Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of a Music and Movement Programme on Development of Locomotor Skills by Children 4 to 6 Years of Age

This study investigated the effect of a 10‐week music and movement programme on the quality of locomotor skills in children 4 to 6 years of age. Sixty‐eight children (35 boys and 33 girls) served as subjects. The Test of Gross Motor Development (Ulrich, 1985) was used for the assessment of locomotor skills (running, skipping, galloping, hopping, leaping, sliding, and horizontal jump). Thirty‐five children participated in the exercise programme twice a week while the rest did not participate in any organised physical activity programme. In the absence of significant differences between the two groups in the pre‐test, multivariate analysis of variance (2X2 Manova) with repeated measures was used for data analysis. The results revealed a significant measure X group interaction on galloping, leaping, horizontal jump, and skipping. From the comparison of groups’ mean differences it was shown that the experimental group had significantly greater improvement on the above skills than the control group. It seems that a music and movement programme can improve significantly the quality of certain more complex locomotor skills.
Pleasures and subjective well‐being

In two daily diary studies we examined the moderating role of sensation seeking in the patterns of relations between physical pleasure and life satisfaction. In study 1 (a 52‐day daily diary study), daily physical pleasure was a significantly stronger predictor of daily social satisfaction among high sensation seekers than among low sensation seekers. We extended the finding of study 1 to more general daily satisfaction in study 2 (a 23‐day diary study). The present findings indicate that physical pleasure is associated with daily satisfaction to the degree that one seeks for such an experience. In addition, we tested whether the association between physical pleasure and daily satisfaction would be moderated also by other facets of extraversion and extraversion as a whole. With the exception of the positive emotion facet in study 1, no facet or extraversion as a whole moderated the relation between physical pleasure and daily satisfaction. The present studies show specificity and replicability of the role that sensation seeking plays in understanding the link between daily physical pleasure and daily satisfaction. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Book Review: Living Knowledge: The Dynamics of Professional Service Work

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Factors affecting semen preservation and conception rates in cattle.

The literature contains a bewildering number of reports on conception rates obtained in various artificial insemination (AI) programmes, but some of the confusion is caused by environmental differences and some by differences in methods of assessing fertility. The present paper reviews the effect of the semen diluent, the method of semen storage, and the number of spermatozoa inseminated on fertility in AI programmes involving ambient-temperature semen, deep-frozen semen, and semen frozen in concentrated form, rediluted and used at ambient temperatures. Because a number of diluent components have been tested in more than one technique, these have been discussed together. Fertility results have been quoted as treatment differences because methods of fertility evaluation vary in different countries and give different absolute results (e.g. 65-66 % for New Zealand and 78-79 % for the U.K.). The differences in absolute results do not reflect efficiency of processing because semen processed in different countries gives the same results when used in a common environment (U.N., 1976).
Affect modulates appetite-related brain activity to images of food.

OBJECTIVE We examined whether affect ratings predicted regional cerebral responses to high and low-calorie foods. METHOD Thirteen normal-weight adult women viewed photographs of high and low-calorie foods while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Regression analysis was used to predict regional activation from positive and negative affect scores. RESULTS Positive and negative affect had different effects on several important appetite-related regions depending on the calorie content of the food images. When viewing high-calorie foods, positive affect was associated with increased activity in satiety-related regions of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex, but when viewing low-calorie foods, positive affect was associated with increased activity in hunger-related regions including the medial orbitofrontal and insular cortex. The opposite pattern of activity was observed for negative affect. CONCLUSION These findings suggest a neurobiologic substrate that may be involved in the commonly reported increase in cravings for calorie-dense foods during heightened negative emotions.
Factors influencing accounting students' career choice: a cross-cultural validation study

This study investigates the relative influence of career-choice factors on accounting students from different cultural backgrounds. As a measure of cultural variability, the individualism- collectivism dimension tends to polarize Australian students relative to Hong Kong and Taiwanese students. For this reason, this study employs the individualism- collectivism dichotomy to examine the importance of factors which influence the comparative career choices of Australian, Hong Kong and Taiwanese students, in selecting accountancy as a career. Results indicate that the factors: parental influence, peer influence, teacher influence and association with others in the field, have greater impact on career choices for Hong Kong and Taiwanese students, whereas Australian students tended to be more influenced by aptitude for subject matter. Materials entity factors (availability of employment, prestige and social status, earning potential, cost of education and year of study) surprisingly emerged as formative concern.
Preemptive Fridge Magnets and Other Weapons of Masculinist Destruction: The Rhetoric and Reality of “Safeguarding Australia”

