Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development and Cross-Cultural Evaluation of a Scoring Algorithm for the Biometric Attachment Test: Overcoming the Challenges of Multimodal Fusion with “Small Data”

The Biometric Attachment Test (BAT) is a recently developed psychometric assessment that exposes adults to standardized picture and music stimuli-sets while simultaneously capturing their linguistic, behavioral and physiological responses, with the goal of objectively measuring their psychological attachment characteristics. Within this work, (I) we describe a new version of the BAT (v2) that implements a remote photoplethysmography method to obtain physiological measures from video alone. (II) We discuss the specific challenges we found when trying to develop an automatic scoring algorithm for the BAT v2 using machine learning: practicing multimodal fusion over a high-dimensional feature space with a small learning sample. We propose and evaluate an original combination of methods, including a three-step hybrid multimodal fusion procedure, that overcomes these challenges. (III) Using the proposed methodology, we train a scoring algorithm for the BAT v2 on a francophone sample, using the Adult Attachment Questionnaire as ground-truth. (IV) We then validate the scoring algorithm cross-culturally, testing its performance on an independent anglophone sample, showing low error and high correlation and serving as the BAT v2's first convergent validity evidence. We believe this work constitutes a breakthrough in the development of the first objective and automatic measure for adult attachment, and we hope that our “small data” learning methodology could be useful for other machine learning projects involving small samples coming from psychological research.
An analysis of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2013-2017

The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) changed its editorial policy in 2013, to focus on higher education research and on improving journal submissions. This study analyses all articles (n = 256) in AJET from 2013-2017 to determine if there has been any change in research topics, methodologies, citations, and authorship since this editorial change, and compares findings to the analysis by Hadlock et al. (2014). The present analysis revealed that the percentage of combined methods research has doubled, although the top 10 most cited articles continue to be predominantly interpretative and inferential. Research has become more student-centred and focused particularly on online collaborative learning environments, and teacher skill and knowledge development, although research gaps exist in mobile learning and gamification. The results also highlight a lack of international collaboration amongst authors, and this is an area for future research.
Security in transition(s): The low-level security politics of electric vehicle range anxiety

By drawing on critical security studies in the context of a sociotechnical transition, this article calls for more attention to the presence and sometimes alternative use of mostly unobserved security practices in the materialization of everyday consumer goods and services. This call is illustrated through a discussion of the phenomenon of range anxiety and the intra-action between drivers of electric vehicles (EVs), designers, and algorithms that observe, estimate and nudge the remaining range of an EV. Inspired by Foucault and Barad, the range-anxiety discussion offers four alternative security insights. First, it supports an argument to include stress as an embodied instance of insecurity. Second, it draws attention to a security apparatus that is based on a constantly expanding assemblage around range estimates. Third, it shows how this apparatus rests on a novel algorithm that has a continuous instead of a binary output and is governed by a distributed sovereignty: where the driver simultaneously is the object of measurement, subject of governance for more efficient driving and the ultimate sovereign who decides on the trip. Lastly, the discussion highlights how range estimates not only mediate the materialization of EVs and their automobility but also (re)perform epistemological or ontological forms of uncertainty.
¿ES DETERMINANTE LA MODALIDAD DE COMPETICIÓN EN LA ACCIÓN DE REGATE EN FUTBOLISTAS SUB12?

The aim was to analyse the influence of the modalities of the game applied against the competition in the beginner category focusing on the dribble. We analyzed 18 matches, 6 by modality, registering 785 dribbles. The dependent variables were carried out (RT), earned (RG) and lost (RP). They were registered according to areas of the field: lateral corridors (PLD + PLI) and central (PC); defensive (SD), defensive medium (SMD), offensive medium (SMO) and offensive (SO). In Football 11 (F11) the number of RG was significantly higher (p <0.05) than in Football (F7). The RT and RG performed in PLI + PLD in F11 were significantly higher (p <0.05) than in F7. The intramodality analysis showed that in Football (F8) and F11, RT was significantly higher (p <0.01) in PLD + PLI than in PC, and there was lower (p <0.01) in SD than in SMD and SO. The size of the pitch is decisive in the technical action of dribbling in players of Us12 category.
The usage of sexual internet media and sexual behaviour among sexually experienced adolescents in Malaysia: sexual intention as a mediator

