Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotional Intelligence: Does Emotional Intelligence Scores Differ in Variant Nursing Leadership Levels?

In the recent past Emotional intelligence has evoked a lot of attention in leadership. While intelligence quotient and technical skills contribute considerably to leadership, emotional intelligence is the gold standard for leadership. This study explores the differences in emotional intelligence scores between the mid-level managers and of the team leaders. Therefore, a quantitative approach was adopted. Correlational study design was employed to explore the emotional intelligence scores between the two levels of leadership in a private city hospital. An adopted seven- Likert scale emotional intelligent inventory; self-administered tool was used in data collection from the two groups of leaders. Data was analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results of the two groups was generated and correlated, and the standard deviation was identified. The findings of the study demonstrated that the mid-level managers demonstrated higher levels of emotional intelligence score in some facets like flexibility with a standard deviation of 38.1, and optimism with a standard deviation of 17.7. On the contrary, the team leaders demonstrated higher emotional intelligence score on emotional self-control with a standard deviation of 2.1 and an initiative with a standard deviation of 3.5. The conclusion was drawn that, in deed, emotional intelligence is a valuable construct in leadership. The senior leaders had higher emotional intelligence scores than the junior leaders. There is need for further study using variant triangulated tools to measure emotional intelligence comprehensively.
Improving Balance in Automatic Chord Recognition with Random Forests

Automatic Chord Recognition (ACR) is a popular task to which Deep Learning (DL) has recently been successfully applied. ACR is considered as a classification problem wherein temporal frames of a piece of music are labelled according to some given chord vocabulary. When performing ACR using DL and larger chord vocabularies, an imbalance may be observed where popular chord classes are recognised more easily. In this paper, we propose random forest (RF) approaches in conjunction with existing DL strategies to mitigate such imbalance in ACR. We find improved balance in ACR is achieved when using DL-extracted chroma features alongside a RF balanced per-chord sampling strategy. Similar scores are achieved for accuracy and the balanced Average Chord Quality Accuracy (ACQA) metric on a Sevenths chord vocabulary, although the Sevenths accuracy is diminished relative to less balanced cases. Mapping the Sevenths estimations onto a MajMin vocabulary reveals little performance loss relative to initial MajMin estimations.
A Prototype For Narrative-based Interactivity In Theme Parks

The purpose of this thesis is to look at the potential for interactive devices to enhance the story of future theme park attractions. The most common interactive theme park rides are about game-based interaction, competition, and scoring, rather than about story, character, and plot. Research into cognitive science, interactivity, narrative, immersion, user interface, theming and other fields of study illuminated some potentially useful guidelines for creating compelling experiences for park guests. In order to test some of these ideas, an interactive device was constructed and tested with study subjects. Each study subject watched a video recording of an existing theme park ride while using the device, and then filled out a survey concerning their experience. The results revealed how subjects view character-driven interactive devices, how a device should be blended into a ride sequence, how subjects think interactivity and responsiveness should be structured in regards to themselves and the ride, and begins to hint at their motivations for using interactive devices.
The Limited Value of Non-Replicable Field Experiments in Contexts With Low Temporal Validity

My first publication as a grad student was a field experiment using Twitter “bots” to socially sanction users engaged in racist harassment. The ascendant paradigm in quantitative social science emphasizes the need for research to be “internally valid,” with a preference for randomized control trials like the one I conducted. That research project was well received, both by the political science discipline and the public, but I no longer believe that one-off field experiments are as valuable a tool for studying online behavior as I once did. The problem is that the knowledge they generate decays too rapidly (alternatively, that the realms in which it can be applied are too few) because the object of study changes too rapidly. I have been developing the concept of “temporal validity” as form of “external validity” that is particularly relevant to the study of social media. I suggest two avenues for producing more temporally valid research: (1) faster, more transparent publication (adapting the CS model of conference proceedings); (2) a “hollowing out” of empirical research, replacing medium-scale experimentation like my own work with either purely descriptive work (ethnographic or large-scale) or with massive, collaborative, replicable experimentation.
Nominal agreement in the interlanguage of Dutch L2 learners of Spanish

