Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bringing Context to Workplace Coaching: A Theoretical Framework Based on Uncertainty Avoidance and Regulatory Focus

Workplace coaching is increasingly popular as a global learning and development tool for enhancing employees’ professional capabilities. However, little is known about the role of cross-cultural factors in coaching and the relationships between cross-cultural factors and both coaching approach and motivation factors. Accordingly, by drawing on and integrating theories from the research areas of cross-cultural psychology, regulatory focus, and training, we propose a theoretical framework that unravels the effectiveness of different coaching approaches in different cultural and coaching contexts. We propose that chronic regulatory focus is an underlying mechanism that predicts the effectiveness of a chosen coaching approach in specific contexts of societal uncertainty avoidance (i.e., low vs. high uncertainty avoidance). Furthermore, we propose that coaching context elicits coachee situational regulatory focus, and that compatibility between coachee chronic and situational regulatory focus has a significant impact on coachee pre-coaching motivation. We conclude by discussing implications for future research and practice.
Identification of the reasons behind students' lack of participation in classroom activities using a Delphi technique

Background: Participation is considered as a pivotal concept in understanding classroom instruction and development of critical thinking skills necessary for students. Students who actively participate in classroom settings will perform far more than those who do not. Therefore, it is important to establish a consensus about the underlying reasons for students' lack of participation in classroom activities as interpreted by faculty members. Methods: A Delphi technique was used in three rounds to obtain the perspectives of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences (KMU) concerning students’ lack of participation in class activities in 2014. A total of 13 expert panelists from diverse disciplines were invited to the study using purposive sampling. Content analysis ensured consensus on the identified reasons. Results: In the first round, 78 reasons were identified by the panelists. After removing duplicates and similarities 52 reasons were obtained and categorized into 14 condensed units. In the second round, preliminary consensus was obtained and the included 14 factors were scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5 to rank order them. In round three, final consensus was granted from all participants. Data were analyzed using content analysis and by obtaining the sum of answers, seven factors were highlighted as the most important. These included factors related to motivation (4.80), grading system (4.72), meaningful teaching (4.50), major influence (4.27), peers influence (4.13), challenging assignment (4.03), and environmental influence (4.00). Conclusion: Students' learning to a large extent is dependent upon their participation in the classroom. The identification of the reasons concerning students’ lack of participation in this study may help teachers arrange an environment to enrich dynamic learning for every learner to enthusiastically take part in classroom activities.
Typed machine language

With high-speed networks, mobile code applications have become common. One of the important considerations for users (code consumers) of such applications is the guarantee that the downloaded programs are safe. Proof-carrying code is one of the frameworks that allow code consumers to independently verify the safety of untrusted code. For any such framework to be usable, however, significant trust must be placed in the correctness of that framework itself. The Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) project at Princeton addresses this issue, and aims to build a foundational PCC system that has a trusted component of a very small size. This system consists of a certifying compiler that generates the executable code, and a safety prover that generates the proof of the safety of this code. The certifying compiler also generates hints that help the prover in generating the safety proof. These hints are in the form of a typed assembly language program that corresponds to the output object-code program. Therefore, while the hints are specified as high-level type annotations, the prover must prove the safety of machine-level programs that operate on memory and register banks. In this thesis, I present Typed Machine Language (TML), which is used to bridge this gap. TML is a calculus of type operators that can express constructs in high-level languages like core ML at a sufficiently low level to correspond directly to the concrete realisations of these type constructs at the machine level. These operators are expressive enough to be able to allow provably safe optimisations like array-bounds-check eliminations and sum-type discriminations. I shall first present a semantic model for these operators, and typing rules based on them. This model is then used to provide models for assembly-level instructions. The typing rules, along with the instruction models provide an interface which allows typed assembly languages to be type checked without exposing the complex underlying semantic model. Finally, I shall present a proof technique that shows how the typability of the typed assembly languages can be connected to the safety of corresponding machine-level programs using the foundational semantic models for types and instructions provided by TML.
The Influence of Parent Mental Health on Parenting and Child Emotion Regulation

This study examined 56 families with preschool aged children. Mothers and fathers completed self-reports of depression, anxiety, and parenting behaviors (CES-D, STAI, and CCNES). The children completed the Lock Box task and their behavior and physiological data were collected and coded to evaluate their emotion regulation ability. The data collected from parent reports and child Lock Box task were analyzed and it was found that father anxiety is associated with more minimization of children’s expressions of negative emotions. Mothers’ mental health had no significant relationship with parenting behaviors and child emotion regulation. Mothers were found to encourage expression of negative emotion more than fathers. Fathers’ minimization of negative emotions had a significant relationship with poor child emotion regulation.
Integration of Teaching Practice for Students' 21st Century Skills: Faculty Practice and Perception.

