Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cooperative/Collaborative Learning in an Interior Architectural Program

This research presented a model of cooperative/collaborative learning technique which leads to learning efficiency of students continued from a previous research (Porntip, 2012). Objectives were to study and find out patterns of study groups of a classroom case study that would have effects on the student efficiency. Formulating the model and data analysis, the researcher used Structural Equation Modeling for explaining the effects on the efficiency of a group of students. A theoretical subject case study of the Interior Architecture Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Mahasarakham University was used in this research. Keywords: Cooperative/Collaborative Learning Technique; Interior Architecture; Group Study eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Pre-Existing Antidepressants and the Outcome of Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Social Phobia

Objective: This is a naturalistic treatment outcome study investigating the impact of preexisting antidepressant use on the effectiveness of group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for social phobia. Method: Of the 133 participants who completed the CBT program, 49 reported taking antidepressants (CBT ++ AD group), while 84 reported not taking antidepressants (CBT group). The treatment program involves 40 h of structured, group-based CBT over 7 weeks. The dependent measures included the Social Phobia Scale and Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale and the Short Form-12. Results: Both the CBT ++ AD group and the CBT group improved significantly across treatment on all dependent measures. There were no significant differences between the groups on any outcome measure and the rate of improvement from pre- to post-treatment for both groups did not differ. Conclusions: Pre-existing antidepressants did not significantly enhance or detract from the positive treatment outcome of a structured, group-based CBT program for social phobia.
Loss of spatial and identity information following a tachistoscopic exposure.

Examined loss of information following a tachistoscopic exposure in 3 partial-report experiments with 16 undergraduates each. Analysis of the type of errors Ss made revealed that identity information, i.e., the names of the elements in a display, was not lost as the partial-report cue was delayed. R
Differential calculation abilities in young children from middle- and low-income families.

This study examined the performance of 42 middle- and 42 low-income kindergarten children on arithmetic calculations presented in a nonverbal format as well as in 3 different verbal formats. On the nonverbal task, the child was shown an initial set of disks, which was then hidden with a cover. The set was transformed by adding or removing disks. After the transformation, the child's task was to construct an array of disks that contained the same number of disks as in the final hidden set. A significant interaction between income level and task format was obtained. Although middle-income children performed better than low-income children on each of the verbal calculation tasks, the 2 income groups did not differ in performance on the nonverbal calculation task. The findings suggest that the nonverbal task format is less sensitive to socioeconomic variation than are the verbal task formats. A number of contextual variables can affect a young child's performance on arithmetic tasks, including the amount of verbal understanding required by the task, the nature of the quantitative terminology used in the task, and the availability of object referents (Gelman & Gallistel, 1978; Gelman & Massey 1987). In fact, our work on the development of calculation abilities in young children has shown that children's performance on addition and subtraction problems varies according to the nature of the task (Levine, Jordan, & Huttenlocher, 1992). In this prior study, middle-class children between 4 and 6 years of age were given identical addition and subtraction calculations in three different formats: nonverbal problems, story problems, and number-fact problems. On the nonverbal calculation task, the child was shown a set of physical referents that were then hidden with a box used as a cover. The hidden set was transformed either by adding or subtracting elements through an opening in the side of the box. After the transformation, the child's task was to construct an array with the same number of elements that were in the final set. The child was never allowed to see the entire set that the experimenter had produced. This ensured that an addition or
Surface dyslexia in an Italian patient with semantic dementia

Abstract We report the case of a patient, AC, affected by a progressive fluent aphasia associated with left temporal lobe atrophy. The clinical picture was compatible with a diagnosis of ‘semantic dementia’. The progressive linguistic disturbance was characteristic, in that phonology and articulation were preserved; speech was fluent but progressively impoverished of content words. Other aspects of cognitive function were initially unimpaired, and functional independence was maintained into the advanced stages of disease. The patient's single word reading was studied in order to assess the presence of surface dyslexia (non-lexical reading). This reading disorder has been described in English patients with semantic dementia or Alzheimer's disease who were impaired on irregular word reading, and has been related to the severity of semantic impairment. Evidence from AC indicates that surface dyslexia in Italian, which has a relatively transparent orthography at the segmental level, can be diagnosed on the ba.
Cerebellar abnormality in autism: a nonspecific effect of early brain damage