Abstract Inflectional morphology causes persistent difficulties for second language (L2) learners (Montrul, Silvina & Kim Potowski. 2007. Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 11(3). 301–328; Montrul, Silvina, Israel de la Fuente, Justin Davidson & Rebecca Foote. 2013. The role of experience in the acquisition and production of diminutives and gender in Spanish: Evidence from L2 learners and heritage speakers. Second Language Research 29(1). 87–118). Learners operate with a default gender value, and overgeneralize the masculine forms of determiners and modifiers (White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna Kozlowska-Macgregor & Ingrid Leung. 2004. Gender and number agreement in nonnative Spanish. Applied Psycholinguistics 25(1). 105–133; Schlig 2003). 111 essays written were collected containing 799 correct uses and 281 errors from Dutch students whose written ability in Spanish is A2 (Common European Framework). The results show that singular masculine nominal agreement marking at the determiner is significantly better produced by Dutch L2 learners of Spanish than when the marking of nominal agreement is plural, feminine or at the adjective. This study corroborates the previous results where learners operate with a default gender value and overgeneralize the masculine forms of determiners. Also these results show that L2 learners of Spanish are significantly less accurate in gender agreement with adjectives than with determiners.
Determining and Implementing Social Presence in College Level Online Courses Using Student Input: Theoretical Underpinnings Supporting Student Participation in Online Course Design.

As online education continues to grow as a method to deliver education at the college and university level, research on online education has shifted from studying the technology and its ability to deliver course content to trying to better understand what encourages a positive online experience for instructors and students. The marked difference between a virtual classroom as opposed to a physical one has shifted technology-focused research to research that inquires about the vitality of the social environment in virtual venues. It is conceived that social presence is what makes the virtual experience feel real and sustains student’s attention and engagement and thus informs students’ satisfaction with a course. This inquiry argues that this shift of focus to social presence should play a role in the development of online courses and most importantly that students and instructors should play a role in determining what types of processes might be implemented to lead to social presence. In other words, whereas educators more often than not, take for granted the virtues of the physical classroom, they
Social Support and Mental Health of Young People in Residential Care: A Qualitative Study

espanolLa bibliografia indica el papel positivo del apoyo social en la salud mental en acogimiento residencial. Sin embargo, la mayoria de los estudios se centran mas en la psicopatologia y menos en el bienestar. Ademas, se necesitan estudios sobre apoyo social multidimensionales y guiados por la teoria. Para abordar estos problemas, se desarrollo un estudio cualitativo con 29 jovenes en acogimiento residencial (76% hombres), de 12 a 19 anos. Los datos se recogieron en una entrevista semiestructurada. Los resultados mostraron que los jovenes identifican fuentes significativas de apoyo social (iguales, profesionales en acogimiento y su familia) proveedoras de apoyo disponibles y efectivas. El apoyo social tambien se identifico como potenciador del funcionamiento psicologico positivo y como amortiguador de los problemas de funcionamiento psicologico. Las investigaciones futuras deberian incluir enfoques mas sistematicos multifuncionales, tanto en la evaluacion del apoyo social como en la salud mental. Se reconocen importantes implicaciones para los profesionales del sistema de justicia. EnglishThe literature suggests the positive role of social support in mental health in residential care. However, most of the studies are focused on psychopathology and fewer on well-being. Also, theoretically-oriented and multidimensional studies on social support are needed. To address these problems, a qualitative study was developed with 29 young people in residential care (76% males), aged from 12 to 19 years old. Data was collected with a semi-structured interview. Results showed young people identify meaningful sources of social support (peers, residential care, and family), considering them available and effective support providers. Social support was also identified as an enhancer of positive psychological functioning and as a buffer of psychological functioning problems. Future research should involve more systematic, multidimensional approaches, both in assessing social support and in mental health. Important implications are recognized for professionals in the justice system.
Event related message processing: perceiving and remembering changes in films with and without soundtrack

ABSTRACT Hollywood movies provide continuous audiovisual information. Yet, information conveyed by movies address different sensory systems. For a broad variety of media applications (such as multimedia learning environments) it is important to understand the underlying cognitive principles. This project addresses the interplay of auditory and visual information during movie perception. Because auditory information is known to change basic visual processes, it is possible that movie perception and comprehension depends on stimulus modality. In this project, we report three experiments that studied how humans perceive and remember changes in visual and audiovisual movie clips. We observed basic processes of event perception (event segmentation, change detection, and memory) to be independent of stimulus modality. We thus conclude that event boundary perception is a general perceptual-cognitive mechanism and discuss these findings with respect to current cognitive psychological and media psychological theories.
Consistent and inconsistent choices under uncertainty: The role of cognitive abilities

