Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Employment in People With Physical Disabilities

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the importance of resilience and self-efficacy in explaining employment status for people with long-term physical disabilities when other sociodemographic and symptom variables were also examined. A multiple logistic regression with sequential predictor entry was used to predict employment status. Participants were individuals, 18 to 65 years of age, with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, or spinal cord injury (N = 882). Results indicated resilience but not self-efficacy was uniquely predictive of employment status. The combined effects of resilience and self-efficacy, however, did not significantly contribute to the variance in employment status above and beyond the sociodemographic and symptom variables. Other variables uniquely predictive of employment included education, age, marital status, disability benefits, and anxiety. We found in this study preliminary evidence to suggest that rehabilitation counseling practitioners should consider a client’s resilience with respect to employment. Knowledge of sociodemographic and symptom factors in conjunction with psychometrically sound measures of resilience and self-efficacy may be used to identify individuals with long-term physical disabilities whose beliefs and behaviors may limit the extent to which they prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment.
Engaging with nature: nature affords well-being for families and young people in Finland

ABSTRACT Contact with nature is increasingly being recognized as contributing to humans’ mental and physical health. This study explores how Finnish children, young people and families engage with nature during outdoor recreation. We apply a relational approach with the concept of affordance to understand better how engagement with nature affects their well-being. The study is based on thematic writings of 15- to 21-year-olds and on an ethnographic study of camping. Findings indicate that engagement with nature enables young people to calm down and to get away from the pressures of everyday life and affords close interaction for families. The relational approach makes visible that the more young people and families spend time in nature, the more they are able to perceive affordances that enhance their well-being. In future research and policy, the focus should be on how to support families’ engagement with nature by securing time and places for encountering nature.
Thirty years of (in)visible disability in Australian television: Home and Away’s experiments with representation and inclusion

Disability is an increasingly dominant aspect of television representation, audiences, industries and policy internationally and offers many insights into issues of exclusion and inclusion. In this article, we reflect upon disability and the histories of Australian television through a case study of a much loved and long-running soap – Home and Away. In particular, we explore issues of inclusion via an analysis of the representation of overlooked disabilities, such as mental health, chronic illness and other ‘invisible’ disabilities, contrasting a key moment in the programme in the late 1990s with developments in the 2002–2019 period.
Surviving Shunning at Central High School: Lessons From Sybil Jordan Hampton for Social Justice Leaders

Sybil Jordan Hampton’s lived experience as the only African American in her class at Little Rock (AR) Central High School from 1959 to 1962 is presented. Sybil valued assets within her family and community, exhibited critical consciousness, and had courage in the face of being shunned. Leaders who aim to interrupt inequitable outcomes in schools must recognize the assets of their students, families, and communities; exhibit critical consciousness; and be courageous. Therefore, Sybil’s leadership serves as an example of how leaders other than those in formal positions can inform the development of leaders for social justice.
Quantum Dot-based Immunohistochemistry for Pathological Applications

Quantum dots (QDs) are novel light emitting semiconductor nanocrystals with diameter ranging from 2 to 20 nm. In comparison with traditional organic dyes and fluorescent proteins, QDs possess unique optical properties including extremely high fluorescence efficiency and minimal photobleaching which make them emerge as a new class of fluorescent labels for molecular imaging and biomedical analysis. Herein, recent advances in fundamental mechanisms and pathological applications of QD were reviewed.
La estratificación socio-espacial en contexto indígena: el caso de Temuco, 1992-2002.

Los estudios de estratificacion social en Chile han centrado su analisis en los cambios de la estructura ocupacional de las ultimas decadas. Sin embargo, estos trabajos no consideran la importancia de la etnia al momento de definir las jerarquias sociales. Si a esta escasa mirada en la relacion clase-etnia se agrega aquella sobre los patrones residenciales en las ciudades, el panorama es aun mas desertico. Este trabajo explora la relacion clase, etnia y espacio en Temuco, ciudad que presenta la mayor concentracion de indigenas-mapuche en Chile. Utilizando el modelo de Erikson y Goldthorpe (1992), se describe la localizacion de mapuche y no mapuche de distintas clases sociales. Los resultados indican que mapuche y no mapuche comparten los espacios cuando ambos corresponden a clases manuales calificadas, mientras que se diferencian espacialmente al momento de considerar a las clases no manuales y no calificadas. Los resultados son importantes para observar los procesos de fragmentacion socio-espacial en ciudades interculturales.
Experience dependent sensorimotor functioning in adults with severe autism spectrum disorder