A “national security” mind-set has increasingly informed the policies and practices of the Australian government led by Prime Minister John Howard, who has been in power since 1996. The lead-up to the 2000 Olympic games; the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States; the bombing of a nightclub in Bali in October 2002, in which Australian tourists were killed; and a hijack attempt on a Qantas jet in May 2003 have all been used as justifications for the Howard government to enhance security measures. In this article I will examine some of the government’s agenda of “safeguarding Australia,” particularly although not solely as it specifically targets women. In doing so, I will argue that policies and practices of the government that affect women’s rights and their access to services are not simply collateral damage as the government shifts its focus from spending on education, health, infrastructure, and welfare to funding the military and boosting corporate capitalism. Diminished spending on public services and welfare and attacks on advocacy groups for the poor and minorities, accompanied by legislation that favors corporate private enterprise, have been a hallmark of neoliberal governments in the West. The current raft of measures both construct and target women in quite particular ways that are directly related to the Howard government’s Hobbesian autocratic role as the self-proclaimed safeguarder of Australia. The reality of these measures is more complex than the simple withdrawal of support for services or advocacy groups. In fact, the gov-
Academics and Practitioners Are Alike and Unlike

In this essay we challenge standard approaches to the academic–practitioner gap that essentially pit sides against each other, treating them as dichotomous. Instead, we identify and suggest ways of working with such dichotomies to foster research and theory building. We delineate several tensions associated with the gap, including differing logics, time dimensions, communication styles, rigor and relevance, and interests and incentives, and show how such tensions are valuable themselves for research and theorizing. We show that the gap often reflects views of conflicting groups of academics, while practitioners’ voices are not always incorporated; thus we add a practitioner’s voice to the conversation. We describe the dialectical forces that foster the tensions associated with the gap, including initiatives of national governments, ranking systems, and special issues of journals. We then show how the tensions represent fundamental, unresolvable paradoxes that can be generative of new research and practice if appreciated as such. We suggest several implications for research that build on tensions, dialectics, and paradox. We conclude with a brief reflection about the tensions we experienced while writing this essay and what these might suggest about the importance of academic–practitioner relationships.
Data Mining Predictive Models for Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support in Intensive Care Medicine

The introduction of an Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) in a critical area like the Intensive Medicine is a complex and difficult process. In this area, their professionals don’t have much time to document the cases, because the patient direct care is always first. With the objective to reduce significantly the manual records and, enabling, at the same time, the possibility of developing an IDSS which can help in the decision making process, all data acquisition process and knowledge discovery in database phases were automated. From the data acquisition to the knowledge discovering, the entire process is autonomous and executed in real-time. On-line induced data mining models were used to predict organ failure and outcome. Preliminary results obtained with a limited population of patients showed that this approach can be applied successfully.
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, Relevance: Communication and cognition , Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. 265.

disciplinary boundary lines and the centuries. "Any natural language such as English," Friedrich writes, "massively shapes, channels, filters, and otherwise determines the individual imagination" (i 17). Friedrich has shown us, in effect, that language (the English language or the French language) shapes and filters its own images of itself, that in addition to providing rough drafts for poetry, language also provides rough drafts for linguistic theories. Perhaps, then, theories of language might locate themselves in this renewed version of linguistic relativism somewhere between poetry and myth — never completely relative, though yet never wholly universal. With this book, Friedrich significantly increases his already large contribution to linguistic thought.
Understanding the Determinants of Financial Outcomes and Choices: The Role of Noncognitive Abilities

We explore how financial distress and choices are affected by noncognitive abilities. Our measures stem from research in psychology and economics. In a representative panel of households, we find that people in the bottom decile of noncognitive abilities are five times more likely to experience financial distress compared to those in the top decile. Relatedly, individuals with lower noncognitive abilities make financial choices that increase their likelihood of distress: They are less likely to plan for retirement and save, and more likely to buy impulsively and to have unsecured debt. Causality is shown using childhood trauma as an instrument.
A Labor of Love or Labor Itself

Although many have examined care work within families, few have assessed caregiving among adult brothers and sisters. Based on original data, this article lends a multifaceted view of sibling care work by examining the amount and kind of help adults provide to all siblings in their family and the manner in which the social characteristics of sibling care providers, recipients, their shared relationship, and the family of origin shapes caregiving. The authors found that the vast majority of adults provide a wide range of care to their siblings on a yearly, even monthly basis. Gender, age, and social class shape sibling help, whereas race exerts little effect. Unmarried parents receive significantly less help than do their married and childless counterparts. Finally, sibling care work depends on family context: Having a living parent facilitates caregiving among siblings, whereas greater family size forces adults to act judiciously about what and to whom they give.
Implications of Personality Profiles for Batterer Treatment

Research on men who batter women has recently given a great deal of attention to personality types of batterers. Treatment recommendations for batterer types have relied primarily on aggregated statistical analyses of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), but may be misleading because the MCMI is designed to be interpreted using individual profiles. The authors employed a profile analysis with MCMI-III results of 100 batterers randomly drawn from 840 men enrolled in four batterer programs. Case examples are used to illustrate the personality profiles and their treatment implications. The profile analysis suggests six major personality groupings that in part reflect previously established types. However, the majority of batterers exhibit narcissistic or avoidant traits that are well suited for the prevailing cognitive-behavioral group treatment approach. A smaller proportion of men evidence personality problems that may warrant adjunctive psychiatric services or individual psychotherapy. In sum, “one size” of treatment appears to fit most.
Disparity statistics in the natural environment

