Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Inteligencia Emocional y Empatía: su influencia en la Competencia Social en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria Emotional Intelligence and Empathy: their influence on the Social Competence in Secondary Obligatory Education

The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the current connections between the social competence and the emotional intelligence in students of Secondary Obligatory Education. Likewise, we also propose to analyse the empathy’s role and its connections with the social competence and the emotional intelligence, given that it appears related in most of the existing studies, in one way or another, to these constructs. The participants in our study were 110 students of the first period of Secondary Obligatory Education. The utilized means were: the test EQ-i:yV, by Baron (1997), the Questionnaire Matson of social abilities for adolescents (Matson, Rotatori, and Helsel, 1983) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI (Davis, 1983). The analysis of information’s techniques include: correlation analysis, analyse of multiple regression step by step and analyse of multiple regression of hierarchical type. The obtained results allow us to identify a group of variables that are directly involved in the social competence.
Discourse, cognition and social practices: the rich surface of language and social interaction

Discursive psychology (DP) approaches discourse not as the product or expression of thoughts or mental states lying behind or beneath it, but as a domain of public accountability in which psychological states are made relevant. DP draws heavily on conversation analysis in examining in close empirical detail how ostensibly psychological themes are handled and managed as part of talk’s everyday interactional business. A brief worked example is offered, in which the intentionality of a person’s actions is handled in the course of police interrogation, in ways that perform police work. Degrees of intentionality are partialled out with regard to specific actions or components of actions, and with regard to how actions are described in ways that map onto how crime categories are defined in law. Cognitive states are generally relevant in discourse in the same manner, as participants’ concerns with regard to action categories and accountability on and for the occasions they are invoked.
An outcome evaluation of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program delivered by adolescent peer leaders in high schools.

OBJECTIVES We examined the effectiveness of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program in enhancing protective factors among peer leaders trained to conduct schoolwide messaging and among the full population of high school students. METHODS Eighteen high schools--6 metropolitan and 12 rural--were randomly assigned to immediate intervention or the wait-list control. Surveys were administered at baseline and 4 months after program implementation to 453 peer leaders in all schools and to 2675 students selected as representative of the 12 rural schools. RESULTS Training improved the peer leaders' adaptive norms regarding suicide, their connectedness to adults, and their school engagement, with the largest gains for those entering with the least adaptive norms. Trained peer leaders in larger schools were 4 times as likely as were untrained peer leaders to refer a suicidal friend to an adult. Among students, the intervention increased perceptions of adult support for suicidal youths and the acceptability of seeking help. Perception of adult support increased most in students with a history of suicidal ideation. CONCLUSIONS Sources of Strength is the first suicide prevention program involving peer leaders to enhance protective factors associated with reducing suicide at the school population level.
Distributed Properties

This article argues for a reconceptualization of leadership. Possible substitutes for leadership are reviewed along with a number of existing dualisms. These are rejected in favour of the claim that the leadership of organizations is most appropriately understood as a distributed, rather thanas a focused, phenomenon. Various attributes, dimensions and applications of distribution are then considered, and a revised approach to action and influence in organizations centred on conjointly performed activities is thenproposed. For this new formulation a summary is provided of the core concepts of, and recent developments in, activity theory. It is shown that two particular advantages of this approach include the helpful model it provides for contextual analysis—an aspect sorely neglected by the field of leadership—and its focus on the evolving division of labour in organizations, the prime mover for tracking emerging patterns of distributed leadership.
Tissue engineering of corneal stroma with rabbit fibroblast precursors and gelatin hydrogels

Purpose To isolate fibroblast precursors from rabbit corneal stroma using a sphere-forming assay, to engineer corneal stroma with the precursors and gelatin, and to establish the therapeutic application of precursors in a rabbit corneal stroma. Methods In the in vitro study, a sphere-forming assay was performed to produce precursors from rabbit corneal stroma. Corneal stroma was engineered by cultivating precursors in porous gelatin for one week. In the in vivo study, the engineered corneal stromal sheet with precursors (precursor/gelatin group) or with fibroblasts (fibroblast /gelatin group) or without cells (gelatin group) was transplanted to a pocket of rabbit corneal stroma. Gene expression and extracellular matrix production were examined immunohistochemically in each group one week and four weeks after surgery. Results In the in vitro study, cells in the spheres were BrdU-positive, and their progeny were keratocan-positive. The study also showed that the corneas transplanted with a porous gelatin sheet did not show any opacity four weeks after transplantation in any group. In the gelatin sheet of the precursor/gelatin group, a more intense expression of type I collagen was observed relative to the other two groups four weeks after the surgery. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate that the transplantation of fibroblast precursors combined with gelatin hydrogel into the corneal stroma is a possible treatment strategy for corneal stromal regeneration.
Book Review: Teacher written commentary in Second language writing classrooms

