Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
(In)visible and (Un)heard? Older Adults as Guests on COVID-Related Political Talk Shows in Germany

Abstract Background and Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected older adults. Despite calls to include older people in societal decision making, the extent to which older adults have participated in the pandemic-related public debate is unknown. This study investigated older adults’ (65+ years) voice and visibility as guests on political talk shows as an important arena of public debate. Specifically, we examined how often older adults appeared as guests, their characteristics, and how older versus younger guests discussed the pandemic. Research Design and Methods Judges assessed all guests’ age, gender, migration experience, functional aids, and professional background on all episodes of the 4 most-watched political talk shows in Germany between January 1 to December 31, 2020 (N = 136 episodes, K = 754 guests). We used an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach and frame analysis on all episodes featuring older guests (n = 37), to first identify how guests discussed the pandemic, and then assess differences in positions between older and younger guests (<65 years). Results Older guests rarely appeared (12.2% of all guests, 9.6% of guests on COVID-related episodes) and if they did, they were majorly male, young-old, German-born professionals with no functional aids. Rather than appearing as “peer advocates” of older adults, older guests framed the pandemic similarly to younger guests, with a tendency to more strongly address disproportionate restrictions of civil liberties in society. Discussion and Implications Results suggest that one prominent part of German media failed to represent the diverse voice of a population most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Differences between how older and younger guests discussed the pandemic may reflect their privileged background in addition to generational differences in attitudes toward government. Future research in other social fora and of other social groups of older adults might facilitate understanding how older adults shaped the public debate on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Implementation of the lesson study approach to develop teacher professionalism

The education system should be designed to help in the preparation of individuals for life in the 21st Century. The purpose of this study is to use the Lesson Study approach in studying the geography of the updated content, to improve the professional competencies of teachers based on the results of students' perception levels. The research methods used included observation, experiment, interview, statistical analysis, comparison, and synthesis. The results exhibited that the Lesson Study approach can be used in improving the professional competencies of teachers and increasing the quality of teaching. The main provisions and conclusions obtained in the scientific article can be used to improve teachers' pedagogical skills in the context of the updated education content. Keywords: content update; educational process; Lesson-Study; pedagogical approach.
Proses Penilaian Hasil Belajar Kurikulum 2013 di Sekolah Dasar

Penilaian merupakan bagian yang tak terpisahkan dari pembelajaran, walau pelatihan kurikulum 2013 telah diberikan namun pemahaman akan penilaian hasil belajar masih dirasa kurang. Tujuan penelitian ialah mendeskripsikan proses penilaian hasil belajar kurikulum 2013 di sekolah dasar. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini melibatkan dua orang guru kelas dan satu orang kepala sekolah. Data dikumpulkan dengan teknik wawancara, observasi dan telaah dokumen. Analisis data dilakukan dengan tekhnik miles huberman yang terdiri dari tiga tahap yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data dan kesimpulan. Keabsahan data diuji menggunakan triangulasi sumber dan triangulasi teknik. Hasil dari penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa dalam penilaian hasil belajar kurikulum di sekolah dasar meliputi pada tiga ranah penilaian yaitu afektif, kognitif dan psikomotor, sedangkan proses penilaian dilaksanakan melalui lima tahapan utama yang terdiri dari mengkaji silabus, pembuatan kisi-kisi penilaian, melaksanakan kegiatan penilaian, analisis hasil penilaian dan menyusun laporan penilaian. Berdasarkan pada temuan tersebut, disarankan agar penilaian hasil belajar tetap dilakukan dengan memperhatikan standar penilaian yang telah ditetapkan.
A Facile Review on the Sorption of Heavy Metals and Dyes Using Bionanocomposites

