Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A clinicians' guide to integrating mindfulness into evidence-based practice: A common elements approach

Stemming from Eastern practices, mindfulness entails intentionally bringing one's attention to all aspects of experience in the present moment, and holding these experiences with non-judgmental acceptance. In recent years mindfulness-based interventions have been gaining empirical support together with clinician interest in their use. The APA now mandates the use of evidence-based practices in psychology (EBPP), which incorporate the best empirical evidence, clinical expertise, and individual population characteristics and culture. However, at present, because there have been relatively few dismantling studies, clinicians are forced to either adopt an entire treatment protocol or pick and choose individual interventions in a relatively ad hoc fashion. This effectively creates greater variability in the quality of treatment that is disseminated in the community. A system is needed, which bridges the gap between rigid adherence to EST manuals and the inconsistency of over reliance on clinical decision-making. The common elements approach has been proposed as one means of bridging this gap. This dissertation contributes to EBPP utilizing mindfulness approaches by (a) identifying the commonly shared elements of effective mindfulness based interventions; (b) offering treatment considerations for the integration of mindfulness into clinical practice based on EBPP requirements. This is the first attempt to provide such clinical considerations for the integration of mindfulness approaches that are consistent with the APA policy on evidence-based practice in psychology (APA, 2005). Library of Congress Subject Headings Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; Dissertations (PsyD) -Psychology Date of Award 2009 School Affiliation Graduate School of Education and Psychology Department/Program Psychology Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctorate Faculty Advisor Shafranske, Edward Recommended Citation Fielding, Lara, "A clinicians' guide to integrating mindfulness into evidence-based practice: a common elements approach" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 31. https://digitalcommons.pepperdine. edu/etd/31  Download SHARE THESES AND DISSERTATIONS Links Contact Us Pepperdine University Libraries Harnish Law Library Browse Collections Disciplines Authors Journals Search Enter search terms: Search
DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES FOR ANSWER SELECTION IN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATION AGENTS

The conversation agent acts as core interfaces between a system and user in answering users queries with proper responses. Question answering system acquires an important role in the information retrieval field. The deep learning approach enhances the accuracy in answering complex questions. As outcome, the user is receiving the precise answer instead of large document collections. The aim of this paper is to develop a model with deep learning approach for improving answer selection process which supports more relevant answer displaying by conversation agents. To achieve this, word2vector used for word representation and biLSTM attentive model is used for training, testing and disclosure play precise answer. Question type is identified using POS-tagger based Question Pattern analysis (T-QPA) model. The knowledgebase is created from the bench mark datasets bAbI Facebook (simple QA tasks), TREC QA, Yahoo! Answer, Insurance QA dataset. The proposed framework is built by embedding of questions and answers based on bidirectional long short-term memory (biLSTM) attentive models. The similarity between questions and answers has been measured by semantic and cosine similarity. The proposed model reduces the search gap in extracting among user queries and answer sentences in the education domain. The system results are evaluated with the standard metrics MAP, Top 1 accuracy, F1- Score for the answer selection.
Auricular Point Acupressure (APA) to Manage a Symptom Cluster of Pain, Fatigue, and Disturbed Sleep in Breast Cancer Patients: A Pilot Study

Purpose: To examine the feasibility of an auricular point acupressure (APA) to manage a symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance; to explore the potential utility of APA for reducing these symptoms in breast cancer patients. Design/Research approach: This was an open-pilot trial, with repeated observational research design. Setting: Participants were recruited from cancer outpatient clinics in an urban setting. Sample: Breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant treatment (n=31). Methods: The APA treatment protocol was designed to manage a pre-selected symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance in breast cancer patients. Participants received one in-person APA treatment, and the participants were taught to press the seeds three times a day for 3 minutes each time for 7 days to allow them to continue the treatment on their own at home to manage symptoms. Main Research Variables: Symptom severity, analgesic use, and functional status. Findings: The retention and adherence rate was 93%. After 7 days of APA treatment, pain, fatigue, sleep, and other symptoms decreased by a clinically significant amount (symptom severity decrease ≥ 30%). Analgesic use was a statistically significant predictor for the symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance. However, functional status and perceived efficacy of APA treatment had no statistically significant influence on the symptom cluster. Conclusions: APA may provide an inexpensive and effective complementary approach for the management of specific symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance for breast cancer patients receiving cancer treatment; further study is warranted. Implication for Nursing: APA is a non-invasive method which can be used to self-manage cancer symptoms. Nurses without formal training in acupuncture easily can be trained to administer APA.
Entrepreneurial Market Orientation and Marketing Performance: An Evidence From Malang Soybean Cracker Industry

