbitals provide a clear description of bonding, they can be also used to determine polarization of insulators. Within density functional theory, we illustrate applications of this method to crystalline aluminium, copper, silicon, ${\mathrm{PbTiO}}_{3}$, and molecules, such as ethane and diborane.
Faithful Saliency Maps: Explaining Neural Networks by Augmenting "Competition for Pixels"

For certain machine-learning models such as image classi(cid:12)ers, saliency methods promise to answer a crucial question: At the pixel level, where does the model look to classify a given image? If existing methods truthfully answer this question, they can bring some level of interpretability to an area of machine learning where it has been inexcusably absent: namely, to image-classifying neural networks, usually considered some of the most "black-box" classi(cid:12)ers. A multitude of di(cid:11)erent saliency methods has been developed over the last few years|recently, however, Adebayo et al. [1] revealed that many of them fail so-called "sanity checks": That is, these methods act as mere edge detectors of the input image, outputting the same convincing-looking saliency map completely independently of the model under investigation! Not only do they not illuminate the inner workings of the model at hand, but they may actually deceive the model investigator into believing that the model is working as it should. To (cid:12)x these deceptive methods and save them from the trash pile of discarded research, Gupta and Arora [11] proposed an algorithm called competition for pixels . Yet as we uncovered, competition can be deceiving itself! This thesis makes three main contributions: (1) It examines competition for pixels, showing that the algorithm has serious issues in the few-class setting. (2) It proposes an augmentation of the competition algorithm designed to address these issues. (3) It experimentally veri(cid:12)es the e(cid:11)ectiveness of said augmentation.
Franz-Keldysh effect in GeSn pin photodetectors

The optical properties and the Franz-Keldysh effect at the direct band gap of GeSn alloys with Sn concentrations up to 4.2% at room temperature were investigated. The GeSn material was embedded in the intrinsic region of a Ge heterojunction photodetector on Si substrates. The layer structure was grown by means of ultra-low temperature molecular beam epitaxy. The absorption coefficient as function of photon energy and the direct bandgap energies were determined. In all investigated samples, the Franz-Keldysh effect can be observed. A maximum absorption ratio of 1.5 was determined for 2% Sn for a voltage swing of 3 V.
RADIAL VELOCITY FOR THE OPEN CLUSTER NGC 2420.

The authors present radial velocities for the bright stars, nine of them giants, in the old open cluster NGC 2420 from high-resolution spectra obtained with the 2.1-meter coudé spectrograph at KPNO. The mean cluster velocity is found to be 70.0±1.4 (rms) km s-1 based on these velocity measurements. Among the ten stars observed, two have been confirmed to be nonmembers from their radial-velocity data. In addition, two barium stars in the sample have shown variable velocities when compared with previous observations.
Generalized Finite Element Methods: Their Performance and Their Relation to Mixed Methods

The notion of a generalized finite element method is introduced. This class of methods is analyzed and their relation to mixed methods is discussed. The class of generalized finite element methods offers a wide variety of computational procedures from which particular procedures can be selected for particular problems. A particular generalized finite element method which is very effective for problems with rough coefficients is discussed in detail.
Developing leaders for tomorrow: releasing system potential

This article considers the ways in which distributed forms of leadership can positively influence school development and change. The article focuses on the findings from an initial evaluation and impact assessment of a leadership programme provided by the ‘Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’ for teachers in their first five years of teaching. This programme is intended to develop leadership potential and to build lateral leadership capacity in schools. The article provides an assessment of the impact of the ‘Developing Leaders’ programme on school and student development. The evidence suggests that this form of lateral leadership can make a positive difference to school performance and can contribute significantly to building leadership capacity within the system.
The quantitative measurement of motor inco‐ordination in naive mice using an accelerating rotarod

A simple modification of the standard rotarod apparatus is described which eliminates the necessity of time‐consuming training and consequently gives a truer measure of motor co‐ordination since any effects on memory are avoided. The sensitivity and reproducibility of the procedure are much greater than those obtained with constant speed rotarods and less animals are required to obtain statistically significant results.
A Catalog of Young Stellar Groups and Clusters within 1 Kiloparsec of the Sun

We present a catalog of near-infrared surveys of young (≲ a few 106 yr) stellar groups and clusters within 1 kpc from the Sun, based on an extensive search of the literature from the past ten years. We find 143 surveys from 69 published articles, covering 73 different regions. The number distribution of stars in a region has a median of 28 and a mean of 100. About 80% of the stars are in clusters with at least 100 members. By a rough classification of the groups and clusters based on the number of their associated stars, we show that most of the stars form in large clusters. The spatial distribution of cataloged regions in the Galactic plane shows a relative lack of observed stellar groups and clusters in the range 270° < l < 60° of Galactic longitude, reflecting our location between the Local and Sagittarius arms. This compilation is intended as a useful resource for future studies of nearby young regions of multiple star formation.
Religiosity and Corruption in Bank Lending

This paper explores the effect of country-level religiosity on corruption in bank lending at the firm level. Using data from the World Business Environment Survey, we find strong and robust evidence that firms in more religious countries perceive a higher level of corruption in bank lending than firms in less religious countries. The economic significance of this effect is comparable to that of other well-known determinants of lending corruption. We further find that the banking market structure affects the relation between religiosity and lending corruption. Our findings are robust to alternative measures of religiosity and lending corruption. Finally, we address endogeneity concerns by using natural disaster exposure as an instrument for religiosity. Our study contributes to a more balanced and comprehensive understanding of the role of religion in finance.
A Research into an Intrusion Detection System Based on Immune Principle and Multi-Agent in WSN

Along with deep-going researches and practical applications of Wireless Sensor Network, security issues contained therein are raising a growing concern. Based on a systematic analysis of the current intrusion detection system and with integration between the mechanism of artificial immune system and multi-agent technology, the paper provides with a new model of an intrusion detection system based on artificial immune system and multi-agent technology, and further introduces the functions of agents in the model as well as the process of antibody selection.
Static Magnetic Fields in General Relativity

A theorem is proved which enables a class of known electrostatic solutions of the field equations to be adapted to the magnetostatic case. Exact solutions referring to a uniform magnetic field and to a magnetic dipole are given. The solution for a circular loop of wire carrying a steady current is considered, and it is shown that if the mass of the wire be neglected, both the magnetic and gravitational fields at great distances are equivalent to those of a magnetic dipole. The paper concludes with a short discussion of the significance of the solutions presented here, and in an earlier paper, for relativistic electromagnetic theory.
The Quality Ladder and Product Variety: Larger Economies May Not Grow Faster

This paper constructs an endogenous growth model that combines the quality ladder model and the variety expansion model. Firms enter an imitation race. After the imitation process, monopolistic competition prevails and a new innovation race begins. A successful firm, by inventing a higher quality product, can take over the entire market. However, the existence of a variety of products limits the price that the successful firm can charge. We show that the present model exhibits an inverted U-shape relationship between market size and growth rate. Relatively large and small economies grow slowly while medium-sized economies grow rapidly.