Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improving Outcomes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mainstream Schools

The transition into formal schooling environments is a difficult period of change for many children. For some children with autism spectrum disorder, hereon referred to as autism, delays in their development of school readiness skills (e.g., following directions, attending to tasks) may exacerbate these difficulties. With a large proportion of children with autism educated in mainstream settings, it is critical that teachers in these settings are well equipped to support their transitions. For many children, this includes continuing to support their development of these school readiness skills, into the first year of formal schooling. Reviews of the autism treatment literature have resulted in the identification of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), a number of which specifically target school readiness skills. Whereas previous researchers have examined the extent to which ESTs are used by early intervention providers and special education teachers, this project was designed to investigate knowledge and use of those ESTs targeting school readiness skills in a population of general education teachers. It was also important to understand the factors that influence teachers’ support for students, to develop a process for supporting general education teachers as students with autism enter school. The research presented here involved a mixed-methods design over three phases. In Phase One, a survey was used to investigate general education foundation year teachers’ knowledge, use, and perceptions of social validity of these ESTs. Phase One established that general education teachers were currently using a combination of ESTs and non-ESTs in their support of students with autism and revealed that teachers perceived many of these ESTs to have a high degree of social validity. In Phase Two, qualitative interviews with teachers identified barriers and facilitators to their use of ESTs and support for students with autism more broadly. These interviews highlighted that teachers’ capacity to provide support to students was impacted by several factors, including their experience, and competing demands of the classroom. The analysis also identified that provision of training, adequate within school supports, and increased collaboration during transitions could assist in mitigating some of the challenges faced. Finally, in Phase Three, a qualitative approach was employed to determine the social validity of a proposed online tool harnessing three key factors likely to be influential during transitions and involved interviews with stakeholders in the transition to school. Stakeholders interviewed reported that the online tool proposed could provide value to users and was an acceptable and appropriate means of accessing information and other professionals. Taken together, these studies provide a unique insight into current capacity, challenges and opportunities for optimising outcomes for students with autism, and a potential avenue to achieve positive change within and across mainstream settings.
The Person-in-the-Rain Drawing Test as an Assessment of Soldiers’ Army Life Adjustment and Resilience

This quantitative study investigated the applicability of the Person-in-the-Rain drawing test (PITR) as a psychological evaluation tool to assess individuals’ psychological capacity to deal with stress. The subjects of the study were 300 soldiers from three army units. The study’s research tools included the PITR, the Army Life Adjustment Scale, and the Resilience Scale. The study’s findings are as follows. First, there was a significant difference in both the Resource subtotal and the Coping capacity score when comparing upper and lower groups in terms of army life adjustment. Second, the higher resilience group showed higher scores in the PITR Resource subtotal than the lower resilience group, although no significant difference was found in the PITR Stress score. Third, when comparing the upper and lower groups based on the PITR Coping capacity score, there were significant differences in both army life adjustment and resilience. Based on these results, the PITR can be considered as a useful tool to evaluate soldiers’ army life adjustment and resilience. This study contributes significantly to this area of research by exploring the applicability of the PITR through a two-way examination. The study also suggests relevant implications and potential directions for future research.
Tendencias y hallazgos en el marketing de influencia. Análisis y consecuencias del fenómeno fan

