Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Making sense of supervision : a narrative study of the supervision experiences of mental health nurses and midwives

This paper looks at the process of constructing stories from interview data. As part of my doctoral research I am using narrative inquiry to understand nurses and midwives’ experiences of supervision (a supportive practice in which practitioners are encouraged to reflect on their clinical work). I regard narrative as offering a way of knowing that is richly contextualised and allows access to the everyday interpretation of experience. My perspective on narrative is particularly guided by the work of Ricoeur, and I seek to understand narrative in terms of both structure and performance, and both individual experience and social discourses. In this paper I’m going to use one story in particular in order to explore how I have produced a topic-centred narrative from oral interview data. I discuss how production of this story began with the delineation of the features of narrative using Gee’s socio-linguistic approach; looking and listening for these features within the interview in order to make a prosodic transcription which reflects speaking rhythms more closely than a prose transcript. The narrative sections were then reconfigured to form topic-centred stories. The wholeness of narrative is uniquely meaningful, and I will discuss the implications of this process by which the wholeness of the interview is fractured and a new wholeness is formed. The meaning of narrative is also in the fluid connection between author and audience, and I consider what happens to meaning as the role of the researcher moves from audience to author and so begins a new mimetic cycle by re-emplotting the fragments of narrative.
PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF MICROCOS PANICULATA

The objective of this study was to determine the antimicrobial activity of methanol, chloroform and aqueous extracts of Microcos Paniculata leaves against some gram positive and gram negative bacteria such as B. subtilis, B. cereus, S. typhi, V. cholerae , P. mirabilis, E.coli, S. aureus, Serratia spp. , Erwinia spp. , Pseudomonas spp. , Salmonella spp. , Shigella boydii, B. megaterium. The in vitro antimicrobial activity was performed by agar disc diffusion method. However, maximum antimicrobial activity of the plant extracts was found against gram negative bacteria. Among the plant extracts, methanolic extract of Microcos Paniculata leaves showed highest zone of inhibition (27mm) against Salmonella spp. So, the Microcos Paniculata leaves may be a source of antimicrobial agent.
The desire for socio-cultural similarity in a mate

The Desire for Socio cultural Similarity in a Mate By Nelse M. Ostlund, B.A. Dr. Murray Millar, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas Various socio-cultural domains were investigated for the influence they may have on mating decisions. 102 male and 114 female university students were presented “potential dates” from a mock Internet dating service. Potential dates were described in terms of their ethnicity, music interest, education, leisure interest, occupation, religious affiliation, political affiliation, language, socio-economic status, and style of dress. Potential dates’ socio-cultural traits were determined randomly according to a computer program. For each of these domains, information was gathered regarding the level of similarity between participant and potential date. After reviewing all traits, participants rated the potential date in terms of how desirable he/she was as a romantic partner. Ratings of similarity were used to predict desirability judgments. A multiple regression analysis revealed that socio-cultural similarity was a substantial predictor of desirability. In particular, similar music interest was the
Identifying Disaster Damage Images Using a Domain Adaptation Approach

Approaches for eﬀectively ﬁltering useful situational awareness information posted by eyewitnesses of disasters, in real time, are greatly needed. While many studies have focused on ﬁltering textual information, the research on ﬁltering disaster images is more limited. In particular, there are no studies on the applicability of domain adaptation to ﬁlter images from an emergent target disaster, when no labeled data is available for the target disaster. To ﬁll in this gap, we propose to apply a domain adaptation approach, called domain adversarial neural networks (DANN), to the task of identifying images that show damage. The DANN approach has VGG-19 as its backbone, and uses the adversarial training to ﬁnd a transformation that makes the source and target data indistinguishable. Experimental results on several pairs of disasters suggest that the DANN model generally gives similar or better results as compared to the VGG-19 model ﬁne-tuned on the source labeled data.
Housing Poverty in Rural Areas Greater for Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Many rural areas have grown both economically and in population during the 1990’s. Increased metro-tononmetro migration has raised questions about the adequacy of existing housing and amenities. The housing cost burden (housing costs as a proportion of income) continues to be a major problem across the United States. While the extent of housing disadvantage varies across rural population groups, it is greater for racial and ethnic minorities than for Whites (Mikesell). Minorities are an increasing proportion of the rural population, particularly among children and younger adults (Cook). The growth rate from immigration continues to be fairly constant. The low birth rate among non-Hispanic Whites is offset by higher birth rates for minority groups, particularly among relatively recent immigrants. If current trends continue, minorities will approach 50 percent of the U.S. population by the year 2050 (Bureau of the Census). Although the proportion of minorities is lower in the rural than in the urban population, specific minority groups are highly concentrated in some rural regions.
Modeling Individual ’ s Familiarity of Places Using Social Media