There is an intense debate whether decision making under uncertainty is partially driven by cognitive abilities. The critical issue is whether choices arising from subjects with lower cognitive abilities are more likely driven by errors or lack of understanding than pure preferences for risk. The latter implies that the often argued link between risk preferences and cognitive abilities might be a spurious correlation. This experiment reports evidence from a sample of 556 participants who made choices in risk-related tasks about winning and losing money and completed three cognitive tasks, all with real monetary incentives: number-additions under time pressure (including incentive-compatible expected number of correct additions), the Cognitive Refection Test (to measure analytical/reflective thinking) and the Remote Associates Test (for convergent thinking). Results are unambiguous: none of our cognition measures plays any systematic role on risky decision making. Our data indeed suggest that cognitive abilities are negatively associated with noisy, inconsistent choices, which might have led to spurious correlations with risk preferences in previous studies.
Systems informed positive psychology

ABSTRACT Despite the rapid growth and uptake of the positive psychological perspective by researchers and general audiences, hype regarding the field’s potential can lead to exaggerated claims, over-inflated expectations, disillusionment, dismissal, and unintentional harms. To help mature the field, we propose Systems Informed Positive Psychology (SIPP), which explicitly incorporates principles and concepts from the systems sciences into positive psychology theory, methodologies, practices, and discourse to optimize human social systems and the individuals within them. We describe historical underpinnings of SIPP, outline the SIPP perspective, clarify epistemological, political, and ethical assumptions, and highlight implications for research and practice. We suggest that SIPP can generate possibilities for creating sustainable unimagined futures.
THE USE OF ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ORAL COMMUNICATION

This study aims at describing the implementation of role play technique in order to improve students’ English oral communication. The subjects of this study were forty students of UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang majoring at Islamic Banking who are taking English 1 as a compulsory subject at semester III. To meet the objective of this study, Classroom Action Research (CAR) which involved planning, acting, observing, and reflecting was used as the design of research. The data of this qualitative study were gathered through observation, interview, and documentation. Meanwhile, the result of this study was presented descriptively based on the phenomena occurred during the implementation of role-play in the process of teaching and learning. In addition, the findings of this study revealed that by applying role-play technique, the students are able to improve their English oral communication as well as increase their motivation in learning English. Role play technique allows the students to be more active in the class as they get much opportunity to speak based on the context given in a real-life situation.
Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine: New technologies induce new learning strategies

Reeducation consists in training people injured by either illness or the vagaries of life to achieve the best fundionality now possible for them. Strangely, the subject is not taught in the normal educational curricula of the relevant professions. Reeducation thus tends to be developed anew with each patient, without recourse to knowledge of what such training, or assistance in such training, might be. However, new paradigms of reeducation are in fact possible today, thanks to advances in cognitive science and the development of new technologies such as virtual reality and robotics. In turn, they lead to the rethinking of the procedures of physical medicine, as well as of reeducation. The present book addresses primarily those professionals involved in reeducation: the clinician, kinestherapist, ergotherapist, speech therapist, psychometrician, clinical psychologist,and neuropsychalogist.More generally, it addresses alsothose in occupations in physical rehabilitation and in both primary and ongoing education. The first part looks anew at reeducation in the context of both international classifications of functionality, handicap, and health and the concept of normality. The second part highlights the function of implicit memory in reeducation. And the last part, illustrated by practical examples, shows the integration of new cognition technologies in the new paradigms of reeducation.
IMPLEMENTASI PENDIDIKAN RAMAH ANAK MADRASAH DI MI TARBIYATUL ULUM BATU MALANG

Abstract Education is all conscious activities or efforts carried out by edducators to students on all aspect of personality development both physically and spiritually. Every student has their right,both the raight to obtain education and the raight to protect themselves, various forms of violence because every student has the right to obtain knowledge withaout any discrimination/violence. The phenomenon of violence against children has made MI Tarbiyatul Ulum Batu make efforts in overcoming it through the Child Friendly Education Program and always to implement child friendly education program and always to implement child friendly educations in the school environment. Based on the results of observations made at MI Tarbiyatul Ulum Batu, that the school is implementing Child Friendly Educations, this is seen from the way all educations sttaf in the school environment treat their students without any acts of physical violence. To achieve these objectives above research with a type of qualitative research. The procedure of data collection is done using observation methods. The implementation of child friendly education at MI Tarbiyatul Ulum Batu has been quite good even though there is still something that must be improved for its impermeability. Keywords : Implementation, Education, Child Friendly
Middle infrared beam-steering using liquid crystals for spatial light modulation

