Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Pains of Jail Imprisonment: Experiences at The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre

Canadian jails are increasingly being used to hold pre-trial rather than sentenced prisoners. In fact, a growing number of individuals are serving a significant portion of their sentence by way of banked remand credit (Deshman and Myers 2014). This temporal reconfiguration has important implications for the very nature of 'punishment,' yet studies of jail experiences remain scarce within penal scholarship (Irwin 1985; Welch 1999; Walker 2014; Griffin 2006). This dissertation explores the experiences of men and women who spent time as a pre-trial and/or sentenced prisoner at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC), a notorious jail located in Canada's capital city. Employing Sexton's 'subjective' conceptualization of punishment, and drawing on interviews conducted with 33 participants, I consider how prisoners define, perceive and respond to conditions at OCDC. Prisoners' accounts reveal that much of what is experienced as 'punishment' in the jail context relates to unintended yet profound forms of physical and symbolic harm (Sexton 2015). Central to prisoners' accounts were the pains of 'warehouse' living, guard-prisoner dynamics, medical mistreatment and health damage. The emphasis on such pains illustrates not only the salience of 'unintended' harms (Sexton 2015), but the extent to which the body remains implicated in the experience of punishment. Interestingly, these pains were not necessarily ameliorated by the social world produced by prisoners, as Sykes (1958) observed in his classic study. Instead, the institutional dynamics of the jail gave way to a culture marked by tension, mistrust and violence, while also impairing the ability of individuals to imbue the carceral experience with counter-punitive meaning. Prisoners' resistant efforts both in and outside of the jail walls, however, point the dialectical nature of power, or the ways in which objects of power can react in ways that undermine its purported objectives (Foucault 1977).
Apego e parentalidade sob o enfoque transcultural: uma revisão da literatura

Objetivo: Analisar sistematicamente a produção científica acerca do apego e a parentalidade sob o enfoque transcultural. Método: Realizou-se o levantamento de produções indexadas, a partir de buscas em bases de dados nacionais –Scielo Brasil– e CAPES –Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–; e internacionais –PsycINFO–, mediante os seguintes descritores: Apego OR Bowlby AND parentalidade OR“relação parental”; Attachment OR Bowlby AND Parenting OR Parenthood; e por fim, Apego OR Bowlby AND Parentalidad OR “Relaciones parentales”. Foram considerados os estudos nos idiomas português, inglês e espanhol, entre o período de 2013 a outubro de 2017. Após a definição dos critérios de inclusão, os cinco artigos retidos foram analisados com base nos aspectos metodológicos (dados da amostra, tipo de abordagem, tipo de estudo e técnica de coleta de dados), e posteriormente, foram submetidos a análise semântica, da qual derivou-se duas categorias temáticas: 1) Fatores que influenciam a formação do apego e a parentalidade e 2) Apego e relações parentais. Resultados: Apontaram-se lacunas existentes no que se refere à produção científica especificamente ao tema elencado; tendo em vista a diversidade de estudos que englobam os sistemas de apego e temas transversais, como apego e desenvolvimento infantil, apego e psicopatologia, apego e maternidade, entre outros. Além disso, não foram encontrados estudos nacionais sobre a temática, assim como pesquisas transculturais a respeito. Em relação ao delineamento dos estudos encontrados, todos caracterizam-se pelo enfoque quantitativo e estudos longitudinais do tipo prospectivos - follow-up. As técnicas de coleta de dados que mais se sobressaíram foram a Entrevista de Apego Adulto (AAI), seguida da Situação Estranhaem pesquisas com amostras infantis. Conclusão: Destaca-se que a Teoria do Apego necessita estar aberta para a revisão e a consideração das dimensões relacionadas à cultura. Isso implica ajustá-la à diferentes contextos culturais, históricos e sociais. Sugere-se, portanto, o incremento de novos estudos que contemplem a formação do apego, os quais venham disseminar intervenções parentais positivas para o ciclo de vida pessoal e familiar dos sujeitos.
Satisfaction and Motivation as Determinants of Teacher Performance

The goal of this research is to investigate the influence of satisfaction and motivation of teacher performance. The method of this research is explanatory survey. Data were collected by questionnaire rating scale 5 scale models. Respondent are teachers of state Vocational High School. Respondent are teachers of State Vocational High School in Cimahi. Data analysis technique using regression. The finding of this research indicated that satisfaction and motivation have a positive and significant influence on teacher performance, either partially or simultaneously. The research concluded that the teacher’s performance can be improved by improving the satisfaction and motivation.
Meaning Management: A Framework for Leadership Ontology