research and pedagogy. However, they also show that there is no broad agreement on questions such as the rate at which words are learned when reading or on how well the learning is retained. They point out new directions for research as well as some reasons for inconclusive findings to date, of which I would highlight the problems and limitations of measuring incidental learning (Huckin and Coady, 1999). In conclusion, this well-written collection of articles should appeal to language teaching researchers, as it makes available a variety of approaches to the study of writing and vocabulary development. It also provides ways to develop elicitation methods, insights into data handling techniques, and some advice for future research. Teachers interested in vocabulary and writing instruction can also find it useful, as obvious implications for the classroom arise from most of the studies.
No homosexuals in Star Wars? BioWare, ‘gamer’ identity, and the politics of privilege in a convergence culture

Fan studies scholar Henry Jenkins lays out a blueprint for participatory culture that highlights its potential for more democratic, more inclusive mediascapes, asserting that corporate media producers have an economic incentive to listen to the suggestions and demands made by its fans. This article questions who is able to lay claim to titles like ‘fan’ or ‘gamer’, how those titles are being contested along gendered, racialized, sexualized, and classed lines, what happens when new groups lay claim to those titles, and how some fans are reacting to the loss of their privileged relationships with content producers. I look at fan responses to North American game developer BioWare’s decision to diversify games like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Dragon Age II by adding the option to play as a gay male character. I discovered that what was often framed by fans as a desire to prevent politics from leaking into gaming and ruining its unique attractions manifested as the maintenance of a heterocentric construction of the gamer identity.
Submm Recombination Lines in Dust-Obscured Starbursts and AGN

We examine the use of submm recombination lines of H, He and He to probe the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) luminosity of starbursts (SB) and AGN. We find that the submm recombination lines of H, He and He are in fact extremely reliable and quantitative probes of the EUV continuum at 13.6 eV to above 54.6 eV. At submm wavelengths, the recombination lines originate from low energy levels (n = 20 – 50). The maser amplification, which poses significant problems for quantitative interpretation of the higher n, radio frequency recombination lines, is insignificant. Lastly, at submm wavelengths the dust extinction is minimal. The submm line luminosities are therefore directly proportional to the emission measures (EMION = ne × nion × volume) of their ionized regions. We also find that the expected line fluxes are detectable with ALMA and can be imaged at ∼ 0.1 resolution in low redshift ULIRGs. Imaging of the HI lines will provide accurate spatial and kinematic mapping of the star formation distribution in low-z IR-luminous galaxies. And the relative fluxes of the HI and HeII recombination lines will strongly constrain the relative contributions of starbursts and AGN to the luminosity. The HI lines should also provide an avenue to constraining the submm dust extinction curve.
Public Opinion, Risk Assessment, and Biotechnology: Lessons from Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union

Proponents of biotechnology argue that citizens' opposition to innovations such as genetically modified (GM) foods is rooted in emotionalism, media and nongovernmental organizations' distortions of good science, and scientific ignorance. Critics charge that this "risk management discursive" is too reductionist, exaggerates scientific capacity, inappropriately privileges scientific values over social and political values, and inaccurately captures how citizens evaluate biotechnology. This article uses ordered logit analysis applied to the responses of Europeans to a 2005 Eurobarometer survey to test the validity of these competing perspectives in the area of GM foods. Our analysis supports the arguments of those calling for the inclusion of broader discursive social, political, and cultural elements in deliberations over GM foods. Analysis also shows that citizens are less emotional in evaluating GM foods than proponents claim and supports this "new politics of knowledge" perspective, but citizens also cling more tightly to hopes that science can resolve debates with objective analysis. Copyright 2010 by The Policy Studies Organization.
Classification of Sketch Strokes and Corner Detection Using Conic Sections and Adaptive Clustering

This paper presents a method for classifying pen strokes in an on-line sketching system. The method, based on linear least squares fitting to a conic section equation, proposes using the conic equation's natural classification property to help classify sketch strokes and identify lines, elliptic arcs, and corners composed of two lines with an optional fillet. The hyperbola form of the conic equation is used for corner detection. The proposed method has proven to be fast, suitable for real-time classification, and capable of tolerating noisy input, including cusps and spikes. The classification is obtained in o(n) time in a single path, where n is the number of sampled points. In addition, an improved adaptive method for clustering disconnected endpoints is proposed. The notion of in-context analysis is discussed, and examples from a working implementation are given.
Linking Home-School Dissonance to School-Based Outcomes for African American High School Students

