Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparing the results of the urica and the tmq to determine the effect of contingency management intervention on intrinsic motivation

The objective of the study was to determine whether contingency management (CM) intervention also known as motivational incentive influences intrinsic motivation of clients in an institutionalized drug treatment centre. A Randomized controlled trial design was used in this study involving random assignment of subjects into experimental and controlled groups. A total of 44 clients were divided into two groups namely the experimental group who received the usual program with CM intervention (CM) and the control group receiving only the usual program (TAU). CM interventions are administered from the beginning of the first week to week 12th and terminated on the 13th to 16th week to observe the follow-up effect of CM's effectiveness on client motivation. CM interventions used in this study via sticker chart rewards system where every achieved positive behaviour changes in the treatment session will be rewarded with a reward sticker which will be put on the clients’ achievement chart. The sticker has a certain monetary value that can be exchanged with privileges or certain items. Experimental groups received CM rewards while no rewards are given to the control group. To measure the client's motivation level, two standardize instrument was used which was the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) and the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ). Qualitative data was also collected through a semi-structured interview to gain an in-depth input on the effectiveness of CM toward the client's intrinsic motivation as well as to determine the consistency of the quantitative findings. The results showed that CM effective in improving the intrinsic motivation of the clients towards the treatment programs. Results of the interview showed that most clients felt that CM helped increase their selfmotivation to participate in the treatment session and enhance their spirit to implement the knowledge learned from the treatment session.
COMP 4801 Final Year Project Plan Motif-G : A Motif-based Graph Analysis Platform

Motif and clique are two important concepts in graph theory. A recently proposed concept motif-clique combines motif and clique together, providing abundant semantic information based on heterogeneous information networks. However, the existing work on motif-clique detection is rudimentary and lacks some important features. This project will continue the work based on the motif-clique concept and develop a fully functional motif based graph analysis platform together with a comprehensive algorithm. This project will develop several potential pruning strategies to accelerate motif-clique finding process and conduct extensive experiments to test performance under different workloads. In addition to a program with a command line interface, a web-based platform will be developed to provide users with visual results and rich interactions. This project will involve collaboration with bioinformatics researchers and explore how people can use the platform to learn human-gene associations and discover disease subtypes. Several improvements to the web platform and algorithm, and research on bioinformatics field are completed, while several advanced features and more advanced research problems will be resolved in the future.
Development ethics through the lenses of caring, gender, and human security

Thinking about ethics of development and human development must both treat development in a global perspective and yet reflect on the content of human. This paper explores some faces of globalization by using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction (psychological and emotional as well as biological) and the activities and attitudes of care that give moral resources for response to systemic tragedy, not only for identifying and understanding it. There now exist globally interconnected systems of vulnerability and capability, for which matching systems of human security, care and responsibility are needed in order to protect human dignity. The discourse of human security helps here by better grounding an agenda of basic human needs, in an ethnography of ordinary lives rather than only an abstracted accounting of deficiencies or an elevated language of opportunities. It must be emotionally and existentially grounded too. The authors examine the potential contributions the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism; the work of philosopher-anthropologist Ananta Giri; and feminist care ethics.
Data inspection and security in the duplication of the BigCloud data

In this work, we study the problem of integrity inspection and secure duplication on cloud data. Specifically, aiming at Achieving both data integrity and duplication in cloud, wepropose two secure systems, namely BigCloud. BigCloud introduces an inspection entity with a maintenance of a MapReduce cloud, which helps clients generate data tags before uploading as well as audit the integrity of data having been stored in cloud. Compared with previous work, the computation by user in BigCloud is greatly reduced during the file uploading and inspection phases. BigCloud+ is designed motivated by the fact that customers always want to encrypt their data before uploading, and enables integrity inspection and secure duplication on encrypted data.
Building immersive scene roaming system

Virtual reality technology can create virtual environment for the users to experience. It has a wide range of applications in military, games, interior design and many other fields. An immersive virtual reality system allows users to be immersed in the virtual world completely and to get approximately the same feeling as in the real world. With the help of high-precision positioning tracking system, this paper implements a virtual reality system with visual studio developmental environment, 3ds max, and virtools. In the end, this paper gives two application examples respectively for game and interior design.
La situation de guerre dans l'arène villageoise

