Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evolution of the Mexico-U.S. Migration System: Insights from the Mexican Migration Project

Since 1987, the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) has collected and disseminated representative survey data on documented and undocumented migration to the United States. The MMP currently includes surveys of 161 communities, which together contain data on 27,113 households and 169,945 individuals, 26,446 of whom have U.S. migratory experience. These data are used here to trace the evolution of the Mexico-U.S. migration system from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, revealing how shifts in U.S. immigration and border policies have been critical to the formation of different eras of migration characterized by distinctive patterns of migration, settlement, and return in different legal statuses. The current era is characterized by the repression of the large population of undocumented migrants and their U.S. citizen children by an ongoing regime of mass detention and deportation and the simultaneous recruitment of Mexican workers for exploitation on short-term temporary visas. As the dynamics of Mexican migration to the United States continue to change, they will be monitored and analyzed in subsequent waves of data collection by the MMP.
Positive youth development as a protective factor for adolescents at risk for depression and alcohol use

Abstract Female adolescents are at greater risk for depression than males, and highschool students in upper grades use alcohol at higher rates than students in lower grades. We hypothesized that attributes reflecting adaptive development addressed in the Positive Youth Development model would moderate gender differences in depressive symptoms, and grade differences in alcohol use, in a sample of adolescents. Six-hundred seventy highschool adolescents (M age = 16.25 years, SD = 1.31, range 14–19) completed measures assessing depression, alcohol use, and positive youth development (PYD). Results indicated that higher levels of PYD contributed to lower depression for all adolescents, but was especially protective for female adolescents; and higher levels of PYD contributed to lower alcohol use for all adolescents, but was especially protective for adolescents in upper grades. Therefore, in our study, PYD acted as a buffer for adolescents who may be at-risk for depression and substance abuse. Future work needs to examine additional populations and problems, as well as test prevention efforts and interventions that can integrate these protective factors.
Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety in dementia caregivers: A review of the foreign literature in English

Purpose] The aim of this study was to clarify the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety in caregivers of persons with dementia. [Method] A systematic review of English-language studies was performed following the guidelines of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The databases PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library were used. Studies of CBT interventions for anxiety in dementia caregivers were examined. Three randomized controlled trials met the eligibility criteria and were reviewed by two researchers. Studies were evaluated in terms of the outcome and the risk of bias. [Results] Although the frequency and duration of the CBT interventions differed across the three studies, all three reported some reduction in anxiety after the intervention. [Conclusions] The findings indicate that CBT has a positive effect on anxiety in dementia caregivers; however, additional randomized controlled trials are needed to fully determine the usefulness of CBT.
Nursing Home Staff's Experience of Moral Distress when Caring for Residents at the End of Life.

Eighteen percent of the older population die in nursing homes in the United Kingdom (UK). Moral distress in healthcare professionals has been linked to end of life issues but there has been a lack of investigation of the concept in the nursing home context and how staff in this environment experiences it. The aim of the study was to understand how nursing home staff experienced moral distress when they cared for residents coming to the end of life. The study used an interpretive descriptive design, which utilised the critical incident technique to collect data from 16 participants from nursing homes using semistructured interviews. The interviews focused on positive and challenging incidents the staff experienced when caring for residents at the end of life. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. The staff were found to hold values about 'good dying' which influenced their practice of advocating, caring, communicating and relating with residents, relatives, GPs, and colleagues, when a resident was on the journey through the complex living and dying trajectory. Incongruent values with others contributed to the staff not being able to 'do the right thing' leading to 'powerlessness' which was found to be the characteristic of their moral distress. Participants were found to experience moral distress because the incongruent values could lead to care decisions which staff felt contributed to 'bad dying' or a 'bad death'. Nursing home residents are vulnerable and the staff need support to provide good quality end of life care. Understanding the experience of moral distress by staff working in this environment will inform and improve the appropriateness of the support I can offer them as an end of life facilitator for care homes.
The 3 T’s framework of social innovation labs

