Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognition and the Web: Moving from Theory to Web Design

The links from basic cognitive theory to applied web design practice are not as strong as we would like to see. This chapter outlines some areas in which the two disciplines complement each other. We also describe several challenges such as designing websites from first principles and moving both fields forward in mutually beneficial ways. Although much progress has been made in the last few years, we believe that both disciplines can benefit from a closer partnership, and we hope that this chapter begins to detail some inspiration for that advancement. We will discuss many examples from our own research and identify when designing from first principles was successful, as well as when more work was needed to complete a good web design. We would like to encourage people performing basic research to use more challenging real-world tasks like web navigation and web search for their scientific inquiries. In addition, it is clear that theory and practice from many other disciplines are needed to bridge the gap, including the fields of computer science, anthropology, information visualization and design.
The past as a means of persuasion: Visual political rhetoric in Finnish dairy product advertising

This study investigates the role of advertising and visual rhetoric in political persuasion. Analysis of Finnish dairy product video advertisements from 2010–2016 focuses on those that exploit time as the main reference framework. A better understanding of how advertising is used as a tool of political persuasion is sought by exploring the following questions: How are advertisements used in political communication? How is time used as a means of persuasion in advertising? What role do visual rhetoric and social representations have in the process of persuasion? The analysis shows how advertisements objectify work as a tradition and anchor it as a Finnish value. The results show how advertisements employ enthymeme as a major rhetorical tool to assert that the tradition of Finnish employment is under threat but the consumption of Finnish dairy products and favouring a pro-agrarian policy would ensure that the tradition is transmitted to new generations. The contributions of the study are twofold: First, the combination of social representations theory and classic rhetoric provides a theoretical and analytical perspective for the analysis of visual rhetoric in political persuasion. Secondly, by exploring the advertisements as political communication, the study shows how commercials are used to advocate ideological and political projects, such as certain kind of agricultural policy – an angle largely overlooked in the previous research of social and political psychology.
Considering Positive Psychology Constructs of Life Satisfaction and School Connectedness When Assessing Symptoms Related to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Children and adolescents diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) demonstrate significant difficulty with academic and behavioral functioning. This, in turn, can lead to lower educational attainment and vocational achievement, which has serious long-term consequences and costs to individuals and society (Barkley, 2002, 2006; Mannuzza, Klein, Bessler, Malloy, & LaPadula, 1993). Researchers from a positive psychology framework suggest that ADHD symptoms (i.e., inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity) alone may not fully explain academic impairment (Diener, Scollon, & Lucas, 2004). From the standpoint of positive psychology, life satisfaction and school connectedness are important constructs that examine positive life functioning; however, they have been understudied, particularly in the area of ADHD. The current study investigated the relationship between ADHD symptoms and these positive psychological constructs. Results indicate that as ADHD symptoms increase, life satisfaction decreases; however, no relationship between ADHD symptoms and school connectedness was found. Beyond our primary analysis, we examined the relationship between gender and these variables. Results suggest that gender significantly moderates the relationship between ADHD and life satisfaction, with life satisfaction ratings decreasing for males as ADHD symptoms increase, yet remaining stable for females. ADHD symptoms did not significantly predict changes in school connectedness.
Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Frequency Analysis of Heart Sounds

Heart sound is not only a valuable medical diagnostic tool for heart disease,but also a useful human identification method.This paper proposes an algorithm to extract the feature of heart sound based on frequency analysis.The spectral coefficient of heart sound,which is gained through Welch method,was extracted after pre-processing of it.Then the Euclidean distance was used to measure the distance between the signal spectra.Finally,the result,obtained from a database that containing several heart sound recording form 30 different people,confirm the validity and feasibility of the proposed method.
Currents in industrial mathematics : from concepts to research to education

Foreword. - Introduction. - Modeling. - Numerics. - Data Analysis. - Optimization processes in practice. - Virtual Production of Filaments and Fleeces. - Modeling and Simulation of Filtration Processes. - Maximal Material Yield in Gemstone Cutting. - Robust State Estimation of Complex Systems. - Option Pricing in Practice - Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model. - Applied School Mathematics - Made in Kaiserslautern.
Investigating familiarity with and attitudes to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder however concerns exist about validly of the disorder. This mixed methods study investigated familiarity and attitudes to ADHD and perceived stigma and discrimination related to mental illness. Method: Participants responses were collected through a snowball and purposeful sample (n=201) using an online questionnaire. Parents experiences were collected through a semi-structured personal interviews (n=3). Results: No significant difference was found in perceived discrimination between those who know/don’t know someone with a mental illness (p = .938). Negative self-image was found to significantly predict disclosure concerns of ADHD (p < .001). Parents of ADHD affected children did not perceive any negative attitudes follow disclosure. Conclusions: Results did not support contact as a stigma reducing strategy. Help-seeking behaviour and disclosure to school, family and friends provide parents with a support network and explanation for their child’s impulsivity and hyperactive behaviour.
Overviews on Design Methodologies for Embedded Software