Les implications de la situation actuelle sur les enjeux ordinaires de la vie sociale et politique dans les campagnes sont examinees a partir de l’etude de cas d’un village et de sa region proche. Les informations montrent comment le conflit s’ancre dans les dynamiques sociales locales preexistantes et, reciproquement, comment ces dynamiques se nourrissent de la situation actuelle et de la recomposition des marges de manœuvre des principaux groupes d’acteurs.
A Survey of Topic Evolution Based on LDA

With topics evolve over time,new topics emerge and old ones decay.Many researches are devoted to detect the topic evolution automatically.Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA),as a recently emerged probabilistic topic model,has been widely used in the research of topic evolution.This paper discusses two aspects of evolution on topic,i.e.the content and the topic intensity.It summarizes three methods in LDA based topic evolution detection according to the dealing with time: joining the time to LDA model,post-discretizing or pre-discretizing methods.The three methods are also compared in several features: the time granularity,on-line or off-line,etc.In addition,the evaluation methods for topic evolution are introduced.Finally,the paper gives some analysis and suggestions for future researches on topic evolution based on LDA.
GAMBARAN ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING’ PADA ODHA (ORANG DEKAT DENGAN HIV/AIDS) DI LSM BANDUNG PLUS SUPPORT

HIV/AIDS is a virus that can make people lose their immune system. Impact facing people living with HIV, including physical problems, psychological, and social. Efforts are made to reduce the impact experienced by people living with HIV formed a support group for people living with HIV/AIDS, LSM Bandung Plus Support in order to minimize the impact experienced by people living with HIV that was both psychologically. The research was conducted based on the problems that occur in the BPS, once sentenced to HIV/AIDS, people living with HIV to react emotionall. It takes effort for people with HIV/AIDS to continue his life, where people living with HIV are able to evaluate and provide meaning the life experiences that can lead to people living with HIV become resigned to the situation or try to fix things so prosperous life. The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical data on the picture of psychological well-being in people living with HIV/AIDS in LSM Bandung Plus Support. The reasearch was based concept of psychological well-being theory advanced by C.D. ryff (1989). The method used in this research is descriptive method to the study population of 19 people PLWHA. Data collection in the form of psychological well-being questionnaire consisting of 85 items statements adaptation psychological well-being scales theory C.D Ryff. Data obtained ordinal form of data. The results showed as much as 68.4% of PLWHA has reached psychological well-being, and 31.6% of PLWHA has not achieved psychological well-being.
Effectively Meeting the Needs of Military-Connected Children Through Literature in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom

There are two million military-connected children, and every school district in the United States has at least one military-connected student (Operation Educate the Educator, n.d.). The stresses on military children have increased in the post-9/11 era, and many educators are not prepared to provide an appropriate school environment to effectively meet these children’s needs. This paper examines some of the challenges military children face in schools and offers suggestions to enable educators to provide a safe and nurturing environment. An annotated bibliography of children's literature that is aligned with the NCSS Ten Primary Themes is provided. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
Words Speak Louder than Actions and Improve Welfare: An Experimental Test of Advice and Social Learning

Social learning is a process in which individuals learn by observing the actions of others. The odd aspect of the social learning literature is that, ironically, it is not very social since in This research was supported by the Center for Experimental Social Sciences (C.E.S.S.) and the C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University. We acknowledge helpful discussions of Colin Camerer, Gary Charness, Je¤ Dominitz, Dan Friedman, Jacob Goree, Teck Ho, Charles Holt, Barry Sopher and Georg Weizsacker. This paper has also bene ted from suggestions by the participants of the 2003 International ESA meeting in Pittsburgh, SITE 2004 Summer Workshop and seminars in several universities. An earlier version of the paper was titled The Advice Puzzle: An Experimental Study of Social Learning Where Words Speak Louder than Actions. All errors are ours. yColumbia Business School, 3022 Broadway, Uris Hall, New York, NY 10027 (E-mail: bc2132@columbia.edu, URL: http://celen.gsb.columbia.edu/). zDepartment of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 549 Evans Hall # 3880, Berkeley, CA 94720 (E-mail: kariv@berkele.edu, URL: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kariv/). xDepartment of Economics, New York University, 269 Mercer St., 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10003 (Email: as7@nyu.edu, URL: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~as7/).
Analysis on Algorithms of Identifying Regional Influential Users in Micro-blogging