© 2018 Universiti Putra Malaysia Press. This study examines the relationships between the use of sexually explicit material, sexual intention, and sexual behaviour in a sample of 189 sexually experienced adolescents (aged 16-17) in Malaysia. Additionally, this study investigates the mediating role of sexual intention on the relationship between the use of Sexual Explicit Internet Media (SEIM) and sexual behaviour. A self-administered questionnaire focusing on the use of SEIM scale, Youth Pre-coital and Sexual Intentions Scale, and Sexual Behaviour Assessment measured adolescents' use of SEIM, sexual intention, and sexual behaviour. The results demonstrate that the use of SEIM positively correlates with adolescents' sexual intention and sexual behaviour. Increasing engagements in sexually-related behaviour reveal an increase in sexual intentions. Findings also denote that higher exposure to SEIM promotes sexual intention, which in turn increases engagement in sexually-related behaviour. In the attempt to control sexual arousal among adolescents, prevention and intervention programmes which deal with sexuality should consider the role of Internet media and the development of healthy cognitive processes.
Examining the Impact of Nostalgic Feelings on Sport Consumer Preferences Towards Team Apparel

Retro marketing has become a heavily relied upon practice by sport marketers (Scola & Gordon, 2018). Many contributed the uptick in retro marketing overall to the fin de siècle effect, which is the concept of “endism. ” Scholars suggested people may look more fondly towards their past as they were approaching the end of an era as we did when the 2000’s began (Brown, 2013; Stern, 1992). Despite this assumption, we are now nearly 20 years beyond the turn of the century and marketers continue to heavily implement retro marketing and sport teams are no exception. Although there appears to be a reliance on retro marketing in sport, we have minimal knowledge regarding what emotions these practices elicit or how they impact consumer behavior. The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, the author examined how nostalgic feelings influenced consumer’s feelings and intentions towards their favorite team’s merchandise as well as the author sought to compare how consumers responded to retro and modern merchandise differently. The author created a model that examined how Cho et al.’s (2017) nostalgic feelings towards a sport team construct influenced perceived value, purchase intentions and willingness to pay a price premium. A theoretical model was created and tested among two participant pools, one exposed to merchandise with a modern logo and the other containing a retro logo. Data were collected from two fan bases, the Denver Broncos and Houston Rockets with participants (N = 419) completing a survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk where participants were randomly assigned a retro (n = 201) or modern (n = 218) prompt. To analyze these results, Kline’s (2016) two-step approach was utilized on each pool. First, a confirmatory factor analysis was run to test validity and reliability, this process determines if the items loaded correctly on each measure. Second structural equation modeling was conducted to examine the relationships between
Rumination about discrimination mediates the unique association between anger and collective action intentions

People are more willing to engage in collective action when they feel anger about collective disadvantage (van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2008). However, anger is often a fleeting emotion, whereas collective action is deliberate and sustained. Moreover, people cannot always engage in collective action on demand. We propose that rumination, or repetitive thoughts about negative emotions and experiences, may constitute a mechanism by which anger about collective disadvantage is sustained, and through it the motivation to engage in collective action. In three separate samples (128 students of color, 155 women, and 150 sexual minorities), we measured group-based anger about discrimination, group efficacy, group identification, rumination about discrimination, and collective action intentions. In all samples, rumination mediated the unique association between group-based anger and collective action intentions, controlling for group efficacy and group identification. Further, in an experimental study with 117 undergraduate women, we found that rumination, compared to distraction, sustained anger about collective disadvantage over a short period of time, and this sustained level of anger mediated the relationship between rumination and collective action intentions. These results lend support to conceptualizing collective action as a form of coping with collective disadvantage, and highlight the potential role of emotion regulation strategies like rumination in understanding intergroup relations.
THE EFFECT OF CONCEPTION OF INTERNET USAGE AND SMES’ ACTIVITIES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE AMONG TOURISM ENTERPRISES IN MALAYSIA

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the mainstays of economic development and advancement in numerous countries. SMEs add to monetary advancement in Malaysia by temperance of their utter numbers, expanded share of business and total national output. Innovation reception and Internet utilization development in Malaysian SMEs have enhanced the execution and primary concern of SMEs and information technology (IT) has turned out to be instrumental to the advancement and thriving of different areas. This study assesses the impact of view of Internet utilization, SMEs’ action and size on authoritative execution in this industry. Seventy-seven, randomly-identified SME organizations with the tourism business were arbitrarily chosen from Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia. The information was gathered by means of a self-administrated poll from tourism organizations in these two zones. The information was dissected in view of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) utilizing SMART-Partial Least Squares (PLS). The outcomes uncovered that the observation level of Internet utilization and SME movement surpassed the direct level. The SEM discoveries likewise demonstrated that the acknowledgment of Internet use had a huge, constructive outcome on tourism authoritative execution in Malaysia.
Materialism and Green Purchase Intention: A Study of Urban Vietnamese Consumers

