Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Connectedness as a Protective Factor of Sexual Victimization among University Students

ABSTRACT A large body of literature has sought to understand the factors that increase the risk of sexual victimization among university students, mainly by focusing on the characteristics of victims or perpetrators. A recent promising avenue of research has been to examine the role of the social environment of the victim when explaining sexual victimization. We contribute to this emerging stream of research by identifying a protective factor: connectedness. Connectedness refers to an individual´s perception of belonging to social groups and institutions, and being valued, cared for and respected by its members. Connectedness protects potential victims by decreasing exposure to motivated aggressors and by increasing peer guardianship in risky situations, which reduces the likelihood of victimization. We provide evidence of the role of connectedness in a sample of 3,355 Colombian students. Results from multivariate logistic regressions provide evidence of the importance of connectedness in protecting against sexual harassment and assault: feeling connected to family and friends decreased the odds of rape up to 46%, while belonging to social groups where alcohol and drugs are not perceived as a big problem decreased the odds of harassment by 20%. We discuss these results and their implications for campus policies targeted toward the prevention of sexual victimization.
A Qualitative Study of the Stimuli on Consumer Emotion in Mobile Shopping

In mobile shopping, consumer emotion can be influenced by various stimuli more easily than before. Understanding the methods to stimulate consumer emotions can help companies to push consumers to mobile shopping. However, this has been rarely discussed in the previous studies. By applying ATLAS.ti 7 to conduct three levels coding of interview data and analyze the relationships between different level codes, the qualitative study was used to discuss and identify the factors that influenced consumer emotion in mobile shopping. The study showed that at the social level, mobile technology, convenience and entertainment of mobile shopping, and mobile friends circle influenced all consumer emotions, while sharing of mobile shopping only influenced consumer’s pleasure and arousal emotions. At the organizational level, both interface quality and integrity of mobile sales terminal influenced all consumer emotions, while sales promotion in mobile sales terminal only influenced consumer’s pleasure and arousal emotions. The conclusions can enrich the theories of mobile shopping behavior and consumer emotion.
ADEPT: Exploring the Design, Pedagogy, and Analysis of a Mixed Reality Application for Piano Training

One of the biggest challenges in learning how to play a musical instrument is learning how to move one’s body with a nuanced physicality. Technology can expand available forms of physical interactions to help cue speciﬁc movements and postures. This cueing can reinforce new sensorimotor couplings to enhance motor learning and performance. Using Mixed Reality (MR), we present a system that allows students to share a ﬁrst-person audiovisual perspective with a piano teacher. Students place their hands into the virtual gloves of a teacher. Motor learning and audio-motor associations are reinforced through motion feedback and spatialized audio. The Augmented Design to Embody a Piano Teacher (ADEPT) application is an early design prototype of this piano training system.
A mixed methods study examining the role of professional YouTubers in young people’s health behaviours in the UK: implications for health interventions

YouTubers are popular among young people and produce plentiful health content. Research suggests YouTube health content varies in quality and social media health interventions remain scarce. However, popular media and public health organisations are increasingly recognising YouTubers’ potential influence as a source of health information for young people. Little research has considered the nature of YouTuber content, young people’s engagement or YouTubers’ motives for producing it. This programme of research sought to examine the role professional YouTubers play in young people’s health behaviours in the UK. The research adopted a four-stage mixed methods sequential design. A questionnaire with 13-18 year olds (n=931) provided a sampling frame for three qualitative studies. These were a netnographic analysis of health-related videos (n=133) from 7 UK YouTubers, 8 focus groups with 13-18 year olds (n=85) and semi-structured interviews with UK YouTubers (n=3). Participating young people were from one county in North West England. The findings confirm YouTubers are a recognised source of health information for young people. YouTubers produce content on a range of topics with numerous perceived benefits. A successful trait is YouTubers’ ability to foster a sense of community; this familiarity and trust allows them to endorse health-related products or behaviours. YouTubers were thus viewed as role models by young viewers. Several complexities of YouTuber health content production were also highlighted. Young people and YouTubers were concerned giving advice beyond their expertise could lead to misdiagnosis, triggering or worsening of health conditions. There was an inherent tension between self-promotion and health promotion with YouTubers reluctant to expose themselves to criticism, compromise their brand and authenticity or engage in self-regulatory practices. The distinction between commercial, NHS or charity sponsored, and unsponsored content and sponsor intentions (health promotion or commercial) were not always clear. The impact of YouTuber health content is therefore dependent on young people’s critical literacy skills, which increased with age. Overall, the research confirms YouTubers’ considerable potential to contribute to young people’s health improvement interventions, but successful interventions must consider factors that affect young people’s engagement and YouTubers’ production of health content.
Putting emotions to work: the role of affective disablism and ableism in the constitution of the dis/abled subject