Cerebellum may be a common site of developmental abnormalities due to its protracted course of maturation. Recent studies have implicated morphological deviations of the cerebellum as responsible for specific behavioral and cognitive manifestations of autism. We investigated neuropsychology and quantitative MRI of the cerebellum in both high functioning subjects with autism and survivors of childhood leukemia treated with radiation and intrathecal chemotherapy. The results of neuropsychological testing revealed different patterns of cognitive deficits for the two groups, while the abnormal cerebellar morphology was similar for both groups. Since it is suggested that the cerebellum contributes to motor-attentional subsystems, the present data provide support for a cerebellar role in the governance of higher cognitive functions, found to be abnormal in both groups. However, the abnormal macromorphology of the cerebellar vermis described here appears to be non-specific to autism.
Chordscanner: Browsing Chord Progressions Based on Musical Typicality and Intra-composer Consistency

We propose ChordScanner, a visual interface enabling users to find chord progressions that they typically use and that many composers also typically use. Chord-Scanner provides a time-oriented view of chord progres-sions and highlights two kinds of chord progressions: chord progression the user frequently used and chord progression typical of many composers. To develop this system, we proposed a method for calculating intra-composer consistency based on the user’s pieces and musical typicality based on many composer’s past pieces by using a probabilistic model. The system helps users notice their repeatedly used chords. It also presents chord progression rankings based on the consistency and typicality. We investigated the overlap between rankings obtained with both consistency and typically, by calculating Japanese consumer generated songs, and also interviewed a professional composer.
6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function (MSF)

This specification defines the 6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function (MSF). This Scheduling Function describes both the behavior of a node when joining the network, and how the communication schedule is managed in a distributed fashion. MSF is built upon the 6TiSCH Operation Sublayer Protocol (6P) and the Minimal Security Framework for 6TiSCH.
Performance Evaluation of MQTT as a Communication Protocol for IoT and Prototyping

The hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) has been widely used as a communication protocol for Internet access. However, for Internet of things (IoT) communication, which is expected to grow in the future, HTTP requires a large overhead and cannot provide efficiency. In order to solve this problem, lightweight communication protocols for IoT have been discussed. In this paper, we clarify some problems of HTTP for IoT and propose MQ telemetry transport (MQTT), which is a promising candidate for the IoT protocol, after conducting a performance comparison with HTTP.
Development and initial validation of the Parent Behavior Inventory

The Parent Behavior Inventory (PBI) is a brief measure of parenting behavior for use with the parents of preschool-age and young school-age children. It may be used as a parent self-report measure, a report measure for others familiar with the parent, or as an observational rating scale. Its parallel forms offer clinicians and researchers a single measure capable of multimethod, multi-informant, and multisetting assessment. The PBI's two independent scales, Supportive/Engaged and Hostile/Coercive, have sufficient content validity, show adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and relate to measures of parental affect, parental stress, and child behavior problems. Evidence for its usefulness as a rating scale is presented. The results provide support for the reliability and construct validity of the PBI and demonstrate its versatility as a measure of parenting behavior.
Adaptación Madrid del test de clasificación de cartas de Wisconsin: un estudio comparativo de consistencia interna

econventional WCST. Subjects and methods. The two tests were applied to a group of 60 young persons with no cerebral disorders. The principal components of both tests were analysed for determine their internal structure. Results. We found statistically significant differences between the scores of Spanish persons and the standard data for WCST. Analysis of the main components showed a solution of two components in the conventional WCST and a solution of three components in our adaptation. Conclusions. The American rating system underestimated the level of performance in the Spanish sample. Analysis of the internal consistency showed the excessively redundant and simple factorial structure of the conventional WCST. Our adaptation was shown to have a richer internal structure, with the order of error scores more in accord with the type of cognitive process involved. These advantages may be attributed to more exact analysis of non-perseverant errors, subclassified as efficient errors (i.e linked to comparison of hypotheses) and random errors (i.e. linked to loss of criteria for attention). [REV NEUROL 2001; 33:]
Uncertainty orientation and protection motivation theory : the role of individual differences in health compliance

The experiment was designed to determine the influence of uncertainty orientation (R. M. Sorrentino, J. C. Short, 1986) on compliance with a diagnostic health behavior. Ss (N=155) read 1 version of an education essay on a disease and diagnostic response. Threat and efficacy information were manipulated. Consistent with protection motivation theory (R. W. Rogers, 1983), uncertainty-oriented Ss sought more health-related information as threat and efficacy increased. Certainty-oriented Ss, however, sought more health-related information as threat or efficacy, but not both, increased. Individual differences were also found on adaptive measures and ineffective alternative responses
Understanding and Measuring Functional Impairment in Diverse Children with ADHD: Development and Validation

UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT IN DIVERSE CHILDREN WITH ADHD: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE ADHD-FX SCALE Lauren M. Haack, M.S. Marquette University, 2013 The current study sought to develop and validate a measure to assess functional impairment related to ADHD (i.e., difficulties with academic achievement, social competence, and familial relationships) for Latino families, as research suggests that functional impairment may be a more culturally-universal construct than symptomatology. Researchers integrated quantitative and qualitative information obtained from a community sample of 74 Latino parents in order to develop the ADHD-FX scale. The overall ADHD-FX scale, as well as each subscale (i.e., school, peer, and home) demonstrated adequate psychometric properties, diagnostic utility, and cultural properties with 62 Latino parents of school-aged children. Thus, results suggest that the ADHD-FX scale can be used as a culturallyappropriate diagnostic tool, as well as a method to conceptualize cases, guide culturally-appropriate intervention, and measure clinically meaningful treatment gains in the domains of academic, social, and familial impairment often experienced by children with ADHD and their families. Utilization of culturally appropriate methodologies (such as the ADHD-FX scale) by researchers and clinicians alike may contribute to a thorough understanding of how diverse families conceptualize, recognize, and respond to intervention for functional impairment related to childhood psychopathology and subsequently may be instrumental in appeasing mental health disparities for diverse children in our country.
The Unified Brain. (Book Reviews: Hemispheric Asymmetry. What's Right and What's Left.)

A magazine advertisement for a luxury automobile calls it a "car for the left side of your brain" because of its state-of-the-art engineering and a "car for the right side of your brain" because of its sleek styling. In the past few years, such popular renderings of "right brain" and "left brain" functioning have encouraged the belief that the left hemisphere controls symbolic processing and rational thinking, while the right hemisphere controls artistic, intuitive and creative thinking. Joseph Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. In this book, he attempts to sort what we know about hemispheric asymmetry from the fanciful interpretations popular culture has embraced. The cortex of the human brain, which is made up of more neurons than any other brain structure, is responsible for the higher-order mental processes that make human beings unique among species. Anatomically, the cortex is divided into right and left hemispheres roughly equivalent in appearance but not completely equivalent in information-processing abilities and propensities. Indeed, the two hemispheres are components of a much larger brain system encompassing numerous subcortical structures, all of which interact in the normal brain to produce unity of thought and action. How, then, do the two hemispheres interact to form an integrated information-processing system? What is the relationship of hemispheric asymmetry to perception, cognition and action? Is hemispheric asymmetry unique to humans, and how did it evolve? In this book the author surveys the extensive data in the field and attempts to provide a valuable overview of our current understanding of hemispheric asymmetry and its evolutionary precedents.
Sex Differences in Response to Erotica? Love Versus Lust

The current research examined gender differences in response to varying erotic themes. In Experiment 1, unmarried male (n — 30) and female (n = 32) subjects viewed an erotic film portraying petting; this film was prefaced with instructional sets that established either a love theme (affectionate marital sex) or a lust theme (unemotional sex with a prostitute). In Experiment 2, 36 married couples viewed either a petting erotic film or one depicting coitus; these films were prefaced with instructional sets that established either the love or lust themes or a casual-sex theme (a chance sexual encounter). Arousal, affective, and evaluative responses to these stimuli were assessed. Results of Experiment 1 confirmed the effectiveness of the thematic manipulation and indicated that males and females were not differentially responsive to the love or lust themes along any of the response dimensions. Results of Experiment 2 replicated this finding and indicated that both men and women were more sexually aroused by the casual-sex theme than by those involving love or lust. Apparently, romantic or affectional emphasis is not a precondition for female arousal by erotica. Methodological and conceptual issues relating to the discrepancy between the often-cited female indifference to erotica and the present findings for equal male-female arousal responses are discussed.
Design of Conventional and Modified Router Design for NOC and its FPGA Implementation

FPGA Based Systems are helpful improves the performance metrics with high throughput for SOC and NOC Based designs. NOC is an integration of complex-network system into singledevice or a chip. This reduces the manufacturing cost of SOC, increases the performance and reduces the time-consumption. In this paper, two different types of NOC Designs are synthesized and implemented. Firstly, Conventional NOC 2X2 Router includes the 5-channels namely, local, east, north, south and north. Each channel is having 2 Multiplexors along with cross bar switch. Secondly, Proposed NOC 2X2 Router includes 4 Nodes and each Node is having the priority encoder, Random arbiter and router design using XY Algorithms. The proposed designs executing in Xilinx 14.7 and simulated using Modelsim. The outcome of executed scheme gives detailed results with their input and output. The system design is synthesized in Xilinx 14.7 ISE using Verilog and simulated in Modelsim 6.3f and these implemented on FPGA board of version Artix 7. The performance analysis of Proposed NOC 2X2 Router over Conventional NOC 2X2 Router is improves the area overhead and it is tabulated.
Some Observations on the Analytical Group Treatment of a Phobic Patient