________________________________________________________________________ Diane Wilcox is Professor of Learning, Technology, & Leadership Education, Juhong Christie Liu is Assistant Professor/Senior Instructional Designer at Libraries, Jane Thall is Interim Assistant Dean at College of Education, and Tim Howley is faculty of Health Studies. Diane Wilcox can be reached at wilcoxdm@jmu.edu. Integration of Teaching Practice for Students’ 21st Century Skills: Faculty Practice and Perception
Relationship between Perceptions of Fitness Facility Service Quality and Future Intentions of Fitness Center Users in Thailand

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between perceptions of fitness facility service quality and future intention to use campus fitness center at Mahasarakham university, Thailand. A total of 250 campus recreation fitness center users (males = 189, females = 61) comprising of students and staff from Mahasarakham University was selected to participate as subjects in the study. The questionnaire consisted of items based on the Likert-scale Service Quality Assessment Scale (SQAS) developed by Lam, Zhang and Jensen (2005). Future intention was measured using two items by Zeithaml et al. (1996): word-of-mouth communications and repurchase intentions. The results showed fitness facility service quality (s = . 300, p
Performance evaluation of distributed access scheme in error-prone channel

Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol is used for channel access in IEEE 802.11 WLAN. The performance issue of the protocol has provoked a lot of research interest. However, during the previous research work, the impact of retransmissions and bit error ratio on the performance of DCF was not taken into consideration. An analytical model is presented in this paper to evaluate the performance of the scheme in the case of finite retransmissions.
Struggling with the reccuring reduction of being to knowing: placing thin hope in aesthetic interventions

This article explores how aesthetic gestures, experiences, interventions might help us make visible certain problematic, enduring, and historically contingent aspects of the troubling ways of being in which we, modern/Cartesian subjects exist in the world. The article does not seek to ultimately suggest some pedagogical strategies or approaches that will help us deconstruct/dismantle these problematic aspects. Instead, it proposes that the common way in which we imagine solutions to our problems, is the very way, through which these problems are being created in the first place. The text pays particular attention to two problematic constitutive characteristics of the modern/Cartesian subject. First is the reductivist insistence on having our being reduced to knowing (Andreotti, 2016) that results in having our relationship to the world mediated (exclusively) through knowledge. Second is our insistence on being able to see/sense/experience ourselves only as separate, presumably autonomous, individuals that ultimately ends up producing us as such.
Automatic extraction of synonymy relation using supervised learning

Aim To propose a supervised learning approach to acquire Synonymy relation between terms from do- main corpus.Methods Synonymy relations in sample sentences obtained by pre-process are annotated,take them as training data,train machine learning models and perform synonymy relation extraction using the trained models. Various features are considered including words,symbols,punctuations,local position and global position.They characterize the context domain synonymy occurring roundly.Furthermore,a method of weighting was proposed, which more accurately estimates the role of the selected feature in classification.Results A novel model of acqui- ring synonymy relations was proposed.And key algorithms were implemented.Conclusion The experiment results show that SVM,discriminative learning,performs the best and its F1 score is 24.4% higher than the pattern based method.Other important new findings in this work include that models in one domain can be oblained and applied them to another domain.
Pengaruh Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Loyalitas Karyawan Pada PT. Reed Panorama Exhibitions

The title of this research is “Pengaruh Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Loyalitas Karyawan Pada PT. Reed Panorama Exhibitions” The purpose of this research is to find out whether workplace is going to impact employee loyalty at PT. Reed Panorama Exhibitions or not. The main focus is to know which kind of workplace factor is having the largest impact at Meeting, Incentives, Convention, and Exhibitions (MICE) business industry such as physical workplace or non-physical workplace. This article is using quantitative methodology with final project format. This research is using descriptive quantitative for it’s analysis from 59 respondents which are the employees of PT. Reed Panorama Exhibition. The findings in this article are (a) physical workplace factor have an impact to employee loyalty, (b) non-physical workplace factor have an impact to employee loyalty, (c) from all workplace factor, non-physical workplace have the greatest impact to employee loyalty. The main implication of this article regarding PT. Reed Panorama Exhibitions to be focused on is the relationship between employee and supervisor/manager. That aspects could be used for further research on PT. Reed Panorama Exhibitions.
Estimating the Number of Clusters Using Cross-Validation