El marketing de influencia, especialmente popular en sectores como el de la moda o la belleza, se ha consolidado como una de las técnicas más eficaces y menos intrusivas de la mercadotecnia actual. Esta circunstancia ha suscitado el aumento del interés por la figura del influencer, un actor clave y en constante cambio que se establece como el comunicador por excelencia del medio social. La presente investigación proporciona base teórica al estudio del rol del influencer y la relación con su audiencia, profundizando en las repercusiones que una comunidad de fans muy comprometida puede suponer para la estrategia social media de una determinada marca. A través de un análisis de contenido cualitativo de seis hashtags y más de tres mil comentarios en el ámbito de la cosmética en Instagram, el estudio revela que la utilización de micro influencers en las campañas promocionales del sector reporta un engagement de mayor calidad en la red social, resultado que sitúa a estas figuras en el punto de mira de los grandes grupos empresariales.
Epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is used in this paper as the generic label, encompassing the clinical variants of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive myelopathic muscular atrophy (PMMA), and progressive bulbar palsy (PBP). ALS is limited to instances of anterior horn cell plus pyramidal tract involvement. When only anterior horn cell lesions are inferred, either PMMA or PBP is used, depending on the levels of involvement; when both cord and brain stem are affected. PBP is the designation. Mortality data on MND have been available for a number of countries since 1949. The coding used under international rules has varied considerably over this interval. Before 1969, hereditary muscular atrophies were included. Since 1979, no subdivision by type of MND is possible. International death rates for MND have all been rather close to 1 per 100,000 population per year, though perhaps nearer to 1.4 on the average in recent years. There has been an increasing proportion of MND deaths coded to ALS between 1949 and 1977. There is no notable geographic variation among countries, nor within countries such as the U.S. and Denmark. A slight upward trend in death rates over time in the U.S. is matched by a slight decrease in Denmark. Death rates from all sources indicate a male preponderance for ALS or MND as a whole, at about 1.5 to 1, male to female. There is also a consistent predilection by age, with few deaths under age 50 or so and a clear maximum in age-specific death rates at about age 70. This holds for both sexes. In the U.S., there is also a white-nonwhite difference, with a ratio of about 1.6:1 but with age and sex differences similar to whites. Average annual incidence rates from among white occidental populations range mostly between 0.6 and 1.8 per 100,000 population for MND and about 0.8 and 1.5 per 100,000 for ALS. Again a male predilection is seen. There is a clear maximum in age-specific incidence rates at about age 65 in all surveys except that of Rochester, Minnesota, where the age-specific rate for those 75+ years of age is apparently higher than that for those age 65 to 74. Incidence rates, then, are quite similar one land to another. A reported deficit in Mexico may reflect case-selection bias. An excess among Filipinos on Hawaii seems more a function of population age-distributions than a true racial or ethnic difference. Prevalence rates from outside the Orient range from about 1 to 7 per 100,000 population for MND and about 2 to 7 for ALS. Those surveys more likely to be reasonably complete provide ALS prevalence rates of about 4 to 6, and an overall estimate of ALS prevalence of some 5 per 100,000 population is a reasonable figure. In the Orient, most of the MND prevalence rates fall within the same range as in the occident, except for two areas of the Kii peninsula of southern Honshu, Japan, where the reported prevalence rates are some 100 to 200 per 100,000 population. These cases are similar to the Guamanian ALS, both clinically and pathologically.
Factors influencing students performance in Wawasan Open University: does previous education level, age group and course load matter?

Factors influencing students’ performance have interest education providers especially those keen to produce knowledgeable and skillful graduates that can contribute to the social and environmental landscape. Ascertaining the factors governing the academic performance of students is a challenging task as this is a product of various factors eg. psychological, socio-economic and environmental factors. With a view to making higher education more accessible to adult learners and recognizing open distance learning as a new alternative in the tertiary education arena in Malaysia, its Ministry of Higher Education has implemented the Open Entry Policy in July 2006. Wawasan Open University (WOU) is one of three institutions in Malaysia that has been approved to admit students under this Open Entry Admission System. The entry requirements for adult learners as outlined in this policy emphasizes the age of the learner and their prior academic/experiential qualifications. The objective of our study is to examine whether the students’ age or their prior formal education moderated by the semester course load would influence their performance. The sample of this study comprised 1271 students gathered from three different intakes. The GPA of each student obtained at their first semester of studies was employed to measure their performance. The outcomes of this study revealed that the number of courses registered by each student from diverse academic background and various age did not impact on their GPA performance. It was also discovered that the combined factors of academic background and age have very little significant effect on the GPA as well. Nevertheless, independently the academic background or the student’s age significantly affected the GPA performance. This finding will provide useful information for the development and improvement of the learner support system to meet the learning needs of students based on their diverse academic background and age groups.
Experiencia de enseñanza-aprendizaje de cirugía laparoscópica en estudiantes de medicina de pregrado

Objective: To report on the educational strategies used and the results obtained from the teaching with a constructivist focus of the basic principles of laparoscopic surgery with second year medical students. Design: Prospective, experimental, transversal, interventional study on medical education. Setting: School of Medicine. Material and methods: Teaching of basic laparoscopic surgery was introduced to the academic cycle August 98-June 99, in the Surgery I program. The course consisted of one hour of theory and a fourhour practical session for second year undergraduate students, who were subjected to an evaluation questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study. Results were compared with other students of the second, fourth, and fifth year who took the usual academic courses without introducing this variable. Results: Significant learning with statistical validity was obtained in the problem group. At the end of the course, 98.3% of the students from the problem group had handled the equipment against 58.4% of those students that had finished their pre-graduate rotating internship. Conclusion: Teaching of basic laparoscopic surgery at the undergraduate level is a novel concept but fundamental for the training of general physicians of excellence as required by the society of the new
Causal relationship between banking system development and real estate market

Article history: Received: July 8 2019 Received in revised format: July 9 2019 Accepted: August 11, 2019 Available online: August 12, 2019 This paper analyzes the causal relationship between the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam from 2004:Q3 to 2018:Q4, with the use of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model as the analysis method. In Vietnam, there is no empirical study on this issue. Therefore, the paper is the first empirical evidence for the relationship between the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam. The research results show that the banking system development (measured through the domestic credit to the private sector) and the real estate market had a positive causal relationship in both short and long terms. In addition, the paper found a statistically significant impact of the global financial crisis on the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam, which is a new discovery compared with previous studies. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
Research on Subject Teaching Knowledge with Information Technology Deconstruction Perspective

