Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using ePortfolios in early childhood education: Recalling, reconnecting, restarting and learning

Portfolios are widely used in New Zealand for documenting children’s learning; there is now an increasing move to online ePortfolios. This article presents findings from a doctoral study which investigated the impact of the introduction of ePortfolios in an early childhood education setting where traditional paper-based portfolios were previously used as the formative assessment tool for children’s learning. The findings demonstrate that a significant benefit of the ePortfolio system used in this study was the ways in which they could support children to revisit their learning and become involved in their own formative assessment. This is described as recalling, reconnecting and restarting. Through participating in these processes, children become active contributors to their own learning journeys which is a significant factor of formative assessment.
Discrete modeling of building structures geometric images

For discrete modeling of geometric images, it is possible to use the numerical method of finite differences, the static-geometric method, the mathematical apparatus of numerical sequences. Each of them has certain advantages and disadvantages, which depend on the solution of specific practical problems.This article proposes to use the geometric apparatus of superpositions together with the above-mentioned methods. It allows significantly to improve the efficiency and expanding capacities of the process of geometric images discrete modeling. In particular, it makes it possible to investigate an opportunity of interpolating as parabolic functions as well as other elementary functional dependencies.The purpose of this article is to expand capacities of the classical finite difference method and static-geometric method by using the geometric apparatus of superpositions. It allows using hyperbolic functions as interpolators for the geometric images discrete modeling.The result of this study is the obtained interpolating and extrapolating templates, which allow modeling geometric images of architectural and building constructions in a form of chain lines discrete frames.
Exploring the effect of music education on intercultural sensitivity in early adolescence: a mixed methods inquiry

ABSTRACT The purpose of this convergent parallel mixed methods study was to explore changes in levels of intercultural sensitivity after a group of early adolescent students participated in a high–immersion, culturally diverse music curriculum intervention. Intercultural sensitivity was conceptualised through Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS). Quantitative data analysis indicated students (n = 139) scored significantly higher on the Adapted Intercultural Sensitivity Index (AISI) after the curriculum intervention. Within interviews, five of ten participants provided statements that indicated clear growth along the DMIS continuum, while the other five interviewees indicated approximately the same level of intercultural sensitivity after the curriculum intervention. Quantitative results and qualitative findings confirmed each other in the majority of cases and only contradicted each other in one, which added an additional layer of trustworthiness to these findings. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Alignment of Curriculum Elements at the Course Level : Two Useful Tools

The paper aims at highlighting the significance of alignment in teaching and learning (T&L) activities and processes. Focus is on alignment issues related to learning outcomes (LOs) and assessment at the course level of an undergraduate program in an outcome-based education (OBE) environment.Two tools commonly used at this level are focused on : the course plan (CP) and the course report (CR), the latter also assisting in providing feedback on the level of delivery and achievement of course LOs (CLOs). The general harmony of the contents of the tools with two academic accreditation criteria and standards is also considered. A number of mapping matrices and blueprints considered to be useful for aligning the various course level curriculum components are compiled to be included as part of the documents of the two tools.
“Out on the edge of my comfort”: Trainee counsellor/psychotherapists' experiences of spirituality in therapy—A qualitative exploration

The integration of spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy poses complex challenges. Personal spirituality, professional competency and ethical considerations may impact on trainees’ experiences of integrating spirituality into therapy. This study adopted an inductive, qualitative approach to explore trainee counsellor/psychotherapists’ experiences and perceptions of integrating spirituality into therapy. Six trainee counsellors and psychotherapists were recruited using purposive sampling from a professional counsellor and psychotherapist training institution in the UK. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis of the interviews revealed two overarching themes: spirituality provides support but needs a warning; and spirituality is relevant but undervalued. These themes encompass a wide range of trainee concerns associated with integrating spirituality into therapy. Participants reported that they felt unprepared to work therapeutically with clients’ spiritual beliefs. However, the value of spirituality in providing support to both the trainee and their clients was highlighted by several participants. Some participants described integrating clients’ spirituality as having a positive impact on the therapeutic relationship, but often felt threatening to the trainee. This research has implications that are important as consideration for counselling and psychotherapy training and developing enhanced consideration of client spirituality and the interpersonal environment in which therapy is delivered.
A qualitative research of humanitarian workers’ perceptions of preventing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, Bangladesh