Social Innovation labs present an unorthodox and varied typology, but one common denominator among them is the goal to create complex inter-organizational collaborations in order to tackle complex problems. These labs are systemic, experimental and social in nature. They utilise methodologies already discussed in the collaboration theory literature, adapting them to the context of innovation. We argue that social Innovation labs create safe spaces to innovate by using a framework composed of time, techniques and tools , which we refer to as the three T’s framework . Constant development of the innovation process and respect for the time required in order to effect systemic change represent the major contributions that social innovation labs make towards addressing society’s most intractable problems.
Measuring the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Relationship between Affective Organizational Commitment and Organizational Responsiveness: A Study of Egyptian Incubated Startups in ICT Sector

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) encompasses and connects a vast range of management discipline which turns it to be a wide-spread concept. Based on Miller’s theory, three dimensions of EO have been identified and used consistently: risk taking; innovativeness; and pro-activeness. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to measure the impact of EO on the relationship between affective organizational commitment and organizational responsiveness through the moderating effect of business incubator (BI). Based on the theoretical researches and data extracted from 185 entrepreneurs who are incubated by TIEC- one of the affiliates of ministry of Communication and Information Technology in Egypt, three hypothesized relationships are investigated in this study; the relationship between affective organizational commitment and EO, the relationship between EO and organizational responsiveness, and the moderating role of BI on the relationship between EO and organizational responsiveness. The results reveal that the affective committed employees have a significant impact on EO dimensions since theyregard the entrepreneurships positively and agree with their missions and goals. Such committed employees actively endorse what the entrepreneurship is doing and remain employed there because they want to. Also, EO has more significant influence on the organizational responsiveness in the presence of BI as the latter has played a vital role in speeding up the growth of start-ups and guiding early-stage businesses on the road to commercial success. However, BIs need to overcome many pitfalls: they need to provide real value in terms of supporting innovativeness and proactiveness, not just offering space and technological support, to measure success and progress more than just funding and to update their service portfolio especially for the elder generations and finally introducing more proper exit policies.
Resilient Design Techniques for Improving Cache Energy Efficiency

Author(s): Zimmer, Brian Matthew | Advisor(s): Nikolic, Borivoje; Asanovic, Krste | Abstract: Improving energy efficiency is critical to increasing computing capability, from mobile devices operating with limited battery capacity to servers operating under thermal constraints. The widely accepted solution to improving energy efficiency is dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), where each block in a design operates at the minimum voltage required to meet performance constraints at a given time. However, variation-induced SRAM bitcell failures in caches at low voltage limit voltage scaling---and therefore energy-efficiency improvements---in advanced process nodes. Analyzing and modeling bitcell failures is necessary to develop resiliency techniques that prevent or tolerate SRAM failure to improve the minimum operating voltage of caches.This work demonstrates a holistic approach that uses both circuit-level and architecture-level design techniques to improve low-voltage operation of SRAM. A simulation framework and experimental measurements from a 28nm testchip explore failure mechanisms of SRAM bitcells. The simulation framework is further utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of circuit-level SRAM assist techniques using dynamic failure metrics. New circuit-level techniques that use replica timing are developed to make SRAM macros more resilient to process variation. An architecture-level error model is developed to translate bitcell failure probability to yield, and to evaluate a variety of error-correcting code (ECC) and redundancy-based resiliency techniques. New resiliency schemes, named dynamic column redundancy (DCR) and bit bypass (BB), are proposed to tolerate a high bitcell failure rate with low overhead.The methodology and proposed schemes were validated with five different 28nm chips. The RAVEN1 testchip measured in-situ threshold voltage variation of 30,000 bitcells and was used to analyze the effect of random telegraph noise on failures. The RAVEN2 testchip explored a single-p-well bitcell design that can compensate for global process variation. The RAVEN3 and RAVEN3.5 chips included processors with on-chip switched-capacitor voltage conversion, and resilient SRAM macros with circuit-level techniques that enable operation down to 0.45V. The SWERVE processor included architecture-level techniques to avoid failing cells, and decreases energy by over 30% with only 2% area overhead, and includes in-situ pipelined ECC to measure the contribution of intermittent SRAM error sources such as random telegraph noise and aging.Overall, this dissertation describes a general methodology that is used to evaluate resilient design technique effectiveness for different process and architecture assumptions, and proposes a new set of resilient design techniques that lower the minimum operating voltage of caches with low overhead.
Quality assessment of physical education program of state universities in the Philippines