The current study examined associations between home-school dissonance and several academic and psychological variables among 239 African American high school students. Regression analyses revealed that home-school dissonance significantly predicted multiple academic and psychological variables, including academic cheating, disruptive classroom behavior, performance avoidant and performance approach goal orientations, and poor self-reported English and math grades. Implications of this research include a more systematic incorporation of African American high school students’ out-of-school experiences into their classroom learning experiences.
High‐Dimensional Fluorescence Cytometry

The immune system consists of a complex network of cells, all expressing a wide range of surface and/or intracellular proteins. Using flow cytometry, these cells can be analyzed by labeling with fluorophore‐conjugated antibodies. The recent expansion of fluorescence flow cytometry technology, in conjunction with the ever‐expanding understanding of the complexity of the immune system, has led to the generation of larger high‐dimensional fluorescence flow cytometry panels. However, as panel size and complexity increases, so too does the difficulty involved in constructing high‐quality panels, in addition to the challenges of analyzing such high‐dimensional datasets. As such, this unit seeks to review the key principles involved in building high‐dimensional panels, as well as to guide users through the process of building and analyzing quality panels. Here, cytometer configuration, fluorophore brightness, spreading error, antigen density, choosing the best conjugates, titration, optimization, and data analysis will all be addressed. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The DCP2 protein is required for mRNA decapping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and contains a functional MutT motif

The major pathway of mRNA degradation in yeast occurs through deadenylation, decapping and subsequent 5′ to 3′ exonucleolytic decay of the transcript body. To identify proteins that control the activity of the decapping enzyme, which is encoded by the DCP1 gene, we isolated a high‐copy suppressor of the temperature‐sensitive dcp1‐2 allele, termed DCP2. Overexpression of Dcp2p partially suppressed the dcp1‐2 decapping defect. Moreover, the Dcp2 protein was required for the decapping of both normal mRNAs and aberrant transcripts that are degraded by the mRNA surveillance pathway. The Dcp2 protein contains a MutT motif, which is found in a class of pyrophosphatases. Mutational analyses indicated that the region of Dcp2p containing the MutT motif is necessary and sufficient for Dcp2p's function in mRNA decapping. The Dcp2p also coimmunoprecipitates with the DCP1 decapping enzyme and is required for the production of enzymatically active decapping enzyme. These results suggest that direct or indirect interaction of Dcp1p with Dcp2p is required for the production of active decapping enzyme, perhaps in a process requiring the hydrolysis of a pyrophosphate bond.
The impact of small group interaction on learners’ grammatical accuracy achievement

In an attempt to investigate the impact of small group interaction on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy achievement, methodological field experiments had been carried out with a sample of 30 students over a period of ten weeks of regular lectures in the Department of English, in one of the Algerian Universities. The obtained results indicated that learners’ interaction and cooperation had a positive effect on EFL learners’ achievement. And in order to scrutinise the existence and the frequency of the speech functions that might account for this effectiveness, a qualitative and a quantitative study had been conducted through the adoption of the Interaction Analysis Method. The results showed that within a cooperative and interactive learning context, factors such as the group size; the nature of the interaction; the learner’s role within the small group, and the type of the task-based grammatical structure had an influential effect on EFL learners’ grammar performance.
Drumtrack: beat Induction from an acoustic Drum Kit with synchronised Scheduling

Technology is described to track the tempo and phase of a human drummer on an acoustic drum kit from analysis of the audio signal alone. The beat induction algorithm combines work by Laroche and Goto with original aspects, and is efficient for real-time operation. The inferred clock drives the scheduling of computer music which accompanies and processes the drummer. An algorithmic improvisation system entitled DrumTrack was built to exploit this tracking, efficient enough to run on a single laptop.
Is the Brainstem Really Sufficient for a Consciousness That Would Have Interested Freud?

This is an interesting Target Article from Mark Solms, and I am grateful for having been asked to comment on it. However, I have to disagree with some of its main arguments—for example, that the brainstem is sufficient for a form of consciousness that is relevant to the Freudian model of the mind (which depends on the notion of conflict between the ego and the id), and that the id can be associated with the upper brainstem, and the ego with the cortex. I have argued that these ideas seem too crude and are lacking in a sufficient evidence base.
Inhibition of pancreatic secretion in man by cigarette smoking

Cigarette smoking has been linked to an elevated incidence of duodenal ulcer disease in smokers, although the mechanism is unclear. In 23 young normal subjects single or double secretin tests were performed during non-smoking and smoking periods. Cigarette smoking inhibited the secretion of pancreatic juice and bicarbonate in light smokers (< one pack/day for < three years). Heavy smokers (> one pack/day for > three years) exhibited depressed pancreatic secretory rates during non-smoking periods. Inhibition of pancreatic alkaline secretion by cigarette smoking could be the link between the habit and duodenal ulcer disease.
Turkish Adaptation of Preservice Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Assessment Instrument / Öğretmen Adaylarının Teknolojik Pedagojik Alan Bilgisini Değerlendirme Ölçeği'nin Türkçe'ye Uyarlama Çalışması