In embedded systems,resources are restricted and devices are customized. Computing is required to be real-time. So,software design methodologies must adapt to these characteristics of embedded system. In this paper,characteristics and applications of the design methodologies for embedded software,including structured methodology,object-oriented methodology and component-based methodology,are studied. At the end of this paper,laws of evolution of the design methodologies are summarized and the direction of study on the design methodologies is indicated.
Serial Sovereign Defaults and Debt Restructurings

Emerging countries that have defaulted on their debt repayment obligations in the past are more likely to default again in the future than are non-defaulters even with the same external debt-to-GDP ratio. These countries actually have repeated defaults or restructurings in short periods. This paper explains these stylized facts within a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework by explicitly modeling renegotiations between a defaulting country and its creditors. The quantitative analysis of the model reveals that the equilibrium probability of default for a given debt-to-GDP level is weakly increasing with the number of past defaults. The model also accords with an additional fact: lower recovery rates (high NPV haircuts) are associated with increases in spreads at renegotiation.
Validação brasileira do Alcohol Craving Questionnaire Short Form Revised (ACQ-SFR)

Introducao: A avaliacao do craving e importante para o tratamento de pacientes com Transtornos por uso de substâncias psicoativas. O objetivo deste estudo foi realizar a validacao do Alcohol Craving Questionnaire-Short Form Revised- Versao Brasileira (ACQ-SFR – Versao Brasileira). Metodos: Foi um estudo observacional transversal, com uma amostra nao aleatoria de 121 participantes alcoolistas, do sexo masculino, internados para desintoxicacao em unidade especializada. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: entrevista clinica com dados sociodemograficos e de padrao de uso de substâncias, MMSE, ACQ-SFR – Versao Brasileira, EAV do craving, BDI, BAI, estimulo visual indutor de craving. Resultados: Na analise fatorial, foram encontrados dois fatores: o fator 1 representa o craving pelo reforco positivo e negativo do alcool, e o fator 2, o proposito de consumir o alcool associado ao prazer. O alfa de Cronbach total foi de 0,91 (12 itens), o do Fator 1 foi 0,92 (8 itens) e o do Fator 2 foi 0,70 (3 itens). O total de pontos da escala foi correlacionado com a Escala Analogico-Visual (r=0,658; p<0,01). Conclusao: Conclui-se que o ACQ-SFR – Versao Brasileira demonstrou ter propriedades psicometricas satisfatorias. Palavras-chave: Craving; validacao; alcool
Salient practices of award-winning undergraduate research mentors – balancing freedom and control to achieve excellence

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on teaching excellence by extending the current body of literature pertaining to mentoring pedagogies in undergraduate research settings across diverse social, institutional and disciplinary contexts. Our data comes from in-depth interviews with 32 international faculty who have received excellence awards for undergraduate research mentoring. The data reveal a freedom – control dialectic, illuminating the ways in which expert mentors negotiate the desire to create opportunities for students to experience freedom and creativity in research, yet maintain control over the topic, quality and outcomes. The research findings reveal a defining characteristic of award-winning mentors as an ability to establish and sustain a sense of challenge, while maintaining meaningful engagement and a sense of achievement amongst students. The findings show the importance of tailoring practice to the needs of particular student groups, and there are implications for institutional resourcing, as well as mentor training and development.
A community detect algorithm on force-directed model

Aimed at the problem of detecting and characterizing community structure is one of the outstanding issues in the study of complex network,a new community detect algorithm based on Force-directed model was proposed,which categorizes the point to community decided by the force between them. An algorithm named Force-Directed Community Detect,FDCD,and an implementing algorithm using four different Forcedirected Models were designed. The experiments show that the algorithms can find community in real social network with high Q Modularity,and each efficiency of algorithm based on LL model reaches the complexity degree of linear computation,which proves fit for the community detection in large network.
Food practices and risk constructions in Norwegian and French kindergartens