This descriptive-evaluative research was undertaken to assess the physical education program of five state universities in Region IV–A by 28 administrative staff, 69 faculty members, and 390 students. The study used the whole population of administrative staff and faculty members while Slovin’s formula was used to determine the sample size for students. Using self-made questionnaire and appropriate statistical measures, the results revealed a high level of awareness on physical literacy as an essential foundation of physical education among faculty members. The assessments of the faculty and student-respondents on Physical Education along with teacher education, supply and development was excellent and revealed a non-significant difference among the assessment made by administrative staff, faculty members and students. Moreover, the assessment on teacher education, supply and development, facilities and resources, and curriculum flexibility were found to be predictors of Physical Education program with curriculum flexibility as the best predictor. This study calls for enrichment of Physical Education Program to achieve quality delivery of the program.
Poetic Confluence: A Sociological Analysis of an Enigmatic Moment

This paper examines a form of interpersonal relationality that takes the form of a speech event in which one participant produces a spoken turn that exhibits a poetic relationship to a co-participant’s unspoken thoughts or unarticulated mental imagery. This examined in relation to an earlier analysis of a speech error during therapy which appeared to reflect some form of telepathic communication between patient and analyst. Drawing from sociological studies of the organization of everyday social interaction, I sketch some ways in which a sociological approach can contribute to psychoanalytic reflections on telepathic experiences between patient and analysts.
The Effect Of Psychological Well-Being Of Employees On Job Performance: The Case Of Five-Star Hotel Businesses

The studies investigating the effects of employees’ psychological states and the results of these states on the organizations gained significant importance in recent years, especially for the service organizations. The factors determining and enhancing the psychological states of the employees inevitably increase their job performance. Together with the increasing job performance, also the motivation, efficiency, productivity and labor force of employees also increase to higher levels. This situation positively reflects on organizations. The main objective of the study is to determine the effects of the psychological well-being of hotel employees on their job performance. In this study, the survey method was used. The questionnaires were conducted on 154 employees working at five-star hotels in Konya province. In the first section of the study, psychological well-being and job performance are discussed. In the second section the effect of psychological well-being on job performance is analyzed. The analyses were performed using SPSS 16.0 and AMOS 18.0 package programs. In this study reliability, validity, factor, correlation and regression analyses were used. As a result of the analysis it was found that environmental control had a significant and positive effect on task performance. Purpose of life had a significant and positive effect on task performance and contextual performance. Personal growth had a significant and positive effect on task performance and contextual performance. Moreover, self-acceptance, autonomy and positive relations with others had a significant and positive effect on contextual performance.
From social interactions to interpersonal relationships: Influences on ultra-runners’ race experience

Objectives Ultra-running’s psychological and physiological dimensions have been widely studied. However, the social dimensions of ultra-racing have been largely overlooked. This study aims to identify the different types of social interactions that occur during a multi-day, ultra-race and to understand how these interactions influence ultra-runners’ race experience. Methods Athletes competing in Britain’s “Spine Race” were recruited for the current study. Twelve male runners aged between 32 and 66 years (M = 50; SD = 10.01) followed the qualitative protocol designed for the study. Specifically, each participant completed a modified version of the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) instrument and underwent a post-race, self-confrontation interview. Participants were asked to recall and reconstruct their memories about their (a) actions (e.g., What did you do when you encountered other people? ); (b) thoughts (e.g., What were your thoughts when you encountered other people? ) and (c) feelings (e.g., What were your feelings when you encountered other people? ). Results The results show that social interactions and interpersonal relationships are common in ultra-races. Different groups of people play an important role in racers’ motivation and goal achievement: fellow racers, volunteers, medics, friends and family, and even the general public. The resulting social interactions and relationships can occur before, during and after the race in both online and offline environments. These social influences have a powerful influence on the athlete’s race experience. Conclusion The vast majority of social interactions reported by runners had a positive effect on their race experience and often led to interpersonal relationships. Ultra-runners should be mindful of the impact that social interactions and relationships can have in shaping their race experience.
Self-determination in the context of personal recovery from mental illness: Exploration of a therapeutic recreation experience termed Recovery Camp