Leadership is a multifaceted and complex subject of research and demands a sound ontological stance that guides studies for the development of more integrative leadership theories. In this paper, I propose the leadership ontology PVA (perception formation – value creation – achievement realization) and associate it with the two existing leadership ontologies: TRIPOD (leader – member – shared goals) and DAC (direction – alignment – commitment). The leadership ontology PVA, based on a new theory called “meaning management,” consists of three circularly supporting functions: cognitive function to form perception, creative function to generate value, and communicative function to realize higher levels of achievement. The PVA is an epistemologyladen ontology since the meaning management theory allows one to make propositions that explicitly link its three functions with the leadership outcomes: perception, value, and achievement. Moreover, the PVA leadership ontology transcends and includes both the conventional TRIPOD ontology and the DAC ontology.
Virtual reality enhanced roller coasters and the future of entertainment – audience expectations

ABSTRACT Roller coasters are acknowledged as icons of leisure with their towering structures forming an integral part of any theme or amusement parks’ skyline. As with any infrastructure, roller coasters come at a high cost, but inevitably also become outdated. By leveraging Virtual Reality (VR) technology, there is an opportunity to integrate new VR experience overlays with existing roller coasters, generating new interest in older ride infrastructure. While VR additions to roller coasters are a recent introduction (as of 2015), the adoption rate is high. Despite this, very little research has been conducted pertaining to the actual VR experience – and even less so from an end user’s perspective. This research examines existing literature (elements of best-practice VR experiences) and original data gathered from VR roller coaster audiences (pertaining to their reactions to current VR enhanced roller coaster experiences). From our findings we present a model, Burt’s VR Entertainment Primer, which identifies critical categories and supplemental elements to consider in order to develop a successful VR enhanced roller coaster experience overlay. The generic, user-centric nature of the model extends itself to the VR amusement and entertainment industries within a broader context, supporting the innovative application and assessment of VR in entertainment overall.
Backpacking and risk perception: the case of solo Asian women

ABSTRACT This study provides a holistic Asian viewpoint of the perceptions of risk and worry encountered by solo women Asian backpackers. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 backpackers. The research followed content analysis to interpret the results. Two groups of backpackers were identified who faced quite different risk-related issues. One group chose to travel alone on their own volition, while the second group travelled alone due to circumstances, typified by a lack of travel partners. Members of both groups identified physical risks, especially related to sexual dimorphism associated with being Asian women. However, members of the second group were more likely to identify with social/psychological and satisfaction risks.
Label fusion based brain MR image segmentation via a latent selective model

Multi-atlas segmentation is an effective approach and increasingly popular for automatically labeling objects of interest in medical images. Recently, segmentation methods based on generative models and patch-based techniques have become the two principal branches of label fusion. However, these generative models and patch-based techniques are only loosely related, and the requirement for higher accuracy, faster segmentation, and robustness is always a great challenge. In this paper, we propose novel algorithm that combines the two branches using global weighted fusion strategy based on a patch latent selective model to perform segmentation of specific anatomical structures for human brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. In establishing this probabilistic model of label fusion between the target patch and patch dictionary, we explored the Kronecker delta function in the label prior, which is more suitable than other models, and designed a latent selective model as a membership prior to determine from which training patch the intensity and label of the target patch are generated at each spatial location. Because the image background is an equally important factor for segmentation, it is analyzed in label fusion procedure and we regard it as an isolated label to keep the same privilege between the background and the regions of interest. During label fusion with the global weighted fusion scheme, we use Bayesian inference and expectation maximization algorithm to estimate the labels of the target scan to produce the segmentation map. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm is more accurate and robust than the other segmentation methods.
Relação entre a regulação emocional Up-Regulation e Down Regulation em uma tarefa atencional com distratores emocionais

8 APRESENTAÇÃO. 9 1. CAPÍTULO 1. INTRODUÇÃO. 10 1.1 Emoções. 13 1.2 Regulação emocional.20 1.3 Atenção. 27 1.4 Atenção e Regulação Emocional.33 1.5 Hipóteses e Objetivos.35 1.5. 1 Hipóteses. 35 1.5. 2 Objetivos gerais.35 1.5. 3 Objetivos específicos. 35 2. CAPÍTULO 2. MÉTODO. 37 2.1 Delineamento.37 2.2 Local da Pesquisa.37 2.3 Amostra.37 2.4 Critérios de Inclusão e Exclusão. 37 2.5 Instrumentos.37 3. CAPÍTULO 3. RESULTADOS.40 4. CAPÍTULO 4. DISCUSSÃO. 44 4.1 Tempo de Reação para as tarefas.44 4.2 Média de Acertos.45 4.3 Tipos de Regulação. 47 5. CAPÍTULO 5. CONSIDERAÇÕES FINAIS.52
Development and control of all direction jumping and rolling spherical robot

