Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Self-Compassion and the Mediating Effects of Social Media on Relational Intimacy

The current research study examined the way one’s relationship with self affects their relational intimacy with others, while accounting for the role of social media has in influencing this effect. This study uses self-compassion to examine one’s relationship with self and expands on the current knowledge that self-compassion influences one’s relationships. It was hypothesized that self-compassion would be positively associated with relational intimacy and negatively associated with social media use. A total of 173 participants contributed to this study. No significant relationship was found between self-compassion and social media use, as measured by social media use integration in to social routines and emotional connection, and integration into social routines. There was a significant positive relationship between self-compassion and relational intimacy but no support for social media use was a significant mediating variable.
Human face detection and location in complex background

In this paper a new method to detect and locate human faces in complex background is proposed. First, an evolutionary computation algorithm is used to search the skin like pixels and segment the face like regions in a color image. Then, the shape and the gray intensity distribution information of each face like region are examined and those regions that satisfy with the knowledge of a human face are located and marked. The experimental results show that the proposed approach not only has the features of high speed and high efficiency, but also has the ability to detect human faces of any number with any poses in any background.
A survey of mobile cloud computing architecture, applications, approaches & Current Solution Providers

Cloud computing is an attractive computing model since it allows for resources to be provisioned according to a demand basis. It has also made it possible to process a large amount of data, using clusters of commodity computers. Moreover, the diffusion of cloud computing is expected to generate substantial direct and indirect impacts on economic and employment growth and also to face the world with new possibilities which are specific to cloud computing. In this paper we have introduced the most renowned cloud solution providers at present, and explained their features and different aspects. Besides, we have given a telling overview of cloud computing concept, service models and deployment methods. Together with an explosive growth of the mobile applications and emerging of cloud computing concept, mobile cloud computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services. MCC integrates the cloud computing into the mobile environment and overcomes obstacles related to the performance (e.g., battery life, storage, and bandwidth), environment (e.g., heterogeneity, scalability, and availability), and security (e.g., reliability and privacy) discussed in mobile computing. This paper gives a survey of MCC, which helps general readers have an overview of the MCC including the definition, architecture, and applications. The issues, existing solutions, and approaches are presented. In addition, the future research directions of MCC are discussed.
Cross-national and Cross-regional Report Quantitative Analysis

The Cross-national and Cross-regional Report focused on the interplay at macro-, meso- and local level between Life Long Learning (LLL) policies, young people's living conditions and country and region specific contexts in promoting or deterring growth and social inclusion. The general objective was collecting and analysing quantitative data on the specific living conditions of young adults in regional contexts, thus considering regional specificities (for instance migration/mobility) in relation to LLL. Data on socioeconomic and socio-demographic context, education/training, labour market, social inclusion and participation, and health and well-being of the young adults was gathered from international, national and local sources.
Using Visual Salience in Empirical Game Theory

Coordination games often have salient “focal points”. In games where choices are locations in images, we test for the effect of salience, predicted a priori using a neuroscience-based algorithm, Concentration of salience is correlated with the rate of matching when players are trying to match (r=.64). In hider-seeker games, all players choose salient locations more often, creating a “seeker’s advantage” (seekers win 9% of games). Salience-choice relations are explained by a salience-enhanced cognitive hierarchy model. The novel prediction that time pressure will increases seeker’s advantage, by biasing choices toward salience, is confirmed. Other links to salience in economics are suggested.
Academic Achievement Among Adopted and Nonadopted Children in Early School Years

Abstract The study examined academic achievement among adopted and nonadopted children in Norway. The adopted group included children adopted from China, South Korea, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Colombia. The study also included a control group of nonadopted classmates with same gender and age. The findings show no significant differences in academic achievement between adopted and nonadopted in either first or third grade, but a greater variety in adopted children’s performance. Adopted children received more special education and more support from parents than nonadopted classmates did. Language skills and hyperactive behavior made a significant contribution in explaining the variance in academic achievement among adopted children.
Recorded noise as a source for measurement of propagation loss