Abstract Many clustering methods, including k-means, require the user to specify the number of clusters as an input parameter. A variety of methods have been devised to choose the number of clusters automatically, but they often rely on strong modeling assumptions. This article proposes a data-driven approach to estimate the number of clusters based on a novel form of cross-validation. The proposed method differs from ordinary cross-validation, because clustering is fundamentally an unsupervised learning problem. Simulation and real data analysis results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods, especially in high-dimensional settings with heterogeneous or heavy-tailed noise. In a yeast cell cycle dataset, the proposed method finds a parsimonious clustering with interpretable gene groupings. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
African Immigrant College Students Concepts of Sibling Relationships

This research project qualitatively re-examines African college students’ concepts of sibling relationships guided by a Family Systems Theory framework (Bowen, 1985). Specifically, the purpose of this research is to examine and contextualize the nature and relevance of African sibling relationships in emerging adulthood. Data collection and analysis has been done on participants, consisting of African college students at SUNY Geneseo, in focus groups and individual interviews to help us phenomenologically investigate the phenomena of interest. The analysis provided on this poster will, however, only consist of data and analysis from the focus groups. Thematic findings will be carefully explicated and future work on this research project will be discussed. The results revealed salient themes of sibling influences, sibling parental roles, comparing upbringings, and family values. Emergent findings led to the understanding that older African college students influence their younger siblings in both academic and personal ways of life that shift over time across adolescence. This has lead to shared ideas of success and strong sibling comparisons due to the desire to be similar to the siblings that have set personal standards of achievement. Creative Commons License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Authors Brittany Bearss, Oumou Wague, Neha Patil, Awab Shawkat, Assia Bukuru, Nicholas P. Palumbo, and Ganie B. DeHart African Immigrant College Students Concepts of Sibling Relationships Brittany Bearss, Oumou Wague, Neha Patil, Awab Shawkat,Assia Bukuru, Nicholas P. Palumbo, & Ganie B. DeHart State University of New York at Geneseo; University of Rochester
An investigation of social involvement, social adjustment, and academic achievement of Black undergraduates attending a four year predominantly White public institution of higher education in northeastern Massachusetts.

AN INVESTIGATION OF SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT, SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF BLACK UNDERGRADUATES ATTENDING A FOUR YEAR PREDOMINANTLY WHITE PUBLIC INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY 1991 LANETT CREWS SCOTT, B.A., FISK UNIVERSITY M.ED., NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ED.D. , UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor Jack Hruska A social involvement measure using subscales from Pace's (1979) College Student Experience Survey and the social adjustment subscale of the College Student Adaptation Questionnaire (Baker and Siryk, 1989) were used to investigate the nature of the relationship between the degree of Black undergraduate students involvement in nonacademic activities (clubs, organizations, and peer interactions) and their social adjustment and academic achievement (GPA) at a four year predominantly White public institution of higher education in northeastern Massachusetts. The major focus was on the correlation between student involvement and social adjustment as they relate to Black students on a predominantly White campus. A statistical program for the social sciences (SPSS-X) was utilized to analyze eleven research questions which were grouped under the following three broad questions.
An Empirical Analysis of the Relation Between Moral Development and Religious Orientation

The relation between moral development and religious orientation was examined. The three levels of Kohlberg's theory of moral development (Preconventional, Conventional, and Post-conventional) were examined in relation to the three dimensions of religious orientation (Extrinsic, Intrinsic, and Quest) proposed by Balson, Schoenrade, and Ventis (1993). It was first hypothesized that the Extrinsic Orientation would be correlated negatively with both the Quest and Intrinsic orientations to support the theoretical assumptions made by Batson, Schoenrade, and Ventis (1993). The other hypotheses examined specific relationships between moral development, as measured by the Defining Issues Test and religious orientation, as measured by the Religious Life Inventory. Results only partially supported the hypotheses because an unexpected positive relation between the Extrinsic and Quest orientations was found. The three religious dimensions were not found to correlate according to theory. Results suggested much overlap in both definition and measurement of the three orientations indicating that the three dimensions were not separate constructs. Theoretical implications showed that the definitions of the Extrinsic, Intrinsic, and Quest orientations were not accurate for this specific sample. Suggestions for future research included reexamining the definitions of Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Quest orientations as well as restructuring of the measurement of religious orientation.
Scene classification in remote sensing images using a two-stage neural network ensemble model