The effects of analytical group treatment in a phobic patient are described. The psychosexual constitution of the patient and his response to the group were unusually transparent. He showed marked anal-erotic, sado-masochistic, and hi-sexual trends with repressed passive homo-erotic impulses. The result of group treatment was mainly limited to a correction of irrational social fears through the reduction of guilt feelings and the gradual acceptance of his passive-feminine and masochistic leanings. The therapeutic factors responsible for these results are discussed. The group is regarded as a social reality which can relieve guilt feelings through reassuring influences. More fundamental personality changes are produced through corrective emotional experiences. These are not transference phenomena in the narrow sense as they are adequate to the actual environment. The stimulation of exhibitionistic and homo-erotic drives in a completely male group is emphasized, and the therapeutic value of this stimulation is discussed with reference to the particular psychosexual constitution shown by the patient. The therapeutic range of group psychotherapy seems to be determined, apart from individual factors, by the group setting as such, and the special circumstances of group composition. Research with groups of different com positions is suggested to widen the range of possible corrective emotional responses.
Is Teenage Obesity Associated with Depression and Low Self-Esteem?: A Pilot Study

Objectives: A pilot study to explore the impact of perceived and actual overweight on self-esteem and depression in Hong Kong teenagers. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire study on 152 Chinese adolescents aged 12-16 was conducted in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Overweight was defined as a body mass index (BMI) above 90 percentile of age-adjusted BMI reference. The short form Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-13) and the Chinese version of Piers-Harris 2 Self-Concept Scale were used to measure depression and self-esteem respectively. Results: Our results showed that perceived overweight but not actual overweight female subjects had statistically significantly lower Piers-Harris score and higher depression score. Kruskal-Wallis test showed that depression was significantly more common in female teenagers who perceived themselves as being overweight but who were not actually overweight compared to those with normal BMI and body image. On the contrary, male teenagers who perceived themselves as thin were more at risk for lower Piers-Harris subscale scores. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that perceived body image has more detrimental impact on depression and self-esteem than actual body mass index in both male and female Hong Kong teenagers. This may reflect a probable influence from the mass media, advertisement, or prevailing societal values in over-promoting a slim body-image which may result in self-depreciating tendencies if female teenagers perceived themselves as being overweight. Health care professionals need to pay attention to body image perception rather than focusing solely on the physical build of teenagers.
Best practices to increase racial diversity in business schools: What actually works according to a nationwide survey of business schools

Abstract Many scholarly works have identified potential strategies for hiring underrepresented minority faculty members. However, no known nationwide study of business schools has explored whether these various strategies are associated with more faculty diversity. The authors explored best practices in corporations and higher education in the following areas: diversity priorities, strategic planning, outreach to underrepresented minority communities, administrative structures, and diversity training. The nationwide survey of business school deans showed that authority structures, which have proven to work in business, also are effective in academia. Similar to business results, training programs by themselves do not seem to be effective in increasing diversity.
Social Malleability in Cowbirds: New Measures Reveal New Evidence of Plasticity in the Eastern Subspecies (Molothrus ater ater)

The social experiences of young Molothrus ater ater cowbirds were manipulated in a 2-year study. In the 1 st year, males were housed with pairs of canaries. The males were tested in 3 social contexts. Also, vocal repertoires were recorded and played back to females. In contrast to a previous study of the M. a. artemisiae subspecies, the males did not vocalize to the canaries in courtship tests (T. M. Freeberg, A. P. King, & M. J. West, 1995) but showed incompetent courtship of female cowbirds. In their 2nd year, half of the males were housed with older males and female cowbirds, and half were housed with only females. Those exposed to older males courted much more successfully than did those deprived of such experience. All males developed new repertoires, and song potencies did not correlate across years. The data reveal intraspecific variation in the ontogeny of mate recognition but intraspecific dependence on social learning to acquire courtship skills. In the experiments reported here, we manipulated juvenile Molothrus ater ater cowbirds' opportunities for social and vocal interaction during their 1st and 2nd years. We bad three goals. First, we looked for intraspecific variation in the ontogeny of mate recognition in cowbirds. Second, we examined interrelationships between vocal capacity and vocal performance. Third, we investigated the role social experience with older conspecific males may play in consolidating the courtship skills of younger males.