This paper describes new mechanisms, principle, control methods and experimental results of the jumping and rolling spherical robot which has not any projection. The robot consists of spherical mono wheel, internal drive unit and internal jumping mechanism using a compression coil spring. Straight running is performed by movement of the centroid when the drive unit moves along the inner surface of the spherical wheel, and turning is performed by rotating of the drive unit and friction torque of the spherical wheel with the ground. Theoretical result of straight running and turning movement coincide with experimental results of the robot. Jumping movement is caused by impact force between whole internal mechanisms and the inner surface of the spherical wheel by releasing stored energy in the spring. It was confirmed experimentally that the new robot has high jumping faculty in addition to the basic movement of spherical robot. Furthermore, jumping in any oblique direction is performed by control the posture of internal mechanism, and it becomes possible for the robot to go up the steps of stairs in this way. Therefore, we conclude that the all direction jumping and rolling spherical robot which has not any projection is achieved, and expect that the robot is useful as a rescue robot which can correspond to a variety of use environments.
Leveraging automated privacy checking for design of mobile privacy protection mechanisms

Citation CHAN, Joseph Joo Keng; JIANG, Lingxiao; TAN, Kiat Wee; and BALAN, Rajesh. Leveraging automated privacy checking for design of mobile privacy protection mechanisms. (2016). CHI 2016: The 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: San Jose, CA, May 7-12. 1-4. Research Collection School Of Information Systems. Available at: https://ink.library. smu.edu. sg/sis_research/3513
Entrepreneurship education and training - can entrepreneurship be taught? Part I

Purpose – Despite a growing body of literature in the field, there is still considerable uncertainty as to whether entrepreneurs are born are made, which has led to an ongoing debate in the entrepreneurship academy about whether we can actually teach individuals to be entrepreneurs. With this in mind, this two‐part paper aims to address the question of whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught.Design/methodology/approach – Part I of the paper dealt with the importance of entrepreneurship in a modern and constantly changing environment; the various ways in which entrepreneurship programmes and courses can be categorised, and the objectives, content and delivery of programmes. The second part of the paper, which is presented in this issue, deals with the topic of determining and measuring programme effectiveness.Findings – Despite the growth in entrepreneurship education and training programmes, the paper reports that little uniformity can be found. Attention is drawn to the art and the science of entre.
A Computational Model of Neuroreceptor-Dependent Plasticity (NRDP) Based on Spiking Neural Networks

Activity-dependent plasticity has attracted the interest of researchers for years in the domain of computational neuroscience, as the modification of synaptic efficacy occurs as a result of complex biochemical mechanisms that take place at a cellular level. In this paper, we introduce a phenomenological model implemented as an unsupervised learning rule for spiking neural networks (SNNs) based on the cross-talk between glutamatergic and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\gamma }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neuroreceptors: <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-methyl-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${D}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-aspartate receptor, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\alpha }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-izoxazole-propionic acid receptors, GABA<sub>A</sub>, and GABA<sub>B</sub>. The proposed neuroreceptor-dependent plasticity (NRDP) model is implemented and demonstrated in an SNN environment, NeuCube, for modeling electroencephalography data. We show that the NRDP model can reproduce the generic spike-timing dependent plasticity behavior in an SNN. In addition, this can be used to simulate changes in excitatory/inhibitory balance in an SNN by altering neuroreceptors activity. More specifically, by varying the parameters that affect neuroreceptors activation, we can study how these changes would affect the learning and memory ability of a subject. In a therapeutic context, this makes it a promising tool for studying the regulatory mechanisms, where neuroreceptors cross-talk plays a crucial role. This can lead to new ways of early detection of neurological disorders and for better targeting drug treatments.
Computer brainstorms: More heads are better than one.

