Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating Grassroots Sports’ Engagement for Refugees: Evidence From Voluntary Sports Clubs in Germany

Unprecedented numbers of refugees have affected European society at large, and the organized sports system, in particular. Combining the concepts of organizational capacity and institutional logics, this article examines the engagement of voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) in the process of refugee integration. Drawing on data from a representative sample of n = 5,170 German VSCs through an online survey, the results indicate that 28% of the VSCs reported engagement in the process of integrating refugees by the end of 2015; however, only 14% initiated concrete measures. The statistical analysis highlights the relevance of institutional logics. VSCs are encouraged to carefully handle the tension between business-like management and intensive voluntary work during the integrative process. Financial capacity appears less relevant; the presence of migrant club members and a more professional organizational design, however, appear beneficial. The results imply that involved stakeholders should intensify capacity building programs in the structural dimension of organizational capacity.
How Does Leader-Member Exchange Affect Employee Creativity? The Role of Felt Responsibility for Change

Leadership is an important factor influencing employee creativity. Previous studies have investigated the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory in relation to employee creativity and have found it to yield inconsistent results indicating the occurrence of a mediator between the variables. The present study aims to investigate the role of felt responsibility for change in the LMX-creativity relationship with reference to the social exchange theory. Data were collected using the convenience sampling technique from a sample of 239 employees and from 31 supervisors working in the marketing division of varied types of organizations (banking, manufacture, and service facilities) in Indonesia. The data were analyzed using Hayes’ PROCESS macro on the SPSS software. The results revealed that felt responsibility for change significantly took the role of a mediator in the LMX-creativity relationship. The outcomes of this study also demonstrated that felt responsibility for change fully mediated the relationship, as the direct effect of LMX on employee creativity became nonsignificant when the mediator was included in the model.
Sharing a (Cyber)Space: Fostering Relationship Maintenance in Residential Care through Virtual Reality

Author(s): Harrison, Kathryn Elise | Advisor(s): Afifi, Tamara D | Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a virtual reality intervention could serve as a relational maintenance tool for older adults living in a residential care community. The current study extends the literature on older adults and technology by suggesting that residents can provide one another relational maintenance and communal orientation, which can then potentially help promote such positive outcomes as vitality, social activity, and quality communication, and lessen such negative outcomes as depression, stress, and loneliness. The study took place in a residential care community in Santa Barbara, CA. Residents were randomly assigned to participate once a week for four weeks in either a virtual reality or television group. Analyses were conducted in R and consisted of multilevel mediation with bootstrapping. Results indicate that the virtual reality intervention was positively associated with higher levels of vitality and lower levels of loneliness. The study integrated novel ways of understanding older adults’ living in a residential care community, new methodological techniques, and new insights into important relational processes outlined in the theory of resilience and relational load (Afifi, Merrill, a Davis, 2016)
Prison Privatization: An Empirical Literature Review and Path Forward

A substantial body of literature has been devoted to examine the efficacy of prison privatization. Unfortunately, the empirical findings to date are equivocal regarding whether prison privatization fulfills its promises and our expectations of cost efficiency, prison quality, postrelease success, nonprofit prison privatization, system-wide improvement in corrections, local economic development, and determinants of privatizing prisons. Such inconclusive evidence may result from the shortcomings of past research, and thus there is a continuing need for more work using a wide range of data sources and research designs. This article conducts a review of empirical research, discusses conceptual and methodological problems in the literature, and offers guidance for future research. It may not only stimulate additional research but also inform public policy decision-making on prison privatization.
Hostile Media Perceptions in the Age of Social Media: Following Politicians, Emotions, and Perceptions of Media Bias

Hostile media perceptions are prominent today but little research has examined how social media use contributes to these beliefs. This study examines whether following politicians’ social media feeds is indirectly linked to hostile media perceptions by evoking emotional responses in the audience. We test this possibility by analyzing two-wave panel survey data collected in the United States during the 2016 presidential election. Following politicians on social media is associated with anger at the presidential candidate individuals oppose and enthusiasm for their supported candidate, both of which are subsequently related to hostile media perceptions.
How Resilience Affects Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Acceptance