Middle infrared beam-steering is attractive for a number of applications, particularly in the defence sector, where infrared countermeasures are a cornerstone in protecting lives and assets from infrared seeking weapons. Liquid crystal based alternatives to the current opto-mechanical state of the art are investigated, in particular electrically addressed optical phased arrays. Material and design challenges are addressed. CVD graphene is found to be an appropriate transparent conductor, with a sheet resistance < 1kΩ/ and an optical transmission > 97% in the frequency band of interest. Liquid crystal BL-037 was found to have a birefringence of 0.23 in the middle infrared, where absorption bands exist between 3. 3μm and 3. 6μm, and at 4. 5μm. When incorporated into a single-pixel anti-parallel aligned cell subject to an electric field, the response time for the liquid crystal layer was found to be slower than expected for typical thicknesses required for middle infrared operation (7.5μm 30μm). This was due to high angle reorientation which is typically absent in visible operation. The effects of various considerations, such as aperture size and shape, illumination, pixelation, dead-space and fringing effects, on the performance of a spatial light modulator were investigated. Liquid crystal on silicon implementation was simulated. For λ = 2. 3μm an efficiency > 10% was attained for angles up to 7◦. For longer wavelengths this was attained for angles up to 11◦. Multi-interaction and non-diffractive devices were investigated as alternatives for increasing the viewing range while preserving resolution.
Spatially-enhanced time-domain NIRS for determination of optical properties in layered structures

A multivariate method integrating time-domain and space-domain techniques of near-infrared spectroscopy is proposed for simultaneously retrieving the absolute quantities of optical scattering and absorption properties in tissues. The concept is theoretically demonstrated by Monte-Carlo simulations in the homogenous case, and then applied on twolayer liquid phantoms. The deviations from nominal values are typically less than 6% for absorption coefficients in both layers
Activeapp: A Smartphone-based Movement Activity Monitoring System for Healthcare

Participating in physical activities is necessary for people of all ages. It positions individuals in a state of fitness, thereby enhancing the quality of life. Physical inactivity, which can result in obesity and overweight will not only affect the quality of life, but equally bring financial burden to the government and relevant individuals. The manufacturers of mobile devices such as smartphones recently incorporated some sensors such as accelerometer, step counter, step detector. Their high computational power, low cost, and small size make it possible for people to carry such accessories always. The embedded sensors can be used to track human steps in real time. In this work, we present a prototype mobile application using step counter sensor embedded in smartphones to track daily steps of users carrying mobile phones. The app serves as a motivating factor for engaging in physical activities such as taking stairs instead of taking the lift, walking instead of driving to work, and also running to increase the rate of heart beat. Experimental evaluation of the mobile application shows that the app could be used to track and record daily steps of people carrying mobile phones effectively.
Developing an Affordance-based Conceptualization of Social Media Interactions

Social media platforms allow their users to perform a wide range of tasks and activities. While researchers have examined the benefits of online social media use, these frameworks treat social media as a monolithic instrument with a single functionality. This approach is likely to conceal the differences in functionality between platforms. Hence, this study proposes to focus on features (e.g. messenger on Facebook) that lend functionality to platforms. To our knowledge, no prior research has examined features systematically, as a unit of analysis. The theoretical contribution of this research lies in the development of an affordance-based conceptualization of social media interactions. This conceptualization allows us to represent online media at the interaction-level. This research aims to advise companies (through exploring customers’ perceptions) about the use of online media in enhancing their customers’ interactivity with their brand as well as about building their brand more effectively.
ELO-L: A Norm-Referenced Language Screening Test for 3 to 8 Year-Old Lebanese Children

The ELO-L is the first norm-referenced language-screening test in Lebanon. It is an adaptation of the ELO, a French language-screening test. The ELO-L was normed on 1,718 children aged between three and eight years and divided into eight age groups with a minimum of 100 participants in each group. It is composed of five subtests targeting receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, sentence comprehension, sentence production and expressive phonology. We explain how the test was adapted for Lebanese, and present the subtests, the scoring method and the normative sample. We furthermore give the first validation results, reporting on developmental sensitivity, reliability, concurrent validity and diagnostic accuracy.