Based on the Micro-blogging analysis,from a regional perspective,we researched micro-process of information diffusion.By measuring the real behavior of the user’s information sharing,we constructed the network model of information listen and information forward.We found that a small group of nodes can cover the most of the communication behavior of the information diffusion.Then,we proposed a recognition algorithm named WeiboRank like Hits to find them,and proposed a evaluation based on real measurement coverage.It is verified that compared with the other algorithms,the proposed algorithm is effective.
Routing Algorithms In Networks On Chip

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Outdoor Recreation and Family Cohesiveness: A Research Approach

Outdoor recreation produces many kinds of highly valued social effects. One of these effects appears to be stronger family cohesiveness. Previous research supports the hypothesis that leisure activity and group cohesiveness are related. This study of family campers at St. Croix State Park, Pine County, Minnesota, was designed to test the hypothesis that mutual outdoor recreation helps sustain and increase family cohesiveness by inducing social interaction in the family group. Members of 306 randomly selected families were interviewed, in the summer of 1967, and a follow-up questionnaire was sent in the fall. Cohesiveness was measured by ascertaining the amount of intimate communication of troubles, secrets, and mood among family members. Study results provide moderate support for the proposition that outdoor recreation helps maintain and increase family cohesiveness.
Performance Analysis of Bang-Bang and d - q Reference Frame Control Schemes for Power Quality Improvement of Grid Connected Wind Energy System

The generation of power is really a challenge now a days with the increase in demand for Electricity due to increase in industrialization. It is necessary to meet the energy needs by utilizing the renewable energy resources like wind, biomass, hydro co-generation, etc. Injection of the wind power into an electric grid affects the power quality. The main power quality issues are voltage sag, swell, flickers, harmonics etc. In this proposed scheme STATic COMpensator (STATCOM) is connected at the point of common coupling with a battery energy storage system (BESS) to mitigate the power quality issues. The battery energy storage is integrated to sustain the real power source under fluctuating wind power. Here two control schemes for STATCOM are compared: Bang-Bang current controller and control in d-q reference frame. BangBang controller is a hysteresis current controlled technique. The operation of the two STATCOM control schemes for maintaining the power quality of the grid connected wind energy system is investigated using MATLAB/SIMULINK.
Optimization Design of Network Structure for WSN Data Collection Design Based on Delay Perception

In order to solve such problems as large delay and large energy consumption in current wireless sensor network (WSN) during data collection, a network structure for WSN data collection based on delay perception is designed in this article. Firstly, the tree structure thought is introduced therein to divide WSN sensor nodes into multiple single-layer clusters with different sizes so as to construct a new network structure, thus to improve the topological structure and enable the cluster heads to complete the data communication in an interlaced mode as well as significantly reduce the delay during data collection; secondly, the model for calculating the delay and the energy consumption during WSN data collection is established in this article; thirdly, Top-Down technology is introduced therein to design the network structure formation algorithm, thus to optimize the energy consumption of the data collection mechanism through the communication distance minimization. The experiment shows: compared with existing network structure for WSN data collection, the proposed network structure can not only effectively reduce the delay during WSN data collection, but also maintain the whole communication energy consumption at a relatively low level.
Methodology of Attribute Weights Acquisition Based on Three-way Decision Theory

Aiming at the problems of subjectivity in weight rules and uncertainty in the parameter value through traditional decision-making process,the methodology of attribute weights acquisition was studied based on the rough set and three-way decision theory.Two definitions of the attribute confirmation and attribute reduction were redefined respectively,a new method of attribute weights aquisition was presented and also compared with other methods by example,and then the efficiency of the presented method was demonstrated.This method is objective evaluation of attribute,which is based on data and without prior information.Using this method,decision maker can make decision practically and get the more reasonable weight distribution.This thesis has some value of theory about the study of attribute weight.
"Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka"

We are not interested in highlighting the shortcomings of specific policies or staff in the fields of development and humanitarianism. Rather we contend that the root of the problem lies in the way in which gender has been conceived and disseminated within these fields. Accordingly we outline a more comprehensive and still portable feminist analytic that provides a more sophisticated approach to understanding the production of gender identities and relations. The idea that gender identities and relations are generated differently across space and time and have no essential pre-established qualities is critical to changing them. This feminist analytic then is at once a tool for understanding social economic and political relations and a tool for changing them. We define feminist for the purpose of this article as reflecting analyses and political interventions that address the unequal and often violent relationships among people based on real or perceived social economic political cultural and sexual differences. The analysis and elimination of patriarchal relations of power within each of these fields is a primary focus. We recognize that there is more than one kind of feminism and we do not wish to fix the category "feminist" in any singular manner nor to create a typology of feminisms. We contend that gender analysis has fallen prey to such rigidities and has thus limited its analytical strength. (excerpt)
Foreign influence and national achievement: The impact of open milieus on Japanese civilization.