This study focuses on examining the impact of three components of materialism on green purchase intention for urban consumers in Vietnam, an emerging economy. An extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is applied as the conceptual framework for this study. The hypotheses are empirically tested using survey data obtained from consumers in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The regression results show support for most of our hypotheses. The findings indicate that two out of three facets of materialism are significant predictors of green purchase intention. Specifically, success is found to be negatively related to purchase intention, while happiness is related positively to the intention. All three antecedents in the TPB model, including attitude towards green purchase, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control are also found to have positive impacts on purchase intention. The research findings are discussed and implications for managers and policy makers are provided.
Aging and the perception of global structure

A single experiment required 40 younger and older adults to discriminate global shape as depicted by Glass patterns (concentric and radial organizations). Such patterns have been widely used for decades, because in order to successfully perceive the depicted shape, the visual system has to detect both locally oriented features (dipoles) and their alignments across extended regions of space. In the current study, we manipulated the number of constituent dipoles in the stimulus patterns (40 or 200), the noise-to-signal ratio (zero, 1.0, & 5.0), and the pattern size (6.0 & 25.0 degrees visual angle). The observers’ shape discrimination accuracies (d’ values) decreased markedly as the amount of noise increased, and there were smaller (but significant) effects of both overall pattern size and the number of stimulus dipoles. Interestingly, while there was a significant effect of age, it was relatively small: the overall d’ values for older and younger adults were 2.07 and 2.34, respectively. Older adults therefore retain an effective ability to visually perceive global shape, even for sparsely-defined patterns embedded in noise.
Low-cost communication system for explorer-class underwater remotely operated vehicle

Disaster recovery from underwater earthquake, plane crashes into the sea, and monitoring underwater cables or piping for energy purpose are underwater missions for Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) in ASEAN MATE 2018 Competition. Two essentials factor to perform successfully in this ROV competition are design of an efficient communication protocol system and a low-cost communication hardware. In this research, an optimal communication system between RS-232 serial communication transmission and RS-485 serial communication transmission is developed to obtain the optimal solution. Both communication system is tested in Tech_SAS ROV-Telkom University Indonesia, a microcontroller underwater ROV based which used single microcontroller to control actuator, sensor and communication, and measured the Quality of Services (QoS) for end-to-end delay and packets loss. From the the experiment and evaluation for the two schemes, shows 12.57 ms end-to-end delay, 0% data packet error and $6 RS-485 communication system are the optimal solution for Tech_SAS ROV.
Association of Career Satisfaction with Stress and Depression: The Case of Preservice Music Teachers

In order to investigate the relationships between preservice music teachers’ levels of career satisfaction, severity of depression, and perceived stress, ninety-four students enrolled in the music education BSc program of the faculty of education at a public university in southwestern part of Turkey were survey. Data were collected by Beck’s Depression Inventory, Perceived Stress Scale, and Career Satisfaction Scale. Associations were analyzed by ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression. It was found that preservice music teachers’ stress and depression levels were significantly higher compared to previously reported means while career satisfaction levels were lower. Preservice music teachers’ career satisfaction scores significantly differed according to the grade level. There was a strong positive relationship between severity of depression and perceived stress level while career satisfaction was weakly and negatively associated with both severity of depression and perceived stress. Finally, career satisfaction neither was a predictor of nor predicted by stress or depression.
Secure Communication Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

A secure communication protocol for mobile wireless sensor network is proposed in this work. One major goal has been designing energy efficient communication protocol having security strength. The proposed protocol is lightweight although secure. The concept of regular expression is exploited to achieve secure communication. The protocol is also hierarchical and this design philosophy contributes towards energy efficiency. Moreover, the cluster organizations are such that the mobility of the cluster members or the sensor nodes can be monitored and subsequently be handled. The protocol is simulated for its performance evaluation and the simulation results reported here. Future scope of the work is outlined.
Mapping the field of development education in Portugal: narratives and challenges in a de/post/colonial context

– Development education (DE) as a promising and controversial field of growing interest, mostly enacted by development NGOs. – Portugal as a case of interest due to the country’s (unexamined) colonial past; an open critique is currently emerging. – Innovative mapping and discussion of core narratives and challenges across DE from a postcolonial stance. – Postcolonial perspectives as valuable orientation for actors, organizations and research in DE.
Parental Involvement Policies in Ontario: A Critical Analysis.

