Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reciprocity and visual methods in cross-cultural research with Cambodian schoolgirls

ABSTRACT Secondary schoolgirls’ experiences of persisting at school in rural Cambodia were the focus of this study. The study worked with 43 schoolgirls from two state-run schools. This paper reflects on how reciprocity and visual methods enabled the work of hearing the schoolgirls’ voices across language and cultural barriers. Reciprocity was a central concern and took the form of collaborative knowledge building to establish trustworthiness, as well as various reciprocal acts that ‘gave back’ to those involved in the study. The use of visual methods, such as visual narratives, self-managed video interviews, and advice posters sought to mitigate power differentials, address language barriers, and recognise schoolgirls as experts in girls’ education. The paper discusses the advantages and constraints of this innovative approach, and proposes that cross-cultural research that provides girls with autonomy during the research process is necessary if those working with girls seek to valorise girls’ voices and experiences.
Contextualizing the SAT: Experimental Evidence on College Admission Recommendations for Low-SES Applicants

Although it is well established that college entrance exams have become a key factor for admission to selective institutions, less is known about the influence of test scores in relation to other academic factors in the evaluation of a student’s application file. This study conducts a randomized-controlled trial to determine whether providing students’ test scores in context—how they perform relative to their school and neighborhood peers—increases the likelihood that admission officers (n = 321) would recommend admitting low-socioeconomic status (SES) applicants. The study also examines how including a personal admission essay that conveys grit, or ability to persevere in the pursuit of long-term goals, influences admission decision making. Admission officers in the contextual condition were significantly more likely to accept both the low-SES and high-SES applicant than those without contextual information on test scores; however, they were not more likely to accept applicants who convey grit in their personal essays.
School Counselor Site Supervisors' Perceptions of Preparedness and Training Needs.

The importance of school counselor site supervisor training has gained considerable attention in the past couple of years; however, despite these efforts, little progress seems to have been made. This study explores school counselor site supervisors’ perceptions of preparedness, training needs, and preferred methods of future training. Results of the study revealed that most participants did not receive supervision training during their graduate program preparation. Implications for training site supervisors and future research are discussed.
Physical disabilities in nursing - the use of selected tools to monitor physically disabled patients' needs

Introduction: The multidisciplinary concept of physical disability (in comparison with other disabilities, such as mental or social) is considered less problematic. In nursing, we can point out many variables (incontinence, a higher risk of decubitus ulcers, spasticity, etc.) whose combination can be called physical disability. Goal: The goal of this study is to map selected evaluation and measuring tools that can be applied in the assessment of physically disabled patients’ needs. Methods: This review study was carried out to map selected evaluating tools for the assessment of physically disabled patients’ needs. The data were gained from academic databases of Scopus, Web of Science, Wiley Online Library, Science Direct, Ebsco and Pubmed between 2015 and 2019. After the classification by the established criteria, we identified 12 relevant sources. Results: We found 5 possibly relevant tools for the assessment of physically disabled patients’ needs. The specific tools were WHODAS 2.0, MDS, MDS-BV, SDS and ICF. Conclusions: All identified tools can be used for the assessment of physically disabled patients and are suitable for implementation in clinical practice. It was necessary to carry out this study in the Czech clinical practice to learn the effectiveness, usefulness, validity, reliability, specifics and sensitivity of selected tools.
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Becoming and Being a Leadership Educator: A Phenomenological Inquiry.

Little is known about the leadership educators who work in more than 2,000 leadership programs worldwide. This phenomenological study of 13 experienced leadership educators from four states and 11 universities explored the lived experiences of becoming and being a leadership educator in higher education. Four sub themes emerged from participants’ understanding of becoming a leadership educator: (a) Impact; (b) Serendipity; (c) Fake it till you make it; and (d) Developing others. And, six sub themes emerged from participants’ understanding of being a leadership educator: (a) Being a helper; (b) Being experimental; (c) Being an advocate; (d) Being a role model; (e) Being passionate; and (f ) Being an agitator.
Rethinking the role of transitions between activities in early childhood settings: An examination of their linguistic characteristics in two preschool classrooms