Stereopsis is undoubtedly useful for precise near work, but its role at viewing distances beyond a few meters is less clear. We sought to determine the statistics of naturally occurring binocular disparities in outdoor environments to find out if they could potentially play a role in vision under these circumstances. A data base of range images obtained with a scanning laser rangefinder from a wooded environment was used (Yang & Purves, 2003). Ranges along the horizontal meridian were converted to angular disparities by assuming a 6.5 cm interpupillary distance and either by 1) sampling from a histogram of fixation distances obtained from human observers in a similar wooded environment or 2) assuming that fixations are on objects and are distributed uniformly across horizontal angle in environmental coordinates. Disparities were also computed in the same manner from a simple model forest. All results indicate that the distribution of naturally occurring disparities is bell-shaped, centered roughly on zero, and spans several degrees. Suprathreshold disparities abound. Further, the distribution of naturally occurring disparities closely matches the distribution of peak disparity tuning found in area MT of macaques (DeAngelis & Uka, 2003). We thus find it likely that primate visual systems have evolved to exploit what seems to be a rich array of naturally occurring disparities in natural environments.
Vulnerability of speaker verification to voice mimicking

We consider mimicry, a simple technology form of attack requiring a low level of expertise, to investigate whether a speaker recognition system is vulnerable to mimicry by an impostor without using the assistance of any other technologies. Experiments on 138 speakers in the YOHO database and two people who played a role as imitators have shown that an impostor can attack the system if that impostor knows a registered speaker in the database who has very similar voice to the impostor's voice.
Mapreduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments : A Review

— Mapreduce has become an important distributed processing model for large-scale data-intensive application like data mining and web indexing. Hadoop, an open-source implementation of Mapreduce, is widely used for short jobs requiring low response time. Mapreduce and Hadoop do not fundamentally consider heterogeneity of node and workload running in computer clusters. The current Hadoop implementation assumes that computing nodes in the cluster are homogeneous in nature. In this article, we survey some of the approaches that have been designed to improve the Mapreduce performance in heterogeneous environments.
A search for gravitational lensing in 38 X-ray selected clusters of galaxies

We present the results of a CCD imaging survey for gravitational lensing in a sample of 38 X-ray-selected clusters of galaxies. Our sample consists of the most X-ray luminous (Lx 21 0 44 erg s 1 )c lus- ters selected from the Einstein Observatory Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) that are observable from Mauna Kea ( > 40 o ). The sample spans a red- shift range of 0:15 z 0:823 and includes 5 clusters with z> 0.5. CCD images of the clusters were obtained in excellent seeing. There is evidence of strong gravita- tional lensing in the form of giant arcs (length l 8 00 , axis ratio l=w 10) in 8 of the 38 clusters. Two addi- tional clusters contain shorter arclets, and 6 more clusters contain candidate arcs that require follow-up observations to conrm their lensing origin. Since the survey does not have a uniform surface brightness limit we do not draw any conclusion based on the statistics of the arcs found. We note, however, that 60% (3 of 5) of the clusters with Lx > 10 45 erg s 1 , and none of the 15 clusters with Lx 10), and are aligned or- thogonal to the optical major axes of the clusters, indicate the cluster core mass density proles must be compact (steeper than isothermal). In several cases, however, there is also some evidence, in the form of possible radial arcs, for density proles with nite core radii.
Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching

An extensive literature in medicine investigates the health consequences of early childhood television watching. However, this literature does not address the issue of reverse causation, i.e., does early childhood television watching cause specific health outcomes or do children more likely to have these health outcomes watch more television? This paper uses a natural experiment to investigate the health consequences of early childhood television watching and so is not subject to questions concerning reverse causation. Specifically, we use repeated cross-sectional data from 1972 through 1992 on county-level mental retardation rates, county-level autism rates, and county-level children's cable-television subscription rates to investigate how early childhood television watching affects the prevalence of mental retardation and autism. We find a strong negative correlation between average county-level cable subscription rates when a birth cohort is below three and subsequent mental retardation diagnosis rates, but a strong positive correlation between the same cable subscription rates and subsequent autism diagnosis rates. Our results thus suggest that early childhood television watching has important positive and negative health consequences.
Given–new/new–given? Children's sensitivity to the ordering of information in complex sentences

ABSTRACT English and many other languages allow flexible ordering of main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences. Processing, discourse-pragmatics, and semantics have an impact on the ordering of information. Three-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults heard complex sentences containing main and subordinate clauses with differing informational status. Using an act-out method, we analyzed participants’ sensitivity to the ordering of new/given information and its interaction with clause order. All age groups changed the order of information to given–new when exposed to a new–given structure, whereas only adults changed the clause order to subordinate–main when exposed to the reverse. We suggest that children are sensitive to information structure but not clause order in complex sentences. The results are discussed in the context of possible limited processing capacities or understanding of clause order function in complex sentences.
Parallel Printer Port for Phase Measurement

This white paper talks about the measurement of phase angle using Phase Locked Loop and printer port. The phase detector compares the phase of a periodic input signal against the phase of the output of voltage controlled oscillator and generates an average output voltage Vout which is linearly proportional to the phase difference, ? o between its two inputs. This output voltage is measured using the parallel Printer port of a PC.