II LIST OF FIGURES . V LIST OF TABLES . VI LIST OF FORMULAS . VII Chapter 1: Introduction.1 1.1 Background and Motivation . 1 1.2 Research Objectives . 2 1.3 Organization of the Thesis . 2 Chapter 2: Spatial Cognition and Discovering Meaningful Places . 4 2.1 Spatial Cognition . 4 2.2 The Notion of Place.6 2.3 Individual's Familiarity of Places . 8 2.4 Discovering Individual's Meaningful Places . 8 Chapter 3: From Social Media to Meaningful Places . 11 3.1 Volunteered Geographic Information . 11 3.2 Foursquare . 12 3.3 Place Identification Using Social Media . 17 Chapter 4: Identification of Individual’s Meaningful Places . 20 4.1 Clustering Algorithms . 20 4.1.1 Hierarchical Clustering Methods . 20 4.1.2 Partitioning Clustering Methods . 21 4.1.3 Density-based Clustering Methods . 22 4.1. 4 Model-based Clustering Methods . 26
Analyzing sentiments in Tweets about Wal-Mart’s gender discrimination lawsuit verdict using SAS Text Miner

Social Media has gained considerable attention as a valuable source to monitor customers and public reactions following corporate events. Especially the Tweets posted on Twitter are often used to spot trends, moods and sentiments of customers and public. Given the huge volume of tweets that gets posted every day, it is extremely difficult for firms to spot current trends related to public’s expressed sentiments about activities of the firm in the tweets. This paper demonstrates the application of a SAS® macro (%GetTweet) to collect and summarize tweets and then an application of sentiment analysis on the fetched tweets using SAS Text Miner using directed search and summarization of specific text items.
Antibacterial immune functions of subadults and adults in a semelparous spider

Although capacity to mount an efficient immune response plays a critical role in individuals’ survival, its dynamics across ontogenetic stages is still largely unexplored. Life stage-dependent variation in the encountered diversity and prevalence of parasites were proposed to contribute to stage-dependent changes in immunity, but differences in life history objectives between developmental stages may also lead to stage-specific changes in efficiency of given immune mechanisms. The reason for this is that juveniles and subadults are unable to reproduce, therefore they invest resources mainly into survival, while adults have to partition their resources between survival and reproduction. The general trade-off between somatic maintenance and reproductive effort is expected to impair immune function. Especially so in semelparous organisms that only reproduce once throughout their lifetime, hence they do not face the trade-off between current and future reproduction. We hypothesised that in a semelparous species individuals would be characterised by decreased investment into somatic maintenance after maturation, in order to maximise their reproductive output. Accordingly, we predicted that (1) elements of somatic maintenance, such as immunity, should be relatively weaker in adults in comparison to subadults, and (2) increased reproductive investment in adults should be associated with lower immune efficiency. We quantified two markers of immunity in subadult and adult individuals of the semelparous wolf spider Pardosa agrestis (Westring, 1861), namely bacterial growth inhibition power and bacterial cell wall lytic activity. We found that subadults showed significantly higher cell wall lytic activity than adults, but the two life stages did not differ in their capacity to inhibit bacterial growth. Also, we found weaker immune measures in mated females compared to virgins. Furthermore, in mated females bacterial growth inhibition power was negatively associated with fecundity.
THE INFORMATIONAL DIVIDEND OF DEMOCRACY ∗

Prevailing explanations view democracy as an institutional arrangement that solves a class con ict between a rich elite and the rest of population. We study the logic of democratic transition when ethnic tensions are more salient than the poor/rich divide. We build a simple theory where (i) ethnic groups negotiate over allocating the economic surplus and (ii) both military and political mobilizations rest on the unobserved strength of ethnic identity. By eliciting information on mobilization, free and fair elections restore inter-ethnic bargaining e ciency and prevent con ict outbreak. We show that democratic transition can be rationally chosen by autocrats, even if it involves a risk of losing power, as elections reduce the informational rent of the opposition, allowing the legitimately elected ruler to grab more economic surplus. Our setup generates new predictions on the nature of political regime, government tenure, ethnic favoritism and social unrest for ethnically divided countries all consistent with both country-level and ethnic-level panel evidence on democratization in the post-decolonization period. JEL classi cation: C72, D02, D72, D74, D82, P16.
I. INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT FOR CDFA AGREEMENT NUMBER 15-0138-SA II. TITLE OF PROJECT. Development of a biological control for Pierce’s disease III. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, CO-INVESTIGATORS, AND COOPERATORS. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