During humanitarian crises, there are priorities to solve immediately such as shelter, food and water. Overcrowding in make-shift settlements and rapid population movement in spontaneous settlements and refugee camps, challenge the capacity of humanitarian workers to implement initiatives to prevent GBV. Forms of GBV can be grouped into four general categories such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional and psychosocial abuse and economic abuse. GBV inflicts harm on women and girls. However, how and when GBV interventions take place? when, will, can those issues become a priority? The main objective of this research is to investigate the experiences of GBV interventions in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, and how they are perceived by humanitarian workers from different sectors. This is a qualitative interview study, guided by a conceptual framework developed from a literature review on GBV in emergency settings, and the IASC guidelines for integrating GBV interventions in humanitarian action. The data was summarized in a data matrix based on the conceptual framework, and also including emerging issues.
A Review of the Evidence for Real-Time Performance Feedback to Improve Instructional Practice

In this comprehensive review, 32 studies were identified in which researchers investigated the effect of real-time performance feedback delivered via technology on interventionist implementation of instructional practices. Studies were evaluated for methodological rigor with quality indicators from the Council for Exceptional Children. Twenty-two single case designs and one group design met all quality indicators. The single case designs were analyzed using visual analysis and given success estimates calculated as a ratio of the number of demonstrated effects to potential demonstrations of effect. Methodologically sound evidence indicates that real-time performance feedback is an evidence-based practice for changing interventionist behavior during intervention sessions. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Extended Security Analysis of Hollow Captchas

Text-based Captchas are now most widely used security technology for differentiating between computers and humans. Hollow Captchas have emerged as one of the latest designs, and they have been deployed by more and more major companies. Besides Yahoo! , Tencent, Sina, China Mobile and Baidu, some other websites, especially for higher security requirement shopping websites are also using this scheme. A main feature of such schemes is to use contour lines to form connected hollow characters with the aim of improving security and usability simultaneously. It is hard for standard techniques to segment and recognize such connected characters, which are however easy for human eyes. In this paper, we provide a systematic security analysis of hollow Captchas. We show that with a simple but novel attack, we can break most hollow Captchas with a relatively high success rate, including those deployed by the major companies. Our attack for the first time combines segmentation and recognition in a single step. We also discuss lessons and guidelines for designing better Captchas.
Partial Fraction Decomposition of Matrices and Parallel Computing

We are interested in the design of parallel numerical schemes for linear systems. We give an effective solution to this problem in the following case: the matrix A of the linear system is the product of p nonsingular matrices A mi with speciﬁc shape: A i = I − h i X for a ﬁxed matrix X and real numbers h i . Although having a special form, these matrices A i arise frequently in the discretization of evolutionary Partial Differential Equations. For example, one step of the implicit Euler scheme for the evolution equation u ′ = Xu reads ( I − hX ) u n + 1 = u n . Iterating m times such a scheme leads to a linear system Au n + m = u n . The idea is to express A − 1 as a linear combination of elementary matrices A − 1 i (or more generally in term of matrices A − k i ). Hence the solution of the linear system with matrix A is a linear combination of the solutions of linear systems with matrices A i (or A ki ). These systems are then solved simultaneously on different processors.
Job satisfaction and job stress: An empirical study on academicians in Goa

The main objective of the paper was to evaluate the factors leading to job satisfaction and job stress among the academician in the state of Goa. Sampling technique used in the study was random and convenience sampling considering factors such as population size, time and cost constraints, and precision while selecting the sample size. The total respondents who managed to complete and return the questionnaire were 183 from different colleges in Goa. The results reviled that job satisfaction and job stress has a significant difference across demographic variables. The results also revealed that there is significant difference across the different factors evaluated.
EACL 2014 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL)

As an academic and an artist my practice-based research is at the intersection of language, art and digital technology. It explores the area of the in-between, the visual, the aural and the semantic. I am always interested in experimenting with the digital medium with the aim of engaging the reader/viewer/user in an experience of shifting ‘in’ and ‘out’ of language. This involves looking ‘at’ and looking ‘through’ transparent and abstract textualities and linguistic soundscapes. It draws from avant-garde poetics remediating concepts of reading and writing, exploring digital media grammars (voice activation, use of webcam, use of mouse, acts of revealing, triggering, cut and paste, dragging) for interactivity, aesthetics, engagement and meaning production. It is trans-disciplinary, bringing together different cultural, artistic and literary traditions such as: linguistics, fine art, visual, concrete and sound poetry, with digital poetics, electronic writing, and new media art theories and practices.
Adaptação transcultural da multidimensional scale of perceived social support (mspss) para o português (Brasil)