Presently, hazardous metal and dye removal from wastewater is one of the major areas of research focus. For the elimination of these contaminants, many approaches have been devised and applied. However, the accomplishment of various water treatment processes has largely depended on the medium utilized and the associated problem with the leaching of harmful compounds into the water process with most commercial and chemically manufactured materials for water treatment processes. Hence, this study is aimed at reviewing existing studies on the sorption of heavy metals (HMs) and dyes using bionanocomposites (BNCs). The key focus of this review is on the development of eco-friendly, effective, and appropriate nanoadsorbents that could accomplish superior and enhanced contaminant sequestration using BNCs owing to their biodegradability, biocompatible, environmentally friendly, and not posing as secondary waste to the environment. The sorption of most pollutants was observed to be pH, sorbent dosage, and initial contaminant concentration-dependent, with most contaminants’ elimination taking place in the pH range of 2-10. The sorption process of HMs and dyes to various BNCs was superlatively depicted utilizing the Langmuir (LNR) and Freundlich (FL) as well as the pseudo-second-order (PSO) models, suggestive of the sorption process of a monolayer and multilayer and the chemisorption process, the rate-limiting stage in surface sorption. The established sorption capacities for the reviewed sorption process for various contaminants ranged from 1.47 to 740.97 mg/g. Future prospective for the treatment and remediation of contaminated water using BNCs was also discussed.
The Effect of Realistic Mathematics Education on Academic Achievement, Motivation and Retention of Fifth Grade Students

In this study, the effect of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) on fifth grade students’ academic achievement, motivation and retention in "Data Processing" learning domain was investigated. In the research, quasi-experimental design with pre-test post-test control group was used. The research carried out in two secondary schools in the district of Bayat in Afyonkarahisar province in Turkey in the second term of 2018-2019 academic year was conducted with a total of 41 students, 19 of whom were in the experimental group and 22 of whom were in the control group. While the implementations were organized with the RME approach in the experimental group, the control group received instruction in line with the activities included in the Ministry of National Education secondary school mathematics curriculum. In this study, "Evaluation Form of Learning Outputs in Data Processing Learning Domain" and "Mathematical Motivation Scale" were used as data collection tools. The instruments were applied to the experimental and control groups as pre-test, post-test and retention test. As a result of the analysis, there were not any significant differences between achievement, motivation and retention scores of the experimental and control groups.
A Multipath Output-Capacitor-Less LDO Regulator

A multipath output-capacitor-less low-dropout (OCL-LDO) regulator with feedforward path compensation is presented to achieve low power consumption and fast transient response. The proposed OCL-LDO does not require output capacitance and remains stable at no-load(under 100nA) condition. The proposed OCL-LDO regulator has been implemented and fabricated in a 0. 18μm CMOS process, it occupies an active area of 0.0128mm2. The proposed circuit consumes a quiescent current of 0. 6μA at no load and 6. 9μA at the maximum current load current. Regulating the output at 1V from a voltage supply of 1.2V. It achieves full range stability from 100nA to 100mA, and 100pF is the maximum tolerable parasitic capacitance at output. The measurement results show that the load current rises from 0 to 100mA in 100ns, the undershoot voltage is 388mV, and the settling time is 2. 2μs.
Going regional: distributional effect of taxes and transfers in six EU countries and the UK

Within a context of extended periods of financial crises, regional income inequality and poverty have emerged as topics of substantial policy interest. Taxes and social transfers represent some of the most important policy instruments that governments have in their disposal for the mitigation of economic disparities. The aim of this paper is to analyse the distributional effect of taxes and transfers at the regional level in Czechia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and the UK. Using microsimulation techniques, we provide descriptive statistics and estimates of the impact of 2019 tax-benefit policies on poverty and within and between-region inequality. Within-region inequality is found to be the primary explanatory factor of total inequality in all countries studied. Taxation policies do not seem to be able to change the within/between structure of inequality, even in countries with strong regional elements in their income tax policies. Our findings underline the importance of well-designed policies that address territorial inequalities and promote spatial justice, especially in the lowest income regions.
Tab2KG: Semantic table interpretation with lightweight semantic profiles

Tabular data plays an essential role in many data analytics and machine learning tasks. Typically, tabular data does not possess any machine-readable semantics. In this context, semantic table interpretation is crucial for making data analytics workflows more robust and explainable. This article proposes Tab2KG – a novel method that targets at the interpretation of tables with previously unseen data and automatically infers their semantics to transform them into semantic data graphs. We introduce original lightweight semantic profiles that enrich a domain ontology’s concepts and relations and represent domain and table characteristics. We propose a one-shot learning approach that relies on these profiles to map a tabular dataset containing previously unseen instances to a domain ontology. In contrast to the existing semantic table interpretation approaches, Tab2KG relies on the semantic profiles only and does not require any instance lookup. This property makes Tab2KG particularly suitable in the data analytics context, in which data tables typically contain new instances. Our experimental evaluation on several real-world datasets from different application domains demonstrates that Tab2KG outperforms state-of-the-art semantic table interpretation baselines.
University of Groningen Lipoplexes formed from sugar-based gemini surfactants undergo a lamellar-to-micellar phase transition at acidic pH. Evidence for a non-inverted membrane-destabilizing hexagonal phase of lipoplexes Wasungu,

