Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Coping With Stigma in the Workplace: Understanding the Role of Threat Regulation, Supportive Factors, and Potential Hidden Costs

Despite changes in their representation and visibility, there are still serious concerns about the inclusion and day-to-day workplace challenges various groups face (e.g., women, ethnic and cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people as they age, and those dealing with physical or mental disabilities). Men are also underrepresented in specific work fields, in particular those in Health care, Elementary Education, and the Domestic sphere (HEED). Previous literature has shown that group stereotypes play an important role in maintaining these inequalities. We outline how insights from research into stigma, social identity, and self-regulation together increase our understanding of how targets are affected by and regulate negative stereotypes in the workplace. This approach starts from the basis that members of negatively stereotyped groups are not just passive recipients of negative attitudes, stereotypes, and behaviors but are active individuals pursuing multiple goals, such as goals for belonging and achievement. We argue that it is only by understanding stigma from the target’s perspective (e.g., how targets are affected and respond) that we can successfully address workplace inequality. Key in this understanding is that stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination have taken on much more subtle forms, with consequences for the way members of stigmatized groups cope. These insights lead us to propose an approach to understanding barriers to workplace equality that highlights four key aspects: (1) the different (often subtle) potential triggers of identity threat in the workplace for members of stigmatized groups; (2) the ways in which members of stigmatized groups cope with these threats; (3) the role of supportive factors that mitigate potential threats and affect self-regulation; and (4) potential hidden costs for the self or others of what appears at first to be effective self-regulation. The focus on threats, coping, support, and potential hidden costs helps us understand why current diversity efforts are not always successful in increasing and maintaining members of stigmatized groups in organizations and provides insight into how we can aid efforts to effectively lower barriers to workplace equality.
Listening to an everyday kettle: How can the data objects collect be useful for design research?

In the current Internet of Things (IoT) environment, objects are tagged with sensors without a clear understanding of people’s individual and collective patterns of behaviour. We argue that designers can create more meaningful and effective networked objects through collaborating with ethnographers and Machine Learning (ML) experts. In this paper, we present the approach and preliminary insights of two analysts from those disciplines on the same data set, and speculate on how they complement one another and the design process. Ethnographic data can indicate the questions that are interesting to study with ML algorithms and help interpret the data generated by ML by positioning it into wider socio-cultural situations. Ultimately, this collaboration can inspire designers to create meaningful products, services, and processes of IoT
Modelling and time evaluation of optical disc and retinal lesions

In the clinical ophthalmology, the retinal image analysis is a routine procedure with a target of the time considering the retinal lesions over the time. Unfortunately, there is an absence of the clinical software instruments providing a precise tracking the retinal lesions from the image records. Thus, the retinal image analysis is carried out by skilled physicians, but without any objective software feedback. We aim to propose a procedure having ambitions to an automatic and autonomous extraction of the retinal lesion from the retinal images, and its time evaluation. The retinal lesions are considered on a base of the optical disc which is simultaneously segmented from the retinal images. It is clinically supposed that the optical disc has stable geometrical features over the time contrarily geometrical features of the retinal lesions are timedeveloped. The proposed methodology for a time modelling of the retinal lesions comprises three essential procedures. The optical disc and the retinal lesions segmentation on a base of the time evolving curves ensure indication areas of these retinal objects. Consequently, the binary classification is used with a target of an extraction of a respective model of the optical disc and the retinal lesions.
A practitioner researcher’s opportunities and challenges in accessing interpretive case participants in a public healthcare setting