ABSTRACT Scene classification has long been a challenging task in the remote sensing field. Conventional approaches based on hand-crafted features are not suitable in large scale remote sensing images. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) achieves great success in computer vision field by learning hierarchical features automatically from mass data. However, the shortage of labeled dataset in remote sensing field results in severe overfitting and the ensemble of several networks have better generalization ability than one single network. In this letter, we propose a novel Two-Stage Neural Network Ensemble Model to solve the problems mentioned above. Firstly, to overcome overfitting, we pre-train a CNN using the ImageNet dataset and fine tune the network by labeled remote sensing images. Then, the output features are fed to a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) Retrained Network to get better feature representations. Finally, in testing stage, a method based on Ensemble Inference Network (EIN) is introduced to enhance the generalization ability by combining the classification results of several networks. Experimental results on the UC Merced Land Use (UCML) dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning.

Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: The Role of Tradition 2: The Individual and Tradition 3: Deadly Traditions 4: Curriculum as Conversation 5: Characteristics of Effective Curricula 6: Structuring Curricular Conversations 7: Recent Curriculum Proposals as Domains for Conversation 8: Toward a Pedagogy of Knowledge-in-Action 9: Reconciling Conflicting Traditions References Index
The Impact Indonesia’s Sinking of Illegal Fishing Ships on Major Southeast Asia Countries

This study examines Indonesia’s sinking of illegal fishing ships influencing its relationship with countries in Southeast Asia region. Considering that the loss of and damages to national resources due to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Indonesia are so huge, President Joko Widodo has a commitment to no longer tolerate such a crime. The approach of his Minister of Maritime and Fishing Affairs has been to sink IUU Fishing ships which mostly flagged foreign flags. As a result, Indonesia’s relation with neighboring countries is affected. However, the assertive policy of Indonesia did not lead to a commotion among the states in the region. Hence, this study attempts to discover why Indonesia does not find significant obstacles to continuously carry out sinking foreign IUU fishing ships from its counterparts in Southeast Asia region namely Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Statements of the statesmen around the countries and other related documents on the matter are used to examine their response to the Indonesia’s policy. In line with the method, this study capitalizes neoclassical realism by Gideon Rose in which foreign policies are considered a reflection of systemic pressure, domestic political demands (innenpolitik), and state power.
Parenting Practices and Adjustment Profiles among Latino Youth in Rural Areas of the United States

On average, Latino adolescents in the United States (U.S.) are at an elevated risk for developing internalizing symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and engaging in binge drinking. Latino youth in rural U.S. contexts may be particularly at risk. Parent–adolescent relationships may be associated with each of these indicators of maladjustment, as well as the co-occurrence of these issues. In the current study, adjustment profiles based on internalizing symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and binge drinking among 198 Latino adolescents (Mage = 15.90, SD = 1.47) living in rural areas of the United States were examined. Further, the association of adjustment profiles with parental behavioral involvement, parental monitoring, and familial ethnic socialization was tested. Four adjustment profiles emerged from a cluster analysis (i.e., low risk, internalizing risk, externalizing risk, co-occurring risk). Results indicated that adolescents in the co-occurring risk profile reported the lowest levels of parental monitoring compared to the other three profiles, lower familial ethnic socialization compared to the low risk and internalizing risk profiles, and lower parental behavioral involvement compared to the internalizing risk profile. The findings have implications for family-based, culturally informed interventions to encourage positive adjustment among Latino adolescents in rural areas of the United States.
Tibetan POS Tagging Based on Syllable Tagging

A Tibetan corpus is constructed and annotated for the syllable markers,the word boundary markers and the part-of-speech(POS)tags,with texts selected from Tibetan textbooks of Primary and middle school.Then an empirical study reveals that the training data with the multi-level annotation can enhance the effects of POS tagging.Due to the strong relation between the POS tags of words and the tags Tibetan syllables,a method of Tibetan POS tagging by the Tibetan syllables is presented.The results of experiments show that syllable tags can correct certain errors caused in POS tagging.