Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reflections of Rube Goldberg Machines on the Prospective Science Teachers' STEM Awareness.

The purpose of this study is to examine reflections of the design process of the Rube Goldberg machines on prospective science teachers' STEM awareness. A mixed design approach was opted for in this research. Data were obtained using learning diaries and a STEM awareness scale. Quantitative data was analyzed using a paired samples test. Content analysis was also used for dealing with the qualitative data. The results showed that, based on the findings obtained from both forms of data, Rube Goldberg machines have a positive influence on the STEM awareness of prospective science teachers. The prospective science teachers who took part in this research explained that Rube Goldberg machines are particularly effective in learning science concepts related to simple machines, although it was not one of the purposes of this research. Consequently, future research could be conducted to examine the effectiveness of Rube Goldberg machines in learning basic science concepts related to simple machines.
Detección de género en Twitter basado en características multimodales

Author profiling consists of analyzing a set of texts automatically with the objective of obtain information about the stylistic characteristics of the author, based solely on his discourse. Some of these characteristics are, for example: gender, age, personality, and linguistic variety. On this work, we tried to extract information about the gender of the authors on Twitter using the corpus provided by PAN 2018. Different representations have been explored, such as bag of words or word embeddings, for the extraction of features in textual information. On the other hand, techniques based on deep learning have been used for the detection of gender in images. Finally, classifier combination techniques have been used and the models were included in a practical application of the marketing field.
Explicit-implicit instruction is a potentially effective approach for teaching grammatical forms to children with autism spectrum disorder1

Q (1) Do children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn to contingently apply a novel grammatical form with greater accuracy if taught using a combined explicit-implicit approach rather than implicit-only intervention approach? (2) Do more children with ASD who receive explicit-implicit instruction and learn to apply a novel grammatical form maintain accurate use of that form after a one-week delay and do they show better generalization to a play context compared to children who receive implicit only instruction? (3) Do the language, cognitive, or behavioral profiles of children with ASD who learn to apply the novel grammatical form with explicit-implicit instruction differ significantly from those who do not learn to use the marking?
The Bible as coping tool: Its use and psychological functions in a sample of practicing Christians living with cancer

This study addresses the Bible as a coping tool in a sample of Swedish practising Christians living with cancer, gathered through a qualitative, in-depth interview study, on religious experiences and expressions that serve in the process of coping with a life situation changed by the disease. Through content analyses, and case studies combining tools from Pargament’s coping theory with, above all, role theory, it is shown that the Bible is a part of the coping process for approximately half of the informants. Furthermore, the Bible plays very different roles in the coping process, even for one single person. In the analyzed material, two different ways of using the Bible in the coping process occurs: Biblical passages as bearer of meaning for the informants, and the actual reading as such of the Bible. The former with two different functions in the coping process: (a) in the Biblical passages, see a direct appeal from God to the individual on a personal level and (b) a specific character in a Bible passage serves as an object of identification for the informant. In the coping process, the Bible provides coping tools for the identified coping methods meditative reading, role taking, and (re)interpretation of biblical passages (motivated by a religious tradition). As such, it mainly serves within the framework of the preserving comprehensive coping method. It is also shown that there are changes in the use of the Bible in connection with the changed life situation, as a result of the disease.
How context shapes acceptance of immigrants: the link between affective social distance and locational distance

ABSTRACT The presence of immigrants is an important contextual variable when explaining attitudes toward immigrants. We examine how the presence of immigrants is related to the affective social distance i.e. the sympathy the members of a group feel for another group. We make use of large data set (n = 2,977) on attitudes toward immigrants in 107 neighbourhoods within a single municipality (Turku, Finland). It allows us to analyze how attitudes toward immigrants vary across different neighbourhoods and how the neighbourhood context shapes the affective social distance to immigrants. Our findings suggest that, although social distance varies between neighbourhoods with a large share of immigrants and those with fewer immigrants, these relationships disappear when individual level characteristics and other contextual variables are considered. Nevertheless, there are some noteworthy differences between how the individual level characteristics unfold in neighbourhoods with a large share of immigrants compared with how they unfold in other neighbourhoods.
Exploring the nursing work environment in England using the Essentials of Magnetism II Scale : a mixed methods sequential explanatory study

