Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A STUDY ON ADJUSTMENT, JOB SATISFACTION, JOB INVOLVEMENT AND JOB STRESS OF PRIVATE SCHOOL SECONDARY TEACHERS

The present study is related to study of adjustment, job satisfaction, job involvement and job stress of secondary school teachers. Job stress, job involvement and job satisfaction play a vital role in adjustment of teachers in schools. Stress in job or confrontation with reality which is totally different from one’s expectations and dreams, gives a teacher the strength for transforming herself or himself into a powerful person. 267 teachers were responded for the questionnaire. In the present study, it was found that all the four variables i.e. adjustment, job satisfaction; job involvement and job stress have a significant relationship. Adjustment of male and female secondary school teachers is also positively correlated with their job-stress. Increase in job-involvement, the adjustment of secondary school teachers increases.
Using “Informal” Hypnotherapy in Career Counselling: Blending Savickas and Erickson to “Free the Angel”

This article describes the concept “informal hypnotherapy” and the overlap between aspects of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and facets of the career construction interview. The participant was a purposefully selected white Afrikaans-speaking woman who had an Honours degree in Educational Psychology. A case study is discussed in which the three anecdotes technique was used to augment the career construction interviewing process during career construction counselling. The intervention incorporated postmodern career facilitation techniques to enhance the involvement of the participant in her career construction process and to facilitate co-constructive conversation. Following the intervention, the client revealed heightened self-awareness, was empowered to use her story to negotiate transitions and to serve as a holding environment whenever life imposed changes on her, and appeared ready to engage with the world more adaptively. The use of the career construction interview (in combination with the three anecdotes technique) together with the use of basic Ericksonian strategies presents psychologists with an innovative, exciting and non-intrusive way of administering informal hypnotherapy.
Markov modelling

Markov modelling deals with discrete event systems in which events happen completely at random. The resulting Markovian systems can often be analyzed analytically. In this session, we show how to use the available packages, and what methods can be employed to find transient and steady state results. It turns out that Markov modelling is extremely convenient to analyze systems with very few state variables.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MANAGERS

Organizational intelligence is one of the issues that is new, interesting and more considerable. There are many questions about the organizational intelligence, the factors affecting it and its relation to performance of managers. The question always asked by managers is how to work smarter? This study examined the relationship between the organizational intelligence and the performances managers of educational groups in the universities of Garmsar in the 89-90 school year. The method of the research is applied and the data collection was descriptive correlation. Statistical population includes all educational managers group in Garmsar universities that those numbers is reported 40. The research tools include Albrecht intelligence questionnaire (2003) and a report form of the managers performance that was created by the researcher. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as regression by SPSS was used. No significant positive relationship was found between the general organizational intelligence and the performances managers of educational groups. But the stepwise regression indicated that application of knowledge (one of the components of organizational intelligence) is a significant predictor of managers performance in human resources part (one of the sections of managers performance). Conclusions : It should be noted equally to all component of organizational intelligence That will ultimately lead to improve performance and productivity.
αΩHighway interconnection network architecture for high performance computing

The interconnection network is a crucial part of high-performance computer systems. It significantly determines parallel system performance as well as the development and the operating cost. In this paper we suggest efficient and scalable hierarchical multi-ring interconnection network architecture. For building up the interconnection network we have designed adequate switch architecture and implemented “step-back-on-blocking” flow control algorithm. The architectural model has been verified and communicational performance parameters have been evaluated on the basis of numerous simulation experiments conducted in the OMNeT++ simulation environment.
Recursive Learning Automata for Control of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

This paper presents a sampling algorithm, called "Recursive Automata Sampling Algorithm (RASA)," for control of finite horizon information-state Markov decision processes (MDPs), the equivalent model of partially observable MDPs. RASA extends in a recursive manner the Pursuit algorithm designed with learning automata by Rajaraman and Sastry for solving stochastic optimization problems. Based on the finite-time analysis of the Pursuit algorithm, we analyze the finite-time behavior of RASA, providing a bound on the probability that a given initial state takes the optimal action, and a bound on the probability that the difference between the optimal value and the estimate of it exceeds a given error. We also discuss how to apply RASA in the direct context of POMDPs and how to incorporate heuristic knowledge into RASA for on-line control.
A highly digitized multimode receiver architecture for 3G mobiles