This paper proposes the method of professional knowledge to affect all aspects of teacher education and teaching, corresponding to teachers’ understanding of the curriculum and the role of textbooks. The methods also influence the choice and design of technology. Therefore, teachers should have a deep understanding of the reciprocity between this mechanism, which involves the relationship of roles that teachers need to know the existence form and basic composition of different technologies in the context of teaching and learning. Also, the subject teaching knowledge in the framework is an aggregation of content knowledge and pedagogy knowledge, in terms of the knowledge about courses, evaluations, and reports included in the subject teaching knowledge. In conclusion, we can have wisdom, flexibility, and tension to choose the appropriate teaching method for subject content, and support technology to promote the occurrence of learning and the deconstruction of intelligent behavior.
Building Collaborative Test Practices: Design Ethnography and WOz in Autonomous Driving Research

This article outlines a novel way of performing experimental“Wizard of Oz”(WOz) User Experience (UX)research that specifically targets driving in different levels of self-driving modes. The reasons for exploring the possibilities of combining experimental and ethnographic WOz-testing have been twofold. On the one hand, this mixed-method approach responds to a growing body of critique concerning how the WOz test is biased by the claim that it explores real-life behaviour in an experimental setting. On the other hand,our approach also meets the demands for innovative research methodologies that can contribute to deeper understandings of how to better evaluate and account for human expectations and experiences when automated technologies become integrated in everyday life contexts. This knowledge is inevitable for a broader understanding of the overall user experience and expectations of autonomous driving and, more specifically, building an interdisciplinary collaborative testing approach.
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptomatology among Iraqi Refugee Children and Adolescents in Jordan according to some Demographic Variables

The aim of this study was to investigate Posttraumatic Stress Disorder symptoms (PTSD( among a sample of Iraqi refugee children and adolescents in Jordan according to different variables. The study sample included 500 Iraqi children and adolescent refugees who are living in Jordan. The Children's Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Inventory (CPTSDI( was used to assess the levels of PTSD among the study sample. The results indicated that the levels of PTSD were typically found to be in the mid-range at all study tool dimensions and total scores. Also there were significant differences on PTSD based on gender, child’s age, and trauma’s time. At the same time the results indicated that there weren’t significant differences at PTSD levels based on loss of one parent during the time of trauma. The study recommended the importance of providing therapeutic and supportive services for the refugee children, adolescents and their families.
Eficacia de la terapia cognitivo-conductual en trastornos afectivos y de ansiedad mediante neuroimagen funcional

Introduccion. A lo largo de las ultimas decadas, los estudios psicologicos han demostrado la eficacia de la terapia cognitivo-conductual en la mayoria de los trastornos de ansiedad y depresion. Esto ha sido asi hasta tal punto que en la actualidad se ha pasado a un nivel diferente y complementario en cuanto a la validacion de este enfoque, es decir, se ha planteado comprobar la eficacia de dicha terapia utilizando tecnicas de neuroimagen funcional. Desarrollo. Los estudios neurologicos evaluan el funcionamiento cerebral, provocando la aparicion de sintomas y observando la actividad cerebral. En este estudio de revision mostramos las implicaciones de diferentes estructuras cerebrales (amigdala, cortex cingulado, talamos, insula, etc.) con los sintomas caracteristicos de muchos trastornos mentales estudiados (trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, fobias especificas, etc.) y los cambios neurologicos tras aplicar una terapia de tipo cognitivo-conductual. Conclusiones. En la actualidad, existe un numero muy limitado de estudios, debido a la complejidad en la ejecucion de este tipo de investigaciones. Sin embargo, los datos de los que se dispone indican cambios en la actividad metabolica tras la terapia cognitivo-conductual, junto con la disminucion de sintomas. Futuros estudios deben controlar la influencia de variables, como la comorbilidad y la medicacion, que impiden obtener conclusiones mas definitivas.
Aproximación contextual-funcional a la psicopatía: análisis de casos [A Functional-contextual Approach to Psychopathy: Cases Analysis]

