Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Parity or Disparity? Outcomes of Court-Involved Youth With and Without Disabilities

Youth with disabilities are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system, but few studies have investigated the mechanisms by which this occurs. In this study, we considered how juvenile court adjudication and length of commitment in secure facilities contributed to disproportionality in court involvement and detention, addressing an important gap in the intersection of disability and juvenile justice literature. Using linked educational and juvenile justice records of 41,812 youth, we sought to ascertain whether, among juvenile offenders, youth with disabilities had higher likelihood of adjudication as delinquent or placement in secure facilities for longer periods of time compared to youth without disabilities. Results indicated that youth with and without disabilities were adjudicated and placed similarly, suggesting that disparities contributing to overrepresentation of youth with disabilities in detained populations may manifest earlier in youths’ involvement in the justice system. We conclude with implications for research, policy, and practice.
How Job Autonomy Promotes Employee’s Sustainable Development? A Moderated Mediation Model

In the rapidly changing business world, improving employee’s self-development level is of great importance for organizations to pursue sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to examine how and when job autonomy promotes employee’s self-development. Drawing from self-determination theory, we examined the effect of job autonomy on employee’s self-development, and the mediation role of intrinsic motivation in this relationship. Moreover, we argued that team connectivity strengthened the relationship between job autonomy and intrinsic motivation, and further moderated the indirect effect of job autonomy and self-employment via intrinsic motivation. Using a two-wave panel design, we collected data from a sample of 473 employees in China. The results indicated that job autonomy predicted employee’s self-development, and employee’s intrinsic motivation fully mediated this relationship. Team connectivity positively moderated the relationship between job autonomy and intrinsic motivation, and further moderated the mediation effect of intrinsic motivation. The theoretical and practical implications of this research are discussed along with the limitations and further research directions.
Towards a maturity model for intelligence-led policing A case study research on the investigation of drugs crime and on football and safety in the Dutch police

ABSTRACT Police organisations worldwide have adopted intelligence-led policing (ILP) as a new policing strategy. However, these organisations often struggle with the implementation of ILP. Literature suggests that successful implementation of ILP requires changes to a broad range of organisational aspects. It is however unclear what these aspects are and how they affect ILP. This research aims to identify organizational factors that enable ILP in the Dutch police, by means of a literature review and a case study, by conducting 15 investigations on organized drugs crime, football and safety in two different units of the Dutch police. Various elements have been identified that affect the functioning of ILP. These elements have been categorized into technological, structural, cultural, and people, which are integrated into a maturity model. By means of the maturity model the enablers can be assessed, priorities for improvement can be determined and targeted improvement strategies can be derived. The findings and the maturity model can help police organisations to improve the implementation of ILP.
Assessing prospective Trainers’ use of Networking sites by Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Nowadays technology has brought drastic effects on human life. In the field of -learning, the use of modern technology has become a common trend. At Instructor training institutions, technology has reshaped the training modes. It has equipped the prospective Instructors to become effective Instructors in terms of modern technology usage and new strategies for . In Pakistan, the major transition took place in the field of Instructor learning with the launch of Instructor Learning Project by United States Agency International Development (USAID) in collaboration with HEC, Pakistan. Under this transition, the traditional one-year Instructor learning programs were phased out and new technology integrated four years B.Ed. (Hons.) Instructor learning programs were launched. This study aims to explore the issues and challenges faced by prospective Instructors to use modern technology especially networking sites effectively in learning process. It is based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) model which was developed by Davis (1986). This research focuses on exploring the level of comfort in using network by prospective Instructors in their professional during their practicum component of B.Ed. (Hons.). A survey questionnaire was adopted by using framework of TAM. The sample of this study are the students studying in at University of Sindh, Hyderabad, Pakistan. In total 77 students were enrolled into four batches of B.Ed. (Hons.) degree program selected through census sampling method. The main findings of the study are that prospective Instructors are fully motivated to use networking sites in their practicum and they are eager to use network in their professional as well. The study concluded that use of network has become integral part of modern -learning process.
The Italian Design Approach to Materials between tangible and intangible meanings