A highly digitized multimode receiver architecture is described. It is configured primarily for the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) modes, but has the potential to operate in other modes such as cdma2000 as well. The receiver uses a single down conversion to mix the RF signal to a zero intermediate frequency (IF) for UMTS mode and a low IF for GSM. It uses a reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to digitize the IF signals as early as possible and to transfer most of the channel filtering into the digital domain. Only a minimum of automatic gain control (AGC) is employed. The architecture aims to maximize reuse of common hardware and to make significant gains in terms of design costs, size, and adaptability. System simulations confirm the feasibility and performance of the new concept.
Entropy per chroma for Cover song identification

A Cover song is a rendition of a previously recorded piece of music, cover song identification is about automatically recognizing a song as perceptually the same as another performance of the same song even thought it was played in a different place, perhaps by other musicians each with their own musical instruments. It is a challenging problem of great interest in audio-signal processing, renditions differ in rhythm, tempo, and instrumentation, so it is much more difficult than the classical audio-fingerprinting problem. We extract features from the audio-signal that measure the information content level of the signal grouped by semitones through all octaves, we determine the entropy per chroma value, then use dynamic programming techniques for aligning the renditions since they have different evolution in time and do not last the same. Our tests use 23 performances of two piano pieces and achieved excellent results.
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Cognitive skills are concerned with analysis, interpretation and decision making required for performing the procedural tasks. Since much of its process runs inside a human mind, the development of cognitive skill may largely rely on self-explanation as a mechanism for forming better procedures by clustering elementary operations and pushing them in to subconscious level. It is important for a tutoring system designer to consider acquisition of cognitive skills, particularly by life long learners who may not be learning in the traditional setting. The paper describes possible categorisation of learning resources to match the different phases of skill acquisition. It discusses an implementation of a cognitive apprenticeship-based learning environment and an independent feedback on its use in real classroom. It also touches very briefly on the far-reaching potential of such methodology when extended to the Internet.
Acquisition of gestures in prelinguistic communication: a theoretical approach

In order to understand the relationship between gestures and language and the relevance of gestures in the development of communicative and linguistic skills, a review of national and international literature was conducted. The analysis of data from multiple areas of science indicates the cross-influences of gesture in the evolution of the communicative competence of Humankind. The identification of the human mirror system created the background for studies that generated hypotheses about the parallelism between the evolution of gesture versus the evolution of language. Literature indicates that the use of gestures has a predictive power in language development, and different periods of language development influence the components of pragmatics, semantics and morphosyntax. The influence of natural gesture for communicative competence continues throughout life, since co-speech gestures have the purpose to disambiguate the content of the message to the interlocutor and to organize verbal reasoning for the speaker. Using natural gestures in promoting communication and linguistic skills in children with prelinguistic communication disorders has become essential, but it requires deeper knowledge as studies related to the early pragmatic skills are mainly directed towards the pointing gesture. Studies that analyzed other groups of gestures in older children have also contributed for understanding the use of gestures and the development of semantic and morphosyntactic competencies.
IMPACT OF AUDIO NARRATED ANIMATION ON STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON GENDER