Not every individual who experiences a traumatic event is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or shows its symptoms. Resilience has been understood to be a key factor that helps individuals adapt successfully following an adversity. Acceptance has also been considered a therapeutic factor for such individuals. However, there are few studies that investigated the relationship between resilience and acceptance, and their impacts on post-traumatic stress symptoms. The current study examined the effect of resilience on post-traumatic stress symptoms and the mediating role of acceptance in the relationship. A total of 140 participants who experienced trauma (80 females and 60 males) were included in the analyses. Resilience was found to be negatively correlated with post-traumatic stress symptoms and acceptance was found to mediate the relationship between the two. This study provides an understanding of the mechanism underpinning the effect of resilience on post-traumatic stress symptoms. Study limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
User Location Tracking in Massive MIMO Systems via Dynamic Variational Bayesian Inference

Accurate user location tracking is the key to enable location-based services and assist communications in 5 G networks. The massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology employed in 5 G networks could potentially provide accurate user localization due to increased spectral efficiency and high directivity. In this paper, we propose an efficient user location tracking algorithm in massive MIMO systems. Firstly, we propose a temporal Markov group-sparse (TMGS) model based on a grid reference to capture the probabilistic temporal correlation and group sparsity of the massive MIMO channels jointly. Then we propose a dynamic variational Bayesian inference (D-VBI) algorithm to handle the TMGS priors under ill-conditioned measurement matrix in the location tracking problem. The proposed D-VBI can jointly recover the user's coarse location in the grid reference and refine the off-grid points to automatically learn the user's exact location to high accuracy. Moreover, the TMGS-based D-VBI algorithm can provide prior information about the user's next location and the possible arriving directions of the future channels to the consecutive time slot to improve the location tracking accuracy. Finally, we verify the superior performance of the proposed location tracking algorithm by extensive simulations.
Faculty Development and Teaching International Students: A Cross-National Study of Faculty Perspectives in a Global Era.

This paper describes a component of a larger cross-national comparative study on faculty development for teaching international students. Here we describe the study and report preliminary findings that offer analyses of the informal and formal means by which Italian and US university instructors enhance the knowledge and skills they find necessary to teach international students successfully in this era of educational globalization. We also offer insights and challenges of conducting cross-national adult educational research and explain why such studies across international adult and higher education contexts are essential in understanding how the world of academe is learning to adapt to globalization and international student mobility.
Do Press Releases About Digital Game Research Influence Presumed Effects? How Details About Methodology and References to Societal Violence Affect the Anticipated Influence of Violent Video Games

Politicians, interest groups, and scholars often mention violent video games as a possible cause of societal violence. Press releases have the possibility to inform the public about how aggression is measured in academic research on violent video games, but they also have the potential to sensationalize the topic when comparisons to societal violence are made. The influence of these two factors (measurement details; violence framing) was tested with an online experiment (N = 505) using a 2 (violence framing: present vs. absent) x 2 (measurement details: present vs. absent) between-subjects design. Respondent sex had the strongest influence on the expected effects of violent video games, while features of the press release had relatively less effect that were also contingent on respondent sex.
Sampling Schemes for Accurate Reconstruction and Computation of Performance Parameters of Antenna Radiation Pattern

In practice, the finite number of samples of the spherical radiation pattern or antenna gain are taken on the sphere for both the reconstruction of the antenna radiation pattern and the computation of mobile handset performance measures such as directivity and mean effective gain (MEG). The acquisition of samples is time consuming as the measurements are required to be collected over the range of frequencies and in multiple spatial directions. It is therefore desired to have a sampling strategy that takes fewer number of samples for the accurate reconstruction of radiation pattern and incoming signal power distribution. In this work, we propose to use equiangular sampling, Gauss-Legendre sampling and optimal dimensionality sampling schemes on the sphere for the acquisition of measurements of spherical radiation pattern of the antenna for its reconstruction, analysis and evaluation of performance parameters of the antenna. By appropriately choosing the spherical harmonic degree band-limits of the gain and the power distribution model of the incoming signal, we demonstrate that the proposed sampling strategies require significantly fewer points for the accurate evaluation of MEG than the existing methods that rely on the approximate evaluation of the surface integral on the sphere.
What matters in housing architecture – a survey of dwellers’ opinions