Este artículo aborda el enfoque del diseño italiano de materiales, basado en una larga tradición de desafíos de intercambio entre prácticas intelectuales. Sobre la base de sus estudios anteriores, los autores, centrándose en el diseño y la historia de las empresas, explican el enfoque y las razones del proceso osmótico entre la tecnología y las humanidades en Italia y cómo estos intercambios desafiantes repercuten tanto en la producción como en los desarrollos futuros. Una visión general del paisaje cultural europeo de los tiempos ayuda a centrarse en las principales teorías que todavía representan un bastión de las Humanidades del Diseño. Explorar el significado semiótico de los materiales mejora las exploraciones sobre sus aplicaciones así como las investigaciones nuevas y en curso en el campo del Diseño de Materiales, también en términos de sostenibilidad e interacción.
News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions

This study examined the effects of news use motivations and differing native advertising contexts (hard vs. soft news) on the ability to perceive commercialized content, evaluations of native advertising, and ensuing digital news perceptions. Based upon the framework of the persuasion knowledge model, an online experiment was conducted among a sample of U.S. adults (N = 684). Engaging with news for informational motivations conditioned perceptions of advertising as did the contextual effects of hard versus soft news. Furthermore, hard-news approaches to native advertising were perceived more unfavorably by audiences and tarnished the subsequent reporting of actual journalists.
Art Educators’ Thrift Shopping Practices as Social Action

How do artists and art educators who are engaged in regular thrifting view their consumptive practices? In this article, I draw on a small pilot case study and interview data from five artist–educators living in the southwestern United States and examine the motivations and habits of their thrift shopping practices. Findings shared by participants elucidate their conscious decisions to prioritize the purchase of secondhand goods and personal stories linked to the objects. Five themes about thrift shopping habits emerged from the data: (1) linked to personal identity; (2) utilitarian; (3) activism; (4) objects hold meaning; and (5) thrifting promotes feelings and actions related to relaxation and pleasure. Results conclude that artists and art educators view thrift shopping and consumer culture as a personal, interventionist practice that questions social norms. They also recast thrift shopping as a place of collaborative social practice in which participants have the power to individualize consumption.
Community Policing and Intelligence-Led Policing: An Examination of Convergent or Discriminant Validity

Purpose: Despite increased scholarly inquiry regarding intelligence-led policing and popularity among law enforcement agencies around the globe, ambiguity remains regarding the conceptual foundation and appropriate measurement of ILP. Although most scholars agree that ILP is indeed a unique policing philosophy, there is less consensus regarding the relationship between ILP and the ever-present model of community-oriented policing (COP). Consequently, there is a clear need to study the empirical distinctions and overlaps in these policing philosophies as implemented by U.S. law enforcement agencies. Methods: Data were gleaned from the 2007 LEMAS and 2009 NIJ Intelligence surveys. A total of 227 unique police agencies in the United States are included. A series of bivariate, exploratory factor analyses, and structural models are used to determine discriminatory or convergent validity across COP and ILP constructs. Findings: The goal was to answer the question: Are these two policing philosophies are being implemented as separate and distinct strategies? Results of our exploratory and structural models indicate that COP and ILP loaded on unique latent constructs. This affirms the results of the bivariate correlations, and indicates that COP and ILP have discriminant measurement validity. In other words, COP and ILP are conceptually distinct, even when implemented in police departments across the United States. Implications of these findings, and suggestions for future research are discussed. Originality: This is the first study to empirically test the discriminant or convergent validity of COP and ILP.
An investigation into EFL learners’ reflection in writing and the inhibitors to their reflection

Abstract The present study explored Iranian EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners’ reflective writing and the inhibitors which are a deterrent to write reflectively. The participants consisted of both students and teachers. A researcher-made questionnaire probed the EFL learners’ reflection in writing. The essays produced by the learners were also evaluated to consolidate the findings of the survey. In the second phase of the study, we examined both students’ and teachers’ perceptions about the inhibitors of reflection in EFL writing. To do so, a semi-structured interview was conducted for the students and the themes extracted from the essays were categorized. Afterward, the teachers were given a researcher-made survey of the inhibitors to EFL students’ reflective writing questionnaire (IRWQ). The findings revealed that Iranian EFL writers have noticeable weaknesses in implementing higher-order thinking while writing and they are mostly involved in lower levels of reflection such as habitual actions and understanding. Regarding the reasons, as the results of the interview revealed, students believed that, among other factors, low proficiency is the most important inhibitor while their teachers considered teachers’ lack of training, students’ lack of adequate foreign language (FL) proficiency, and lack of support from the side of teachers as the most influential factors that limit students to write reflectively.
Learning difficulties, alternative conceptions and misconceptions of student teachers about respiratory physiology

ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse the conceptual and procedural difficulties that university students of the Primary Education Degree have about respiratory physiology. To carry out this study a questionnaire was designed in order to assess the knowledge of these future teachers before and after studying the first subject of natural sciences of the degree. The results obtained revealed that the surveyed students have a low level of knowledge about the subject before their arrival at university, which became more evident when they were subjected to procedural and/or comprehension exercises. It has also been found that after completing the subject course, the level of knowledge increases significantly; however, there are still basic conceptual errors and a notable deficit in certain skills or competences on the part of these students that must be resolved.
Sonographers’ communication in obstetrics: Challenges to their professional role and practice in Australia

Despite the clinical importance of patient‐centred care in the sonographer/patient interaction in obstetric ultrasound, there has been very little current research in Australia on sonographer and sonologist communication practices in the event of an adverse finding. This study sought the views, experiences and practices of Australian sonographers, particularly in relation to adverse findings, with consideration of the implications for their professional role and practice.
Elite figure skaters’ experiences of harm in the coach-athlete relationship: A person-centered theory perspective

Abstract Within Rogers’ person-centered theory, unconditional positive regard (UPR) is considered a key construct for cultivating optimal development and psychological functioning, while its opposite constructs—conditional regard, unconditional negative regard, and unconditional positive disregard—are suggested to undermine these processes. Through a basic interpretive qualitative study, we aimed to explore retired elite figure skaters’ perceptions of and experiences with UPR and its opposites in their relationships with former coaches. In this article, we address participants’ experiences of the opposites of UPR (conditional regard, unconditional negative regard, and unconditional positive disregard) from their former coaches. Qualitative content analysis procedures resulted in five dimensions relative to these constructs: (1) Conditional Regard, (2) Unconditional Negative Regard, (3) Unconditional Positive Disregard, (4) Perceived Influence of the Opposites of UPR, and (5) Power and Coach Regard. Results point to participant reports of learning to regard themselves in the same way their coaches regarded them—positively, negatively, or not at all, with or without conditions. Experiences of the opposites of UPR in coach-athlete relationships were, in turn, reported to undermine participants’ trust in their coaches, detrimentally impact their motivation and performance in figure skating, and influence their development of conditional self-regard, negative self-regard or self-disregard. Lay Summary: In this article, we discuss retired elite figure skaters’ experiences with the opposites of UPR—conditional regard, unconditional negative regard, and unconditional positive disregard—in their relationships with former coaches. Participants’ reported that these experiences had detrimental effects on trust for their coaches, motivation, performance, and self-regard.
Phonological cueing of word finding in aphasia: insights from simulations of immediate and treatment effects

ABSTRACT Background: Difficulties with word finding occasionally occur in all speakers and commonly in all aphasia types. An understanding of these difficulties and their treatment-induced improvement is of fundamental scientific and clinical importance. Phonological cueing yields immediate and treatment effects in behavioural and neural measures. Disagreement exists about the locus of the cueing effects in aphasia and whether the effects arise from the same neurocognitive mechanisms as phonological effects in picture naming by healthy speakers. Aims: Computer simulations were conducted to expand our understanding of immediate and treatment effects on word finding in behavioural and neural measures and to examine whether a unified account of the phonological effects in health and disease is possible. Methods & Procedure: Picture naming performance of the WEAVER computer model, which accounts for immediate phonological effects in healthy speakers, was assessed in simulations of immediate and treatment effects of phonological cueing in poststroke aphasia. The model assumes (1) a phonological encoding locus of the cueing effects, (2) a cohort mechanism in cue perception, and (3) activation of lexical and sublexical phonological levels by the cues. Outcomes & Results: The model successfully simulated the empirically observed effects in behavioural naming performance and neural measures. Conclusions: The simulations provide a proof of concept for the idea that immediate and treatment effects of phonological cueing in aphasia arise from the same neurocognitive mechanisms as immediate phonological effects in healthy speakers. This expands our understanding of word finding, associated difficulties, and their improvement by therapy.
EFFECT OF CONSUMPTION VALUES ON CONSUMER SATISFACTION AND BRAND COMMITMENT: INVESTIGATING FUNCTIONAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, AND EPISTEMIC VALUES IN THE RUNNING SHOES MARKET