ABSTRACT Food practices are culturally and historically situated, and so are conceptions of ‘risk’. Comparative studies of food practices can highlight these cultural norms and conceptions. In this article we will present results from a study that investigated food practices in Norwegian and French kindergartens with a particular focus on constructions of ‘risk’. We used a polyphonic ethnographic approach, where teachers and assistants from both countries were invited to reflect upon video clips that we filmed of their kindergarten settings, to discuss and critically reflect on their own and others’ practices. The results show that ‘risk’ can be seen in light of ‘risk’ discourses in the society. We identified both health-related and pedagogical ‘risks’. Food practices in early childhood education and care become a socio-political tool to either support or avoid and work against the experiences and food customs the children bring from home. The study can contribute to reflections on the taken-for-granted – on both a practical and a political level.
Programmable scheduling in a stream processing system

The need for frameworks to express distributed computation in a safe and reliable manner has, in the recent years, resulted in renewed interest for the dataflow programming model, which represents a program as a graph of interconnected operators that perform data transformations. Many research-oriented and industry-grade systems have employed this model to describe ”streaming” transformations and aggregation for bigdata analytics and machine learning tasks. The growing expressive power of this kind of systems has brought back the need to devise efficient scheduling and resource-management strategies. In this work we identify topologies and behaviours that are the source of scheduling challenges; we survey the existing streaming dataflow systems and the existing flow control techniques, their benefits and their shortcomings. Building on this understanding, we explore a design that does not require advanced scheduling to be built into the system to adequately address the resource-management needs of a wide range of programs but allows the user to drive the execution schedule of a specific computation. We report on a prototype implementation of programmable, user-level flow control pattern for Timely Dataflow, an highly-expressive distributed stream processing engine. We discuss how the pattern is effective in driving scheduling in real-world use-cases in a resource-efficient manner and with limited performance overhead.
Toward a More Pro-Poor and Explicit Health Benefit Package in the Kyrgyz Republic

The Kyrgyz Republic has made significant steps in reforming the health system through successive National Health Programs implemented over the last 20 years. One of the major achievements of such reforms were the establishment of a single-payer national health insurance and a basic benefit package. The State Guaranteed Benefit Package (SGBP) provides free basic health services at the primary care level for the whole population, and inpatient care with nominal co-payments or no fee for certain groups. Even though the principles of the SGBP contain elements of international good practice, the SGBP has hardly changed since it was stablished. At the same time, many changes have taken place within and outside the health system, exerting mounting pressure for the SGBP to adapt to the new disease burden and meet population’s expectations within the context of budget constraints. The current paper provides a critical assessment of the Kyrgyz Republic’s basic health benefit package. It reveals several issues in the actual benefits delivered to the population as opposed to the generous promise of the statutory package. Some important limitations include lack of clarity, persistent funding gap, large number of fee exemption categories given the resource constraints and at the same time lack of an effective mechanism to protect the poor. Most importantly, there is no systematic arrangement in place to ensure a regular evidence-based process of the benefit package revision. The paper proposes several measures that could guide the process of SGBP revision, considering the Kyrgyz context and building on international experiences. It is expected that information from the paper will be useful not only for the Kyrgyz stakeholders but also other countries in making the benefit package an effective instrument for achieving universal health coverage.
Information-based quality management in reverse logistics supply chain

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the synergies among reverse logistics supply chain (RLSC), quality management (QM) and information management (IM) concepts to enhance the effectiveness of demolition waste management (DWM) practices. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was conducted using 70 articles published between the years of 2006 and 2017, which were subjected to descriptive and thematic analysis. Findings The descriptive analysis established that the RLSC concept was dealt within the majority of the publications (61 per cent), followed by concepts related to quality in RLSC (24 per cent). Only 14 per cent of the articles were based on IM concepts related to RLSC. Quality and information are interrelated in the effective implementation of RLSC. The thematic analysis demonstrated that there is a need for using quality parameters in a regulatory environment in an information-based environment. Based on the findings, future research directions were developed. Research limitations/implications The study encourages researchers to identify novel directions by combining these three concepts. The study developed a future research agenda regarding use of building information modelling (BIM) for existing buildings under novel technologies; analysis of secondary market demand and supply; and assessment of cost and safety management with quality in a BIM-enabled environment. Practical implications The practical implications include the application of sustainable management principles based on stakeholders and the regulatory environment. Originality/value Integration of the three concepts is an emerging area. This integration developed a robust approach to achieve QM in RLSC operations under a sound information flow enabling the optimisation of DWM.
Examining the Relationships among Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions in Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