The aim of this doctoral research was to provide new insights into sensorimotor development and functioning in autistic adults. First, classification measures (Chapter Two) were used to verify the diagnosis of autism, and automatic imitation (Chapter Three) was used to verify an intact perception-action link. In Chapter Four, in Twists, the trampolining group (those with sensorimotor experience) had a First Fixation Location on the incongruent model on the first trial but had a longer First Fixation Duration on the congruent model across the trials. Whereas the non-trampolining group (those without sensorimotor experience) did not attend to either model significantly differently in their First Fixation Location but had a longer First Fixation Duration on the incongruent model. In Chapter Five, for familiar actions, the First Fixation Location was on the autistic model on the first trial, and First Fixation Duration was longer on the autistic model across the trials. This indicates that the sensorimotor system in autistic individuals is attuned to autistic kinematics, due to attention being drawn to the autistic model and it being evaluated for longer. For the skilled actions across the trials, the First Fixation Location was on the typical model, and for the Percentage of Total Fixation Duration the typical model was fixated on for proportionately longer. This was then further investigated in Chapter Six, in which participants ability to pursue point-light displays performing trampolining actions was examined. Sensorimotor experience did not result in superior pursuit of the point-light displays; the trampolining and non-trampolining groups performed similarly with no significant differences in the number or duration of eye movements. Therefore, the result of sensorimotor experience is superior identification and initial evaluation seen in the first fixation but does not have a significant effect past this point. Taken together, it can be suggested that action observation is intact in moderate to severely autistic adults through experience dependent attentional differences. This will add to the literature and understanding of minimally verbal adults with moderate to severe autism, a vastly understudied population.
School-Based Professional Development Programs for Beginning Teachers

School-based professional development for beginning teachers must be seen as a dynamic identity and decision-making process. Teachers as lifelong learners from the beginning of their career should be able to engage in different forms of teacher education that enable them to progress their learning and development in ways that are relevant to their own individual needs and the needs of their schools and pupils. Teacher individual professional learning is necessary but not sufficient for sustainable change within groups in school and within school as an organization. It is helpful to consider three elements. First, note the importance to schools of recruiting and developing high-quality teachers. Teachers are among the most significant factors in children’s learning and the quality school education, and the questions why and how teachers matter and how teacher quality and quality teacher education should be perceived require serious considerations from academics, policymakers, and practitioners. Second, understand teacher education as career-long education, and problematize the issue of teachers and coherent professional development within schools, asking key questions including the following: “how do schools create effective opportunities for teachers to learn and develop? ” Third, focus on the particular journey and the needs of beginning teachers because their early career learning and development will have an impact on retention of high-quality teachers. It is important that coherent lifelong professional education for teachers is planned and implemented at the level of education systems, individual schools, teaching teams, and individual teachers.
Teachers' Readiness Indicators on ICT Integration into their Teaching

By the rapid change in innovations of Information and Communication Technology, people are now able to get and exchange information fast. To keep up with these innovations, the integration of ICT in education is urgently demanded of time at present as ICT is being used in almost all other sectors all over the world. Therefore, it demands the teachers to be skillful in operating ICT during their teaching. Nevertheless, the integration of ICT into teaching in Indonesia hasn’t fully been maximized. This paper is intended to investigate the factors of teachers’ readiness to integrate ICT into their teaching. To acquire an in-depth result, this case study focuses on the interview of some teachers in a certain school in Indonesia. The data gained revealed four factors that enact the integration of ICT in class. Most of the teachers need official trainingconcerning the integration of recent ICTs in class to optimize their teaching skills using ICT.
Odd Bedfellows: Self- and Partner-Enhancement in the Communication of Commitment

This research examined self- and partner-enhancement biases in the everyday communication of commitment. A total of 189 romantic heterosexual couples completed a survey measuring self- and partner-reports of the communication of commitment. Women self-enhanced in their perceptions of their partner’s attempts at communicating commitment, while men partner-enhanced. Further, women’s self-enhancement and men’s partner-enhancement resulted in their perceptions of each other’s expressions of commitment being more closely aligned than self-reported expressions of commitment. Taken together, rather than being a detriment, bias in the everyday communication of commitment is an important aspect of how couples sustain commitment in their relationships.
Advocacy in Action: The Use of Photovoice in School Counseling

