Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nephrology and urology of small animals

s, 3. Berent, A.C. , et al. (2008) Use of cystoscopic-guided laser ablation for treatment of intramural ureteral ectopia in male dogs: four cases (2006–2007). J Am Vet Med Assoc 232: 1026–
Effective schools 10 years on: factors and processes enabling the sustainability of school effectiveness

ABSTRACT A great deal of knowledge has been accumulated on how educational effectiveness and improvement come to be. However, the issue of how these processes behave once they have been achieved has remained relatively unexplored. In this paper, we report on the findings of a multiple case study that delved into the factors and processes explaining different levels of sustainability of educational effectiveness for schools previously identified and studied as highly effective and located in low-income areas. We show that effectiveness is a fragile attainment that is affected by a variety of external and internal processes. Transformations in the local context (demographic changes and the dynamics of the school market), and educational policies and programs are key external factors. In the internal realm, the role of school administrators, principals, and leadership teams, the organization of pedagogical work, and the school culture modulate the sustainability of educational effectiveness in the long term.
Usability of open-source hardware based platform for indoor positioning systems

The application of indoor location systems (also known as indoor positioning systems, IPS) has significantly increased in the past decade. Those systems find their role in the broad range of possible implementations, especially in the applications in the area of resource management and location tracking. Their applications can be in safety management, material, construction, and inventory management. Since, those systems are designed for indoor and closed areas where GPS, GLONASS, and other navigation systems are not applicable, a different approach should be used to determine the location. This paper presents a brief overview of indoor localization technologies and methods. The focus of this paper is on RSSI based methods for positioning. The contribution of this paper is in analyses of usability of platforms built on Arduino/Genuino development boards and similar devices and open-source hardware for usage in RSSI based indoor positioning systems. The presented platform is designed and evaluated with the two experiments, with two different technologies.
Rationalities in the pedagogical regime of practice

Using a Foucauldian governmentality approach, this article examines the connections and tensions between rationalities relying on recognition and democratic ideals, and the educationally and developmentally oriented rationality that characterises the pedagogical regime of practice in Denmark. The conclusion is that rationalities of recognition and democracy are subordinated to an educationally and developmentally oriented rationality. Thus, in practice, the former are transformed into an instrument for fulfilling educational and developmental objectives, with a primary focus on the child achieving an age-appropriate level of development.
AN ANALYSIS OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN CHILDREN

The current study investigates the accessibility of a systematic pattern to children learning their first language, and also it is a try to show the effect of the quantity of input on first language acquisition. To these aims, two case studies were carried out on six children learning as their first language. The participants of the first study were three children acquiring their first language in Indramayu being followed for 12 months (24-36 months) to see if they all passed the same pattern in language development. The participants of the second study were three Children (who were exposed to less input) acquiring their first language in Indramayu being followed for 12 months (24-36 months) to see if the language development was affected considering the amount of input they were exposed to. In-depth interviews, observations, audio and video recordings, notes and reports were used to collect the data for this study. The data collected for each Children was analyzed separately, and the stages of development were reported for each children accordingly. The findings support the claim that the process of language acquisition depends on an innate language ability which holds that at least some linguistic knowledge exists in humans at birth, and also the input that learners receive plays a very important role in the language acquisition since the input activates this innate structure.
The Dual-Coding and Multimedia Learning Theories: Film Subtitles as a Vocabulary Teaching Tool

The use of multimedia has often been suggested as a teaching tool in foreign language teaching and learning. In foreign language education, exciting new multimedia applications have appeared over the last years, especially for young learners, but many of these do not seem to produce the desired effect in language development. This article looks into the theories of dual-coding (DCT) and multimedia learning (CTML) as the theoretical basis for the development of more effective digital tools with the use of films and subtitling. Bilingual dual-coding is also presented as a means of indirect access from one language to another and the different types of subtitling are explored regarding their effectiveness, especially in the field of short-term and long-term vocabulary recall and development. Finally, the article looks into some new alternative audiovisual tools that actively engage learners with films and subtitling, tailored towards vocabulary learning.
CHARACTERIZING CONSUMPTION, DEPENDENCE, AND THE ROLE OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS IN AN ANIMAL MODEL OF VOLUNTARY ETHANOL CONSUMPTION