This study aims to test the effect of entrepreneurial market orientation (EMO) as the development of entrepreneurial orientation concept. Particularly, this study tested the dimensions of EMO name innovation, customer orientation, market orientation and entrepreneurial orientation on marketing performance. To answer the proposed research objectives, this study used multiple regression analysis. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed into one hundred respondents while only 67 questionnaires collected. The results of multiple regression showed innovation has a positive significant effect on marketing performance. Similar to innovation, this study indicated that customer orientation has a positive significant effect on marketing performance. As proposed in the hypothesis, this study found that market orientation positively affected marketing orientation. Entrepreneurial orientation as the dimension of EMO was shown to have a significant effect on marketing performance. After the completion of this study, both theoretical and practical contribution are provided.
Effect of illness perception improvement on risk factors of coronary artery disease

Background: Illness perception can affect health-related behaviors and disease outcomes. Objectives: To determine the effect of an educational intervention of improving illness perception on some modifiable risk factors of coronary artery disease. Methods: In this clinical trial, 100 patients undergoing coronary angiography that met the inclusion criteria were divided randomly into two intervention and control groups. In the intervention group, three educational sessions were conducted individually, while usual care was conducted for the control group. Measurements on fasting blood glucose, cholesterol, triglyceride, blood pressure, body mass index, and smoking status were gathered at baseline, immediately and six months after the intervention in both groups. Data were analyzed using the SPSS. Results : The mean of systolic blood pressure (p<0.005), fasting triglycerides (p<0.005), and fasting blood glucose (p<0.005) were significantly different before and after the intervention between the two groups. Conclusion: Improvement illness perception through educational intervention can affect risk factors of coronary artery disease.
Brent Crude Oil Spot and Futures Prices: Structural Break Insights

The relationship between oil spot and futures prices has long been a focus of attention, but there is a lack of understanding about how these prices interact in times of crisis. Using cointegration and causality analysis, Brent crude spot and futures prices are examined before, during and after two different types of crises: (1) a supply-led event (the 1990–91 Gulf War) and (2) a demand-led event (the global financial crisis). Structural break analysis was employed to identify the subsamples to be studied. The core findings show evidence of a long-run bidirectional relationship between spot and futures prices. This study provides evidence that different types of crises engender different strengths of causal relationships between Brent crude spot and futures prices. <br>
Oral health status and treatment needs among 3-12 yearsold children with cleft lip and/or palate in Iraq

Background: This study aims to illustrate the oral health status of children with cleft lip and/or palate. Materials and methods: 233 cleft lip and/or palate Iraqi patients had participated in this study. 108(57 boys, 51 girls) within the age (3-12) years were selected from the total sample and submitted to a questionnaire and clinical examination. Dental caries, plaque index and gingival index, the pocket depth were recorded. Results: The mean dmfs=14.606±1.477, dmft=5.862± 0.461, the mean DMFS=2.202±0.383, DMFT=1.339± 0.195 with statistically non significant difference among different types of cleft. The highest percentage were in need to one surface filling (79.6%), followed by two surface filling (65.7%). The mean PI=1.663±0.051, with statistically not significant difference among different types of cleft. The mean GI=1.211±0.038, with statistically not significant difference among different types of cleft. Regarding pocket depth significant differences were in the distal site of the canine, mesial, palatal and labial sites of the lateral incisor, and all the sites of the central incisor, and highly significant difference in the distal site of the lateral incisor. Conclusion: The cleft lip and/or palate patient have major oral health problems regarding the dental caries, dental plaque, gingival condition, pocket depth and dental treatment needs.
Analysis on the Application of artificial Intelligence in classroom

With the continuous development and strength of information, the development of artificial intelligence has also moved towards a new stage, gradually living, but also only applied in a few fields and a few regions. Therefore, this paper puts forward a tentative idea whether artificial intelligence can be used in our classroom in the near future. With the smart phone, IPD and other intelligent items in the life of more and more widely used, its simplicity and intelligence, so that all the young and old, the use of a wide range of people, and easy to accept. With the diversity of modern life, the needs of students in the new era are becoming more and more widespread, while the traditional classroom teaching mode is being issued. Birth change, but the form is still relatively single, so for the traditional classroom, intelligent classroom will show a great advantage. It is possible to make students understand the content of the course before the beginning of the course by simulating the form of the real class, and choose the style and form of the course according to the students’ ability and interest in the learning process. In the era of the vigorous development of artificial intelligence, the development of intelligent classroom and intelligent classroom will not be underestimated, and intelligent classroom will also play a great role in the development of life in the future.
Clinical observations of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures by using mineralized collagen modified polymethylmethacrylate bone cement