This study points to ways in which the amount and complexity of teacher talk in two preschool classrooms during transitions between activities differed from instructional activity settings throughout the day. What emerged were language characteristics that suggest not all transitions are created equal. In fact, as shown by qualitative excerpts of teacher–student interactions, some transitions are quite substantive and provide opportunities for rich extended conversations. The findings of this study suggest that, despite the popular perception of transitions as lost instructional time, the informal setting of transitions can be used to reinforce concepts taught in more formal instructional settings such as circle time, as well as opportunities to introduce new concepts and vocabulary following children’s lead. Interviews with the teachers of these two classrooms, while revealing their acknowledgment of some challenges (e.g. children’s engagement), mostly emphasized the intentional and potentially instructional nature of transitions.
A Cognitive Appraisal Process of Customer Delight: The Moderating Effect of Place Identity

This study aims to empirically examine an integrative model centered on customer delight drawing from cognitive appraisal theory and place identity theory. A self-completed survey administered in English at three tourism destinations in Australia (Phillip Island, Great Ocean Road, and Sovereign Hill) generated 457 valid responses. The results show that authenticity and employee helpfulness are positively associated with customer delight, which in turn, positively affects the positive word-of-mouth (PWOM) intention. Customer delight is a principal mechanism that transmits the influence of authenticity and employee helpfulness to PWOM. In addition, place identity moderates the relationship between customer delight and PWOM such that the higher the place identity, the weaker is the relationship between customer delight and PWOM. The findings advance the current theorizations on several fronts and offer managerial implications for destination marketing practice in terms of customer experience management, marketing communications, and customer service.
Search for Anomalies in the Computational Jobs of the ATLAS Experiment with the Application of Visual Analytics

ATLAS is the largest experiment at the LHC. It generates vast volumes of scientific data accompanied with auxiliary metadata, representing all stages of data processing, Monte-Carlo simulation, properties of detector and computing environment. Terabytes of metadata was accumulated by the workflow and data management, and metadata archiving systems. These metadata can help physicists carrying out studies to evaluate in advance the duration of their analysis jobs. As these jobs are executed in a heterogeneous distributed and dynamically changing infrastructure, their duration varies across computing centers and depends on many factors. Ensuring the uniformity in job execution requires searching for anomalies and analyzing the reasons of non-trivial job execution behavior to predict and avoid the recurrence in future. Detailed analysis of large volume of job execution benefits from application of machine learning and visual analysis methods. The approach of visual analytics technique was demonstrated on the analysis of jobs archive. The proposed method allowed to identify computing sites having non-trivial job execution process, and the visual cluster analysis showed parameters affecting or indicating possible time delays. Further work will concentrate on increasing of the amount of analyzed jobs and the development of interactive visual models, facilitating the interpretation of analysis results.
Homogeneity of Memory Errors in Abstract Visual Pattern Recall

In memory tests, recalled information can be distorted by errors in memory and these distortions can be more memorable than the original stimuli to a later learner. This is typically observed over several generations of learners but there is less exploration of the initial distortions from the first generation of learners. In this article, participants studied visual matrix patterns which were either erroneous recall attempts from previous participants or were random patterns. Experiment 1 showed some evidence that material based on previous participants’ recall data was more memorable than random material, but this did not replicate in Experiment 2. Of greater interest in the current data were homogeneity in the memory errors made by participants which demonstrated systematic recall biases in a single generation of learners. Unlike studies utilising multiple generations of learners, the currently observed distortions cannot be attributed to survival-of-the-fittest mechanisms where biases are driven by encoding effects.
Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Concepts and Applications

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Armed With Information: Cognition and Consciousness and the Octopus Nervous System

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The partisan ties of lobbying firms

This article examines lobbying firms as intermediaries between organized interests and legislators in the United States. It states a partisan theory of legislative subsidy in which lobbying firms are institutions with relatively stable partisan identities. Firms generate greater revenues when their clients believe that firms’ partisan ties are valued highly by members of Congress. It hypothesizes that firms that have partisan ties to the majority party receive greater revenues than do firms that do not have such ties, as well as that partisan ties with the House majority party lead to greater financial returns than do partisan ties to the Senate majority party. These hypotheses are tested using data available under the Lobbying Disclosure Act from 2008 to 2016. Panel regression analysis indicates that firms receive financial benefits when they have partisan ties with the majority party in the House but not necessarily with the Senate majority party, while controlling for firm-level covariates (number of clients, diversity, and organizational characteristics). A difference-in-differences analysis establishes that Democratically aligned lobbying firms experienced financial losses when the Republican Party reclaimed the House in 2011, but there were no significant differences between Republican and Democratic firms when the Republicans reclaimed the Senate in 2015.
Modelling and Analysis of Novel Topology for Multilevel Inverter With Reduce Number of Switches