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the opportunities and challenges of a practitioner researcher in accessing interpretive case participants in the public healthcare sector in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach The paper documents the research design and implementation phases of a longitudinal interpretive research project with specific focus on, research ethics, preparing for data collection, identifying and recruiting the research participants and analysis of the findings based on the specific nuances of the public health context and design considerations. Considerations as an insider researcher in a large public organisation are also presented. Findings Conducting interpretive research in a healthcare setting presents both opportunities and some challenges; key amongst these is agreed access to research participants. In addition, with research taking place in a healthcare environment, the potential for disclosure of information regarding something harmful to patients or of a criminal nature exists. This risk can be addressed through the ethical approval process documented in this paper. Insider researcher considerations are also explored focussing on the specific nuances affiliate to carrying out a longitudinal interpretive study in a public healthcare setting. Research limitations/implications Insights for those wishing to conduct longitudinal interpretive case research in the public healthcare setting are included. The implications for enhanced engagement with interpretive research in this context are addressed. Originality/value Through documenting the opportunities and challenges of a practitioner researcher in accessing research participants in the public healthcare sector, this paper discusses insider researcher considerations and seeks to address concerns in the literature regarding insufficient detail relating to interpretive research design and implementation in healthcare contexts.
Local government relationships with community groups: a case study of Leicester City Council

This thesis examines the relationship between local authorities and community groups existing within their boundaries. This is not a new field and a number of significant studies have been carried out on, for example, the classification of community groups or the community groups of which councillors are members. The previous studies are, however, in excess of twenty years old and they need to be updated to take cognisance of the post modernisation era of local government resulting from the Local Government Act 2000. The principal contribution of this research is to fill a gap in the existing knowledge by developing a typology of all relationships. In accordance with the case study methodology that is used, a survey of existing research identifies the relevant theories and issues to pursue. The outcome of this exercise is the framing of the research aims. In addition to the construction of the typology, other aims are concerned with councillors' roles in relationships and the evaluation practices employed by relationships between local authorities and community groups and those involved in them. The final aim is to analyse issues that arose in the course of the research and has enabled a series of matters to be raised on the theoretical framework in which this field sits. Each of the aims is located in the modernised context. The research adopts Leicester City Council and its relationships with local community groups as the case for study. Arising from the examination of existing research, seven perspectives on relationships are identified, which are pursued through semi-structured interviews. Representatives from two community groups with relationships in each of the main classes of the typology constructed in the thesis are interviewed, together with senior officers, front-line officers, executive councillors and back-bench councillors. On the basis of this empirical data, which is triangulated between interviewees and against documentary evidence, a series of conclusions is drawn at the theoretical level about the need to take an historical approach, the existence of an ideological network and its socialisation role and the respective influences of power and discourse at the micro, meso and macro-levels on relationships between local authorities and community groups. The result is that a comprehensive theoretical framework for this particular field of research is identified.
Toward an individual-specific model of impaired speech intelligibility

Hearing-impaired listeners with similar quiet thresholds often show very different real-world speech intelligibility deficits in listening situations involving competing sounds. The current study is part of larger research project focused on: (1) examining how, and to what extent, these between-subject differences in speech recognition relate to differences in suprathreshold auditory functioning, and (2) on generating accurate, individualized models to predict auditory and auditory-visual speech recognition by hearing-impaired listeners in adverse listening conditions. Individual hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners are being tested on a range of psychoacoustic tasks intended to characterize auditory processing sensitivity along a variety of dimensions (frequency selectivity, peripheral compression, traveling wave dispersion, inner hair cell status, spectral and temporal modulation sensitivity and fine-structure processing). Here we report estimates of frequency selectivity and peripheral compression for hearing impaired listeners with similar audiograms and very different per- formance on speech in noise. Comparisons between hearing-impaired and normally-hearing subjects on psychoacoustic measures and their relation to speech recognition in noise will be discussed.
School`s out with fever: service provider perspectives of youth with mental health struggles

ABSTRACT Youth struggling with mental health issues is a major concern in Norway and other Western countries. As is the increasing rate of youth unemployment combined with high rates of disengagement from education. Rather than receiving support to complete their education or find work, they are often given a psychiatric diagnosis that may camouflage the social nature of their problems. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of the population is called for. Through qualitative and dialogical methods, this study explores how service providers on an outreach team understand why youth are in need of care and what is considered quality care. The article raises issues about the difficulties of youth in an essential societal arena as school. The findings contributes to knowledge on how to develop a collaborative practice in a field of tensions between contradictory policies that require recovery-oriented practice within a discourse of pathologizing youth troubling.
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education and Family Environment: On Entrepreneurship Motivation of College Students