The aim of the research study was to investigate the relationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intentions of employees working in the manufacturing sector in Peshawar, Pakistan. The data were collected from 178 employees working in the manufacturing sector in Peshawar, Pakistan, using a convenient sampling procedure. Descriptive statistic, correlation, and regression analysis were used in this study for the purposes to find out the relations between the variables. From the results, there was a positive correlation between job satisfaction and organizational commitment (r= 0.64, P < 0.01), while there was a negative significant correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intention (r= -0.45, P < 0.01). In addition, organizational commitment and turnover intention were found to be negatively correlated (r= -0.47, P < 0.01). The essential consequences of the research work is that, the supervisors or managers must take some creative steps to improve employee’s job satisfaction, to expand organizational commitment, and reduces employee turnover intentions in their organizations.
Evaluating Key Capabilities and Core Competence for Port of Keelung

Facing the hyper-competitive environment of the "fourth generation port", it is an important issue to discuss how to evaluate key capabilities and core competence for port authority. This requires a thorough investigation to determine the strategy of gaining core competence. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to present appraisal models for evaluating key capabilities and core competence using some concepts of decision measures and to describe the applications of the methodologies for port of Keelung. To facilitate the concepts of evaluating key capabilities and core competence, a systematic appraisal model of combining three approaches - threshold and importance analysis (TIA) approach, matrix analysis (MA) approach, and fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach - is employed to evaluate those important factors. Also, an empirical analysis, using the port of Keelung as an example, is performed to demonstrate the computational process of the methodologies adopted by this paper. Study results show that eight key capabilities are identified and in turns three core competences are determined for port of Keelung. These core competences are creating customer value, quality perception, and port-MIS capability.
Impact of Breach of Psychological Contract on Workplace Deviant Behavior Moderating Role of Procedural Justice Among Employees of Pakistan

Psychological contract breach may provoke negative attitudes among employees that cause further harmful behaviors. With the help of Social Exchange Theory (SET) the study was conducted to explore the moderating effect of procedural justice between the relationship of psychological contract breach and workplace deviant behaviour. The study was quantitative and cross-sectional survey designed to collect data. Data for the research gathered using a structured questionnaire. The stratified sampling method used to select the sample and final sample comprised of 306 employees working in public sector banks of Gujrat district, Pakistan. Descriptive, correlation, reliability and hierarchal regressions used for testing the hypothesized model for this study. Data were analysed by using IBM SPSS (20.0). A positive relationship found between psychological contract breach and workplace deviant behaviour. Moreover, results showed that procedural justice significantly moderated the relationship of psychological contract breach and workplace deviant behavior. Study limitations and future research directions are discussed.
Optimal Allocation of Distributed Generation and Its Parallel Computation Considering Energy-saving Dispatching

The optimal allocation problem of distributed generation (DG) under multiple load levels in a distribution network is investigated. A new bilevel programming model that considers DG participating in energy-saving dispatching is proposed. The upper level aims at maximizing the operation value of DG by determining the site and size of DG and energy storage; the lower level determines DG output by simulating optimal energy-saving dispatch in the distribution network including energy storage. A hybrid algorithm that combines the ant colony algorithm with linear programming to solve this model is constructed. In order to reduce the computation time, a parallel algorithm is implemented. Simulation results show that the DG capacity and operation value is greatly enhanced by using the proposed model. Moreover, the calculating speed and searching efficiency can be improved with the parallel algorithm.
Cognitive/Affective Empathy, Pro-Bullying Beliefs, and Willingness to Intervene on Behalf of a Bullied Peer

The purpose of this study was to determine whether pro-bullying attitudes mediate the relation between affective and cognitive empathy and a student’s willingness to intervene in support of a bullied peer. Participants were 764 early adolescents (372 boys, 392 girls) from the Illinois Study of Bullying and Sexual Violence (ISBSV). As predicted, pro-bullying attitudes successfully mediated the prospective relation between affective empathy and bystander intervention but failed to mediate the relation between cognitive empathy and bystander intervention. These results indicate that affective empathy may promote bystander willingness to intervene on behalf of a bullied peer by inhibiting pro-bullying attitudes. Intervention strategies designed to enhance affective empathy and challenge pro-bullying attitudes in bystanders may be of assistance in reducing bullying behavior.