OF DISSERTATION Characterizing Consumption, Dependence, and the role of Glucocorticoids in an Animal Model of Voluntary Ethanol Consumption Alcohol abuse disorders (AUD) represent a serious worldwide health problem with far reaching social, financial, and interpersonal implications. One of the most devastating facets of these disorders is the propensity to relapse following periods of abstinence. Ethanol withdrawal (EWD) is believed to promote relapse by increasing anxiety and craving, and may contribute to the development of cognitive decline associated with long‐term dependence. Clinical data suggest that stress also plays a main role in both the development of AUD as well as relapse to drinking. As a physiological stressor, EtOH elevates levels of stress hormones (cortisol in humans, corticosterone (CORT) in the rat). Both CORT and EtOH have been shown to alter the composition, function, and activity of the N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate (NMDA) receptor, and in particular, the NR2B subunit of this receptor. These alterations have been suggested to mediate EWD, which may negatively impact abstinence rates. This synergistic interaction between EtOH and CORT may present a therapeutic target for the treatment of EWD. In fact, data suggest that blocking the glucocorticoid receptor, which is a main target for CORT, with RU‐486 could promote abstinence, as treatment with the drug has been shown to reduce consumption and the development dependence, as well as the severity of EWD and the cognitive deficits following EWD. However, these latter effects have not been validated in models of voluntary EtOH consumption. As there is considerable evidence that active versus passive intake can significantly impact neuroadaptations to ethanol this is an important consideration. These studies sought to characterize consumption and evaluate the development of dependence in a chronic voluntary model of intermittent access (IA) to EtOH. CORT plasma levels and protein expression of the glucocorticoid and NR2B receptors were measured during and/or following exposure. Finally, to assess the role of CORT in EtOH consumption and the development of dependence, the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist ORG‐34517 was administered during access to EtOH. IA access to 20% EtOH produced varying levels of consumption (2.0‐6.7g/kg/24hr exposure) and blood EtOH levels (6.3‐116.9 mg/dl), but did not significantly affect food consumption or weight gain. Baseline CORT levels were found to be predictive of subsequent EtOH consumption and levels of consumption were sufficient to elevate CORT levels following one hour of EtOH exposure. Further, IA to EtOH was sufficient to produce dependence, as measured by elevations in the acoustic startle reflex following 26 hours and five days of withdrawal. No alteration in protein expression was observed regarding either the NR2B or glucocorticoid receptors and exposure to ORG‐34517 had no effect on consumption or withdrawal.
CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF EVALUATION OF COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS

Целью исследования является обоснование проектирования педагогических измерителей доказательной аргументации на основе метода Evidence Centered Design (ECD) для оценки знаний и компетенций студентов. Понимание принципов доказательной аргументации позволит преподавателям эффективнее использовать методы классификации, упорядочения и планирования оценки когнитивных и компетентностных результатов освоения студентами основных профессиональных образовательных программ. Суть метода заключается в том, что он позволяет проектировать комплексное задание с планируемой и наблюдаемой деятельностью испытуемых. Главное достоинство метода состоит в относительной полезности, валидности и надежности результатов оценки, предполагаемых еще до применения оценочного средства. Надежность и достоверность оценивания обеспечивают доверие студентов к результатам, повышают мотивацию учебной деятельности. Концептуальная рамка такого оценочного средства содержит ряд входящих в нее моделей: студента (знания и компетенции), задания, свидетельства, статистики и презентации. Показаны основные этапы проектировочной деятельности с использованием паттерн-дизайна при разработке аргументированной оценки компетенций студентов. Связь между этапами разработки оценки с обязательным планированием деятельности испытуемых при выполнении заданий может способствовать созданию нового типа оценочных средств и дальнейшему развитию аутентичного оценивания образовательных достижений в условиях компетентностного обучения студентов.
Measuring Media Literacy Inquiry in Higher Education: Innovation in Assessment

The ability to critically access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages is crucial in the process of becoming an informed and engaged citizen throughout life. Asking critical questions is not only a valuable dimension of media literacy, but also an indispensable aspect of participating in a democracy. Yet, measuring the effectiveness of media literacy is still a major challenge for the field. It is unclear to what extent people of all ages may engage in critical questioning habits with regards to media. To address this gap, we studied the changes in critical questioning habits for college-aged students enrolled in media literacy courses. To measure students’ media literacy inquiry, we evaluated the questions they posed in response to viewing an advertisement. We analyzed questions by media literacy concept and by level of complexity before and after their participation in the media literacy courses. Findings revealed that after the media literacy courses, students’ inquiries were more complex and involved more attention to key concepts related to production techniques and representations. Our study is significant as it reflects an innovative approach to media literacy assessment and a fresh perspective for examining the impact of media literacy on cultivating complex, critical thinking skills that could be applied with learners of all ages.
PENGUJIAN DETERMINAN KONSERVATISMA AKUNTANSI

This paper examines the determina~'ts of accounting conservatism. Accounting conservatism is defined as managerial accounting choices of accounting methods and estimates within Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that result in the persistent understatement of cumulative reported earnings and net assets over period of time. In this paper, I empiriCCIlly tests the set of factors purported by Watts (2003a) as determinants of conservatism. This set of determinants relates to incentives arising from contracting (debt and compensation), litigation, tax and political costs. I find evidence consistent with debt contracting and litigation, but not consistent with compensation contracting and tax and political costs.
Estudo de lesões e reparo de DNA em pacientes com câncer de mama e em fibroblastos humanos