X. fastidiosa (Xf) is a Gram-negative, xylem-limited bacterium that causes Pierce’s disease (PD) of grapevines (Chatterjee et al. 2008). Xf is transmitted to plants by insect vectors and once in the xylem, Xf is postulated to migrate, aggregate, and form biofilm that clogs the vessels leading to PD. We, and others, have studied Xf proteins and genetic mechanisms involved in these steps (Guilhabert and Kirkpatrick 2005, Meng et al. 2005, Feil et al. 2007, Li et al. 2007, Shi et al. 2007, da Silva Neto et al. 2008, Cursino et al. 2009, Cursino et al. 2011, Cursino et al. 2015) with the goal of better understanding PD virulence and for development of prevention strategies.
Activation Energy of Carbon Materials Formation from Xylene

Rcent studies discuss the formation mechanism of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactors based on the measured activation energies of CNT formation. In most cases, the activation energies are simply calculated from Arrhenius plots of CNT yield (or CNT length) vs. 1/T (T, temperature) at different reaction temperatures. Reaction conditions such as gas-phase species and their molar concentrations, however, are different at different temperatures, possibly causing errors in the calculation of activation energies by these simple methods. We propose an inverse method that considers the effect of gas-phase reactions to calculate the activation energies. To demonstrate the method, we measured gas-phase concentrations in a CVD reactor and calculated the activation energy of carbon materials formation from xylene using the measured gas concentrations. Nomenclature dp particle diameter T temperature z height  collision frequency function  gas mean free path subscripts g gas phase p particle
Vowel Space Area in Speech of Children with Hearing Impairment

Background: Hearing impairment either congenital or prelingual has marked effects on the articulatory movements. Children with hearing impairment have problems in coordination of tongue and jaw movements and can be analysed acoustically by constructing vowel space area. Even though some studies on vowel space area in speech of children with hearing impairment have been carried out, most of these studies are hardly conclusive. Aim of the study: The present study aimed at documenting the difference across formant frequencies and vowel working space area between children with hearing impairment and age-matched control
Block designs for assembling interlocking structures

This paper presents a design for interlocking blocks and an algorithm that allows these blocks to be assembled into desired shapes. During and after assembly, the structure is kinematically interlocked if if a small number of blocks are immobilized relative to other blocks. There are two types of blocks: cubes and double-height posts, each with a particular set of male and female joints. Simulation results show planned layouts for shapes involving thousands of blocks, and shapes with several hundred blocks have been built by hand. As a proof of concept, a robot was used to assemble 16 blocks. The paper also describes a method for assembling blocks in parallel.
GEOSPATIAL DATA ANALYTICS: TerraFly Case Study

Disasters, whether environmental or manmade, have catastrophic impacts that require both quick action and long-term interventions. Mitigating the effects of those disasters requires knowledge about similar events and advanced disaster planning. Major challenges in disaster planning and intervention include a lack of up-to-date information on situational and environmental conditions, major communication gaps, and a lack of effective coordination in planning and recovery operations. With a worldwide average of 387 natural disasters a year alone[3], it is imperative that solutions are found to combat and eliminate these problems. The implementation of cutting-edge technology, in particular, is key for advancement of the science and solutions for disaster mitigation[4][5].
Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic

The methods of magicians provide powerful tools for enhancing the ecological validity of laboratory studies of attention. The current research borrows a technique from magic to explore the relationship between microsaccades and covert attention under near-natural viewing conditions. We monitored participants’ eye movements as they viewed a magic trick where a coin placed beneath a napkin vanishes and reappears beneath another napkin. Many participants fail to see the coin move from one location to the other the first time around, thanks to the magician’s misdirection. However, previous research was unable to distinguish whether or not participants were fooled based on their eye movements. Here, we set out to determine if microsaccades may provide a window into the efficacy of the magician’s misdirection. In a multi-trial setting, participants monitored the location of the coin (which changed positions in half of the trials), while engaging in a delayed match-to-sample task at a different spatial location. Microsaccades onset times varied with task difficulty, and microsaccade directions indexed the locus of covert attention. Our combined results indicate that microsaccades may be a useful metric of covert attentional processes in applied and ecologically valid settings.
Addressing Preferential Flow in Landfills by Finite Difference and Marker-in-cell Method

The leachate emission to groundwater is considered to be largest longterm impacts related to landfilling. Therefore it is important to study landfill hydrology for quantifying the emission potential of landfill. Municipal solid waste landfills are heterogeneous, unsaturated and highly porous. We believe this nature of landfills leads to the emergence of preferential pathways for the leachate produced. In this research we explore the origin of preferential flow in a porous media in a two dimensional deterministic model. In this model the water transport is represented by Richards equation and the non-sorbing, single component, solute transport by advection dispersion equation. We discretized the Richard’s Equation by fully implicit finite difference method and the advection dispersion equation by characteristics based on marker-in-cell scheme. We simulate three systematic heterogeneous dry soil domains with defined hydraulic properties and different infiltration rates, which are compared with the homogeneous soil domain with similar infiltration conditions. We investigate the occurrence of channeled flow and solute transport in heterogeneous soil domain explained as emerging non-equilibrium. Upscaled drainage relationship of cumulative mass break through curves with number of pore volumes addresses this non-equilibrium effect and hence helps to notify the preserved preferential phenomenon. In our unsaturated two dimensional model we consider different spatial heterogeneities and different infiltration scenarios as controlling factors affecting equilibrium of flow and solute transport leading for preferential pathways as could be analogous to preferential pathways in a full scale landfill.
Design for Collaborative Information-Seeking