Photovoice is an innovative approach that uses photography to promote empowerment and social action. Although photovoice has been recognized as a valuable intervention for youth, projects involving this approach primarily have been facilitated by university–school partnerships or community organizations. Aligned with the American School Counselor Association National Model, this article proposes photovoice as a practical tool that school counselors can incorporate into a comprehensive school counseling program to advocate for social action and change.
Committed Participation or Flashes of Action? Mobilizing Public Attention to Climate on Twitter, 2011–2015

ABSTRACT Climate advocacy organizations are increasingly focused on citizen mobilization via social media as a strategy, proposing that by mobilizing the existing climate issue public into expressive action they will better be able to pressure policy makers. This paper explores the origins of and rates of participation in bursts of collective attention to the climate issue on Twitter over a five-year period. We find low levels of repeated user participation over time in spikes of public attention to climate on Twitter, while also identifying a small group of organizations and individuals who are “serial” participants in climate actions on Twitter. The high rate of participant turnover suggests continued questions about how to sustain public attention to the climate issue over time.
From Paradoxical Thinking to Practicing Sustainable Business: The Role of a Business Collective Organization in Supporting Entrepreneurs

Individual entrepreneurs committed to sustainability experience paradoxes: interdependencies and conflict between social, environmental, and economic goals. Whereas prior research focuses on direct responses to paradoxes, we examine multi-level dynamics between organizations and individuals in responding to sustainability paradoxes. Using a 20-month qualitative field study of sustainable food entrepreneurs in Detroit, we investigated how a business collective organization, FoodLab, enabled entrepreneurs to move from paradoxical thinking to practicing sustainable business. Our findings suggest that while individuals may struggle to address multiple goals of sustainability alone, business collective organizations provide a coordinating mechanism that amplifies their efforts. Through guardrails that facilitate the co-creation of shared resources for members, organizations can minimize cognitive and practical barriers of sustainable entrepreneurship.
Egocentric affordance detection with the one-shot geometry-driven Interaction Tensor

In this abstract we describe recent [4,7] and latest work on the determination of affordances in visually perceived 3D scenes. Our method builds on the hypothesis that geometry on its own provides enough information to enable the detection of significant interaction possibilities in the environment. The motivation behind this is that geometric information is intimately related to the physical interactions afforded by objects in the world. The approach uses a generic representation for the interaction between everyday objects such as a mug or an umbrella with the environment, and also for more complex affordances such as humans Sitting or Riding a motorcycle. Experiments with synthetic and real RGB-D scenes show that the representation enables the prediction of affordance candidate locations in novel environments at fast rates and from a single (one-shot) training example. The determination of affordances is a crucial step towards systems that need to perceive and interact with their surroundings. We here illustrate output on two cases for a simulated robot and for an Augmented Reality setting, both perceiving in an egocentric manner.
DEFINING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL, MIDSIZE, PUBLIC INSTITUTION

The rapid growth in efforts to support undergraduate leadership development over the past twenty years, coupled with the complexity of institutions of higher education, has led to a fragmented approach to undergraduate leadership education. Yet, we know that institutions have a greater impact on student leadership development when a strong, collaborative effort between co-curricular leadership programs and academic programs is evident (Seemiller & Murray, 2013). Employing an embedded, single-case study design, this inquiry study sought to explore: (a) how leadership was defined, and (b) how undergraduate leadership education was implemented, within both curricular and co-curricular contexts at a rural, midsize, public institution. The single-case study involved a comprehensive examination of interview data from 12 participants who influenced undergraduate leadership education at the strategic level, and 139 program-level documents used to inform practice of undergraduate leadership education at the case institution. Through an in-depth analysis, using inductive coding methods along with code mapping techniques, study findings indicated that how leadership was defined at the institution was greatly influenced by individual definitions of leadership as put forth by leadership educators, as well as institutional context and culture. Furthermore, leadership educators and administrative leaders revealed a heavy reliance on student leadership positions and high-impact practices as a means to teach leadership, particularly to specific populations of undergraduate students. In sum, the study confirmed that although a variety of leadership development experiences existed at the institution, efforts towards leadership education was not institutionalized, generating a need for a more collaborative, institutional approach between leadership educators. This study concludes with a discussion of implications for practice intended to influence the work of leadership educators, and to suggest intentional efforts in creating a common, institutional approach to leadership education at the university.
Spirituality in the Context of Nonverbal Autism: A Research Process – Analysis and Findings