To investigate the clinical outcomes of the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) by using mineralized collagen (MC) modified polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement. 52 cases (52 vertebras) who sustained OVCF treated with MC modified PMMA bone cement from July 2014 to December 2015 were reviewed retrospectively. All the cases (52 patients, 52 vertebras) included 8 males and 44 females with an average age of 74.83 (ranging from 57to 90-years old). The visual analogue scale (VAS), vertebral body height, Cobb angle, CT values preand post-operation as well as incidence of complications were used to be observed. All the patients underwent the surgery were successfully followed-up with an average period of 13.54 months (ranging from 6 to 23 months). The patients can ambulate at the second day after the operation. The VAS scores 2 days after the operation and during the last follow-up were significantly decreased compared with that before the operation (P < 0.05); the average vertebral height and local Cobb angle had significant recovery (P < 0.05); the CT value of the treated vertebra significantly increased compared with that before the operation (P < 0.05). MC with good osteogenic activity and degradation properties can effectively improve the mechanical properties and biocompatibility of the PMMA bone cement, thus obtain better clinical results.
Effects of age and tenure on MPs’ legislative behaviour in the Czech Republic

ABSTRACT Democratic regimes are based on the idea of reflecting the public’s plurality of opinions. However, parliamentary representation of some groups of citizens is inadequate. Unlike the underrepresentation of women or ethnic minorities, insufficient participation of young and old age cohorts has not received enough attention yet. To enrich public debate, I scrutinise effects of age and tenure on MPs’ parliamentary performance. I utilise a large-N quantitative study of the legislative behaviour of deputies in the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2017. The results suggest that the legislators’ age affects their voting attendance and activity positively, while tenure does so in a negative direction. Older MPs propose more bills and more experienced representatives address more speeches compared to their younger colleagues and novices, respectively. Moreover, the MPs’ age and tenure positively influence their gains of praesidium posts in intra-parliamentary bodies. Considering the results implying that age influences MPs’ parliamentary performance, more equal parliamentary representation of different age cohorts is a justifiable goal.
A criminalidade no Estado de Pernambuco: uma análise espacial dos determinantes das ocorrências de homicídios e roubos

Pernambuco entrou em uma crescente dos Crimes Violentos Letais Intencionais (CVLI) e Crimes Violentos contra o Patrimonio (CVP) recentemente. Diante desse contexto, essa pesquisa teve como finalidade identificar os condicionantes economicos, sociais e geograficos da criminalidade no territorio pernambucano em 2016. Para tanto, utilizou-se tecnicas de Analise Exploratoria de Dados Espaciais (AEDE) e modelos com componentes espaciais. Entre os resultados, constatou-se que existe autocorrelacao espacial positiva dos casos de homicidio e roubo no estado. Foram ainda identificados clusters de criminalidade na Regiao Metropolitana do Recife (RMR), Agreste e Sertao. Ademais, verificou-se atraves dos modelos espaciais estimados que existem efeitos de transbordamento e repercussao da criminalidade no estado.
My Place or Yours? Using Spatial Frames to Understand the Role of Place in Forest Management Conflicts

Abstract Vegetation treatment projects in wildland urban interface (WUI) areas are highly visible to public scrutiny, which can lead to stakeholder conflicts (e.g. land managers, public) that block a treatment’s implementation, and possibly expose residents to wildfire risk. This study proposes that research on environmental conflicts should account for physical spaces. We develop a conceptualization of spatial frames by combining theorizing on conflict frames and place attachment. The empirical case tracks the re-implementation of Forsythe, a US Forest Service vegetation treatment project in Colorado. Data include public meeting observation (N = 11), and interviews and focus groups with N = 31 residents. The findings about spatial frames illustrate that physical landscapes inscribe retrospective memories of past activities, and prospective aspirations for future actions. The temporal orientation of spatial frames (i.e., retrospective, prospective) configures frame repertoires in particular ways to heighten intractability. Land manager recommendations provide forward-looking opportunities for stakeholder engagement.
Leader over Policy? The Scope of Elite Influence on Policy Preferences