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Bi-directional Beams Waveguide Slotted Antenna at Millimeter Wave

This paper focused on designing a bi-directional beams waveguide slotted antenna at millimetre wave spectrum. Waveguide slotted antenna is known for its highly directional pattern. By having bi-directional pattern, the capacity of system coverage can be expanded. The design is implemented by using antenna slot theory on a waveguide structure. The slotted are made on two wall surfaces and the performance is compared to the slotted on single wall. The two models designs are simulated using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) microwave software. The simulation results show that both models operate at 30 GHz with minimum reflection coefficient of -24.63 and -25.01 dB respectively. The two models achieved a fair high gain at 15.5 dB and 13.3 dB with directional beamwidth of 8.9 degree. The proposed bi-directional beams structure achieved a comparable gain in both directions when compared to the single direction.
Web Image Reranking Using Query Semantic Signature and Duplicate Detection

: A query specific similarity of images is learned various examples and these are used to rank the images.The user can search images online and offline.User can search the images on Google and Bing search engine.User can search the images based on attributes of images and meta data of the image so as to filter the images. System adding information to image search is important. The interaction should be simple. This paper has an internet search approach. User give the query image as input so as to pool images related to input given by the user.The retrieved images are text based and are get reranked by the user based on their visual and textual similarities.This paper help user to find the images as per the ranking and visual appearance of the image it also re rank the image on meta data of the image. Introduction
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CONTEXT OF COPING WITH OCCUPATIONAL STRESS EXPERIENCED BY SPECIALISTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE PROFESSIONS IN SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT

The article deals with the reconstruction of the context of coping with occupational stress experienced by social welfare specialists in different socio-cultural environments. It is aimed to reveal the contexts of the possibilities to cope with stress and of consequences of stress experienced by specialists of social welfare professions of Lithuania and Great Britain (N=10). The professionals’ experience was analysed using a qualitative data collection method (semi-structured interview), employing open-ended questions by the assessment areas foreseen by the researchers and formulated upon the analysis of scientific literature and the authors’ research, disclosing the peculiarities of experienced occupational stress and possibilities of coping with it. The research data were analysed employing the content analysis method, using the open coding procedure; validation of the research data was performed using an expert method. Reconstruction of the multilayered context of socio-cultural diversity of social welfare specialists of Lithuanian and Great Britain highlighted ambiguous semantics of stress coping possibilities: the success of coping with occupational stress possibly depends on the interaction between the variables of a personality (intrapersonal) and social environment (interpersonal). Stressful situations affect both personally and professionally, causing changes in specialists’ emotions, cognitive activity, behaviour, aggravating relationships with colleagues and reducing work efficiency.
QoE-based Application Mapping for Resource Management

QoE-based application mapping for resource management Leila Shayanpour Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2010 Mapping between many different applications and many different underlying technologies is very complicated. Moreover, since users need service continuity and want to get the service in a satisfactory level, firstly, their perception of the service should be measured and secondly, the changes in the underlying technologies should be transparent to users. As a result, there should be a ”virtualization layer” between application layer and underlying access technologies whose job is to abstract user perception of the application in terms of network parameters and transfer these requirements to underlying layers. In this thesis, we propose a generic mathematical expression to abstract user perception of application in a unified way for different applications. Since today applications are composite applications, having a generalized expression that has the same form for various applications can ease resource management calculations. We use application service map which is based on quality of experience for resource management.