This paper presents results of a questionnaire survey designed to study the most valued features of the housing environment in dwellers’ opinion. The subjects were inhabitants (aged 13 to 81, N = 470) of various housing environments in Poland (including blockhouses in the largest cities of the country, comfortable suburban villas, as well as small rural houses). Concluding the results, the most important physical elements of housing environment seem to be: location, plan and area of the flat, specific features of home spaces such as natural light, stylish arrangement and technical quality. Most valued elements of immediate surroundings depend primarily on type of the building; one-family house inhabitants value the most private area elements – such as garden, while city tenement house and multi-family block inhabitants value rather functional elements in public zone – such as shops and basic services. Location (understood primarily in relation to the city centre) is very important for residents of big cities and students. The apartment plan and its correspondence with functionality is especially valued by more educated people (specifically those professionally dealing with architecture); the size of the flat and the immediate surroundings are in turn more valued by less educated people employed in basic services. Impact of architectural features that are important in appraisal of the housing environment (also attractive views and appearance of the building) are balanced by social and psychological aspects of home space, such as home atmosphere, privacy and social relations inside the home (relations with other residents within the perceived home space) and in the immediate neighbourhood (good neighbours). Together with architectural and technical quality of the house, they constitute the home environment that may be source of satisfaction to their inhabitants.
Are Perfectionistic Thoughts an Antecedent or a Consequence of Depressive Symptoms? A Cross-Lagged Analysis of the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory

Perfectionistic automatic thoughts have been linked with depressive symptoms in numerous cross-sectional studies, but this link has not been assessed in longitudinal research. An investigation with two timepoints was conducted to test whether perfectionistic automatic thoughts, as assessed by the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (PCI), are contributors to subsequent depression or vice versa. The possible role of a third factor (major life events stress) was also evaluated. A sample of 118 university students completed the PCI, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), and the Life Experiences Survey on two occasions with a 5-month interval. A cross-lagged analysis using structural equation modeling showed that above and beyond within-time associations and across-time stability effects, perfectionism automatic thoughts contributed to subsequent depressive symptoms and not vice versa. Negative life events stress was correlated significantly with both depressive symptoms and perfectionism automatic thoughts but did not have an influence on Time 2 depressive symptoms or on perfectionistic automatic thoughts. Our discussion focuses on perfectionistic automatic thoughts as a contributor to depressive vulnerability according to the perfectionism cognition theory.
Cross MAC-PHY Layer Channel Access Mechanism for Enterprise Wireless LANs

Enterprise Wireless LANs (EWLANs) have increasingly become prevalent in recent years. They are widely deployed in public places, such as universities, malls, airports and office buildings, providing Internet connections. On the other hand, there is an explosive increase in demand for wireless service as mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets have gained immense popularity. Currently, the widely deployed 802.11 standard is shown to have low channel efficiency and suffers from well known problems, such as hidden terminal problem and exposed terminal problem. To meet the growing demand for wireless data, it is time to move away from the age-old paradigm of prohibiting interfering nodes from transmissions. We first present Rapid Concurrent Transmission Coordination (RCTC), a fast and low overhead signaling mechanism based on Pseudo-random Noise (PN) sequences to enable multi-modal operation of wireless links in a distributed channel access setting to support concurrent transmissions with full duplex radios. We look beyond a node pair and explore how a network can best utilize the full duplex capability. In enterprise networks, access points (AP) are connected to the backbone network, which allows APs to communicate with each other. We takes advantage of the backbone network and seek opportunities for concurrent transmissions to increase the performance of EWLANs with three different techniques: DOMINO, BBN and BASIC.
3D Firework Reconstruction from a Given Videos

Reconstruction of a 3-dimension(3D) firework show from a given videos is a key technology in light source simulation in computer graphics, which can be more effective and real than traditional method. Although the firework model is already very mature, however, to our best knowledge, there is not any existing method that can reconstruct a firework show from a given video. And due to the lack of camera arguments and depth message, reconstruction is very challenging. In this paper, a method is proposed to solve the problem. A rendering model which requires some parameters which describe the color and position information of firework as input and generates a 3D firework show as output is constructed, and then the problem becomes getting the parameters needed for the rendering model from the given video. The parameters are divided into two groups according to the relevance, and then different neural networks including 3D Convolution Neural Network (3D-CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) are designed respectively to extract these parameters needed by our rendering model from a given video. It is found to be practicable and effective to reconstruct a 3D firework from a given video by testing this work with some firework videos in various perspective.
Who are out-of-school children? Children with disabilities in Mongolia