The demand of quality power is increasing continuously. The problem of global warming and rate of decrease of non-renewable energy sources are increasing day by day. Hence renewable energy sources such as fuel cell, solar, Magneto hydro Dynamic (MHD), geothermal are the best alternatives to solve the problem of environmental issue and increasing demand of energy. The output of these resources is dc, therefore to connect these resources to the grid, multilevel inverter is the key device. But the output of multilevel inverter has power quality issues such as harmonic generation and notching due to conversion of dc to ac and high number of switch. Hence, this paper deals with harmonic elimination using Genetic Algorithm based Selective Harmonic Elimination (GA-SHE) techniques for asymmetric and symmetric topology of MLI. In the present study, comparative study among the 5-level, 7-level, 9-level, 11-level and 15-level multilevel inverters with reduced number of switches topologies has been discussed. A novel topology of 15-level inverter which consists least number of switches has been designed for a desired voltage level. Also, the comparison of Total harmonic distortion developed in the output voltage generated by different topology at different levels with the proposed 15-level inverter topology are discussed.
Semantic Web Application for Email Receipts

This thesis is about enhancing receipts by extracting information from them and create receipts in semantic format. It involves data mining techniques for processing emails and categorisation of products. These techniques and methods were implemented and tested in a web application, which confirms that it is possible to create receipts in a semantic format. External services were used to analyse existing semantic metadata for products and perform category search. The findings showed that there is improvement potential in how receipts are modelled, especially with regard to semantic category specification of products.
Interactions with Offenders Post-Assault and Their Impacts on Recovery: A Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors and Support Providers

ABSTRACT It is well established in the literature that the majority of sexual assault offenders are known to their victims. Given this reality, survivors of sexual assault and their support providers (SP; e.g., family, friends, romantic partners) may interact with the offenders post-assault within various contexts including social, community, and familial settings, though little research exists that explores this possibility. This study begins to address this gap through interviews with survivors and their SPs about disclosure, recovery, and help-seeking following interactions with their offender post-assault. Twenty-eight survivors mentioned interactions or appraisals of the offender, as did twelve SPs. Qualitative analysis revealed several themes including: a) various outcomes of interactions with the offender post-assault, b) emotions felt toward offender, c) gaining of perspective and/or forgiveness, d) interactions with the offender as a catalyst for disclosure, and e) importance of the offender’s actual or perceived death. Results show some anecdotal support for restorative justice practices with sexual assault victims in the criminal-legal system. Clinical implications include treatment plans for survivors to prepare for the possibility of seeing their offenders post-assault.
“I Feel Like It’s a Little Bit of a Badge of Honor”: Fathers’ Leave-Taking and the Development of Caring Masculinities

Despite the consensus that fatherhood is undergoing significant change, there is little known about how men who are deeply engaged in caregiving experience the shift away from conventional models. Examining the use of parental leave by Canadian fathers offers the opportunity to study the day-to-day reality of men’s caregiving and how time with baby may be transformative. In-depth interviews with 33 men reveal that all participants developed parenting skills and emotional bonds, yet only fathers who parented without a mother’s oversight articulated a sense of ownership and accountability over their child’s care. Those personally moved by the leave experience were most likely to integrate caregiving into their identities, provided they felt ‘accomplished’ in their employment. Leave-taking thus represented an important liminal period in which fathers could ‘test the waters’ of hands-on childcare without threatening their sense of self, ultimately increasing the visibility of men as caregivers and reshaping cultural configurations of acceptable masculinity.
Authoritarian attitudes and support for radical right populists

ABSTRACT This paper examines which parties attract support from people with authoritarian attitudes by comparing multi-party systems to a pure two-party system (the US). It proposes reasons why radical right populist (RRP) parties may serve as outlets for illiberal sentiments in multiparty systems, and offers reasons why such attitudes could correspond with support for the US Republican Party. Some have raised concerns about democratic deconsolidation in liberal democracies. There is limited evidence here consistent with deconsolidation. Politically authoritarian attitudes do exist among a small but non-trivial proportion of electorates in established democracies. In multiparty systems people with such attitudes were more likely to be supporters of smaller RRP parties that generally do not join government, but not centre-left or centre-right parties. However, US Republicans had supporters who resembled European RRP supporters in their politically authoritarian attitudes, and authoritarian attitudes were a notable predictor of support for Donald Trump in 2016.
Entrepreneurial intention of students reviewed from self-efficacy and family support in vocational high school