Firms can acquire sustainable competitive advantages by managing brand relationships and consumption values. However, previous studies do not compare consumption value with consumer satisfaction and brand commitment. Consumption value theory postulates that functional, emotional, social, and epistemic values enhance brand relationships. However, the most effective element of consumption values on consumer satisfaction or brand commitment is different. Specifically regarding running shoes, this article empirically compares functional, emotional, social, and epistemic values with consumer satisfaction and brand commitment. Using a mediated–moderation regression model, this article collected 844 Japanese samples from a marathon in Kobe, Japan, and tested how multiple consumption values affected consumer satisfaction and brand commitment, moderated by age. The results show that consumption values except epistemic value have positive effects on consumer satisfaction and brand commitment. In particular, this article uncovers the moderating effect of age in social values and consumer satisfaction. Specifically, social values affect consumer satisfaction when consumers are under 39 years old. This paper also found that functional value and social value have the strongest effect on consumer satisfaction and brand commitment, respectively, compared with other values. Contravening consumption value theory, our data suggests that epistemic value impedes brand commitment.
Religion in Coalition: Balancing Moderate and Progressive Politics in the Sydney Alliance

This article examines how the engagement of diverse religious organisations and individuals in grassroots politics impacts the nature of politics and coalition building through a case study of an urban grassroots political coalition in Australia: the Sydney Alliance. Based on eight-months of exploratory ethnographic fieldwork in one campaign team, this article argues that whilst religious organisations bring significant symbolic and institutional resources to political coalitions, and can be flexible coalition partners, they tend to moderate both conservative and progressive political tendencies within a coalition and demand focused attention from organisers and leaders to manage the coalition dynamics. This article examines the way many religious activists understand their political action to be an inherent and necessary part of their religious practice: problematizing the characterisation common in much social science literature that religious engagement in more progressive politics primarily serves political, and not religious, ends. In doing so, it shows how political action can be directed both outward towards the work, and inward towards the ‘church’.
Anthropomorphized vs objectified brands: which brand version is more loved?

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with the role of the human metaphor (anthropomorphism) and consumers’ liking for the humanized version of the brand as antecedents of three key components of brand love: self-brand integration, positive emotional connection and feelings of anticipated separation distress. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 399 consumers provided information about a brand from a stated list of 16 brands of clothing. Findings Both anthropomorphism and consumers’ liking for the humanized brand have positive effects on specific components of brand love. The results confirm that brand anthropomorphism is only desirable when the humanized version of the brand is attractive for consumers. Research limitations/implications A potential shortcoming is the qualitative technique employed to observe anthropomorphic thought. Collecting ratings of anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic traits could be viewed as a method more easily applied in market research surveys. Practical implications Managers have to control how consumers imagine the brand as a human entity because it affects brand love. For example, by tracking consumers’ opinions and traits of those people associated with the brand and brand user stereotypes can condition consumers’ imagination of the humanized brand. Originality/value Compared to the limited number of studies about the relationship between anthropomorphism and brand love, this study focuses on the effects of anthropomorphism as a process, and not as a personal trait, on brand love. It also relies on consumers’ imagination instead of brand personification strategies to stimulate anthropomorphism.
THE ENHANCEMENT OF SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT IN PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES DURING A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS

The aim of this qualitative case study was to explore the affordances of a short learning programme to sensitize Technology teachers towards self-directed learning regarding the infusion of indigenous knowledge in the curriculum. The short learning programme on indigenous knowledge was structured according to the steps of problem-based learning. Technology teachers participated in this short learning programme as part of their continuous professional development. Among others, the national curriculum accentuates active learning as well as the appreciation of indigenous knowledge as a valued resource of history and culture. It is essential that Technology teachers are supported to acquire indigenous knowledge themselves and enable them to effectively guide learners in this regard. Accordingly, a short learning programme was developed and implemented for the purpose of the training of Technology teachers. Qualitative data was collected through reflective sheets, a focus group interview, as well as photographic artefacts, in order to generate an integrated qualitative dataset. During meticulous thematic qualitative data analysis, using protocol coding (a priori coding) data was organised and grouped into related themes. The emerging themes not only provided evidence for the acquisition of problem-based learning skills, but also revealed the inherent ability of problem-based learning related to indigenous knowledge, to enhance self-directed learning abilities among Technology teachers.