A Functional-contextual Approach to Psychopathy: Cases Analysis. This paper proposes a functional interpretation of psychopathic behavior as an alternative to formal attempts to explain this rare, complex and, dangerous pattern of behaviors. First of all, the contextual-functional approach is briefly summarized. In second place, four well-known historical cases of psychopathy are briefly described and analyzed. According to a functional approach, the key issues are the contingencies occurring in the personal histories of such individuals as well as the derived transformation of functions that established such rare and dangerous pattern of behavior regulation. A brief analysis is made of the cognitive and emotional characteristics traditionally predicated as exclusive of psychopathy (as lack of empathy, emotional responsiveness, impulsivity, the need of power, etcetera) that sets the stage for an interpretative analysis about the conditions that might be involved in the emergence and expansion of the behaviors typically categorized with the psychopathic label. This analysis focuses on the personal history and describes the confluence of conditions that form thoughts/beliefs about oneself and the others, that establishes as dominant reinforcers obtaining immediate pleasure and escaping aversive funtions as well as feeling unlimited power upon others. This analysis might indicate that the exceptionality of psychopathy migth lie on the occurrence of very extreme specific and unusual conditions and the non-occurrence of those conditions that might prevent the building of repertoires as those described in psychopathy. Therefore, the functional-contextual interpretation characterizes psychopaths persons not as having specific differences in their brains or having difficulties for the formation of adaptive cognitive functioning and behavior regulation, to give account for their psychopatic behavior
HVA ARBEIDER TIDLIGERE IT-STUDENTER VED HØGSKOLEN I ØSTFOLD MED, OG HVOR RELEVANT HAR UTDANNINGEN DERES VÆRT FOR NA?VÆRENDE JOBBSITUASJON?

rtikkelen beskriver resultatene fra en undersokelse som er gjort va? ren 2017 blant IT-studentene som avsluttet ved Hogskolen i Ostfold 2011-2016. Temaene som ble tatt opp omfattet • sokeprosessen/hvordan og hvor raskt studentene fikk jobb • jobbinnhold / hva arbeider de tidligere studentene med • sammenhengen mellom studier og jobbinnhold • for de studentene som ikke fullforte: hva var a? rsaken til at de ikke fullforte IT-studiet. Undersokelsen har ba? de en kvantitativ del og en kvalitativ del. Metodisk bygger den ba? de pa? kategoriseringer som er gjort fra en av bransjeforeningene (IKT-Norge) og pa? ulike studentundersokelser (NOKUT, NIFU), og det gjores en kort sammenligning med disse. Det er ogsa? gjort andre metodiske grep som beskrives. Undersokelsen viser at de aller fleste som svarte fikk jobb fort (0-3 ma? neder). Funnene indikerer dermed studiets relevans for senere jobbsituasjon. Svarene viser en sterk sammenheng mellom HiOs studier og de ulike fagomra? dene som respondentene jobber med. Ser vi pa? de ulike fagomra? dene innen IT, uavhengig av retning, scorer programmering, databaser og prosjektarbeide/ledelse hoyest, men ogsa? systemarkitektur, support og systemdrift. De 4 IT-Bachelor-studiene som studeres har en faglig bredde, fra vekt pa? IT-teknisk via programmering til IT-organisasjon og naeringsliv og medieproduksjon. Vi finner et klart samsvar mellom de ulike studiene og hvilke typer IT-jobber som studentene fa? r etterpa? Generelt viser funnene ogsa? at studiene var «Litt relevant» eller «Svaert relevant» (de to hoyeste kategoriene, som til sammen hadde 78%, likt fordelt mellom disse to). Tilsvarende studeres relevans av enkeltfag, ba? de direkte nyttig og nyttig som bakgrunn. For de som ikke fullforte, ser vi at det for de fleste var personlige grunner som var den viktigste a? rsaken til at de avsluttet studiet underveis. Totalt sett gir resultatene ny innsikt i sammenhengen mellom IT-studier og jobbinnhold, noe som kan vaere nyttig ba? de for hogskoler/universiteter og for arbeidsliv.
Evaluación del estado cognitivo y afectivo en adultos mayores como estrategia de prevención

En el presente trabajo se presentan los resultados obtenidos de la evaluación realizada del estado cognitivo, funciones ejecutivas, estado emocional y de salud de 128 personas sanas mayores de 55 años (37 hombres y 91 mujeres) que acuden a Programas Universitarios para Mayores (PUM). El objetivo del estudio ha sido conocer el estado cognitivo, emocional y de salud de personas mayores sanas que participan en PUM y que incorporen en sus conductas de prevención de salud revisiones periódicas en estas áreas. La media de edad de los participantes fue de 65,4 años. Los resultados mostraron que el 9,37% de los participantes tenía algún tipo de alteración mnésica evaluada a través del MIS y un 18,75% tenía alteraciones en las funciones ejecutivas evaluadas con el Test del Reloj. Los resultados obtenidos en esta muestra señalan que las variables relacionadas con el estado cognitivo y la edad no son independientes, observándose una mayor proporción de personas con deterioro cognitivo en el grupo de personas de más edad. Estos resultados son concordantes con los obtenidos en estudios en este ámbito, aunque se hace necesario seguir estudiando dicha relación en población cognitivamente activa como es el caso de esta muestra.