Although Collaborative Information-Seeking (CIS) is becoming prevalent as people engage in shared decision-making, interface components adopted in the most commonly used information seeking tools (e.g., search, filter, select, and sort) are designed for individual use. To deepen our understanding of (1) how such single-user designs affect people's consensus building processes in CIS and (2) how to devise an alternative design to improve current practices, we conducted two 4-week diary studies and observed how groups seek out places together. Our studies focus on social event coordination as a case where CIS is necessary and important. In Study 1, we examined the major challenges people encounter when performing CIS using their preferred tools. These challenges include difficulties in capturing mutual preferences, high communication cost, and disparity of work depending on a group member's perceived role as an organizer or invitee. We discovered that improving a group's shared understanding of the target information they seek (e.g., places, products) could potentially address the challenges. In Study 2, we designed, deployed, and evaluated ComeTogether, a novel system that supports a group's social event coordination. ComeTogether adopts Collaborative Dynamic Queries (C-DQ), an interface designed to allow a group to share their preferences regarding potential destinations. Study 2 results indicate that using C-DQ increased users' awareness of other group members' preferences in performing CIS, making their coordination more transparent, more inviting, and fairer than what their current practice allows. Meanwhile, ComeTogether improved communication efficiency of groups while presenting opportunities to learn about others and to discover new places. We provide implications for design that explain considerations for adopting C-DQ and identify future research directions.
Diagnosis of Mental Health Issues In Social Forums Using Semantic Biomarkers, Markovian Models and Artificial Intelligence

Introduction At every stage of life, our mental health is an integral part of our overall well-being. In the emotional roller coaster of life, what constitutes good mental health is somewhat fuzzy. Our behavior and indirectly our actions are indeed dependent on our mental well-being underlying its importance. Figure 1 depicts statistics on the prevalence of mental illness in the United States. Note that approximately 1 out of 5 adults is affected by mental illness which corresponds to a significant portion of the population!
The Effect of Video Technology on Shiraz University Medical Students ’ Writing Self-efficacy

The current study investigates the effec t of video technology on writing self-efficacy. The dependent variable in this research is writing self-efficacy and the independent variable is video technology. This research is experimental in nature and sixty three students, both male and female, participated in this study. The population of the study was the medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. They were d ivided into two groups. The treatment group consisted of 31 students and the control group 32 s tudents. The questionnaire used in this study was adapted from Donald O. Prickel’s research (1994 ) and was scored based on the Likert scale for the writing self-efficacy. The data were gather ed in a Pretest-Treatment-Posttest design. The results indicated that there was a positive relatio nship between video technology use and the students’ writing self-efficacy. However, there was no difference between male and female students’ writing self-efficacy.
Part V Optical Power Threshold 1 Optical Power Threshold of Single-Mode Optical Fibers

When the fiber fuse phenomenon occurs in a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), there is a threshold incident optical power. The optical power threshold required to generate a fiber fuse has been investigated for various SMFs by several research institutes [1]–[13]. In the conventional measurement method, a fiber fuse is generated by applying a high incident power beforehand. The incident optical power is gradually decreased, and the optical power at the time when the fiber fuse disappears is set as a threshold value. In this method, the rate of reduction of the optical power has not been decided, and since different research institutions have used different values, variation has been observed in the reported threshold values [14]. In contrast, Todoroki proposed the generation of a fiber fuse by injecting a laser beam kept at a constant power in increments of 0.01 W, and setting the threshold as the minimum value at which the fuse stably propagates [9]– [13]. Using this technique, Todoroki found that the optical power threshold of SMF-28e, which is a typical SMF, varies with the coating condition [9]. In addition, it has been reported that the optical power threshold has a strong correlation (proportional relation) with the mode field radius ω of the optical fiber [1]–[5]. It is considered that the stopping (disappearance) of the fiber fuse is related to the thermal balance in the optical fiber. The heat source Q̇ in the following heat conduction equation represents the magnitude of heat generation due to light absorption,
Edinburgh Explorer Observation of double charm production involving open charm in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

: The production of J / ψ mesons accompanied by open charm, and of pairs of open charm hadrons are observed in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 355 pb − 1 collected with the LHCb detector. Model independent measurements of absolute cross-sections are given together with ratios to the measured J / ψ and open charm cross-sections. The properties of these events are studied and compared to theoretical predictions.