This study is titled the impact of audio narrated animation on students’ understanding in learning human respiratory system based on gender. This study was conducted in eight grade of junior high school. This study aims to investigate the difference of students' understanding and learning environment at boys and girls classes in learning human respiratory system using audio narrated animation. Research method that is used is quassi experiment with matching pre-test post-test comparison group design. The procedure of study generally are: (1) preliminary study and learning habituation using audio narrated animation; (2) implementation of learning using audio narrated animation and taking data; (3) analysis and discussion. The result of analysis shows that there is significant difference on students’ understanding and learning environment at boys and girls classes in learning human respiratory system using audio narrated animation, both in general and specifically in achieving learning indicators. The discussion related to the impact of audio narrated animation, gender characteristics, and constructivist learning environment. It can be concluded that there is significant difference of students’ understanding at boys and girls classes in learning human respiratory system using audio narrated animation. Additionally, based on interpretation of students’ respond that there is the difference increment of agreement level in learning environment.
Effects of everolimus on a rat model of cerulein-induced experimental acute pancreatitis.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the biochemical and histopathological effects of everolimus in an experimental rat model of cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of everolimus on blood biochemical parameters and tissue histopathology in an experimental rat model of cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 30 Wistar albino rats (male; 240-260 g), acute pancreatitis was induced by an intraperitoneal injection of cerulein (50 μg/kg) administered twice in 2 h. They were equally divided into the following three groups: 0.9% isotonic solution (Group 1; control), everolimus once (Group 2), and everolimus twice (Group 3) by oral gavage after cerulein injection. Thirty hours after the induction of pancreatitis, blood samples were collected by direct intracardiac puncture, rats were sacrificed, and pancreatic tissue samples were obtained. RESULTS Biochemical analyses of the blood samples showed statistically significant difference in red blood cell count as well as hemoglobin, hematocrit, urea, and alanine transaminase levels among the study groups (p<0.05 in all). Everolimus proved to significantly increase red blood cell count in a dose-independent manner. Hemoglobin and hematocrit levels significantly increased only after treatment with one dose of everolimus. Urea level was significantly different between the Groups 2 and 3; however, no change was observed in both groups when compared with the control. Alanine transaminase level significantly decreased only after treatment with two doses of everolimus. Histopathological analyses revealed that everolimus significantly decreased inflammation and perivascular infiltrate in a dose-dependent manner (35% in Group 2, 75% in Group 3; p=0.048). CONCLUSION Treatment with two doses of everolimus improved some biochemical and histopathological parameters of experimental rat models of cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis and implied the specific inhibition of inflammatory response pathways.
Block copolymer thermodynamics: theory and experiment.

Block copolymers are macromolecules composed of sequences, or blocks, of chemically distinct repeat units. The development of this field originated with the discovery of termination-free anionic polymerization, which made possible the sequential addition of monomers to various carbanion-ter­ minated ("living") linear polymer chains. Polymerization of just two dis­ tinct monomer types (e.g. styrene and isoprene) leads to a class of materials referred to as AB block copolymers. Within this class, a variety of molec­ ular architectures is possible. For example, the simplest combination, obtained by the two-step anionic polymerization of A and B monomers, is an (A-B) dioblock copolymer. A three-step reaction provides for the preparation of (ABA) or (BAB) triblock copolymer. Alternatively, "living" diblock copolymers can be reacted with an n-functional coupling agent to produce (A-B)n star-block copolymers, where n = 2 constitutes a triblock copolymer. Several representative (A-B)n block copolymer architectures
Simple, proven approaches to text retrieval

This technical note describes straightforward techniques for document indexing and retrieval that have been solidly established through extensive testing and are easy to apply. They are useful for many different types of text material, are viable for very large files, and have the advantage that they do not require special skills or training for searching, but are easy for end users. The document and text retrieval methods described here have a sound theoretical basis, are well established by extensive testing, and the ideas involved are now implemented in some commercial retrieval systems. Testing in the last few years has, in particular, shown that the methods presented here work very well with full texts, not only title and abstracts, and with large files of texts containing three quarters of a million documents. These tests, the TREC Tests (see Harman 1993–1997; IPM on term weighting exploiting statistical information about term occurrences; on scoring for request-document matching, using these weights, to obtain a ranked search output; and on relevance feedback to modify request weights or term sets in iterative searching. The normal implementation is via an inverted file organisation using a term list with linked document identifiers, plus counting data, and pointers to the actual texts. The user’s request can be a word list, phrases, sentences or extended text. 1 Terms and matching Index terms are normally content words (but see section 6). In request processing, stop words (e.g. prepositions and conjunctions) are eliminated via a stop word list, and they are usually removed, for economy reasons, in inverted file construction. Terms are also generally stems (or roots) rather than full words, since this means that matches are not missed through trivial word variation, as with singular/plural forms. Stemming can be achieved most simply by the user truncating his request words, to match any inverted index words that include them; but it is a better strategy to truncate using a standard stemming algorithm and suffix list (see Porter 1980), which is nicer for the user and reduces the inverted term list. The request is taken as an unstructured list of terms. If the terms are unweighted, output could be ranked by the number of matching terms – i.e. for a request with 5 terms first by documents with all 5, then by documents with any 4, etc. However, performance may be improved considerably by giving a weight to each term (or each term-document combination). In this case, output is ranked by sum of weights (see below).
Emotional States from Affective Dynamics