Repetitive bursts of recorded reef noise were broadcast from an underwater loudspeaker and used to measure propagation loss in shallow water. The method has advantages because sound levels in the bandwidth of interest can be measured directly and give a simple determination of attenuation due to bottom interaction. Surface scattering can be neglected because it does not contribute to energy loss when the signal of interest is recorded noise. A comparison of summer and winter results gives a direct measure of the extra propagation loss due to downward refraction.
Quantifying the Phenomenology of Ghostly Episodes: Part I - Need for a Standard Operationalization

© 2019 by Parapsychology Press. We review conceptualizations and measurements of base (or core) experiences commonly attributed to haunts and poltergeists (i.e., “ghostly episodes”). Case analyses, surveys, controlled experiments, and field studies have attempted to gauge anomalous experiences in this domain, albeit with methods that do not cumulatively build on earlier research. Although most approaches agree, to an extent, on the base experiences or events that witnesses report, the literature lacks a standard operationalization that can be used to test the factor structure of these occurrences or allow meaningful comparisons of findings across studies. Towards filling this gap, we identified 28 base experiences that include subjective (or psychological) experiences, more typical of haunts, and objective (or physical) manifestations, more common to poltergeist-like disturbances. This qualitatively-vetted list is proposed as the foundation for new measurement approaches, research designs, and analytical methods aimed to advance model-building and theory-formation.
Career Exploration at an Appalachian University: Effectiveness and Pre-Existing Resources

Many universities offer career exploration courses designed to assist students in making effective career choices; however, it remains unclear whether pre-existing resources have a significant influence on students’ ability to benefit. The purpose of this study was (a) to measure the efficacy of a career exploration course at an Appalachian institution in improving college and career decision self-efficacy and (b) to determine if the following pre-existing resources, academic readiness, academic achievement, and familial financial resources, were significant predictors of post-test college and career decision self-efficacy scores. Participants were 127 traditionally-aged, undergraduate students at a private, Appalachian university enrolled in a 15-week career exploration course. Paired samples t-tests revealed a significant positive change from pre to post-test for college and career decision self-efficacy; however, hierarchical linear regression analyses revealed no significant influence of the pre-existing resources on post-test scores for either construct.
Pentaho Data Integration

Parent Topic • Products Child Topics • Kettle • Get Started with the PDI client PDI client (also known as Spoon) is a desktop application that enables you to build transformations and schedule and run jobs. • Use the Data Integration Perspective In the Data Integration perspective, workflows are built using steps or entries joined by hops that pass data from one item to the next. • Use the Schedule Perspective • Streaming analytics • Advanced topics • Troubleshooting
The Influence of Self-Control and Mindfulness on Counterproductive Academic Behavior

Some forms of academic behavior of counter-productive that many college students are doing is plagiarism, cheating, absenteeism, and postponing the task. Counterproductive academic behavior such as plagiarism and cheating among students can be reduced if the student has self-control and good mindfulness. This study aims to examine the negative effects of self-control and mindfulness on counter-productive academic behavior. The results of hypothesis testing showed that each variable of self-control and mindfulness have positive effect on counterproductive academic behavior. The low mean value in this study indicates that the average of college students who become respondents have a low level of self-control and low mindfulness that has a tendency to perform counterproductive academic behavior. Keywords: Counterproductive Academic Behavior, Mindfulness, Self-Control
Developing a risk/need assessment tool for women offenders: a gender-informed approach

Recently, correctional agencies have argued that there are differences between factors influencing men and women’s involvement in the criminal justice system. The purpose of this paper is to examine the validity of a gender-informed risk/need assessment tool. ,The sample consisted of 620 women offenders admitted to federal Canadian custody, as well as a matched-comparison group of 647 men. Items were selected from routine assessments in an administrative database based on an extensive literature review of factors related to criminal risk for women. ,Results showed that the items included in this assessment and the overall rating of risk/need significantly predicted any return to custody for both women and men. As well, ratings incrementally predicted any return to custody over and above other established tools. ,The gender-informed risk/need assessment tool, informed by the literature, performed well for both men and women. The research highlights the complementary, not competing, perspectives of gender-neutral and gender-responsive risk and need factors. ,Factors commonly considered gender-salient predicted risk for men and women. The present study demonstrates that risk assessments tools for men and women should look beyond the factors routinely assessed in the research to identify novel dynamic factors that contribute to risk for men and women and could be targeted for intervention.
A Frontoparietal Network Underlies both the Standard and an Auditory Adaptation of the WCST