Abstract By conceptually framing disability under the lens of the Foucauldian apparatus, this article applies dis/ability studies to examine the constitution of the disabled subject by exploring how ableism and other axes of oppression (such as ageism and heterosexism) intersect in everyday situations of affective disablism. The article illustrates these processes using four narrative productions with men and women who are disability rights activists or community rehabilitation service-users. A two-pronged analysis that combines structural and subjectification process analysis suggests that: participants who deviate from the able-bodied norm are constituted as ‘impaired’, ‘immoral’, ‘supercrip’, ‘unproductive’, ‘(un)reproductive’ subjects or as ‘objects of care’ within disablist situations; ableism intertwines with different axes of oppression; and becoming an activist contributes to one’s constitution as the ‘subject of rights’, although such a process is fraught with tensions.
Effects of immersive stories on prosocial attitudes and willingness to help: testing psychological mechanisms

ABSTRACT In recent years, the journalism and marketing industry has seen an increasing use of immersive stories, in the format of 360° videos and virtual reality. However, the impact of immersive stories on individuals’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors is understudied. Drawing upon literature in narrative persuasion and immersive media, this study examined the persuasive effects and underlying psychological mechanisms of immersive stories on prosocial attitudes and behavioral willingness to help. Findings from a laboratory experiment (N = 216) indicated that stories presented in immersive virtual (vs. traditional mediated) environments led to a higher level of spatial and social presence, which intensified users’ transportation and identification. The enhanced transportation led to less counterarguing and then promoted prosocial attitudes. These findings have important theoretical contributions to the study of persuasion in immersive virtual environments.
Police accuracy in truth/lie detection when judging baseline interviews

Research has shown that a comparable truth baseline (CTB) approach elicits more cues to deception and results in higher accuracy rates than a small talk baseline. Past research focused on laypeople’s accuracy rates. We examined whether the CTB also has a positive effect on law enforcement personnel accuracy. In this study, 95 police officers judged 10 interviews, whereby half of the senders told the truth, and the other half lied about a mock undercover mission. Half of the interviews included only questioning about the event under investigation, whereas the other half also included questioning aimed at creating a CTB. Total and truth accuracy did not differ, but observers who watched interviews with a CTB obtained higher lie detection accuracy rates than those who watched interviews without the baseline questioning. Signal detection analyses showed that this effect could be attributed to a decreased response bias in the CTB condition.
Collecting and Annotating Conversational Eye-Gaze Data

This paper describes our work on the collection and annotation of conversational eye-gaze data. The corpus contains 28 multiparty conversations among participants who are freely chatting with each other on everyday interesting issues, and the corpus includes real-time eye-tracking data of one of the participants. The eye-tracked person is also videoed from the front with a separate camera, and this allows synchronizing the two views of their gaze behaviour. Interactions are balanced so that comparison of communicative behaviour along familiarity, gender, and language between the participants in the different groups is also possible. At the moment, six of the dialogues are annotated, and preliminary analyses on the annotated data are also described.
Metaphors and analogies proposed by perspective primary teachers to support the exploration of magnetic phenomena.

Analogies and Metaphors play an important role in primary science education to correlate abstract aspects and lived experiences, providing concrete meanings for pupils. They represent important educational tools that can help young pupils to approach towards abstract physics concepts like those related to magnetic phenomena. The significant presence of these phenomena in the world of 21th century allows pupils to explore and to familiarize with them starting from their childhood. These daily experiences offer pupils the opportunity to build spontaneously their own interpretative models about magnetic phenomena that influence also their future learning processes during the school careers. Recent educational researches have shown how pupils are able to master the interpretation of magnetic phenomena if those aspects are activated in the context of Conceptual Laboratories of Operative Exploration (CLOE). In order to improve the competencies of Prospective Primary Teacher (PPT) students related to the use of analogies and metaphors in education, a specific module of formative intervention was developed and proposed involving 92 PPT students enrolled at the University of Udine and 67 PPT students at the University of Verona. Initially, an overview of a well-experimented learning path was proposed to the involved PPT students and then they had the opportunity to try experimentally the proposed activities. After that, they discussed in small groups how to face magnetic phenomena with primary pupils with the use of analogies and metaphors. Finally, each PPT student was asked to produce an individual proposal that was shared within the small groups, commented and, finally, individually revised. In this paper, we present a preliminary analysis of the analogies and metaphors through which PPT students would introduce the magnetic phenomena observed in the GEI exhibition to primary school pupils.
SDN-Based Quality of Service Networking for Wide Area Measurement System