Introduction and background The Essentials of Magnetism II Scale (EOMII) developed in the US to measure nursing work environments (NWEs) has not yet been used in England. Aims To evaluate the structure of the EOMII Scale, and to describe the impact of different aspects of the NWE on nurse-assessed care quality (NACQ) using data from nurses working in England Methods A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was utilised. First, in a cross-sectional survey study, 247 RNs in 29 wards in two NHS hospitals completed the EOMII and a single item measuring NACQ in 2012. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to evaluate the structure of the EOMII. Correlation and regression analyses were used to describe relationships between factors and NACQ. Second, comments made by nurses on questionnaires were analysed. Third, a purposive sample of 48 RNs were recruited to explore their understanding of the concept of autonomy, using short-structured interviews. Results PCA identified a solution with explanatory variance of 45.25%. Forty items loaded on five factors: ward manager support, working as a team, concern for patients, organisational autonomy, and constraints on nursing practice. In correlation analysis, each of the factors was significantly associated with NACQ (p < .001). In a hierarchical multiple regression analysis, four factors were associated with NACQ. Only one factor, organisational autonomy, was not a significant predictor (β=.02, t = .24, ns) of NACQ. Analysis of the interviews revealed that nurses in this sample did not relate autonomy to involvements in managerial/higher level decisions, but limited their discussions to decision-making at the ward team level. Conclusion Results suggest that EOMII does measure important aspects of NWE and that each of the factors identified is related to NACQ. Analysis of qualitative data suggests several hypotheses about differences in the meaning of autonomy that could be tested in future research.
Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Among Social Work Students: Exploration of Individual and Social Network Correlates

ABSTRACT Racial attitudes can be shaped by personal attributes and social network properties. Literature on White social work students’ racial attitudes remains scarce. The purposes of this study are to explore racial attitudes among social work students and identify personal and social network correlates of such attitudes. One hundred and sixty-three White social work students in a major Midwest public university were recruited via social work electronic mailing list to complete an anonymous online survey measuring personal-level characteristics (e.g., demographic information and racial attitudes as measured by the color-blind racial attitude scale) and social network composition (e.g., information regarding network diversity). Descriptive analysis and linear regression models were conducted for the study. Social work students demonstrated moderately low levels of color-blind racial attitudes. Age was positively associated with unawareness of institutional and blatant racism. Identifying as politically liberal was associated with lower unawareness of racial privilege, institutional racism, and blatant racism. Having more social network members to talk to about topics related to race and ethnicity was associated with lower unawareness of blatant racism. Being familiar with a campus antidiscrimination protest was negatively associated with unawareness of racial privilege and blatant racism. Implications for social work educators are discussed.
Pengukur Tingkat Kekeruhan Keasaman Dan Suhu Air Menggunakan Mikrokontroler Atmega328p Berbasis Android

Dalam perancangan alat pendeteksi kualtias air sebelumnya, maka dapat disimpulkan terdapat beberapa peracangangan alat yang belum efektif dan efisien dari segi komponen sensor yang digunakan, parameter yang diukur dan cara data ditampilkan, beberapa masih menggunakan gabungan sensor dan penampil data yaitu LCD (liquid crystal diode). Penulis membuat sistem alat pendeteksi kualitas air yang berfokus pada parameter kekeruhan, keasaman, dan suhu air dengan menggunakan sensor SEN0189, Sensor PH, DS18B20 serta penampil data yang menggunakan smartphone Android. Cara kerja alat yaitu parameter kekeruhan air dideteksi dengan sensor Turbidity SEN0189 yang memanfaatkan transimisi chaya dan hamburan partikel, nilai keasaman dan basa air diukur menggunakan sensor PH dengan batas pengukuran 0 – 14 PH, nilai suhu air diukur menggunakan sensor DS18B20. Prameter-parameter air yang dikelolah oleh setiap sensor akan diproses melalui mikrokontroler IC ATmega328p dengan basis pemprograman menggunakan Arduino IDE, untuk menghubungkan mikrokontroler dengan smartphone Android, maka modul bluetooth dipasang pada mikrokontroler. Aplikasi android yang digunakan untuk menampilkan data dari alat ukur kekeruhan, keasaman, dan suhu air ke smartphone dibuat di App Inventor. Pengukuran dilakukan terhadap empat sampel diantaranya air minum isi ulang, air mineral kemasan, air hujan, dan air ledeng. Tingkat kekeruhan dari pengukuran keempat sampel tersebut memiliki nilai rata-rata sebesar 1256,34, nilai tingkat keasaman sebesar 9 – 10 PH, dan rata-rata nilai suhu sebesar C.
A study of sleep quality and aggression among young adults in Malaysia