O apoio social e compreendido como um processo dinâmico e complexo que envolve transacoes entre os sujeitos e suas redes sociais, promovendo e completando os recursos individuais que possuem para enfrentarem novas exigencias. Para afericao do apoio social, tem-se visto um crescente interesse no uso da Multidimensional ScaleofPerceived Social Support (MSPSS), que foi desenvolvida nos Estados Unidos. Esta escala ja foi adaptada para varios paises e apresentou propriedades psicometricas satisfatorias. Embasando-se em tais aspectos, esta pesquisa e uma adaptacao transcultural descritiva, analitica e transversal que teve como objetivo promover a adaptacao transcultural da MSPSS para o portugues brasileiro. Para isso foi utilizado o metodo de adaptacao transcultural (ATC) para serem cumpridas as seguintes etapas de equivalencias: conceitual, de itens, semântica, operacional e de mensuracao. Como resultado das tres primeiras etapas, foi confeccionada a versao sintese da MSPSS. Ja como fruto das duas ultimas equivalencias foram elaboradas a versao sintese final e a versao validada para o Brasil. Foram usadas alem da MSPSS, a Escala de Apoio Social e a CES-D na equivalencia de mensuracao, com cujos dados coletados efetuaram-se Analise Fatorial Exploratoria, Analise Fatorial Confirmatoria e ExploratoryGraphAnalysis que resultaram em um modelo de 3 dimensoes que foram outros significativos, amigos e familia, semelhante ao original. A versao tambem apresentou validade convergente, divergente confirmada pelas correlacoes entre os fatores da MSPSS e os escores de apoio social (convergente) e sintomas depressivos (divergente). Ja a validade de criterio foi observada atraves da capacidade de diferenciar grupos de gestantes (primiparas/multiparas). O resultado dos valores de alfa de Cronbach foram excelentes tanto para a escala total (α=0,93) como para as dimensoes outros significativos (α=0,93), amigos (α=0,91) e familia (α=0,92). Os valores do teste-reteste indicaram estabilidade temporal dos escores da MSPSS. Conclui-se que a versao brasileira da MSPSS e uma escala de facil manejo e compreensao, de forma que permaneceram os 12 itens. Os valores obtidos nas 5 etapas de equivalencias, indicaram que essa escala tem caracteristicas psicometricas de validade e confiabilidade consideradas satisfatorias, alem de ser um instrumento adequado para ser utilizada em futuros estudos psicometricos.
Reliable Multidimensional Data Summaries Using Histograms

The main focus of this thesis is the data summary problem, where one takes a large set of multidimensional data points in the Euclidean space, creates a data summary that is much smaller and then uses only the summary to approximately answer range count queries over the data. Range count queries are a crucial tool for data analysis and selectivity estimation in query optimizers. While traditionally the functionality of data summaries is limited to estimates and confidence intervals for the range count, in this thesis the functionality is extended to lower and upper bounds. For this purpose, DigitHist and SliceHist are proposed as two novel histogram-based data summaries and the u-error as a novel metric to assess the histogram precision. A key feature of DigitHist is a fast one-scan construction, whereas SliceHist offers strong theoretical guarantees. The DigitHist summary is comprised of multiple equi-width histograms and summarizes dense areas separately to avoid large buckets with many points. In addition to that, DigitHist incorporates one-dimensional summaries to prevent oversimplifying assumptions about one-dimensional distributions that can lead to large errors. The experiments show that DigitHist offers uniquely tight bounds in a moderate number of dimensions. The SliceHist summary computes approximate ranks of points, summarizes them along regular grids and then summarizes the points in each grid slice again in the same way. The recursive summarization of points produces a compact ε-approximation, i.e., a data summary that guarantees for any dataset and query range to approximate the number of points inside the range with absolute error less than εn, where n is the data size. SliceHist proves the existence of an ε-approximation data summary of size O( 1 ελ log 1ε ) for any arbitrary real λ > 1, which was previously not even conjectured. The experiments show that SliceHist offers comparable estimation accuracy to summaries without guarantees in up to four dimensions, but additionally offers theoretical guarantees and logarithmic query times. Compared to existing ε-approximations it can be constructed significantly faster and offers tighter guarantees and higher estimation accuracy in three and four dimensions. This thesis also tackles two other problems related to data summaries. The first problem is to quantify the similarity of datasets with regards to range count queries. For this purpose, the discrepancy distance is proposed that bounds for a pair of datasets their maximal deviation over all range queries and can be efficiently approximated using SliceHist. The second problem is to compute range sums over low-dimensional data cubes such as grid histograms. Sparse Prefix Sums are proposed to achieve constanttime querying with significantly lowered storage costs for sparsely populated data cubes.
Intensive Mothers, Cautionary Tale Fathers: Adult Children’s Perceptions of Parental Influence on Health