Wide area measurement system (WAMS) infrastructure is one of the most significant elements of the smart grid that measures, collects, and analyzes data in the power system. Fundamental components of the WAMS are phasor measurement units (PMUs), phasor data concentrators (PDCs), and its relevant applications. The PDC collects data from several different PMUs, integrates data and sends it to the control center. In order to achieve a stable implementation of WAMS, the communication structure should be reliable and meets the quality of service (QoS) requirements for various applications in the network. In this paper, we propose a novel WAMS communication infrastructure by utilizing the software-defined networking technology, which can enhance the reliability of the corresponding networks. In the proposed model, in order to meet the applications QoS needs, the traffic flows are categorized into different class of services, and then by applying a QoS mechanism, along with a content-aware queuing algorithm, the maximum capacity for the critical traffic is obtained. This provides a low latency for critical WAMS applications. The proposed model has been implemented in the Mininet environment using the Ryu controller. The implementation results indicate that the proposed infrastructure reduces end-to-end delay and packets loss and utilizes the network resources optimally.
Concreteness and language effects on advertisement recall.

Our knowledge of the world is made up of concepts, and is quite important for our cognitive behaviour. There appears to be a difference between concrete and abstract concepts in how we store them and retrieve them. Studies suggest that concrete concepts are remembered better than abstract concepts. This is likely because we store concrete concepts as a copy of the experience in the brain and as the word, but abstract concepts are only stored verbally as they cannot be experienced. This research was interested inconcepts are only stored verbally as they cannot be experienced. This research was interested in investigating whether this effect would be the same in advertising, as the goal of advertisements is to have people remember the brand or product. Advertisements are mostly written in foreign languages (L2), most often English as this is seen as a global language. Seeing as research suggests a foreign language is remembered worse than the native language (L1), this research also investigated whether using L1 versus L2 in advertisement mattered, and whether language played a role for the concreteness effect. A within subjects design was used, where 128 participants saw 12 advertisements: three concrete-Dutch, three concrete-English, three abstract-Dutch and three abstract-English. After a filler test participants answered a recall questionnaire. Analyses showed an effect of language: as in previous research, Dutch (L1) advertisements were remembered better than English (L2). Concrete advertisements were not remembered better than abstract ones. This could be because the manipulated words were not where participants focussed on. Another effect was an interaction between language and concreteness. For concrete advertisements, the ones in Dutch were remembered better than the English. This is likely because L1 facilitates concrete words better than L2. The answers to the research questions are therefore that concreteness unexpectedly does not appear to affect advertising recall, but that language does. Advertisements in L1 are remembered better than in L2. Concreteness also modifies this effect; as for concrete advertisements the language effect plays a bigger role. These results are quite useful for marketers and as basis for future research: marketers are advised to use their target groups’ L1, especially if the advertisement is concrete.
Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems

The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a complex subject requires. Manifested as epistemological tensions over reductionism vs. holism, nature vs. nurture, and the study of micro vs. macro context, the divergent research approaches in the humanities and the sciences produce separate bodies of knowledge that are difficult to reconcile. To remedy this incommensurability, the article proposes to employ the complex adaptive systems approach, which allows to study specific cultural systems in their ecologies and to account for the myriads of factors that constitute such systems, including nonlinear interactions between these factors and their evolution. On a specific example of religious systems, we show that by studying cultural systems in their contextual variability, mechanistic composition, and evolutionary history, the humanities and the sciences should be able to fruitfully collaborate while avoiding previous pitfalls of excessive reductionism, genetic determinism, and sweeping overgeneralizations, on the one hand, and pitfalls of excessive holism, cultural determinism, and aversion to any generalizations, on the other hand.
A qualitative exploration of the experience of a single mindfulness session with informal caregivers

iii Acknowledgments . vi Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Statement of the Problem . 2 Purpose of the Study . 3 The Significance of the Study . 3 Research Questions . 4 Chapter 2: Literature Review . 5 Chapter Overview . 5 Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapies in Western Psychology . 7 Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) . 7 Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) . 8 Informal Caregivers and Mindfulness . 11 Single Session Mindfulness Practice . 12 Summary . 14 Chapter 3: Methodology . 15 Chapter Overview . 15 Research Design . 15 Research Method . 16 Procedures . 19 Description of the Mindfulness Practice Session . 19 Interview Questions . 21 Interview Procedure . 22 Instruments . 24 Data Analysis . 26 Ethical Consideration . 28 Chapter 4: Study Findings . 29 Chapter Overview . 29 Demographic Information of Participants . 29 Findings . 30 Summary of the Findings . 40 CHAPTER 5. Discussion, Limitations and Recommendations . 43 viii Chapter Overview . 43 Discussion of the Results . 43 Significance of the Findings . 47 Limitations . 49 Recommendations for Future Research or Interventions . 51 Conclusion . 52 References . 53 Appendices . 63
Developing Culture-Based English Language Assessment Instrument for Second Semester of Grade Seven of Junior High School in Buleleng Sub-District to Support the Implementation of Curriculum 2013