Abstract Communication issues and social idiosyncrasies create barriers to the inclusion of people with severe (nonverbal) autism into standard societal expectations. This paper reports the results of a study that explored the spirituality of this group, who are unable to express typical religious/spiritual understanding. Participants revealed a sophisticated and deeply considered spirituality. Despite misconceptions that they are unintelligent and incapable/unwilling to connect with others, participants also demonstrated an astute intelligence and desire to meaningfully participate in society. The need for support and care inclusive of appropriate participation for this population in faith communities and in the broader community is highlighted.
Surviving in the cracks: a qualitative study with indigenous youth on homelessness and applied community theatre

Abstract Indigenous youth are disproportionately impacted by homelessness in Canada. Little is known about Indigenous youths’ lived experiences of homelessness and the dominant methodological orientation in related research uses quantitative research methods. There have been calls for increased engagement in qualitative and arts-based research methods. In this article, we answer this call through exploration of two key issues at the intersection of Indigenous youth, homelessness and arts-based research: (1) theory and (2) method. Using thematic analysis of interviews conducted with youth in an applied community theatre project, this study identifies seven conceptual themes related to youth experiences with homelessness, and nine methodological themes related to decolonizing arts-based research. We explore the entangled relationship of applied community theatre and decolonizing methodologies with youth, considering what is contentious, multifaceted and complex about this relationship.
Reference values for serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 in children and adolescents

Objective To establish the reference values of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 ( IGF-1) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein IGFBP-3 (IGFBP-3) in Chinese children aged between 6 and 18 years, and explore the association of serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 with age, sex, pubertal stage and BMI. Methods A total of 837 healthy children (aged from 6 and 18 years, 416 boys and 421 girls) from different primary schools and middle schools in Daqing, Beijing and Shanghai, China were recruited in the study. All subjects had their heights and weights measured, and were classified into five stages by endocrinologists using Tanner stage criteria. The levels of serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 were assayed by chemiluminescent assay system ( IMMULITE 1000) . Non-parametric Mann-Whitney-U test and linear regression analysis were used to analyze the association of serum IGF-1, IGFBP3 with age, sex, pubertal stages and BMI. Results Serum IGF1 peaked around 13 years old and 11 years old in boys and girls, respectively. Similarly, IGFBP-3 reached peak level around 14 years old and 11 years old in boys and in girls, respectively. After attaining the peak levels, serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 decreased slightly or stayed at peak levels with age. Serum IGF-1 level tended to be higher in boys compared to girls, while serum IGFBP-3 level was higher in girls than that in boys in the same age. The pubertal development had stronger impact on serum IGF-1 than serum IGFBP-3. Removal of the confounding effects of age and puberty stage, BMI had no statistical significant effect on serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 in either gender. Conclusions Thisstudy identified age-, sex-, pubertal stage-specific reference levels of serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 in Chinese children. These normative data should facilitate growth monitoring, clinical diagnosis, and follow-up of growth hormone treatment.
The Lost Good Self: Why the whistleblower is hated and stigmatized

In this paper I develop a new explanation that furthers our understanding of why whistleblowers are frequently hated and stigmatized. I call into question the implicit assumption in the literature that whistleblowers are hated and stigmatized exclusively because they represent the ‘other’. Instead, I take a different view and argue that, especially where staff have a moral commitment to their work, whistleblowers may also be felt to be problematic because they unconsciously represent the lost good ‘self’ of staff members. I draw on Kleinian psychoanalytic ideas in developing theory, and use the crisis at the Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Trust in the UK as a contemporary case illustration. This paper contributes to the whistleblower literature as well as to the literature that applies psychoanalytic ideas to the study of management and organization, and it also identifies areas for future research.
Desire for control and personality as predictors of three communication traits in a public speaking context

background Communication in general, and public speaking in particular, are important means to exert influence over other people; control is an enduring motive for communication. People differ substantially in the amount of control they typically want; some seek control and others tend to avoid it. But is the desire for control (DC) redundant with more basic personality traits in predicting individual differences related to public speaking?
Examining the Effects of Neighborhood Contextual Factors on Officer-Involved Shootings

Abstract This paper contributes to research on neighborhood effects and knowledge about the conditions associated with community-level patterns of police behavior by examining whether levels of violence, racial and ethnic composition, and socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with officer-involved shootings in Houston, TX. In addition, drawing from the ecological theory of policing, this study explores whether spatial heterogeneity exists in the observed relationships. Poisson regression models reveal that community violence and neighborhood racial and ethnic context are meaningful indicators of on-duty officer-involved shootings. Socioeconomic disadvantage did not emerge as a significant variable in the models estimated. Results from Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (GWPR) models indicate statistically significant spatial variation in the effects for all the key community factors. The findings highlight the importance of local context for developing a greater understanding of police violence across the urban landscape.