ABSTRACT Children with disabilities are considered to be the group most excluded from basic education. While disability remains the strongest barrier to accessing education, studies have shown that appropriate policies can help to reduce barriers to education. This paper examines the determinants of school status for children with disabilities in four provinces and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. The results indicate that severe types of disabilities, preschool experience and parents’ stated obstacles, as well as classmates’ understanding, are strongly related to school enrolment. Furthermore, this study found that school status depends on the amount of human resource available within the family, such as grandparents’ or siblings’ abilities to accompany children with disabilities to school.
Health literacy and the school curriculum : The example of Finland

The education system has been recognised as a central arena for developing children’s health literacy (Nutbeam, 2000; St Leger and Nutbeam, 2000; Begoray et al, 2009; Paakkari and Paakkari, 2012). Schools reach almost all children, and there is a link between high health literacy and positive health outcomes (Volandes and Paasche-Orlow, 2007; Berkman et al, 2011). Thus, there are good grounds for anticipating that the acquisition of health-related competencies at school can decrease health disparities among children. This would be a clear public health benefit, but above all, it is a question of ethics (Paakkari and George, 2018). If health literacy becomes part of the school curriculum, it has the potential to guarantee that all school-aged children will be able to learn the competencies they need to take care of their own health and the health of others. Health literacy has been adopted into the school curriculum of several countries, including the Czech Republic (Hrivnová, 2016), Australia (Macdonald, 2013), and Finland (Finnish National Board of Education, 2014). One of the first countries to adopt such a curriculum was the US. There, the introduction of National health education standards in 1995 meant that health literacy was seen as a competence allowing the individual to be a critical thinker and problem-solver, a responsible and productive citizen, a self-directed learner and an effective communicator (Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards, 1995; see Chapter 2, this volume). This set of competencies corresponds well with the most recent health literacy definitions (see, for example, Paakkari and Paakkari, 2012; see also Chapters 1 and 3, this volume), and with the key competencies identified and defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2005), with a view to ensuring that citizens can meet the demands of society. According to the OECD (2005), in order for a competence to be considered ‘key’, it has to ‘contribute to valued outcomes for societies and individuals; help individuals meet important demands in a wide variety of contexts; and be important not just for specialists but for all individuals’ (2005, p 4). Following this line of argument, one can readily view health literacy as an important competence for citizens: after all, it contributes to positive health
Word Blending and Other Formal Models of Bio-operations

As part of ongoing efforts to view biological processes as computations, several formal models of DNA-based processes have been proposed and studied in the formal language literature. In this thesis, we survey some classical formal language word and language operations, as well as several bio-operations, and we propose a new operation inspired by a DNA recombination lab protocol known as Cross-pairing Polymerase Chain Reaction, or XPCR. More precisely, we define and study a word operation called word blending which models a special case of XPCR, where two words xwy1 and y2wy sharing a non-empty overlap part w generate the word xwy. Properties of word blending that we study include closure properties of the Chomsky families of languages under this operation and its iterated version, existence of solution to equations involving this operation, and its state complexity.
The Effects of Choice of Activities on Student Motivation and Physical Activity Behavior in Middle School Physical Education

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not providing students with choice in a selected middle school effects students motivation to participate and engage in the lesson. The participants in this study consisted of 30 eighth grade students in a physical education class located in a semi-rural public middle school in Northeastern Tennessee. Of the 30 students who participated in the study, 18 were female and 12 were male. Prior to conducting this study, the students were divided into two groups both containing a total of 15 students per group. The students for each group were randomly selected by the instructor. The first group of students contained 8 females and 7 males and was the “choice” group. This particular group of students were allowed to have a voice in their learning experience by choosing which fitness-based stations he or she wanted to complete during the lesson. The second group of students contained 10 females and 5 males and was the “instructed” group. This group of students were not granted a choice during this lesson and had to complete the fitness-based stations that the instructor told them to. All students were required to complete at least 4 stations out of the fitness-based lesson, however the choice group got to choose which stations they wanted to complete and the instructed group did not. All the data collected for this study was collected using assessments based off of The Sport Motivation Scale and The Situational Motivation Scale. The facilitator also used student self-assessments and physical education performance-based assessments to gather data related to the research. The results of the first independent samples t-test indicated there was a significant difference between the students who were provided a choice and those who were not (p=0.001). The Running head: MOTIVATION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR 3 results of the second independent samples t-test indicated there was a significant difference between male’s and female’s motivation to participate (p=0.009). The concluding independent samples t-test indicated there was not a significant difference between the students who participate in athletic teams or extra-curricular activities than those who do not.