The present study aims at a better understanding of the mechanism of transfection mediated by two sugar-based gemini surfactants GS1 and GS2. Previously, these gemini surfactants have been shown to be efficient gene vectors for transfection both in vitro and in vivo. Here, using Nile Red, a solvatochromic fluorescent probe, we investigated the phase behavior of these gemini surfactants in complexes with plasmid DNA, so-called lipoplexes. We found that these lipoplexes undergo a lamellar-to-non-inverted micellar phase transition upon decreasing the pH from neutral to mildly acidic. This normal (non-inverted) phase at acidic pH is confirmed by the colloidal stability of the lipoplexes as shown by turbidity measurements. We therefore propose a normal hexagonal phase, HI, for the gemini surfactant lipoplexes at acidic endosomal pH. Thus, we suggest that besides an inverted hexagonal (HII) phase as reported for several transfection-potent cationic lipid systems, another type of noninverted non-bilayer structure, different from HII, may destabilize the endosomal membrane, necessary for cytosolic DNA delivery and ultimately, cellular transfection. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective

Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective Sydney Sohler Department of Linguistics, BYU Master of Arts Listening is one of the key skills needed to be proficient in a second language (L2). Some L2 teachers support the development of L2 learners’ listening skills by providing input in a different sensory mode (e.g., reading). Nevertheless, developing L2 listening skills using more than one sensory mode, may lead to cognitive overload. In order to provide effective L2 listening instruction, teachers need to know what learning strategies will help students improve their listening skills. This quasi-experimental study examined the benefits of reading a text while listening to it and the effect that reading-while-listening (RWL) has on an L2 learner's listening comprehension. The study was done with intermediate-level, English as a Second Language (ESL) students in two pre-existing classes at the English Language Center (ELC) in Provo, Utah, with one class using a teaching method that included reading and listening together and one class that did no reading, just listening. The results of this study showed that both the control group and treatment group significantly improved their listening comprehension skills over the course of 14 weeks. For the treatment group which had used RWL, however, their listening scores were not significantly different from those of the control group. The pedagogical implications of the findings for second language teachers teaching listening skills are also discussed.
Reply on RC2

This study suggests an approach to adapt the KGE through transformation with a Gamma distribution so that it can be better used as an informal likelihood function in calibration procedures. The study finds that the results and inference behavior when using this adapted KGE measure are very similar to the case when using the RMSE as a likelihood function. In a synthetic case study, it is also shown that the presented approach successfully re-infers the known true parameter values.
Running Head : THE DIALOGICAL ENTAILMENT TASK The Dialogical Entailment Task

In this paper, a critical discussion is made of the role of entailments in the so-called New Paradigm of psychology of reasoning based on Bayesian models of rationality (Elqayam & Over, 2013). It is argued that assessments of probabilistic coherence cannot stand on their own, but that they need to be integrated with empirical studies of intuitive entailment judgments. This need is motivated not just by the requirements of probability theory itself, but also by a need to enhance the interdisciplinary integration of the psychology of reasoning with formal semantics in linguistics. The constructive goal of the paper is to introduce a new experimental paradigm, called the Dialogical Entailment task, to supplement current trends in the psychology of reasoning towards investigating knowledge-rich, social reasoning under uncertainty (Oaksford and Chater, 2019). As a case study, this experimental paradigm is applied to reasoning with conditionals and negation operators (e.g. CEM and wide and narrow-scope negation). As part of the investigation, participants’ entailment judgments are evaluated against their probability evaluations to assess participants’ cross-task consistency over two experimental sessions.
Control-oriented meta-learning

Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory tracking performance, provided that any uncertain dynamics terms are linearly parameterizable with known nonlinear features. However, it is often difficult to specify such features a priori, such as for aerodynamic disturbances on rotorcraft or interaction forces between a manipulator arm and various objects. In this paper, we turn to data-driven modeling with neural networks to learn, offline from past data, an adaptive controller with an internal parametric model of these nonlinear features. Our key insight is that we can better prepare the controller for deployment with control-oriented meta-learning of features in closed-loop simulation, rather than regression-oriented meta-learning of features to fit input-output data. Specifically, we meta-learn the adaptive controller with closed-loop tracking simulation as the base-learner and the average tracking error as the meta-objective. With both fully actuated and underactuated nonlinear planar rotorcraft subject to wind, we demonstrate that our adaptive controller outperforms other controllers trained with regression-oriented meta-learning when deployed in closed-loop for trajectory tracking control.
Title: Short-Term Therapeutic Effects of Anti-Gravity Treadmill Training on Brain Functional Activities and Walking Capacity in Children With Cerebral Palsy Running Title: AlterG Training in Children with CP

1. Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Department of Basic Science, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 4. Neuroscience Research Centre (NRC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 5. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, USA.
Tree stem detection in high resolution ALS data

Thanks to recent advancements in LIDAR technology, it is now possible to get detailed information about forests with an accuracy that can compete with conventional methods. The sensors can be worn by humans, put on vehicles and can recently even be put on drones. This report investigates the possibility to automatically detect tree stems in high-resolution, low-height, airborne laser scanned data (ALS), collected by a helicopter. The developed algorithm is projecting the data set onto the horizontal plane and filters the low-density areas. This filtered plane is then segmented into clusters based on a small distance, and each cluster is checked to see if it has the expected properties of a stem. This is done in multiple directions in order to find additional stems standing at an angle. The algorithm showed promising results and this approach could potentially be useful in this type of data.
Screening Repurposed Antiviral Small Molecules as Antimycobacterial Compounds by a Lux-Based phoP Promoter-Reporter Platform

The emergence of multidrug-resistant strains and hyper-virulent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are big therapeutic challenges for tuberculosis (TB) control. Repurposing bioactive small-molecule compounds has recently become a new therapeutic approach against TB. This study aimed to identify novel anti-TB agents from a library of small-molecule compounds via a rapid screening system. A total of 320 small-molecule compounds were used to screen for their ability to suppress the expression of a key virulence gene, phop, of the M. tuberculosis complex using luminescence (lux)-based promoter-reporter platforms. The minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations on drug-resistant M. tuberculosis and cytotoxicity to human macrophages were determined. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was conducted to determine the drug mechanisms of the selected compounds as novel antibiotics or anti-virulent agents against the M. tuberculosis complex. The results showed that six compounds displayed bactericidal activity against M. bovis BCG, of which Ebselen demonstrated the lowest cytotoxicity to macrophages and was considered as a potential antibiotic for TB. Another ten compounds did not inhibit the in vitro growth of the M. tuberculosis complex and six of them downregulated the expression of phoP/R significantly. Of these, ST-193 and ST-193 (hydrochloride) showed low cytotoxicity and were suggested to be potential anti-virulence agents for M. tuberculosis.
A Literature Review of the YouTube Phenomenon and the Teaching and Learning Practices

In the past decade, Internet platforms have undergone a steady and rapid growth. Within this context, their use by young people becomes significative. YouTube is not the exception to this phenomenon, furthermore, it has gained relevance both in quantitative and qualitative terms, that is, in the number of subscribers and visualizations, as well as in the variety of content that it offers. Thus, in order to widen the horizon and understand how young people experience the world, and based on the assumption that platforms are key spaces for this purpose, this work presents a literature review where the most relevant contributions regarding YouTube and its relation to the teaching and learning practices are collected. Finally, based on the vacancies we have identified, we present some considerations that stem from this analysis and offer some possible future lines of investigation.
Level of Compliance of the Local Government Units (LGUs) in the Implementation and Enforcement of R.A. 9003 (known as Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000) in CALABARZON

This study used the descriptive research method to determine the level of compliance, implementation, enforcement, and problems encountered in the implementation and enforcement of Republic Act No. 9003 in Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon (CALABARZON). Purposive sampling technique was used to identify the 148 respondents from City Environment and Natural Resources Office/Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO/MENRO) and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in CALABARZON. The frequency, percentage, and mean were used to treat the data gathered. The study revealed that the Local Government Units (LGUs) fully comply to R.A. No. 9003 as they create a Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB) at provincial, city/municipal, and barangay; prepare; and submit a 10-year Solid Waste Management Plan (SMWP). The LGUs implement and enforce R.A. No. 9003 in CALABARZON. Uncooperative residents and strict implementation and enforcement of R.A. No. 9003 by LGUs are the serious problems encountered in the implementation and enforcement of R.A. No. 9003.