The study investigates the influence of entrepreneurship education and family environment towards the motivation of students in STIE YKPN Business School. The entrepreneurship motivation was the dependent variable and the independent variables were entrepreneurship education and family environment. The total population for this study was 183 people. Considering that there are students who have graduated, not all population are taken as samples. In order to represent the study population, the Slovin formula is used to determine the number of samples. Based on the calculation of the Slovin formula, the sample in this study amounted to 126 respondents. Then, the data was analyzed using multiple regression method. The results of the study showed that entrepreneurship education and family environment proved to be significantly positive for entrepreneurial motivation. This study proves that the educational process that has been applied at YKPN Business School both theoretically and practically has successfully motivated students to become entrepreneurs. On the other hand, a family environment that contains guidance, support, and direction from a student's family also has an influence on the motivation to become an entrepreneur.
Assessing Regulatory Focus Differences in Creative Ideation: An Examination of Prevention and Promotion Mindsets on Novelty and Usefulness

The purpose of this work is to compare impact of regulatory focuses, namely preventive and promotional contexts, on creative ideation measured by novelty and usefulness. The study consisted of Singaporean students from an undergraduate university, and assessed their personality using the Big Five, Regulatory Focus, Creativity type and creativity outcomes measured with the Consensual Assessment Technique by completing a Collaborative Sketch exercise. Participants were randomly assigned to either the preventive, promotional or a baseline condition and tasked with a design problem necessitating a solution in the form of sketches. This study found the three conditions to yield significantly different novelty scores, but not usefulness scores. The most impactful condition on novelty was the baseline, indicating novice designers are capable of creating novel products and services. Those in the promotion condition created the second most novel sketches, or design solutions, followed lastly by the prevention condition. This may be so as novice designers consider larger space of solutions and may generate more ideas. This research is useful in creative pedagogy and for design professionals.
Parental Attitudes and Fathers' Interactions with Their 5-Month-Old Infants.

Forty couples and their 5-month-old infants participated in a study investigating the relationships between parental attitudes and fathers' behavioral and affective involvement with their children during a brief home-based observation. Attitudinal measures included fathers' and mothers' views on the role of the father, fathers' sex role orientation, empathic tendencies, and social desirability scores. The fathers' sex role orientation and both parents' views concerning the role of the father were found to be significantly correlated with observed levels of paternal activity. Implications for paternal support programs are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
5G and Net Neutrality

Industry observers have raised the possibility that European network neutrality regulations may obstruct the deployment of 5G. To assess those claims, this Chapter describes the key technologies likely to be incorporated into 5G, including millimeter wave band radios, massive multiple input/multiple output (MIMO), ultra-densification, multiple radio access technologies (multi-RAT), and support for device-to-device (D2D) and machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. It then reviews the business models likely to be associated with 5G, including network management through biasing and blanking, an emphasis on business-to-business (B2B) communications, and network function virtualization/network slicing. It then lays out the network neutrality regulations created by the EU in 2015 as well as the nonbinding interpretive guidelines issued by the Body of Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communication (BEREC) in 2016 and assesses how they will be applied to 5G. Network neutrality’s impact on 5G will likely to be determined by the way that the exceptions for reasonable traffic management and specialised services are interpreted. A broad interpretation should accommodate network slicing and other new business models needed to support the deployment of 5G, while a narrow interpretation could restrict innovation and investment.
Exploration of the development of countryside leisure attitudes and behaviour from childhood: A photo based analysis