Bu arastirma, Schmidt, Baran, Thompson, Mishra, Koehler ve Shin (2010) tarafindan gelistirilen Ogretmen Adaylarinin Teknolojik Pedagojik Alan Bilgisini Degerlendirme Olcegi'ni Turkce'ye uyarlayarak sinif ogretmeni adaylarinin bu konuya iliskin gelisimini belirlemeye yonelik bir olcme araci elde etmeyi amaclamistir. 225 sinif ogretmeni adayina uygulanarak toplanan verilere Acimlayici Faktor Analizi (AFA) ve Dogrulayici Faktor Analizi (DFA) uygulanmistir. Bulgular, olcegin ozgun formunda yer alan butun maddelerin 38. madde disinda Turkce formunda yer alabilecegini gostermektedir. Turkce'ye uyarlanan olcek maddelerinin faktor boyutunda dagilimlari ozgun hali ile karsilastirildiginda bazi farkliliklarin oldugu gorulmustur. Guvenirlik calismasi kapsaminda ic tutarlik katsayisi 0.94 olarak hesaplanmistir. Elde edilen bulgular, uyarlanan olcegin faktor yapisinin kabul edilebilir duzeyde oldugunu gostermektedir. Uyarlanan olcek 46 maddeden olusmaktadir ve 5'li likert tipindedir. Olcekte Alan Bilgisi (ABmatematik, ABsosyal, ABfen,ABokuma yazma), Teknoloji Bilgi (TB), Pedagojik Bilgi (PB), Pedagojik Alan Bilgisi (PAB), Teknoloji Destekli Ogretim Bilgisi (TDOB), Teknoloji Destekli Pedagojik Alan Bilgisi (TDPAB) olmak uzere 9 boyut yer almaktadir. Olcegin Turkce formunun sinif ogretmeni adaylarinda kullanilabilecek gecerli ve guvenli bir arac oldugu sonucuna ulasilmistir. Anahtar Sozcukler: Teknolojik pedagojik alan bilgisi, sinif ogretmeni adayi, ogretmen egitimi.
Neuroscientific evidence for defensive avoidance of fear appeals

Previous studies indicate that people respond defensively to threatening health information, especially when the information challenges self-relevant goals. The authors investigated whether reduced acceptance of self-relevant health risk information is already visible in early attention allocation processes. In two experimental studies, participants were watching high- and low-threat health commercials, and at the same time had to pay attention to specific odd auditory stimuli in a sequence of frequent auditory stimuli (odd ball paradigm). The amount of attention allocation was measured by recording event-related brain potentials (i.e., P300 ERPs) and reaction times. Smokers showed larger P300 amplitudes in response to the auditory targets while watching high-threat instead of low-threat anti-smoking commercials. In contrast, non-smokers showed smaller P300 amplitudes during watching high as opposed to low threat anti-smoking commercials. In conclusion, the findings provide further neuroscientific support for the hypothesis that threatening health information causes more avoidance responses among those for whom the health threat is self-relevant.
Multiples Gesundheitsverhalten und Vulnerabilität im Geschlechtervergleich

Zusammenfassung. Mit dem neu entwickelten Fragebogen zum Multiplen Gesundheitsverhalten (MGV-39) wurde das Spektrum habituellen gesundheitsbezogenen Verhaltens einer studentischen Stichprobe erfasst. Die erhobenen 39 Verhaltensbereiche wiesen eine gute interne Konsistenz auf, was die Bildung eines Summenscores (MGV) erlaubte. In einer Hauptkomponentenanalyse liesen sich die 39 Verhaltenskategorien auf sechs Dimensionen reduzieren: Aktive Lebensgestaltung, Compliance, Substanzvermeidung, Sicherheitsorientierung, Ernahrung und Hygiene. Der MGV-39 erwies sich als sensitiv fur Geschlechtsunterschiede; das in der Literatur beschriebene Defizit von Mannern in der Compliance, Substanzvermeidung, Sicherheitsorientierung und Hygiene (sowie im MGV) konnte repliziert werden. In einem weiteren Schritt wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen MGV und Vulnerabilitat aus einer Geschlechterperspektive beleuchtet. Die Ergebnisse eines additiven hierarchischen Regressionsmodells wiesen auf, dass hoheres Alter, weibliches Geschlecht.
Wringing the Neck of the Swan: Second Language Learning as a Tool for Conviviality

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