Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Children’s Empathy and Family Income: The Mediating Role of Family Communication Pattern

The research examined whether the communication patterns in the family by conversation and conformity orientations served as mediators of the relation between children’s empathy and family income. The research was conducted to parents of children age six to eight years old as the participants (N = 233) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The parents’ completed parent’s questionnaire for children’s empathy, family income, and family communication pattern. The relation analyzed using PROCESS Hayes. The results that the family communication pattern partially mediated the children’s empathy and family income. This research result shows a couple of findings. First, the children who come from a low-income family with family conformity orientation have lower empathy. The second finding is that the children with the family who have family conversation orientation have higher empathy. This second finding works for both low and high incomes family. Besides, only conformity orientation is found to mediate the effect of family income on child’s empathy. This research finds there are connections between family environment and children’s behavior. Developing the children’s empathy going to be positive for their social-emotional outcomes in the future is paramount because the children learn to express and regulate their emotion in a positive way when they have higher empathy.
Empirical studies on cloud computing adoption: A systematic literature review

Cloud computing is a major topic of discussion among IT professionals. This practice is a good alternative for higher education institutions of limited budget in operating their information system efficiently without spending high capital for infrastructure resource. According to the annual report of educational indicators of the Republic of Yemen, the education and training sectors in Yemen face several obstacles and challenges in delivering quality education to the entire population of the country; for example, limited infrastructure resources and IT budget, and lack of teaching staff, technical experts, and IT skilled personnel. This study aims to (1) review empirical studies on cloud computing adoption in general, (2) identify the influencing factors of cloud computing adoption, and (3) categorize these influencing factors into technological, organizational, environmental, and individual factors. The influencing factors of cloud computing adoption in the government and industrial and educational sectors are also reviewed. Cloud computing adoption in the educational sector is clearly demonstrated. A total of 50 models are reviewed and discussed. Findings show that theoretical and empirical studies on cloud computing adoption in the educational sector are few. Moreover, 18% and 82% of studies investigate factors related to cloud computing adoption in the educational and industrial sectors, respectively. Furthermore, 26% of studies use individual-level theory for cloud computing adoption, 61% use organizational level theory, and 13% integrate individualand organizational-level theories.
Fast Sensor-Less Voltage Balancing and Capacitor Size Reduction in PUC5 Converter Using Novel Modulation Method

This paper proposes a novel sensor-less switching method based on logic gates for a five-level packed U-cell (PUC5) converter. It comprises only two level-shifted triangular carriers and logic gates. Hence, the number of triangular carriers is halved and the switching states table is eliminated, which cause remarkable reduction in complexity of the proposed modulation method. Moreover, employing the proposed sensor-less switching method leads to decrease in the PUC5 capacitor value by a factor of carrier ratio, fast self-balancing of the PUC5 capacitor voltage, and halving the output LC filter inductor and capacitor values in stand-alone mode, as well as the grid-link inductor value in grid-connected mode. In addition, the PUC5 converter start-up transient time is considerably decreased and the first switching harmonic cluster frequency is doubled, which lead to notable improvement of steady-state and dynamic performances of the PUC5 converter. The proposed sensor-less switching method has been implemented in both stand-alone and grid-connected operating modes of PUC5 converter. Provided simulation and experimental results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed sensor-less switching method as well as its improved dynamic and steady-state performances in both stand-alone and grid-connected modes.
Developing the best research professionals. Qualified graduate nurses: recommendations for preparing and supporting clinical academic nurses of the future.Report of the UKCRC Sub Committee for Nurses in Clinical Research (Workforce)

This report contributes towards one of the aims of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, to develop a highly skilled workforce of trained clinical researchers and educators within the context of a rapidly changing UK healthcare environment. In particular, this report examines the current role of nurses as researchers and educators and investigates the barriers that are preventing them from reaching their full potential in these areas. It envisages a more flexible career structure that will develop the clinical academic role – combining clinical and academic work - as the norm for those nurses who successfully pursue a research career, rather than obliging them to pursue one role at the expense of the other. It recognises the broad range of research skills needed by nurses working in many different research environments and includes a spectrum of training opportunities. It supports and promotes the development of a clinical research environment that provides opportunities for nurses to pursue research careers at all levels and that will ultimately produce research leaders and academics of the future. Building on this analysis, and taking account of the framework for modernising nursing careers (MNC) being led by the Chief Nursing Officers, the report makes recommendations for enabling nursing to respond to the exciting opportunities that are being created by emerging research and development policies in the health sector. It envisages a future in which a larger number of graduate nurses – though still a minority of the profession – would be active in high quality clinical and other health related research at various levels. The recommendations take the ongoing changes in the UK research environment into account by increasing both research capacity and capability in the nursing profession. Increasing capacity will expand the total number of nurses involved in research and help to provide the engine room for the new emerging infrastructure. At the same time increasing capability should ensure that a greater proportion of this increased number of clinical academic nurses is capable of operating at the highest levels of research.
Food-based dietary guidelines as nutrition education tool : a study among Tswana women in the North West Province

BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) has been developed in South Africa as a consistent communication tool to represent agreement on how diet-related public health problems should be addressed. The guidelines demonstrate the striving towards equity in diet and health and the purpose is to optimise nutritional status in both disadvantaged and affluent communities.
Influences on the reflection quality of journal writing: an exploratory study

ABSTRACT Reflection has a long history as an assessment mode in teaching and learning for higher education, and particularly for teacher education. However, past studies have not systematically analysed how attributes of students, content, and feedback are linked to the quality of students’ reflections in journal writing. To fill the gap, this exploratory study examines 1,210 journal entries by 121 university students in a General Education course. We apply multilevel, cross-classification, ordered logit analysis to test the explanatory model. Results show that entries written by young women (vs. young men) written later in the course, with personal content (vs. academic or societal), or following teacher or student feedback had higher teacher ratings for reflection, compared to other entries. These results suggest the importance of gender, time, journal content, and feedback to raising reflection quality.
Gesture interaction in virtual reality

Abstract With the development of virtual reality (VR) and human-computer interaction technology, how to use natural and efficient interaction methods in the virtual environment has become a hot topic of research. Gesture is one of the most important communication methods of human beings, which can effectively express users’ demands. In the past few decades, gesture-based interaction has made significant progress. This article focuses on the gesture interaction technology and discusses the definition and classification of gestures, input devices for gesture interaction, and gesture interaction recognition technology. The application of gesture interaction technology in virtual reality is studied, the existing problems in the current gesture interaction are summarized, and the future development is prospected.
Artists Excel on Image Activation But Not Image Manipulation Tasks

The ability to envision what is not directly seen is important in the visual arts, since artists do more than reproduce what they see. Such envisioning requires visual imagery abilities. In this study, we examined whether art students (n = 32) have enhanced visual imagery abilities compared to nonart students (n = 40). We administered four tasks designed to assess visual imagery. Three tasks assessed the ability to activate mental images: vividness of visual imagery, recognition of out-of-focus pictures, and abstraction; the fourth task assessed the ability to manipulate mental images: mental rotation. We also administered a verbal IQ and a creativity test to determine whether these measures should be included as covariates in our analyses. Results showed that art students excelled on two of the three image activation tasks, vividness of visual imagery and abstraction, but did not excel on the image manipulation task of mental rotation.
Development of working memory and performance in arithmetic: a longitudinal study with children

Introduction. This study has aimed to investigate the relationship between the development of working memory and performance on arithmetic activities. Method. We conducted a 3-year longitudinal study of a sample of 90 children, that was followed during the first, second and third year of primary school. All children were tested on measures of WM components (i. e., (i) phonological loop, (ii) visuospatial sketchpad and (iii) central executive) and arithmetic. Results. Results indicate the relationship between the progressive development of working memory capacity and performance in arithmetic through time. Evidence of this is that the group with higher working memory performance gets better scores in calculus, during the three years of study. Discussion and Conclusion. The discrepancy in scores in calculation increases as the years because of the impact it has on working memory strategies used for solving arithmetic problems.
The epidemiology and clinical importance of forefoot bursae in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