Psychological constructivist models of emotion propose that emotions arise from the combinations of multiple processes, many of which are not emotion specific. These models attempt to describe both the homogeneity of instances of an emotional “kind” (why are fears similar? ) and the heterogeneity of instances (why are different fears quite different? ). In this article, we review the iterative reprocessing model of affect, and suggest that emotions, at least in part, arise from the processing of dynamical unfolding representations of valence across time. Critical to this model is the hypothesis that affective trajectories—over time—provide important information that helps build emotional states.
Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms

Preface. Acknowledgments. The Author. Introduction. Can Anybody Teach These Children? Sojourners. They're Supposed to Learn Something. Nobody Wants to Be Urkel. Apathy Is Not an Option. A Vision of the Promised Land. Appendix A: Methodology. Appendix B: The Teach for Diversity Program. Notes. Index.
Generating Hypotheses and Upper-Bound Effect Sizes Using a Large Number of School Characteristics and Student Outcomes

ABSTRACT Using a “naïve” specification, this paper estimates the relationship between 36 high school characteristics and 24 student outcomes controlling for students' pre-high school characteristics. The goal of this exploration is not to generate casual estimates, but rather to: (a) compare the size of the relationships to determine which inputs seem most promising and to identify which student outcomes appear most susceptible to being affected; (b) obtain likely upper-bound effect sizes that are useful information for power analyses used to establish minimum sample sizes for more robust designs capable of revealing causal impacts; and (c) illustrate how small effects over many outcomes (which are cumulatively important) can be easily missed. I find that most of the 36 inputs appear to have affected more outcomes than one would expect by chance, but that the apparent effects were generally small. Further, I find a higher frequency of large and significant apparent effects on educational achievement and attainment outcomes than labor market and other outcomes for young adults.
Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods: Understanding Why Quantitative Methods are Predominant in Criminology and Criminal Justice

The development of knowledge is important for criminology and criminal justice. Two predominant types of methods are available for criminologists’ to use--quantitative and qualitative methods. A debate is presently taking place in the literature as to which of these methods is the proper method to provide knowledge in criminology and criminal justice. The present study outlines the key issues for both methods and suggests that a criminologist’ research questions and hypotheses should be used to determine the proper method.
Portuguese Honeys from Different Geographical and Botanical Origins: A 4-Year Stability Study Regarding Quality Parameters and Antioxidant Activity

Portuguese honeys (n = 15) from different botanical and geographical origins were analysed regarding their quality parameters (diastase activity, hydroxymethylfurfural content, moisture and pH), colour (L*, a*, b*) and antioxidant profile (total phenolics content, total flavonoids content, DPPH• scavenging activity, and ferric reducing power). The samples were analysed fresh and after 4-years of storage (at 25 °C and protected from light). The hydroxymethylfurfural content and diastase activity of the fresh samples were in accordance with the recommended values described in the legislation. In general, the antioxidant activity of the samples correlated more with the bioactive compounds content than with colour. The storage affected differently each individual sample, especially regarding the antioxidant profile. Nevertheless, although in general the lightness of the samples decreased (and the redness increased), after 4 years, 11 samples still presented acceptable diastase activity and hydroxymethylfurfural values.
Snoezelen®

The purpose of this study was to critically review the empirical evidence surrounding three assertions presented by FlagHouse concerning Snoezelen® environments in day school public education settings. Given the absence of empirical literature examining the use of Snoezelen® in day school settings, the authors analyzed five studies that were conducted in residential settings. Findings indicate inconsistent effects of Snoezelen® environments on observable behavior, generalization of behaviors, and relaxation. With the increasing use of Snoezelen® in the American educational system, investigation of its efficacy is needed, particularly because of recent legislation calling for reliance on evidence-based practices. With the current paucity of empirical research, Snoezelen® environments do not meet the standards of evidence-based practice.