In Malaysia, there have many young adults’ issues which have related to sleep quality and aggression. Sleep quality can affect the academic performance, individual of psychological and physical health while aggressive behavior was mostly happened in young adults like vandalism. Sleep quality and aggression has proven there have correlated with each other. However, it was not clearly understood there have a correlated with each others. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the sleep quality and aggression among young adults in Malaysia. This is a correlational study that uses a quantitative, cross-sectional research design. A total of three hundred and ninety-two Malaysia young adults were recruited using convenient sampling method. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) were used in this study. Pearson correlation test was used to measure the relationship between both variables which are sleep quality and aggression and the results presented significance. Independent t-test was used to measure between the gender difference and both variables, the results indicated that there was no significant between the male and female in sleep quality but male higher sleep quality than female. Furthermore, another result indicted that there was no significant between the male and female in aggression but male higher aggression level then female. Findings in this study can used as a fundamental of future research. The future study should be focus on different kind of occupation and education background, applying longitudinal design, and stratified random sampling to improve the generalization ability of results.
A Teacher's Guide to Educational Assessment: Revised Edition

The scope of this book is wider, however, and the targeted audience is broader than the fi rst edition. It is designed to address the needs not only of those taking a fi rst course in educational assessment and measurement but it can also usefully serve students at the postgraduate level, as well as experienced teachers, trainers and instructors who would like to update their knowledge and acquire practical skills using relevant quantitative methods. The book is appropriate for an international audience.
Who is the effective teacher? Perceptions of early career English teachers in Israel

ABSTRACT Issues of teacher quality and effectivity inform teacher education, policy, practice and research and are connected with teacher resilience and retention. (Mansfield, C.F., S. Beltman, A. Price and A. McConney. 2012. “Don’t sweat the small stuff:” Understanding teacher resilience at the chalkface. Teaching and Teacher Education 28, no. 3: 357–367). Effective teachers are strongly associated with resilient teachers, those who possess particular personality traits and maintain their commitment to the job despite the challenges they face (Gu, Q. and C Day. 2007. Teachers resilience: A necessary condition for effectiveness. Teaching and Teacher Education 23, no. 8: 1302–1316). This paper examines teachers’ views on the propensities of effective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and on the factors that contributed to their teacher preparation. Data was collected using a self-report online survey from 167 early career English teachers and in-depth interviews with a sample of six teachers. Results point at personal ‘soft factors’ such as motivation, enthusiasm and self-confidence coupled with school support, team work and shared teaching practices, seen as most cardinal in English teachers’ effectivity and resilience. Programmes nurturing emotional management, self- awareness and ways of improving self-regulation are suggested both in pre-service preparation programmes and in-service professional development, in order to sustain teacher motivation and commitment.
Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio for Tactical Network

This manuscript addresses the problem of Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). In the context of CRN, two types of users may coexist: primary users (PU) , i.e. licensed user and the secondary user (SU), i.e. opportunistic user who is willing to transmit over the licensed bandwidth of PU. The main aim of a SU is to maximize his transmission rate. Hence, he must target the best channels, i.e. the must available one with the best performance. To estimate the availability of channels, one can use the Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) learning algorithms such as (Thompson Sampling, Upper Confidence Bound, and e-greedy, etc.). Generally, these algorithms are proposed to handle the simple case of a single SU. MAB algorithms are composed of two stages: exploration and exploitation. In this study, we consider the multi-user case where a novel policy is proposed to manage the CRN network. In our study, we consider the case where the SUs have different ranks and transmission priorities. To evaluate our policy, we use the parameter regret which is the reward loss between the maximum reward getting from the best channel and the actual reward got from selecting sub-optimal channels (i.e. less vacant ones). Our simulations show that the proposed policy achieves better results than some known policies such as Random Rank or SL(K) (Selective learning of the k-th largest expected rewards) policies.
Stress in international work: Stressors and coping strategies of RNGO international directors

This study examines how international directors in religiously-affiliated nongovernmental organizations (RNGOs) cope with workplace stress. Interviews were conducted with directors from eight RNGOs who oversee programs in seven international regions. Findings reveal they experience three major stressors: difficulties communicating with others abroad, lack of funds, and dealing with constant travel. Overall, directors encounter these unique stressors due to the international demands of RNGO work, including international travel, fundraising for international programs, and intercultural communication. Moreover, they cope with stressors by striving for physical/mental health, pursuing/providing education, putting family first, seeking support, facilitating stakeholder communication, and planning ahead. Directors rely on problem-centered and emotion-centered coping, but they also describe the beneficial outcomes of avoidance-centered coping. Since only a few directors use prayer as a coping strategy, RNGOs must recognize that employees rely on secular and spiritual coping when developing organizational practices and programs related to stress management.
Creative Accounting in Greek Football Clubs