The executive functions are crucial for leading a deliberate life which delicately balances the considerations posed by ourselves and our surroundings. Several of the most common mental illnesses impact executive functions. In order to develop effective treatments, efficient and reliable ways of measuring executive functioning are required. One of the most popular tests of executive function is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), which has been proposed to challenge a range of functions, including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and making logical inferences. An fMRI-study was done to investigate the neural substrate for performing the WCST, alongside a newly developed auditory adaptation of the test for use with the visually impaired. A high-level control condition where the sorting rule was disclosed was used, in an attempt to sift out working memory storage functions from manipulation and hypothesis generating functions. Contrasting the visual test with the auditory one revealed activation limited to the sensory cortices. Contrasting the tests with the high level control condition revealed a frontoparietal network including the frontal eye fields and the intraparietal sulci. These results highlight the importance of a distributed network of brain areas for solving the WCST, which is not limited to the frontal cortex. In addition, the lack of a difference between the WCST and the Auditory Sorting Task outside of the sensory cortices supports the application of the AST as a substitute for the WCST in the visually impaired population.
Discourse Analysis in Critical Social Work: From Apology to Question

This paper concerns the relation between critical reflective practice and social workers’ lived experience of the complicated and contradictory world of practice. I will outline how critical reflection based on discourse analysis may generate useful perspectives for practitioners who struggle to make sense of the gap between critical aspirations and practice realities, and who often mediate that gap as a sense of personal failure. I will describe two examples of discourse-based case studies, and show how the conceptual space that is opened by such reflection can help social workers gain a necessary distance from the complexity of their ambivalently constructed place. Discourse analysis can provide new vantage points from which to reconstruct practice theory in ways that are more consciously oriented to our social justice commitments. I understand these vantage points in the case studies I will describe as: 1) an historical consciousness, 2) access to understanding what is left out of discourses in use, 3) understanding of how actors are positioned in discourse, all leading to: 4) a new set of questions which expose the gap between the construction of practice possibilities and social justice values, thus allowing for a new understanding of the limitations, constraints and possibilities within the context of the practice problem.
Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety. Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data in the south of Iran from 273 employees of various organizations at two-time points in 2017 and 2018, five months apart, the authors conducted confirmatory factor analysis and used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to acquire the results. In Formative SEM, sub-constructs are considered separately since they may have diverse effects and causes, and hence, require to be considered as disparate variables (Srivastava et al. 2001) and this method is used in various studies in high-quality journals (e.g., Tang et al., 2018; Gentina et l., 2018; Gentina & Tang, 2018). In the formative SEM model, based on the data analysis, Dark Triad was formed through high narcissism and Machiavellianism and low psychopathy. The findings revealed that the Dark Triad bears a significant indirect positive relationship with corruption intention through anxiety. Anxiety acts as a full mediator between Dark Triad and corruption intention. All in all, this study extended previous research by providing evidence that anxiety can contribute to corruption intention for those with Dark Triad traits.
NOTES TOWARD A METHODOLOGY FOR LISTENING IN PLACE: HONG KONG

Listening in place (This is in differentiation to the notion of space as an abstract dimension such as the cyberspace.) means the locality in which one is listening, a geographically situated place (cf. Stokes, 3). Even though one cannot escape being in a place, one can avoid listening to this place with the use of headphones, which allow to listen to other sound spaces, to be immersed in one’s own audiotopia (cf. Bull, 2011, p. 529). Such audiotopia in fact is the negation of the soundscape of place. When going to the field, the musicologist is listening to the soundscape in place. As a musicologist: what I was doing in Hong Kong was listening in Hong Kong as a place. When, afterwards, I am listening to its recordings, on the contrary, I am listening to Hong Kong as a space, to a memory captured in sound. These distinctions, and the anthropological framework which I use to elaborate them, refine the pedagogical models advanced in “Mediating a Soundwalk: An Exercise in Claireaudience” by Ian Reyes (2012, pp. 98–101). Listening to recordings is fundamentally different from the listening experience in Hong Kong. I believe that knowing and exploring these differences could lead to new techniques of listening, and that is the work of this short essay.
The effects of pettlep and traditional imagery interventions on netball players shooting accuracy