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women and its rate of mortality is still high. In Brazil it is estimated that around 50,000 new cases of breast cancer will emerge in 2006. Impaired antioxidant status and/or DNA repair may elevate the risk of malignant transformation of breast cells due to the accumulation of spontaneous mutations in target genes and increasing susceptibility to exogenous carcinogens. In this study, blood samples were obtained from female patients with diagnosed breast cancer as well as from healthy individuals. In order to evaluate the role of DNA repair in breast cancer we determined the level of the lesions and the capacity to remove DNA damage induced by hydrogen peroxide in peripheral blood lymphocytes. For this purpose, the alkaline version of the comet assay, which provides a sensitive tool to investigate DNA damage and repair, was applied. The antioxidant status, measured by the antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) was estimated in blood plasma and no significant difference was observed between patients and controls. The level of endogenous DNA damage was higher in breast cancer patients compared to the control group and the patients did not repair these damages after 3 hours of incubation, in contrast with the control. Our results showed a direct relation between antioxidant status and endogenous DNA damage level, where the patients with high endogenous DNA damage levels presented lower SOD activity. These results suggest that DNA damage, as well as antioxidant status assays, seem to be useful molecular tools for monitoring ongoing exposures to DNA damaging agents. Such a research on the mutagen sensitivity and efficacy of DNA repair could impact on the development of new diagnostic and screening strategies.
Kauno miesto studenčių kontraceptinių priemonių vartojimo įpročiai bei jų sąsaja su lytinių takų chlamidine infekcija

Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti, kaip dažnai ir kokias kontraceptines priemones vartoja Kauno miesto studentės, ir įvertinti kontraceptinių priemonių vartojimo įprocių sąsają su chlamidinės infekcijos paplitimu. 2004 m. anonimiskai apklaustos septynių Kauno miesto aukstųjų mokyklų ir Kauno kolegijos 18–31 metų studentės (n=795). Atsakiusiųjų į standartizuotą klausimyną lytiskai aktyvių studencių buvo prasyta savarankiskai pagal specialią instrukciją pasiimti mėginį is maksties istyrimui dėl chlamidinės infekcijos. Nustatyta, kad studentės (n=533) lytinį gyvenimą pradeda vidutiniskai 18 metų ir turi vidutiniskai tris lytinius partnerius. Tarp tirtųjų nustatytas 5,6 proc. chlamidinės infekcijos paplitimas. Barjerine kontracepciją (prezervatyvus) naudojo tik 13,3 proc. apklausoje dalyvavusių studencių. Apsisaugojimui nuo nėstumo prezervatyvus naudojo 39,9 proc. studencių, apsaugai nuo lytiskai plintancių ligų – 0,3 proc., dėl abiejų priežascių – 59,8 proc. tirtųjų. Studentės, kurios per pastaruosius sesis mėnesius, lytiskai santykiaudamos su atsitiktiniu lytiniu partneriu, naudojo prezervatyvus, sirgo chlamidijų sukelta lytinių takų infekcija reciau nei tos, kurios prezervatyvų nenaudojo (atitinkamai –70 ir 51,4 proc., p<0,05). Tikimės, kad sio tyrimo duomenys bus naudingi rengiant tikslines prevencijos programas, kuriose dėmesį būtina atkreipti į nepakankamas visuomenės žinias apie saugią lytine elgseną. Reiksminiai žodžiai: lytiskai plintancios infekcijos, Chlamydia trachomatis infekcija, studentės, kontraceptinės priemonės, prezervatyvai.
Teaching ESL Literacy to Adults: A Guide for Adult Literacy Teachers.

MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. Adult Basic Education; *Adult Learning; *Adult Literacy; Arabic; Cambodian; Chinese; Class Activities; Classroom Techniques; *Curriculum Development; Diagnostic Tests; Difficulty Level; Educational Objectives; *English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Infcrmation Sources; Instructional Materials; Korean; *Literacy Education; Media Selection; Needs Assessment; Oral Language; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Program Design; Referral; Rural Areas; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Spanish; *Student Evaluation; Student Needs; Tagalog; Teaching Guides; Textbook Evaluation; Thai; Turkish; Vietnamese; Written Language *Australia
Using meaningful experiences as a vision for physical education teaching and teacher education practice