Parents strongly influence children’s health, yet how parents continue to shape the health of midlife adult children remains unknown. Moreover, while most adults are married by midlife, research has failed to identify the effects of parent-in-law relationships on midlife adult well-being. Using interviews with 90 individuals in 45 marriages, we investigate how midlife adults perceive the influence of parents and parents-in-law on adult child health. Findings reveal that particularly mothers and mothers-in-law positively influence child’s health via support during, or in anticipation of, illness and injury. The health experiences of parents and in-laws, particularly fathers/in-law, become cautionary tales preparing adult children for future health issues. Yet parents/in-law also have negative influence on adult children during midlife due to parents’ compounding health needs. We use family systems theory to show how parents/in-laws are intertwined in ways that influence health during children’s midlife that has ramifications into later life.
Experience evaluations for human–computer co-creative processes – planning and conducting an evaluation in practice

In human–computer co-creativity, humans and creative computational algorithms create together. Too often, only the creative algorithms and their outcomes are evaluated when studying these co-creative processes, leaving the human participants to little attention. This paper presents a case study emphasising the human experiences when evaluating the use of a co-creative poetry writing system called the Poetry Machine. The co-creative process was evaluated using seven metrics: Fun, Enjoyment, Expressiveness, Outcome satisfaction, Collaboration, Ease of writing, and Ownership. The metrics were studied in a comparative setting using three co-creation processes: a human–computer, a human–human, and a human–human–computer co-creation process. Twelve pupils of age 10–11 attended the studies in six pairs trying out all the alternative writing processes. The study methods included observation in paired-user testing, questionnaires, and interview. The observations were complemented with analyses of the video recordings of the evaluation sessions. According to statistical analyses, Collaboration was the strongest in human–human–computer co-creation, and weakest in human–computer co-creation. Ownership was just the opposite: weakest in human–human–computer co-creation, and strongest in human–computer co-creation. Other metrics did not produce statistically significant results. In addition to the results, this paper presents the lessons learned in the evaluations with children using the selected methods.
Pomiar jakości sprawozdawczości finansowej w badaniach dotyczących rad dyrektorów i komitetów audytu : przegląd systematyczny

Boards of directors, audit committees and financial reporting quality. A systematic review Measurement of financial reporting quality is a problematic task because financial reporting is difficult to observe and measure. The aim of the article is to present the methods of financial reporting quality measurement and a systematic review of literature on the effects of corporate governance reforms on the quality of financial reporting. The main research questions are: (1) what are the possibilities of measuring financial reporting for research purposes, (2) which of the methods of measuring the quality of financial reporting * Prof. dr hab. Dorota Dobija, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Katedra Rachunkowości, dobija@ kozminski.edu. pl ** Mgr Karolina Skorulska, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Katedra Rachunkowości, k.skorulska@ kozminski.edu. pl 106 Dorota Dobija, Karolina Skorulska are used in research on corporate governance, and (3) which variables used in measuring corporate governance factors affect financial reporting quality? To answer these questions, a critical analysis of literature and a systematic review of research results using meta-analysis was made. For selecting the best articles a three-step collection strategy was used, which resulted in a database of 38 publications. The review has shown that for measuring the quality of financial reporting researchers most frequently use models based on measurement of risk management, and the most common independent variables describing corporate governance are: the size of the audit committee, presence of independent directors on the supervisory board, dual role of CEO, proportion of independent directors in the audit committee, size of the supervisory board, proportion of accounting experts in the audit committee, and frequency of audit committee meetings.
Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Exchange Market Pressure

Capturing changes in foreign reserves and exchange rates through the exchange market pressure, this article investigates whether economic policy uncertainty plays any role in exchange market pressure movements while controlling for the effects of domestic and external factors. A panel of 20 countries was examined from 2003Q1 to 2017Q4 using panel techniques that are consistent in the presence of heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence. The study finds that a long-run relationship exists between exchange market pressure and economic policy uncertainty. Our estimation results reveal that a rise in economic policy uncertainty, consumer price index, trade openness, and financial openness increases the severity of the exchange market pressure in the long run. However, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, domestic credit, and foreign direct investment inflows can cushion the effect of the pressure. Therefore, irrespective of whether a country operates fixed, flexible, or intermediate exchange rate regime, its foreign exchange market is still significantly affected by economic policy uncertainty.