The epidemiology of foot complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is poorly understood. A number of patients report ongoing foot-related pain, impairment, footwear restriction and activity limitation, despite developments in pharmacological disease management. Forefoot bursae (fluid filled sacks, FFB) have been previously shown to be highly prevalent and related to foot complications in patients with RA. However, the longitudinal epidemiology and clinical importance of FFB in this patient population remains unclear. It is anticipated that an improved understanding of the mechanisms by which FFB are responsive to, or contribute to, fluctuations in RA disease activity will inform future evaluation of foot health and novel therapeutic targets. Through a series of four experimental studies this work has shown that ultrasound (US) detectable FFB are highly prevalent in patients with RA compared to healthy volunteers (HV) and are clinically relevant. The natural history of FFB remains consistent longitudinally in a cohort of patients with established RA disease at baseline. US-detectable FFB were determined to be significant prognostic indicators of foot-related disability after three years. Furthermore, the distribution of US-detected FFB across forefoot sites was identified as significantly different between HV and patients with predominantly inflammatory or degenerative arthritis; uniquely patients with RA have a number of FFB within the central forefoot region, in addition to those located laterally, which were frequently present in all comparative groups. Thus, in patients with RA ~50% of US-detected FFB may be of greatest clinical relevance, due to their positioning within the central forefoot region. Detection of FFB using MRI defined a series of FFB characteristics of clinical relevance in patients with RA. The presence of plantar forefoot fluid lesions or intermetatarsal soft tissue lesions was significantly related to RA disease activity. The presence of plantar soft tissue lesions was significantly related to increased biomechanical impairment. However, a high proportion of plantar predominantly soft tissue FFB was also noted to be actively inflamed whilst other MRI-based markers of disease activity within the forefoot were minimal.
Identifying changing in indonesian values and its impact to indonesian consumer behavior

In the past Indonesian people were taught in school or by their families several traditional values such as harmoni (harmony), toleransi (tolerance), keagamaan (religiosity), and gotong-royong (mutual assistance). However, these values have changed mainly because of globalization. This article addresses the value changes in Indonesian people. More than 2,000 open-ended questionnaires were distributed to respondents in four big cities in Indonesia: Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, and Surabaya. A total of 1209 usable questionnaires were used to identify Indonesian values today. The result shows that gotong royong (mutual assistance), demokrasi (democracy), agama (religion), harmoni (harmony), ramah-tamah (hospitality), fanatisme keagamaan (religious fanaticism), and individualisme (individualism) are today’s Indonesian values. Changing values is considered as one main factor of changing consumer behavior.
Word knowledge, learning and acquisition in a second language: Proposed replications of Elgort (2011) and Qiao and Forster (2017)

Abstract What does it mean to learn a word? How can we tell when a sequence of letters or sounds becomes a word in the mind of the learner? While many second language (L2) vocabulary teaching and learning studies continue to use traditional vocabulary tests to measure learning (such as multiple choice, translation, gap-fill), these measures tend to come short when researchers want to address theoretical questions about the nature of L2 word knowledge. In the present paper, I argue for conceptualising word learning as lexicalisation, which necessitates the use of alternative approaches to measuring learning. I then propose approximate and conceptual replications of two theoretically motivated L2 word learning studies, Elgort (2011) and Qiao and Forster (2017), that used the Prime Lexicality Effect as a measure of lexicalisation of deliberately learned L2 words.
Unlocking Author Power: On the Exploitation of Auxiliary Author-Retweeter Relations for Predicting Key Retweeters

Retweeting is a powerful driving force in information propagation on microblogging sites. However, identifying the most effective retweeters of a message (called the ”key retweeter prediction” problem) has become a significant research topic. Conventional approaches have addressed this topic from two main aspects: by analyzing either the personal attributes of microblogging users or the structures of user graph networks. However, according to sociological findings, author-retweeter dependencies also play a crucial role in influencing message propagation. In this paper, we propose a novel model to solve the key retweeter prediction problem by incorporating the auxiliary relations between a tweet author and potential retweeters. Without loss of generality, we formulate the relations from four relational factors: status relation, temporal relation, locational relation, and interactive relation. In addition, we propose a novel method, called “Relation-based Learning to Rank (RL2R),” to determine the key retweeters for a given tweet by ranking the potential retweeters in terms of their spreadability. The experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms at top-k retweeter prediction, achieving a significant relative average improvement of 19.7–29.4 percent. These findings provide new insights for understanding user behaviors on social media for key retweeter prediction purposes.
Ad Campaign Optimization - A Targeted Contextual Bandit Approach

Internet advertising is a fast growing business that has proven to be fundamental for the modern digital economy. There has been a significant effort to find the best match between a given user, a given context and a list of available ads because it provides the highest possible revenue. The main stakeholders in online advertising are the web-publishers, who integrate ad campaigns alongside their online content, and the advertisers, who provide adverts to be displayed beside the publisher’s content. Both sides aim to achieve the highest possible user engagement while maximizing their long term profits. Often, as part of the contractual agreement between the two parties, the publisher guarantees a minimal impression count. When that agreed minimum impression count is not met, a monetary penalty is applied. This master thesis addresses the challenge of identifying the most appropriate ad unit to display alongside a given piece of web-based content at the best time for individual users within the contract established between a publisher and an advertiser.
New Insights in the Design and Compilation of Digital Bilingual Lexicographical Products: The Case of the Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa

This contribution deals with a new digital English–Spanish–English lexicographical project that started as an assignment from the Danish high-tech company Ordbogen A/S which signed a contract with the University of Valladolid (Spain) for designing and compiling a digital lexicographical product that is economically and commercially feasible and can be used for various purposes in connection with its expansion into new markets and the launching of new tools and services which make use of lexicographical data. The article presents the philosophy underpinning the project, highlights some of the innovations introduced, e.g. the use of logfiles for compiling the initial lemma list and the order of compilation, and illustrates a compilation methodology which starts by assuming the relevance of new concepts, i.e. object and auxiliary languages instead of target and source languages. The contribution also defends the premise that the future of e-lexicography basically rests on a close cooperation between research centers and high-tech companies which assures the adequate use of disruptive technologies and innovations. Keywords : dictionary concept; empirical resources; logfiles; ngram viewer; internet as a corpus; compilation methods; lexicographical data; online dictionaries; integrated dictionaries; writing assistants; L2-reception dictionaries; L2-production dictionaries; translation dictionaries
Video-feedback attachment based intervention aimed at adolescent and young mothers: effectiveness on infant-mother interaction and maternal mind-mindedness

ABSTRACT The study examined the effectiveness of PRERAYMI (Promoting Responsiveness Emotion Regulation and Attachment in Young Mothers and Infants) attachment-based intervention programme aimed at adolescent mother-infant dyads. The intervention used video-feedback and developmental guidance to promote maternal mind-mindedness and sensitivity. 32 adolescent mother-infant dyads in the intervention group were compared to 12 adolescent mother-infant dyads in the control group. Maternal mind-mindedness and maternal/infant styles of interaction were evaluated, at the pre-treatment (infant 3 months) and at the post-treatment (infant 9 months). The results indicated the effectiveness of the intervention in enhancing mind-mindedness, with more mind-related comments and fewer non-attuned mind-related comments, maternal sensitivity and infant cooperative behaviour, and in reducing maternal controlling behaviour, in the intervention group. Changes in mother/infant interaction styles or in mind-mindedness in the control group were not detected. The attachment based medium term intervention helped to improve adolescent mother-infant relationship, which is otherwise potentially at risk.
Language ideology of English-medium instruction in higher education

English-medium instruction (EMI) has been perceived as a key strategy through which universities, propelled by academic, political, social and economic motives, respond to the influence of globalisation (Altbach & Knight, 2007). This has been fuelled by the fact that English, defined as the global common language, is needed to create the knowledge base in global tertiary education (Fishman, 2000). In the process, English has become the universal second language of advanced education (Brumfit, 2004), due to the value attached to the language in present times and the advantage of using the language in the existing global language order (Zhang, 2017). These motivations have contributed to the global phenomenon of English being the medium of instruction (MOI), and higher education has been the venue where EMI could be implemented more consistently (Dearden, 2014). This has resulted in the generation of a growing body of work on how universities plan their language policies (Liddicoat, 2016).
Unstable surface after ACL reconstruction and its effects on gait

Previous studies of gait analysis in patients following reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery have shown changes in kinematics, kinetics and energy patterns in the lower limb. As ACL reconstruction becomes a more predictable and more frequently performed operation, there is an increasing desire on the patients for a rapid recovery of general gait function, which includes walking on unstable ground. Also, it is common for these patients to perform unstable surface training during clinical treatment. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the changes in selected gait kinematic parameters following ACL reconstruction while walking on an unstable surface. We tested 16 subjects: eight patients who underwent ACL reconstruction (double semitendinous tendon technique) and were at four weeks after the surgical intervention; and eight healthy subjects (control group) matched by age and gender. Participants walked at self-selected comfortable speed on an 8m-walkway while sagittal plane kinematic data of the principal lower limb joints (hip, knee and ankle) were collected using 60-Hz cameras. We compared the joint angles under three conditions: (A) walking on stable ground, (B) walking on a foam mat (5cm thick and 33kg/m3 density) and (C) back at the normal ground. Results showed that ACL patients were slower and had smaller range of motion at all joints as compared to the control group under all conditions. Further investigation is necessary to expand our understanding and may improve the development of more effective rehabilitation treatments.