In the current climate of ever-increasing pressure on parents to become more responsible for the achievement of their children, which forms an element of neo-liberal governance with its shift from public to private, it is necessary to understand the discourses generated by parental involvement policies. This analysis showed that existing policies in Ontario (Canada) are permeated with discourses of barriers and parental deficiency. They employ a narrow definition of parental involvement, privilege parenting strategies of White middle classes, and represent diverse and immigrant parents as lacking. Although the difference among parents is acknowledged, parents receive no recognition for funds of knowledge they have. Policy documents remain silent on issues of inequality and present parental involvement as a neutral tool rather than a socially constructed and historically specific practice with its set of winners and losers. Implications for policymakers include adding parental involvement content in preservice and in-service teacher education to make parent–school partnerships truly democratic and effective for all.
Institutionalization of the sharing in the context of Airbnb: a systematic literature review and content analysis

ABSTRACT Recent changes in information technologies have transformed business models and shifted consumption patterns, facilitating the rapid rise of the sharing economy, fostering non-traditional direct trading relationships between providers and end-users through online platforms. Exploring the institutionalization of the sharing economy, in particular Airbnb, this study analyses representations of the sharing economy in the academic literature alongside news articles about Airbnb. To explore the concerns expressed by journalists and academics in their coverage of the sharing economy, representative texts from both fields were analysed, revealing implications for scholars, journalists and providers in the traditional and sharing accommodation sectors.
Canonical Correlation between Knowledge-Barriers/Facilitators for Pressure Ulcer Prevention Nursing Variables and Attitude-Performance Variables

Objectives: Knowledge, barriers/facilitators for pressure ulcer prevention nursing are correlated with attitude and performance of staff nurses. It can be helpful to utilize barriers and facilitators for enhancing the attitude and performance of nurses, there is a gap in the empirical study. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledgebarriers/facilitators for Pressure Ulcer (PU) prevention variable set and attitude-nursing performance variable set. Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional descriptive design using structured survey in 9 hospitals. Data were collected from August to November 2018 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and Canonical correlation. Results: The correct answer rates of knowledge for PU risk factor was 75%. Perceived barriers of prevention was 5.03 ± 1.40 and facilitators was 5.87 ± 1.28. The mean score of attitude for PU prevention was 3.53 ± 0.30 and that of nursing performance for PU prevention was 1.42 ± 0.33. The significant pair of canonical variate indicated that more perceived barriers (0.75), less facilitators (-0.51), low knowledge level for risk factor of pressure ulcer (-0.31), and high knowledge level for pressure ulcer prevention (0.59) were associated with poor nursing performance for pressure ulcer prevention (-0.96). Conclusions: To enhance the nursing performance for PU prevention, developing nurse-centered educational program and standardized protocol should be needed. Also, planning sheet for PU prevention can increase the nursing performance.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Research in Jewish Education: How References Produce a Field

ABSTRACT Citations are one of the ways that scholars engage one another in dialogue, debate, and discussion. As such, they represent a powerful way in which practitioners constitute themselves and others within a scholarly field. This article studies the citational practices of articles published in the Journal of Jewish Education over a 10-year period in order to discover how scholars have constituted the field of research in Jewish Education. Using social network analysis and qualitative examination, this article presents an unprecedented portrait of the field of knowledge including its strengths and new directions for scholarly investigation and analysis of how the field of research in Jewish education has been formed, and how citational references have shaped how scholars and practitioners understand what we know about Jewish education.
The assessment of learning skills in nursing student selection: A scoping review

Abstract Higher education student selection has significant societal, institutional and individual impacts. Thousands of applicants apply only for nursing, one of the major higher education disciplines. As the nursing profession is characterised by cognitive requirements, higher education institutions assess the learning skills of nursing applicants. However, there has been no comprehensive analysis of learning skills assessment for nursing student selection. The purpose of this scoping review was to describe the assessment of learning skills in undergraduate nursing student selection. Five databases were systematically searched, and 24 studies published between 2006 and 2016 were included. Learning skills were most commonly assessed using standardised tests in the areas of language and communication, reasoning, mathematics and natural sciences. Overall scores of onsite selection methods were found to best predict future academic performance. The results indicate that higher education institutions may benefit from comprehensive assessment of learning skills in their selection processes. This assessment should focus on a wider range of cognitive aptitudes, including reasoning skills. This review focussed on nursing education, but the results may benefit other higher education disciplines due to the generic nature of learning skills and similar cognitive requirements of higher education studies. The results support the development of more comprehensive and valid methods for assessing learning skills.