ABSTRACT Elite policy endorsement is a powerful form of framing and public opinion is sensitive to it. Using original data from a survey experiment in a polarized political setting, we explore the role of leader and party sponsorship in shaping public opinion over policies. We find that both leader and party cues affect policy preferences, regardless of the intrinsic nature of the policy. The influence of sponsorship is strong enough to polarize opinions over ex-ante non-divisive issues. Furthermore, some leaders and parties appear to be more influential than others, both for their supporters and their detractors. In addition, we assess how endorsement effects alter policymakers’ ability to undertake relevant reforms. We find a negative net effect of endorsement on public policy approval: the positive effect generated in party and leader´s supporters is outweighed by the growth in rejection from detractors. Finally, we provide evidence on the limits to de-polarization, documenting the ineffectiveness of bipartisan sponsorship and “against-type” endorsement to broaden policy support.
Using Fully Convolutional Networks for Floor Area Detection

Most mobile robots use visual images to obtain information about the surrounding environment and the nonlinear diffusion method to detect candidate areas of the floor, but they could not be applied to more complicated environments. In this study, a hybrid of fully convolutional networks (FCNs) and fuzzy integral is proposed for detecting the position of the floor and nonfloor from visual images. FCN is an end-to-end, pixels-to-pixels network for semantic segmentation. Semantic segmentation aims to perform dense segmentation tasks on images and segments each pixel to a specified category. To overcome the majority decision drawback in the traditional voting method and increase the accuracy, the fuzzy integral is used for the fusion of multiple FCNs with various optimal methods. The overall accuracy, mean accuracy, and mean intersection over union (MIoU) of the proposed method are 0.9824, 0.9816, and 0.9577, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid method has better accuracy than other methods in identifying the location of the floor area.
The Grammatical Forms Connection between Writing and Speaking from EFL Perspectives

The goal of this research is to examine whether Saudi undergraduates who use certain grammatical forms in their writing are able to reproduce the same forms with similar accuracy in their speaking . The sample of the study comprised 180 EFL undergraduates’ (male/female) at the undergraduate level from the Institute of languages at the University of Tabuk. The researchers used varied research instruments including Holistic Proficiency Scores and grammatical Use and Accuracy. The data was analyzed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, and SPSS. The findings of the research showed that there is a strong relationship between writing and speaking at varied proficiency levels (intermediate and advanced) but the beginners level revealed a noticeable difference in terms of writing and speaking proficiencies’ development in which some of these learners indicated better improvement in writing compared to speaking and vice versa. In relevance to the explicit existence of grammatical items and their use by beginner learners; they were shown to use a considerable number of these grammatical items in their writing, but revealed comparable accuracy in both writing and speaking. This study recommended that further future research should include a similar longitudinal study looking at how the relationship between speaking and writing may change over time for each individual learner, a finding that is merely hypothesized in the present study. Also, the present study investigates this problem through holistic proficiency assessment and grammatical use and accuracy.
Eco-Friendly Technique for Invertase Immobilization and Oligosaccharide Synthesis at Low Temperature

Eco-friendly technique for invertase immobilization has been created. It is very simple and does not need a preparation of highly pure enzyme or an expensive carrier. The technique relies on mixing pretreated sawdust with baker's yeast in a closed system and comparing it with that in an open system. The technique introduces a practical and new insight into the role of carbon dioxide in modification of sawdust's surface and invertase immobilization. It also provides vital insights on the role of immobilization technique on the stability and activity of the enzyme. The storage stability of the immobilized invertase retained 93% of its activity after storage of 2 years at 4 oC. Although Invertase has been largely immobilized on different cellulosic materials, but the novelty of this study is the enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharide by cold-adapted invertase at 20 oC.
Video Super-Resolution using Multi-Frames Fusion and Perceptual Loss

Video super-resolution (VSR) has become more and more important in vision perception. Currently, most of video super-resolution methods used optical flow estimation by explicit motion compensation. We proposed a new network using multi-frames as input without motion compensation. In order to improve the performance of the reconstructed high-resolution (HR) frame, perceptual loss function is used to evaluate the deviation between the prediction and ground truth. Perceptual loss characteristic is able to improve the quality of image reconstruction on the vision, but with a low Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). Experimental results show that compared with other methods, our model can recover more details in high-resolution image, although it does not get higher PSNR value.
Marḥaban: Reconsidering the Criteria of an Arabic Phraseme

: This paper deals with the difficulties that face Arabic phraseology when the established criteria of phraseology as defined by Gries (2008) are applied. The paper focuses especially on the number of elements involved in a phraseme and here we introduce the concept of one-word + zero-element phrasemes in Arabic.