There is a need to understand where a largely urban based UK population derives its inspiration for countryside leisure visits, in order to help resolve this demand, with the demands for rural based infrastructure and housing development. This research uses a photo based analysis in order to elicit spontaneous reactions to images of countryside areas in an attempt to understand what people recognize as countryside and where this understanding originates. Background factors, specifically the role of socializing influences such as, family, peers, mass media and education are explored in order to identify the contribution they make to attitude formation regarding countryside leisure visits. The results provide useful guidance for those managing and planning the countryside and access to it. While the role of family influence in the early years of development and peer groups during adolescence is evident, there is also a significant group of countryside visitors who developed their interest later in life from early adulthood onwards, without the early encouragement of family. The comprehensive and increasingly pervasive role of the mass media, during all life stages has grown in importance compared to family and peer group influences. However, the media representation of countryside as a leisure resource is balanced by its portrayal as an important resource to resolve pressing social issues such as housing, transport and energy infrastructure needs. The shape of the countryside in the UK will be decided by the resolution of these often conflicting demands.
Determine pre-service teachers' burnout levels and anxiety of not to be appointed to teacher profession

This study aims to determine the pre-service teachers’ burnout levels, their anxiety about not to be appointed to teacher profession, their academic achievements and the relation of these variables with each other. In accordance with this purpose, this study was designed according to correlational survey model. “It has been found that pre-service teachers’ burnout levels are moderate. It has been concluded that their emotional burnout levels are particularly high. While pre-service teachers’ depersonalization/cynicism levels are close to the average value, it has been seen that their burnout levels on the subject of academic proficiency are low and their anxiety about being not to be appointed to teacher profession is high. Most pre-service teachers’ fear levels on being not to be appointed are also high. Their personal perception level is average. Among the departments, there are differences in variables like burnout levels, anxiety about not being appointed to teacher profession and academic achievement. It has been found that academic average of group is 3,05 point and the grade point average differs between the departments. It has been concluded that burnout levels of those who choose their department willingly are lower than those who choose their department unwillingly. And also the first group’s grade point average is higher than the second group. Besides that, all pre-service teachers have anxiety about being not to be appointed. When the correlation between pre-service teachers’ burnout levels, their anxiety about not being appointed to teacher profession and their grade point average have been examined, it has been found that there is a negative oriented moderate correlation between their grade point average and their burnout total points, and there is a positive oriented weak correlation between their burnout total points and their anxiety about not to be appointed as teachers.
A hybrid re-composition based on components and web services

ABSTRACT For many years, component-based software engineering has been the most promising software engineering approach to develop complex software systems. However, with the increasing adoption of internet technologies, the demand for dynamic and flexible approaches is becoming essential. Thus, the service-oriented software engineering has emerged. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses; it can be difficult to identify the appropriate approach that perfectly suits a particular system’s need, principally in highly dynamic environments. In order to take full advantages of both approaches, the hybrid approach between component and service (HACS) has been proposed. HACS makes possible a definition of a hybrid, flexible, and controllable architecture consisting simultaneously of component and web services and respecting the software architect administration rules. In this paper, the dynamic recomposition in HACS is explained and validated by a simulator. We use Dijkstra algorithm over a GraphPlan with a new weighting function calculated from quality of service properties and the similarity matching between different HACS components. We also suggest a solution to minimize the execution time of future invocations. A detailed example is given to prove the efficiency of our proposal.
SPAD array based TOF SoC design for unmanned vehicle

As for the requirement of unmanned-vehicle mobile Lidar system, this paper presents a SoC design based on pulsed TOF depth image sensor. This SoC has a detection range of 300m and detecting resolution of 1.5cm. Pixels are made of SPAD. Meanwhile, SoC adopts a structure of multi-pixel sharing TDC, which significantly reduces chip area and improve the fill factor of light-sensing surface area. SoC integrates a TCSPC module to achieve the functionality of receiving each photon, measuring photon flight time and processing depth information in one chip. The SOC is designed in the SMIC 0. 13μm CIS CMOS technology
Interactive drama with robots for teaching non-technical subjects

Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.