Research has consistently found nominal group brainstorming (in which members work separately without communicating) to be superior to brainstorming in which group members interact verbally. This article presents the results of an experiment that found the reverse to be true for computer-mediated electronic brainstorming. In this experiment, 12-member electronically interacting groups generated more ideas than did 12-member nominal groups, and there were no differences between 6-member electronic and 6-member nominal groups. The authors attribute these results to the ability of electronic brainstorming to introduce few process losses(production blocking, evaluation apprehension, and free riding) while enabling process gains (synergy and the avoidance of redundant ideas)
A Bayesian Large-Scale Multiple Regression Model for Genome-Wide Association Summary Statistics

Bayesian methods for large-scale multiple regression provide attractive approaches to the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). For example, they can estimate heritability of complex traits, allowing for both polygenic and sparse models; and by incorporating external genomic information into the priors they can increase statistical power and yield new biological insights. However, these methods require access to individual genotypes and phenotypes, which are often not easily available for large studies. ,Here we provide a framework for performing these analyses without individual-level data. Specifically, we introduce a "Regression with Summary Statistics" (RSS) likelihood, which relates the multiple regression coefficients to univariate regression results that are often easily available. The RSS likelihood requires estimates of correlations among covariates (SNPs), which also can be obtained from public databases. We perform Bayesian multiple regression analysis by combining the RSS likelihood with previously-proposed prior distributions, and then using Markov chain Monte Carlo or Variational Bayes algorithms to compute posteriors. In a wide range of simulations RSS performs similarly to analyses using individual-level data, including SNP heritability estimation, genetic association detection and gene set enrichment analysis. ,We apply RSS methods to analyze published GWAS summary statistics of 1.1 millions common variants from 31 human phenotypes, 3,913 biological pathways retrieved from nine public databases, and 113 tissue-associated gene sets derived from gene expression profiles of 53 human tissues. We identify many previously-unreported genes, pathways and tissues that show strong evidence for association with complex traits in our large-scale integrated analyses. Software is available at https://github.com/stephenslab/rss.
Energy neutral protocol based on hierarchical routing techniques for energy harvesting wireless sensor network

Recently, researchers in the field of wireless sensor networks have resorted to energy harvesting techniques that allows energy to be harvested from the ambient environment to power sensor nodes. Using such Energy harvesting techniques together with proper routing protocols, an Energy Neutral state can be achieved so that sensor nodes can run perpetually. In this paper, we propose an Energy Neutral LEACH routing protocol which is an extension to the traditional LEACH protocol. The goal of the proposed protocol is to use Gateway node in each cluster so as to reduce the data transmission ranges of cluster head nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol achieves a higher throughput and ensure the energy neutral status of the entire network.
Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1976

This is the second annual survey in this series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. The students are randomly assigned one of five questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions, but all containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 1,300 variables across the questionnaires. Full details on the research design and procedures, sampling methodology, content areas, and questionnaire design, as well as percentage distributions by respondent's sex, race, region, college plans, and drug use, appear in the annual Institute for Social Research volumes MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.
The Effect of Brand Personality of Electronic Word of Mouth on Wardah Products with Brand Preference as an Intervening Variable

This study aims to analyze (1) the influence of brand personality on electronic word of mouth, (2) the influence of brand personality on brand preference, (3) the influence of brand preference on electronic word of mouth, and (4) the influence of brand personality on electronic of mouth through brand preference as an intervening variable.This type of research is causative research. The population of this research is all users of wardah products. While the number of research samples is determined based on the purposive sampling method. The sample is 150 people. This study analyzed the data using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Smart PLS 2.0 software.The results of this study indicate that: (1) brand personality has a positive and significant effect on electronic word of mouth, (2) brand personality has a positive and significant effect on brand preference, (3) brand preference has a positive and significant effect on electronic word of mouth, ( 4) brand personality has a positive and significant effect on electronic word of mouth through brand preference as an intervening variable.
The Role of User Involvement, User Involvement Types, Product Category Involvement and Advertising Appeals in Social Media Advertising Effectiveness: A Middle East Context (Iran)

Until now, no study has proposed strategies for social media advertising, scrutinizing the differential interaction of user involvement, different kinds of user involvement, product category involvement, and advertising appeals considering the unique characteristics of social media users in the Middle East. The present study addresses this issue by introducing two detailed advertising effectiveness grids in 20 situations for social media advertising in the Middle East context (Iran) and revised the previous grids and findings proposed for Western and Eastern countries in the area of traditional media advertising effectiveness. In all, 552 students of the University of Tehran, who are social media users were randomly selected, and questionnaires were distributed via an online platform. In order to explore the hypotheses, a mixed 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design was employed, followed by assessment of the validity and reliability of the measures. Surprisingly, some findings were contrary to traditional findings and grids both in the West and in the East and suggest different and new strategies; however, some were in line with traditional studies.