Foreign Influence and National Achievement: The Impact of Open Milieus on Japanese Civilization Input from alien cultures might stimulate exceptional national achievements. This hypothesis was tested by applying generational time-series analysis to a society whose history shows tremendous variation in its receptiveness to the external world ( viz., Japan between 580 and 1939). After required controls and data transformations were introduced, the cross-correlations were examined between 3 measures of extracultural influx (outside influence, travel abroad, and eminent immigrants) and 14 measures of national achievement (politics, war, business, religion, medicine, philosophy, nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and swords). For most domains of creative achievement, the number of eminent individuals at generation g was a positive function of the amount of foreign influence at generation g - 2. For many leadership domains, in contrast, activity at generation g tended to be positively associated with national openness to alien influences at g + 1.
La gouvernance d'entreprise et l'hybridation : le cas de l'Asie

La tentative pour comprendre les changements affectant les modeles de gouvernance d’entreprise est un des debats sur les transformations du capitalisme a l’heure actuelle. L'Asie ne fait pas exception a ce phenomene. Les modes de gouvernance ont connu une evolution importante depuis la crise financiere de 1997. Cette these cherche a rendre compte de ces transformations dans un cadre d’analyse du changement institutionnel. La conception de la gouvernance est apprehendee comme etant dependante de l’environnement institutionnel dans lequel evolue la firme. L’etude de l’evolution des modes de gouvernance necessite donc la comprehension du changement institutionnel.Sur cette base, nous developpons l’hypothese de l’hybridation et notre propre interpretation des changements de la gouvernance. L’hybridation est soumise a deux series de forces : celles qui sont favorables aux changements et celles qui leur resistent. Le processus d’adaptation des nouvelles pratiques introduites genere a terme un modele adapte aux conditions locales. Notre analyse empirique revele que les evolutions recentes ont fait emerger une pluralite de modeles sur la zone asiatique : 3 modeles hybrides et 1 modele qui est reste inchange face aux reformes d’inspiration anglo-saxonne. Nous etudions egalement empiriquement les forces qui favorisent le changement ainsi que les facteurs de la resistance. Ce travail permet d’apporter une vision globale des mutations rencontrees dans la gouvernance dans la region asiatique.
Marriage and the spiritual realm: The role of proximal and distal religious constructs in marital functioning.

Ninety-seven couples completed questionnaires about their involvement in joint religious activities and their perceptions regarding the sanctification of marriage, including perceived sacred qualities of marriage and beliefs about the manifestation of God in marriage. In contrast to individual religiousness and religious homogamy (distal religious constructs). these proximal religious variables directly reflect an integration of religion and marriage, and they were associated with greater global marital adjustment, more perceived benefits from marriage, less marital conflict. more verbal collaboration, and less use of verbal aggression and stalemate to discuss disagreements for both wives and husbands. The proximal measures also added substantial unique variance (adjusted R 2 change ranged from .06 to .48) to specific aspects of marital functioning after controlling demographic factors and distal religious variables in hierarchical regression analyses.
Bureaucracy and Development in Saudi Arabia: The Case of Local Administration

This paper examines the role of the Saudi bureaucracy in development by focussing on local administration. It points to several shortcomings of the Saudi local administrative system, including diverse organizational structures, low educations qualifications of local public officials, imbalance between the executive authority and the assigned responsibilities of local agencies, a high degree of duplication, and lack of co-ordination of services. All of these constitute serious obstacles to the Saudi local administration playing an effective role in promoting socio-economic and political development. Despite these shortcomings, however, the Saudi local administrative system has been active in the dynamic development of the Saudi Kingdom. This active role has been strengthened by national development plans which emphasize the development of the Kingdom's geographic regions through the establishment of regional development centres.