Self-efficacy and family support is one of the factors associated with entrepreneurial intentions in Vocational High School students. This study aims to examine empirically the role of self-efficacy and family support towards entrepreneurial intentions in students of Vocational High Schools. The subjects of this study are students of class XII of State Vocational High School 5 Yogyakarta. The sampling technique was randomized using cluster random sampling technique. Methods of collecting data are the scale of self-efficacy, family support scale, and scale of entrepreneurial intention. Analysis of research data is conducted by using multiple linear regression techniques. The results showed that 1) there was a very significant relationship between self-efficacy and family support simultaneously with entrepreneurial intentions indicated by a significance value of p = 0.001, 2) there was a very significant positive relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention with a significance value of p = 0.000, 3) there was a significant positive relationship between family support and entrepreneurial intentions with a significance level of p = 0.045. Self-efficacy and family support together contributed 8.6%. Self-efficacy as an internal factor contributes more dominantly than family support as an external factor. The effective contribution of self-efficacy with entrepreneurial intentions was 8.032% and the contribution of family support with entrepreneurial intentions was 0.611%.
The effect of narcissism and neuroticism on physical education and sports teacher candidates of real and self-estimated exam grades

Aim: The present study aimed to investigate the joint effect of narcissism and neuroticism on physical education teacher candidates’ real and self-estimated exam grades. Methods: The sample included 60 (20 female) first-year physical education teacher candidates. Before the educational psychology visa exam, participants completed measures of narcissism and neuroticism. Immediately after the exam, participants reported their expected exam grades. Results: Results of the correlation analysis indicated that narcissism was positively and significantly associated with the deviation of the self-estimated exam grade from the real exam grade, which means that narcissistic individuals may tend to overestimate their exam grades. Regression analyses also confirmed that narcissism is a significant predictor of the deviation of the self-estimated exam grade from the real exam grade. A two-way analysis of variance further demonstrated that narcissistic individuals self-estimated exam grades showed a higher deviation from the real exam grades than their non-narcissistic counterparts. Conclusion: Narcissistic individuals may have a predisposition to overestimate their exam grades.
Probability cueing of singleton-distractor regions in visual search: the locus of spatial distractor suppression is determined by colour swapping

ABSTRACT Observers can learn the likely locations of salient distractors in visual search, reducing their potential to cause interference. While there is agreement that this involves suppression of frequent distractor locations, the results are mixed regarding the stage of suppression: the search-guiding priority map or, respectively, the distractor-defining dimension. Critical for deciding this question is whether or not a distractor-position effect (reduced interference by distractors at frequent locations) is accompanied by a target-position effect (slowed response times to targets at frequent locations) when the distractor is defined in a different dimension to the target: priority-map based suppression would impact target as well as distractor signals; distractor-dimension-based suppression only distractor signals. To identify the factors that are critical for observing one or the other effect pattern, the present study adopted a paradigm in which the distractor was likely to appear in a larger region of the display and orthogonally varied display density (singleton saliency) and random swapping of the distractor and non-distractor colours. Both effect patterns were found consistently, with the critical factor being colour swapping/consistency: with swapping colours, observers tend to adopt a priority-map-based suppression strategy; with consistent colours, a dimension-based strategy.
Trends in Children’s Academic Skills at School Entry: 2010 to 2017

Students’ level of academic skills at school entry are a strong predictor of later academic success, and focusing on improving these skills during the preschool years has been a priority during the past 10 years. Evidence from two prior nationally representative studies indicated that incoming kindergarteners’ math and literacy skills were higher in 2010 than 1998, but no national studies have examined trends since 2010. This study examines academic skills at kindergarten entry from 2010 and 2017 using data from over 2 million kindergarten students. Results indicate that kindergarteners in 2017 had moderately lower math and reading skills than in 2010, but that inequalities at school entry by race/ethnicity and school poverty level have decreased during this period.