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Physical, Environment, Task, Timing, Learning, Emotion and Perspective (PETTLEP) and traditional imagery interventions on netball players shooting accuracy. In this study, 48 netball players from Larut Matang and Selama district in Perak were invited to participate. They were tested on imagery ability and divided into three interventions groups consisting, the PETTLEP audio imagery, the PETTLEP audio video imagery and the traditional written imagery script. The participants in the PETTLEP audio and audio video interventions imagery employed the interventions at the netball court. Conversely, the participants in the traditional written imagery scrip group employed the interventions at their own houses. All participants conducted their imagery training based on the imagery training schedule that was provided to them. The imagery training duration was around 30 minutes and scheduled for three times per week for four weeks. The pre-test intervention and post-test study design were employed in this study. The paired t-test results indicated that there were significant differences on the pre and post test data for netball shooting accuracy for both participants in PETTLEP groups, however there was no significant differences were found in the traditional written imagery script group. Furthermore, the One Way ANOVA results indicated that there were significant differences on the data of post-test among both PETTLEP groups compared to the traditional groups. However, there were no significant differences found between PETTLEP groups. The findings showed that the participants in the PETTLEP imagery interventions showed better accuracy netball shooting compared to the participants in the traditional intervention group, however both audio and combination audio and video PETLLEP interventions enhanced similar netball shooting performances. In conclusion, from this study the PETTLEP imagery model was found to improve players’ performance, especially when it was combined with audio imagery and video modelling. Keywords: Imagery, PETTLEP, traditional, video and audio
Incremental and Decentralized Integration

The activity of integration in a software development project may be defined as an assembly of parts. The activity is crucial, because when fragments produced by different programmers are integrated into larger parts, many errors that were previously not visible might emerge. Steve McConnell, in his book Rapid Development (McConnell 1996, 406) writes that one of the advantages of doing a daily build of the entire product is that it helps debugging.
Personhood, Persistence, and Constitution

In the following essay I argue that psychological continuity provides the most suitable account of a person’s persistence. This is in accordance with Derek Parfit’s claim that what’s important in cases of survival is not personal identity, but psychological continuity. The essay focuses on a criticism raised by Marya Schechtman. She argues that Parfit’s account doesn’t sufficiently distinguish between the metaphysical and practical concerns of a person’s persistence, which she takes to create significant problems. I respond to her criticisms to show that these problems are not as significant as she claims, and that by attempting to address them, her own view suffers. The difficulty with her view results from too broad a concept of personhood. This is the result of confusing the causal with the constitutive features of personhood. Once these features are distinguished, we can see why psychological continuity provides a better account of a person’s persistence.
JOB SATISFACTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH REGARD TO MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION AND MONTHLY INCOME

The purpose of this research was identified the significant difference of secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction with regard to medium of instruction and monthly income. The research has been designed with the survey model. In the research, Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) was used to collect data. The present study has been carried out among secondary school teachers at Kovilpatti Taluk of Thoothukudi district. The investigator found that there is significant difference among Tamil and English medium secondary school teachers in their job satisfaction and also there is significant association between monthly income and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers.
Mindfulness in pharmacy education: a national mixed-methods study

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A Study of Display Efficiency of Mobile User Interface Design

The efficiency of mobile user interface is an important criteria in the small screen interface design. The present study is designed to explore the effect of back-font color matching, displaying style(icon or font document) on mobile user interface efficiency. The result shows that back-font color matching has significant effect on operation efficiency of mobile interface. However, the variable of displaying style seems have no significant effect on operation efficiency. These results are further crossly validated by questionnaire data.