This research aimed at developing culture-based English language assessment instrument for the second semester of grade seven of junior high school in Buleleng Subdistrict to support the implementation of Curriculum 2013. This research was categorized as research and development. Research and development model which was used in this research proposed by Peffers et.al (2007). The suitable English assessment for the second semester of grade seven of junior high school was English assessment with integrated Balinese culture in order to support the development of character building. The steps of developing this English assessment instrument included assessment goal analysis, assessment standard analysis, syllabus analysis, learning source analysis, designing blue print, developing assessment, expert judgment, and revision. This research produced English assessment instrument which assessed students’ affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains. The reliability and quality of the developed assessment instrument were found out by giving expert judgment form to the experts of assessment and English language teaching. The scores which were given by the two experts were 650 from the first expert and 802 from the second expert. Based on those scores, the quality of the developed English assessment instrument was categorized as excellent. The reliability of the data was categorized as excellent in which the score of Alpha Cronbach’s coefficient was 0.9. It means that the developed culturebased English assessment instrument was suitable to be used in teaching and learning process that implements Curriculum 2013 in Buleleng Sub-district.
After Awakening, the Laundry: Is Nonduality a Spiritual Experience?

Historically the exclusive purview of contemplative religious paths, awakening into nonduality was considered the pinnacle of human attainment, even if, in some traditions, it proved to be the threshold to even more sublime states. Awakening was traditionally available only to dedicated elite seekers, usually renunciates who practiced for years in monastic communities, their progress directed by the authorities of their lineage. Today technologies for creating the electroencephalographic signatures of advanced meditators are available for purchase, and esoteric religious practices like Zen meditation and asana yoga have been secularized as stress-reduction techniques and physical exercise, respectively. Increased numbers of teachers of nonduality not aligned with any religious lineage and requiring no religious belief are in the business of helping people awaken, i.e., achieve a discrete shift in awareness, in which the consensual, apparently manifest reality of normal waking, adult sensory experience is perceived to derive from a singular unmanifest source in a seamless whole. This study investigated whether people who awakened with the help of nonaligned teachers, usually after working with lineage teachers, considered their awakening to be a spiritual experience, and why? This qualitative study examined the awakening experiences of 26 adults of varying religious backgrounds to see how they interpreted them. Findings suggest that spiritual experiences involve non- or extraordinary features, in contrast to awakening and ongoing nonduality, considered to be the essence of ordinariness despite their being unlike consensual sensory reality. Awakening was not always easy or smooth, and the ramifications of its secularization outside a spiritual context are many.
Concentric Hip Muscle Function and Quadricps:Hamstring in Athlets with and without Oatellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Background: Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a commonly seen condition in athletes. Several potential contributing factors have been postulated. Although hip muscle strength has been suggested to play a major role, concentric hip muscle function in athletes with PFPS has not been formally investigated. Objectives: We aimed to compare the concentric hip muscle strength in athletes with PFPS with that of controls, and to derive a concentric knee extension-to-flexion (quadriceps: hamstring) ratio Subjects and Methods: University athletes with PFPS (n=25) and asymptomatic controls (n = 25) were studied. Concentric torque of the hip abductors, adductors, flexors and extensors along with concentric knee extensors and flexors torque were assessed. Participants rated their knee pain in the week before the study on a visual analog scale and a self-administered anterior knee pain scale (AKPS). Strength testing was performed at 60o/s. Results: Participants with PFPS exhibited much lower concentric hip abduction, adduction, flexion and extension peak torque compared to controls. The concentric hip abduction to adduction and extension to flexion ratios showed no difference. Quadriceps:hamstring ratio was higher for PFPS participants. Conclusion: We propose that concentric hip muscle strength is significantly affected in PFPS. Clinicians are urged to include concentric strengthening exercises for the hip along with quadriceps and hamstring muscles during the rehabilitation of athletes with PFPS. Key Words: Patellofemoral pain syndrome, concentric hip muscle strength, quadriceps:hamstring ratio.