ABSTRACT Background: Teachers’ visions are vivid and concrete images of ideal classroom practices. A vision for teaching is important to both practices in the classroom as well as teacher development across time. A useful tool to explore and analyse the role of vision in teacher practices is provided by [Hammerness, K. 2003. “Learning to Hope, or Hoping to Learn? The Role of Vision in the Early Professional Lives of Teachers. ” Journal of Teacher Education 54 (1): 43–56], whose framework of vision consists of three dimensions: focus, range and distance. Purpose: The writing of [Kretchmar, R. S. 2000. “Moving and Being Moved: Implications for Practice. ” Quest 52 (3): 260–272; 2008. “The Increasing Utility of Elementary School Physical Education: A Mixed Blessing and Unique Challenge. ” The Elementary School Journal 108 (3): 161–170] provides the basis for a vision focused on meaningful experiences in physical education. The purpose of this paper is to describe the ways a vision based on meaningful experiences enabled two teachers and three teacher educators to name, describe, and enact their physical education teaching and teacher education practices. Methodology: Raw data from six separate self-studies of practice involving the five participants provided the starting point for this research. Data sources, including written reflections and critical friend responses as well as audio recordings of conversations with critical friends, were mined to identify examples where vision was represented. Further data were generated in a focus group where participants shared and analysed their experiences and discussed how meaningful physical education served as both an individual and collective vision for practice. A final written reflection allowed participants to articulate their current vision for meaningful physical education. A thematic analysis of all data sources supported the organisation of data into three distinct phases of development of practices with emphasis on the role of vision in each phase. Findings: Over time, there was an evolution in our understanding of both what meaningful physical education consisted of and how we might facilitate meaningful experiences for children. In particular, our visions became clearer and better aligned with our practices. We illustrate how we developed our practice in ways that allowed us to take ownership of this vision, and, in the process, changed who we were as teachers and teacher educators. Finally, we share how the process of exploring and analysing our individual visions allowed us to articulate a shared vision of meaningful physical education and explain how to go about implementing our collective vision in practice. Conclusion: We highlight the value of paying attention to the role of vision in promoting and supporting educators, individually and collectively, in developing and sustaining innovation in teaching and teacher education practice.
Digital humanities methods as a gateway to inter and transdisciplinarity

ABSTRACT Advances in digital methods not only allow the application of quantitative methods to new problems but also offer new possibilities for collaborative qualitative research. This permits us to look again at the ‘two cultures’ of scientific and humanities research as an interdisciplinary continuum of methods rather than as opposites. DInformed by teaching digital research methods courses in history, politics, international relations and digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate level over the past 30 years, this paper draws on Unsworth’s idea of ‘Scholarly primitives’ sand the ideas of Willard McCarthy to suggests that a range of methods provide the basic ingredients on which a variety of disciplinary perspectives are built. Thus an integrated perspective can flow from tools and methods upwards to epistemology and ontology in research-based learning. This allows us to equip our students to use a range of common research tools which may be applied across disciplines, while at the same time making them more aware of higher order differences in disciplinary perspectives.
Analisis Pengaruh Career Growth, Compensation, Dan Job Satisfaction Sebagai Variabel Intervening Terhadap Turnover Intention Karyawan Di Pt. Imora Motor (Honda Jakarta Center)

Turnover intention is essentially a desire to move employees from one workplace to another. This is a company's challenge in maintaining labor competition. Human resources are believed to be the main factor determining the success of an organization. This study aims to determine the effect of Career Growth on Turnover Intention Employees, Compensation effect on Turnover Intention, And influence Job Satisfaction as variable intervening to TurnOver Employees in PT. Imora Motor (Honda Jakarta Center). This research is expected to be able to help find out the main factors causing employee turnover intention and overcome the problem of Turnover Intention so that it helps companies reduce losses both in terms of costs and time. This research uses quantitative research methodology simple random sampling. The method used in sampling is purposive sampling. Purposive sampling is a sampling method by formulating certain criteria using primary data sources. The number of samples in this research were 164 respondents. The variables used in this study used Dependent Variables, Intervening Variables and Independent Variables, then to get conclusions in the research that carried out statistical tests with the aim of finding out which dependent variables would influence the independent variables in the study. This study used SPSS version 23 to carry out statistical tests, Results of testing that has been done, partial regression test (t) shows that each is dependent the variables studied (career growth, compensation, and job satisfaction) have a significant influence on independence variable (Turnover Intention).
The 2017 Tane Mahuta public lecture: The benefits of urban trees: from the intuitive to the surprising

1 Research Forester, 620 SW Main, suite 400, Portland Oregon, United States 97205; gdonovan@fs.fed. us I’m presenting this lecture as a visitor to both Tauranga and New Zealand. I’m originally from Yorkshire, England, although my parents are from the USA. Since 2002, I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon, where I’ve become increasingly interested in the benefits that urban trees provide. The reason for this interest is that the majority of us live in cities, so in our day-to-day lives, we mostly interact with urban trees.