Football Clubs tent to manipulate their profits in order to obtain a license to participate in Championships, organized under the supervision of UEFA. This article examines, whether Football Clubs that compete in the Greek Super League and in European Competitions use earnings management techniques to manipulate their profits. In order to do so, Jones’ (1991) modified econometric model was used to estimate the accruals that determine the level of earnings management, for the period 2013-15. The statistical analysis, which performed with the use of STATA statistical package v.13, show that Greek Football Clubs which compete in European Competitions are more effective in manipulating their profits while Football Clubs which compete in Greek Super League and have difficulties in obtaining a license do not appeal to manipulate their profits. JEL: M40, M41.
Predicting the direction of Indonesian stock price movement using support vector machines and fuzzy Kernel C-Means

The nature of stock price fluctuations becomes a challenge for the investors to gain return in investing stocks. To overcome this problem, investors need some accurate predictions in order to anticipate future stock price movement. However, predicting the direction of stock price movement is a complex task due to many uncertain factors affecting the stock price itself. Therefore, this paper studied the application of Support Vector Machines and Fuzzy Kernel C-Means in predicting the direction of stock price movement of Indonesian stock market, particularly on banking subsector. Using the stock historical data, eight technical indicators have been computed to obtain two different approaches for the input model. One of them use the computed indicators while the other process the computed indicators into trends. The results suggest that, in general view, Support Vector Machines with technical indicators represented as trend being the input model outperforms the other prediction models. However, in particular condition, the best model of the entire observation with 92 % accuracy is given by FKCM with computed indicators as the input by using σ = 100 and 90 % training data.The nature of stock price fluctuations becomes a challenge for the investors to gain return in investing stocks. To overcome this problem, investors need some accurate predictions in order to anticipate future stock price movement. However, predicting the direction of stock price movement is a complex task due to many uncertain factors affecting the stock price itself. Therefore, this paper studied the application of Support Vector Machines and Fuzzy Kernel C-Means in predicting the direction of stock price movement of Indonesian stock market, particularly on banking subsector. Using the stock historical data, eight technical indicators have been computed to obtain two different approaches for the input model. One of them use the computed indicators while the other process the computed indicators into trends. The results suggest that, in general view, Support Vector Machines with technical indicators represented as trend being the input model outperforms the other prediction models. However, in particular.
Operating Cyber-Physical Systems with Microservices: The s*IoT Conceptual Modelling Approach

Putting conceptual models into operation traditionally relies on capabilities of humans. The digitalization of just about everything challenges the dependence on humans as the operationalization of conceptual models by cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is becoming a potential alternative. To enable this transition, this study focuses on the conceptualization of a description framework that revolves around the co-construction of functional capabilities by design-time and run-time aspects of conceptual models and CPSs. Thereby, the shift of CPS architectures towards service oriented architectures leads to new requirements for modelling formalisms. Consequently, the description framework provides means to operate and semantically describe functional capabilities of CPSs that are deployed as microservices. To validate the approach, a case study is conducted in which a modelling method is constructed that realizes a mock-up implementation of the description framework. Furthermore, the modelling method is applied as a modelling tool to build "smart" models that employ CPSs for operationalization.
Relationship between prospective teachers’ deontic justice attitudes and academic dishonesty tendencies

The aim of the study was to determine the relationsip between deontic justice attitudes among prospective teachers and their tendencies towards academic dishonesty. Participants in the study were 403 university students attending different departments of the Education Faculty of the Hacettepe University, a state university in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The sample was determined by means of a stratified sampling technique, and students were chosen randomly from different departments. Attitudes towards deontic justice and tendencies towards academic dishonesty among the participants were stratified in terms of gender and students’ affiliation to a specific department of education. The findings suggested that female students and participants from the English Language Education Department had the highest deontic justice attitudes; male students and participants from the Physical Education and Sports Department had the highest tendencies towards academic dishonesty. A low, negative and statistically significant relationship between deontic justice attitudes and academic dishonesty tendencies exists. Keywords: academic dishonesty tendency; deontic justice attitude; prospective teachers